Sleeping with the Earth

@swte

Noise, cats, naps. Portland community radio DJ, noisemaker maker, and man lurking about town. katheudo elsewhere

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Sleeping with the Earth@swte· 19d

Here is a photo of me in my early 20s, smug as hell with the mistaken belief that my music taste was better than everyone else’s

Double exposed photo of me in me early 20s, probably late 90s. Photo is from mid-torso up, and while my body is facing the camera, my eyes are looking at something out of frame to the left. I am wearing a white T shirt, have shoulder length hair, and a ridiculous smirk on my face. There is a massive zit in the middle of my forehead. I am holding a beverage can of unknown provenance. Double exposed over the photo is another ghostly photo of what appear to be wires and cables or possibly tree branches.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· 20d

A five panel comic that has been clearly altered to be about harsh noise wall
Panel 1: our hero says “I wanna make HNW but I don’t know how to get started!”
Panel 2-4: a hand appears from out of frame and hands our hero a DOD death metal pedal and a tiny Behringer mixer.
Panel 5: The disembodied hand gives the thumbs up as our now sweaty and nervous hero sits a table with two DOD death metal pedals and the mixer. A patch cable extends out of frame, probably to an altoids tin full of ball bearings or some shit.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· 21d

The Tiger
By Nael, age 6

The Tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Jun 18

Recommended viewing to break this curse

Movie post for Wild At Heart, wherein Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are mega horny for each other

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Jun 13

TV screen capture of a preacher with his head down in prayer and eyes closed. The caption reads “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.”

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Jun 10

The Ivanpah solar facility, where a massive array of mirrors reflect sunlight to the top of a tower, generating huge amounts of heat used for power production.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Jun 6

ADVENTURE

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· May 4

ANYWAY if you’ve seen it I want to hear your take on it, I gotta know if I’ve gone insane. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Then come find me. 8/fin

A man wearing a tall black hat, a fur scarf, and a ragged shirt stands in a stone room, his arms outstretched over what appears to be a body wrapped in colorful cloth. A piece of fabric covered in Arabic writing is draped over the body .

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· May 4

I finally watched The Color of Pomegranates (1969) the other night. Never in my entire life has a film affected me the way this one has. It is the most fascinating, beautiful piece of art I have ever encountered and I am still trying to process how it managed to make me feel the way it did. 1/

A still from “The Color of Pomegranates”. The room is plain, with worn plaster walls and a dirt floor. in the foreground, a very pale woman in an ornate embroidered green and silver robe and elaborate headdress stands with arms outstretched, a sword in one hand and a chicken perched on the opposite shoulder. In the background two men kneel, one in a white robe and the other in a tasseled red shirt and black pants, a gold sash around his waist, a pair of gold wings on his back, and a mask on his face. Surrounding them are a pile of black fabric and an overturned blue vase.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 30

Here’s the (blocked) quoted post for anyone that missed it

Peter Sagal • @petersa...
• 1h
FWIW: While on here he is History's Greatest Monster (Senate primary subdivision) | was in Maine recently and talked to some Dem-leaning voters and they were very positive about Graham Platner while well aware of his flaws etc.
There may be no better current example of the Bluesky Bubble.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 29

Continuing today’s “trip down memory lane” theme, I recently logged into my old livejournal to try and find some Very Important Information and instead found this insane list of my favorite live shows of 2005. What a year!

Top 10 attended live shows of 2005:
1. Caroliner, Sixes @ Disjecta (Portland)
2. Cerberus Shoal/Micah Blue Smalldone @
Berbati's Pan (Portland)
3. Redrot, Hive Mind, Bloodyminded, Sleeping with the Earth @ Behind the Green Door (Detroit)
4. Dead Can Dance @ Paramount (Seattle)
5. Cocotona (Soriah/Power Circus) in the Shanghai Tunnels (beneath Portland)
6. Iron & Wine, Calexico @ Roseland (Portland)
7. Decemberists @ Roseland (Portland)
8. Wolf Eyes (Spring Show) @ Berbatis (Portland)
9. Bob Log III, Hillstomp, The Spits @ Sabala's (Portland)
10. John Renbourne & Jaqui McShee @ Aladdin
Theater (Portland)

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 29

I remember this one selling within hours of being listed and my first thought was “oh shit, I clearly should have charged more”. Time shows that my fears were unfounded.

Discogs sales history for an unnamed items. The first sale in 2008 for $45 is circled in red and labeled “me”. subsequent sales drop slowly to $10 from 2010 to 2015, then up to $30 in 2019.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 29

Could I have held into this one and cashed in for unbelievable amounts of noisebuxxx? Probably? But then I would have had this garbage in my collection for another 20 years. I’m glad he’s dead.

Discogs sales history for an unnamed item. There is only one sale listed, in 2008 for $45.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 29

What could I sell it for now? Who cares

Discogs sales history for an unnamed record. There are only here sales ever, the first two for $100 in 2008 and 2010, and a third in 2016 for $350. The first sale is circled in red and labeled “me”.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 29

Recently hit 1000 sales on Discogs and took a little trip down memory lane

Discogs sales history for an unnamed item. Price hovers around $25 from 2008-2018, then suddenly spikes up to $70 and $140 from 2022-2024. A red circle labeled “me” denotes my sale for $20 in 2008, the second ever on Discogs.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 13

The three-horned demon from 1962’s “Jack and the Giant Killer”. He is red, with bulging eyes, wings, and three curly horns on his head, and surrounded by a mysterious blue glow.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 5

Every D senator should have never stopped trying to impeach him from his first day in office, for all the impeachable shit he’s been doing the entire time. I don’t even know what to say to anyone qualifying impeachment with an “if”.

@gregpak.net posts: Every D rep and senator needs to make public statements right now that if Trump nukes Iran, they’ll never stop trying to impeach him.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Apr 1

Proud to be a hater

Screenshot of a Bluesky message from @listifications.app:
Today at 1:23 AM
@antiantiai.bsky.social has added you to the “AI Haters” moderation list

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Mar 6

Reminder that you will never regret collecting your cats’ shed whiskers and keeping them in a little jar or shot glass. This is easily the most magical item in my home.

A tall shot glass containing dozens of cat whiskers

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Feb 13

Post an image you can hear

Still from the film “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”: Nausicaä screams when her foot gets wet as she tries to stop a baby Ohmu from going in the lake of acid.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Feb 10

Ash nazg durbatulûk ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

The Ring Verse as inscribed upon the one ring in Fëanorian characters

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Jan 2

A hand written “yard sale” sign but it says “yard sard”

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 28

Since they deleted it…

(Bluesky screenshot showing the since-deleted quoted post)

Coach Finstock: We’re losing recipes

Quoted post from The concrete R…: She also searched ChatGPT to make an Old Fashioned and then put lemonade in it.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 25

Fluffy cat sitting inside the front of a Sunn Model 12 speaker

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 25

Please

Lake Billy the Kid was named after the legendary American explorer, astronaut and bon-vivant, who had been crucified around the year 2000 because it was discovered that he possessed the hindquarters of a goat. In Billy the Kid's time such permutations were apparently not fashionable.

Lake Billy the Kid was perhaps the most ancient landmark in the world. It had been moved only twice in the past fifty thousand years.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 13

Mocked up this sticker design his morning, born from great conversations with great people at the Freeform Portland fundraiser closing party last night

One of the Galactic Ass Creatures From Uranus cropped from the cover of the Detroit Grand Pubahs album of the same name. Two legs in thigh high boots terminating in a butt, but between the butt cheeks are a big eye and angry mouth with pointy teeth. Text around the image says “KIDS THESE DAYS ARE TOO WOKE FOR DR. BOOTYGRABBER”.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 9

Cover image of “The Frank Book” by Jim Woodring, featuring a surreal drawing of the titular Frank riding a colorful floating cylinder that looks like a slug or a tardigrade or some gig. He is holding two small red flags, new oh a + and one with a -. Pupshaw runs alongside joyously.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 9

I'm on the air in just a few hours @freeformportland.org. I've pulled a grip of old favorites to draw from as the mood moves me, and have some new spooky jams from Cryo Chamber records and the new Steve Roach/Soriah collaboration album on Projekt.

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 7

A group chat heater from the vaults, courtesy of @cathoderituals.bsky.social

Sleeping with the Earth@swte· Dec 6

Yes YES