Saturday, February 28

The snow of yesterday
that fell like cherry pedals
is water once again.
FUCK IT AND FUCK YOU!i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

posted by Jamie  

plants and animals. so, freddy please don't die.

 

posted by Jamie  

Friday, February 27

thank you robert

It is like that lady that bought a pair of Oprah's shoes and she would stand in them when she was depressed and it made her feel better, and she went on Oprah and Oprah cried. They are immensely important personal and cultural artifacts!

 

posted by Jamie  

xiu shoes

So, i do not dress well. i know this.
i would like to but i hate to shop. it makes me so anxious i would rather endure wearing the same clothes and be boring for years.
however i am obsessed with shoes. it is the only article of clothing that i take care in.
but i blew it. i started wearing new balance running shoes all the time. the most indie rock, lazy fucking shoes ever. they do the job in terms of going to the gym but for a boy like me who has nothing else to fall back on i just look like the true unsartorial slob that i might actually be.
this subject has been breached on a xiu xiu message board. it was too much. i must look down in order to look up.
a few people posted some "suggestions" and i am considering some new ideas as well.
is this too dumb?
is this too gay? is it not gay enough?
am i too insecure?
yes to all of these yet shoe gaze i must...
any thoughts? on afghanistan? oh God...

 

posted by Jamie  

Thursday, February 26

there is a little mouse, an abused little mouse...

 

posted by Jamie  

10 < 10 > 10 interview series #10 with Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core

run away, i hate to say it but you must get out of here right now before xiu xiu gets you via... thee....


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!




#ten with - Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core



1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

Certain peoples' voices, bleating catchphrases of theirs, or those
weird little "signature" emotive noises that people make.


2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

I used to do a lot more overtly physical and/or violent stuff, but
over the years I've learned to swallow/internalize it, which then
results in bad habits which amortize the destruction. It's not even
activity like smoking and drinking so much as a particular attitude
which develops

3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

Maybe the durian since it provides some pretty impressive defense
capabilities -- super-hostile outside with a flesh inside that isn't
incredibly desirable to begin with. And, if I do feel like
dismantling my castle I can sell off the parts to gourmands.


4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

Money.


5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

Money.


6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

The power of invisibility.


7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

My hands.

8 what do you want to be free of?

Right now, food coma.

9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

"Why Work Sucks And How To Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke
-- the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific"


10 what deformity do you find attractive?

Large dorsal humps of the nose.

 

posted by Jamie  

Tuesday, February 24

how faraway are you?

my head will explode into infinity.
i am doing this in MARCh.
come and join us.
look here.
if you live somewhere in our route,
we will stop at your house
you can host an event
anywhere (house/party/church/cemetery/hill/pool/gallery/bar/school/preschool show and tell/naked place/place of love/ chinese fast food)
just email the contact on the site, and we will come to you
also made a FB page for it.

 

posted by david  

Monday, February 23

it has been awhile but now it is clearly, all things considered below, time for.... haiku del dia!

Gokei
Fields dying off: Kiete yuku
the underside of grasses frozen no mo uragare no
hour of my death. hotoke kana

 

posted by Jamie  

don't fuck with the red bean

http://helloazuki.com/
http://helloazuki.com/
http://helloazuki.com/
http://helloazuki.com/
http://helloazuki.com/
http://helloazuki.com/


azuki

or

adzuki

?

 

posted by david  

Saturday, February 21

love cry short heart by tonya #2 charles njuguna

BLOOD AND CRIPS
OUR HEARTS ARE DARK
AS THE NIGHT SON.
WE WILL KILL ANYTHING.
TALK TO MY GUN SON. DEATH
BECOMES YOU. FUCK WITH ME
BY TONYA

 

posted by Jamie  

Thursday, February 19

that is what miss rosa heard. nobody knows what she thought.

 

posted by Jamie  

Wednesday, February 18

new photo book here it goes again

click here click here





don't forget new photo projects on next tour, i already posted this link.

 

posted by david  

Tuesday, February 17

death is and is not the end

 

posted by Jamie  

austrian mau mau!

http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/Xiu_Xiu_Actionism

 

posted by Jamie  

Wednesday, February 11

cherry blossom

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE
WHO SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE FIRST DISC SHOULD ARRIVE IN EARLY MARCH.
I HOPE YOU LIKE THE MUSIC.
EACH ONE WILL HOPE TO BETTER AND DIFFERENT THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE
XOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXO

 

posted by Jamie  

TWO new PHOTO projects on UPCOming TOUR

http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html
http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html
http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html
http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html
http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html
http://davidhorvitz.com/xx2009.html

 

posted by david  

Tuesday, February 10

lame article about an amazing event

Time for John Cage

The world’s longest performance of a piece of music is being played in Germany, and it will go on playing for another 639 years.

John Cage's composition ASLSP, or to give it its full title As Slow As Possible, is part of what organisers have described as ‘a revolution in slowness.’

Famously quoted as saying, ‘if my work is accepted I must move on to the point where it isn’t’, Cage continually pushed back artistic boundaries and led audiences to the edge of reason.


ASLSP

Now, nine years after his death, the memory of Cage most certainly lives on.

Last week, The John Cage Project launched what they claim will be the world's longest musical recital.

Organ2/ASLSP is due to be performed on the town organ in Halberstadt in northern Germany over a decidedly leisurely 639 years.

Apparently some 360 spectators, paid DM30 (UK£10) to see the recital's organist inflate his instrument's bellows and they'll have to come back in another 18 months time in order to hear him play the first chord - and one each year or so thereafter.

Providing that sponsors can be found, the performance is scheduled to reach its finale in 2640, with a half time interval planned in 2319.

Time

Although Cage originally wrote ASLSP in 1992 as a 20-minute piece for piano, for many years musicologists have deliberated over just how slow, as slow as possible really is.

Whilst purists have argued that time is infinite, the John Cage Organ Foundation agreed on the figure of 639 years to correspond with the number of years since the construction of Germany’s first block single organ.

The performance has been presented as the ultimate antidote to a fast paced world. As organiser, Michael Betzle, has explained:

‘The long period of time is supposed to form a contrast to the breathless pace of change in the modern-day world.’

It is certainly very slow, but as music critic Michael White, explains this is not necessarily how John Cage intended the music to be performed:

‘It is in the spirit of John Cage… he was an outrageous character, in a sense, he was the emperor of the avant-garde.’

‘His whole life was spent creating events and happenings… they were meant for you to go away and think about some principal or philosophical idea that each piece embodied and reflected.’


When asked about his thoughts on death, John Cage famously replied:

‘That's a mystery the solution of which interests me very much.’

 

posted by Jamie  

Monday, February 9

love cry short heart by tonya #1 charles njuguna

I AM AMERICANO
BORN IN KENYA.
I LOVE THE UNITED STATES.
BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN DREAM
I HAVE A STORE. I AM CRAZY
FOR MY BELOVED TONYA.
SHE IS A SHIZOPHRENIA.
NO FEAR IN HER HEART.
SHE HAVE MY GUN, SHOOTING
AT PEOPLE. SHE IS TROUBLE
ON MY HEART.
CRAZY BITCH
BY TONYA

 

posted by Jamie  

He pulled out and started fucking me in my ass. It didn't hurt, but I acted like it did.

 

posted by Jamie  

Sunday, February 8

onibaba

today, yesterday and the day before i have been very depressed.
being depressed is so boring.
please go away!
mountain of needles, lake of blood!

 

posted by Jamie  

Friday, February 6

anti personnel mines

i always had this idea:

why don't they just take a tractor and go over areas where anti personnel mines are embedded.

then today i read in this book about the mine wolf:

 

posted by david  

"i could not by any stretch of the imagination take part in something like 'college spirit'"

 

posted by Jamie  

Thursday, February 5

i'm late on internet trends

metallica are re-marketing themselves to a hipster niche.

 

posted by david  

from germany to you.

click this

click the above link. sign up. it is free. you just have to send a photo back.

 

posted by david  

Wednesday, February 4

fu fuf fu

"show me your face,"
he shouted.
"you have no right to sing such a sorrowful song!"
rapunzel peeked out from the small window atop the tower.
"who are you to say such a thing?
sorrowful songs are the salvation of sorrowful hearts."

 

posted by Jamie  

Monday, February 2

 

posted by Joe  

10 < 10 > 10 interview series #9 with Fabrizio Palumbo of Larsen, (r) and Blind Cave Salamander

there is youth and the death of youth and in the combined ashes of these two terrible mistakes (xiu and xiu) are what the impaled wish for in the night... it's.... thee...


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!



#nine with - Fabrizio Palumbo of Larsen, (r) and Blind Cave Salamander. He is also the inventor of the color pink. You owe him everything.


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

GIGGLING GIRLS


2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

PUT A GOOD RECORD ON AND KEEP MY DARK SIDE UNDER CONTROL

3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

BERRIES, THE PINKER THE BETTER


4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

CODEINE


5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

NORTHERN LIGHTS REALLY IMPRESSED ME AND I WANNA SEE THEM AGAIN,
IN THE MEANTIME I'D BE FINE WITH SNOW FALLING OR FLYING CAMELS, POSSIBLY AT SAME TIME


6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

STOP AGING RIGHT NOW !


7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

XMAS LIGHTS

8 what do you want to be free of?

LIMITS, IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH ?!


9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

BARDO THODOL


10 what deformity do you find attractive?

DEFORMITIES ARE ATTRACTIVE

 

posted by Jamie