Tuesday, June 27

Little makes it Big


Check out this awesome painting Kieth did of Aya and me. I'm guessing some you have seen this before but it was the first time I ever laid eyes on it.
I had heard of its existence, had discussed the possibility of getting something like this done with Kieth before but when we met him in Tokyo this past trip and he didn't mention anything I thought I had perhaps imagined the whole thing. Little did I know!
(Never forget. Always Remember)

Everyone should have a beautiful painting of themselves - especially with a friend or a significant other - and especially one done by a close friend.
Thanks Kieth!

Monday, June 26

BloodNinja

bloodninja: I lick your earlobe, and undo your watch.
Sarah19fca: mmmm, okay.
bloodninja: I take yo pants off, grunting like a troll.
Sarah19fca: Yeah I like it rough.
bloodninja: I smack you thick booty.
Sarah19fca: Oh yeah, that feels good.
bloodninja: Smack, Smack, yeeeaahhh.
bloodninja: I make some toast and eat it off your ass. Land O' Lakes butter all in your crack. Mmmm.
Sarah19fca: you like that?
bloodninja: I peel some bananas.
Sarah19fca: Oh, what are you gonna do with those?
bloodninja: get me peanuts. Peanuts from the ballpark.
Sarah19fca: Peanuts?
bloodninja: Ken Griffey Jr. Yeaaaaahhh.
Sarah19fca: What are you talking about?
bloodninja: I'm spent, I jump down into the alley and smoke a fatty. I throw rocks at the cats.
Sarah19fca: This is stupid.
bloodninja: Stone Cold Steve Austin gives me some beer.
bloodninja: Wanna Wrestle Stone Cold?
bloodninja: Yeeaahhhh.
Sarah19fca: /ignore
bloodninja: Its cool stone cold she was a bitch anyway.
bloodninja: We get on harleys and ride into the sunset.

Friday, June 23


Vinyl
Decent documentary about record collectors.

Wednesday, June 21

let me just do some math...


ok, my denali get's about 30mpg when I never have to stop or change speeds....these guys just made a car that gets 3,145 miles per gallon....about the same I guess...carry the zero- OH SNAP! That about 10 times more per gallon...just check the calculator-JESUS' BALLS i guess it's 100 times more?! can I put 27's on that fucker?!
and the engineer's prize? being slowly hunted and killed by oil execs. And dying virgins; I think that's apparent from the photo.



Monday, June 19

Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators

Seeing as there's enough great soul tunes released back in the day to keep a man busy his entire life, the whole neo-soul scene hadn't much appealed to me. Like Ren-Fests or Civil War reenactments, the revelry in anachronistic aesthetics seemed something best participated in that consumed--I wanted to catch the Sugarmen 3 live more so than listen to the record I owned. That said, no one can front on Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings, the El Michels Affair stuff I've heard I really like, Breakestra's last CD of all original material was good and boy-o, I've been really into this Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators record. Dunno about Nicole, but they're all Finnish, although she is married to Jimi Tenor who plays on the record. It's produced by Didier Selin, the guy behind the Didier Sound Spectrum record from 2000 or so that is pretty dang fanky (can upload if need be). Here's my two picks.

My Four Leaf Clover
Feeling Free

Saturday, June 17

Summer Jam


Keni Burke's 1982 Jam



Sampled by Ladies Love Cool James for Around the Way Girl

Sorry, it's just a sample of the song. Jared, can you get this whole track up here?

Wednesday, June 14


Today Gyorgy Ligeti died. He was a composer, composed most of the tracks on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey...although not the theme track.
Pretty experimental, here's a piece called Artikulation

And while I'm using YouSendIt, I also sent our good friend Gucci a bunch of old monster-vision tracks he might not already have had, so anyone interested, knock yourself out:
monsterlode

Monday, June 12

Home.

Sunday, June 11

bu-bu-bu-b-b-bu-bu-Bird Flu!


In case anyone hasn't already seen this on the VICE blog, let me put all the hearsay to rest. It turns out that the Avian Bird Flu is nothing more than a DANCE SENSATION that is sweeping the world's heart's rhythms! Oh, it's contagious alright, and it may liquify your insides with pure viral dance!

"The Bird Flu make ya feel like, do wat ya feel like... Bring it back, bring it back, frogback!"

Kyle, if I may pose a medical question: Will the Bird Flu make me feel like, do what I feel like?

The guys who made this song are geniuses, marketing their music with a deadly virus that could potentially wipe out millions of people. That's like a song called "Move Like You Got AIDS" or "Lemme See You Lhassa Fever"

DI MAN DEM DANCE NICE TEKK OFF DAT BUMBOCLAAT!

KFC

The only thing missing is U

I like the comedy stuff. I have posted, what I think are, funny comedy recordings in the past. Recently I listened to this Harland Williams CD Har-Larious, and it sucks...pretty much right threw.
But...I found 1 1/2 minutes of the whole CD to be funny, so take a listen to the best part of Harland Williams latest achievement.

Restaurants

Everytime I Comb My Hair...

...Thoughts Of You Get In My Eyes

Erotic City - Dance Mix
After a week of chasing a new crush, and feeling unsure about my game through the whole process, this girl finally came over to the house and watched Purple Rain with me. During the film we awkwardly sat apart from each other, and I had no idea what I should do next, which had me felling like I was back in high school.
After the movie was over, I threw on Erotic City, the b-side on the Let's Go Crazy 12-inch, and then all of a sudden, we started making out.
So download this song, and I guarantee you will make out with that girl your chasing.
Undoubtedly one of the best Prince songs ever released.

Friday, June 9

Twang of Salt



I'm trying to readjust to life in America while simultaneously trying to adjust to my life as an unemployed married man living in his parents' basement.
Thought a good way to work at this would be to take advantage of it so I let my father take my wife and I out see a matinee at the local Showcase Cinema yesterday. It was my father's suggestion and my father's money and as I've been out of the loop and have no clue about what's cool stateside I let my father pick the movie.
He chose M:I:3 (Mission Impossible 3).
I try to keep an open mind about anything these days, even when it comes to these monster hollywood movies, but on average I tend to hate action movies or at least feel the same away about them as I do disaster flicks (stuff the story - just hurry up and freak us out with two hours of people dying).
Nevertheless I totally loved M:I:3. Probably for none of the reasons intended and I would certainly never want to see it again, but still, for those few hours I was alone with Tom Cruise and his kingdom I was completely drawn in.
The story is not any good but manages to never let off the action and paranoia buttons so the audience can never take a break but fall endlessly into the loud, frenetic world up on the screen above them.
Tom Cruise, at the top of his game, is totally fucking crazy and drives the movie deeper into his own personal fantasy world complete with obligitory topless scene and motorcycle riding and dropping from high places.
Near the end of the movie Tom actually dies - but after the sad piano music plays through (indicating a thorough and final death)he pops back to life as if to say, "I am Tom Cruise and I can never die!" and truly mean it.
The cast also includes Philip Seymor Hoffman who I respect and Simon Pegg who starred in and co-authored 'Shaun of the Dead' which I liked. So that added to the confusion .
It's the unintentional mindfuck of the summer.
Like liquor in the carved out shell of a watermelon.

[ TRAPDOOR ]

Here is a MIX/COMP. from the guys that ran the Groove Merchant in SF and then did Ubiquity Records, and are now doing Dis-Joint records, or something like that.

I got TRAPDOOR Vol. 2 a while back and its totally nutzoid!
This is Vol. 1 A track listing does exist and I will post it laterzzzzodeo

THIS IS MUSIC YOU CAN SMOKE MARIJUANA TO AND LISTEN TO AND THE SOUNDS WILL SOUND LIKE UNDERWATER RAINBOW BAGPIPES IN YOUR BRAIN WHOAH!

Thursday, June 8

Happy Barfday

to Christopher Wade Nelson.

Tuesday, June 6

I gotta watch out.

Sometimes I see something that is funny...really funny. This is one of those times. This might be the most unintentionally hilarious online photo album I have ever seen.

This kid is from north of the border.

Here are more pictures..

And here is his Bio.

There are so many things that could be said about this guy...
I don't even know where to begin, the wall behind him is a good place to start. Then he gets a tan midway through, and then he takes off his clothes, and then he puts on a skimask....

Monday, June 5

Zang!

Derek gets the Comment of the Month award for this baby:

"You know you've reached enlightenment when the desire to suck another man's dick makes you comfortable with your heterosexuality."

That is all.

Saturday, June 3

Nice Finds During Spring Cleaning

I just stopped by Ikea the other day, and picked up some things to make life easier for me. I bought some a CD shelf to help me organize all the CD's that are in piles around my bedroom. Last night I began to organize stuff, and came across a bunch of CD's I forgot I had.
One is this reissue for *Delta 5* that Kill Rockstars put out in January of 2006.

*Delta 5 - Singles & Sessions 1979 -81*
Ever since I heard the Brooklyn band *ESG*, I have been on the look out for similar sounding dance punk, with female vocals. I would say this stuff comes pretty close to that.
Here are some samples from the *Delta 5* CD:
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
(someone please tell me who did the more popular cover of the above song)
Delta 5 - Colour

The other is this Swedish psych-rock group named *Dungen*.

*Dungen* is a current band. They sound like they could be from the 70's, but no, they're just from Sweden.
They kick-ass, hard. They kicked my ass hard enough for me to special order the Import vinyl before the album was released domestically. I payed close to $30 for it, then ended up getting a free promotional CD when it was released domestically.
Here as some samples from thier album *ta det lugnt*.
Dungen - Panda
Dungen - Lipsill