When I was in college one of my Education professors was trying to describe the difference between Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. He said when his kids are watching the Street they're jump...
That was then. This is now. This was also then. And this also is now.
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2018/02/almost-gone-is-name-of-this-place.html
While I wait for the next batch of tapes from Chondritic Sound to arrive, here are 3 short reviews about the last batch. Enjoy! And grip this shit. Hell, grip anything Chondritic puts out. Grip ...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2017/09/chondritic-sound-last-batch-before-next.html
Looking forward to hearing your presidential plans for the Teletubbies. Will they sit on the pulpit with you? Will in your lap of eternal Jesus sunshine? What if they are illegal immigrants? ...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2015/03/congratulations-ted-cruz.html
I've been waiting for this since the existence of YouTube. Somebody has posted clips of E.T. Monitor, hosted by Bob Barry , Christian UFO investigator extraordinaire. He broadcast from Red Li...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2015/02/space-was-place.html
> And I need you more than want you > And I want you for all time. That infinity loop of yearning is the fulcrum on which Jimmy Webb's perfect pop song, Wichita Lineman , r...
You might not have known it, but this past Monday was Record Store Day. At least in my life it was. I walked into the Downtown Music Gallery that afternoon looking for something a little off...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2014/04/record-store-day.html
Total Destruction 7" Did we ever talk about DJ Scud ? A guy I became friendly with at Kim's introduced me to him (the person and his jams, actually). The first time I heard him play, he cam...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2014/01/email-to-bivs-practically-blog-post.html
by Brent Burket
(original image via Wikipedia ) Torture and terror should never make anybody laugh. But that's what Ai Weiwei made me do with his new truly horrible The Divine Comedy. I wrote about the cra...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2013/07/ai-weiweis-divine-comedy-taking-never.html
CONTROL. Jules et Eric. Photo via Flickr, New Media Days POWER.
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2013/06/control-v-power.html
Tyler Green asked me a question on twitter last Friday. It was a good question. It made me want to write more than 140 characters. Tommy Aldridge is going to have to hit pause on that drum solo...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2013/06/with-heave-and-hope-doug-aitkens.html
by Brent Burket
1997 An old evangelist friend of mine used to say that all we needed was a good, cleansing fire. Clearly, Merzbow is down with this. Annihiloscillator is a good place to end this 50 CD mountai...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-50.html
1997 t's a long way down, but I feel alright It's a long way down, but I feel alright And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight --Ryan Adams, Starting To Hurt * Here, Akita shoots his sou...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-49-motorond.html
1997 Would like to be objective about this recording, but when Merzbow pulls out this Death Ray of his, I am a goner. Also, I did not expect to think of (early) Kitaro here. Yet, I did. Not be...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-48-space-mix.html
1996 If Michael Stipe was an icehead and in charge of a faltering Death Ray machine, this is what it would sound like. Fucking fabulous. Windout. TRACK LIST 1. Rhinogradentia // 14:52 2. Si...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-47.html
1995 This album is a good example of why people say that all Merzbow albums are the same. It's also a good example of why I don't need to talk to these people about Merzbow. Be in it. Be crush...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-46-marfan.html
1995 The swirling dervishes of the high end cut sharply through what feels like the Aokigahara of Noise. You know all that friction is going to cause a fire in the dry season. Thankfully, in M...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-45-red-magnesia.html
1995 First of all, what's not to like about an album that nods to Throbbing Gristle AND has a song title as good as Cheese Car Commando? No build-up here. We just get dropped into the middle...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-44-liquid-city.html
1994 Merzbow gets his old drum machines and samplers out, and it's a fine damn thing. Goes for a lot of high end too. Not my favorite are in the land of the rising Noise, but what he's doing i...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-43-exotic-apple.html
1993 Far fucking out. Merzbow pays homage to the ever-mighty Iron Butterfly. Heavy trippiness, thy name is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and Merzbow's approximately titled In-a-Gadda-Veddah grinds out a...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-42-sons-of-slash.html
1993 Brain Ticket Death relentlessly explores the pure violence of the drum. It's, quite simply, one of the harshest Merzbow releases I've ever heard. Just. Brutal. Actually, I'll go further t...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-41-brain-ticket.html
1992 Oh, honey. I hate you. But seriously, this is probably the only Merzbow release to remind me of both The Gerogerigegege and Ian Hunter . That's fucked up. TRACK LIST 1. True Romance...
http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2010/10/50-days-of-merzbow-day-40-music-for.html