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Angels of Light’s Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home

Written by Jim Knipfel on January 28, 2003. Posted in Posts

Everything Is Good Here… Since the Swans broke up after 1996’s Soundtracks for the Blind, Michael Gira has remained one of the busiest men in music. His Brooklyn-based label, Young God Records, has released dozens of albums by an international collection of jazz, rock, noise, folk and experimental groups. He’s repackaged several old Swans records,
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Slackjaw: Zen and the Art of Appliance Repair and Finding Shit

Written by Jim Knipfel on January 7, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The note arrived, like clockwork, the week before Thanksgiving. I’m never expecting it, but at the same time I’m never surprised when it shows up with the rest of the e-mail. It always begins the same way: "My brothers and sisters grew up listening to that Tex Johnson and His Six Shooters Christmas album, and
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The Sneezing Mirror

Written by Jim Knipfel on August 27, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The Sneezing Mirror Sometimes, you know, it’s almost a relief to go into a public toilet somewhere and hear sounds coming out of one of the stalls that prove that someone out there is having a worse day than you are–but this is different. There were no sounds, nobody else in the bathroom, and guessing
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Dancing on the Precipice

Written by Jim Knipfel on August 6, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Staten Island is an odd place. I hadn’t been there in over a decade, and last time I was there all I did was go bowling. They had a fine bowling alley, I must say. It was straightforward–none of that "disco bowling" crap you find in Manhattan. n This time, Morgan and I took the
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V.R.P. at the D.M.V.

Written by Jim Knipfel on July 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It’s stated quite clearly on the New York State Dept. of Motor Vehicles’ website. Regardless what you’re there to take care of–driver’s license, plates, fines–if you want to get in and out of the DMV as quickly as possible, you should avoid it at the following three times: (1) At the beginning of the month;
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That First Case of Insomnia

Written by Jim Knipfel on July 16, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The church my parents started taking me to after we first moved to Green Bay was about a mile straight down Libal St. That could be pronounced either "lee-ball" or "libel" depending on your mood and the time of day. Nobody seemed to feel too strongly one way or another. Given that such a huge
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Mumbles the Bum

Written by Jim Knipfel on July 9, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

He appeared in front of me as I stood outside the office building, having a smoke, waiting. He was a few inches taller than me, but thin. He wore a dark sweatshirt with the hood pulled up over his head and tied tight beneath his chin. His hands and face, from what I could tell
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Gentle, Angry Lou

Written by Jim Knipfel on July 2, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Morgan and I were having dinner with a couple friends of ours last week, when one of them said, “You heard that Lou died, didn’t you?” We hadn’t. I can’t say it was a shock, really. Just a little sad. I didn’t know Lou all that well. In fact, he only spoke to me of
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Bite My Whimsy

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 25, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Back in the old days, most everything my friend Grinch and I did under the guise of the Nihilist Workers Party were what I guess folks nowadays might call "conceptual art." We never thought of it that way, lord knows. All we wanted to do was confuse people with whatever was handy. We did this
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Where’s My Driver’s License?

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 18, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It had been a long and slow day. My back hurt bad. It had been hurting bad for a long time, and I’d taken to referring to it as my "glowing albatross of pain" for some reason. All I wanted to do was get back to the apartment, gobble some pills, open a beer and
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