themilkshark  - 2015-11-24
FUCK YOU
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2015-11-25 SUCK MY DICK
This video is pretty much what I did during the summer that began with the death of my mother, and ten days later, the hospitalization of my best friend, with a brain fever (I was the one who called the ambulance. She couldn't talk; it was terrifying).
My intent here was to create a ten hour video that wasn't just a single unchanging loop. The way I made this was probably the visual equivalent of how Lou Reed made MMM, endless looping and superimposing. I got a new (old) computer, purchased a two terabyte hard drive that is now completely filled with data that was generated by this obsessive project.
In the end, the technology failed me. On my hardware and with my RoadRunner connection, the youtube version just doesn't look as good as the original video, played directly from my hard drive, which often resembles an impressionist watercolour.
You probably can't sit through this, but other than that, you can watch it anyway you like. I find that it works best for me with the sound very low. Go ahead and mute it. Put on different music, if you like. It's all good.
I have no opinion on Metal Machine Music. Okay, that's a lie. I have several conflicting opinions about Metal Machine Music.
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EvilHomer - 2015-11-24
I don't get it.
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Old_Zircon - 2015-11-24
Probably the most overhyped hipster album of all time, was already 20 years out of date when it came out.
Just for comparison, this is what the Dead were involved with in '75:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW370_ETZ4Y
Ned Lagin's sets with them were, I believe, the first live performances of entirely computer generated music (as in, the audio itself was generated by the computer in real time). While Lou Reed was shooting up and making ersatz 1940s European experimental music, the Dead were bankrolling cutting edge experimental music that still sounds pretty fresh today (and, I believe, beat Xenakis to the punch by a few years, as far as actually using computers to generate sound rather than using computers to calculate the probabilistic algorithms he used to produce scores for a lot of his tape-based and acoustic music). There are some similarities with earlier work by Subotnick and Davidovsky but this is most definitely pushing into new areas for the time.
Lou Reed has his moments but he's no John Cale. He's no Mo Tucker, for that matter.
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Old_Zircon - 2015-11-24 Eno's pretty overrated, too.
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infinite zest - 2015-11-24 I mostly remember listening to this at the record store I used to work at; if people were still loitering when we were closing he'd usually just put on MMM as "get out" music. And sure enough people left, a few people asking "what is this shit" and he'd answer Lou Reed and they'd kinda blush. But yeah, I've given this album the benefit of the doubt for most of my adult life, including listening to it on most drugs. A rundown:
Weed: annoying
Alcohol: REALLY annoying
DMT: Kinda dreamy for 6 minutes
Mushrooms: I sank into something and came up with a screenplay that I later realized was shit
Acid: Don't try it
Cocaine: Turn it off
Crack: I've never tried crack
MDMA: Interesting - I went to a "rave" once where MMM was all that was played, and I sort of enjoyed it.
Ketamine: Perfect!
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TeenerTot - 2015-11-25 IZ, I worry about you.
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infinite zest - 2015-11-25 eh, I wouldn't. This was over 10 years ago
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