AngelosRenaissance

Mark E. Sudenfed

2007-06-19T06:16:00.000-07:00

I must recommend the rather good Tromatic Reflexxions by Von Sudenfed, a new release on Domino Records. To those who have never heard of this disc allow me to enlighten you. Von Sudenfed is a collaboration between Mouse on Mars and the venerable Mark E. Smith,so basically it's very good electronica with the wit and wisdom of The Smith over the top.
It's really very good and I would single out 'The Rhinohead' and 'Flooded' as immediate highlights.
Go and procure!

Me,Me, Me, it's election day

2007-05-24T04:57:00.000-07:00

I hope you are all goin' to vote today. Remember it only suits the party faithful if you don't. Ergo you are responsible for the status quo.
Even if it's a spoiled vote it counts as a protest so please do it.

Ramblin'

2006-03-20T12:26:00.000-08:00

Incoherencies
The hardest thing is possibly the only great challenge left. The conquistadors day is done, anything further than the moon ain’t gonna happen soon. Yep, all we possess is the trek to the end. Truth is the only policy say the lawyers and they make it pay. The truth is fine until it’s ripping the guts from someone you love, then you perceive the value of the well aimed lie. I ponder the autistic clarity of the monied mind as it wonders what it should do with the rest of us.

Succulent Cuts
Pretzel Logic- Steely Dan
Holiday In Berlin,Full Blown- Zappa/ Mothers
Albion- Babyshambles
Charly Don't Surf- The Clash
Moonlight- Bob Dylan

back to be good

2006-03-08T11:58:00.000-08:00

thank God for Bob Dylan and the few who do it for you. As a recent convert i am filled with the zeal of the only believer as my David faces the infidel, Goliath. Sipping green tea to the strain of Tombstone Blues, Bootleg 7 version, stunned by the fore-sight. People like him offer hope to the rest of us and some of us are lucky enough to find it. It's that version of Desolation Row now! This is 40 years old and it wipes the floor with everything else i know.

You need these songs:
To Ramona
Tangled Up In Blue
Just Like TomThumb's Blues
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Highlands

To be honest this list could go on.

where's the crack

2005-05-27T13:59:00.000-07:00

I do not consider myself to be free, in fact I think I am the modern equivalent of a slave. First World style of course. My modest dwelling is the reason for my servitude and my overlord is the bank. The cost of the most basic necessity is so ridiculous that the notion of a stay at home parent has become a relic of old decency Hilarious that this forced social shift was greased by the “ socialist” Bertie and his business partners in the Dail.
Are we really supposed to be surprised that our slavish copying of the American model has also given us a building wave of big money crime and it’s attendant extreme violence.
I had a very happy childhood in this country but what I saw in the last fifteen years makes me wonder will our children feel the same?

Ceoil
Ghost of a Chance- The Blades
Sweet Home Under White Clouds- The Virgin Prunes
Are You Happy- Microdisney
Going To My Home Town- Rory Gallagher
Still In Love With You- Thin Lizzy

do it again

2005-05-26T13:08:00.000-07:00

What is the nature of addiction? We, clearly, are creatures of habit and perhaps it’s merely a far more refined vision of endless repitition than is accepted by the ordinary person. I have found that most people have an over fondness for something, or somebody, that someone else will perceive as being an addiction. The media seems to be making judges of all of us and a lot of us are lapping it up. How many people will happily agree that they are addicted to t.v. without questioning exactly what they are addicted to?
Needless to say I have so many that I just do not have the time for such idle banter.

Songs, songs. Songs…..
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space- Spiritualised
Sticky Fingers- The Rolling Stones
STATIONTOSTATION- BOWIE
Screamadelica- Primal Scream
In Our Lifetime- Marvin Gaye

Save the children

2005-05-25T13:37:00.000-07:00

I have just had a sickeningly real brush with our mortality and pleasant is not in it. My sonshine ran straight into the corner of a coffee table and I nearly died. He smacked his head literally between the eyes with a dull but loud thud. In the following few seconds I was totally overcome as every possible outcome fired in my brain and the vast majority of them were unthinkable.
My Everything was cradling the boy, who was crying but remarkably composed, and he was showing no signs of concussion. We decided to take no chances and we brought him to the local pharmacy. The pharmacist looked him over and was satisfied that as long as we observed no change in his condition during the evening he should be fine.
Thank You God.

Songs to calm me down-
Here Come The Warm Jets- Eno
Hickory Wind- The Byrds
Golden Slumbers- The Beatles
Wishful Thinking- Wilco
bullet proof..i wish I was- Radiohead

sweetheart of the bored

2005-05-24T13:14:00.000-07:00

Another day of abject weakness. Now comes the self loathing and recriminations, flagellate yourself you pitiless grub. Everything all of the time and where does that leave you? Paradise priced out of reach and guarded by Peels Angels. Only the strong survive long enough to see it for what it is and by then tiredness has set in.
Luckily enough this moronic pilgrimage does grant a finely tuned sense of bewildered humour and this in itself is worth the toll.

Hear for today-
The Correct Use of Soap- Magazine
Bongo Fury- Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down- Miles Davis
Phantom Power- SFA
A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night- Harry Nilsson

no hurry

2005-05-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

“Why on earth are we here
surely not to live in pain and fear”

When John Lennon wrote those words he was on top of the mountain looking down at the world and he saw that it was not good. Unlike the contemporary * STAR * ,he was not particularly taken by his first class station afforded by his Beatle wealth and could have wondered, why this particular bunch have everything?
A little education is a terrible thing and we are all only a brief episode away from intellectual disability. We really need to stop for a moment and see if we are doing well. Does your life resemble your aspirations or are you a viewer of your glimpse of the sun?
“ Instant Karma “ goes on to insist that we all shine on and as it is essential for us to strive for optimism I agree.

Songs for any day-
The Doors in Concert
The Gilded Palace of Sin- The Flying Burrito Brothers
If I Fell- The Beatles
Either/Or- Elliot Smith
Just To Keep You Satisfied- Marvin Gaye

idle bitch

2004-09-30T14:26:00.000-07:00

Hooked up the gamebox to the internet
Got an actual person for a gift as a pet
Can’t be cruel, bought up too well
Hail freedonia, lip service licking hell

Built a mansion inside your tree
Not ostentatious, it’s just….like….me
Evolutionary struggles at the top
The richest rewards the longest drop

Do you really not want to go out
It’s noisy, smelly and as for the crowd
scream love to jump up and shout
the nuance won’t carry in the cloud

World famous artifact on the wall
makes someone feel rather tall
But what would Buddah say
Never much liked your’s anyway

poor pete

2004-09-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

As prospects diminish
As nightmares swell
Some pray for heaven
While we live in hell

When I was wee and the Bunnymen were afoot, I did’nt have a clue what this lyric was about. I just believed Heaven Up Here had been delivered on stone tablets and who was I to argue.
In rooms florid with hash clouds and dripping in unexpensive red wine, the faithful came to bear witness. It was incredible how instant cult status was then and how many times it turned out to be correct.
From Show Of Strength to the title track is just breathless and then comes The Disease. Camus must have smiled and I’m sure Courtney has, a few times no doubt.
It does’nt end there either. Zimbo comes on like punk Clannad and somehow it refuses to suck, No Dark Things is groovy “entertainment” with edith bowie on croon. In the majestic Turquoise Days, Mac generously gives doomed romantics their song. All I Want is Teen Spirit done by Franz.
It’s rather good actually.

there goes a tenner

2004-09-15T13:27:00.000-07:00

i'm sure it's one of the unpleasant side orders of ageing but i find myself tut tutting the lack of mavericks in musical entertainment today. when it was all fields around here we had the likes of Japan,P.I.L.,The Slits(for about 2 minutes, granted),Gang of Four,Magazine,The Cramps and,.......feel the love.................., Kate Bush.
she remains one of my all time loves. i remember vividly seeing her for the first time on totp(imagine people that's all we had back then) and being amazed. she was only slightly older than me and her songwriting had come to the attention of Dave Gilmour who helped her get a deal with emi. Her first single,Wuthering Heights,was a huge hit and it launched her career in fine fettle.
my personal favourite is The Dreaming, her third album. now i've got to admit that i hate '80's music production and it's amazing that i can even listen to this record.i feel it's a testament to her talent that her vision was so special that not even '80's production could harm it.
i would implore people with too much time and money on their conscience to check out this wonderful platter.

and tomorrow the nostalgia

2004-08-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

u2 have always been a bit of a problem for me. in 4 decades,with an unabated fondness for music and it's accessories,i have seen so much come,go and stay.i remember, when i was quite young and u2 were starting out,they were playing a show in tullamore and they stopped for lunch in,my old town,athlone.my friend barry and i heard where they were dining and we decided to see if we could cadge a lift to the show.we found them in,what was then called, the bonne bonne restaurant.there was just the 5 of them,bono,edge,larry,adam and paul mc guinness.they were really nice and they explained to us that they were all travelling to the show in the same car and there was no room for us.they did offer us free entry if we made it to tullamore ourselves,which we did and, as far as i remember.we enjoyed it.however that is not whatever the point is.
in a remarkably long career they have never really blown me away.maybe it's overfamiliarity with the likes of the stones,marvin gaye,bowie,elvis and the beatles but i never really got the allure of u2.
this could only be aggravated by my view of bono now,as an unlovable lennon figure too far into todays platinum circle.
it really should have been cathal

a little lite prose

2004-08-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

as i often do i wonder why some performers make money and some don't. a case in point is the fatima mansions, a london based musical group led by a man from cork, who despite their intelligence and timely hardcore leanings did not "make it".
following the demise of microdisney cathal coughlan(Kawhil Koklyn) formed this intense experience and it's failure to reap the rewards of great sucess may have been due to his annoyance at the discrepencies in democracy as opposed to the purity of narcotics. perhaps it was the keyboards?

tuesday newday

2004-08-17T01:26:00.000-07:00

good sunny morning all is well with my world Jude is sunny and Kathryn is better

tea off

2004-08-16T15:13:00.000-07:00

just to let me know i'm here