feel sorry for the freak accident at zendik farm that put my name on their little characature of the dead man. relief the bitch got taken down as if our website isn't enough of an eyesore as it is. shitstain.
sincerely,
frogs live. eat it, destinklee.
Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08:
You're Welcome
Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08:
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
At this time (2/7/00) no copies of Penisgeek have been sent to the press for review. The first was submitted by Austrian novelist Gerhard Moser, and now another from Jurriaan Hage's "Axciom of Choice" progressive music web site (based in the Netherlands).
If you would like to submit a personal review, please send it to jeff@tasmlab.com. Thanks.
Summary of history:
The project continues. Every single time, a new line up with some new and some
old faces. Next time, I hope, the titles will be shorter.
The album:
The album opens with some playful chamber orchestra music. Bouncy percussive
piano playing accompanies this duet. The lyrics are about dissatisfaction with
the life of work that the man leads. At the end, the vocals are more
intertwined. Drawer Of Knives continues the piano dominated music. I like the
male vocal part here, sung as a chorus with a good vocal melody, contrasting
with the piping vocals of the birds. Everything Seems Clear is sung as if
acted, in fact, much of the vocal parts here sound more like this is a musical
than an album. The fact there is a screenplay involved makes this impression
stronger. Quite playful this track. The Dreams Of Buried Children is a sad
monologue (not surprising with this kind of title) with the dramatic vocals of
David Grant. The clear and subtle vocals of Michelle Graf of She Made A Simile
contrast well with these vocals. The chorus is sung by Grant in a drunk/pompous
way with hasty piano on the background.
Demystified, disenchanted, but still stirringly delusional (with the great
subtitle I'm bigger than atmospheric pressure, larger than weather could be),
is a an angelically sung piece. A bit more free form than the others.
The music continues in similar style: lots of piano, musical styled vocal
melodies, some violin and such and alternation between playful, bouncy pieces,
avant-garde pieces and more slow melodic pieces. Striking features yet
to be encountered are the more complex sound of Failure For Dummies with
grating vocals, the anthemic quality of the desperate Black Cloud Over
Charlestown.
Conclusion:
Again, not very proggy, in the strict sense, but I think the music on this
album is worthwhile. The story is interesting and life-like, the singers are
excellent and much of the vocal melodic material is also very good. The lack
of "rock" is compensated for by the intensity of the vocal performances.
In Jeff's own words Penisgeek Chrestomathy: The Essential Cubicle
Nosepicker, TASM Lab's latest effort to conquer the world, is a simple
collection of songs about dreading work, leaving love,and running to the
sea. That's right to the point.
The album starts off beautifully with such a "simple" song, introducing the
two main characters Ruby and Dick sung by Michelle Graf and David Grant who
both do a great job in interpreting the sometimes desperate, sometimes
hilarious lyrics. Talking about words: one finds many great lines on this
album always packed into seductive melodies you want to sing to instantly.
Listen to "the boys" sing: Who has heard a discouraging word, that has not
put the men to work? Who has heard a discouraging word, that could not drive
the women to go out shopping tomorrow, we'll lose some weight and buy a
dress. Jeff certainly knows how to make words last.
The songs, however, work on their own, too, without the context of the story
of Ruby and Dick. There are some great ones on this one, like the cheerful
and pompous Drawer of Knives, the bitter The Dreams of Buried Children
("...and I can take it, another bullet, another punch to my jaw and
shine."), the simply beautiful America's Lear, or the desperate Failure For
Dummies. But the Nosepicker's highlight (and one of 2000's early highlights,
too, I'd like to add) definitely is She Made A Simile which combines all the
great aspects of Jeff's music in one song: there are the great vocal
performances of Michelle Graf and David Grant; the haunting melodies; the
clever variations of the chorus; the pace and mood shifts; and and and.
Thing & Nothing was a great record, the Nosepicker is a lot better. It's
much more focused, both lyrically and musically, the songs are stipped to
all they need, not a superfluous note, not a superfluous word. Jeff likens
this record to Tori Amos and Elvis Costello, well, whatever it sounds like,
it sounds great to me. Go get your own nosepicker.
feel sorry for the freak accident at zendik farm that put my name on their little characature of the dead man. relief the bitch got taken down as if our website isn't enough of an eyesore as it is. shitstain.
sincerely,
frogs live. eat it, destinklee.
Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08
You're Welcome
Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
Posted by: . on 03-28-08
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
Posted by: seventh cloners cloners clone's clone of a seventh cloners cloners clone's clone's clone on 03-19-08
everything is enchanted. enchantment is the more melodic synonym of entropic gravity touching closer to its etheric nature as you see it takes the cemetary out of the song in essence linguistically. take, for example, my radio. it's an inexpensive cd player and am/fm model with no tape player and no clock- i had the option to let my mom get me a pricier model because it was a birthday gift but the other model was unaesthetic. the brand name printed on it demanded attention. this little guy doesn't ask me to look at it. after my mom bought it for me i gave it back then bought it off her, which sounds like nonsense maybe but thats what i had to do for it to be mine. now its in my aparment sitting on the microwave, plugged into the wall (the radio is, not the microwave), but i never use it, nor do i intend to. i never turn it on. i don't own any cds and i'm not interested in the radio stations. it's just important, for some reason, that that thing is there. it's existence and presence in my apartment in and of itself is the manifested expression of the radio station i'm listening to, the radio, at least that part of it that is there merely to act as a mental reference point to the radio, to itself, to the essence of the here and now that is the true raw nature of time as it would otherwise be forgotten in the false context of memory. there is no music that is richer than this. there is no signal stronger than silence as all sound is contained within it. everything is enchanted by silence. the strength of an existences enchantment is measured by the strength of its silence. this is true for all of existence including within the context of music as expressed in the wake of silence.
Posted by: i agree on 03-17-08
revel is a coward on an ego trip. no argument there at all. i am you as you are he and you are me and we are all NOT -that- guy revel.
Posted by: . on 03-17-08
there's obviously a direct connection between time travel and the dimensions. when a person time travels the first thing that happens is that they effectively erase their original timeline, so there has to be somewhere for te traveller to be wen their originating timeline is gone, and that is the dimensions/dimensional existance, which is the same as the place refered to as the other side, which is accessable by degree of indisposal to physicality, of course. it i by order of the cessation of interest in the expression of the local timeline that the traveller is imparted visibility within this field, and this process may be expressed in varying degrees of speed. the traveller for example may wish to sift bulk from their observed expression or to purge it, perhaps in haste, which would lengthen the process, as more bulk would then be created while attempting to escape entropic gravity which no one can do on the other side or on this one.
Posted by: Emmanuel Teijeiro. Original creator of homestarrunner.com on 02-11-08
so i was like "i sure am the original creator of homestarrunner.com and i don't give a fuck who your two brothers think they are". and that was that.
Posted by: frog on 02-08-08
in response to "black lentil"'s prattle about sporky:
dude, how are you going to say that it's SAD that a kid named after a plastic fork and spoon combination i ate parfaits from kentucky fried chicken with when i was the same age he was when we were both on the farm does better growing up in the mainstream, using a username that's just a ripoff of kira's, and an incoherent one at that, and expect to be taken seriously? i mean, by anyone intelligent, obviously you succeeded in shutting down the thread and making a spectacle of hipforums moderatorship, but that's beside the point. or is it. heh. nevermind. good job genius.
Posted by: post regarding revel's ego trip in zendik forums on 01-28-08
Revel: (clears throat) Everyone (in the context of this dicussion) IS Arol, and everyone else here for that matter. You ARE a weak masochistic conceited bitch, and a failure at life. I AM intelligent and confident enough not to bother wasting my time either advising or commanding you to "get some class" as I DO recognize the boundary between my responsibility and yours, and that IS the reality you have to face every day of your life, waking or sleeping. I AM the winner of that and any other existing argument for that matter, and I AM at this moment as these words are spoken, a better zendik than you, a better man than you, and a better person than you, BECAUSE my response to life is YES, to knowing that the one bearing the devils advocate excuse is the fool, the martyr, the retard, and the loser, being yourself, in that matter, of course. Cheers (to me). Blan.
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