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Black Vines

Black Vines

@epicharmus.bsky.social

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Exhausting veteran of 27 years' worth of internet. I still invented liveblogging.

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Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm 54.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · May 15

Good Reasons for Stubbornness: THE METS; the second run of Marclay's The Clock at MoMA; linden trees in bloom; Bogue Profumo's MEM and Serge Lutens' Tubéreuse Criminelle; The Planet Crafter; physical therapy; new pants that fit right; @centuriesofsound.bsky.social's mixes always always always.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Mar 27

Back on my bullshit.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Feb 10

Yeah. Still here.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 19

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 19

In Toronto.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 18

I care so much about these 12 shows (a recreation of a 2013 Spotify playlist dedicated to the music of the year 150) that in my will, I'll be deputizing a family to maintain my Mixcloud account and keep it un-fucked-with. I might re-record the intro, though: it sounds fucking awful.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 18

Today I've uploaded a slightly extended version, padded with a spoken-word section. Here's a new playlist with all twelve parts intact again: if you want to avoid my yakking on part #1 and get to the music, just skip to 8:15: www.mixcloud.com/epicharmus/p...

Mixcloud Go! 1950: The Bomb In The Heart Of The Century

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Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 18

Last year, I discovered the first installment of my beloved overview of the music of 1950, Mixcloud GO! 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century, had been removed from Mixcloud because it was less than 15 minutes long.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 16

Maybe you can see further than I can see.
Maybe things all just look differently.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Jan 5

In *Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris*, David Toop identifies the album as the center of all music, the nexus from which everything arrives at and flows from. You only wish your favorite album could receive this kind of loving scrutiny.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 28

Because of this (and many other reasons), MoMA’s recent emphasis on art outside the canon I knew as a youth is a blessing. That stuff is less freighted. I can see it without jaded eyes.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’ve known MoMA for so long, and so intimately, that it’s become a memorial for me—a memorial of a life, an art world, a New York, an America I cannot retrieve. This even though the museum scarcely resembles the one I knew as a teenager.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 28

Come see *The Clock* with me.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 28

My late father took me to see MoMA’s Richard Serra retrospective in 1986. The museum feels like a memorial now.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 28

Back on my bullshit.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 27

Andy Fairweather Low - Spider Jiving (The Old Grey Whistle Test, Oct 22nd 1974)

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Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 27

Also digging this. Thank you, J*mash*p, for stocking the pre-"Come Together" version oh so briefly.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 27

In the early '80s, António Variações was in the running for the being the all-time queerest musician to ever record for a major label; this in an era with some pretty fucking intense competition. This is his last TV show appearance. He'd be dead in six months.

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António Variações última atuação em televisão.

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Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Dec 27

Ntesa Dalienst & T.P. O.K. Jazz - Liyanzi Ekoti Ngai Na Motema (1980)

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Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'm still around.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fragrances to kill for: Clinique's Calyx (fruity florals); Serge Lutens' Dans le Bleu qui Pétille (a heady amber? for the summer?!?! yes!!!); Pineward's Ivymoss (IFRA wouldn't approve); and Lorenzo Pazzaglia's Sugar Kisses (a major exception to my loathing of dessert gourmands and "sexy" vanillas).

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm sorry, I'm alive, I still love you, but social media makes me plotz right now. If you'd like a chat, my real official email is epicharmus followed by the g and the mail and the dot and the com.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · May 23

Just flipping through the profusely illustrated macropædia entry on art felt like a exciting, exhausting journey.

Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social · May 23

I gave it more use than my entire family did combined, by several powers of ten, mainly because even with a school library and public library in town, the Brittanicas were often the most convenient source of info for more arcane obsessions of mine, like astrology and modern architecture.