goodluck/badluck: per diem (mostly)

Badmammal recovery song (clip) by badmammal

Badmammal 29years (clip) by badmammal

got my first piece of flattering hate mail the other day. i believe it was referencing the music video for the gimps “comfortable secret” but in a strange personal kind of way.  it’s as if the video spoke directly to this formerly solid “fan”.  either way it sounds like she got a whole bunch off her chest and ive gotta say its my first really negative response to a piece of art.  not like “im not so into this tune” but more like

“hey there, creepy bitch u~ i can’t believe that u actually dared to try to e-mail me, ! i saw that super creepy video that ya made for ‘comfortable secret’ and ever since then have forgotten about you as a musician. i long ago had forgotten about you as a potential band crush. don’t no wat it iz about my horrible luck, maybe it’s that i’m in such a(n increasing shitty, unfortunately) bad ’situation’ {yeah no thank you for your pathetically scanty consolations, earlier …} -* but i keep attracting these absolute sleaze-bags . that think it’s okay to emotionally (and otherwise?) masturbate to the thought of me, as some sickeningly idealized conception of a girl . you know what though? i live in the real world…the horribly unfair, misoginistic one where a good girl like me can be processed by ‘the Machine’ and tortured and twisted into something shes not : a scared, sickly, desperate ‘bitch’. fuck all of you creepy bastards, for perpetuating & being a part of the same old sick system that has been keeping talented opinionated females (like me) for fucking centuries. bad boys without an actual cause–besides amassing and maintaining some trash cult following, so they can satisfy deeply ingrained ego complexes…and ‘get laid’, basically–they are really beyond starting to make me sick. really, i’ve hated such types for quite a long tiempo…so, mister super-creep, self deluding psychopath (it seems, from that discusting ’secret’-)- i say go f^ck yourself. and have night-mares in which a girl looking eerily similar to my self comes to stab your eyes out for daring to creep toward having a ‘nightly…emission’ at the thought of any girl looking remotely close to moi. get bent. stick your joystick in a meat grinder. and dont ever ever try contacting me again, unless to make a quick and sincere apology, to satisfy and console my ass, aight? thnx !”

The Gimps – “Comfortable Secret” off of the album Nothing New For Trash Like You available from goodluck/badluck , itunes, amazon, and cdbaby

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variation on the I CHOOSE NOURISHING FOODS video– sounds and images captured around SF:

TOWNSOUNDS from GOODLUCK/BADLUCK on Vimeo.

I CHOOSE NOURISHING FOODS from GOODLUCK/BADLUCK on Vimeo.

SONG BY THE WALKING WOUNDED

here’s a little something for a longtime friend’s 30th birthday

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On giving Desobrigamento a listen, it’s not what I was expecting at all.  Folky, rocky, dreamy, it reminds me of the Chemical Brothers’ more mellow stuff with nods to 80s electro and 90s trip hop (as an aside, I think the climate is ripe for a trip hop revival – maybe I’ll blog about that soon). Lots of different instruments, with a bias towards guitar, marry with purely electronically generated sounds.
In parts they can give the impression of being unpolished or slightly amateur, but give them time and the intention soon becomes apparent; building a phrase that makes complete sense of it all and makes you feel bad for ever having doubted it.

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Naming a collection of tracks should ideally be impulsive, not absurd. Nonetheless, there rises anonymity and mysticism with abstraction. In the IDM fraternity, you have the daftness of Venetian Snares’ “Cavalcade Of Glee (And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms)” to compete with for wacky caricatural merit. Or consider Mu-Ziq’s “Duntisborne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique”.

What these works have in common is as far-reaching as it is implicit – they stretch the intelligent dance music tag to familiar limits, with breakbeat foreplay or chilled quirkiness, and are peppered with references to earlier forays from both camps, not forgetting displaying production skills as a counterweight.

Badmammal’s fourth self-released tapestry from goodluck/badluck, “Desobrigamento” comes as an axis in the middle of these goalposts. Happiness is a tangible objective – it’s often about how much you invest, but nevertheless you won’t always get the rewards. This can frustrate, lead to insecurity and cause you to dumb down your aspirations.

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2009 was an interesting year for goodluck/badluck. we released two badmammal albums (desobrigamento and community music center) and an album by The Gimps (nothing new for trash like you), got to work on an exciting new iphone app called soundtrkr,  lost both our apartment heaters but gained one back, shot a video for comfortable secret by the gimps, planted a roof garden (tomatoes, cucumber, kale, chard, spinach, arugula, peppers, rosemary, and basil), wrote a Gimps EP to be released this winter (the gimps – e.p.),  played pirate cat radio (badmammal live set and the pilot episode of above and below), made another fictional restaurant, did some remixes (the metermaid’s “nightlife” and murder mystery’s “the world“), and a bunch of other things i’m sure.   We hope to bring you more media/projects/info in 2010 and thank you for keeping your eyes and ears tuned to what we’re doing.