An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Prince Rama Of Ayodhya.
120 Megabytes – Episode 16 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists,…
120 Megabytes – Episode 7 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
We close out 2010 with a series of shout outs to the great and the good that have a special bond with 20JFG. From guest writers who’ve put out spectacular albums to alumni that have hopped the fence and started their own labels, with this post we salute you because we love you and we…
It’s summer and with the heat comes the irresistible clench of kinetic forces, a whirlwind tug of hair and sweat and clinging clothes, eyes staring for hours into hypnotic spirals of oscillating fans that make you yearn for linear motion, a pulse, a push, a pull. Before you know it you are speeding down zig…
There are times when you put on a record and a song rings out with an uncannily different tone than the rest of them. You can’t quite put your finger on it— it is arresting, ecstatic, horrifying, and otherworldly– it as though a portal has been opened to the spirit world and you find yourself possessed…
It seems to be the week of psychedelic awakenings at 20JFG’s White Castle, what better way of getting the ball rolling than by the gold and ruby beringed hand of Prince Rama of Ayodhya, one of our most favourite bands and last victims of the iniquities of the world, i.e., they had their totemic instruments…
Where a nefarious fever unleashes upon your humble scribe a wicked storm of memories powerful like vampire sirens, they bite, but their bite is sweet, they sing, and their song is wistful. And what is the story that they utter? One of sweaty bedrooms where some kids fight for the fate of the universe against…