Odds and ends

Ubuweb has the coolest shit you didn't know you wanted to know about. Case in point. Momus (about whom I'll write more later, some other day,) moved to New York and made his album "Folktronic" (which imo is just OK, not nearly as good as 20 vodka jellies or ping pong) and in order to make enough money to live off of in the meantime, he made a documentary and sold it in a gajillion places. Out of print for years, find it now for the low low price of free over at Ubuweb.

Their People Like Us collection is great as well, including the hard-to-find-even-when-it-came-out People Like Us album "Hate People Like Us" which is basically a bunch of folks covering PLU songs. PLU is a one-(wo)man-band, run by Vicki Bennett who has turned PLU into a sound-collage assault that's very....unique. People Like Us' Hate People Like Us has songs by (and this is just my personal 'oh that's cool' list) Christoph Heeman (HNAS, Mirror,) Negativland, Coil, Death In June, Cyclobe, Dr. P Li Khan, Stock Hausen and Walkman. I love Coil's "An apology" wherein Balance calls to apologize for being so late with the mix they had promised Vicki.

Photo of Vicki Bennett from the peoplelikeus.org website.

But moving right along, ubuweb's even got Zappa reading from Burrough's "Naked Lunch" (the talking asshole section, if you're familiar).

Interviews (and the music of) Marcel DuChamp (yes, THAT Marcel DuChamp), Patti Smith reading stuff for Jim Morrison, Max Ernst, Burroughs, Gysin, Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman (preparing gefilte fish of all things.)

more on the sexes later, as well as momus, and maybe hip hop