http://www.greatwhatsit.com The daily organ of the Northeast Corridor Social Club Fri, 09 May 2008 12:08:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once when I was a teenager, I designed my own funeral. What might have been a medication red flag for some kids was only Saturday night with a new notebook for a saint-obsessed, Brian’s Song-Sunshine-Death Be Not Proud-movie-of-the-week-weepy addict, folk singing, beatnik wannabe. I listed the music first (very heavy ... http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/2402 1. Bidule en Ut -- Schaeffer / Henry 2. Filmy Feedback -- Toshiya Tsunoda 3. Lathe -- Arcane Device 4. Live In Kaliningrad (Part 1) -- Alexei Borisov 5. Manipulationology -- Digital Drug 6. Rave, Part 1 -- Ingram Marshall 7. Taw -- Nobukazu Takemura 8. Track 04 -- Axolotl 9. works for musique concrete Z -- Toshiro ... http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/2401 Remember the Cold War – those lazy, crazy days of mutually assured destruction? Funny to think that some in Whatsitland are too young to ever have contemplated the idea that the Soviets or that Ronald "nut-job" Reagan might one day just say, “The heck with it!” and lob a ... http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/2400 A couple of weeks ago, I received an email with this title in the subject line: How to Hire a Woman. Inside was a "1943 Guide to Hiring Women," described as "an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in ... http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/2398 I wish I had time for this to be a proper and thorough-going appreciation for Dan Bejar (New Pornographers, Swan Lake, Hello Blue Roses) and his solo outfit, Destroyer, which E. Tan and I saw at Bowery Ballroom a couple weeks ago. Alas, this being the end of the semester I'm ... http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/2389