Robin Enrico's Jam in the Band

As there’s been so much of Jennet in the story lately, here in all its 5 times revised glory is Stupid and Unkind. Which serves as a bit of a back story for Jennet, but also as my test run for many ideas that would later gel into Jam in the Band

Hey, it’s my birthday! But as a present to you the readers I have my 2009 Diary Tunes mix CD. I hope you enjoy it.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RB7APR8M

Track Listing:

No Culture Icons – The Thermals
Who was in my room last night – Butthole Surfers
Bust In – Mortals
Hell - Tegan & Sara
Combat Baby – Metric
Zero (RAC Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cruel Intentions (feat Beth Ditto) – Simian Mobile Disco
Natural’s Not In It (Ladytron Remodel Remix) – Gang Of Four
My Delirium (LIVE) – Ladyhawke
I Die: You Die - Gary Numan
Wrong – Depeche Mode
Kids – MGMT
First Train Home – Imogen Heap
People Got A Lotta Nerve – Neko Case
Camp Out – An Horse
Our Frank – Morrissey
Daniel – Bat For Lashes
Bombs Bombs Away(alt. version) – The Sounds
Gary’s Note – Shell Shag

So every year we do this whole mix CD trading club and as we lead up to my 2009 edition, I am re-posting all the old mixes.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QNA0AEUY

Track Listing:

We’ve Had Enough – Alkaline Trio
Like Knives – Fashion
One Beat – Sleater-Kinney
Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys Cover – Live Lounge) – Kate Nash
Union Pool – The Measure (SA)
The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die) – Pony Up!
L.E.S Artistes – Santogold
Black Flag – Duchess Says
Mercury (CSS Remix) – Bloc Party
Needy Girl (Lifelike remix)SHORT – Chromeo
Vanished – Crystal Castles
I’m Good, I’m Gone (Fred Falke Remix)SHORT – Lykke Li
Hurrican [Camp America Remix] – Athlete
Back In Your Head (R.A.C. Remix) – Tegan And Sara
Why Don’t You Find Out for Yourself – The Killers
Soft Rock Star (Jimmy vs. Joe mix) – Metric
Now. Now. – St. Vincent
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives – Los Campesinos!
nogoodlove – Touchdown Eagle
End Result(Mastered) – Jeffrey Lewis
My Rights Versus Yours – The New Pornographers

So every year we do this whole mix CD trading club and as we lead up to my 2009 edition, I am re-posting all the old mixes.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PB48EEAC

Track Listing:

None Shall Pass – Aesop Rock
Blue Sky Mine – Midnight Oil
Behind the Wall of Sleep – The Smithereens
Dr. Botwinic – Broadband
Our Velocity – Maximo Park
Rocket Keronian – eX Girl
Stronger (heavy edit) – Daft Punk feat. Kanye West
2 More Years (MSTRKRFT remix) – Bloc Party
Who is it (vitalic remix) – Bjork
When You were young (thin white duke remix) – The Killers
Everything Counts – Depeche Mode
Someone Great – LCD Soundsystem
Crier la vie / Slipping Away – Moby et Mylene Farmer
Challengers – The New Pornographers
NYC – Interpol
Our Time – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

So every year we do this whole mix CD trading club and as we lead up to my 2009 edition, I am re-posting all the old mixes.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DCL4FM5I

Track Listing:

My friend dario – vitalic
Emerge- Fischerspooner
Banquet – Bloc Party
A19 – Maxïmo Park
Pin – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I just threw out the love of my dreams – The Rentals
A Pillar of Salt – The Thermals
Ether – Gang Of Four
Whoo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh – The Rapture
12:51 – The Strokes
The Walk – Imogen Heap
Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron
Are Friends Electric? – Tubeway Army
My Love Life – Morrissey
Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith
I’m Not Saying – Nico
The Littlest birds – Be Good Tonyas
Winter’s Come and Gone – Gillian Welch
Shopping Trolley – Beth Orton
All the Things I’ve Done – The Killers

So every year we do this whole mix CD trading club and as we lead up to my 2009 edition, I am re-posting all the old mixes.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZOGKQ8X0

Track Listing:

Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
Funland at the Beach – Dead Kennedys
When our love passed out on the couch – X
Goods – Mates of State
White Noise Maker – Frank Black
Ladyflash – The Go! Team
Never Win – Fischerspooner
Ready to wear – Felix Da Housecat
C’mere – Interpol
Hairdresser on Fire – Morrissey
All the Umbrellas in London – The Magnetic Fields
Number 1 – Goldfrapp
Don’t Say you love me – Erasure
Moonchild – Cibo Matto
Soul meets body – Death Cab for Cutie
If I could talk I’d tell you – The Lemonheads
Since you stole my heart – Saturday Looks Good To Me
Suspended from class – Camera Obscura
Dishes – Pulp
Nobody’s Baby Now – Nick Cave
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

So every year we do this whole mix CD trading club and as we lead up to my 2009 edition, I am re-posting all the old mixes.

Download here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W9TY22H9
Track listing:

Prayer to God - Shellac
Nervous Breakdown – Keith Morris
T.V. Casualty – The Misfits
Wish I was in El Salvador – Jello Biafra with D.O.A.
Anything, Anything – Dramarama
Hang Wire – Pixies
Love in Vain – The Rolling Stones
Cold Cold Ground – Tom Waits
Linger – Cranberries
Everyday is like Sunday – Morrissey
Inbetween Days – The Cure
Dyslexic Heart – Paul Westerberg
We’re the Same – Matthew Sweet
Greetings to the new brunette – Billy Bragg
Pure – The Lightning Seeds
Willing to wait- Sebadoh
Is it Wicked Not to Care- Belle & Sebastian
That’s just what you are – Aimee Mann
If you don’t – Ween
Divine Hammer – The Breeders
Lovers of Loving Love – The Aquabats
I am a scientist – Guided by Voices

I doubt it comes through in my work, or my other discussions. But I following the ‘08 elections I became a bit of a political junkie. Part of it was the political climate that year, but also that I was reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 by Hunter S. Thompson. I obviously love Hunter, but reading his take on the ‘72 election, which I felt highly paralleled the ‘08 election for awhile, got me into the habit of reading political journalism.

So with that in mind, I wanted to post about the most fascinating article I’ve read about the ‘08 elections in a long time. This here article from New York Magazine, is a riveting account of the self destruction of the John Edwards campaign, accentuated with some phenomena comic style art from Nathan Fox.

“until the constellations, like the new stars of Pain-land, had become all unfamiliar and the earth’s seasons reversed.” – Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

While Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are apt for discussing and dissecting what I have done. Tuesday and Thursdays can be used for what I am doing, or will do.

I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. It is perhaps the single most difficult but simultaneously rewarding book I have read in years. The prose often borders on poetry, but always brings you right into the dystopian world of Europe at the close of WWII. But a Europe riddled with superstition, ancient mysticism and psycho-kinetic phenomena. The novel often jumps from character to character, place to place, writing style to writing style as if they were all part of the same viscous gelatin.

In Jam in the Band I was trying to copy the documentary style. If there’s anything I am proud of with Jam in the Band, as it’s what I set out to do with the story in the first place, it’s how the story is told though several different sources: fliers, letters, interviews, magazine covers, standard dramatic scenes, diary entries, etc. etc. But I am a rank amateur compared to Pynchon.

Pynchon reaches the levels that William Burroughs reaches with Naked Lunch. With Life of Vice #1 I was heavily influenced by what I knew of Burroughs, but I can only hope to push this further. I will keep you posted.

In the recent past of the old site. Far in the future of this site. And in the very concrete paper present exists Life of Vice #1. A spin off of Jam in the Band, and something for me to work on in between Jam in the Band 2 and 3. Here is a photo.

So it is with great pleasure that I direct you towards a review of that book by none other than the Truffaut to my Hitchcock: Rob Clough. No other media person has treated me with the respect or the professionalism that Rob has. The fact that he actually take my work as seriously as I do, and that he approaches it with serious critical eye, is just the icing on the cake.

For those interested, this book, much like the printed versions of Jam in the Band 1 and 2, is available in the store.