SOUNDTRACK: PAN SONIC & KEIJI HAINO @ Volksbühne Berlin 15.11.2007 (2007).
My friend Lar wrote an awesome review of the Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino live album (with the greatest title ever) Should I Download a Black Hole and Offer It To You? Read it here.
In the post he embedded the clip that is the soundtrack (which you can see here). I don’t really know either of these artists, but I know they play extreme music (a new genre, I am told). This is a wonderfully noisy track. Keiji Haino plays a squalling noisy feedback filled whirl of a guitar solo. After a few minutes the noisemakers Pan Sonic seem to manipulate the noise that Keiji was making, adding all manner of more noise to it. (And a very large green square behind them).
The biggest surprise is how in tune his guitar is at the end of the track.
I can’t even imagine how intense of a live show this must’ve been. And I think I’m afraid to listen to Black Hole. Although I am very curious to hear Track 8.
[READ: August 19, 2010] “Keep Doing What You Are Doing, James Franco”
This issue of Esquire features James Franco on the cover. There are five ways of viewing Franco presented in the feature story (online there are 8). The trange thing is that the interview with him is actually quite short, with these other things taking up a lot more real estate.
I have not enjoyed Percy’s stories in the past, but I like Franco so I of course read this one. It starts out amusingly enough with Franco watching himself on TV (a not unreasonable assumption).
Percy pushes the story to its illogical extreme in which everyone in the world is James Franco. And that’s pretty much it. (Thankfully it is short). (more…)
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