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Old 07.19.2006, 01:32 PM   #1
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...as any of my posts didnt had any much effect

"New pedal coming out"?
"what are you listening, post yr art"?
"do you have a band"
or "listen to my demo im bored"

no
well
WHAT'S JIM O' rourke up to lately these days?
is he recently in some film project after what was said or any?
or any musical contribution perhaps
well
drop yr results
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Old 07.19.2006, 01:35 PM   #2
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I don't knwo but i'd sure love to know , the man's a genius.
I'd bet you a hundred bucks that RR would have been waaaay better if Jim was in it.
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Old 07.19.2006, 02:54 PM   #3
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i'll take your hundred bucks...RR would've been 7 minute jams of overextended repetitiveness that would've taken away what makes SY so great.

love jim's work with gastr del sol, a couple of his solos were alright, but i'll have to be honest...i don't think he made SY any better when he joined. after listening to RR, i would say he held SY back from them doing what they were good at.

really, one of the main reasons why Jim was in SY was because kim's age and ability to keep playing bass(she doesn't want to be the "primary" bassist full time).
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Old 07.19.2006, 03:00 PM   #4
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Jim sure is a genius. He has such a wonderfully intricate sense of melody anout his music. I really wish he had stayed in Sonic Youth. I lament his departure.
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Old 07.19.2006, 03:41 PM   #5
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i'm glad jim has followed his path and is not in sy. i think both are better apart.
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Old 07.19.2006, 05:05 PM   #6
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i heard he's in tokyo at the moment, i'm not sure doing what
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Old 07.19.2006, 08:52 PM   #7
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i heard he's in tokyo at the moment, i'm not sure doing what

Studying japanese film
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Old 07.19.2006, 09:17 PM   #8
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bending his cock up japanese birds is what he's doing now.
my friend saw jim o'rourke DJ at a violent onsen geisha show in tokyo recently and he said he was awful.
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Old 07.20.2006, 05:20 PM   #9
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i heard he was the one who karen o that stupid fucking hair cut.
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Old 07.20.2006, 11:52 PM   #10
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uh never understood what ye wrote
neither what i wrote
nyways
here's something ive found, and its on no fun! (records)

as part of the ROTTEN LP series

04 JIM O'ROURKE- 6 Oscillators 87/Guitar 88
A lost piece in time from 1987 and a lost piece in time from 1988. 6 oscillators announces destruction and the future thats today, as giganntic synthetic sound bounces your brain to to total meltdown, only dust remains. Guitar rebuilds you and prepares you to face the reality of life. thet time for battle is now. unreleased until today, limited to 500 no fun style artwork. Jim rules.
 


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Old 07.21.2006, 12:03 AM   #11
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Old 07.21.2006, 12:21 AM   #12
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jim o'rourke isn't retarded. take that back or you'll get a stern talking to, mister.
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Old 07.21.2006, 07:49 AM   #13
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he's got a film showing in sweden sometime soon i think
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Old 07.22.2006, 12:47 AM   #14
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Old 07.24.2006, 02:17 PM   #15
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Old 03.01.2007, 08:00 PM   #16
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found this recently
apparently according to:
tisue.net/orourke/
Films


as director

 
  • Door
  • film 2005
  • running time: 18 minutes
  • O’Rourke has written, “In 2003 I discovered a box of tapes I had thought I had erased, and had long forgot about. The tapes were all from between 1986–1991... The box also contained what would become... the music for the films Door and Not Yet.”
  • reportedly the film is based on feedback and and images of an opening door
  • screened at the No Fun festival in New York in May 2005 (but not included on the DVD later released from the festival)
  • included on Noise DVD (MK2 Music) 2006, documenting the Carte Blanche Au Festival Art Rock; see http://rock.discogs.com/release/770570 for details on the DVD; I’m guessing the film is included as a bonus track but is not actually considered part of the festival documentary directed by Olivier Assayas
 
  • Not Yet
  • film 2003
  • running time: 18 minutes
  • from the Rotterdam Film Festival program: “Not Yet, by Jim O’Rourke, is the only finished and screened film by this musician so far. He uses a scene from [Brian DePalma’s Blow Out]. The camera revolves around a sound technician who enters his studio and discovers that all his magnetic tapes have been erased. The physical effect of this disorienting scene is enhanced by double printing and an eerie, floating soundtrack.” (The sound technician is played by John Travolta.)
  • from Sonic Youth’s spring 2004 newsletter: “On April 23rd the Whitney will show Jim’s film Not Yet with live music” (at the Whitney Biennial)
  • O’Rourke has written, “In 2003 I discovered a box of tapes I had thought I had erased, and had long forgot about. The tapes were all from between 1986–1991... The box also contained what would become... the music for the films Door and Not Yet.”



 
  • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • DVD 2006
  • O’Rourke supplied an essay for the booklet of the DVD reissue of this 1969 film
this last one i would fucking recommend it

here's the essay he wrote for the DVD edition

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/cat...rade-of-roses/
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Old 03.01.2007, 08:14 PM   #17
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Blow Out is a good film. I want to see what he came up with.
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Old 03.01.2007, 08:27 PM   #18
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There's only about 2 minutes of O'Rourke on that Noise DVD. The Mirror/Dash and Text of Light segments are good though.

I saw Not Yet at the Rotterdam Film Festival a couple of years ago. It's a continous scene from Blow Out, cut and edited together, with altered colours and a soundtrack full of high pitch tones. It's a bit of a physical (dizzy making) experience. It was showing as a pre-film for Christian Marclay's "Up and Out", which had the images of Antonioni’s Blow Up mixed with the soundtrack of De Palma's Blow Out.
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Old 03.01.2007, 08:48 PM   #19
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damn!, that sounds real good, the christian maclay up and out film!
anyways i'm eager to see jim's incursions on film, as far as what he's been into seems really interesting
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I was actually at that Art Rock Festival too, but I managed to miss Jim O'Rourke's performance!


Anyway, he also picked a few films there that were shown in between performances. In case you're interested, they were:

Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassy)
Invocation of my Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
Antithese (Mauricio Kagel)
Straight and Narrow (Tony Conrad)
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shuji Terayama)
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