selective serotonin

I’ve graduated to half a ga-damn pill and feeling pretty good about it all. One of the best things is finding out that almost everybody out there is on some kind of anti-depressant, like I feel stupid now, with all you savvy pharmo-folks out there been doing the SSRIs for years now, and where have I been?  So far lexy has been good to me and the selective inhibiting of my serotonin reuptake seems to be working the way its supozed to (magically, beyond rational description). So its all good. (who was it recently who said, "you better not start saying shit like "it's all good...)

Speaking of old punk bands. Man did I get a treat last week. Was coerced outta the house by old brudder K who had the idea of going into SF to see Pere Ubu at an Amoeba in-store appearance. I thought it woulda been mobbed, cause you know, Ubu are like the Rothko’s (or maybe the Gorky’s) of the whole art-punk-indie thing, so far ahead of their time that nobody’s caught up to ‘em yet. We showed a bit late and heard a noise inside of Amoeba. Disturbing, drums, Ubu. Amoeba has constructed a real stage back there in the FOLK section. No shit. And it made for some surreal moments has Ubu launched into Modern Dance and some dude pulls the “Anthology of American Folk” off the shelf and takes it to the register. Easily $100 worth of singin’ and a strummin’ while D. Thomas gets up off his chair long enough to wail – then forgets the words to the song. Hey, its OK, he’s only been singing it for 30 years. Tried to sing thru a phone for a while but he was convinced it was broken, although it wasn’t. But I’m standing there in Folk and a bunch o’ gray frizzled old folkies are still millin’ about looking for various field recordings and whatnot while the Band alternately falls apart and comes brilliantly together during four or five classic Ubu tunes. Jeesus I’d never expect to hear these songs anymore. Noise courtesy of Thermin player, excellent bass player, Michelle Temple, nailed the Modern Dance line artfully.

Went after to a tiny trendy Haight St. deal called “Alembic” Weird. I’d just read what an alembic was like two days before, but could not for the life of me remember while I was in the joint. K kept saying it was the name of a guitar company, I think making equip for the Dead back then. Alembic, the bar, serves the Magnolia beers from their sister joint down the street. My first Magnolia by the way and it was excellent. As soon as I get home I remember an alembic is a part in the distilling process, which I was looking up because I really don’t understand it. Still don’t really. But thank god for it, eh?

Felicia cracks me up these days. Last week she says, “Can you please bring me a speaker with some Fiona on it?” This referring to the new, wireless speakers we have, that you can carry around to any room. The way she phrased it says a lot about the ways we think about music now with it getting easier and cooler to get, play and listen. I’ve moved entirely away from buying it on discs, unless absolutely nec, like it was a while back to hear some Jao Donato. Guy’s evil. Everything else comes down the pipe, either paid or otherwise. Liking the Thermals, still digging the new Hold Steady, and have just added TV on the Radio’s “Cookie Mountain” which retains their grandiose, mesmerizing sound.

A correction if you don’t mind. No? Thank you. Back in March I wrote a little blurb about the novel, Eve, by Aurelio O’Brien and you can read it here. Damn if I was’t kinda snooty back there in March, and I feel, rather dismissive of the book. Truth is, the book has stayed with me since then, fondly I might add, and my opinion of it has increased. I always think back to it (good sign) when I catch sight of it on my shelf, great cover art and design by the way, and website (click damnit), drawn also I believe by Mr. O'Brien. Talented dude. Also, it seems a nice guy cause I get an email from him the other day thanking me for my comments. I’m pretty impressed and write back that I really need to revise what I said about Eve back then. So here you have it. Check it out sez skirblog.

If you really want to read some other snarky reviews I’ve written, check out my two on Amazon. Surprised those two authors haven’t written not-so-nice notes.

Lost? Its looking that way. I guess if we buy the layer upon layers of mind gaming and deceit, a really complicated, messy chess game by Ben and Jack, with Sawyer and Kate as pawns, then we’re left pretty stuck in the mud until they decide to show a new episode in Feb. Again I axe why? Who thinks this is a good strategy? (or as the kid aptly sez, “stradegy.” I’m not gonna watch Daybreak or Déjà vu or whatever show is gonna be on Wed at 9. That frees me up for other junk like reading the massive, giant novel the folks laid on me this weekend past, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, clocking in at only 800 or so pages. But so far so good I must say. Oh yeah, did I mention Fun Home? As always I’m way late on these things, but sheet, Fun Home is remarkable, extremely literate, expertly drawn and more about character than plot.  Will be considered a masterpiece in years to come so get with it now.

Speaking of masterpieces, during the last paragraph we had “Cookie Mountain” going. And going. Oddly, and even though I bought it (gasp, shock) from iTunes, I somehow got two versions of  “Wolf Like Me,” and let me tell you, that is a fucking song. I mean following in a line from “Staring at the Sun,” which was pretty startlingly beautiful when it first came out, and then “Dreams,” which upped the ante in a lot of ways, “Wolf” adds a panic mode of rock to the equation, and is hitting me hard emotionally, as I’ve listened to it about 47 times tonight. Best song ever.

Or is that just the serotonin talking?

Its all good.
s.b.

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[geener]

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