The Audiozine

Two posts, one night, right before bedtime! I am all kinds of fascinated with this description of Jim O'Rourke's recent living habits, listening habits, recording habits, etc. Bad Timing and Eureka were really important touchstones for me in the late 90's when the internet/mp3 thing was still coexisting politely with the compact disc/physical medium culture. i.e. I purchased Eureka on CD based on cool sounding reviews and neat sound clips I found online, then eventually snagged mp3s of Bad Timing, then pretty much endorsed whatever Jim O'Rourke did afterwards. One of my only "real" memories of him: seeing Murray Street era Sonic Youth playing live at 930 club (the day after redBus played a packed show at the Jewish Mother in VB) and when they played "Karen Revisited" watching O'Rourke double over during the feedback/drone outro section and make singing, rippling sounds with some kind of contact mic type object. Hey Jim, what was that? The next day it was back to redBus and back to the drawing board.