THE HIGH-KNEE ONE-HUNDRED
a/k/a "The Office Ambience"



--Ashtray Navigations-Four Raga Moods (fave chill-out record of '99)
--Aphex Twin-"Window Licker" (lovely song and the BEST MTV video made EVER)
--Loren MazzaCane Connors-The Bridge (second fave chill-outer)
--Bob Dylan and the Band-The Basement Tapes (Dylan at his goofiest)
--Yermo-S/T (my favorite heavy record)
--Julien Donkey-Boy (a film by Harmony Korine)
--Bob Thompson and Doug Snyder-Daily Dance (second-fave heavy record)
--Toho Sara-Eastern Most 1-7 (sounds like No-Neck)
--Robert Ashley-Automatic Writing (freaky yet mellow shit from that crucial year, 1979)
--Cock E.S.P.-Cockworld (like Neil Hamburger, only funnier . . . and noisier!!!)
--Tower Recordings-Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles (extremely smoked folk)
--Donna Summer-"I Feel Love" (my favorite disco record of '99)
--Sonny Sharrock-Black Woman (Go Linda! Is anyone gonna reissue this? Can I??)
--Gummo (a film by Harmony Korine)
--Bethlehem (the band, not the little town)
--Babe: Pig in the City (We like cityscapes, especially from a director that can 'keep it surreal')
--Invocation of My Demon Brother (satanic Hollwyood-underground terrorism--it's only ten minutes, and it's funny too)
--Fat City (A "boxing movie" that presents a stunning Stockton CA vision of a lifestyle that we here in Lincoln NE call "drunken slacking." Besides, at High-Knee HQ we'll check out anything with Stacy Keach in it.)
--The Thin Red Line (Our Saving Private Ryan of 1998.)
--Contempt (Our The Object of My Affection in any year.)
--Pickpocket (Schrader was right, this one's a dry-ass stunner.)
--Cockfighter by Charles Willeford. (Our vote for the Moby Dick of the second half of the Twentieth Century.)
--The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford (The last of the four novels featuring the hard-boiled cop Hoke Moseley. There'll never be another one.
--Sideswipe by Charles Willeford (Featuring a psychopath named Troy almost as blithe as the Freddy Frenger from Miami Blues)
--Pick-Up by Charles Willeford (Ever had a doomed relationship built on alcoholism? This book has.)
--Ulysses by James Joyce. I only got to page 110, but Ted Stevens finished it (with the help of an annotated guide sold separately) and it blew his mind.
--Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. Speaking of James Joyce, this incredulous book of laconic and spooky short stories will always be our choice for the Dubliners of the Midwestern post-drugs division.
--Rollerderby magazine (like slowing down to look at a train-wreck)
--Opprobrium magazine
--Muckraker magazine
--Love-Forever Changes
--Nick Drake-Pink Moon
--Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
--Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine
--Juxtapoz magazine
--Beck-Mellow Gold
--Beck-Stereopathic Soulmanure
--Beck-"Nobody's Fault But My Own"
--Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti
--Notes and Tones by Arthur Taylor. Interviews of jazz musicians by a jazz musician.
--Borbetomagus-Buncha Hair That Long
--Borbetomagus-Sauter, Dietrich, Miller
--American History X (Ed Norton's performance more than makes up for the occasional hokiness of the screenplay.)
--Thurston Moore and Tom Surgal-Klangfarbenmelodie
--Squarepusher-two tracks on CD sampler from Trent Reznor's Nothing label
--Cock E.S.P.-Making It Our Business video. Perhaps the best introduction to this ridiculous band.
--Squarepusher-Budakhan Mindphone
--Miles Davis-Get Up With It
--Dewey Redman-The Ear of the Behearer
--Roscoe Mitchell-Sound
--The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. More than a whodunit and gumshoe story, this is a deeply melancholy meditation on certain sad undersides of upper middle class Americana. Rather painful.
--The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan
--Lo Sole Mio Italian Restaurant, Omaha NE
--Ya-Ya's Pizza, Lincoln NE
--Popol Vuh-In Der Garten Pharaos
--Richard Youngs-Sapphie
--Royal Trux-1st LP
--Dead C.-Eusa Kills. If the C. recorded themselves farting, I would put it on the list--oh wait, maybe that was The White House.
--Dead C.-The White House --The Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
--Prince and the Revolution-Parade
--The Black Dahlias live at Duffy's, Lincoln NE
--TV City live at Club 1427, Lincoln NE
--www.inebraska.com/regula1
--El Mercadito, Lincoln NE
--Leonard Cohen-Songs of Leonard Cohen. It just keeps getting better and better.
--McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Featuring songs from the above LP to appropriately gauzy effect.
--Bob Dylan-Another Side of Bob Dylan
--Sonic Youth-A Thousand Leaves
--Sonic Youth-SYR1
--Popwatch magazine
--Popsmear magazine
--Cheyntara-Live in Lincoln. Sure our own releases are legit, if we listen to 'em enough.
--The Spin Alternative Record Guide
--The Flaming Lips
--Proteus Films-September Song
--www.littlebrotherrecords.com
--Id Battery-Unique Ancient Tavern
--Country by Nick Tosches. Fuck yes.
--The Valentino's Salad Bar, Lincoln NE
--Election (though it's creepy as hell)
--Azusa Plane-"Implications of Holomovement". Making New Age possible again?
--Various Artists-The 26th Commandment - Thou Shalt Expand Thy Mind (free CD sold with the 26th issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope)
--Cheyntara-live on the city campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1AM-2AM, September 1st, 1999, under the Love Library Link and inside that one sculpture. Coming soon from White Tapes.
--Jerusalem Cuisine (restaurant), Lincoln NE
--Arturo's Mexican Food, Lincoln NE
--The screwdriver, an alcoholic drink that is also really healthy! Right?
--Butthole Surfers-Hairway to Steven
--Deranged. Several films have been based on or inspired by the Ed Gein story, mostly in a very loose fashion (Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). This extremely low-budget film recreates the story as faithfully as possible, to (perhaps too) stunning effect.
--Angus MacLise-The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
--Various Artists-EFCSSCDR
--Various Artists-Color in Absence Sound
--The insane segues between songs on the Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage album
--Henry Fool
--Being John Malkovich
--photographs from the To Live And Shave In L.A. free glam tour.
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This list was published sometime in...1999?

There was only one attempted 2nd edition, unfinished, viewable here.




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