Esteban Cruz used to drum with us in Coma in Algiers. we recorded our first album and he designed the cover.


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The Numerators - three young brown dudes by way of Lubbock. they played some fun short trashy no wave punk. then they busted into some party hip hop like early Beastie Boys or Run DMC. shit was bad ass. then back to their clattery punk jams. Reverse X-Rays played their usual energetic set. yeah sure, some of their songs sound the same but i like em ( Read more... )

Coma in Algiers recorded its second album, Your Heart, Your Body, about a couple of weeks ago at Bundy Hill Recording w/ T.W. Bond and Preston Dukes. we have some mixing to do but things are mostly done; should be out early March ( Read more... )

Live Shots
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER


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somewhere along the way all the facets of my nearly 32 years of life collided. listening to the first song of A Faulty Chromosome's 2007 album As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit,... entitled "Them Pleasures of the Flesh," i feel a strange clanging in my chest. "i just wanna be in love! i just like to be in love! i just wanna believe in love." while ( Read more... )

the cool, crisp meander of Venison Whirled's elongated melodies like forgotten passages of Windy & Carl. A Faulty Chromosome recalls the playful, dreamy Eno of the early 1970s as through the most wistful moments of Arthur Russell or R. Stevie Moore. Crushes' ragged edges and dance-inducing rhythms combines the best of old-school goth/industrial ( Read more... )

the Coma in Algiers show last week with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Dikes of Holland went well as far as the music was concerned. the turnout was a bit diminished and our volume apparently served to make the room more empty while we played but [shrug] no big deal. it was good to see familiar faces like Blake of skiesfalling and Daniel ( Read more... )

hello from the ether.

can someone tell me from where folks get this quote for Mark Twain: Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

i know of such a quote but attributed to Robert Maynard Hutchins: Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the urge passes.am looking for gainful employment ( Read more... )

a lot has happened since my last entry. but that is always true, isn't it? well, since i had quit my overwhelmingly dull job at UTexas at the end of August, i have had limited access to the internet. my time has been mostly filled with reading, researching grad programs, playing Madden and eating baked apples. well, not entirely. one change is that ( Read more... )

below is an updated list of schools and programs i'm interested in applying to. it is a bit too long at the moment though my primary preoccupation is getting together application materials as i have been out of touch with professors (and the ones i want to have letters from most are dead) & writerly friends, behind on writing and a bit rusty on ( Read more... )