Things to share ...

Ok, well, it looks less and less likely I will actually chronicle my journed to Alabama a few weeks ago. This has been compounded by my more recent trip to New Mexico to play drums for JT & The Clouds. We did 4 dates opening for Canadian folksters Po' Girl ... like my Alabama trip, I got the call about 18 hours before I was to be on a plane without hearing or rehearsing with the band once! Huzah! Anyway, it went good ... good times. Got to hang out in some natural hot springs about 2 hours away from anything and see the Milky Way like I never saw it before, play to many people who were amped about chill music, lost my hoodie, and ran my entire lower leg against some cactus while running through the desert brush (it's still bright red and bumpy)!

So, in lieu of actually writing anything out, I put my best photos up ...

Phenix City Sound

New Mexican Clouds

And I also uploaded a new Drastics mix-tape ... this month profiling Chris, Drastics bassman ... get that here

bam!

NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

CNN Headlines, unedited:

Yanks to hide Wang on disabled list?

Bag of poo sent home in kid's backpack (This is seriously the only time I was thinking of buying a t-shirt with a cnn headline on it)

Ha, the url says "poop". CNN called the shit poop! CNN, you are the cause of the decline in journalism. Stay classy Atlanta.

blago clones

I know this story dropped yesterday, but just heard the NPR article interviewing her on "All Things Considered". She comes across just slightly less of a megalomaniac and crazy than our own disgraced politician. You can find the audio online, here's a transcript. My favorite parts are her being confronted with straight-away questions and not just ignoring them, but feigning complete ignorance.

MR. SIEGEL: Yes, but the reports – I don’t know how partial they are, but they are based on people who have seen transcripts of wiretaps. And they’re very detailed. One, The New York Times reports today that in a call, the caller offered to get Haim Saban, a big political donor and a supporter of Israel, to tell Nancy Pelosi that he wouldn’t donate money if you didn’t get the chairmanship of the intelligence committee.

REP. HARMAN: (Chuckles.)

MR. SIEGEL: Any conversation like that, ever?

REP. HARMAN: Well, how do we know?

it's a yes or no question Jane. christ.

BAN IT!!!!!

Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

yeah. that font has got to go.

Makes me want to connect to the Skokie Public Library Database through the Apple IIE in Ms. Nimz's room

Sure, it's not perfect.....but it's pretty damn cool.

Television Geniuses

So I was sitting at the hookah lounge with a couple of my television executive buddy.

Me: "So what's new in television?"
Exec: "Not a lot. You know what? Smallville's a pretty good show."
Me: "Yeah, you should do another one of those."
Exec: "Sure, but what? I mean it's mammy-rammin' Superman. You can't top that. We kind of blew it by starting off at the top."
Me: "Yeah, but you know what was a good show, too? Baywatch."
Exec: "Yeah, there was some wet titties on that show. Sweet."
Me: "Dood! You should totally do Aquaman!"
Exec: "You think? But really, it's Aquaman. No one likes Aquaman."
Me: "Yeah, you're right. But do you know what makes any movie or tv show kick serious ass? Lou Diamond Phillips."
Exec: "Holy Crap! You're right! Consider it done!

(Yeah, try to find a decent video of that clip. I'm lucky I found one at all. Now quit being a dick about everything.)

time travel

Sadly, I have thought of this more times than I should admit....
Click To Grow!


also, this guy has already been on the Colbert Report so this might be old news but it still looks cool.
Music That Makes You Dumb

FCK RSH

yeah, seriously. rush sucks.

again with the non-content post. here's a DRTHVDR WTF PIC!

From the Front Page of the Trib

After 35 years as one of rock music's most persistent punch lines—the singer sounds like a girl, the songs are long and pedantic, some fans are obsessive, the band is indulgent and Canadian—Rush is suddenly cool. Though in the article they follow this line up with a quote from Chip Caray, so I think it's a little self-defeating.

Now time for some pictures that are absolutely not related to the article:


And don't forget to pay your taxes or teabags and what not:

TRTL GIF WTF!?

and Italian Spiderman

Driving Me to Drink

Personality traits such as perfectionism, overachiever tendencies and a workaholic nature may help high-functioning alcoholics succeed professionally despite their disease

Yeah, I got a rash

(Props to Baron von D for the link)

Burger King

Some people are throwing a shit fit over some Burger King commercials:

I like square butts

and

Really, what's the matter with a midget in a luchador mask?

train chronic

A friend of mine started her own lil blog with observations from the CTA. It is quite hilarious. Choo-Choo Chronicles.



And here's some cool photos of old China.

imagery, strange strange

So while the rest of these slobs have no excuse for not posting, I do. Been in Alabama recording an album with Ralph "Soul" Jackson and it was completely insane. I'll be posting pictures and a chronicle of the experience soon ... right now I am still catching up with work ...

in the meantime ...

Cool pictures of skyscrapers under construction.

this one's for The Pimpernel ... Catholic Girls performing their song "Young Boys", 1980


Dee D. Jackson, "Automatic Lover", 1978


Bank tellers of the 80s perform interpretive dance! oh no wait, its Lipps Inc performing their hit "Funkytown" live ... crap this is a weird one


Who knew institutional genocide could be so sexy!? Orlando Riva Sound, "Indian Reservation", 1979 ... from the same show as above. Think it's a German Disco program.


Whoa! This is cool ... The Spotnicks, "Rocket Man", 1962

I've used footage from this documentary for my own A/V projects as it's killer stuff!


most of these clips via 60s-man. a weird Russian Livejournal blog I stumbled upon. NSFW!

Murder, Porno, and Politics

Phil Spector killed a broad and someone found a dead porn star. Coincidence?

All Hail Senator Franken!

Time for your pictures of Hollywood Office Holders (all Republican, by the way)

Pez

Custom made Pez dispensers of yourself for $300

Graduation present idea, yo

8bit

More free music!
MADHATTER: "8BIT BULLSHIT" ...

this is about 2 years old now, but I stumbled across it last night while searching for 8bit graphics and other old-timey pixelated junk for a project .... Nerdcore at it's finest ... I'm actually impressed with the vocal delivery and most of the beats ... their tribute to Exitebike, "Overheat" is probably my favorite (of the 3 I listened to) .....



these are cool too