A few years ago, I posted something here about the shady work of a private Israeli intelligence agency to discredit those in the Obama administration who had helped secure the nuclear deal with Iran. The organization’s name was Black Cube. And, in my post, I noted the fact that, decades before, I was the member […]
Tag Archives: noise music
Explosive video surfaces of the legendary, time traveling musical terrorists Ski Troop Attack
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1992, Aaron Dilloway, acoustic noise, Andy Claydon, Black Cube, Bulb Records, Clean White Surface, Couch, dystopia, Fears of Practice, Gingham Girls, Glass Needle, Hanson Record, Hanson Records, Harvey Drouillard, Jim Magas, King Strang, Leonard Cohen, Linette, Marquee Moon, Monarchs, music video, Nickels Arcade, performance art, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Roger Corman, sister wives, Ski Troop Attack, Songs of Love and Hate, television, terrorism, time travel, trees, Warren Jeffs, water, wax, Wolf Eyes 17 Comments
The ongoing influence of Ypsilanti’s Pleasuredome
A few nights ago, Linette wanted show me something in the book that she was reading. “It’s the new book by poet Amy Berkowitz,” she said, “and it mentions the Pleasuredome.” She handed me the book, telling me how, among other things, the narrative centered around fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and noise music… Here, for those […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amy Berkowitz, fibromyalgia, house shows, Linette, Mondo Bummer, Patrick Elkins, Pleasure Dome, Pleasuredome, poetry, Tender Points, Thom Elliott 11 Comments
The complete Totally Awesome Fest 10 line-up beginning with Sunday’s city-wide Easter egg hunt!
Since last week’s press conference, Ypsilanti has been in the grip of Totally Awesome Fest fever. You can’t leave your home, it seems, without getting tangled up in drunken beard, wet lips smacking against your ear, speculating as to what Patrick Elkins may have up his sleeve this year. Well, earlier this morning, a bit […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Krugliak, Andara, Animal Magic, Annie Palmer, B.S.R.B., Ben Miller's take-home fashion show, Brian R. Tucker, Buffalo Coven Party, Chemical Valley, Chit Chat, chocolate tampons, Community Rebirth, Creode, Croidoid, croquet, Curtains, Dan Florida, Deadbeat Beat, Dear Darkness, Disinformants, DJ Buffalo Coven Party, DJ Homonormal Park, Dreamland Theater, Easter, Easter eggs, Emily Jane Powers, Girth, Growth Spert, Happy Campers, Hollis Coats, House of Mole, Izzy Johnson, JAV, Jessie Bott, Jo Pie Whyld, Joey Molinaro, Jovantoes, Juniper Baby, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Magic Markers, magical events, Man vs. Indian Man, Manhole, May Pie, MC Trashpedal, Ministry of Boredom, Minus 9, Nausea Valley, Nick Painter, Oak Openings, Ooze Dude, Pajama Party, pancake parade, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Pie Reading, pizza, Poetry Eating, Princess Xanthipe, Public Urination, Rebel Kind, Richard Album, Riverside Park, Salt City, Sam Finch, secret brunch, Sex Police, Shells, Snesi, Stef Chura, Surprise in the Woods, tampons, Telepathic Telephone, The Blob, The Jols, The Lovelies, The PreMadonnas, The Real Spicollis, The True Love Story of the Wizard & the Swamp Witch, The Understorey, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Truman, Ugly Mug, Unicorn, Van Houten, VG Kids, Video Games, Vomit Express, Voss Acres, Voss's Zas, Water Street Commons, weed, White Dwarf, Woodruff's, Ypsilanti Downtown Library 8 Comments