May 18, 2011: Loud Day

It is Loud Day. A time when children are a-loud to be loud in museums. I only learned this fact late in the day, but was able to ensure significant loudness in the museum of the strange that is The Sand In Your Head.

Geoff Berner's unrepresentative "Oh My Golem" is, I think, I decent attempt at bridging the high-energy  body-moving beats of The Hustle to our panoply of musical oddities. Berner recently played the Artel, and he is really worth seeing live and in possession of his full whiskey rabbi powers.

A big boat of cars from Stanley Park

I was reminded of Berner during a recent trip to Vancouver, this song became an uncomfortable earworm for me while I wandering through Stanley Park.

Oh My Golem is a Bad Song that Rocks. Above is bad art that stalks. From a thrift store in which I bought some Buffy Sainte-Marie

Vancouver is quite green, I saw many green trees, which would please artist Steve Hillage, who I believe was not involved in Planet Gong Live Floating Anarchy. 

Lynn Canyon. Green and inviting.

 Lots of unidentified entities referred to in this week's musical selections, not intentional.

Surreal. Dali would certainly have considered this to be a representation of part of his unconscious.

Robot News was really neat this week, the result of a team of researchers delving into the literature in order to bring you this stimulating headline: "Robots Taught to Create Language, Speak". The team has followed up on this research and can confirm that the conclusions are included in an article published at the The International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Can't say for sure whether this is peer-reviewed, but it looks pretty legit. Here's the image I mentioned in the program:

Robots invent language and agree on place names.

 Played List
Artist - Track - Album

Bad Song that Rocks
Geoff Berner - Oh My Golem - Victory Part

Steve Hillage - Unidentified Flying Being - Green
Steve Hillage - U.F.O. over Paris  - Green
Gong - Allez Ali Baba Blacksheep Have You Any Bullshit: Mama Maya Mantram - Planet Gong Live Floarting Anarchy

Ramones -Down in the Basement - Ramones
Ramones - Judy is a Punk  - Ramones

Don Caballero - [Side B Track1] -  Don Caballero 2

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Acid Heart Mother Part 2 - Troubadours From Another Heavenly World