Aves Specta

Collecting Ideas & Revealing Reactions

Sometime somewhere someone committed something to semipermanence, suspecting sometime somewhere someone else would take it in and care. Sometimes I do.

2026

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2025

2016

K Records Friends & Neighbors Report

(modified from October 29, 2016, blogger original)

A K Records warehouse-clearing deal delivered a big stack of CDs to our mailbox for less than the cost of one at retail. The friendly mail order department "miscounted" the dozen, so I had 14 new discs to spin. First time through, I picked blind. Second time through, I better knew what was coming, but still had things to learn and opinions to form. As a result, I've made a keep-or-pass list that looks like this:

Sylvain Sylvain & The Criminal$: Bowery Butterflies (2000) Munster — Not-too-raucous rock'n'roll straddling the boppin' '50s and punk '80s. KEEP

Various Artists: Shipwreck Day (2002) KnwYrOwn — That original What-the-Heck-Fest musta been some kind of fun. KEEP

the Weeds: The Faraway Flying of Broken Beating (2004) independent? — Emily Ana Zeitlyn leads. Some genre hopping. Most works. KEEP

Landing: Oceanless (2001) Strange Attractors Audio House — Dark sonic ecosystem with layers of rhythmic space noise. KEEP

The Gift Machine: …don't turn me off (2002) KnwYrOwn — Hooky rockin-pop with an uplift and a wink. MAYBE

Supersnazz: The Devil Youth Blues (1996) Time Bomb — Pop-punk out of Osaka. Starts strong but fades. MAYBE

Sarah Dougher: Day One (1999) K — Easy on the ear. Bella Abzug and a couple more rise above the neutral. PASS

le ton mité: Tickets to Real Imaginary Places (2006) Zicmuse, Richmond County Archives, K — Striving, occasionally achieving. Voice straining, instruments stabler. PASS

Bryce Panic presenta… Better Bizness Bureau (2006?) self — Infrequent clicks in this vocab-rich hip-hop shtick. PASS

Josh Bucci: Pan Da Mix Tape II (2005?) self-produced — Oddball gets B for effort, but results lag in 1991-2005 retrospective. PASS

Wolf Colonel: The Castle (2000) K — Messing around after a bad breakup. Keep practicing. PASS

Various Artists: Balance (1999) Readyrock — Short-of-middling rap, often quite. PASS

Various Artists: Wade-free Wherever, A Schtufff... Compilation (1995) — Speedpunkmetal of insufficient interest. PASS

Miranda July: 10 Million Hours a Mile (1997) Kill Rock Stars — Poemish egocentric artpunk fails. PASS

2008

Collecting Ideas

(originally posted October 19, 2008)

1980s-2000s

(transferred from a scrap of paper)

(transferred from another scrap of paper)

I have used many scraps of paper. Band names scrawled in journals. Tracks, titles, signature lines, reactions in the moment.

Notes

  1. About the image: TBD.
  2. In part, originally posted to Blogger.
  3. Last modified May 3, 2026.

Aves Specta · Est. 1999