February 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
1 post
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MY CANDY IS AN EXTENSION OF ME
Chaparral Field Manual : An Introduction to UGK
At the tail end of a series of intentionally executed yet ultimately unfortunate circumstances, I have found myself in Texas. It isn’t all bad. It could be worse, I suppose, but let’s just say it makes sense that the military chose this area of the country to practice blowing shit up. In the midst of the wasted vastlands, I spend...
July 2011
2 posts
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ELR002
CONCH SHELL WATERBED: SEX JAMS FROM OUTER SPACE, OR, THE END OF AN AESTHETIC
INTENDED TRACKLISTING
AIR | UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER
UNKLE | THE RUNAWAY
TRICKY | STRUGGLIN’
SOARS | MONOLITH
RUBY SUNS | PALMITOS PARK
10CC | DON’T HANG UP
DIRTY PROJECTORS | FLUORESCENT HALF DOME
END SIDE ONE, BEGIN SIDE TWO
FEIST | ONE EVENING
BOARDS OF CANADA | OPEN THE LIGHT
DAVID BOWIE | SOUL...
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BRUIN - SEASONS OF US
An open letter to Dominic Fawcett of the band Bruin:
Dear Mr. Fawcett,
I am writing this to you as I am preparing to leave San Diego. In this time of transition and change, I find myself set upon by a spirit of communion. As I reflect on my time spent in this corner of creation, I am struck by how appropriate your release, Seasons of Us, is to the time, place and collaborative aesthetic that...
May 2011
2 posts
EQUALOLLERSKATES
The The following information is for all hands, as pertains to interests associated with the content featured on Ethnic Lending dot com:
Available July 2011 From Ethnic Lending
All White Everything | A Smooth Rock Mixtape
Hammer Smashed Bass | A Compilation of Hard-Dub Breakdowns
Thongs in the Key of Z | Psyche-Folk and Euro-Smog
Mathletic Shorts | Brocore and Math Rock
Available August...
EQUALOLITY
EL001 | Equal Opportunities: An Ethnic Lending Compilation
The first in an upcoming series of releases curated by the staff of Ethnic Lending, Equal Opportunities collects all tracks published so far in one, convenient download. Equal Opportunities and the rest of the Ethnic Lending catalog are also available on cassette. If you should so desire a copy of this or any of our future releases,...
April 2011
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Where is the infusion? or; I should start using...
Right now, an attack of biblical proportions has unfolded onto the masses. And the wrong people are being held responsible to “fix” it. Our collective dreams and goals are on a dialysis machine. The people controlling that machine, however, are removing more than would naturally be removed were society left to make it’s own decisions. We have been forced to make sacrifices for wrongs we had no...
March 2011
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Cardinal Directions
If given a choice, my Rocinante would be some late 70s sail boat with four wheels and air ride. Coasting the American dream. Unfortunately, I flew. Bags packed with enthusiasm and clothes alike. Couple of bloodies and before you know it, I’m making final descent into that Titan of Industry known as New York. Millions of people create the pulse of innovative and optimistic blood. The walls of...
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE CIRRHOSIS
San Diego is for Catholics. Catholics make an art out of reasoning their way through the impossible reconciliation of opposites and, from this tangle of apologisms, draw a single conclusion. San Diego claims one of the healthiest and most attractive populations in the world and yet fosters a culture dependent on dependency, a survival by substance. For awhile, I got down. And when I say I got...
THANKS, HUEY.
(I hold my glass up to the afternoon sky, highlighting the melting ice cubes in my Irish whiskey accessory, wee waves of water frozen in place, like rainbows of oil in a stagnant puddle. I close my eyes and look up to the setting sun, warm my face, and color the whole world in the fleshy rose shade of the back of my eyelids. This is a place of peace, and it is unassailable, and from here I say...
REAL IS SUBJECTIVE
For all of it’s social programs and efforts to be on the knife’s edge of the societal progressiveness, few places have existed as a democracy whilst being so oppressive. Charity here is a facade as is the conscience of the people gathered to facilitate it. Great talks are had in the thrones of night clubs and brunch tables by the bay. The thing is… I don’t think they...
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIRTH
At the end of the tunnel, I was looking for a light. I traveled to the end as a sojourn of truth and found God spinning in his grave.
California is weird. Everywhere I look, I see muscles twitching in memory of something that lies buried and breathing beneath the lust. Here, there simply isn’t a season available that is conducive to unraveling your own mysteries in the dark. Who has time...
February 2011
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brother, can i borrow a dollar?
A dream within a dream within Charlie Sheen.
A dream within the void that is “gainfully employed”.
A void through the transom that’s been holding us ransom
since the winter of 2003.
An animated bastard once said,
“What doth life?”
For being part snake, part bird and born of a complete idiot’s imagination, he really did have his tongue on the neck of...