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Faster, I can't thank you enough for the link to the Union Pole page. Man, the New Bad Things and Wallpaper unreleased tapes have made my day (week? months?). Such a treat.

Great thread--and my damn printer/scanner is busted. I was pissed about that Agnes Martin book myself but the link doesn't seem to work for me. Is it just me?

just me--I figured it out--thanks for this treat!

As for recent work, well, I really love Tscherkassky. If you haven't seen them from film, you should reserve full judgment, but I certainly treasure my Index DVD. For myself, I just love the kinetic intensity of the work. It's astonishingly meticulous for such a laborious process. He takes what I l...

It probably isn't fair to compare Brakhage and Le Grice but that interview or debate that I read years ago always brings them together in my mind. I remember it being a bit aggravating but I should read it again. Much more fun is the Pauline Kael interview with Brakhage on ubuweb if you need some en...

Yeah, Peter Gidal sucks, I'll give you that. But you really don't like films like Little Dog For Roger (Le Grice) or Guy Sherwin's films? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXD7UMlAixg (Guy Sherwin, Man With A Mirror) I totally agree about Kurt Kren, the Structuralist Films DVD is ESSENTIAL, the Action...

Man, was just in Paris for a day and was at Book-Off at they had a 2€ copy of Kieslowski on Kieslowski and I didn't pick it up. Now I am kicking myself. Trois Couleurs actually turned me off to Kieslowski years ago but I recently saw Camera Buff (Amator?) and it made me want to try again. That is re...

Not a complete listing of the new Brakhage set but it looks to be 3 discs and has his epic 23rd Psalm Branch:

http://www.criterion.com/films/23953

also lots of good stuff on the fairly self-explanatory "Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers Co-op & British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s & 1970s": http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoot-British-avant-garde-1960s-1970s/dp/B000NNLZ9E That's a great DVD, I highly recommend it. I have a hard time recomme...

By the way, The Heart of London flick mentioned at the top of the page is a either a completely irrelevant shite for the visually-impaired collectors of rare, O.O.P. and generally obscure or something about it of unimaginable proportions is eluding me. Ouch, that's rough. You might check out a docu...

from the Reines d'Angleterre show. Part 1 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbC-MvRrDdA

A favorite of mine is his CPO disc 'Chamber Music.' It is really worth seeking out. Seems these CPO discs are starting to go out of print and getting pricey online. Just so hard to delve into Lachenmann as there is just so much. Him and Rihm are pretty prolific but I like the little what I heard fro...

There is so much great traditional type music in the Smithsonian series (highlights for me are 'Night Music in Sumatra', 'South Sulawesi Strings') but, if you have a hankering for some pop, check out Benjamin Syueb. Also for traditional recordings, check out the King Records World Music Library disc...

I'm not being entirely serious here about the angry part, but I do appreciate your points. It all gets old. Even this access to all this music. This has to die down soon, too. Just like I got used to not being able to hear all these rare and limited jazz records that I could never find, now I am use...

No one drags a chair like Richard Youngs. No one.

The flute is calling lately: http://www.bridgerecords.com/pages/catalog/covers/9120.jpg This is just unbelievable. Bridge is just too much. I need to dig in to their catalogue more. And, props to Korean-German composer Isang Yun. Berlin had a free concert of his works recently from the Yun Gesellsch...

No, there's a long track with a chair being dragged, that is Richard Youngs.

Jason Lescalleet/Graham Lambkin The Breadwinner: I'm surprised this is so highly regarded. I just found it silly and I was embarrassed at spots to be listening to it. It started fine and ended well but the field recordings just sounded cheesy to me and I thought that any minute I was going to hear k...

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD20/PoD20PageOne.html A friend forwarded this to me. As a downloader and someone who tries to share music online, I don't really feel guilty about downloading as I almost never bought music new to begin with. The last new CD I bought was at a Sven-Ake Johansson Cool...

I was just thinking about how a bird watcher movie would work. Thanks for this recommendation.

I could not stand 'George Washington' and it seems to get worse the more I think about it. I was glad to see him graduate to schlock like 'Pineapple Express.' I mean that in a bad way. I am itching to see 'Syncedoche, NY.' It is amazing that Kaufman's name isn't enough to get this film going. Maybe ...