FarFlung techincal question/Grenas apology?

[mike coleman]

Not a bad idea. If only I had "$ good luck $".
Maybe I'll dump a Raven
When I do have luck my accuracy rate is about 99.9
Ah well, if I ended up "jousting with Jon", it'd be wrong, just all wrong
Now I'm so pissed off that my CD1 of "Acid Jam 2" was stolen while stored
gotta go
must make someone miserable


On 1/12/10, Dave Hall <david.hall6800 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chaps
>
> Have just listed both on e-bay. Good luck. Start of mass clear out.
>
> Dave
> ---- Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, mike coleman wrote:
> > > oh good, despite the timewarp my switched cd's didn't mess him up.
> > > I dropped out of 11 th grade Jon, but if Brian's still running around
> in
> > > Marina Del Rey, and releasing music I'm willling to chase him and Tommy
> too
> > > I don't have "when science fails" or "Nine Pin Body" so any comments as
> to
> > > how deep my food rations should now go- appreciated
> >
> >       I don't have _When Science Fails_--I must hunt it down for
> > Kompletism reasons--but I do have _Nine Pin Body_. If you happen to have
> > one of the boot versions of the never-released _Myth of Solid Ground_
> > there is very little on NPB you don't already have. If you don't have
> that
> > though then there are several awesome crunchy heavy tracks about things
> > coming through portholes, wormholes, dimensional divides, and so on which
> > I would thoroughly recommend and not wish to be without, though there is
> > also some filler stuff that sounds as if Tommy decided one day that Can
> > wasn't minimalist enough and to make that point he'd record something
> with
> > even less variation *really quietly*. Bracketed by the creeping
> > riff-horrors from outer space, though, so you still finish the record
> with
> > a grin on your face and a tendency to twitch at unexpected noises. does
> > that help?
> >
> > > On 1/5/10, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >       <snip>
> >
> > >> (ii) I had it `roughly right' that `Raven' as it stands is the correct
> full
> > >> track #1, `Sonic Evaporation' is the following track with the "I'm
> > >> disintegrating..." refrain as far as the unexpected multicoloured
> organ
> > >> cascade, which is `Helianthus', `Candied Electronic Atmospheres' is
> what
> > >> happens next and `Alius Orbis' starts with the crushing downwards riff
> that
> > >> we can also identify because it's been in a live set or two like the
> Strange
> > >> Daze CD-R. `The Way the Sky Is' is of course on _So Many Minds_ so we
> know
> > >> that one, and `(It's Not A Bad Dream)' refers to the forty-minute
> circus
> > >> organ outtro we all know and dread. (Dare *you* listen to the thing
> > >> carefully enough to see if it repeats anywhere? I'm not sure it's
> looped, I
> > >> think they may actually have played it.)
> >
> >       A postscript, on relistening to this it seems to me that really,
> > the `disintegration' refrain must belong to `Candied Electronic
> > Atmospheres' as the section that precedes it just has too much in it that
> > doesn't relate to be one track. So now I would say `Raven' as far as the
> > end of the female vocal section, `Sonic Evaporation' for what follows as
> > far as the organ, which is `Helianthus' as I say, then the breakout and
> > build-up from there `Candied Electronic Atmospheres'. The extra track
> > number should probably be in `Sonic Evaporation' somewhere, if we agree
> > that #8 is the outtro to `The Way the Sky Is'. I do wish I could have
> > recovered what I originally thought and McGibbony's response though.
> > Yours,
> >       Jon (who seems to be closing in on real-time)
> >
> > --
> >        Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> >
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