cambionic

This makes me so excited. I hope that we can live up to the expectations! I'm thinking of trying out some really far out, disturbing, and weird stuff for the next set! I'm not sure if I should divulge it here, but I'm pretty damn excited about it.

Just as an update, I've received my 2184 vinyl. It's beautiful, though I haven't had a chance to spin it yet!

HOLY FUCK YOU FOUND A PICTUREEEEE!?!?!???????? I'm super excited! Are there more? Where did you find this? This was from the second show that had a few more additional guests and some other crazy stuff, but the story was already so long I didn't wanna bore with details.

I'm still waiting on mine. I hope I'm still alive when it shows up... I mean shit, everyone saw those pictures of LUM with all the packed up boxsets, right?. Shouldn't that be confirmation that they actually exist and should have been shipped out ages ago?

Long post, but it's been a while since my last post and a lot of crazy stuff has happened: So about three weeks back a guy I jammed with a couple times (we'll call him "D") hit me up saying that he wanted to get on some "lofi experimental bassy noise rock" and that really piqued my interest. I show up at his place around 7 and right when I walk in, I see the lead singer/guitarist (we'll call him"G") of a very popular local band sitting on the couch with an old Casio. He turns to me and says "Grab your theremin, we have a show in two hours." G tells me that the band is called Gaytripp, we have three bands opening for us, and that we're going to be completely anonymous on stage - so grab whatever costume I had. It took me by surprise, but I was down for anything. I speed home to grab my theremin, effects pedals, bass amp, and old man mask/dick costume I had from Halloween. By the time I get back to D's place, they're in full costume (G wearing a faux-fur coat, bandana, goggles, psychedelic colored pants, and a big stupid hat; D is in a quazi-pirate getup including shiny pants, bandit mask, and a stripey shirt with holes). They're already moving the gear into the van, so I load up my stuff and hop in. As we drive to the venue, G explains that we have an hour long set and a few dozen people are going to be there. I get dressed in the back (I'm butt naked - this is a skintight morph suit with a 3 foot long penis and comically large balls). When we arrive to the venue, there's a bunch of people smoking cigarettes outside. The three of us stumble out of the van in full garb and people start looking at the spectacle. As I carry my gear past them into the venue, people are already storming us, asking all sorts of questions - "Are you guys Gaytripp?" "Is that a theremin?" "Who's under the mask?" etc. etc. We enter the venue and I see a folky band playing on stage, a few people dancing, and a crowd near the back watching. Their set is nearing its end, so we start putting our gear around the stage. By this time, I realize that this latex old man mask is going to be rather restrictive but I can't take it off as part of the show. I'm already breaking out a sweat and we're not even on stage. The folky band finishes up and we start moving our gear into place. G has his Casio attached to a looper pedal and a smaller Vox amp. D has a guitar, a Boss effects board, and a Fender '65 Reverb amp. I've got a Theremini, a Zoom effects board, a Swollen Pickle, and a Peavey Max 115 bass amp. The people from outside follow us in and crowd around the stage while we set up. G tells me to put the theremin right in the middle of the stage and "put on a fucking show". Well, we put on a fucking show. Right when we're all set up, they drop the lights until it's only a spotlight on us. I have no idea what to expect at all - what kind of music we're playing, what we're gonna do for an hour on stage, what I'm even supposed to do in the center of the stage. G hits a key and the fucking room shakes. The crowd screams and we drop into this wild noisy triphop shit completely off the cuff. G has a few loops recorded in the looper pedal, but most of it is completely improvized. I proceed to make weird noises with the theremin and dance around with my swinging dick while the other two provide semi-extraordinary music in the background. The next hour is a blur or sweat, pounding noise, and moving bodies. We end up doing random cover songs, original freestyle works, and just plain noise for a full hour. And for some reason the crowd loves it. Once the set ends and the lights come back on, we proceed to wordlessly pack up our gear while people rush the stage. I pack up my stuff into the van and smoke a cigarette through my mask-hole in front of the venue. People crowd around and try talking to me but I don't say a word, just nod silently and exhale smoke through the mouth hole. After the cigarette and pseudo-conversation, I meander to the back of the van and change back into my normal clothes. I look like I just took a dive into the pool with how much sweat is saturating my flesh. I walk back into the venue and a trio of girls are talking to G (sans-bandana). They all are clamoring to ask who the hell the guy in the old man mask is and G looks at me with a big shit-eating grin and we both laugh. They don't realize that I'm standing right next to them, and I don't let it on. We all joke around for a bit and then leave the venue. The next day D texts me saying that the venue wants us for another show in two weeks (this last Wednesday), so get everything prepared. We don't meet up until the day of the gig, about 2 hours before, but at least time we have a bit of time to jam and work out what we're going to do. The biggest rush of the ordeal is the spontaneity and improvisation, so we mostly just get higher than giraffe asshole and go through the whole preparation process. When we arrive to the venue this time, there's three times as many people and they all rush us the moment we get there. One guy is screaming "WHO ARE YOUUUUU!" at me the whole time I'm helping set up the gear. Again, three bands are opening up for us, but this time they're a little more coordinated with our sound (the guy immediately before our set - the only one I was able to see - is playing some spacey noise ambient stuff with a ton of bass and reverb). We jump on stage and proceed to create some of the most noisy (read: shitty ), raucous, and just plain weird (think a tamer version of '85 Butthole Surfers) music as we possibly can. Once we finish the set, even more people storm us (including the WHO ARE YOUUUUU! guy) and start talking about the show. Eventually, I pull off the mask around the corner and return to the crowd. Being completely anonymous, I listen in on conversations and they'e completely sucking our collective dicks. They're saying things like this is the birth of a new scene in our local area and that we put on the best show they've seen, etc. It's completely mindblowing and unexpected. I personally just went on stage to have fun and make some shitty music, but it seems like the crowd is very receptive to what we're laying down. The venue owners then take the three of us in the back and say they want to book us a gig in March. They tell us that we have to get a social media presence and the whole shebang if we want to do this and we'll have posters around town and marketing online. I'm still reeling from the show and everything that people were saying, so I'm just sitting there with a smile on my face while G handles the business. It's been three days since and my head is flooded with what we can do next. I have so many ideas for weird shit and I can't wait to unleash it upon the public. At the second show, a significant amount of people were taking pictures and video, so I'm gonna try to get that from them and see if I can post the spectacle here. It's fun. -- end transmission --

I'll do it as soon as I can. I've been so incredibly busy, I've only been able to spin Surfer Rosa so far.

That WHICH ONE cover is up there with the worst covers I've seen. I miss the old cover. I really wonder what he'll settle on.

I received this a few days back and I must say, it's well worth the price. This thing is fucking huge, heavy, and beautifully crafted. It's a work of art in itself. Though I probably won't even touch the CDs/DVDs, the BluRay and vinyl is gorgeous. The pressings sound exceptional - I listened to my MFSL copy of Surfer Rosa back to back with the copy included in this set and both are exceptionally mastered. The artbook is obscenely giant (with an equally large penis glyph on the front cover) and filled with stunning artwork. I haven't been able to find the signed bookmark yet, but I'm sure it's hidden in there somewhere...

Ooooh, yeah. They have a ton there, but I don't like paying full price for a tie. Even $20 is a little too much for me. Ebay has done me really well. I've gotten 6 ties for less than $20 so far!

Holy shit this was better than I thought it would be... I need to send that email once I am on a computer where bandcamp isn't blocked.

I'm not sure if Bloweyelashwish is going to get a retail release, but they did have a very limited amount of backers so I doubt that the vinyl would be that limited. They might have some leftovers, I'm sure.

I got no lips, I got no tongue Where there were eyes there's only space I got no lips, I got no tongue

Oooh, I almost forgot: Barbara Streisand's discography Herb Alpert's discography Perry Como's discography Christmas anything

Tool - Ænima The Avalanches - Since I Left You (wavy blue translucent pressing) Fuck it, maybe a first-state butcher cover, too. Throw in a T206 Honus Wagner while we're at it.

I wish I had time for video games. I've been wanting to pick Fallout 4 back up again, but I'm bust 7 days a week.

Jesus, he was sitting on his mortgage payment for a year or so right there.

Holy shit, did this really sell out? I'm glad I picked up a copy on a whim. I thought this was just going to be a stupid album (it is, but it's also amazing).

I've grown to not like Ship To Shore, just for their business practices. Luckily they're not releasing anything that interests me at all...

More like: 1. CD 2. Vinyl 3. Poop 4. Picture Disc

I did it.

Usually they jump in price after their OOP.

I've been massively expanding my Garcia tie collection. Just today I got four more ones from eBay for $6ppd! I like Garcia ties because they're fashionable, but still offbeat contemporary. Some are viable for a job interview/formal date while others are perfect for an added accouterment for daily semi-formal wardrobe.

Damn.

Lets move this thread to Everything Else. Also: http://www.last.fm/user/cambionic

Any/everything by Nuclear Rabbit.