yellow magic spalding labels..

I'm trying to update ffwd often-ish, but apologies if it's not _that_ often. I seem to be doing ever more work and non-work related things simultaneously - but it's all good. I'm happier than I've been for years, now I'm doing my own thing and feel like I'm doing good work.

Oh, and I'm helping set up freely downloadable net.music.labels on the Internet Archive right now - we just launched the Kahvi and 8BitPeoples collections, and there's going to lots more. Sadly, the Archive's bandwidth is getting severely hammered right now, but there's going to be lots more d/l megabits in the next month or two, so I'll start trying to seriously get a community running when that happens. There's also a legal BitTorrent site for net.labels in the works, but that's a personal project, so more news on that when we get stuff more together. It's great to be helping promote good, legal music online, anyhow.

Something I randomly TiVo-ed and enjoyed recently - Spalding Gray's movie Monster In A Box, a rather wonderfully deranged monologue about finding UFO crazies in LA, going to Russia and Nicaragua, being panned on Broadway, and.. all sorts of other odd corners, quirks, and telling comments. If you live in the States, it's been playing on IFC recently - hope they show the monologue that really got him noticed, Swimming To Cambodia, at some point.

Finally, was nosing around Tower Records earlier, and they were clearing out a bunch of old import CDs, so I found the Yellow Magic Orchestra 'Complete Service' live 2xCD Japanese import for all of about 13 bucks. I'd never quite got into YMO before a few months back, but think a more synth-pop Japanese Kraftwerk with videogame influences, and you're partway there - they also had Ryuichi Sakamoto as one of their members, and this 1983-era live set is superpeachy.