http://damonmuma.com/wp three little strokes too many Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:44:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en originally aired from Monday January 23 at midnight for 2 hours until 2am on Tuesday. (I'd like to see Ülo record webstreams and post mp3s of them on a website. What a little shit.) Doves / Firesuite / Lost Souls (2000) The Cinematic Orchestra / All That You Give / Every Day (2002) +/- ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2007/01/23/s03e16-the-estonian-anti-tourism-trust/ originally aired from Monday January 15 at midnight for 2 hours until 2am on Tuesday. here for you for first time for only time... mp3 of show for you for listening -midnight:05- Tim Hecker / Chimeras / Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006) Massive Attack / Future Proof / 100th Window (2003) - The Essex Green / Don't ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2007/01/16/s03e15-envelope-say-last-one-more-fearsome/ originally aired Monday January 8, midnight for 2 hours to 2am tuesday. (surprise! (WARNING!!! ACHTUNG! SURPRISE MAY OR MAY NOT BE MP3 OF LAST NIGHT'S SHOW. THE OWNERS OF THIS WEBSITE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER AS A RESULT OF DOWNLOADING OR LISTENING TO WHATEVER HAPPENS ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2007/01/09/s03e14-at-once-narratological-and-paradigmatic/ Being a collection of songs representing the most favourite of songs enjoyed in 2006 (not necessarily, but principally, being songs originating in 2006). This disc sort of has a theme, but definitely has a flow. It starts off gentle, ramps up in intensity, gets rather forceful, eases off with a bit ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/12/28/grasping-how-to-reach/ originally aired midnight Dec 11 to 2am Dec 12 on 93.3 CFMU (it has been scientifically proven that 1 in 4.3 people prefers __ to __.) -midnight- Paul Nazca / Surface / Alchimie (2001) Alex Smoke / Lost In Sound / Incommunicado (2005) -12:11- Röyksopp / Remind Me (Someone Else's Club Mix) / Remind Me ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/12/12/s03e13-bickerball-tether-split/ originally aired midnight Dec 4 to 2am Dec 5 on 93.3 CFMU (Oh sorry ma'am, did you want an mp3 with your sandwich?) Luomo / Really Don't Mind / Paper Tigers (2006) Herbert / Addiction / Bodily Functions (2001) -12:15- Bjork / New World / Selmasongs (2000) Brian Eno / An Ending (Ascent) / Apollo: Atmospheres ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/12/05/s03e12-fuzzed-out-back-and-keening/ originally aired midnight nov 27 to 2am nov 28. (on cfmu of course!) (If you look, you might not see. If you fill two, you'll mp3. I'm obtuse.) -midnight- Murcof / Recuerdos / Remembranza (2005) Clint Mansell / Tree of Life / The Fountain (2006) -12:15- Howie B / Angels Go Bald:Too / Turn The Dark ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/28/s03e11-chimney-stained-toast-for-tea/ Underworld - Moaner from Beaucoup Fish (1999) /hardball techno grind/ everyone is smiling, the smiling is pushing it around is pushing it around like the shadows - in the evolution in the dark and the super boys where time is old, when time is everything, when time of all this started as we turn to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/27/ive-been-told-about-you-ive-been-waiting-for-you-in-the-airs-thin/ Regina Spektor - Fidelity from Begin to Hope (2006) /plickypop/ And suppose I never met you, suppose we never fell in love Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft Suppose I never ever saw you, suppose we never ever called Suppose I kept on singing love songs just ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/27/i-hear-in-my-mind-all-of-these-voices/ originally aired during the long night of November 20th, 2006 on CFMU (It's a .aiff! No.. It's a .ra! No.. it's... it's... it's.. thing) -midnight- Bent / Exercise 1 / Programmed To Love (2001) Ellen Allien & Apparat / Do Not Break / Orchestra Of Bubbles (2006) Simian Mobile Disco / Hustler / Hustler ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/21/s03e10-sing-tralalailay-tonight-for-me/ originally aired November 13th, 2006 on CFMU (Mysterious hyperlink leads to recording of community radio show, local DJ says) -midnightish- Kammerflimmer Kollektief / Mantra / Cicadidae (2003) -12:10- Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté / Hawa Dolo / In The Heart Of The Moon (2005) Akron/Family / Before And Again / Akron/Family (2005) Wilco / How to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/14/s03e09-flickered-orange-and-yellow-under-the-night/ (Apologizations for not getting this up right away. I been a busy boy) Originally aired at Midnight, Monday November 6, 2006 on CFMU. Originally meant to air July 24, 2006.. almost 3 and a half months late is better than never, huh? The chance to actually get this baby on the air was ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/07/072406-the-lost-episode/ (Sestinas are pretty absurd as far as the having tons of rules goes. This is sort of based on that plot outline for a play that I did a while back. Need a title.) The eager wind races over the face Of the deep blue, white tipped sea, Rolling the water ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/06/sestina/ This started as a personal tool for me to lay out what I have 'on the go' creatively (aside from the whole productivesmog business which will come into its own because it has to because it's on a timeline). But I feel that somehow making this public will put more ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/11/02/506/ Originally aired in the first moments of Halloween, 2006. (This is a special edition mp3 ("emm-pea-threa") that features, or rather doesn't feature depending on how you look at it, a missing section that occurs at 74'51.83 (59%). I would also like to apologize for my speaking being way too loud compared ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/31/s3e08-weaned-in-the-tepid-hollows-of-hell/ originally aired October 23rd, 2006 on CFMU (Want it? Can't have it! Want it? Can't ha.. oh fine [eesta mp3, meesta]) -midnight- Max Richter / Song / Songs From Before (2006) Sigur Rós / Untitled 3 (Samskyeti) / ( ) (2002) - Talk Talk / Inheritance / Spirit of Eden (1988) The Mountain Goats / Song For ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/24/s03e07-apoplexy-dont-come-easy/ The edited version of this is dissimilar enough and not necessarily better enough that I'm going to leave both up, I think, you know...for kids. Interested to see which one people like more. The revised one is more purely description, so is a bit restricted in form. Final: ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/23/descriptive-prose/ Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head from Rain Dogs (1985) /scarred ballad/ Hush a wild violet, hush a band of gold Hush you're in a story I heard somebody told Tear the promise from my heart, tear my heart today You have found another, oh baby I must go away So hang down ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/18/hang-down-your-head-for-me/ originally aired October 16th, 2006 on CFMU (Receive digitally encoded sound vibrations roughly in accordance with live broadcast experience) -midnight- Twine / Plectrum / Twine (2003) Loscil / Motoc / Plume (2006) Moby / The Sky Is Broken / Play (1999) - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / West Country Girl / Boatman's Call (1997) Los Lobos ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/17/s03e06-arrested-by-the-gale-force/ More being forced into the forms of poetry. The idea of the pantoum is the repeating lines. Based on the example that the monsieur Donaldson wrote for us the repeated lines don't have to repeat exactly, so I was a bit open with that. Erm. It's alright I guess. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/15/pantoum/ originally aired October 9th, 2006 on CFMU (This is where you listen when you want to listen to this show when it is not when it is on) David Holmes / Out Run / Bow Down To The Exit Sign (2000) St. Germain / Land Of... / Tourist (2001) - Architecture in Helsinki / One ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/10/s03e05-terribly-chuffed-milord-ave-another-canape/ originally aired October 2, 2006 on CFMU (One Time and ONE time only. MP3! Mp3! MP3!) Various / Today / The World is Gone (2006) Portishead / Only You / Portishead (1997) - Quantic / Blow Your Horn (Feat Ohmega Watts) / An Announcement to Answer (2006) Drum Island / La danse electrique / Drum Island ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/03/s03e04-carrack-in-the-crosswinds-let-me-breathe/ Jenn – “Shouldn’t Cam be here by now?” Derrick – “I think he’s still tied to a tree in Red Hill Valley— Jenn – “That’s not funny.” Derrick – “Craig was gonna laugh! Whatever. Buzz kill. Jenn – “I better get ready.” Derrick – “I’m sure it will make all the difference to the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/10/01/dialogue-exercise/ Bob Dylan - Spirit on the Water from Modern Times (2006) /blue folk/ Spirit on the water, darkness on the face of the deep I keep thinking about you baby and I can't hardly sleep I'm traveling by land, Traveling through the dawn of day You're always on my mind; I can't stay away ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/30/cant-believe-these-things-would-ever-fade-from-your-mind/ originally aired September 25th, 2006 on CFMU (New, exciting, compressed audio, technology allows you to "re-experience" episode) -midnightish- Junior Boys / Under the Sun / Last Exit (2004) Orbital / The Girl with the Sun in Her Head / In Sides (1996) - My Morning Jacket / Gideon / Z (2005) Pulp / She's A Lady / ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/26/s03e03-netted-and-drawn-into-milkwhite-shades/ For 4fw3. I hate rhyming. I did this in iambic pentameter even though this particular type of sonnet does not require it. Perhaps I am a madman. It is a Keats sonnet - The rhyme scheme is .a.b.c. ..a.b.d...c.a.b. ..c.d.e. ..d.e..). This was kinda thrown off without ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/25/denial/ More business for Creative Writing class. This is pretty much based on the play I started writing in the summer. Updated Oct 1. Andre, an old friend, visits Jim, a married Australian office worker. They stay up late over imported beer and Andre subtly criticizes the safety of Jim’s lifestyle choices. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/25/plot-outline/ As can be expected when one lives so close to Toronto, there are a lot of shows (that is, concerts) coming up that I really want to see. Yes. Some I want to see more than others. Italicized shows have been attended. (Parenthesized shows mean I probably won’t go, but are noteworthy). Starred ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/19/upcoming-shows-fall-06/ I've planned on doing this in previous years but never got around to it before it was too late. But now it's my last year here at McMaster, so it's now or never guys! Oolie boolie! "This" being my formalized initial impressions of each of my classes, so that ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/19/the-upper-classes-run-down/ originally aired September 18th, 2006 on CFMU (available for your listening pleasure, digitally downloadbly) -midnight- Superpitcher / Even Angels / Here Comes Love (2004) Underworld and Gabriel Yared / Happy Toast / Breaking and Entering (2006) - Laura Barrett / Robot Ponies / Earth Sciences (2005) Spiral Beach / Voodoo / Spiral Beach (2006) Hidden Cameras / She's ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/19/s03e02-restricted-sideroads-southwest-of-sound/ for my Forms of Creative Writing Seminar every week we have to write a short piece and then have it critiqued by the class. Here is the first draft of my first assignment. A postcard story, just like the one from a couple years ago, where we were assigned ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/14/gastronic-nanomed-gxr775-22/ originally aired September 11, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (you can now relive the moments in glorious low definition "MP3"!) -midnight- Jürgen Paape / So Weit Wie Noch Nie / So Weit Wie Noch Nie (2003) Kelley Polar / In Time / Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005) - Barbara Morgenstern / Nichts Muss [part 1] ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/12/s03e01-interstellar-trade-back-winds/ My little college radio show is set to enter its third year, which will most likely also be its last. As we have come to expect (a recurring pattern with 2 instances) the timeslot is slipping. This time backwards. THE SLIPSTREAM, with your delicious host Damon Muma from MIDNIGHT Monday ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/11/radio-slipstream-season-3-tonight/ This has been a good couple of days. And here's why: Yesterday at a bit before four, I went out to play Tennis with Brian, Ian, Matt and later Casey. My room here locks. So I leave to play tennis, without my keys, and I lock the door ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/08/dramedy-of-errors/ Alex Smoke - 6am from Incommunicado (2005) /luminescent minimal techno/ A mannequin antique white hand reaches out, flat in the predawn dimming. The paperthin indigo sky trembles, apprehensive at its approach. Fingers grip and slowly peel the sky backward, corner to corner, toward daylight or whatever burgeons behind. A break! The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/08/482/ originally aired Wednesday 6-9am on CFMU (mp3 - please excuse the choppiness) 6 am Alex Smoke / 6am / Incommunicado (2005) Boards Of Canada / Olson / Music Has The Right To Children (1998) Ochre / 111 / Lemodie (2006) Björk / Domestica / Pagan Poetry CDS (2001) Earth Leakage Trip / No Idea / Psychotronic EP ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/06/radio-slipstream-does-welcome-week/ Summer has come to an end. It even feels like autumn outside already. Fin. Closed. Zippo. And in relation to that, right now I feel a widdle sad. Not for want of things to look forward to, but more for all the things that are going into the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/05/hammer-town-take-4/ Saul Williams - Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare) from Saul Williams (2004) /hip hop/ This is a call out to all the youth in the ghettos, suburbs, villages, townships. To all the kids who download this song for free. By any means. To all the kids short on loot but ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/09/02/im-willing-and-able-to-lift-my-dreams-up-out-of-their-cradle/ I've decided several times over the last few months that it was time to make a post. But being somewhat lazy, somewhat noncommital and somewhat of a perfectionist, I have been consistely passing up that opportunity. I don't just want to ramble on about what I been up to, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/08/02/let-the-world-keep-spinning-im-staying-on-top/ aired August 29th. 4:30-6:30am. No one really knows why. (mp3) 2 am Boards of Canada / Olson / Music Has The Right To Children (1998) Ochre / 111 / Lemodie (2006) Björk / Domestica / Pagan Poetry CDS (2001) Smog / Rock Bottom Riser / A River Ain't Too Much to Love (2005) Maria Taylor / ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/07/31/071706-bequeath-unto-me-the-hold-of-eternity/ aired 2-4am July 11, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU. and then again from 3-5am August 8, for no particular reason. (mp3) 2 am Underworld / Dirty Epic / Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993) Band of Horses / The Funeral / Everything All The Time (2006) Augie March / The Drowning Dream / Strange Bird (2002) Tom Waits / I'm ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/07/11/061906-sorry-were-out-tryklickling-the-voomdor/ http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/06/26/this-weekend-i-went-to-the-cottage/ aired 2-4am June 27, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (mp3) 2 am Earth Leakage Trip / No Idea / Psychotronic EP (1991) Goldfrapp / Lovely Head / Felt Mountain (2000) U2 / Lemon / Zooropa (1993) Sunset Rubdown / Stadiums and Shrines II / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006) Spoon / Me And The Bean / Girls ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/06/26/062606-the-middling-lord-krazo-of-nednetron/ originally aired 3-5 am June 6, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU, or so I was told. May also have aired June 13, 2006. This uncertainty brought to you by the unreliability of the show being aired at the correct time and my inability to listen to CFMU while sleeping to determine ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/06/12/060506-slippity-hop-nation/ originally aired 2-4am May 30, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (mp3) 2 am Nitin Sawhney / Homelands / Beyond Skin (1999) Sofian Rouge / Amaravatti / Mediterranean Excursion (2006) Shpongle / Dorset Perception / Tales of the Inexpressible (2001) Conjure One / Redemption / Conjure One (2002) Isolée / Today / Wearemonster (2005) Ada / Lifedriver / Blondie ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/05/29/052906-pheromones-from-the-turgid-sea/ originally aired 2-4am May 23, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (mp3) 2 am Booka Shade / Night falls / Movements (2006) The Microphones / You'll Be in the Air / The Glow, Pt. 2 (2001) Modest Mouse / The Ocean Breathes Salty / Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004) The Constantines / Nighttime Anytime ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/05/23/052206-tricycle-milkbutter/ originally aired 2-4am May 16, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU; but this its debut, i guess. (mp3) 2 am Alex Smoke / Intro, 6am / Incommunicado (2005) Nathan Fake / Charlie's House / Drowning In A Sea Of Love (2006) The Flaming Lips / It's Summertime / Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002) Tom Vek / Nothing ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/05/08/050806-wake-wash-dress-eat-listen-hum-drum-dream/ G.A.Richards & the Dark Satanic Mills Bros. - Middle Of The Road Class War Terra Nullius Blu-Hoos from Closed off, Cold & Bitter - Life as a Can of Beer (2005) /alt folk./ Tough luck I suppose it's how a man is built you say your father called you 'admiral' you couldn't drink your ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/04/27/who-was-the-thief-who-stole-my-self-belief/ originally aired 2-4am April 25, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (mp3) 2 am Infantjoy / Departure / Where the Night Goes (2005) Sunset Rubdown / Us Ones in Between / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006) Adem / Warning Call / Love and Other Planets (2006) The Decemberists / The Gymnast High Above the Ground / Her ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/04/25/042406-once-more-what-the-pelican-sees/ originally aired 2-4am April 4, 2006 on 93.3 CFMU (mp3) 2 am Coldcut / Everything Is Under Control / Sound Mirrors (2006) Bloc Party / Banquet / Silent Alarm (2005) Plump DJs / Scram / A Plump Night Out (2001) Leftfield / Afro-Left / Leftism (1995) Kano / Ps & Qs / Home Sweet Home (2005) Lady Sovereign ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/04/04/040306-sweet-ass-jams-to-make-yr-booty-mauve/ originally aired 2-4am March 28, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Primal Scream / Kowalski / Vanishing point (1997) Ellen Allien & Apparat / Jet / Orchestra Of Bubbles (2006) Elbow / Any Day Now / Asleep In The Back (2001) Augie March / Asleep in Perfection / Sunset Studies (2000) Jeff Buckley / Grace / Grace ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/28/032706-mercy-played-bitter-seconds/ Monday was bright. I thought my eyes might explode. It wasn't just bright like when the sun shines down on a clear day. It was bright like the sun had tripled its diameter and dipped itself in white radioactive honey. Yeah. It hurt to look at ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/28/pull-my-ribs-apart-and-let-the-sun-inside/ originally aired 2-4am March 21, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) [the last 1.5 songs are missing due to inexplicable winamp crash while I was elsewhere] 2 am Morcheeba / Over and Over / Big Calm (1998) Aim / Ain't Got Time to Waste (feat. YZ) / Cold Water Music (2001) David Thomas Broughton / Unmarked Grave ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/21/032006-fickle-potential-from-the-harmyard/ originally aired 2-4am March 14, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Peace Orchestra / Who Am I / Peace Orchestra (1999) Herbert / Harmonise / Scales (2006: May 30) Walker, Scott / Farmer In The City / Tilt (1995) Nine Horses / Wonderful World / Snow Borne Sorrow (2005) Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan / Ballad Of ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/14/060313-tarry-not-in-the-off-white-beige/ Today is better than other days. It goes up to eleven! So, spring is here. The heavy coats can get left at home, making the rest of the world just a little bit closer. The windows are open and the air is ten levels more vibrant and animated and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/09/the-world-woke-up/ Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings from Shut I Am Dreaming (May 2, 2006) /indysoulrock/ You're on a distant shore I stamp my feet down down Do you hear knuckles on your door? Do you understand what I'm pining for? I'm afraid of the water I'm afraid of ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/09/dont-make-a-sound/ originally aired 2-4am March 7, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Sufjan Stevens / Come on! Feel the Illinoise / Illinois (2005) The Herbaliser / Gadget Funk / Take London (2005) Lyrics Born / I'm Just Raw / Same Shit Different Day (2005) LCD Soundsystem / Tribulations / LCD Soundsystem (2005) Sleater-Kinney / Modern Girl / The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/03/07/030606-the-dissollution-salsa/ originally aired 2-4am February 28, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Okkervil River / So Come Back, I Am Waiting / Black Sheep Boy (2005) British Sea Power / Apologies to Insect Life / The Decline of... (2003) The Constantines / Insectivora / Shine a Light (2003) Primal Scream / Insect Royalty / Xtrmntr (2000) Blur / ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/02/28/022706-bellerophon-hoodwinked/ originally aired 2-4am February 14, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Elbow / Strangeways To Holcombe Hill In 4.20 / Forget Myself (2005) Doves / Darker / Sea Song (1999) Radiohead / The Trickster / My Iron Lung (1994) Pearl Jam / Yellow Ledbetter / Jeremy (1994) Interpol / Specialist / Interpol (2002) U2 / Walk to The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/02/14/021306-toward-and-down-the-uparounds-b-sides/ originally aired 2-4am February 7, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Deltron 3030 / 3030 / Deltron 3030 (2000) Grandaddy / He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot / The Sophtware Slump (2000) Doves / A House / Lost Souls (2000) Ry Cooder / El U.F.O Cayo / Chavez Ravine (2005) RJD2 / True Confessions / RJD2 ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/02/07/020606-queen-helvetica-in-my-empty-nest/ So, I listen to a lot of music. Everyone who knows me knows that. I compulsively download, compulsively read about and compulsively listen to music for about 75% of my free time. Luckily music is such that one can listen to it and do other things at ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/02/04/the-top-111-albums-of-2005/ originally aired 2-4am January 31, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) One last kick at the can... 19: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (We Are Nowhere And It's Now) I was originally wary of Bright Eyes. I didn't give Conor Oberst a chance because he was lumped in with emo and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/31/013006-tiptop-of-countdown-mountain-the-ze-big-111-of-05-part-5/ originally aired 2-4am January 24, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) And yet more. Verily. 39: Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites (The Zookeeper's Boy) An all-out progrockathon with guitars spidering in and out and elevated vocal melodies soaring above with rambunctious joy. All the tracks flow into one another and despite a few ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/24/012306-111-it-just-keeps-going-part-4/ originally aired 2-4am January 17, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) Still? Yes goddamnit. This guy is nuts. Part 3 of the 111 album countdown.. and we all know the significance of 111 divided by 3! (not particularly anything, but absence is as important as presence). and Heeeeere we go! 62: ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/17/011606-the-top-eleventy-one-of-two-thousand-and-five-part-3/ Here we have a little hiheyhello to tell any who would worry that there is more to me than a radio playlist every Tuesday morning with two weeks off across the winter solstice. I realize that it's been many moons since there was a regular howyadoing posted in these ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/11/spaghetti-filled-stockings/ originally aired 2-4am January 10, 2006 on CFMU (mp3) The second part of our tiny little downcounting of musical albumens. 87: Menomena - Under an Hour (Flour) A set of three extended tracks created for a dance performance. Repeating arrangements weave in and out, build, denoue, and make for great listening 86: Kate Bush ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/10/010906-111-2005-albums-that-are-better-than-coldplays-part-2/ not originally aired on CFMU, thanks to last-minute crappy-ass computer crashes. (mp3) The first part of a rather ambitious and perhaps deranged countdown. 111: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition Original Soundtrack (The Proposition #1) Atmospheric, at times pretty and others creepy as Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (a violinist who has ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2006/01/05/010206-the-top-111-albums-of-2005-part-1/ originally aired 2-4am December 13, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) The holiday special. Christmas, X-mas, triple x-mas, sex-mas, axe-mas, kwanza, chanuckhkha, you know.. whichever bastes your turkey. 2 am Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Stagger Lee / Murder Ballads (1996) the national / abel / alligator (2005) Nada Surf / Paper Boats / Let Go ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/12/13/121205-christ-massed-any-bree-i-ate/ Here is the first version of the script, roughly* as performed in the ComBase on Dec 6, 2005 as my Solo Performance worth 15% of 3XX3: Post-Modern Performance in Action For this performance I played all of the "characters". I lined up eight pairs of shoes, one for each , at ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/12/07/bus-fcker/ originally aired 2-4am December 6, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) Tonight! All is music pertaining to scoring the movement of picture or body. 2 am Vangelis / Prologue And Main Titles / Blade Runner (Esper Edition) (1982) Peter Gabriel / The Feeling Begins / The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) Pale 3 / The Roof, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/12/06/120505-ball-chain-window-pull/ originally aired 2-4am November 29, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Thomas Brinkmann / Margins / Lucky Hands (2005) Mirah / Cold Cold Water / Advisory Committee (2001) Augie March / Brundisium / Strange Bird (2002) Cuff the Duke / No Sleep, No Heat / Cuff the Duke (2005) The Deadly Snakes / Work / Porcella ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/29/112805-seventeen-summer-nights-and-slosh/ originally aired 2-4am November 22, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Rob Porter / The Designated Patient / Henry V (2005) Saul Williams / Act III Scene 2 (Shakesphere) / Saul Williams (2004) Radiohead / I Will / Hail To The Thief (2003) Arcade Fire w. David Bowie / Wake Up / Fashion Rocks ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/22/112105-your-mother-watches-modern-reinterpretations-of-shakespeare-plays-with-chuck-norris-in-hell/ Alright folks! this is it. In honour of the 15 hours of rehearsal I had this weekend and occupied evenings from now until the 28th of November save two, I am cordially inviting you all to come see: Henry V written by Shakespeare directed and reinterpreted by Peter Cockett starring an ensemble cast of ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/15/how-to-not-get-murdered-in-one-easy-step/ originally aired 2-4am November 15, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Omar Faruk Tekbilek / Shashkin (Hefner Remix) (2001) µ-ziq / Swan Vesta / Tango N' Vectiff (1993) Rae & Christian / Divine Sounds / Northern Sulphuric Soul (2004) Common / I Am Music / Electric Circus (2002) Blackalicious / Give It To You / The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/15/111505-sweet-onion-cheapskate-blues/ originally aired 2-4am November 8, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Doves / The Storm / Some Cities (2005) Massive Attack ft. Dot Allison / Aftersun / Danny the Dog (promo) (2005) Depeche Mode / Precious / Playing the Angel (2005) Mew / Special (Radio Mix) / And the Glass Handed Kites (2005) Death From Above ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/08/110705-blohole-bloomers-injustice-flavoured-beets/ The bus. A lengthy chunk of metal, rubber, motor, plastic, polls and seats, blinkers -- formed into some recognizable functional shape, wends down street after street. Pause for a pick-up or drop-off. Whirr and grunt back into motion. It's among the biggest of the herd, coralled along the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/06/a-counterpoint-of-sorts-but-what-isnt/ originally aired 2-4am November 1, 2005 on CFMU (mp3) 2 am Amon Tobin | Four Ton Mantis | Supermodified (2000) Portishead | Cowboys | Portishead (1997) Massive Attack vs Mad Professor | Bumper Ball Dub (karmacoma) | No Protection (1995) Tricky | Bury the Evidence | Blow Back (2001) Ryuichi Sakamoto | Anger | Discord (1998) Primal ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/11/01/skulked-across-a-blackening-grey/ thanks to the daily illuminator for pointing me toward this nifty little device! Writely is basically an online wordprocessor. It stores the documents online so you can get at them whenever, wherever. The really cool thing, though, is that it also allows you to give permission to other people ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/26/writely/ originally aired 2-4am October 25, 2005 on CFMU oi, mates! it's le season premiere! roast me a kipper and flay me a jambo! (mp3) [the file may be slightly mucked but should be fully usable] 2 am U2 vs Lyrics Born / Callin' On Sunday / Partyben (2004) Castanets / No Voice Was Raised / ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/25/102405-red-embers-remembered/ Tonight, the community radio arm of slipstream dot brokenuniverse dot com is beginning its second season with 93.3 CFMU. The Slipstream is permanently moving to Monday nights at 2-4am (technically Tuesday morning). Continuing the tradition it started last year, the slipstream will deliver quality, carefully selected songs on a weekly basis. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/24/attn-for-immediate-release-re-radio-slipstream/ Evil Nine - Crooked (feat Aesop Rock) from You Can Be Special Too (2004) /break-hop/ we don't like it when the city lights start fading when the city people act crooked when the city pigeons break wings when the city fire starts spreading then we can't get down! Hey. The sky would be burning with ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/20/shhh-the-babys-sleeping/ Rainlendar is a free little program that lets you put a calendar and to-do list on your desktop. You can set it to remind you of events x amounts of minutes beforehand, set weekly, daily events etc. My only complaint is no 24 hour time. It helps me feel ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/19/rainlendar/ CFMU may be expanding their broadcast schedule so that radio-slipstream can appear on an as of yet undetermined weeknight between 2-4am. Come to think of it, the slipstream sounds more like a late-night phenomenon than any other type. Don't get too excited, we won't know for certain for a week or so. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/17/the-value-of-kindness-and-level-headed-discussion/ "Re: Holy Community Radio Batman! Not looking good, man, but nothing personal. There's just pretty much no slots. Only 4 opened up anyway and none of them jive with your schedule from what I can tell. You still wanna fill in and stuff? Join someone who has ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/17/the-dangers-of-comfort/ Stars - Heart from Heart (2003) /dream/ time can take it's toll on the best of us look at you, you're growing old so young traffic lights blink at you in the evening you tilt your head and turn it to the sun sometimes the tv is like a lover singing softly as you fall asleep you ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/15/i-think-i-saw-your-airplane-in-the-sky-tonight/ This was a lot longer, and then somehow the internet ate it. Then I rewrote it, and then the internet ate it again right as I was finishing. So you get to deal with the short version - I am owed, by various people for various reasons, close to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/14/fun-facts/ The Decemberists - On the Bus Mall from Picaresque (2005) /twinkly folkpop/ Among all the urchins and old Chinese merchants of the old town, we reigned at the pool hall with one iron cue ball and we never let the bastards get us down. And we laughed off the quick tricks-- ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/13/we%e2%80%99re-kings-among-runaways/ Elbow - Station Approach from Leaders of the Free World (2005) /britrock/ The streets are full of Goths and Greeks I haven’t seen my mum for weeks but Coming home I feel like I Designed these buildings I walk by You know you drive me up the wall I need to see your face that’s all You ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/08/coming-home-i-feel-like-i-designed-these-buildings-i-walk-by/ Massive Attack - Wire from Welcome to Sarajevo [movie] (1997), Live @ Phoenix Festival (1996) /griphop/ Vocal Edit - Instrumental Soundtrack Version - Live is it close? maybe close enough to touch? it's what you wanted for so long it comes around to where it all began and it's all down to the victor Grey and blue ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/10/04/what-will-you-do-when-it-all-falls-down/ Well how's this for convenience? From Sept 17-21, I saw the four best concerts of the year so far. Four very different concerts at four very different venues. And they all blew my mind (or at least came damn close) in their own big way. I was going ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/30/ulpswasar/ The Books - An Owl With Knees from Lost and Safe (2005) /pickybubblepsychpop/ "Eat rye straw Leave, withdraw Drink ink tea Stay with me Fame stay shy By way of why Wait, lie low Old ones’ odd odes Read. Read on Read, read on Breathe, be calm You’re gone, gone on" The air's cold or warm. Maybe somewhere in between. The winter grey ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/30/strange-to-see-how-time-agrees-to-slow-down-for-hours-with-me/ Busdriver - Happiness's (Unit of Measurement) from Fear of a Black Tangent (2005) /hip hop/ "You punk about twenty styles per stanza but who cares because I'm frustrated, my records don't sell, and I can't seem to book a decent gig, and my indie label is understaffed, and these MIDI ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/30/ive-got-a-point-system-that-determines-my-happiness-its-unit-of-measurement-is-your-interest-in-my-crappy-shit/ I've been holding off posting because I was working on trying to get a review of the magnitude 4 live musical eargasm that assaulted me between the 17 and 21 of September, but it hasn't quite managed to get finished, so I'm officially breaking the silence, due to some things ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/28/something-in-the-way-of-things/ My first review for the silhouette this year.. I whipped it up while waiting for the internet to arrive last afternoon without actually getting the CD out of the shrinkwrap. That's how hardcore I am. Idlewild – Warnings/Promises Oh, copy control. Thanks to you this CD might “encounter playback problems” ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/15/idlewild-warningspromises/ Here are some words and history that must be forthwith introduced into the public unconsciousness and also the public consciousness. The former is better because they won’t know what the heck is going on: pepperjack (vb): to perform an act which results in someone (male) being kicked with excessive ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/14/non-stop-erotic-dancing/ great weekend, great day. All my classes seem awesome, every single one of my profs seems really cool. American Lit is the best first impression from a lit course yet. Myth is going to be easy, entertaining, and funny, and interesting. The biggest news for me though is ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/12/a-good-day-not-over-yet/ Holy good goddamn. There are a lot of shows (that is, concerts) coming up that I really want to see. Yes. Some I want to see more than others. Some I already have tickets to. Italicized shows have been attended. (Parenthesized shows mean I probably won't go, but are noteworthy). Starred shows I ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/10/the-autumn-of-music-upcoming-shows/ Oh, Hamilton. Despite the steel-mills, one way streets, school, paying out of my own pocket to live and the lacking of company I'd much like to be sharing, things are generally turning out quite well. When I tromped up the stairs to our new pad (directly across the street from ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/10/the-hammer-comes-down/ On the life front, briefly, that was one hell of a summer. And one absolutely great last month. Unemployment is not particularly wise, but sometimes you get to fill the time with enough awesomeness that it doesn't particularly matter that you are brutally in debt and don't really know ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/10/summer-make-good/ Yup. Thar she blows. Hide the women and children. What you're looking at right now is the new version of the slipstream. Gone is the rudimentary html (complete with lack of stylesheets) and Come is this high technological wonder you see gyrating before you at seventeen and a half revolutions per second. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/09/soon-is-now/ This is actually the best mix CD ever. I'm not just saying that because I made it myself. It just is. I'm actually completely unbiased on this and often quite self-effacing in general. Holy fuck I'm awesome. 1. My Morning Jacket - Off the Record (from Z) 2. Elbow - Picky Bugger (from Leaders ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/09/05/my-ears-bleed-blood-tears-of-joy/ Calla - Pulverized from Collisions (2005) /brooding indie rock/ I gave you several reasons; you drowned in sympathy I gave you room to breathe in; you held your trust in me Just forget it, I’ll regret it Quote me on the first, Cause the worst is to come Don’t believe it, You don’t need it Forget ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/08/03/quote-me-on-the-first-cause-the-worst-is-to-come/ M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun from Arular (2005) /grunky dancehall rap/ Gymnastics super fit Muscles on the gun clip Bite, teeth, nose bleed Tied up in the scarf piece Can I get control? Do you like me vulnerable? I'm armed and I'm equal. More for for the people. Physical, Brute force Steel, Iron you're the boss Yeah you're so o-able Grind me ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/07/09/ill-fight-you-just-to-get-peace/ Roisin Murphy - Ramalama (Bang Bang) from Ruby Blue (2005) /jafunksohouse/ Hearing only one root note Planted firmly in the ground Undo my heart, unzip my body and Lend to my ear a clear and a deafening sound Everybody smile please Nobody pay no mind to me Finger in position on the switch A little flash photography Can't ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/07/09/and-if-i-need-a-rhythm-it%e2%80%99ll-be-to-my-heart-i-listen-if-it-dont-get-me-too-far-wrong/ Sufjan Stevens - Come on! Feel the Illinoise from Come on, feel the Illinoise (2005) /indie-chamber-folk/ "I cried myself to sleep last night And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window I was hypnotized, I was asked To improvise On the attitude, the regret Of a thousand centuries of death. Are you writing from the heart? ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/07/06/we-laughed-at-the-beatitudes-of-a-thousand-lines/ isn't it? It's almost enough to make my pants blue. http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/06/06/hello-world/ This bit of tuneage was intended to be the soundtrack to a short story I started writing back in December 2004. Maybe I'll finish it sometime. The tentative outline is available for perusal (scroll to the bottom). Most of the songs are sparse, gentle pieces. They're ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/06/01/far-away-trains/ A few little songs that are, well, worth putting on a mix cd, as it turns out. A large selection of new stuff, and a general good turn-out, I think. No real theme, but a decent flow, I hope. 1. Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass from Silent Alarm ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/06/01/eye-all-the-somewheres/ (MP3) 6 am Spoon / Something to Look Forward To / Kill The Moonlight (2002) Merkury Burn / I Should Care / Rumours of Our Death (2001) Death From Above 1979 / Pull Out / I'm a Woman, You're a Machine (2004) The Ramones / Blitzkrieg Bop / Ramones (1976) Talk Talk / The Rainbow ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/04/20/042005-simmer-down-junket-songs-of-the-road/ (terrible quality MP3) 6 am - In honour of the rising sun Jerry Lee Lewis / Great Balls of Fire / Fire (2003) Twine /Kalea Morning / Twine (2003) The Cinematic Orchestra / Dawn / Man With a Movie Camera (2003) Broken Social Scene / Looks Just Like the Sun / You Forgot It In ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/04/13/041305-sunstroke-academy-presents-the-tricentannual-moonscreen-rub-off-sunrisingfire/ Tom Waits - Time from Rain Dogs (1985) /acoustic scrowl/ (("Well, the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street, the shadow boys are breaking all the laws. And you're east of East St. Louis, and the wind is making speeches, and the rain sounds like a round ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/04/08/tom-waits-time/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/04/06/040605-motorized-pedestrian-u2live/ A very special super-shortened version of the Slipstream featuring a final hour vaguely inspired by the McMaster Thespian Society's production of Romeo and Juliet. ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/30/033005-umramaboutareachout/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/23/032305-trillibut-kutswitchs-extra-musical-vaganza-devils-with-drum-machines/ This may or may not have been made with someone in mind. Several months on down the road, that person is much less in mind, I have no particular regrets, and a really kickass mix cd came of it. 01 - Doves – Pounding [from The Last Broadcast, 2002] 02 - ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/20/whenever-i-might-find-her/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/16/031605-caughtncrushcrashed-tgether-in-an-empty-street-angels-with-synthesizers/ March 9, 2005 - Songs in the Key of AWESOME ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/09/030905-songs-in-the-key-of-awesome-best-songs-of-aught-4/ March 2, 2005 - a.k.a. Hey VJ! Sing! ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/03/02/030205-aka-hey-vj-sing-music-videos/ In july 2014 with the flick of a switch it blinked its first blink. Sentience not begot of man, not born of womb of woman. Manufactured in a metal factory, a brain of circuitry, fed and charged with voltage of electrons. Technology gone too far. Humans playing at god. In ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/02/25/robotronicalifization/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/02/16/021605-tertiary-bleed-sinead-oconnor-on-songs-not-by-sinead-oconnor/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/02/09/020905-gundam-fishstick-remixes-2/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/02/02/020205-free-headspin-at-epcot-robots/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/26/012605-titularily-disadvantaged-california/ The first track on Poorfolk's self titled debut made one thing painfully apparent: naming a CD after another genre and adding some swishy guitars isn't always enough to distinguish an album from that burgeoning heap of mostly uniform, pleasantly mediocre indie bands, especially when Jonathan Pearce's voice sounds exactly like half the lead vocalists already ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/25/poorfolk-st/ ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/19/011905-inverted-hopscotch-great-songs-from-movies/ I've no time to be longwinded or humorous (which means I probably will be, longwinded, I mean). I don't really have time to be even posting this either. You see I am being crushed down by this massive weight of school-and-extracurricular-work that's something like a three headed steamroller from the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/17/15/ The first ever Slipstream Radio Three-hour ( http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/12/011205-the-usual-suspects/ Augie March - There Is No Such Place from Sunset Studies (2000) /wow/ (("Yes I have seen it too, just a little different from how you do: A river winding blue among the dunes and a marble bed; a sun that doesn't set but settles. There is no such place. If you're looking ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/12/augie-march-there-is-no-such-place/ A young boy trundled through another day of life, went to his SWHAT shift on the wrong night (because he's just that out of it) and stayed because, as usual, there were holes in the roster to be filled. Can that be his good deed for the day? ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/10/monday-january-10th/ Fresh into a new year, I become the easy morning rebel. Various events transpire to prevent the existence of an mp3. I think it went well. Tracklist: Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan ... Amon Tobin - El Cargo General Electrics - Facing That Void The Dismemberment Plan - The Ice of Boston ... Nick Cave - Abattoir ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/04/fill-in-tue-jan-4-700-900/ Another carry-over from the old site, and perhaps it will be kept updated... These are not necessarily endorsements, but I don't usually see an artist I don't like. It does happen though, from time to time, for one reason, or another (and those more embarassing ones tend to be toward ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/01/arists-that-ive-seen-live/ This is what we would call my favourite albums of all time. Anything on this list is quite worth buying. It's quite possible I forgot some things, and any ranking is interchangeable with most things up to 10 or 15 spots away, because ranking things is silly. But for some ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/01/my-favourite-albums/ This is a list of my favourite artists and DJs and what have you. It's not 'the best' just my personal favourites. I update it periodically, so it's usually fairly accurate, though it's obviously hard to be totally accurate about a list like this. It also tries ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2005/01/01/my-favourite-artists/ Tindersticks (with Ann Magnusson) - Buried Bones from Curtains (1997) /chamber pop/(("Turn around and it's winter, darling.Look in the mirror and it won't be you.So you're an old, old dog,you've been around the blockSo many timesand it's the same old turns,same old feelings straight down the line.Yeah, I can love ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/30/buried-bones/ Augie March - This Train from Strange Bird (2002) /gosbullrockabill/(("Pods of wealthy blonde gobbets with red-rind eyes getting pecked at by the heroin sparrows of the western skies, It may be married to the tracks but this train flies and it's taking no passengers. "We'll stand on his hand, that's ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/28/this-train/ Not one of my best efforts, (or maybe it is.. I don't know) but definitely listenable, and the best named. Tending towards a bit eclectic angle than some of my efforts. 01 Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Me and Mia 02 ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/24/the-titillating-sounds-of-ipswitch/ Annie - Heartbeat from Anniemal (2004) /elEktrOPoP/(("Majestic sound round and round and round, glad you're next to me. There was a time everybody was around and I was dancing with you, don't know you your name, making me ashamed to feel the way that I do. I won't ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/23/heartbeat/ This is a non update sort of update that merely exists to change the front of this damn site. I'm not allowed to take time to add more. Just to spend it on other even less useful things. Funny to think that way on the holidays, but ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/23/thursday-december-23rd/ Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass from The Silent Alarm (2005) /nu.wave.disco.punk/(("It's so cold in this house. It's so cold in this bed. I can't eat, I can't sleep. I can't sleep, I can't dream. I'm aversioned to light. Like drinking poison. Like eating glass."The lights flick off in succession. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/21/like-eating-glass/ The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy from Picaresque (2005) /folkpop/(("They laid his body down in a curchyardbut still when the moon is out, with his pushcartHe calls down the day.Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown -made of gold and silk Arabian thread.But I am dead ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/20/eli-the-barrowboy/ Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From    (Röyksopp Remix)  from Versus (2001) /mellow electro ballad/(("You called me after midnight,must have been three years since we last spoke.I slowly tried to bring backthe image of your face from the memories so old.I tried so hard ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/17/i-dont-know-what-i-can-save-you-from-ryksopp-remix/ Doves - Darker from Sea EP (1999) /biting alt britpop/(("Bad snow freeze my throatand numbs my soul.Eats me whole to pick me up.Thats where you know;free to go.You call the jones.Makes me old before I'm old.Its all you love."Another gust throws ice and muck into his face. He blinks ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/16/darker/ Animal Collective - Leaf House from Sung Tongs (2004) /psych fop/(("This house is sad. Because he's gone. mee-oww. Kitties! mee-oww. Kitties! mee-ow. Kitties! me-owww."The burning yellow straw is globuled over with sticky syrup. Every one is singing and holding hands, but they don't know why. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/14/leaf-house/ Five writing assignments completed for the abovementioned class (postcard story, dialogue, characterization, setting, short story outline). For the postcard story we were given the first line and the last line (Austen and Shakespeare, respectively) and expected to bring them together into a short, cohesive storyr. The rest are pretty self ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/12/short-writing-assignments/ Radiohead - A Wolf at the Door from Hail to the Thief (2003) /slipt up rock drawl/(("Investments and dealers.Cold wives and mistresses.Cold wives and sunday papers.City boys in first class..don't know they're born; they knowsomeone else is gonna come and clean it up,born and raised for the job,someone always does.I ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/12/a-wolf-at-the-door/ Adem - Long Drive Home from Homesongs (2004) /neo alt folk/(("I did the favour here, not you. I've been smiling my best smile, I've been laughing with your friends, doing everything you asked on the way. And I don't know what I've done, but we haven't talked for hours ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/11/long-drive-home/ Blackalicious - Sky is Falling from Blazing Arrow (2002) /hip hop/(("The sky is falling, no one is watching.Tornadoes twisting wheres nobody is listeningand fires no one pays attention,energies are eruptingblurring the intentional visiondoctors and lawyers and scientists all are locked in the prison of the mindand all the youth are ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/10/sky-is-falling/ Wow the frequency of updates compared to le past is making me nauseated (nauseous would be incorrect, my fine proper English loving friends). This is jus a quick one to mention that radio mp3 (see wednesday) is here but that it's not as tubular as would be groovacious (both ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/09/thursday-december-9th/ Another message from your sponsor, live from December 8th: Radio exciting, albeit not quite as exciting as first appearance. More bad mistakes, less delightful goofiness, but we grow and learn. Mp3 is hopefully on the way? (brother not talk much on msn but stay tuned, hopefully). Playlist transpired ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/08/wednesday-december-8th/ This is like, uhh, another fill-in or something. Groovy. I made some dumb mistakes, though. Tracklist: Wilco - Jesus, etc Weakerthans Pamphleteer .. Keren Ann - Seventeen Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations .. The Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band - Could've Moved Mountains .. Air - Run Junior Boys - Last Exit The Delgados - Coming in from the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/07/radio-fill-in-dec-7/ Ulrich Schnauss - Passing By from Far Away Trains Passing By (2001) /ambient techno/((The cold, steadfast window feels the pressure of her forhead. Through the dust spattered glass the world slips past, puncuated by the regularity of power-lines, the waves of wind on fields, the unpredictability of crooked tree ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/07/passing-by/ Iron & Wine - Woman King from Woman King EP (2005) /indie folk/(("Blackbird claw, raven wing under the red sun. A long clothes line, two shirt sleeves, waving as we go. Five hundred years, hundred more, some day we may see a woman king, wristwatch time slowing as she ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/06/woman-king/ The Wrens - Boys, You Won't from Meadowlands (2003) /indie rock/(("Hiding in new places,getting wasted,singing "I guess we're done."I don't want you to wonder why;it won't do any good.You don't know what you got intountil you know when its all gone wrong.And I don't feel the need to try and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/04/boys-you-wont/ Passengers - Slug from Original Soundtracks 1 (1995) /experimental avantballade/(("Don't want you to get hurt.Can't help but I'm a flirt.Don't want to take your drugs.Don't want to be a slug.Don't want you to confess,not under duress.Don't want be untrue.I want to be with you.Don't want to lose my nerve.Don't want ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/02/slug/ And now ladies and Gentlemen, I am awfully proud to present: The Great Ham Challenge of 2004!!! What's all this about? Well, there is a full packet of pillars sliced blackforest ham unopened in the fridge. Well and good. But oh my look at that! (close ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/02/monday-december-2nd/ The Decemberists - Odalisque from Castaways and Cutouts (2002) /indie folk pop/(("When they find you odalisquethey will rend you terriblystitch from stitch til allyour linen and limbs will falllazy lady had a baby girland a sweet sound it maderaised on pradies, peanut shells and dirtin the railroad culdesacand what do ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/12/01/odalisque/ Rjd2 - Ghostwriter from Deadringer (2002) /instrmntl hiphop/((Ya know the old cars from the thirties, with the glistening coat of green paint and the square-tops and the round protruding headlights like buggy little eyes. There one goes, bouncing down the road in front of a billow of dust. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/30/ghostwriter/ After just 2 or 3 listens Keren Ann Zeidel's English debut had snuggled up against my subconscious. The songs all sounded familiar and I already delighted in each one while anticipating the next. Keren's style is light, easygoing and very difficult to dislike. Her gentle voice caresses your ears as the dreamy ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/29/keren-ann-not-going-anywhere/ PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan from To Bring You My Love (1995) /grimy rock/(("Dunk youUnderDeep saltWater.In myDreamingYou'll beDrowning.Raise meUp lordCall meLazarus.Hey LordHelp meMake meMarvel. You wanna hear my long snake ... moan!You oughta see me crawl my... roar! Is my voodoo working?"Tick, tick. BOOM. Clenched fist spattered ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/29/long-snake-moan/ 2 hour fill-in for a Calypso show, I deviated a bit from said format. My first ever college radio solo experience and goshdarn was it exciting or what? Listen! Tracklist: U2 vs Lyrics Born - Callin' On Sunday Moloko - Fun For Me .. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Babe, You Turn Me On Dresden ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/27/sat-nov-27-on-cfmu/ Uuuuupdate agaaain: relive the infamous damon on the radio experience, or catch it for the very first time by click click clicking HERE (much apologizings for the shitty quality.. that's all we got to work with, but huge-ass thanks to kevin for recording it.. and looks like I had the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/27/saturday-november-27thst/ Well it's not quite as good as having my own radio show, but for two hours tomorrow it's the same damn thing! Today I received word that the host of Rhythm n' Roots, a reggae/calypso/etc show on CFMU, won't be able to make it, and I was the first ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/26/friday-november-26thst/ When listening to Beneath Augusta's debut, it's easy to think of Muse with the bombast knob cranked down, combined with a bit of the laudable aimlessness of Elbow-or, more appropriately, to the sound of Bends-era Radiohead B-sides. In fact track nine sounds absurdly similar to "the Trickster," and while that's ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/25/beneath-augusta-you-gotta-come-down-sometime/ Augie March - The Night is a Blackbird from Strange Bird (2002) /aussiedreampoprock/(("Well it tastes like a Sunday,There should be music in the front room.and the markets a'millingwith the people in the afternoon.And there's a question to be askedif you're drinking alone,It's what horse were you thrown fromwhich riderless goes ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/25/the-night-is-a-blackbird/ Solomon Burke - None of Us Are Free from Don't Give Up On Me (2002) /Soul/(("And there're people still in darkness, and they just can't see the light. If you don't change wrong, then that says it's right. We got to try to feel for each other, let ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/24/none-of-us-are-free/ This is the final version of the basically only real project of note that I did for ENGlish 2d03 at McMastah Universiteet back in Oh-Four. That's all I have to say about that. Force the Sun to Rise      A hot haze hangs over the later end of another day.      The cruel sun's ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/23/force-the-sun-to-rise/ Twine - Girl Song from Twine (2003) /Experimental Ambient/((The world is sideways tonight. The people scurry around on hurried mechanical paths, blipping past with a warble. Motion-stop-blur. An intersection packs up a stack of traffic, then with the green light splats it off to the next. Light flicking back ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/22/girl-song/ The Constantines - Shine a Light from Shine a Light (2003) /dense indie rock/(("Don't talk to me about simple things. There is no such thing. All a man can build is his vision. And I love my man for trying. A crime of passion. Sister don't reduce yourself. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/21/shine-a-light/ No wonder I feel like I've seen the Constantines constantly bandied about by Call the Office, or at least the marquee outside, long before they were preening in the glow of indie-cred and continent wide praise. It turns out they've played there no less than 20 times in the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/21/sunday-november-21st/ Luke Vibert - Acidisco from YosepH (2003) /acid disco/((It moves slow into field of vision. A slightly lilting gait. Steady step by ssssteady step... growing in size and shape and scope. The crates that litter in the alleyway are tapping, shifting in colours, shifting in time. The walls behind are ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/20/acidisco/ Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan from Young Team (1997) /post-rock/((Deryn stared across the bleak expanse of thistle and murky grass, and breathed steamy warmth across his bunched, numbed fists. A hawk swung low over the heath, graceful. He glanced uneasily at his stoic companions and his fingers brushed ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/16/mogwai-fear-satan/ Feist - Mushaboom from Let It Die (2004) /silkysmoothfolkpop/(("Helping the kids out of their coats,but wait the babies haven't been born!Unpacking the bags and setting upand planting lilacs and buttercups.But in the meantime I've got it hard:second floor living without a yard.It may be years until the daymy dreams will ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/15/mushaboom/ Menomena - E. is Stable from I Am The Fun Blame Monster! (2003) /splorsh/(("Coldness sets in like fingernails raked across the door. This room used to inspire me, arouse me. Now it's cold. Theres a man ten feet down the hall, bound to me by law. Twenty 6 years ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/14/e-is-stable/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues from Abattoir Blues (2004) /black romantic/(("The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath.Entwined together in this culture of death.Everything's dissolving, babe, just according to planThe sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the landI went to bed last ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/13/abattoir-blues/ There's a rustic old 382-seat theatre in the parking lot back behind O'Malley's. It was built in the 1850's, and moved to Donnybrooke around the 1920's for the annual spring fair. It had a good run, but when motion pictures took over it was mostly forgotten, and as ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/13/saturday-november-13st/ U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004) /soaring pop elegy/(("Listen to me now, I need to let you know. You don't have to go it alone. Can you hear me when I sing, you're the reason I sing.You're ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/08/sometimes-you-cant-make-it-on-your-own/ There's snow! Or so I'm told. Do you really think I'm the type of guy that goes outside to check? But I am! I swear! Well tomorrow evening I'll be back in London briefly to see R.E.M. and I'm paying out the ass for it (by my familiar ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/08/monday-november-8th/ U2 - Original of the Species from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004) /triumphant sunshine pop anthem/(("Baby slow down, the end is not as far as the start. Please stay a child somewhere in your heart. Everywhere you go you shout it. You don't have to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/06/original-of-the-species/ Pinback - Non Photo-Blue from Summer in Abaddon (2004) /lush indie rock/(("She's posting all the time, but the boards are down. It's a burned out building. He's spending all his time on his back, staring at the ceiling."Sloppy kaleidoscope gauze is riddled with the flash of bopping carnival lights. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/04/non-photo-blue/ Vangelis - Memories of Green from Blade Runner OST (1982 [released 1994]) /ambient newage/((The sky is black and cool and heavy with cloud. The city twinkles dimly, with a gentle hum. The prickle of streetlamps and storefront signs flickers in the glistening pavement, orange, white and red, muffled gold. Headlights ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/02/memories-of-green/ U2 - The Unforgettable Fire from The Unforgettable Fire (1984) /dreamy alt rock/((" Carnival...The wheels fly and the colors spinThrough alcohol...Red wine that punctures the skin.Face to face,In a dry and waterless place.Walk on by,Walk on through,So sad to besiege your love so head on.Stay in this timeStay tonight in ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/01/the-unforgettable-fire/ Remember (of course you don't) that philosophy essay that I thought I did so well on? I was summarily rewarded with a B- for my efforts. I still think it's good (the essay, not the mark) but, well, you know. The only thing I learned from it ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/11/01/monday-november-1th/ Talk Talk - Inheritence from Spirit of Eden (1988) /atmospheric art post rock/(("When it gets my heart outNature's sonDon't you know where life has goneBurying progress in the cloudsHow we learn to linger onHead in sandExpecting the dourTo redress with open armsAscension in incentive end"The hit, curious in its temperance ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/31/inheritence/ Shania Twain - Party for Two from Greatest Hits (2004) /mainstream country/(("You'll be sexy in your socks(We could polish the floors)In case that anybody knocks(Let's lock all the doors)Yeah, all the things I'm gonna do(I'm gonna do with you)I wanna try something new(I wanna try it, too)I tell you that ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/29/party-for-two/ Massive Attack - Angel from Mezzanine (1998) /trip hop/(("Her eyes.She's on the dark side.Neutralize...Every man in sight.To love you, love you, love you, love you ... "The dark world spread out past him, curving down, windowless. Stray orange light off streetlights simmer in the night. Foot beat heart step ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/28/angel/ It’s easy to think this album is a little silly, or even stupid. On first listen, I was noted to raise my eyebrow in confusion and disbelief when I heard the striking couplet "Did you take tram #7 to heaven? / Did you eat your banana from 7/11?" Eventually, my incredulity ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/27/jens-lekman-when-i-said-i-wanted-to-be-your-dog/ Despite Clann Zú being being credited with writing all the music here as a band, moreso than other groups, the driving force seems to be the singer and lyricist, Declan DeBarra. He wears his ragged heart unabashedly on his sleeve, and his distinctive voice is at the centre of every song: at times ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/26/clann-zu-black-coats-and-bandages/ The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides from Meadowlands (2003) /searing rawk/(("the whole to-do of what to do for money/poorer or not this year and hell's the difference/let's talk plans/and luck said, 'double damned/were you give women worth winning or what?/a wasted share of shots at high-tide heaven'/greener grasses fade from ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/26/everyone-choose-sides/ Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Shashkin (Hefner Remix) from Lamb: Back to Mine: The Voodoo Sessions (2004) /snakecharmer drum n bass/((Night had sunk over the city and clutched it tightly in its fist. The acrid steam rose off of the tight cobblestones and the narrow tunnel twisted around him. Weary and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/23/shashkin-hefner-remix/ The Organ, Controller.Controller Live at The Underground in Hamilton - October 22, 2004 The Organ Controller.Controller http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/22/the-organ-and-controllercontroller-pics/ One more essay in the bag. I wrote about brainwashing, for my creative writing class. It was very interesting, and perhaps slightly related to my major project for the class. But who knows for sure until it's finished? I visited professor Donaldson in his office to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/21/thursday-october-21rd/ The Delgados - Woke Up From Dreaming from Hate (2002) /theatric piano pop/(("Just for a moment can we take a little time.Just stop for a moment can we make this moment mine.Ive tried to let go but Ive never had much to say.Take a day take them all now."The soft ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/20/woke-up-from-dreaming/ Clann Zú - One Bedroom Apartment from Black Coats & Bandages (2004) /bombastic postrock whinecore/(("A man sits naked in the middle of a room of a one bedroom apartment in new york city and no one knows he's there and no one's left to care whether or not the next ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/19/one-bedroom-apartment/ Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies from XTRMNTR (2002) /hardball/(("You got the money, I got the soul.Can't be bought, can't be owned.Punk is not sexual, it's just aggression.10-4 old buddies,Destroy, kill all hippies.Anarchy! disco sucks.Subvert Normality."The street steams. Blood chewed to the brink. Right, left pummeled. Torn apart to be ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/18/kill-all-hippies/ Holy high hell! It appears this here site had its first birthday over the last few days. When I first started it, I figured I'd give up on updating it after a month at best. Evidently that didn't happen, and I just keep coming back for more. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/18/monday-october-18th/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hallelujah from No More Shall We Part (2002) /balladeery/(("The tears are welling in my eyes again.I need twenty big buckets to catch them in.And twenty pretty girls to carry them down.And twenty deep holes to bury them in."The great thick fleece of the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/17/hallelujah/ The Go! Team - Ladyflash from Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004) /psychedelic indie dance pop/(("The fantastic is the romantic; the romantic is the fantastic. We came to rock from 9 to 4."Wooden slatted floors wave in the hot son of the tinny plastic radio grid broadcast. Dust particles silver ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/16/ladyflash/ Well yesterday, with today as a follow-up, combine to be rather eventful days. Many things happened, many of which are important and deserve notice. I could probably make a point-form list of it, but that would look garish and out of place amongst all the familiar formatting. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/14/thursday-october-14th/ Flogging Molly basically sound like The Pogues with a punk band and more predictibility. That is to say, rollicking Celtic tunes mostly on the traditional instruments (squeezebox, fiddle, pipes) with strong rock underpinnings in the rhythm section. The fiery spirit of Celtic music suits a marriage with punk, but I find ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/13/flogging-molly-within-a-mile-of-home/ Explosions in the Sky wsg Adem Live at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto - October 11, 2004 Adem Explosions in the Sky http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/11/explosions-in-the-sky-adem-pics/ Underworld - Dirty Epic from Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) /perfection/(("sweet in winter, sweet in the rain shake well before use. she said, "you never touch me anymore this way." and here comes another god, like a buffalo thunder, with a smell of sugar, and a velvet tongue, and designer voodoo. but i ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/10/dirty-epic/ Edward Shearmur - Grand Central from K-Pax soundtrack (2001) /new age/((Delicate light of morning touches the towering grid of office windows. Cars sparkle in red and blue, the soft breeze flowing over them...a sweet spring stream washing over precious gems. Far below, the chatter of minute humans is ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/07/grand-central/ So I did my monologue in front of the acting class in a preliminary sort of fashion today. And my goddamn leg was going all haywire. Vibrating like crazy, just like when I did my 'make the class laugh or be offended' exercise. I guess it's a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/06/wednesday-october-6th/ In the tradition of the Bob Dylans and Leonard Cohens of yesteryear, Josh Ritter is an unashamed balladeer. His deep, enchanting voice flows over folky acoustic guitar, Hammond organ and percussion. The sound is clean, rich, and maybe you’ve heard it before. It really would be a bit silly to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/05/josh-ritter-hello-starling/ Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop from By The Way (2002) /alternative/(("Sweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone.So smart she's leading me to ozone.Music the great communicator.Use two sticks to make it in the nature.Can't stop addicted to the shin dig.Cop top he says I'm gonna win big.Choose not a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/05/cant-stop/ Talk Talk - I Believe in You from Spirit of Eden (1988) /experimental space rock/(("Hear it in my spirit.I've seen heroin for myself,on the street so young laying wasted.Enough ain't it enough.Crippled world.I just can't bring myself to see it starting.Tell me how I fear it.I buy prejudice for my ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/03/i-believe-in-you/ Last night I had the shit kicked out of me by the Arcade Fire.In the afternoon Colin and Amy came up and they, I, and Brian saw the play 'The Love List' which had Colin's uncle in it (so we got 2 free tickets which made it quite worthwhile). ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/03/sunday-october-3rd/ The Arcade Fire wsg Heston Rifle, Belle Orchestre Live at The Underground in Hamilton - October 02, 2004 my camera became a bit of a community commodity this time, so only most, and not all, of the pictures were taken by my own hands Heston Rifle Belle Orchestre THE ARCADE FIRE http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/10/02/arcade-fire-live-pics/ Well shucks, it's been an awful long and eventful week, which basically means you're in for a really long and boring entry, because every single damn thing that happened was really goshdarn important. I remember back when I started this thing if I went four days without a bumbling ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/30/thursday-september-30th/ Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1999) /indie sunshine folk/(("Anna's ghost all around,hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me...Soft and sweet,how the notes all bend and reach above the trees."Heart melting in the soft sun, tempered ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/29/in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea/ Clarence “Citizen Cope” Greenwood’s descriptively titled sophomore disc is an unfortunate step-down, or at least sideways, from his promising but not spectacular self-titled debut. Greenwood’s music is an interesting hybrid between downtempo, hip hop, and reggae. He croons and half raps lyrics about our troubled times, but they are too ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/27/citizen-cope-the-clarence-greenwood-recordings/ Josh Ritter - California from Hello Starling (2003) /folk pop/(("Sunset Boulevard will strip for money;Mulholland is a long drag for the lonely hearts;down along the Imperial Valleyruns a river of homelessness and cinema stars.Don't saythe trip's been donea hundred thousand times...cause this oneis mine"Blue and sunset orange light in ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/27/california/ The Sadies wsg Rick White Live at Call The Office in London - September 24th, 2004 Rick White The Sadies http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/24/the-sadies-live-pics/ Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations from SMiLE (2004) /sunshine pop/(("I, I love the colorful clothes she wearsand she's already working on my brain.I, I only looked in her eyes,but I picked up something I just can't explain. Im pickin up good vibrations. Shes giving me excitations. Gotta keep those ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/23/good-vibrations/ I'd say it's fairly evident that U2 plays a large part in my life. Not so much these days, as I've been lead astray by other magnificent musics and slightly disillusioned by the last album, but in the end I keep coming back. U2 was the first band ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/23/thursday-september-23rd/ The Sadies like to defy easy categorization. Their sound takes on elements of bluegrass, country rock, surf, and psychedelia, but it’s not such a strange combination: all these allegedly disparate styles sound natural together. Favourite Colours is a wash of deep bass, clear-ringing picked steel and good old fashioned country twang. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/22/the-sadies-favourite-colours/ R.E.M. - The Outsiders (feat. Q-Tip) from Around the Sun (2004) /poprock/(("You took me to the restaraunt where we first met, knocked a futureshock crowbar upside my head. I got caught with the stop of a tick-tock tick-tock clock, when you told me what you knew. Lost in ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/22/the-outsiders-feat-q-tip/ This was in general going to be an autumnal compilation of crispy air songs to herald a young boy moving into a new home and setting up a new life, the hope, the thrills, the fright, and the required inherent nostalgia. That doesn't really come across here, because it changed ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/21/burning-satellites/ The Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned from If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988) /celtic rock/(("You remember when the ship went down /You left me on the deck /The captains corpse jumped up /And threw his arms around my neck /For all these years Ive had ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/20/turkish-song-of-the-damned/ Doves - There Goes The Fear from The Last Broadcast (2002) /britpop/(("Close your brown eyesand lay down next to me. You turn around and life's passed you by;you look to ones you loveto ask them why. Think of me when you're coming down,but don't look back when leaving town."The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/19/there-goes-the-fear/ I have my new phone number officially now, thanks to Ian's technical wizardry and constant misplacing of multitool. So the official contact information is as such:Damon Muma. 144(Basement) Emerson St, Hamilton Ontario. L8S 2X9. (905) 528-3368.And, unsurprisingly, there's a story to go with it. On Friday (not, however, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/19/sunday-september-19th/ The Sadies - Why Be So Curious? from Favourite Colours (2004) /country surf folk blues/(("Look at the clouds and the stars as they glow. Why be so curious when nobody knows the truth?."The light wind of spring, summer, and autumn. The denseness after a rainfall, and the sharpness as ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/18/why-be-so-curious/ Back this weekend, Friday night I think it was, I saw a lovely little concert in downtown Hamilton, by a band called the Sadies. I'd heard of them in a limited way beforehand and listened to 'em a bit, but wasn't a huge expert (though look for my very ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/14/tuesday-september-14th/ The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) from Funeral (2004) /sonic ass kicking (w/orchestra, guitar, bass, drums, and voice)/(("I went out into the night. I went out to pick a fight    with anyone. And the power's out in the heart of man. Take it from ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/13/neighborhood-3-power-out/ UNKLE - Nursery Rhyme from Psyence Fiction (1999) /dirty trip rock/(("Won't you sing me a nursery rhyme to keep me quiet when you're on fire?"A mess of wires and tangles, slicing and trapping. Breath becomes forced, and heartbeats choked and pummelled in cold hands. Pause. The curtain of night settles ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/10/nursery-rhyme/ I have a new address now. And have for a while. But now I also have new internet to go along with it and so can once again cry, with clear unfaltering voice, my chronicle. Out toward the towering hills, trickling streams, and beyond. Fly, oh ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/10/friday-september-10th/ U2 vs Lyrics Born - Callin' On Sunday www.partyben.com (2004) /hip hop mash up/(("My life's a culmination of my past achievements with a lot of heavy lifting, lotta deep breathing. A lotta courage, lotta doubts, a lotta mixed feelings. A lotta love, a lotta luggage for a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/05/callin-on-sunday/ In a few small hours, I will be in the harpmobile, its walls packed to brimming, on my way to Hamilton. I'd say I should be there by noon tomorrow, settling into the basement at 144 Emerson. I may be without the internet for a while, and I ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/05/sunday-september-5th/ M.F.D.M. In the summer of 2004, award winning artists Micheal Feiner and Damon Muma joined forces to create the most exciting and unprecedented artistic collaboration that I am aware of in the city of London. The fact that I am unaware of any other artistic collaborations should not keep you ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/09/01/the-mfdm-project-1/ Figured I'd giv'er another old kick at the can before August is all over and done with, shipped up, boxed off, and trundled toward a neverending precipice of disingenuous sobriety. I've been kept pretty busy in the last few weeks, hence the lack of me deciding to take time ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/31/tuesday-august-31st/ Moloko - Absent Minded Friends from Things to Make and Do (2000) /quirky dance pop/(("Have you ever smiled for too long?Till you're achingHave you ever laughed till you cried?Till your heart is breaking. Well it'a a silly thing that I've been wondering."A garish hula-hoop in red and turquoise ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/25/absent-minded-friends/ I've had this album for a while. Last year I listened to it once, was impressed, listened to it again, thought 'this has good chance of becoming a contender for top 10 albums of 2003 or some such silly nonsense like that'. And then I promptly forgot about it completely. Enter ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/24/the-wrens-meadowlands/ The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection from Meadowlands (2003) /indie rock/(("why/ into why not,into what else you got?it's just how men mark time. Ann slams in,another lightning round begins,this could get interesting.Where's Ann been?She pours herself a don't-ask gin,no ice and light on the bitters.I'm done with quitters."why / ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/22/ex-girl-collection/ Canadian songstress Kate Rogers is probably best known for her collaborations with artists Aim and Rae&Christian. Her work on Aim's truly monumental "Sail" got her some attention, and proved beyond a doubt that her voice is among the leaders in the biz. Haunting, delicate, beautiful, and on that track slightly ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/17/kate-rogers-st-eustacia/ Kate Rogers - This Collective from St. Eustacia (2004) /alternative folksy country pop/(("Faith and illusion. Power, the movement, all the eccentric believers await. Bless this collective losing perspective, praying their way to forgiveness today. Watch as the people they're gathering round and one man he speaks ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/16/this-collective/ Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus - Roslin Castle, Miss Gordon of Gight from Return to Kintail (1999) /celtic/((The wind billowed out before him, throwing the long green weeds so they bent against the ground. He knelt on the wet, rich soil; the sturdy iron sword biting downward into ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/15/roslin-castle-miss-gordon-of-gight/ Radiohead - Street Spirit from The Bends (1995) /whiny sap shlock (beauty defined)/(("This machine will not communicate these thoughts and this strain I am under.Be a world-child.. form a circle before we all go under. And fade out, fade out again."In the darkness, I reach out towards it. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/14/street-spirit/ Another Celtic Roots Festival come and gone. And I feel it pretty necessary to sing its praises to the mountains and brooks. This folk festival feels like a living entity like none other, but perhaps its unfair to say that this festival lives while life escapes others, so ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/12/thursday-august-12th/ Martina Topley-Bird - Anything from Quixotic (2003) /bluesy triphop/(("My half.I thought I'd be stronger.But my pathto you just seems longer.You fake me to a highof just no other kind. I don't want anything (but you)I don't need anything (but you)"A hand leaves its grip on rough wood grain with ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/10/anything/ This lovely plot of musical perfection began as an attempt to put all the tracks at the top of Winamp's 'Most Played' list (except those already committed to mixes) in one happy little place. It expanded to include some forgotten gems and some classics begging to be mixed (The Bjork ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/06/slippy-ducks/ Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Counting Down the Hours from Shake the Sheets (2004) /spunk rock/(("In a sense it don't come easy, in a sense it never will. Accidents mean no one's guilty, ignorance means someone's killed. So I asked our Mr Mello, how to get to where one's going, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/05/counting-down-the-hours/ Right now, I would have been watching Modest Mouse, or maybe the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, or Le Tigre, or the Von Bondies, or the Dresden Dolls, or perhaps Morrissey, or Broken Social Scene... except that a certain festival with a completely unbelievably good line-up was cancelled due to poor ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/05/thursday-august-5th/ Merkury Burn - Fireball from Sububan Porn (2000) /rock/(("My altars always challenge me, eliminate your mediocrity. Stand on the cinders, let them burn you... take the welts as signs to continue. Through the night in this black and silver sky. Up high... in my fireball mind. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/04/fireball/ Oakenfold - Southern Sun (Tiesto Remix) from Southern Sun single/DJ Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise 3 (2002) /trance/(("I still feel you beneath my skin. I am tempted to throw my senses in. 'Cause it's easier to fly, than to face another night of southern sun. and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/03/southern-sun-tiesto-remix/ No, my dear little blog in function but not title (for tis a foolish title as titles go), I have not forgotten you. And not ignored you neither. Well I have ignored you, but in function and not title. And I can do that. Cause I own ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/08/01/sunday-august-1st/ Call and Response - Colors Bleed from Winds Take No Shape (2004) /ethereal folk pop/((I really can't confidently discern one complete sentence of the lyrics. And it seems neither can anyone on those virulently common pop-up ridden mass lyric websites, or anywhere else on the internet for that matter. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/30/colors-bleed/ U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close) from Zooropa (1993) /post-pop/(("Dressed up like a car crash,the wheels are turning but you're upside down.You say when he hits you, you don't mind...because when he hurts you, you feel alive...Oh now, Is that what it is? / And if you look, you ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/29/stay-faraway-so-close/ Scissor Sisters - It Can't Come Quickly Enough from Scissor Sisters (2004) /retro glam pop/(("We knew all the answers and we shouted them like anthems, anxious... and suspicious that God knew how much we cheated. It can't come quickly enough, and now you've spent your life waiting for ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/28/it-cant-come-quickly-enough/ Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life from Rounds (2003) /organic synthesizer/((A dense mist rises off of the silvered asphalt. The dull heat that clung to the air has been sliced through by fresh rain that deluged under dark skies. And now as the sun blazes down ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/22/as-serious-as-your-life/ The Housemartins - Flag Day from London 0 Hull 4 (1986) /alt.pop/(("Too many Florence Nightingales / Not enough Robin Hoods / Too many halos not enough heroes / Coming up with the goods / So you thought you'd like to change the world / Decided to stage a jumble ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/21/flag-day/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds or Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat from Tender Prey (1988) or American III: Solitary Man (2000) /black romantic/(("And the mercy seat is waiting. And I think my head is burning. And in a way I'm yearning.to be done with all this ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/18/the-mercy-seat/ Expectations can be a real bitch. I'd been keenly looking forward to the Ted Leo show at Call the Office for a rather long time. It was a strange situation: I found out they were playing at CTO a month and a bit ago, and the name sounded ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/18/sunday-july-18th/ Ted Leo/Pharmacists wsg The Reputation Live at Call The Office in London - July 17th, 2004 - Review The Reputation Ted Leo/Pharmacists http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/17/ted-leopharmacists-live-pics/ 1 Giant Leap - Racing Away (with Horace Andy, Grant Lee Phillips, and Kaolin Thompson) from 1 Giant Leap (2002) /ethno-tribal-dream-ballad?/(("Dream my grandfather,dream of great quiet.Merely a flash betweenwords and blue silence.Gentle this hour.Great is the highway.Brave are these cowards.Racing racing racing racing away."The race. The blur rides down into ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/14/racing-away-with-horace-andy-grant-lee-phillips-and-kaolin-thompson/ Sinead O'Connor - You Made Me The Thief of Your Heart (written by Bono, Gavin Friday, and Maurice Seezer) from In The Name of the Father [soundtrack] (1993) /celtic ballad/(("I'll never wash these clothes,I want to keep the stain.Your blood to me is precious,nor would I spill it in vain.Your ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/13/you-made-me-the-thief-of-your-heart-written-by-bono-gavin-friday-and-maurice-seezer/ You know, if I think about it, yesterday was a pretty big day. A lot of sort of noteworthy stuff happened. I guess at least six things that stick out to me, maybe seven, or even nine now that some things come back to me. Depends on ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/13/tuesday-july-13/ Aim w/ Kate Rogers - Sail (Rae & Christian Mix) from NovaTunes03 (2001) /chill out/(("It's just some of the things you saidkeep goin round inside my head.I'm gonna save my soul,before things get impossible.I should have seen the signswhen they were right before my eyes.He could have saved my soul. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/12/sail-rae-christian-mix/ The Von Bondies - No Regrets and Cmon Cmon from Pawn Shoppe Heart (2004) /rock/(("Shut off your days,and turn on your nights,'cause the chance is for the takingand the taking's right. No you really haven't lived life yet if you ain't got no regrets.""With my teeth locked down I ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/06/no-regrets-and-cmon-cmon/ The Nits - Mourir Avant Quinze Ans from dA dA dA (1995) /pop/((" Mourir avant 15 ans - To die before you're 15 years / I turned away to hide the tears / How could I understand / That a man can kill a man, can kill a child."The orange ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/07/04/mourir-avant-quinze-ans/ Radiohead - Lucky from OK Computer (1997) /rock/(("I'm on a roll. I'm on a roll. This time. I feel my luck could change. Kill me Sarah.Kill me again.With love.It's gonna be a glorious day."All the brutal things said, slaughtered opportunities, and residual contempt. It's floats around us every day. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/29/lucky/ What's this? They only show This is Wonderland every other week? They think people would rather watch specials and miniseries do they? Grumble. Oh well. It's all behind me now. I have three words for you:Six. Feet. Under.Ok, one's kind of a number, but you ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/29/tuesday-june-29/ Massive Attack feat. Caroline Lavelle - Home of the Whale from Massive Attack E.P. (1992) /trip hop/(("And he ne'er thinks of me far behind /Or the torments that rage in my mind /He is mine for only part of the year /Then I'm left all alone with only my tears."Raindrops ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/27/home-of-the-whale/ Dresden Dolls - The Jeep Song from Dresden Dolls (2004) /brechtian cabaret punk/(("but with every jeep i see,my broken heart still skips a beat.I guess it's just my stupid luckthat all of boston drives that same black fucking truck.It could be him or am I trippingand I'm crashing into everythingand ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/24/the-jeep-song/ And days passed. The sun rolled. The moon slipped sideways. The stars dizzied themselves. Dogs barked. Toddlers fidgeted. Peanuts buttered. Pop corned. Ice creamed. Curtains swished. Someone's granny ran down a raccoon in her glamorous old Taurus (yes, grammarnazi, the raccoon has a car). Trees swayed ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/24/thursday-june-24/ Manitoba - Skunks from Up In Flames (2003) /space noise/((Stampedes of gleefully coloured egg-shaped, large-eyed beings trade dancing and jousting from hand to foot.)) http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/20/skunks/ Junior Boys - Last Exit from Last Exit (2004) /smooth electro chill/(("get you through the border. keep the new car up all night. hide you in the city. they're watching so i'll take my time. when the lights go out. behind the bridge last exit. through the highway's yellow ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/20/last-exit/ Saturday brought yours truly to Call the Office for the umpteenth time, this time for to see Manitoba and Junior Boys.Junior Boys are made up of two blokes who hail from, of all places, Hamilton, Ontario. Or at least last night they were; the internet tells me that there ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/20/sunday-june-20/ Manitoba wsg Junior Boys Live at Call The Office in London - June 19th, 2004 Junior Boys Manitoba http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/19/manitoba-and-the-junior-boys-concert-pics/ Micheal Hutchence and Bono - Slide Away from Michael Hutchence (1999, released posthumously) /vocal pop/(("Are you gonna wake again? Are you gonna take it down? I just wanna slide away and come alive again. I will see that love again, and find a life again"Jan 22, 1960 - ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/17/slide-away/ While I was living in Hamilton, I fell victim to a peculiar, but slightly lovely sydrome that stemmed from the ease of going to Toronto and the impressive wealth of great bands that are constantly playing at different venues across that fine city. In London, if I find out ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/17/thursday-june-17/ Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Biomusicology from The Tyranny of Distance (2001) /rock/(("Had we never come across the vastness of pavement,the barrenness of waves and the grayness of the sea,never lost or ne'er been misguided—We'd have ne'er reached seas so shining.Or come from out of the tunnels we dig ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/16/biomusicology/ Venetian Snares - Dance Like You're Selling Nails from Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits, 1972-2006 (2002) /experimental drilln'bass or ummmmm/((Chik Chak. Kick Kack. Running full speed into a translucent leather duck. First and later your neighbour. In sickness and twistiness, till seizures do us part. Can I ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/15/dance-like-youre-selling-nails/ Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) /indie rock/(("So I looked for your eyesand the waves looked like they'd pour right out of them. It's a waste of time if I can't smile easily,like in the beginning. We ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/13/autumn-sweater/ Thank God for summer reruns! I had watched one episode of This Is Wonderland in the fall or the spring or whenever it happened to be, and thought it was pretty good but I was not immediately drawn into it, and since it was on at the same time as ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/09/wednesday-june-09/ Pale 3 and Franka Potente - Fly With Me from Der Krieger und die Kaiserin original soundtrack(2001) /trip hop/(("Let me convince you: our lives are not lost. Our souls are not corpses just biting the dust. I walk in the sunlight, your shadow resists; my shade wants to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/07/fly-with-me/ Who in hell starts a North American tour in London? Well, The Unicorns do! They came to Call the Office on Tuesday the firstest of June. They played lots of songs about ghosts and things. It was fun. Then they poked the ceiling. I took ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/04/friday-june-04/ THE UNICORNS Live at Call The Office in London - June 1st, 2004 This was one of the more disappointing concerts I've been to. I did have high expectations, though. And one bonus, out of focus (because I forgot to use the flash) picture of the anti-racism consortium held on stage ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/01/the-unicorns-concert-pics/ The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack from Dresden Dolls (2004) /brechtian punk cabaret/(("two halves are equal:a cross between two evils;it's not an enviable lot,but if you listenyou'll learn to hear the differencebetween the halfs and the half nots."A dull current buffets the curtains and window frame behind me. The ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/06/01/half-jack/ The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism from Dresden Dolls (2004) /brechtian punk cabaret/(("And you can tellfrom the full-body castthat i'm sorry that i asked,though you did everything you could(like any decent person would);but i might be catching... so don't touch,you'll start believeing youre immune to gravity and stuff;don't get me ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/31/girl-anachronism/ Modest Mouse - Float On from Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004) /indi prock/(("All right I'm ready, and we'll all float on ok. Don't worry, even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on all right."You can do it. You did ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/25/float-on/ I'm alive, and ain't it good. I've felt that extreme sports exhilaration just like in that old Edwin music video. You know the one I'm talking about. This was the slower, more trudging side of extreme sports, really the only one I am suited to, I think. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/25/tuesday-may-25/ I'm gone up to the wilds of Bruce Peninsula for 6 or so days, depending on what pace we manage to maintain. The plan is to hike (with Ian, another Ian, and a Dan) from Wiarton to Tobermory. Whether we make it out is of course yet to ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/16/sunday-may-16/ Gustavo Santaolalla - Iguazu from The Insider, Soundtrack (1999) /dreamily flittering hispanic pleasantry/((A fleshy curtain slowly rises. An opaline sphere pushing from behind. White, and depths of black at its centre crowned blue. A wash of lights prickles across its surface. The fingers find no purchase yet somehow find ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/10/iguazu/ I've spouted on about great stories once before, long ago. Great in all the truest, most important senses of the word. After tonight, "21 Grams" joins that privileged crowd. It leaves you in perfect calm and satisfaction. It piques your curiosity and your spirit, and somehow ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/10/monday-may-10/ It seems my habit of updating this here site was one rooted in the environs of McKay Hall and McMaster University; it has not yet established itself as part of the Base Line routine. However, the internet has been busy in my absence, and I am now the number ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/06/thursday-may-6/ The Prodigy - Climbatize from Fat of the Land (1997) /rave/((.A mess of light and motion and sound, splashed over me like a rainbow bucket of paint.Grit my teeth under its force.A fine needle point of light at the centre of my universe is blowing up.Blowing out.The universe lurching and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/05/02/climbatize/ Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise (w/ Lisa Gerrard) from The Blue Album (2004) /electronic/((Visible breath forces through the thickly cold mist. A glimmer of light at the edge of another world. A tapestry of blue and yellow beams, rising and falling in a rhythmic dance. Rising. Faster. A ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/29/one-perfect-sunrise-w-lisa-gerrard/ My five day study sojourn in London proved very useful. I sure did a lot, much more than I usually do in the span of 5 days for sure. I went to the 276 lounge to see Luke Fair (relative to its height above the floor, they have the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/28/wednesday-april-28/ RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke from Since We Last Spoke (2004) /electro instrumental rock hop/((Your nervous mind wavers and jumps between the platform and the door. Ignore the constant judgement and predetermined conceits. Gather courage where you can get it, and defiance where you cannot. Purposefully stride forward ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/25/since-we-last-spoke/ Hybrid - Finished Symphony from Wide Angle (1999) /progressive breakbeat/((Rain and thunder. Calm and intensity. Unrelenting pulse, hammering through the rich tapestry of streaking lights of yellow and red. Dwarfed beneath the majesty – an unknowable expanse reaching out of sight, into the mist, through the clouds, sparkling. Man and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/18/finished-symphony/ Dear reader,Have you had anyone speak to you about doing something in "homage" to something recently? Did they pronounce the word without the H and in a French sort of manner that gave the word a nauseatingly pretentious air, complete with that grimace-inducing soft G sound? Something like ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/18/sunday-april-18/ Espers - Voices from Espers (2004) /neo folk/((A moisture dew clings to withered blades of grass: shuddering, sequestered in patches, in concrete cracks of the sidewalks and curbs. A dirty plastic package husk flits and bobs in the currents of the dense breeze: colliding and scraping the rough ground, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/16/voices/ Today I did a lot for not leaving my room except to relieve myself, go on a short walk ('twas a beautiful day), and get dinner. Well not really a whole lot, but more than my average have-my-soul-sucked-out-by-the-internet's-straw-sit-in-front-of-the-computer-wasting-my-life-away day. I got Student Accounts to write me up a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/15/thursday-april-15/ Lyrics Born - The Last Trumpet (feat. Lateef) from Later that Day (2003) /hip hop/(("Within a political system pimped and gangsta'd out,wherein the people are the victim sheep being lead about. While the followers and the patrons of any faith outside the mainstreamare being raided, falsely painted as endangering the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/14/the-last-trumpet-feat-lateef/ The Quannum Extravaganza! /underground hip hop/       Lyrics Born - Bad Dreams from Later that Day (2003)        Maroons - Lester Hayes from Ambush, and single (2004)        Gift of Gab - The Writz from Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up (2004)        Lifesavas - Resist from Spirit in Stone (2003)        Blackalicious ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/13/bad-dreams/ Quannum. Kool Haus. Apr 12.Quannum is an underground hip hop record lable, and my favourite one at that. At least for this show, Quannum consisted of: Blackalicious (Gift of Gab produced by Chief Xcel), Latyrx (Lyrics Born, Lateef the Truthspeaker), Lifesavas (Vursatyl, Jumbo the Garbageman), plus solo ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/13/tuesday-april-13/ The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill from Castaways and Cutouts (2001) /indie.folk.country/(("Sweet on a green-eyed girl, all fiery Irish, clip and curl. all brine and piss and vinegar. And the world maybe be long for you, but he'll never belong to you. But on a motorbike, when all ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/08/grace-cathedral-hill/ Hey Hamilton, I'm gonna be abandoning you for a bit. Yeah well, sucks to be you doesn't it? My first year of university classes are all over. Going to see my family and study for exams. And I really have to study. 2 exams on ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/06/tuesday-april-06/ Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely from Kid A (2000) /ambient chamber rock/((" In a little while.I'll be gone.The moment's already passed.Yeah, it's gone.I'm not here.I'm not here.This isn't happening."The grey drizzle spreads together in a sheet, passes tight over your stolid face. Slowly rotating as if in a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/04/how-to-disappear-completely/ On Saturday I saw the McMaster Thespian Club/Steph's production of Midsummer Night's Dream. I came away duly impressed. It was not perfect, and parts were a little rough around the edges, but all in all, definitely very enjoyable. And what a director's vision! I think the whole ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/04/sunday-april-04/ Blue States - Elios Therepia from Nothing Changes Under The Sun (2001) /sunny-organic-chill-in/((A quiet glade in the densest time of summer. Soft light dances through the tapestry of leaves swaying to the beat of the wind. The brilliant golden green of the grass shimmers as the long stalks shudder ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/03/elios-therepia/ In the two weeks before this CD was made I discovered a lot of really amazing new music, mostly of the rock sort of variety. Those make up about half of the tracks here (including all the ones beginning in 'C'), the others are some songs that have been really ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/02/crisp-multi-grain-oat-clusters-with-a-touch-of-honey/ John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms from Cellar Door (2004) /rock/(("Window seats on bullet trainssmear land into sky,fear and sorrow coalesce.Now I'm trying to find that quiet placewhere living is breathing,not knowing is understanding,coming is going,but my heart just beats faster and faster." The shimmering heat ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/01/coming-and-going-on-easy-terms/ So today, I was thinking about how I haven't paid for my textbooks that I charged to my student card yet. And how that could potentially be bad, and I might have missed some sort of deadline. So I check my student account. Confusion sets in. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/04/01/thursday-april-1/ Dismemberment Plan - Time Bomb from Change (2001) /rock/(("well I, I am a time bomb. I only live in that one moment in which you die... It'snot right, it's not what I wanted then, but you know and I know there's no goingback." A rope twists hard around a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/31/time-bomb/ The Decemberists - California One from Castaways and Cutouts (2001) /neo-folk/(("take a long drive with me on california one, California One; and the road a-winding goesfrom golden gate to roaring cliff-side,and the light is softly low as our hearts become sweetly untied beneath the sun of California One. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/30/california-one/ The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage from Her Majesty (2003) /neo-folk/((The rowdy applause after Red Right Ankle subsides. "Odalisque!" shouts an audience member in request. Another yells for "A Cautionary Tale." Colin Meloy surveys the crowd for a moment; smiles slightly. "No," he ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/29/i-was-meant-for-the-stage/ I think I mentioned yesterday that i've really been into The Decemberists lately. Sunday was basically taken up by me falling in love with that thing they do. Songs that tell stories, often intriguing, varied and historical stories (one of the things I like about Nick Cave) which ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/29/monday-mar-29/ The Decemberists - Shanty For The Arethusa from Her Majesty (2003) /neo-folk/(("We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea-leaves.We've emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels.Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight."The salt and the air buffeted their backs ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/28/shanty-for-the-arethusa/ Well it certainly feels good to have all my essays out of the way! I can finally relax.. maybe but probably not catch up on reading, generally be more at ease in this sweet smelling world, and enjoy that spring has come knocking at my door. The freshness ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/28/sunday-mar-28/ THE MATADORS Live at the Corktown Tavern in Hamilton - March 27, 2004 "Those pictures of 'the midget blow-job queen' are incredible! Great job!!!" - Joel "Hooch" Perkins http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/27/the-matadors-live-in-concert-pictures/ Badly Drawn Boy - Camping Next to the Water from Hour of the Bewilderbeast (2002) /folky guitar pop/(("The stars above shine on me / I'll catch and save them in a jar / As I taste the morning Dew / I think my mind is clearer now"White curtains whisper ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/27/camping-next-to-the-water/ Air - J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau from Premieres Symptomes (1997) /ambient groove/((There is strange contradiction in the breath of the sunless night. It is cool in temperature and chills the skin, but imbued with inner warmth, perhaps gathered from the lungs that lie above, in masses of rolling ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/25/jai-dormi-sous-leau/ The Delgados - Coming in from the Cold from Hate (2002) /gentle indie rock/(("Everybody's waiting for the big surprise, but nobody will notice when it does arrive. So send it on.We can try for the right kind of life,I only wish that you'd had a chance to decide"She sets ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/24/coming-in/ Fact of the Day: In Comp Lit 1AA3 the late penalty for essays is 3% per day.Warning: Excessive use of ellipses may offend some viewers I just finished my film essay this afternoon... yeah it was supposed to be due Monday, but I got permission from my TA to extend ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/24/wednesday-mar-24/ The Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk from Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) /ethereal dream pop/(("We hanged your pass and star being as you in ecstasy / Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains / Should I be sung and unbroken by not saying / Hugged and ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/23/cherry-coloured-funk/ British Sea Power - Carrion from The Decline of... (2003) /rock/(("Oh the heavy water how it enfolds the salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow... Always, always, always the sea: Brilliantine mortality"Slithering weeds take hold around your ankles, dragging you not down but forward. The frigid water is a ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/22/carrion/ Well, I'm still alive. And kicking, too!... albeit only feebly. I've got lots of work to be doing still. The ninjatune show was overall very good... Kid Koala was out of this world, Amon Tobin was cool, but not as impressive as I'd been led to believe. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/22/monday-mar-22/ The shit is about to hit the fan. In a very bad way. A thousand word essay to finish tonight. 2.5 hour SWHAT shift tomorrow. The next day my parents are coming up and we're going to do dinner and see some of the plays. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/16/tuesday-mar-16/ John Cale - Look Horizon from Hobo Sapiens (2003) /ethereal folk pop/(("We're struggling in the surf / Seeing the Look Horizon / Moving further away from us / And I close my eyes / I think it's me / Out on the Look Horizon where i found you."The sun sings ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/15/look-horizon/ David Bowie - 5.15 the Angels Have Gone from Heathen (2002) /arty pop/(("5:15 / Train overdue / Angels have gone / We never talk anymore / Forever I will adore you / Cold station / All of my life / Forever I'm out here forever"The wet air and the sulphur ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/14/515-the-angels-have-gone/ I have a very nice treat for all of you! Yes that's right, the first phtographic records recovered from ancient Greece. Or was it Hamilton? Judge for yourself. Click to get the whole picture. (I'm the handsome one. naturally) More pictures may, or ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/14/sunday-mar-14/ Shpongle - Around the World in a Tea Daze from Tales of the Inexpressible (2001) /Psychedelic offworldbeat/((Over 11 sunny minutes it builds from a bright and charming reversed and reorganized guitar lick into a joyful and fantastic symphony of epic and bizarre proportions.)) http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/10/around-the-world-in-a-tea-daze/ Shpongle - Dorset Perception from Tales of the Inexpressible (2001) /Psychedelic offworldbeat/((Flamenco pizzicato guitars, bongos, bendy synths, bouncy basslines, mashed up distorted alien voices.. sounds like it comes from another world, but somewhere it would be very interesting to spend a day. Quirky, bright, and a very good match with ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/10/dorset-perception/          When he passed into the front hall, his foot somehow caught on the barely discernable surface difference between rug and hardwood floor. He pitched sideways and a coat hook pushed into the flesh of his arm and seized the sleeve of his shirt. The voice shouted after him, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/10/wednesday-mar-10/ The Shins - New Slang from Oh, Inverted World (2001) /indie pop/(("New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries... / Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall / Never should have called / But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely."Sunny summer melodies, flighty ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/08/new-slang/ Well. Lysistrata, like all things must, has come to an end. And I guess its performance had a beginning, too, since we last spoke. Overall I would rate it as quite a success. Even on the matinee the theatre was reportedly mostly full. Of the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/08/monday-mar-08/ Latyrx - The Quickening (The Wreckoning Part 2) from The Album (1997) /hip hop/(("They trying to keep it real, but compared to what? / When there ain't even no backing to their passing buck / When you shift from the material shit they get stuck / Trip, they gone slip, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/07/the-quickening-the-wreckoning-part-2/ Latyrx - Balcony Beach from The Album (1997) /hip hop/(("Only here the tussle'sbetween you and the truth / So ultimately I'm gonna lose / Actually I gainthough / I gotta be honest with myself, or else / I impede my personalprogress / I think it's better to be depressed for ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/06/balcony-beach/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lament from The Good Son (1990) /dark romantic/(("So dry your eyes, and turn your head away. Now there's nothing more to say, now you're gone away."One of those simple little choruses that rises above. Despite the subject matter, it captures a sort ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/05/lament/ Moloko - Statues from Statues (2003) /trip pop/(("if all the statues in the world would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl, would they be kind enough to comfort me? the setting sun is set in stone and it remains for me alone to carve my eye and set ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/04/statues/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You, Henry from Henry's Dream (1992) /nick cave/"Well I thought about my friend Michel, how they wrapped him in linoleum and they shot him in the neck... a bloody halo like a think bubble circling his head; and I bellowed ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/03/papa-wont-leave-you-henry/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World from Until The End of the World (soundtrack) (1991) /nick cave/"some things we plan. we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up. others are works of inspiration, of poetry. ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/03/ill-love-you-till-the-end-of-the-world/ 85 on my "horrible" psych midterm. Maybe I shouldn't be such a fucking whiner, but I honestly thought I did bad! It musta been luck. At any rate, I am fairly pleased. In other, not so new news, Nick Cave is amazing. One of the most ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/03/wednesday-mar-03/ Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do from Life on the Line (1977) /new wave punk/(("gonna break out of the city, leave the people here behind. Searching for adventure is the type of life to find. Tired of doing day jobs with no ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/03/02/do-anything-you-wanna-do/ Aim - Demonique from Cold Water Music (1999) /trip hop/(("he was my patient for fifteen years. he became an obsession with me until i realized that there was nothing within him—neither conscience nor reason—that was even remotely human. an hour ago I stood up and fired six ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/28/demonique/ Aim - Ain't Got No Time to Waste (feat. YZ) from Cold Water Music (1999) /trip hop/(("Time waits for no one and everybody got to go. you think you got forever? then walk around real slow. hesitate if you want, get caught out late. It's moving too ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/28/aint-got-no-time-to-waste-feat-yz/ Aim - Cold Water Music from Cold Water Music (1999) /trip hop/((Aim put the hip back in trip-hop, despite that it wasn't really there in the first place. They sound pretty much like you migth expect trip hop to be if you hadn't heard it before. Chilled, ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/28/cold-water-music/ Max Graham was incredible! I have never enjoyed a DJ performance that much in my life! I like to think that a healthy amount of liquor wasn't all to thank for my excessive enjoyment, but rather only partially. Before heading downtown, Brian, Kevin, and I watched the ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/28/saturday-feb-28/ Conjure One - Redemption (feat. Chemda) from Conjure One (2002) /eastern electronica/((This song shines like spring warming the earth with joyful, driven melody. It bubbles up, grand, and unyielding. yeah, you get the picture... words kinda fail here.)) http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/26/redemption-feat-chemda/ What a rotten Psych mid-term. I hate multiple choice questions where you have to be sure on 2 different facts to get the one mark and only knowing 1 means zero. I thought .5 was supposed to round up to 1, ya bastards!! That's what we learned ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/26/thursday-feb-26/ Nina Simone - Sinnerman from Pastel Blues (1965) /jazz/((an explosive 10 minute tour de force of unforgettable singing and instrumentation.)) http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/25/sinnerman/ Way Out West - Intensify (Part 1) from Intensify (2001) /prog house/((Fairly similar to the above, but perhaps a little more into the builds, and a little less gritty. +vocals. Hard to decide between the two. These guys know how to bust a groove that'll make you ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/24/intensify-part-1/ Way Out West - Dancehall Tornado from Way Out West (1997) /prog house/((Over seven and a half minutes you get some sweet synths, samples, building, playing off eachother, and being downright danceable. It's fuckin brilliant, mate. Hard, melodic, intense, epic, immense... that's the W.O.W. way.)) http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/24/dancehall-tornado/ Blockhead - Insomniac Olympics from Music by Cavelight (2004) /trip hop/((I admit it. I love to take the Blockhead in all sorts of strange places that would make your mammy blush. That's no reason not to let your children near me though, I swear! This guy's album ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/23/insomniac-olympics/ Sarah McLachlan - Fear (Hybrid Mix) from Remixed (2001) /orchestral breakbeat trance/(("Wind in time rapes the flower trembling on the vine -nothing yields to shelter it from above. They say temptation will destroy our love;the never ending hunger"Hybrid has such a distinctive, original sound... moreso than almost any other ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/22/fear-hybrid-mix/ There's certainly no chance of giving a detailed rundown of all the weeks' events in the time I'm willing to allot for that purpose. So I shall be brief, and leave the various details to fend for themselves in the wide and stormy sea of memory. Staying at ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/22/sunday-feb-22/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song from Good Son (1990) /balladry/(("We talk about it all night long. We define our moral ground. But when I crawl into your arms, then everything comes tumbling down.. Come sail your ships around me."An elegant, touching, and insightful little ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/20/the-ship-song/ Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between (Dj Tiësto Remix) from 12" White Label Promo (2002) /trance/(("The Space Between the bullets in our firefight is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you. The rain that falls splashes in your heart, ran like sadness down the window into... The Space Between ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/16/the-space-between-dj-tisto-remix/ Radiohead - (Nice Dream) from The Bends (1995) /rock/(("They love me like I was a brother/They protect me/Listen to me/They dug me my very own garden/Gave me sunshine/Made me happy"Pleasant, almost suspiciously pleasant coming from Radiohead. A seductively pretty and joyful wave of guitar, a comforting melody, the lazy ... http://damonmuma.com/wp/2004/02/15/nice-dream/