it's been a constant for some time now that i consistently get these vicious splitting headaches on holidays, which is because these worthless fucking drug addict losers keep following me around and doing drugs near where i live. i'm sick and tired of these pieces of absolute garbage making me viciously sick in an utterly idiotic attempt to cure me of "depression", which i've never been diagnosed with, and which i don't accept is a real medical condition (psychedelic drugs don't cure you of anything, they just make you useless until it wears off, make you tired and sick, give you brutal headaches and make you want to puke until your body eliminates it. the "trip" you're experiencing, the hallucinogenic experience, is the result of your body going into shock as it eliminates a poison. there's a lot of disinformation about it having to do with neurotransmitters, but that's not correct. the trip is actually your body going into shock; that's what happens when you ingest poisons that your body needs to struggle to get rid of as an emergency - you start hallucinating. they're horrible drugs that are banned for a very good reason. they're an utterly awful, painful, wretched, boring, tedious, time wasting experience that you'd have to be literally retarded in order to remotely enjoy. they knock you out. they make you see colours. it's not fun. i haven't done psychedelic drugs since i was a little kid. the correct age range for these kinds of drugs is about 12-15 years old. if you don't grow out of these drugs well before you turn 20, if you don't realize they make you useless, and if you don't grow into utterly hating them as a complete waste of fucking time, you are unquestionably a legitimate, class A fucking retard, unambiguously. but i can't get rid of these complete fucking idiots that are convinced i'm supposed to enjoy being useless for days at a time and suffering through vicious headaches that knock me out for hours.)
i haven't updated the np: list in a while and am not going to anymore.
this is my main blog. it's for politics, rants, daily status updates, etc. i'm going to be making a better attempt to split it up as i set up different devices for different purposes. i've already set up the kitchen/tv/youtube/stereo system. next up is the listening room, which contains the main stereo system.
- there is an email device connected to this blog and also to my main vlog accounts, including "jessica", "the koala central command" and "jessica's fake youtube account". this is likely to be split up and refocused a little. the vlogs will likely get their own device in the listening room. i don't want to connect my typing pc to the internet, so i'll either use the email device or get something dedicated for the journals, which are the first focus coming up.
- i have a chromebook ready to go that will be strictly intended for the studio, sit in it and will only connect to bandcamp, pahyip, youtube, etc to upload music.
- there's a video device in the kitchen connected to this account:
no blog, yet.
it may get connected to the serious account and the diet account
this device is constantly freezing and, for now, i'm just rebooting it. i'm going to need to figure it out or replace it. it's annoying, but it takes a few seconds to restart in guest mode. everything's saved to the server.
- there's a raspberry pi in the listening room with an audio out that is connected to this youtube account:
this music review blog:
..and a number of multimedia devices, including a 5 tb external drive full of flacs and mp3s.
the purpose of this post is to point out that when i get the listening room set up with the pi and the rest of the system, i'm going to be shifting back to the music web. i've drawn attention to this music web a few times, and it's actually something that i have notes for going back to about 2001, although i'm also going to be starting fresh. i am strongly interested in rebuilding my cd collection (cds. not records. not mp3s.), but i have a few conditions to take note of:
- i want to start with artists that are dead and have no possibility of recreating new releases. this will minimize the need to backtrack.
- holding to a longstanding practice, i will be collecting new cds as they come up, but i will not be writing substantive reviews for any releases until they've been released for five years.
i have considered a variety of artists to start with, including a silver mt zion, pink floyd, coil, the beatles and genesis, but only coil is entirely dead, and it's too new. i want to collect old cds that i find used rather than buy new ones, for right now.
i've decided to actually start with miles davis, instead.
why davis?
because we're still in the jazz era. it's all jazz - blues, rock, prog, psychedelic, punk, experimental, techno. it all comes from jazz in the end. it's fun to hyper-specify and over market it, but somebody is going to have to sit down when capitalism finally collapses and try to figure this out, and at the end of the day, it's all jazz. that's the form. that's the style; the cliche is that it's the only american art form.
miles davis is the kevin bacon of modern music. still. anybody worth mentioning still connects to davis, even if punk (particularly) only has a few bottlenecks. the drummer from ministry actually joined king crimson for a while, for example. everything else connects relatively readily, if you start at the beginning of davis' career and just plow through, link by link. once the jazz world gets thoroughly explored, there are key links to rock music through john mclaughlin and chick corea. mclaughlin connects to the entire rock scene through page, clapton and others, and corea (through di meola) connects to the entire progressive rock world. the rieflin link isn't the only link to punk, which isn't dead yet, but it may be the one i use in the end. eno will get there first, at the very least through jah wobble, if not through devo. you get the point. in the end, peter christopherson and genesis p'orridge connect to pink floyd through hipgnosis, which connects to modern techno through coil, if nothing else comes up first (i'm sure i'll get there through krautrock first).
this is not going to be like the genesis discography i was doing, which was far more directed and focused. this is a web. so, i'm going to start with
- a list of official records by the artist, chronologically (that would start with the new sounds, 1951)
- only after i've sorted through all albums chronologically, will i move a list of other appearances by the artist, on other records (that would start with charlie parker in 1945, with davis) and on non-album singles and eps. some eps will be listed as albums.
i will not sort through all of the albums by the artist at the same time but will traverse the liner notes of each record, only coming back to it at the end.
so, if i start with the new sounds (1951), i will first determine if i should get this album on cd or not by sampling it via mp3 or, more likely, over youtube. if i decide the record should be in the cd collection, i will find a way to get it. if i decide it shouldn't, i will leave it in the web as an mp3 release only. there are some artists that i will skip altogether, and who will not appear in the web at all, but will appear in liner notes without a corresponding hyperlink to an artist page.
the web will start with a searchable launch page, and an index page for each artist. first will be davis. opening the artist page for miles davis will sequentially list each record as they come up, starting with the new sounds (i have about a dozen davis cds, mostly from the fusion period, which was very important for the development of psychedelic rock music, which is the kind of music i grew up with). opening the page for the new sounds will link to mp3s of the record on the 5 tb drive that can be streamed by launching a playlist, whether i bought it on cd or not, as well as a list of liner note credits, which are:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone, tracks 1 & 2
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Walter Bishop, Jr. – piano
Tommy Potter – double bass
Art Blakey – drums
Label - Prestige (PRLP 124)
Producer: Bob Weinstock
each of these credits will either launch to their own pages or have no link, but a note that says not featured in the music web. in fact, each of these should have their own pages. non-links will be rare and would indicate an artist i don't think is substantive or important and has few links. unimportant or unsubstantive artists with multiple links to substantive artists (ex: abba) will have their own pages, but only traverse through selected links. in truth, it will be rare for the web to ever halt.
after analyzing and reviewing this first davis record, i will not immediately move to the next davis record (i will need to wait until i exhaust the traversed options and get back to davis) but will instead open the jackie mclean page, where it will first list the first jackie mclean record, which i will again need to analyze to determine if it should be in the collection or only analyzed over mp3/flac. there will be a link to that page, nonetheless.
presenting....jackie mclean (1955) has the following credits:
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
Donald Byrd – trumpet
Mal Waldron – piano
Doug Watkins – bass
Ronald Tucker – drums
i will not continue through jackie mclean's discography until i return to it, but will instead move to donald byrd's. donald byrd's first solo release was in 1955, which has the following credits:
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Bernard McKinney - euphonium
Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone
Barry Harris - piano
Alvin Jackson - bass
Frank Gant - drums
the next link would be to bernard mckinney, who i do not believe ever released a solo record. as such, the list would shift to appearances, instead. his 1955 appearance happens to be the first. if it was not, we would rewind to the earliest. as there is no earlier appearance, the next is a 1957 appearance on The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams. this would link directly to the album page, which has the following credits:
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Bernard McKinney – euphonium
Hank Jones – piano
George Duvivier – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
the next link would be to pepper adams, whose first record was called baritones and french horns and has the following credits:
Baritones (recorded April 20, 1957), also released as Dakar under John Coltrane's name
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cecil Payne – baritone saxophone - except track 4
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Doug Watkins – bass
Art Taylor – drums
so, now we've gone from davis to coltrane, and can jump to the 1957 record coltrane (the earliest coltrane i currently have on cd is the 1958 soultrane),
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Johnnie Splawn – trumpet on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "While My Lady Sleeps", "Chronic Blues"
Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "Chronic Blues"
Red Garland – piano on side one
Mal Waldron – piano on side two
Paul Chambers – bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath – drums
....and i would just keep gong until i get to a dead end.
- johnnie splawn is apparently only on this record. so, go to
- sahib shihab - the jazz we heard last summer
- john jenkins - alto madness
- walde legge
- dizzy gillespie - afro
- quincy jones - jazz abroad
.
.
quincy jones opens up in the 70s and 80s, for example through his work with michael jackson. michael jackson will have many links, including to paul mccartney and eddie van halen, which will take me into the rock world. etc. mccartney will go to lennon to bowie (eventually) to reznor (eventually) to the aphex twin (eventually). so, we've moved from davis to rdj already, and this is probably not the shortest path.
eventually, the links will dry up, and i will need to go back to quincy jones, and move to the next record, etc, which will take me down some other path.
now, i may not decide to traverse jackie mclean to start. i might choose sonny rollins, instead. i have some free will as to which path i want to traverse.
i hope the idea is clear, and i will be starting with davis as soon as i get the system set up.
