mer ferndins fer yer fundlin bergs

hey, this is pretty cool ...
graffiti archaeology from otherthings.com ... sgonna take a minute to load, but you can watch a wall being tagged on for a couple years straight ...

hey, this is pretty creepy ...
museum of the dead
from cabinet magazine online ... by now we've all seen those chapels built of skeletons and human bones, but in Palermo, they like to play dress up with the corpses and mount em on walls!

In Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play. Perhaps Walt Disney and Madame Tussaud were inspired by places like this, but the Capuchin crypt will not remind you of their worlds, for in spite of all the talk about the great lengths the monks have gone to in order to create lifelike effects, it feels like somewhere that fell into disuse long ago.

... those lazy italians, put the wine and your beautiful women down for a minute and go tend to yer fuckin' corpses!

so that article makes mention of "The Sedlec Ossuary" located in a secluded little mountain area of the Czech Republic ... i had never heard of this one ...

The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.

... yeah, fuck making the chapel out of skeletons, lets just make home furnishings out of em ... here's some great pictures ... here's a sweet 360 of the joint ...

important graphs

but as everyone in the internetdom knows ...



chuck norris still PWNZ jon rambo (red:chuck/blue:jon)

shameless

NEW TRACK!
THE DRASTICS + FADA DOUGOU + ZULU
live in st. louis
PROPHET SONG
... if you ever diss BARACK OBAMA ... YOU DEAD!

special thanks to ron shoemaker of GREEN ROOM ROCKERS for getting this recording to us

in case you forgot (this time ... )

EUROPE ROCKS!

(can't embed otherwise i would)

according to one poignant youtube commentator ...

Many people want to know what this song is about. I'll tell you. This song is about white people getting kicked off the planet. These men are prophets. Goodbye and good riddance you war monger, slave owning, colonial oil thieving, baby killing white bastards.

dang ... that's gonna make the rock out THAT MUCH BETTER! i mean, we all knew EUROPE ROCKS! but prophets ? dagggggggggg .....

**UPDATE

and im purty sure bogardus posted this a lonnnnnnnng time ago ... but here 'tis again.
the BEST cover of europe's "final countdown".

yes. i really dont know whats worse, the music or their fashionably trendy "hot topic"-bought matching emo-gear.

Bluntestburgh Update

Yeah, remember Bluntestburgh? We got transportation now!

Summer Camp 2008

I missed you guys, too. For the past week and a half, I've been taking it easy. Exams ended, and spent Memorial day weekend in Chillicothe, IL for a music festival known as Summer Camp. Good times. The New England Aristocrat from M*A*S*H* was from Chillicothe.

Apparently NBC has to get burnt out hippies still tweaking from the Flaming Lips concert to write their articles on Summer Camp. Seriously, worst written article ever. Except the first paragraph, which was so good they included it twice in the article.


I'm from Chillicothe and I banged Hot Lips

my fellow bluntesters

are weak sauce.

hey! here's a guy (Scott McClellan) that used to be a spokesman for bush and now (!) he wrote a whole book detailing how the administration is/was "mired in propaganda and political spin and at times playing loose with the truth."

... shocking, truly shocking.

Fox News contributor and former White House adviser Karl Rove said on that network Tuesday that the excerpts from the book he's read sound more like they were written by a "left-wing blogger" than his former colleague.

i think i just like the idea of karl rove reading Daily KoS and MoveOn ...

whatever.

spacesuits r us

Orbital Outfitters

for all your space finery needs.
something about that logo makes me kinda uneasy though.
link courtesy the illustrious surjeet



neil armstrong is not amused.

on a (kaiser) roll ...

i don't think vogue is being racist, but if you wanna read a bunch of dumb comments from oversensitive white folks, click that image!

i read 90% of the comments and what no one even MENTIONS or CONTEMPLATES is; maybe the original photoshopper of those 2 images just thought they looked similar and that it was a funny coincidence ...

i mean ...
really ...
vogue's photographers did not spend the day pouring over WWI propoganda to figure out how they could drop a subliminaly racist image onto the cover ... plus that original image is a representation of GERMANY not BLACK FOLK ... also gonna go out on a limb here and guess that WWI propaganda posters aren't as ingrained in the american collective consciousness like they were, say, in 1918 ...

seriously people, take the tinfoil helmet off now.

ok, what gives !?

so i keep tabs on our fair lil' bluntest via the google analytics web service ...

our readership waxes and wanes along with our post consistency but every once in a while something like this happens ...



seriously! what is that!?

the thing is, all that traffic is going to our archived July 2006 page

is someone linking an image from there!? please! if you stumbled on our site from that page, let me know what is going on ... if you are the one linking from our page, i'd just like to know what it is!

maybe i should get a tv

speakin of mccain ... so as previously noted in yesterday's post i had opportunity to watch some tv this past early part of the week ... being in madison at my gal's place and sick i didn't have a whole lot of options or energy so the ol' picture-radio was the way to go ... in addition to the daily show, i watched an episode of the x-files on the sci-fi network, which included a run of ads for the new "battlestar galactica" series currently airing on that network ... it took a few plays of the same ad until i finally realized ... hey! that guy looks like john mccain! not being a fan i had to look him up ... colonel saul tigh ... YOUR gop candidate for 2008 ...





all the fun i miss by not owning an idiot box ...

Election talk

Clinton and Obama are always fighting.

John McCain is old.

Fuck those three, I'm voting for this guy. Kneel before your new President.

This video made me crap my pants with happiness

just as bad as the rest of these slobs

but check this out ... happened to be in a position to watch the daily show the other day and caught this ... jon stewart really tears a new one into former undersecretary of defense douglas feith ... he just wrote a book and insists that there was no intentional misleading of the american public in the months before the invasion of the war ... his tenacity is impressive, but he talks like he has been brainwashed by fox news ... jon stewart doesn't shy away from asking him some real questions and not taking his bullshit answers seriously ...



here's part 2

Kennedy's Got a Brain Tumor

Not that Kennedy, the other Kennedy.


Chris Matthews on MSNBC said on Kennedy having to endure radiation and chemotherapy treatment: "It'll be hard for him because he . . . loves life so much . . . he's . . . not a monk." Replied Brian Williams: "What are you trying to say?"

Sorry Actor . . . .

No more pandering kiddie porn for you, Scalia says so.

Happy American Craft Beer Week!!!

Drink a pint and celebrate all that there is to being an American! And in case you're wondering, no, this is not a hallmark holiday. It's a Federal Holiday as proclaimed by House Resolution 753(which originated in the Committee on Government Reform for some reason). Here's my favorite part of HR 753:

"Whereas American crafter brewers promote the Nation's spirit of independence through a renaissance in hand-crafted beers like those first brought to colonial shores by European settlers and produced here by the Nation's founding fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for the enjoyment of the citizenry;"

That's right! Up your butt Independence Day! I got a new favorite holiday for celebrating being an American. And this mo-fo is a week long!

(On a personal note, this holiday could not have come at a better time. I lost a take-home exam that was due on Monday, had to rewrite 30+ pages of it on Sunday, had an in-class exam on Monday and then another on Tuesday.)

Sweet Jesus Thank You

OK - I suck, God and Driz please forgive me. Running a business and freelancing and being lazy takes a lot of time; I promise to return soon.

BUT

MEANWHILE

SWEET JESUS THANK YOU!!!

hey, we got a blog!

but we sure suck at keeping it updated.
apologies, friends ... but im back in action ... i needed a week off after our Looptopia - centered event ... i could easily write a handful of blog posts off my experiences down there, but its probably best not to as it will be mostly bitching about crabass artists and horribly bloated city of chicago departments ... and it's best to not stir the pot, cause knowing my luck this site will start to show up in google searches on the subject ... not to mention how much i could bitch about looptopia itself and how they really kinda did us wrong (listing all music for the night on the web and in print as "ATC Music" as opposed to actually printing the band's names which we supplied them with 2 months ago ... awesome!

oh, but hey, this was cool. so saturday night the drastics was suppose to play at the AV-aerie with excellent experimental rockers maurice and our good electronic friends silences sumire (celebrating their upcoming release on RopeADope). however, friday night the AV-aerie got shut down by some combination of cops and city of chicago buildings and licensing personnel. not wanting to be part of the rumor mill, i'll leave it at that as i don't really remember 100% what happened. most likely it's just a temporary closing, albeit annoying. so we ended up having the show up where i work. and it was real cool. you shouda been there.

anyway, here's some findins fer yer foundlin sack.
god pissed : The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano

i know that people love their bacon, but thats gross.

damn, i need a less busy job.

back!

but not much to contribute as i'm still recouping from the weekend ... i will definitely be sharing some of the stories of cops and drunks and bitchy artist types soon ...

in the meantime ... definitive proof that i AM actually a DJ ...
here's a vinyl mix i put together for "Echo Beach" an excellent (and as far as i know, ONLY) dub-centric radio show in Chicago ... so hit that play button and sit back for an hour or so ... vintage vinyl + exclusive/unreleased drastics and deals gone bad dubs ... mo fiyah!

i shoulda posted this a while back, it aired on april 25 ...




track list here

Because Driznastic is Busy This Weekend

I'll take over his role as provider of pretty pictures:
(There's a whole lot of old handbills and the like on that website)

Urban Exploration

Urban exploration

(Courtesy of Baron von D)

Vinyl of the East!

By researching that fantastic cover art below, I discovered a 60's and 70's Asian Pop Vinyl Gallery!

Here are some of my favorites:

Lookin' REAL good!

When I get a record deal, I'm going to put my high school picture on the cover!



Smokey Robinson of the Far East

How long is your ding dong?
My ding dong is SOOOO long!

(Stealing your schtick, Driznastic!)

Lost in Translation

Placards with the Cubs' slogan IT'S GONNA HAPPEN in Japanese have been read by Fukudome to say IT'S AN ACCIDENT. And one well-meaning bleacher bum keeps yelling a phrase that translates as, "It tastes good!"



(I couldn't find a good enough picture to post Fukudome related, so you got that instead)

Bluntestburgh Update

We've cracked the top 1000 cities in Iceland! We're coming to get you . . . Helsinki?

And go Cubbies. Scored 19 runs last night. This might be the year.

It Burns!!!!

*** UPDATE: I'm going to keep my mouth shut from now on

CNN News Nuggets

Jungle Fever

Dead hookers

Dead ducks

Hawaii for Hawaiians

'Very excitable virgins' dominate town (That's the real headline, for realsy)

Cafferty: How can the GOP attract young voters? (Ask Congressman Foley, though what do you expect from the party who had Jack A. Boehner as their House Majority Leader)

Not even LSD can make this pig fly

And speaking of LSD

I am the Walrus (who wants to dose Nixon)