Thursday, December 30, 2010

For the last four years I have kept track of every book I read. Here is a picture of a pond with swans near my aunt's house and then all the books I read in twenty ten.

“This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey” – Steve Almond

“Indiana” – George Sand

“Darkness at Noon” Arthur Koestler

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” – Milan Kundera

“Madame Bovary” – Gustav Flaubert

“The Genesis of Gaudian Architecture” – Juan-Eduardo Cirlot

“White Oleander” – Janet Fitch

“Christ In Concrete” – Pietro Di Donato

“No Exit” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Waiting for Godot” – Samuel Beckett

“The Maids” – Jean Genet

“Chess Story” – Stefan Zweig

“Epitaph of A Small Winner” – Machado De Assis

“Here I Stand” – Paul Robeson

“Philosophy in the Boudoir” – Marquis De Sade

“Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” – John Boswell

“Tales of Love and Loss” – Knut Hamsun

“Housekeeping” – Marilynne Robinson

“Where the Money Went” – Kevin Canty

“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisoyvich” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Tinkers” – Paul Harding

“The Wreath” – Sigrid Undset

“Beowulf”- Unknown (Translated by Seamus Heaney)

“The Country Wife” – William Wycherley

“Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” – Unknown

“The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers” – Aphra Behn

“The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger, Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion” – John Vanbrugh

“Walden” – Henry David Thoreau

“Desert Solitaire” – Edward Abbey

“The Way of the World” – William Congreve

“Beaux Stratagem” – George Farquhar

“Roxana” – Daniel Defoe

“Refuge” – Terry Tempest Williams

“My Year of Meats” – Ruth Ozeki

“The Beggar’s Opera” – John Gay

“White Noise” – Don Delillo

“Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councilor R. Von D.” – Stefan Zweig

37 in total: 13 American, 5 French, 11 British, 2 Swiss, 2 Norwegian, 1 Russian, 1 Czech, 1 Brazilian and 1 Spanish.

The best in no particular order:

"The Wreath" - Sigrid Undset

"Housekeeping" - Marilynne Robinson

"Epitaph of a Small Winner" - Machado De Assis

"Beowulf"

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Sybok - Gorelactic Possessed Martiangels

The heavily anticipated Ghosts of Mars-themed death metal masterpiece from Sybok is now available for download. Hag (keith) did the shreddin', tight production, and goregeous cover art. Dogboss (ryan) herded his horned flock of programmed drum brutality into each song and contributed some spooky vocals unheard since his crime doctor days. Rot (clay) was the Big Daddy Mars who conceptualized Gorelactic Possessed Martiangels and nearly pulverized it with his guttural aggression.

Trax include audio samples entirely from Ghosts of Mars and improvised lyrics, including one that S.O.A.D. actually wrote down (Is there anything more provocative than shouting "Angels deserve to die"?).


1.) The Angeldevouring Cadaverdactyl Takes Flight Over Mars
2.) Gorelactic Martiangel Possession
3.) Martian Carcasstrophe
4.) Fleshtents Colonize My Gorelaxy
5.) Blood for Big Daddy Mars
6.) Alien Huntress
7.) Guts Taste Good
8.) Gorelactic Martiangel Decapitation
9.) Ripped-Apart Angel Constellation
10.) Meat for the Angelphagist
11.) Desolation Williams(Lithopedion Christ)
12.) Gorelactic Martiangel Insurrection

If you haven't heard crappy high school death metal before, prepare to be laid out like that bar scene from Out for Justice, except twinklin' supernova because this has a space theme.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Future Plans: What to expect from 2011

Hey guys and guyettes,
2011 has a lot in store for you from the ctrl force.

Tim Blood and the Gut Panthers new 6 (or 7 or 8) song CDR, and also Tim Blood patches and T-shirts.

We'll also be gracing the public with a few sock hops.

January 17th: Tim Blood and Rhythm Memory at Mikeys in Moscow, Idaho

February 4th: Tim Blood, Finn Riggins, and Worlds Greatest Ghosts at The Belltower in Pullman, Washington

Come hang.

Herb(ian)

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Monday, December 13, 2010

never forget to

Jonathan Franzen's Ten Rules of Writing


1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

2 Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

3 Never use the word "then" as a ­conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose. Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.

4 Write in the third person unless a ­really distinctive first-person voice ­offers itself irresistibly.

5 When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.

6 The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

7 You see more sitting still than chasing after.

8 It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

9 Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

10 You have to love before you can be relentless.

ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL!

A beautiful interior perspective shot created by my last project partner; I hope we get an "A"!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Big Fucking Deal


Big Deal Zine

Get Herb(ian)'s zeeen for free. Print it out for totally worthwhile toilet reading. Recommended!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

SUN MANTRA AND TIM BLOOD WINTER BASH


Sun Mantra (download Sun Mantra here)
Tim Blood
Friday December 17th @ The Yellow House in Moscow.

ctrlforce@gmail.com if you need the address.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

This is what punk


The other nite I took the comments from this video and put them through Google Translator. The results were funny/inspiring/punk rock. Enjoy, please.

This is what punk ーーー youth! ! !

I remember youth. I mean who sings in Japanese, one of the few bands.

I know, I know who I'm making a song something like that would have a drink, c
ut the music as the spirit lives, and made a finding of stone adulterous act, even if there was some kind of intent, and there I decided to have a serious message.

And so on, as their fans, and even that you have shoulder rely on this heat do not help feeling it away in rock and roll.

The first Country Road after a balloon bomb Buruha

What is hot on the button, especially from people around 30

This singing, I'm sold out. Even though I have never sold out

I thought at the time. I love people that much

I was a lot of I remember youth

The band wanted to do such a teenager myself. Wasuretakunai the heat forever.

I want the boy's life remain

What I hot

I hate I hate. Of this kind of music begin to fade.

I noticed it to happen. I see

Rock and Roll Will Never Die (We Hope)



Download Tim Blood and the Roids

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Are you prepared to rock? Here are six new original songs and a cover of a northwest classic. I think that these songs were recorded in the spring of 2010 and I think that we were pretty good friends when we did it. I didn't write any of the songs (music or words) and I didn't go to most practices and I barely ever learned the songs; my performance is remarkably half assed, but hopefully you can't even tell. We are all different people now. Ryan was much happier, Keith may or may not have been sadder (it is hard to tell and who really cares?), Ian was better looking, Bethany's hair was a different color, Tim A's butt plug hadn't lost its pony tail and my dad still lived in Idaho. I don't know what these songs are about and I don't know what we were thinking and I don't know if you'll like them or not. But here they are, finally. We are still pretty good friends and we definitely have more songs coming that I think are pretty good. Prolly better.

-Tim Blood

Myspace.com/TheGutpanthers

And don't forget to download the first Tim Blood album.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Favorite Music of 2010 Part 1

This is a list of my favorite music for each month. I'm not sure if I'll talk about anything that came out in 2010, this is just what I was listening to. It'll be divided into "Favorite" and "Other Stuff". I feel like I have to do this. I really used music to get through this year in a different way than the past couple.

January
Favorite: In January I got into a lot of stuff that became my favorite in the months to come. My favorite was probably still This Heat from the year before, actually two years before. Early January was probably the last time I listened to "Deceit" and really focused on it. If I was forced to, I'd probably say that's my favorite album, even though I barely listen to them anymore. They just meant so much to me the first time I heard it, and it'll take a long time for that to wear off.

Other stuff: I remember listening to "Stigmata" by Skitsystem a lot at the beginning of the month, which was definitely one of my favorites of 2009. I remember writing in my journal about really being into Leadershit which I'm listening to right now and reminded me to write this. When I got on a Greyhound towards the end of the month to go out to Seattle I was listening to their album. I downloaded a bunch of old Italian hardcore that's still some of my favorite stuff right now, but I didn't get into that until a few month later. Also I got into Twelve Hour Turn at the end of January. The first time I listened to "It's Your Move" I had to stop what I was doing and close my eyes till it was over which hadn't happened in a really long time.

February
Favorite: Probably Twelve Hour Turn. For most of the month I listened to them a couple times a day. For about a week I listened to the last album and ep before I got out of my sleeping bag in the morning. And "It's Your Move" still gave me chills.

Other Stuff: I remember listening to "Through Silver In Blood" while laying on top of a dune in the middle of the desert which wasn't as fulfilling as I wanted. I finally got into the third Cursed album while out in the desert. I think the quote at the end of it stuck out to me more than the music though. I also got really into Cripple Bastards "Variante Alla Morte" album while walking around in the desert and riding on a bus. When I got to New Orleans and was staying with someone they asked me what music I was into and Cripple Bastards was all I could think of. Those stick out the most but I know I'm missing something. I was listening to a lot of music then.

March
Favorite- Daitro. Their side of the Sed Non Satiata split. I got really lost listening to that. I didn't like it too much when I first heard it, but then I was listening to it a few times a day. The last song was my favorite. I noticed myself always stop what I was doing and listen for when the vocals finally came in.

Other Stuff: I was listening to Yob's newest album alot too. The 20 minute last song i listened to at least 15 times. I listened to it a few times in a row one night when I couldn't sleep along with the Daitro song. I remember writing down something about only long songs keeping my attention. I wasn't listening to Twelve Hour Turn as much. I was in Jacksonville for a week, which is where they're from but didn't realize that until I was gone. I think at this point I was pretty through with everything that was on my mp3 player but didn't have a way to get anything new.

So that's it for part 1. I don't know when I'll finish this but I'll try to have up through September before New Year's and then finish up in 2011.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Tim Blood and the Update

The first Tim Blood album is back up to download

We're slowly working on new songs right now. I think we're all happy with how it's going. We should be ready to play a show with our friend Sun Mantra in December. And maybe have a new recording after that. Someday we'll get the Roids recordings up here too.


Myspace.com/TheGutpanthers

CHRISTWRONG EP 2



We're all out of tapes and cd's from our killer last show we played last night in Spokane. Here's a link to download the second ep:

Christwrong EP 2

And here's a link to the first one in case you forgot:

Chriswrong EP 1

The recording on the second one is slicker. But they're both pretty much great. Have fun.

Myspace.com/Christwrong

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

CW TAPES!

COME GET SOME!

and the new cd.

Monday, November 8, 2010

CHRISTWRONG FINAL SHOW!



At the Cretin Hop in Spokane this Thursday 11-8 with some SLC Punk's bands. We're supposed to go on at 7. We'll have a new CD and leftover tapes for free. The CD will be up here to download sometime after I'm sure.

Myspace.com/Christwrong

Monday, November 1, 2010

flyer


moscow area
anyone?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

king nostalgia pix

there's always crap in the works but nothing to show for it. here's a mix of some old songs i found on ryan's hard drive. more for myself than anyone:



Ctrl Force Nostalgia Mix

1. amarosg- porpoise horc (ryan, keith, mark): we just discovered grind/power violence and mark was visiting us so we threw this classic together.
2. olav- rice house (jeff, ryan): really old rad band when ryan was just learning drums and jeff still played bass that never went anywhere.
3. olav- sextown dreamin'
4. astrofox- takeoff (ryan, keith): we were gonna do a bass and drums space colonization themed album. we wrote four songs maybe, but these are the only two that got recorded.
5. astrofox- malfunction
6. fox council- demo (jeff, keith, ryan): this is the only fox council demo recording from seattle. the structure got alot better but the recording and jeff's vocals killz.



here's an old thing ryan drew:

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Completely Unnecessary




Keith F- Sept. '08 to May '09

In August 2008 I moved back to Pullman and didn't do much. Sometimes I'd record in my room. All of these sounds were recorded between September 2008 and May 2009 and edited down now to be less boring. 8 songs in 10 minutes.

Monday, October 4, 2010

CHRISTWRONG


Download it here: Christwrong EP

Give it a listen here: myspace.com/christwrong

This is the toughest recording in years! Also, we've have some tapes left over from our legendary final Olympia show.

Monday, September 27, 2010

worst cat

WURSTKATZE

i wuz gonna upload a mix but everything's fukkd. so listen to this:
WURSTKATZE
http://www.myspace.com/wurstkatze http://www.myspace.com/wurstkatze
http://www.myspace.com/wurstkatze http://www.myspace.com/wurstkatze

Monday, September 20, 2010

dead body

click click cilck!

i've been looking through ryan's old photos. more more more.

;? Huh, have time??


No tshanks!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

probably coming soon to you (delayed)




3 more vocals to go.

edit 9-26-10:
(everything done-ish but don't wait for it.)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

get this!

roids recorded instruments this week. get ready for rock songs, a bad nirvana cover, etc.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

5 more



http://www.mediafire.com/?jgmhc0vhfdk


5 songs in 3-ish minutes
drums- ryan. vocals and guitar-keith
instruments recorded summer 2009, vocals recorded april 2010.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

freemusic


here is what you need:

loose cannons vhs: http://www.mediafire.com/?lll52my1zig (audio only, first time on the internet, killer trakz)

explode skull 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?tigywyu1zcw (drum and vocals and tape crunch)

fox council-5songs or else: http://www.mediafire.com/?xjhztauor31 (old sappy "screamo" or something, so much time went into this)


also there should be a really short new fox council "ep" thing out soon once we do one more track of vocals.

also ryan and i are trying to tour in may and june, if anyone has any sweet connections let me know or something.

Monday, April 12, 2010