STUFF SIGN!

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

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

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

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

“…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 ”

Fear not.

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

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…

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

“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.

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

Most dates with Jerusalem in My Heart

*Added

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.

HERE.

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

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“Philip Guston”
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“Chain”
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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

?

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.

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 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

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

So many stamps and put with bloody finger.

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.

DECEMBER 18
METROPOLIS
montreal
8 PM

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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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.

“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.”