Gutbrain Records
c/o Rob Price
[No P.O. Box at the moment]
rob@gutbrain.com

CDs available:


I Really Do Not See The Signal
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Jim Black

Get Lost
Rob Price & David Grollman

At Sunset
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Joey Baron

Providence
Mr. Dorgon & Laura Cromwell

Blue Punctilios
Combination No. 10
(Rob Price, Victor Rice
& Ara Babajian)

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Chris Cawthray, Rob Price, Ed Zankowski

Alice Bierhorst
Joey Baron
Sandy Bell
Martin Bisi
Jim Black
Shelley Burgon
Chris Cawthray
Jason Crigler
Laura Cromwell
Andrew D'Angelo
Mr. Dorgon
Trevor Dunn
Ellery Eskelin
Lee Feldman
Scott Friedlander
Pete Galub
Greta Gertler
Jen Gilleran
Michael Gomez
Curtis Hasselbring
Head vs. Wall
Dan Hewins
Chesley Hicks
Kayt Hoch
Wayne Kral
Briggan Krauss
Rebecca Martin
Lucio Menegon
John Mettam
Matt Moran
Now's the Time
Reuben Radding
Ted Reichman
Elliott Sharp
Ches Smith

Ada Online
Ark Square
The Astronomy Picture of the Day
Barnacle Press
Bear Family
Boing Boing
CD Japan
Cinebeats
Cinematic Titanic
Daily Howler
Downtown Music Gallery
DramaWiki
Dusty Groove America
The Fate of the Artist
Film Music Society
Film Score Monthly
Get Your War On (blog)
Get Your War On (comic strip)
Godzilla Monster Music
Hang Fire Books
The Bernard Herrmann Society
Japan Society
jwz
Marlys
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Midnight Eye
Motif Backgammon
Nabokov Online Journal
NYCnosh
Pathologically Polymathic
Pulp of the Day
Rigorous Intuition
Bruce Schneier
Sakaya
Screen Archives Entertainment
Soundtrack Collector
Sunday Press
Super Happy Fun
The Times Literary Supplement
Toho Kingdom
Tokyo Food Page
xkcd
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Curtis Hasselbring, Rob Price, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn & Shelley Burgon
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)

Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by by Seven Stock)

Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price is on other CDs:

Jubilee
Alice Bierhorst

Smell the Glove
Mr. Dorgon

Dim Sum Clip Job
Harmolodic Jeopardy

Game of Death
Reprisal

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Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)
Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by Seven Stock)	Rob Price & David Grollman (photo by Alice Bierhorst)

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Saturday, 16 June 2007

The other day I watched this movie called The World, The Flesh and The Devil. Harry Belafonte plays a coal miner who returns to the surface to find that he's the only survivor of World War 3. Except that, of course, he isn't. I was interested in seeing it because the Internet Movie Database claimed that it's based on M. P. Shiel's novel The Purple Cloud. Except that, of course, it isn't.

The movie is pretty awful. Lousy script, terrible acting. Belafonte sings some tunes, as you might expect. It doesn't have anything to do with The Purple Cloud other than having a similar, "last man on Earth" premise. I think The Purple Cloud was inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in that both novels use an expedition to the North Pole as a metaphor for an attempt to gain forbidden knowledge.

Shiel's novel has a wonderfully delirious plot. The only human being on the planet spends his time traveling around to the great cities of the world, setting them on fire and watching them burn from a safe distance while getting drunk and smoking hash.

In The World, The Flesh and The Devil, Belafonte goes to New York City and moves into a luxury penthouse apartment. It's interesting to note that even after the end of the world, real estate in New York City retains its value.

Both The Purple Cloud and Frankenstein are in the public domain. The classic Frankenstein movie, wonderful as it is, has almost nothing in common with Shelley's novel, which is fantastic and well worth reading. You can download Frankenstein here and The Purple Cloud here.

For a good movie about coal miners, I recommend Hula Girls, which will be playing in New York City as part of Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival. It's really great, though it could have used a better score.

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

The new CD, Rob Price Quartet with Ellery Eskelin, Trevor Dunn & Jim Black: I Really Do Not See The Signal, is here!

You will soon be able to buy it from Cadence, CD Baby and the Downtown Music Gallery. You can buy it from me right now, though, for $18 dollars. That includes shipping, no matter where you live. Click the button at the top left of this page (or send me a check or money order, payable to "Rob Price") if that sounds good to you.

Here is an mp3 of one of the tunes, "Girasol". That's right, I'm giving away this extraordinary piece of music, a 99¢ value on some download sites. We've lost our minds here at Gutbrain Records. Call it a Father's Day sale.

This piece is named after the girasol ring that Lamont Cranston/The Shadow always wore. You can see it on his left hand. I had no idea "girasol" meant "sunflower" in some language until Jim told me so at the recording session.

Friday, 08 June 2007

I just bought this book. It is insane.

Check out these people that I added to the column on the left: Jen Gilleran, Greta Gertler and Michael Gomez.