Robin Enrico's Jam in the Band

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=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

“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.

I wanted to make a note about the Cover to Jam in the Band 1 from yesterday. It’s a take off of this cover:

I freely admit I am obsessed with Jet Set Radio. I own both the American AND Japanese version of the first game. HEY! There a subtle differences between the two.

Anyways, like so many of the things that will be discussed here. This game was a huge influence on me. Look for lots of graffiti in the backgrounds of panels. And when we fully introduce Jennet, I am trying to imply that she is the one responsible for a lot of the graffiti.

In the meantime lets take a look at some awesome JSR art and video:

Everybody loves Gum.

The Love Shockers gang. One of the MANY inspirations for the Becky Vice character. More on that later.

If you look, this stage of the game is a take off of Harlem 125th st. I kind of love that.