HOT CAMBODIAN MUD -
the supposedly authentic diaries of "Duane Zarakov".
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SAT. 11th AUG. - GETTIN WITH YR EX GIRLFRIEND'S NEW BOYFRIEND'S EX GIRLFRIEND - CLASSIC OR DUD? c'mon it's a serious qn., I'm pretty unfamiliar w/ modern dating etiquette. More on that LATER tho!
INTERNET FINDS OF THE DAY include a shrine to Steve McDonald!
MON. 13th AUG. - RETURN OF THE 24-HOUR TROUBLESHOOTER. Yesterday I got up in the a.m. & Pat K. was still here - I'm still used to being able to walk into Maryann's rm any time day/night & go, y'know, Hey what's hap. But now I can't, or couldn't then, which made me sad, & I knew I'd feel better if I just left this house &, oh you know, found my own way in the world, like how I used to. My new life is about, oh it's I guess it's about the concepts of Power & Freedom & what the fuck you do with em.
THURS. 16th AUG. - The stuff that's happening "IRL", I'm not gonna talk about it any more except maybe in kind of ironic allusion. The question to ask myself (re: anything/everything) : what would Maryann do? Basically I'm copying her, move for move.
FRI. 17th AUG. - It's 10 in the a.m., I got up early (for me) & gave Di a lift to work. 'Cause she stayed here last night, what did we do, nuthin, watched TV. Now I am waiting for Maryann to get up 'cause I need someone to hang out with to suggest some stuff to do. I have no specific project for the day & feel restless. It is cold, windy, w/ bright sunshine. It'd be good to be driving somewhere. I am in my rm. listening to John Lee Hooker. I'm just sittin' here thinkin'.
That party last night could've been good if I'd bin in the mood for it (read : drunk), but I wasn't. Pat Krauss's solo set was pretty cool tho', he just plays elec. gtr. & whacks out the downbeat on a drum w/ a foot pedal, John Lee Hooker style. A snare drum for some songs, bass drum for others. He'd done this at that other party at the same place a while back that I didn't go to & Maryann told me it was good but most punters didn't seem to "get" it. The guitar lines he plays are total "Trout Mask Replica" (no surprize, he's a big time Beefheartfan), strangled blues logic. But w/ that stomping primitive beat it sounds more like Hasil Adkins or Doo Rag. Yeah but modern people are so fuckin ignorant they never even heard of Beefheart & the standard referent was, (POOP WARNING ALERT!), Primus. That's what someone said last time (M. told me) & that's what some guy out in the alley after was sayin this time too (actually said, "SOUTH PARK theme", I heard him). Oh well. Genius plagiarism is always doomed to be misunderstood. LD50 were on after him & I thought they were pretty good as usual but they didn't like their set & they ended it by fucking up the beginning of a song 3 or 4 times & then giving up. The Aesthetics, I won't even try & review their set 'cause I think it was all about me being bored & in a bad mood by this time, they played well & I like their songs & Matt Middleton is modern rock royalty but they played for a long time & it just made me restless & fidgety. I think Matt wasn't having a very good time either but I couldn't tell. I said something like that to him afterwards, I hope it didn't piss him off more. Then, oh yeah well after that some other stuff happened, mainly that we, y'know, all went home.
Yeah of course I was scared!
Anyway I hung out w/ Di all day & we mostly drove around in my van (Power!) doin nuthin (Freedom!), hey it was good! We saw that band The Fraudulents at the stupid PunkKulcher (sp.?) (whatever) exhibit @ the museum but after 1 song I went Hey this is dumm, let's go. I'm sick of bands like that. "Ironic" (hardly even) aggro-misogynist posing - yeah real wild, boys. & it seemed sillier than shit in a museum rm. at 2 in the p.m. of a Sunday with only just into double figures of people watching/listening. The song : GG Allin's "Bite It You Scum", hey I used to be in a band that did that. But BFD.
Anyway yeah 1 song & we did get out of there & what we did the rest of the day is of even less interest to you I would suppose, but, it was cool.
'cause remember when she used to write too specifically about anything about actual other people here in this town the word would get back to us that people were getting freaked out, man. Merely at being mentioned, not even in any particularly compromising way, the stupid pot smoking paranoids, fuck 'em!
Yeah well anyway so no news, except what records I'm listening to or lame shit like that. OK, some records I bought, maybe I'll get around to writing something other than just a list of 'em, I haven't been maintaining our reviews page very good, have I. We normally pretend that this (no longer even attempting "critical" writing) is because of some actual policy w/ a actual philosophical rationale but it's really because I'm too lazy to do the complicated (for me) html coding of the reviews index every time I write some dumm little piece of crap. Could, tho', write about the Thorinshield album (does anyone know anything about this band? Sorta folkish/'65-66 Beatles-ish/lite-psych-ish, US band presumably), ummm what else, "Closer" by Joy Division (rediscovered 'cause I found a copy in the sale bin at Roy's the other day & I didn't much expect to think it was that great anymore [a favourite about 20 years ago - during the Barry Jenkin era - but long since knee-jerked into the same probably-never-listen-to-it-again bag as, oh y'know crap like Echo & the Bunnymen], yeah well I was wrong 'cause it's great...the only mildly annoying thing is - yeah OK the vocals sometimes, but not that much - the drumming. Bearing out someone's recent observation that [blah blah blah]), the "Signor Rossi" album (hey Jon I just got another copy of that, do you want it?), the Dr Mix & The Remix album (undergoing rediscovery 'cause I lent it to Maryann & she liked it & played it a bunch, I might be able to make her write a review of that perhaps), also the album I am listening to at the moment - "Muddlin Gear" by Jamie Lidell - this is pretty good - could I be bothered writing about this kind of stuff tho, I don't know, oh you'll see.
Any requests? What *should* I be writing about? Hey there's a bit of discussion going on about King Loser on the Yahoo Xpressway list, not about their music or anything, just base gossip about their personal lives. Most of that came from me. That thing about Celia being in a mental institution, I heard that from Merlene Chambers, she said it was mere hearsay...who knows...it's not actually unlikely...Wherever she is, you can bet it's somewhere you should be glad that you aren't.
I've lost my pot, excuse me a while, I've gotta go & look for my pot.
(couple minutes later) Now I'm listening to the Kill Ugly Pop version of "Purple Haze", that I also got from the sale bin at Roy's same day I got that Joy Division album, & I got to say it completely sucks! Do you want it? it used to belong to Bruce Russell. Actually the dub side is OK but I remember hearing this record years ago & actually thinking it was good, I must've been drunk.
(couple minutes later) re: "dub side...OK", no it isn't, it completely suX0r too.Why do so many people make so much music that sucks, doesn't it make you mad? You've just gotta try & not think of the immeasurable volume of suckful music that exists etched forever into plastic or you would lose your mind with madness!
Scathing review-ettes of obscure records that came out 14 years ago - yes this site certainly is "cutting edge"! What'm I doing anyway, talkin to hear myself talk. What're you doing?
After hearing music that sucks, one must listen to "Radio-Activity" by Kraftwerk & let its sombre meditative simplicity bathe you clean of suckfulness. All will be redeemed if you LISTEN TO "RADIO-ACTIVITY" BY KRAFTWERK.
Yeah anyway, we were talking about 1 of yr standard blogger (hey I've never used that word before! yeesh check it out I said BLOG. Blog blog blog, what're you doin' D. oh I'm just BLOGGIN here, bein a BLOGGER...no i still don't like it actually, I dunno, I just don't.) "issues" like mainly, WHY. Y'know why do I write a diary that anyone anywhere can read...& hell I never adequately explained why I keep any kind of diary at all, but this is a much harder thing to explain... dunno, just 'cause I can. I guess. You know, 'cause I got interested in the internet 'cause I'm a modern person, prefer passive 1-way communication to old fashioned "conversation"...& I have the attn span of a insect...& so forth...& then when I figured out how it worked of course I felt the need to "participate"...well anyone can make a Geocities site of their own with whatever crap they wanna so I thought, I suppose, that I could present a bunch of information re: my musical activities & maybe some cultural critique that would maybe give you some context for the stuff i was doing myself or somethin. But yeah the way it went I haven't even been doing anything much creative in the time since I started doing this (uh lemme think, prob'ly like 9 months?) for 1 reason or another...OK mainly for 1 reason, yeah & writing "criticism" even the vague type stuff I used to do (hi i'm Duane Zarakov, you may remember me from such fanzines as "The Jewish Beatle", "Beato", no OK you don't unless yr personally acquainted w/ me - see this is the thing, when I 1st writ the thing it was just a in-joke kind of thing 'cause only ppl i knew pretty well were ever gonna read it - yeah now it's this thing that people, oh just any old goddamn kind of people, are suppose to read & it's like i've invited 'em in & got the responsibility of entertaining 'em , what do you do? Oh I'll think of something.) seems pointless to me (BTW I'm sorry about that absurdly long parenthesised section, it's going to make this sentence rather hard to follow I suppose) when I'm not actually (I can go back & fix it up later) involved in making the stuff myself. Music I mean. I don't feel like I'm, oh y'know I'm like not exactly engaged w/ the stuff enough to y'know. I'm sorry I started this, I realise it's boring, I just felt the need to explain to you WHY I am doing such boring shit, you were probably wondering.
So here's the in-a-nutshell version of our, zzzzz sorry I fell asleep there, our...*yawn*...our "personal lives", this'll make stuff easier to follow or something maybe. See even tho' my name gets to be in the URL of this site, oh that's just because I think women are our genetic inferiors & don't deserve to get credit for authorship of stuff, y'know - so yeah it's called www.oocities.org/duane_zarakov/etc but the real authors/editors/everything else are TWO people, Maryann + Duane Zarakov. See 'cause when we 1st started this thing it was just obvious that she should be half of it 'cause we were girlfren/boyfren, but since a few weeks ago - this is for people who haven't read all the back issues - oh I won't go into the emotional complexities or whose "fault" it is or was - yeah OK but if it was anyone's fault it was, this will surprize ya, mine, yeah but not for the sort of reason I bet you think, oh nuthin so old fashioned. - we aren't. But we are still gonna do this thing & - I guess, I hope - lots other things, together. When I broke up w/ anyone ever before & it was like, Oh we'll still be friends, well it never worked. But we still even live in the same house & hang out together every day, so it's not like it would be logistically difficult. Yeah & anyway so that's how it happened, is happening, yeah even tho she's already gotten w/ someone else, hey I didn't get all bitter & sit round crying & shit, I just was like Oh well, & I like got with the guy's ex-girlfriend, I mean why not, it was easy!
Hey Dianne I hope you can tell this is just meant to be funny, everyone knows the real reason why I got w/ you is just 'cause yr in a famous rock band.
Ummm, have I said too much?
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