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    STUFF SIGN!

    Ongoing Conversation Band Identity

    i saw that you posted my e.mail on the vvn site. i don't know if you
    have time for this, but you might find this interesting...
    
    someone bought the domain i was using for ramona at one point
    "myfriendramon.com" - they've kept the name and are using it in
    reference to their dermatology, with the site specifically and solely
    addressing seborrheic dermatitis (severe dandruff)... weird that they
    kept my name and are using it to endorse their whatever...
    
    also i received an e.mail from some corporate dude named arthur
    simmons. he wrote (...you don't really have to read the whole thing.
    mostly my response and the result.) ::
    
    Hello,
    
    I contacted you the other day about ramonacordova.com, but you did not
    indicate interest in it.  If you are interested in the domain, you can
    take priority position to acquire it here:
    http://conceptshowcase.net/9970150ad20143b3
    
    Also, I have received a number of questions from my morning email
    about domain purchases.  So, I thought I would take a moment to answer
    the most common questions:
    
    1.  I don't want to rebrand everything - Not to worry, you do not have
    to rebrand at all. After you buy the domain, my system can
    automatically link ramonacordova.com to your website
    (ramonacordova.info for example).  You will be up and running with the
    new domain almost immediately.
    
    2. I used to own this domain and lost it!   - If you owned the domain
    previously, we will work with you.  Our company has special policies
    and discounts for domains accidentally lost by previous owners.
    Previous domain owners have priority to acquire the domain.
    
    3. How much does the domain cost?   - We accept all reasonable offers
    on domains and we sell the domain first-come, first-serve to the first
    reasonable offer.
    
    You can submit your offer on ramonacordova.com here: ramonacordova.com.
    
    Best regards,
    Arthur Simmons
    InTrust Domains
    PO Box 88049
    Colorado Springs, CO  80908
    
    Most find my priority domain notice system to be very useful. If you
    prefer not to receive these messages, please simply send me a quick
    email and I'll be sure you don't receive any more.
    
     To lead the people, walk behind them. (Lao-Tzu)
    
    <<<< i replied >>>>
    
    this domain means nothing to me anymore, though it is my name and i
    find it absurdly gross that you are holding onto it and trying to
    resell it.
    
    >>>>
    
    a few days later i checked ramonacordova.com and found that the site
    now consists of a log of maybe all of my previous online press...
    strange huh?
    
    anyway, you're site is funny how you have random e.mail posted. hope
    all is well. could i trust you with a new song or two? you wouldn't
    send it around or anything? ::ramón

    ERIC LYLE PROVIDENCE RI

    went down with jeff for him to read from the ghost pine book & 3 others read, eric lyle from miami and a
    walker who had a play and another gentleman in worcester style but also humble and gracious literate
    in the armchair… really great reading show… all of these, after then i went to visit my old friend, teacher,
    landlord JOE LUSI who gave me a garlic from urban campground on west park, and it turns out,
    is running for governor of RHODE ISLAND and will be winning after the vote.
    will you do what you can

    Competition Among Men

    hi brendan, i just received this e.mail about villa villa nola
    domains. it sounds like maybe they want to use the domain, but it
    says it's owned? by you, me? i don't know. it's up to you to
    decifer as spam or what. hope all is well. i'm recording a new
    album, i'll write more soon. send my friendly hello to all XXX XXXX
    ::ramón
    
    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Angela <info@ygnetwork.cn>
    Date: 2010/7/5
    Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name
    To: meagainbooking@gmail.com
    
    Dear Manager:
    
    We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration
    center in Shanghai, China. On July,3rd,2010, We received HUATAI
    Company's application that they are registering the name
    "villavillanola" as their Internet Trademark and
    "villavillanola.cn","villavillanola.com.cn"
    ,"villavillanola.asia"domain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain
    names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your
    company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to
    notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the
    principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our
    auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but
    our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application
    these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by
    yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as
    possible. Thank you!
    
    Kind regards
    
    Angela Zhang
    
    Angela Zhang
    
    Registration Department Manager
    3002, Nanhai Building
    854.Nandan Road
    Xuhui District, Shanghai
    Office:  +86 216296 2950
    Fax:     +86 216296 1557
    Email: info@ygnetwork.cn
    web: http://ygnetwork.cn
    web: http://www.ygnetwork.cn

    thruLINE

    From: ncassiani@comcast.net
    To: love@lesanglesmorts.org
    Subject: march 14th
    Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:37:04 +0000
    >hello!
    >I’m booking a show for a friend who’s touring from philly with another person from France. I was trying to get in touch with brenden, but apparently he hasn’t been in montréal for a while now. anways, would your band be interested in playing, and, if so, would you be able to play?
    >you can listen to some of the music here:
    >www.myspace.com/ramonacordova
    >www.myspace.com/davidfenech
    >
    >also, if you know a way to get in touch with people at friendship cove, I’d appreciate that!
    >also also, for some small world info, remember that show you played in brighton, mass a few years ago, at the HOSS? there was a dude who lived there with big sideburns, named dan shea? well, he’s putting out the ramona cordova album. I just thought I’d throw that in there…
    >
    >please get back to me, if you can!
    >thanks
    >nathan

    When to Reach 4

    “…The subject of employers googling  potential employees came up today. My current employer made it perfectly clear that they did, in fact, google me before I got hired. I was embarrassed. For gits and shiggles, I googled myself today. I swear I dont get paid each time I type the word “google”. I found a post about me on VVN. Whoa. Yes, I live in Raleigh and am doing fine. A band, a wife, a few kids, a job, a house etc. So now on to the important stuff, ish records. Or fabulous ish records. Or was it ish entertainment? Regardless, it was headquartered at various apartments and houses around Williamsburg. We never had a Froggy Bottom address. We were near a ravine and a palm reader, but never a swamp. The frogs and the swamp funk woulda put some crazy mojo on our “everything’s a dollar” cassette tapes. It looks like ish is still releasing music. Can ya believe it?
    http://www.ishrecords.blogspot.com/ …”

    “Hi, my family and I were recently vacationing in North Carolina and ran into an old friend by the name of Joel Lindelof.  He told me about your site and said that some of the information might be somewhat inaccurate.  So without any further ado…

    Joel’s record label was called “Ish Records.”  Calling it a record label is a bit of a stretch, as it was essentially the same 4 or 5 people doing a million bands and making tapes more or less for each other and our friends.  Jolly Mortals were not really an Ish band, nor did we (to my knowledge) have any rivals in Williamsburg.
    Tony Brown was in several Ish bands, and did indeed go on to be in the band RPG.

    No one from any Ish bands later went on to be in Action Patrol.  Eve, the drummer of Action Patrol, was in a band called Sistersound which featured Dave Garrett from Thee Squids (Ish band), but that’s as far as the connection goes.

    Personally, I was in a few Ish bands myself (one of which was called Star Trap with Joel Lindelof), and later went on to be in a band called Ultimate Dragons, who essentially kicked me out, replaced me, and called themselves The Sword.

    Whirled Records put out the Quadruped 7″ which was a comp of 4 bands, including Jolly Mortals.  Their second release was a full length Jolly Mortals 7″.  I’m actually selling a Quadruped on ebay, the auction closes tomorrow methinks.  Whirled went on to put out Action Patrol and Maximillian Colby.
    The brownie made of human feces is a funny story, though it doesn’t involve anyone from Jolly Mortals.  A girl made a brownie from her excrement wrapped it in plastic wrap and left it at the doorstep of Dave Grant – the singer of Action Patrol.  Don’t get me wrong, us Mortals types did plenty of disgusting things, but this was not one of them.
    It’s an honor that anyone would write anything about a band that broke up over 15 years ago.  Currently, I am in a band called Ratking; the bassist of Jolly Mortals is(?) in a band called Gilmore Guys, and the drummer of Jolly Mortals moved to LA and works on movies.
    - D ”

    child stars unite

    Fear not.

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    DOT EYES

    my neighbor is lifting weights. i can hear him cause my window is open. but my curtain’s drawn.

    JOlly MOrtals + Lindeloft + Rival BANDS

    When I was a kid there was this guy: Joel Lindellof, lindelloft… i dunno,, he had a record label, a tape label, he lived in the swamp section of town, called froggy bottom i think. His label’s name is unknown to me but they had jolly mortals I think and Brian Campus’ (son of gym teacher Coach Campus) band and there were many tapes out. So many tapes and they were all made by the same 5 gentlemen & big muff. Later people from this went on to RPG or Action Patrol?, or a stones throw… certain massive swords. Joel and I were never friends… I now think that tape label, name unknown, was of great inspiration to the VVN staff… I’m wondering if his copying skills, ability to make copies, was not a key lesson in the making then there. I’m going to do a simple Google search and paste here my findings. I am looking deep into time and real far away place, will you join me on a journey… I don’t think i will find much….

    I looked up the jolly mortals and found this video… Whirled records is listed there and I remember that label… but that was not Joel’s…

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    Error? I don’t know why…

    There was story around the school about the Mortals gentlemen requesting all thee members of the band shit into a garbage bag… the band chef then proceeded to make brownies of shit. They cut up these brownies & sent them off to a rival band.

    I am going to look up “joel lindelloff + jolly mortals”.

    Okay, so his name was Joel Lindelof. I have clicked on a link to an article or someone’s blog…

    I have found him. I found out what he is doing now and I know it is him because I recognize another name from his current band based in North Carolina. Raleigh NC, a cherished memory.

    positive

    positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Stoked & Petrified

    Sugar TOWN

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    “Oh, Hat Contest” (from the Matrushka Series)

    A scattered family has gathered at a ski lodge for a getaway. They spread out to rooms at the lodge, some set up their tents. They play games and engage in activities around the grounds… The little sis of the family is spending time with her friend Tink, in their room. Tink has found an aerial photograph of the surrounding area, there seems to be a river flowing nearby. On the second night, the family attend a show about quilts in the Grand Hall, for entertainment… Meanwhile, a few members are missing from the festivities. A son is in the slammer for a crime he committed against another family member, his little brother who died in the crime… A song performed in the quilt show reminds everyone of the bloody times gone by. After the Quilt Play some of the party go midnight hunting and kill a deer with a direct hit. The dead deer falls down the ravine and the hunters hear a splash… The next day they have a contest to see who can make the best hat. A cousin makes the winner, for it expands upward, high into the sky, infinitely, taller and taller, repeating forever… After the contest the whole party follow the aerial photograph and hike to the river, only to discover it has long since been dammed up and is now home to shimmering bars of healthy kryptonite, an invasive species flourishing in the stagnant water.

    “Gorge On Sugarcube!” (from the Matrushka Series)

    A child’s been sick in the village for too long. His parents have been giving care at home, an herbal remedy, but the child must stay indoors and communicates with his peers only thru letter writing… Word spreads thru the community of a growing pandemic. Debate is underway what to do, who to send to seek medicine or a miracle cure… On the chosen hero’s quest, he unearths an ethnographic video long lost in the storage area of a “monument to suffering.” The video depicts a time of prosperity, joy, and good health. The hero returns with the cure information only to find that news of his quest has sparked competition, amongst the medical community, to heal the village and wipe out the epidemic. Information is spreading and doctors are educating the public about treatment options… A conference for medical professionals is organized in Tampa to discuss various cures.

    CCCLLUUEESS - FREE SHOW - MARCH 19 - EASTERN BLOC

    THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION -

    The first-ever official video by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Features a live recording of the song from their 6th album Kollaps Tradixionales (2010) as performed in their rehearsal space at the ‘old Hotel2Tango’ in Montréal.


    http://cstrecords.com/releases/cst063

    Directed by Seth W. Owen
    Director of Photography: Ian MacMillan

    8-track analog audio tape recording by Howard Bilerman

    CLUES - TOUR DE FRANCE 2010

    Le Cabaret Electric Le Havre 12 Feb
    La Carène Club Brest 13 Feb
    Le Confort Moderne Poitiers 14 Feb
    Drak Art* Grenoble 15 Feb
    Le Brise Glace Annecy 16 Feb
    La Poudrière Belfort 17 Feb
    Le Grand Mix Tourcoing 18 Feb
    Le 6 par 4 Laval 19 Feb
    L’Omnibus St-Malo 20 Feb
    Le Chat Do Blois 21 Feb
    VIP St-Nazaire 22 Feb
    Le Saint des Seins Toulouse 23 Feb
    Epicerie Moderne Feyzin 24 Feb
    La Lune des Pirates Amiens 25 Feb
    La Cartonnerie Reims 26 Feb
    La Maroquinerie Paris 27 Feb

    Most dates with Jerusalem in My Heart

    *Added

    VIC CHESNUTT | AT THE CUT


    Vic Chesnutt
    At The Cut

    Chesnutt’s second album to feature musicians from Thee Silver Mt. Zion,
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Witchies and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi
    (who also co-produced the record with Howard Bilerman) picks up where
    North Star Deserter (2007) left off, with an explosive group of arrangers
    and players allowing Vic to conjure snarling spittle and devastating
    fragile grace in equal measure.”

    “…impish, surly, witty, unflinching perspective, brilliantly unique wordsmithery
    and a profound playfulness that thumbs its nose at a life of seriously hard knocks.

    Vic’s prolific writing – chock of full of real irony, wonderful turns of phrase,
    humour, rage and tenderness, brutal literalism and ornate observation
    – constitutes a truly original voice and reflects a truly indomitable spirit…

    A core group of players emerged from this first recording to accompany
    Vic on two European tours in support of the album: Thierry Amar (bass),
    Efrim Menuck (guitar), Jessica Moss (violin) and David Payant (drums)
    all of Silver Mt. Zion, along with Guy Picciotto (guitar). Together with
    studio members (and occasional live players) Nadia Moss (piano, organ)
    and Chad Jones (guitar), this same troupe has reunited for Vic’s second
    Constellation album, once again recorded by Howard Bilerman at
    Hotel2Tango in Montreal…

    Vic hacks away, “throwing myself at the cut / with a force heretofore
    unknown to me”…sweet pastoral childhood reminiscence,
    “Flirted With You All My Life” a quite literal ode to the dance
    with death, delivered with a perfect and unaffected mix of exuberance,
    defiance and insouciance…

    For an album so overtly shaped by ruminations on mortality, by a man
    from Athens, GA who certainly knows of what he sings (having survived
    a car accident at age 18 that confined him to a wheelchair and has subjected
    him to an endless cavalcade of complications, procedures, emergencies and
    towering medical bills ever since), it is both refreshing and unbelievably
    heartwarming to hear how Vic Chesnutt sidesteps any of the obvious Southern
    Gothic tropes, lyrically and musically. No vaulted arches, gaping abysses or
    burning fields here – no ‘voicing’ of the preacher or the devil, no putting on airs.
    Vic manages to sing so authentically and wholeheartedly from and about his
    sense of place (the South, the wheelchair, 21st century America) because he
    refuses to sentimentalise any of it and rails against his personal fate without
    bitterness, without apology, with a sardonic and sometimes angry poetics of
    the passionately humanist and secular variety: wholly framed by the back
    porch, championing a humble wisdom, a sincere ethics (without moralising)
    and a natural literateness, certainly permitting a wisecrack or three, but never
    allowing for anything hackneyed or cornball or fake. At The Cut is a
    bona fide classic by a man better positioned than most to sing it strong and true.”

    Villa Villa Nola is very proud to carry this record. It costs 8 dollars 69 cents.


    HERE.

    “Flirted With You All My Life”
    FROM At the Cut

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    “Philip Guston”
    FROM At the Cut

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    “Chain”
    FROM At the Cut

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    Moodsis moodsis i am trying

    Moodsis moodsis, i’m trying to write about money. We had a meeting yesterday about our future & that of the recording industry at large & we determined that thru perseverance, greed, the ultimate in sham we can begin working on a new inspirational record. We were playing QC w/ the GHOST AND MRS MUIR and everyone was there and it was a time of great joy and celebration. But what is the first step to new record

    ?

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    DISHWASHER Black Orpheus

    Please watch and listen to  this scene from the Marcel Camus classic ” Orfeu Negro ” or ”Black Orpheus”. It is actually the last scene from that  movie.

    I skipped school one afternoon  when I was 14 and watched this movie instead.

    The colors. The vibrancy. The dancing.

    Unforgettable.

    CCLLUUEESS dates in ONTARIO >>> CHICAGO

    Last “CLUES RECORD” mini-tour in North America.

    Wednesday, January 13
    Cafe Dekuf
    Ottawa

    Thursday, January 14
    The Ebar
    Guelph

    Friday, January 15
    Club Absinthe
    Hamilton

    Saturday, January 16
    Silver Dollar
    Toronto

    Sunday, January 17
    Schubas Tavern
    Chicago

    Thursday, January 21 JUST ADDED
    Université Laval
    Québec City

    BEYONCE & CLUES

    BEYONCE sues CLUES for the opening of “Halo”. Too similar?!!
    The opening of Clues’ You Have My Eyes Now bears a striking resemblance to Beyonces’ Halo.
    Reached for comment Knowles said, “More like Thieves.” Clues declined to comment.
    New York Lawyer Richard Grabel will represent the “band” in defense of their “song.”

    YOU DECIDE:

    A) Halo by Beyonce

    B) You Have My Eyes Now by Clues

    Magic Weapon

    Kusama

    January 1st, 2010

    It’s been awhile since I’ve added anything of substance to VVN.  I took a lot of time off from Magic Weapon since Residue Hymns to try new things before I started writing songs again.  Since late November I’ve been recording a record at Digital Bird Studios with Martin Horn (Parlovr, Cotton Mouth, Nightwood).  It’s a lot different than anything I’ve ever worked on before.  Thanks to those of you who purchased a copy of Residue Hymns with Villa Villa Nola.  To be frank, the last time I listened to that EP I cringed a lot.  I think there was definitely some rushing being done on my part to try and get it done as quick as I could without paying attention to many things (namely vocals) but I guess it’s an honest representation of Matt Shane and my abilities at the time.

    The new record is mostly me doing all the instrumentation (Nathan Gage of Shapes and Sizes/Elfin Saddle plays Contrabass on a song) and it’s more of a lushed out vibe than anything I’ve recorded.  I have this picture I took of a Yayoi Kusama installation that I want to use for the cover.  I hope to have more recordings up here one day.

    Happy New Year

    Jordan

    Kusama

    So many stamps and put with bl...

    So many stamps and put with bloody finger.

    No Cars Go - New Record

    i’ve been finishing a new music for internet distribution, i know the name nocarsgo must go, i know. it’s not a good name for a band. it’s a better name for a song. in VA and we had a group of friends and our first band UNEDUCATE EVIL dissolved, we started a supergroup with THE SPARTANS/UE called NO CARS GO. years later in mtl it became a song name. then i’ve just kept making songs under this name but itsa bad idea and embarrasssing some of the time. i hearby dunno what to dub but forged anew 2. 2010.

    cclluueesssss

    clues in montreal

    DECEMBER 18
    METROPOLIS
    montreal
    8 PM

    jake

    dishwasher wedding day

    So what kind of wedding are you gonna have?

    An  Indian Wedding? A Mongolian Wedding , A Cuban Wedding? A Polish Wedding? An Inuktitut Wedding? A Break Dance Wedding? A “\Dances With Wolves Wedding” ? , A Non-denominational Wedding? A Christmas Wedding?  A Home Wedding? One of those Shotgun Weddings?  A Baseball Wedding? An Interracial Wedding?  A Moon Wedding? A Bingo Hall Wedding? A Cat-lover Wedding?

    Here’s your wedding song.

    Happy Wedding !!!

    BEACHWOOD SPARKS – “BY YOUR SIDE”

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    First Preview of new Silver Mount Zion Record: Kollaps Tradixionales

    Suoni Per Il Popolo Recording Series

    VVN announces the Suoni Per Il Popolo Recording Series:
    Mastered recordings from festival, free for download and streaming from suoniperilpopolorecordings.com.
    The series begins with Silver Mount Zion, Vic Chesnutt, & Evangelista.

    More information on the festival here: suoniperilpopolo.org.

    suoni

    The Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival is a dynamic, community based leftfield music festival which takes every June in Montréal, Québec. It presents an eclectic collection of musical genres which includes but is not limited to free jazz, noise, electronica, turntable art, pop, soundscapes, experimental rock, twentieth century avant garde, electronica, musique actuelle and spoken word. Given the context in which much of this music is made and the reaction it provokes, it is also music that resonates with progressive social movements. The festival is committed to presenting both established musicians who bring a wealth of tradition, experience and history to their playing as well as younger, emerging artists.”

    Vic Chessnutt - Footage from