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Just Sayin' says:
January 17th, 2009 at 10:25 am
What’s that?
vincent cannata says:
January 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I have a tale to tell………..
You know, there’s a certain Negativland song that never fails to make me cry. But, it two consecutive feelings of sadness I feel.
It all began the seventh (or eighth) time I listened to “Escape From Noise” from beginning to end.
The song was (is) “You Don’t Even Live Here”.
Those first few listens, I just thought it was only jibberish under the quite bouncy music. Then, I actually heard what she was saying. Now, thanks to Jello Biafra tirade on PG&E, I’ve got a little bit of a feel of how this company can screw with ‘the people’, but, once I heard her plea, in full…… well, all I can say is, I felt (and STILL feel) like crying. On top of THAT, is my own sense of guilt, for thinking it was just a ‘silly song’….
I just thought I’d share that with y’all.

Have a happy day.
Harry Balbag says:
January 18th, 2009 at 2:02 am
The baby looks as if it needs another dose.
PhantomGuitarist says:
January 18th, 2009 at 8:10 am
There is quite a worrying trend towards prescribing drugs to kids these days. I must admit to a slight chuckle at the idea of Mertz children’s formula, but mostly I find it disturbing.
vincent cannata says:
January 18th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Said it before, and I’ll say it again; watch “The Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy”!
Just Sayin' says:
January 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
What, you mean…..?
vincent cannata says:
January 19th, 2009 at 11:41 am
yes………….
jessi says:
January 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
says write anything here i have a question.. does negativland ever come near the north west?? been a fan since I was a kid and would love to see them anything close to live.
jessi says:
January 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
says write anything here i have a question.. does negativland ever come near the north west?? been a fan since I was a kid and would love to see them anything close to live.
PhantomGuitarist says:
January 19th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
try living in the UK.
Negativland says:
January 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
re: 9+10:
Negativland have played in Seattle and Portland several times over the last few decades. Unfortunately, I guess you were not notified. Just keep yerself posted here for any and all upcoming live tours. Knoxville Tenn. anyone?

PhantomG, why don’t you ring up that old queen of yours and get us over there. All we need is an OFFER, all expenses paid of course. Just give us a chance, and once we get rid of God over there too, maybe jelly old England can start looking positively forward to more useful things like The Booper Symphony.
Jim L says:
January 20th, 2009 at 3:26 am
I have a question. I’m the guy that did that John Hagee “God in a linoleum roll” thing we played for you at KBOO when you were in Portland last time. Now I got a website, but I’m afraid to charge for my stuff (well, and people seem more likely to listen to someone they don’t know if it’s free, I guess, I dunno). Is this “safer” than charging for it, if I’m not appropriating copyrighted stuff for $?
PhantomGuitarist says:
January 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
re 11:

I have made it my New Year non-resolution to attempt to procure a performance venue for IAIYHFM. Perhaps you can email me specifics of what it would cost you guys to come over etc???
Just Sayin' says:
January 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
That’s OK, that’s OK….
Hank XXIV says:
January 21st, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I hope the DISPEPSI T-shirts are not discontinued due to legalities. If that is the case, perhaps it’s OK to bootleg and sell out of my pick up at dead shows?
Hoosier says:
January 21st, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Re: 4
I didnt realise that Mertz was a prescription drug. The things that are “disturbing” are 1. who is prescribing it 2. how does the prescriber determine when it is necessary to prescribe it & 3. why does a child need to make up his/her mind about anything.
Hoosier says:
January 21st, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Re: 4
I didnt realise that Mertz was a prescription drug. The things that are “disturbing” are 1. who is prescribing it 2. how does the prescriber determine when it is necessary to prescribe it & 3. why does a child need to make up his/her mind about anything.
Just Sayin' says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
“We’ll have these moments to remeeeeeeeeember….”
Harry Balbag says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am
Why can’t I access Dick on this website? I love Dick. I often dream about Dick. Please, I need some Dick.I tried to explain this to my psychiatrist, but she said my problems were beyond the scope of her professional training.Once the restraining order is lifted, I might try again.
vincent cannata says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 am
http://www.zappa.com/flash/lumpymoney/index.html
PhantomGuitarist says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
re 17: What’s up doc?
Just Sayin' says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
F*ck this fa**ot.
PhantomGuitarist says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
re 20: Only in it for the money right enough. Ridiculous postage costs from there. Great artist and all, but not reasonable prices. Could learn a lot from this place.
beezinglitch says:
January 24th, 2009 at 7:39 am
yoo doo da lee hoo hoo
dreams of car crashes says:
January 24th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Hows Mark?? Mark..
vincent cannata says:
January 24th, 2009 at 9:37 am
So…. how ‘mainstream’ is THIS:
Colbert, Stephen challenges people to ‘sample’ his comments on how ‘re-mixes’ are illegal, AND tells people they can use his ‘audio-book’ over rump-shakin’ beats!!!
Just Sayin' says:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
So……what?
vincent cannata says:
January 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hey, Jest sayin’………
I’m jus’ sayin’…..
Turtleneck says:
January 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
RE: 11 negativland performance live

If it were possible to get FM headphones for the audience( like Alcatraz tours) it would make IAIYHFM that much more in your head.
Harry Balbag says:
January 24th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Wow, thanks for helping me find some Dick. I feel so much better now. My prayers have been answered.
Negativland says:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
re: 26
For your listening enjoyment – http://www.youtube.com/user/davidminnick

This is by David Minnick of The Sursiks
Just Sayin' says:
January 25th, 2009 at 12:04 am
What ‘sink thing’?
Greg Falkingham says:
January 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Ah, just a very small taste of Skinny Puppy on the most recent ’87 show, eh?

It occurs to me that there is a bit of an interesting chain in that. As you might know, it was Chris Sheppard responsible for the remix on the 12″ single version of ‘Dig It’. He was a DJ at CFNY 102.1fm in Toronto (Brampton, more specifically) doing a Saturday evening show called Club 102. He is sometimes credited for introducing Rave culture to Toronto; this during a time when the station owners were angling away from the New Music format that guided CFNY from it’s inception, to the suddenly hip Alternative Rock (and thus renaming it to 102.1 The Edge).

In retrospect, it was probably part of his plan to get himself fired, but it is nevertheless true that Chris Sheppard was one of probably a very small number of DJs to play your ‘U2′ single over the air on a commercial radio station. It’s a shame I don’t have any recordings of Club 102 during the final weeks of Chris Sheppard’s stint, as it was simply wonderful and subversive in so many ways.

When CFNY become The Edge, that was kind of death of radio for me (at least beyond the college stations, and of course Brave New Waves on CBC Radio 2).
vincent cannata says:
January 27th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Speaking of CBC, there’s a killer Zappa doc on their web site!
post haste says:
January 28th, 2009 at 5:33 am
#34
What is CBC?
vincent cannata says:
January 28th, 2009 at 10:15 am
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/archives_ITM.html
post haste says:
January 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
thankyouvincent!
vincent cannata says:
January 29th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I tell ya’. Ruth can REALLY talk up a Zappa song! Almost brought tears to the eye when she was talking about “How Could I Be Such A Fool” & “Oh, No”!
Jessica says:
January 30th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
SUPER dark. I like your style.
ronald redball says:
January 31st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
You are rats
and things like thats.
so sez redball and ‘is tiny green hats.

ye harlotland Selling shows of myne own
that even i don’t have alone,
i sigh, emittin tiny moan,
nothing seems to mix.

for hunerts of days
and doozens of months,
the edge has been stoock
like bloooty fookin cunchz

on the same old game
the same the same..
how radio got done, its ool kwite lame.
kennit ere be fixed?

I know how radio got done on all fours, it’s that beastly donald joyceson,from cross twixst the moors,
e dropped his ancient trousers, was it fun, was it fun? an thats the honest trooth of ow radio got we what got the doone.

yea, and your ears bleeding from listening so, as the OTE-tumores mou7nt and grow, they grow sure, tho they grow slow, fook it eets all shyte.

and so by blinding dark and noiseless sound,
the edge done jerks you all around,
its been done for a ha’penny, or fer a sterling pound

whats the blooty point?

oint.

-rr
Izzy Isn't says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 am
Dear Ronald Redball.
Very nice to hear from your nastiness. First, if you want the shows you don’t have, you can download them here now. Isn’t that nice? And the fact that I may be selling some shows you may have been on without paying you a communist cent, well, that’s show business, and if you were in it, you would know that this is common practice and accepted by everyone with enough talent to be in it. It’s not about the money, buster, it’s about making a living.

As for HRWD, I would like to agree with you entirely, but I can’t quit it until it’s…done. And quite aside from you (something we all strive to be) I get many favorable responses to the series from people who love it. So you must be crazy and that’s that. If you could only become committed to the concept that you’re crazy, all your needs would then be taken care of by institutional care givers, and you could just lay around all day speaking like an immigrant and attempting to make things rhyme.

As to your complaints about your own voluntary listening habits, I’m only going to cover HRWD up to 1989/90. The 90s was when you more or less entered radio and it went all downhill from there. So thanks for that, buster!

Izzy

PS If you ever want to do an OTE show as an unpaid professional like myself, just email me the idea. Oh yeah, you gotta have an idea…
mistersister says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
So the kiddie Mertz is supposed to help infants to make all of those important life choices like “should I poop?”??
ian c says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I steal all my media these days, sad but true,
the only exception is multiplayer games (Steam etc). I used to think they were a rip off, $50 for a dumb game, but the value of the online experience actually makes them very affordable
compared to other media.

So… My suggestion is for negativland to recruit some game developers and create an online game with sophistcated 3d virtualized sound environments and other fun things to play with. Sort of like Garry’s Mod or 2nd Life or what have you. I think it would keep the band solvent and also ahead of the trends…

My prediction is that hollywood will crash and burn, video games will replace films, so that small independent filmmakers will be the only ones making movies, probably with some value added schemes taken from the the world of gaming.
Just Sayin' says:
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
He talks from upstairs!
Hoosier says:
February 5th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
While I appreciate Negativland very much, I notice a lack of interest in things outside of sucking up to Negativland….or am I wrong? It is probably irrelavent…..excuse me. There is a world beyond.
ƒth says:
February 6th, 2009 at 3:45 am
negativlandnalvitage just put the n in the other end and its like garage.
Just Sayin' says:
February 6th, 2009 at 9:26 am
It’s no more hell than hell.
vincent cannata says:
February 6th, 2009 at 10:04 am
re: 45:
It’s hard NOT to look at the ‘flop-tops’ as nothing more than people who were ahead of their time.
Being such, they receive very little recognition. I don’t think they be in the rock-n-roll hall of fame any time soon.
Like “Perfect Scrambled Eggs”, they deserve to be treated with respect…..
right?, right?, right?, right?, right?………
justin martinez says:
February 6th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Never pat
your crotch
with your watch

You wouldn’t want
to give yourself
a hard time
Just Sayin' says:
February 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
My livin’ left ear, how dare you, you goddamned BISTARD!
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 8th, 2009 at 6:52 am
I found an article in an old Viz annual that I reckon Izzy Isn’t would like. I’ll scan it soon and post a link. That is all……..
Just Sayin' says:
February 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am
This is great, man. Right on. East Bay grease all the way to San Jose.
pahool says:
February 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Great to have the Piddle Diddle Disneyland show available for download (I purchased it a while ago from the old site.) I’ve also purchased the Radio Journal of Ride Theory CD from Dan Howland’s lulu site, but it would be great to get the 11/16/2000 and 11/23/2000 shows that the cd was extracted from. I’d love to hear what I’m missing.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 12th, 2009 at 8:09 am
re 53: I may have those shows pahool. I will check. Of course if you’d rather pay Negland.
snugganut says:
February 12th, 2009 at 9:30 am
i don’t think we have those digitized yet, but i will check and try to get them up this weekend, along with a few other requested shows.
Just Sayin' says:
February 12th, 2009 at 10:08 am
In about 30 years my face will be OK.
vincent cannata says:
February 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am
re: 55
Like the DC show I requested, maybe?
michael seelig says:
February 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Re: 48

Right….was just sayin
Greg Falkingham says:
February 12th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
NOTE: the following text is not my own, but rather the very interesting ramblings of a certain Tom Ellard, whom many here may or may not be familiar with. Here, Tom seems to be channeling a bit of Crosley Bendix as he preforms his own culture and arts review:

Sample Culture
February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

I missed a chance to hate something. That sucks. Now I have to try catch up.

I quit reading Adbusters when it stopped being a spray can and started to apologise for advertising. Adbusters dropped its guts, became something that we used to put in the waiting room at the ad agency. Oh how ironic. They still think they are culture jamming, the liars.

Anyway, got an infrequent gig where I have to teach VJ and sample culture at the Australian Film Television Radio School. This is as good as gigging Fruity Loops on laptops at the Conservatorium of Music a few years ago. Wearing a suit. Which I did. The AFTRS gig has the potential to offend somebody somewhere so I IMMEDIATELY SAID YES.

Problem then is that I have to teach sample culture, which has the potential to suck badly, as 90 percent of sample culture is thieving neo hippy bullshit. But I think I have a good angle worked out that involves Eisenstein’s montage, Freud’s dream work, Jung’s collective unconscious, inkblots, memes, power politics and a few other things that young minds need for nourishment. It also involves culture jamming, so I peeked at Adbusters.

Where I saw this entertaining article.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

This is curious, because there was once a time when I would have detected the stench of an incoming plague well in advance. Did I not say that techno was the music they would use to march us into World War Three? I did. Did I not lament the replacement of lyrics with fascist imperatives to Get Up, Get Down, Roll Over and Beg like a little dog? I did and was shunned since that time. Did I not identify Mandlebrots as psychedelic bird shit? Did I not pinpoint Nirvana as the day the music industry lost its nerve and retreated 20 years? And NIN as the Wal*Mart of Industrial? I claim the right to be called curmudgeon. Curmudgeon, C’est Moi.

I am old. I missed this one. Or did I?

Your Honours: In my defence I’d noticed the bits but missed the totality. Yes, there is a shop up the road where the youngsters queue for bread. Then sit outside on milk crates, before driving off in daddy’s Porsche. Yes, everybody is collecting cassettes and paperbacks again, they are so ironic. They have thick rimmed glasses with no glass in them. All of that. It’s just that, like Douglas Haddow says, it’s not much of a movement. Christ, it’s not even funny.

It’s midnight right now: outside my window the kids are piling out of the local hipster pub. They’re ironically singing Ian Dury’s Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (from 1978) and somebody is ironically blowing a clown horn on their ironic hipster bicycle in time with the chant. There’s been times when I wished I was young again but this isn’t one of them.

This is serious. Your Honours, where did we go wrong? Did we deconstruct our culture so much that our children have nothing left to tear up? Has post modernism led to post childhood? Admit it. I feel like joining the Catholic church and blowing up a few laundromats just to create a bit of senseless beauty. Why don’t they?

But Your Honours, perhaps this is a furphy. Usually it’s the people in the movement that set the language and it spills out. This sounds like the ‘hipster’ tag has come from outside and is an attempt to encapsulate a random collection of nothing in particular. It’s people like Adbusters that desperately need to sum something up, and voila we have a movement. Christ, there was a band in the 70’s called the Native Hipsters and they were using the term for mocking 30 years ago.

Maybe we should stop mocking their complete lack of taste (not bad taste, lack of taste) in music, and start to praise their exquisiste taste in Facebook updates?

I’m lost.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 13th, 2009 at 11:42 am
When even Negativland are releasing fairly ‘mainstream’ albums and claiming it as a ‘new’ direction, you can be sure that there is indeed no new music. Ditto ideas, with reference to a recent post on here. The World Decides that there are no decisions to be made any more.

We are collectively jamming our fingers in our ears, singing LALALALALALALALALA while the money pours down the drain and we think we can borrow more from banks that are going bust from borrowing more money from other banks that are all jamming their fingers in their ears going LALALALALALALA.

The solution? Obama said today that the government should work with business and learn from them. Hmmm, isn’t that what got us all into this mess in the first place? As a socialist I should really be sitting here laughing, but man, it’s not even funny…. 11?

No wonder I’m enjoying How Radio Was Done, it’s better than watching How The World Is Being Done on the News every damn night. I’d protest but it wouldn’t make any difference. Think I’ll just sit here with my fingers in my ears screaming LALALALALA for a while. If we all bury our heads in the sand maybe it will just go away all by itself.
Just Sayin' says:
February 13th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I actually dreamt I fell asleep.
processedbeef says:
February 13th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Snugganut- I’ve been trying to get the 3 original sex dirt radio shows forever. If you can post them you will be making the world a better place. I understand that everyone wants their favorite shows up right now too, but Im willing to bribe you with more cash than them.
Negativland says:
February 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Negativland is currently performing”It’s All In Your Head FM,” a two hour live performance concerned entirely with God, religion, and our supernaturally spiced obsessions with both. Due to the special nature of this live performance, and to coincide with its “universal” probing of human belief in celestial deities, we would like to move this show beyond all the usual live music venues and into planetariums, star shows on the domes during the performance and all.
This is a very special kind of Negativland show, unusual even for us, and perhaps best described as a documentary collage built around found sound related to this whole subject by itself. It’s a rather serious attempt to draw out some of the philosophical and intellectual challenges to the supernatural God concept and its relation to the modern world. It’s an evening of carefully collected dialog and mixed music covering Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, all presented as a live radio show the audience gets to watch as it’s being being made.

We are only beginning to research the possibilities of performing IAIYH FM in planetariums, but it doesn’t seem easy to do. If anyone reading this has any relevant information regarding possibilities for performing live music in planetariums anywhere in the U.S., we would greatly appreciate any help we can get in trying to accomplish this revelationary night out – The IAIYH FM Planetarium Tour. If you can offer any contact tips or information on planetariums accustomed to hosting live music performances, or can provide assistance in finding any planetariums that would be willing to do so, please contact us.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 14th, 2009 at 6:44 am
We’ve got the whole solar system in our heads?

I thought you provided blindfolds. So what would be the point of the visual show. A face for radio, right enough.

Still a good idea.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am
You could do it a whole load cheaper by providing the audience kaliedoscopes.
post haste says:
February 14th, 2009 at 7:11 am
RE 63: Handoutheadphones!
vincent cannata says:
February 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am
RE 66: very unsanitary.
Just Sayin' says:
February 14th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Where is Mrs. Menken???
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 14th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
re 67: if Mr Wills could be persuaded to go on tour again then I’m positive the headphones would be ULTRA CLEAN.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
ON EBAY!!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEALED-SOUL-LP-David-Wills-New-Beginnings-Negativland_W0QQitemZ300293516127QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item300293516127&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1700|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

The weatherman’s first LP???????

hehehe
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 14th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
here’s a song:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/A20J9s4BMHA/search
snugganut says:
February 14th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
pahool – #53:

these shows are being uploaded right now. expect them to be available within the next couple hours.

and processedbeef – #62:

sorry, these shows have not been digitized. i have notified the proper authorities.

there was also a request for the “faith of our fathers” series, so they are next in the queue.

feel free to email requests directly to me at snugganut at negativland dot com; it’d be easier to sort them out that way.
vincent cannata says:
February 15th, 2009 at 9:45 am
re 70: Boy, that cover is just BEGGING to be ‘fucked’ with!!!!
Carl Hanni says:
February 17th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hi guys–I’m trying to locate cover art or a photograph of Head & Leg for a column/blog I do for Blurt on-line called Sonic Reducer. My new one is about Head and Leg and Antediluvian Rocking Horse. Do you have an image you could possibly send to scrawford@blurt-online.com marked “For Sonic Reducer” or something like that?
The blog is here: http://www.blurt-online.com/blogs/author/55/
Many thanks–Carl Hanni
Tucson, AZ
The Weatherman says:
February 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
How about a few more guesses as to which Negativland album and song features some of these sounds. Here’s a little hint: they’re pornographic. So come on over to DUMB and do that for me. It is the latest post and I will move on with more posts maybe after 4 or 5 additional comments. Mind you, I’m feeling quite lazy and the weather in Seattle has been very boring with the lack of rain. I’m thinking there could be a little weather modification going on here. Sorry, but I made several mistakes, so here it is again.
David says:
February 19th, 2009 at 8:12 am
PLEASE release the original cassette editions of Dick Vaughn’s Moribund Music Of The 70s AND The Weatherman. The repackaged versions for the CD releases are spectacular but kinda blow – I miss the nonstop flow of the cassette.

AND THANK YOU.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
re 77

try amazon or ebay mate.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
re 77, should have said re 76.
Jason says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I just wanted to share this with Negativland and their fans. The Pirate Bay, my alltime favorite torrent site, is on trial. You can follow the news and find out how to help here:
http://trial.thepiratebay.org/

For those of you who support freedom of EVERYTHING and spit upon copyright and intellectual “property” laws, I urge you to spread the word. We should support independent artists, especially the subversive ones who are doing truly positive work to fight the forces of Control, but we don’t need government, record labels or lawyers telling us what we can and can’t share with others.
vincent cannata says:
February 20th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
why no OTE on iTunes this week?
vincent cannata says:
February 20th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Ah! There it is!
United Press International says:
February 20th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
MUSIC GROUP NIPPED IN BUD
The young and untested avant commercialism group, The Chopping Channel, has been bought out by Univex of Baltimore in a bidding war that never got started. Following the takeover, The Chopping Channel was informed by Univex that commercials are private intellectual property and can no longer be used willy-nilly in The Chopping Channel’s “music.” The band vows to change nothing, and have moved all their investments into gold. No release is contemplated. What next?
vincent cannata says:
February 21st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Speaking of commercials, just saw a Gatorade commercial with OBVIOUS “Monty Python & The Holy Grail” overtones!!!
Guess it’s ok for THEM to call ‘Fair Use’, unless the Pythons got paid.
We may never know………..
FM says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Hi, I saw you were looking for a planetarium. You could try the one at Glendale Community College. I know someone who uses it for performances (see: http://spontaneousfantasia.com/upcoming.html). Very cool digital projector and intimate setting.
Cheers!
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 25th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Ad agencies are always ‘stealing’ ideas. The Private Eye magazine over here is full of instances of this. But they have the expensive team of lawyers. Cest la vie.
PhantomGuitarist says:
February 26th, 2009 at 6:38 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musicevents/u2/

Public broadcasting spending license fee payers money to advertise multi-million selling rock band. We most certainly are the 51st state!

My question to the band:

Don’t you think there are better ways to spend license money than a big plug for your band, especially since you’re not short of a few bob yourselves?

Perhaps if more of us post similar questions Chris Evans will actually ask them… or perhaps not. Or maybe one about an incident of mistaken identity in the early 1990′s???
vincent cannata says:
February 26th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Sinead O’Connor said the best thing, “I can’t see how Bono can even talk, with all that politician cock in his mouth.”
Harry Balbag says:
February 28th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Euclid High School, Euclid, Ohio–Awesome planetarium. Real close to Cleveland. Not sure about the seating capacity though. Probably still has the same 70′s and 80′s technology you guys do so well with.
Tzsch says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
FYI the site is great, but when I click between albums on the Negativland CDs bottom banner, the browser pops out of full screen to window, obscuring some of the descriptive text.
One webmaster to another…(using Firefox on Vista)

Thigmotactic kills!
Jeff S. Stinson says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
The song “Truth in Advertising” samples a radio show with host Jim Phillips. Who is Jim Phillips and where can I find more info on him and his show? Thanks!
negativland says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
We believe “The Jim Phillips Show” was a fictional construct within a whole advertising promo piece (promoting advertising itself)and was not real.
IT’S ALL DECEPTION!
vincent cannata says:
March 4th, 2009 at 9:38 am
re: 91. THAT would make a good album title!
negativland says:
March 7th, 2009 at 12:46 am
We are teased by our lack of new work requiring new titles. Got any audio ideas/concepts around the financial side of life? Paper or gold? Why is “money” worth anything anyway? You may get the idea. Let’s esthetically brainstorm economics. And now, your income stops.
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 7th, 2009 at 7:21 am
http://us.share.geocities.com/sspcathcarteast/ParmaViolent-WannaBeMoneyMoney.mp3

Rather crude PG created media response to the Spice Girls reunion a year or two ago.
vincent cannata says:
March 7th, 2009 at 11:09 am
“THE MONEY SONG”- Monty Python.
“Working For Paper And For Iron”- XTC
sanchez4mc says:
March 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Snugganut,

I just wrote an email to seeland@negativland.com where I referred to you as snuggabutt. I did not mean this- I thought that was your name. I do apologize.

The email was regarding the purchase of two OTE shows I have not received. Could you please look into this? Again, I’m really sorry about the name thing.
Hoosier says:
March 8th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Cross of Gold
vincent cannata says:
March 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Some Alex Jones talk on the FED & the world bank could be useful, too.
Hoosier says:
March 10th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Would anyone want to have their child sit in on one of Doyle Davidson’s sermons? Christianity isn’t stupid. There are other adjectives that are more appropriate.

William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold speach, although a classic, probably has nothing to do with today’s “financial side of life”. Therefore, I withdraw my suggestion. Alex Jones talk would be pleasing if mixed right. A little Alex Jones goes a long way.
Christian says:
March 10th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Capitalism Hits the Fan

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=139&template=PDGCommTemplates/HTN/Item_Preview.html
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 11th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j6l77/Deborah_13_Servant_of_God/

What a lovely girl.
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Guess it is a good thing that she has no idea who Victoria Beckham or Britney Spears are though.
Hoosier says:
March 14th, 2009 at 11:38 am
For years we have been told that Al Quaeda and associated terrorist groups are the bigest threat to the U.S. and other “freedom” loving countries. It seems that our real enemies were lurking on Wallstreet.
B.Priest says:
March 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I’m from the uk, and i don’t know if anyone here is aware of johnny rotten,lydon(tm),has made an advert for country life butter, also iggy pop has made a car insurance ad, what the fuck is going on?! it makes me feel physically ill when i see those ads! anyone got any comments about this? also being from liverpool i am sick to death of the beatles being treated as god-like beings,
vincent cannata says:
March 15th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Yes, the ‘rocks-stars-in-ads’ syndrome is quite disturbing, but, making things worse, I’ve heard a Physic TV song in a Volkswagon commercial, a Residents song in a Levi’s commercial, AND SEEN & HEARD The Flaming Lips in a TON of commercials!

AND, B.Priest: For ‘god-like’ Beatle insanity, check out:

http://iamaphoney.blogspot.com/

In the end, the message of The Beatles is the same as Jesus:
“If you EVER try to influence ‘the sheep’ again, WE’LL come down on you like a TON OF BRICKS!!” – The Man.
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 15th, 2009 at 6:58 am
And a remixed Negativland song in this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfEGKc7PLQ

hehehe
B.Priest says:
March 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
re; 105, Thnx! this confirms to me that paul mcartney (MACULAR)is a bed-fellow of satan!, him and all his mammonite friends must be stopped!, re; 106, even Negativland are getting their music used on adverts! what the fuck is the world coming to?!
negativland says:
March 17th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Economics Esthetics. Now’s the time. This is the place. Is our whole system impossible without borrowing? Music AND money! Is it music or is it money? What about this recent divorce between music and money?
B.Priest says:
March 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Can music music be successful without money? i think the “hit” songs you hear on the top 40, mtv and the like are purely down to a good advertising campaign, like when an “artist” makes a video for the latest single and then makes a film of the making of that video, which is in my view, a thinly disguised advert for the new single, force any old shit down the public’s throat, and they will buy it.
vincent cannata says:
March 18th, 2009 at 9:07 am
“FAITH-BASED ECONOMICS”
The market had a POSITIVITY INDEX!!!!
I remember an old black and white cartoon that show FDR singing a song called “Confidence”! And, yet, would you trust a ‘confidence man’?
Perhaps Don might be able to put together some ‘depression-era’ stuff to add to the ‘mix’!
B.Priest says:
March 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I find car-ads to be really disturbing, they convey the impression that buying a car is a life-style choice, that buying a mass produced machine can give you freedom? and individuality?! do people really believe this?… and going back to the iggy pop ad, if he is “the passenger” why does he need car insurance? i hate the way music/art is used and corrupted by ad-men. its time musicians started saying NO to their work being abused in this way.
mike rowave says:
March 18th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Anyone out there know how to donate $$ for the free downloads? I can’t find the right button to push–
Greg Falkingham says:
March 19th, 2009 at 12:31 am
http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos_logs/Hour_of_Slack_1180.html

By the way, this is awesome if you’ve never had a chance to hear it yet. I mean, I kind of normally hate to pimp out other people’s shows, but this particular hour piece is really apropo to the current topic.
vincent cannata says:
March 19th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Hope y’all (meaning Negativland) can afford to put together a quick job on this; keep relevant! Laurie Anderson STILL hasn’t released her “HOMELAND” album, and, as good as “Experts” is (from what I’ve seen on YouTube), I can see the subject getting a little too stale for anyone to care. But, who knows, the ‘current economic slump’ could be with us for quite a while….
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am
Does anyone else think that it is a pity the ‘Over the Hiccups’ video is so dark??

My daughter loves the song, but I don’t really want to have to try to explain the video to her.

She loves the Gimme the Mermaid video though.
furtive_acetonitrile says:
March 21st, 2009 at 11:18 pm
The most notable cut was a 10-minute black-and-white opening sequence featuring interviews with actual scientists, including Freeman Dyson,[18] discussing extraterrestrial life, which Kubrick removed after an early screening for MGM executives
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Popular, eh?

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vincent cannata says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Huh?
negativland says:
March 25th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Huh is right! we don’t know what anyone is talking about here anymore. How about backgrounding your spontaneous thoughts a little.
PhantomGuitarist says:
March 25th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
re 117

Message received on attempting to access negativland.com a couple of days ago.

It does say Write Anything. Background is for the mainstream. Ask Crosley. Abstract is King.
B.Priest says:
March 26th, 2009 at 2:05 am
If money is the root of all evil, why does the church need yours? what does god spend it on?
B.Priest says:
March 30th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
“Whoever becomes the ruler of a free nation and does not destroy it can expect to be destroyed by it, for it can always find a motive for rebellion in the name of liberty and it’s ancient usages, which are neither forgotten by lapse of time, nor by the benefits recieved”
Timothy Archer says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Does anyone know the guitar chords for Nesbitt’s Lime Soda Song?
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 am
Verse
Dm Am Dm Am
next bit
G D A G A D G Am

and repeat….

Easy
jersicka says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
I like Seeland!

http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=131&csid2=946&fid1=37612
Timothy Archer says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thanks a bunch, PhantomGuitarist!
cuRiOus says:
April 4th, 2009 at 4:33 am
If Negativland sold a limited production of Boopers “designed” by the Weatherman, would you purchase one?
How much would you pay for sentimental audio oscillation artifacts?
cakefarts says:
April 4th, 2009 at 4:34 am
$1,000.00
Richard S. says:
April 4th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Re: 121
I’ll prey for you…..
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 4th, 2009 at 5:21 am
I think I’d go £100 maybe at a push for a booper. $1000 seems a bit steep.

I don’t think it’s likely that any will be made commercially though. One can but dream.

PS – No problem Mr Archer.
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 4th, 2009 at 5:24 am
re 125: Wouldn’t it be great to have Seeland release an album on Seeland, particularly if it was self-titled.
vincent cannata says:
April 4th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Members of SUPER FURRY ANIMALS talk about why they DIDN’T sell out!

BE CAREFUL ABOUT GIVING YOUR SONGS TO ADVERTS.
GRUFF – We’ve turned down shitloads of ads because we’ve not been comfortable with the idea. The coca-cola advert was the one we were least comfortable with. It was instinctive – it just felt wrong. There’s always the danger that it could propel one song out of control and define us as a band, which would just undermine all our albums. We wouldn’t have made much cash out of it personally anyway – it would have made money for a lot of publishing companies. It’s a case of never say never, but most of the adverts that have been offered have been crap.
B.Priest says:
April 4th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Re 129, Thanks?, but do i have to make a donation?
B.Priest says:
April 4th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I agree with S.F.A’s on that, i wish more artists thought like that! if you shake hands with the devil, there is no going back
Greg Falkingham says:
April 5th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Ah, it made me smile to hear a bit of Front 242 on the most recent HRWD (yes, I’m a bit behind on my podcast listening).

I remember picking up ‘Front By Front’ near the end of ’88, and it really rocked my world (in a year that had also already given us Skinny Puppy’s ‘ViviSect Vi’ and Ministry’s ‘The Land Of Rape And Honey’).

There’s very good interview of Richard 23 up on YouTube right now, taken from this past December when they played Budapest. It’s interesting to hear his take on the E.B.M. genre (that most of the artists that followed on from them basically got it wrong), and the perspective of having made their mark in musical history and not feeling the need to create any new material.
noxoteus says:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:06 am
I know little of much of your work. Looking forward to learning more about your work and stance.

At 22 or so I was hearing the U2/C. Kasem cut on the radio; sometime later I recall the news of your legal diorama. Dilemma? Maybe for Mr. Kasem, I dunno. You and the U2 seem to be doing all right.

Don’t know what this says about me, but OTE radio has been cheering me the eff up for a few years now, alongside of providing good healthy wonderment. Having quit all intoxicants, I find I still need some sort of helpful weapon to wield against the din in me head. Great works!

thanks
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 7th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I got into OTE after a few years of listening to Negativland’s main stuff. I didn’t get the compilation OTE CD’s initially, then I grew to like em. Then I listened to the full 3-5 hr extravaganza and now I’m hooked. Now listening to the IAIYH original series (up to part 4 now) and also tuning into the mammoth HRWD series (pt7). As well as listening to the current episodes for this week.

Somewhere in all of this I still find time to listen to other music, but not a whole lot of it.
dick says:
April 8th, 2009 at 3:29 am
click on me-it’s almost funny
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 9th, 2009 at 6:44 am
That’s where the ‘dick’ link at the top should lead.
dude says:
April 10th, 2009 at 4:22 am
I’m so waisted, i just tried to send a text to over the edge.
B.Priest says:
April 10th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Ha ha! poor maddonna, looks like she had an unsuccessful shopping trip! what’s the world coming to when you can’t even buy children from some desperate third world country!
Camille says:
April 11th, 2009 at 2:08 am
I stenciled a shirt based on one of my favorite samples from Dispepsi as a birthday gift for a friend a month or so ago. It was my first attempt at stenciling anything, and I think it came out pretty well:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/47/toothdecaaaayy.jpg
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 11th, 2009 at 5:32 am
Nice shirt Camille
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 11th, 2009 at 8:49 am
http://www.bigempire.com/gooden/negativland.html

Does this actually exist, and if so where can I get a copy? Or is it as mundane as stated in the review….
Greg Falkingham says:
April 11th, 2009 at 11:01 am
re: #144

I’d be kind of fun if it didn’t exist.

It occurs to me that there is a kind of wonderfully subversive bit of mayhem to be had in creating and propagating users reviews throughout the web of products of various kinds that don’t actually exist.
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am
re 145

Sounds like an idea. Ultra rarities: so rare that there are none left. Haha.
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Time for WAH part 5???? This is getting long again, the scroll button on my mouse is getting more use than my right hand these days…..
vincent cannata says:
April 11th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Why no new OTE on the iTunes podcast?
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 11th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Online now mr VC. This is the Universal Media Netweb.
vincent cannata says:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:48 am
THANK YOU!
vincent cannata says:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:49 am
No….. it’s still saying April 3 on the iTunes…… D’OH!
vincent cannata says:
April 13th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Got it! Took a while, but I got it!
Tofu Tart says:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Hey!

I used to play you guys on my radio show back in the 90′s on Audio Assault! sponsored by UC Mafia Slug Radio in Santa Cruz. I am formerly known as Agra Siva. I am glad you are still around and kicking at that.

I joined your mailing list so I do not miss any more shows. I did not get a confirmation though. Maybe I did not join. I hope so. Can you check?

Mucho thanks!

Cheers!
Fred says:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:01 am
RE: vince & phantom
Is it cheaper to get the shows from itunes? I like sending my money to the ‘land. Haven’t you ever noticed how thin they are??
PhantomGuitarist says:
April 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am
I don’t actually use iTunes, I get my DL straight from here. I presumed Vince was talking about the latest episode of OTE and also assumed that the new OTE would go onto itunes at much the same time as it was uploaded on here.

As for older shows, I buy direct from Negativland. Sometimes snugganut may even give you quite a nice bulk order discount.

They are so thin due to all that hitting up behind the bins at KPFA (allegedly).
snugganut says:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:57 am
for anyone who’s wondering, yes, we’re collecting email addresses, but no, we’re not doing anything with them just yet, except maybe to search for users on myspace. we’re planning to get this together soon. volunteers welcome!
vincent cannata says:
April 14th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Hope a new ‘piece’ on the current economic slump is still in the works……
vincent cannata says:
April 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Oh, and yes, the OTE’s come to the iTunes for free, but once I find gainful employment, I will purchase my favorite OTE’s…..