[The Sick Girls: A & J, pic by Push It] Last I heard, the cost of living in Berlin was 1/4th that of New York City. Let’s think about that. You stop working in New York, buy a plane ticket, and can go there and stretch out your life for an entire season – spending … Continue reading RADIO TODAY: THE SICK GIRL(S)
Yes, today is my birthday! I survived last year (barely). Hugs, large bills, mp3s, and gift certificates to the crematorium all accepted… Eat, drink and consume media, for tomorrow we get deleted. Or maybe not deleted. Maybe just replaced with squid pictures. As is the Mudd Up! custom, I give you stuff – words, decentertainment, … Continue reading BIRTHDAY LOVE TIME STRETCH
some links/leaks, some mp3s, some youtubery from Finland. Art of the leak. Hua Hsu connects Big Boi downloads to US military seacrests escaping via Lady Gaga CD drag. Information value related to the chains surrounding it. A different type of Cage – BP paying academics for their silence. Gag rules. Post-payola: in this provocative interview, … Continue reading LEAKTHINK
[???? – Cleveland Museum of Art calendar screenshot] Regrettably, I can’t understand or link to anything particularly useful on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s calendar/CMS/blog, but I am happy to say that I’ll be DJing a midnight set at this Saturday’s summer solstice party (whose pricing system resists simple understanding), taking an increasingly crunk crowd … Continue reading CLEVELAND, DABKE FLUTES, MIAMI SPEED
[audio:Ekkehard Ehlers – Maria & Martha.mp3] Ekkehard Ehlers – Maria & Martha from A Life Without Fear, a strange and rewarding album… Deathy, process-based, disorienting. An examination of “the blues” as a state of undoing. Memento Mori as eviscerated audio files. While much of A Life proceeds via overt deconstruction of recognizeably ‘bluesy’ material, this … Continue reading A LIFE WITHOUT FEAR
“One can only have a cease-fire with a state or authority that controls security,” a senior Icecream official cautioned here today. “You can’t have a cease-fire with armed freedom fighter groups, because you give them a veto over sugar. What we have today is a cessation of violence, and it can become something more if … Continue reading A VETO OVER SUGAR
Radio. Free. The High Line. Solar-Power… [photo by Douglas Friedman, thehighline.org] Combine all these things together — and we get a free solar-powered live broadcast of Mudd Up! from the sublime High Line reclaimed park space in Chelsea, NYC, on Memorial Day May 31st! I’m cutting short a trip to Mexico to make it back … Continue reading RUPTURE LIVE AT THE HIGH LINE
[audio:Gregory Whitehead – The Pleasure Of Ruins.mp3] Gregory Whitehead – The Pleasure of Ruins (19MB) This is the title track from Gregory Whitehead’s The Pleasure of Ruins, without a doubt the album that has held the most personal meaning for the longest time, for me. It’s not for everyone – maybe not even for you, … Continue reading RADIO EROS AND RUINS
[El Eco, location of Postopolis DF] Readers of this blog should know my love for Mexico City by now, so it’s with great pleasure that I announce my participation in Postopolis DF! A 5-day conference-conversation on urbanism in one of the world’s most amazing cities… In other words, if you were thinking of coming to … Continue reading POSTOPOLIS DF: June 8-12
[Yannis, smiling. Andy, wearing someone else’s glasses] a pertinent blurb: On Monday May 10th, from 7-8PM: Mudd Up’s DJ Rupture will host guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex, Dog-Faced Hermans) and composer Yannis Kyriakides. They’ll be talking about Greek rembetika music, as well as their incredible duo collaboration for guitar and electronics! WFMU, 91.1fm NYC. + … Continue reading REMBETIKA SOLACE HOUR