Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Common, Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, My Morning Jacket, Ladytron , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tosca, Cat Power, Animal Collective, HARD-fi, Derrick Carter, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Audio Bullys, Imogen Heap, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, The Duke Spirit, Editors, stellastarr*, Lyrics Born, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, The Zutons, Platinum Piped Pipers, White Rose Movement, Chris Liberator, Colette, Joey Beltram, Hybrid, Wolfmother, The Like, Living Things, Nine Black Alps, The Section Quartet, Infadels, Youth Group, Shy FX & T Power, Infusion.
Sunday, April 30th
Tool, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Paul Oakenfold, Scissor Sisters, Matisyahu, James Blunt, TV on the Radio, Sleater-Kinney , Mogwai, Coheed and Cambria, Gnarls Barkley, Coldcut, Phoenix, Digable Planets, Amadou & Mariam, Little Louie Vega, Mylo (DJ Set), Seu Jorge, Wolf Parade, The Go! Team, Kaskade, Metric, Art Brut, Dungen, The Dears, Jamie Lidell, The Magic Numbers, Los Amigos Invisibles, Jazzanova, Michael Mayer, Mates of State, Gilles Peterson, Gabriel & Dresden, The Subways, Minus the Bear, Be Your Own Pet, Giant Drag, Kristina Sky, The Octopus Project.
I wake at nine-thirty (am).
My work meeting started at nine (am).
I went to bed at 6 (am).
I drank whiskey and pabst for 7 hours before that (at the Boiler Room and KATESTERS house)
FUKT.
I was obviously still drunk. I call one of my managers on his cell and I tell him Ill be right there. He isnt mad at me because he was out all night drinking with me. I throw on my clothes and bound out of my apartment.
I feel sick and confused. I forgot my glasses.
Now you haven't lived untill you have smoked a cigerette while sprinting across downtown portland. I was amazed with myself the whole time.
I go stumbling into work and have to fill out some employee survey about how much fun it is to work at a movie theatre, etc, etc. I start talking about something in the meeting and Jarvis attacks me right there in front of everybody. But it ends up okay because I told everyone I fell down the stairs. Why he attacked me Ill never know.
After eating breakfast at the CHEERFULL TORTOISE w/ Jarvis, I go home, take a shower, and run to go help another one of my co-workers, SIGGY, on a music video shoot.
I worked on the video for this band.
In case you couldn't get this from their site, they are a GOTHMETAL band. Unsurprisingly, I found out that they are FUCKING HUGE in Germany. Before I found that out, I was thinking that they looked like an Italian GothMetal band. The lead singer is a huge bitch and desperately wants to replicate APC-style Maynard, all the way down to how he sings. He played an 8-string fretless bass also. The other guitarist/screamer looked like reminded me of one of the mupppets and he was the more laid back one of the band. In between takes he would jam out his renditions Mary Had a Little Lamb, Hot Cross Buns, and Enter Sandman. All the other band people would get mad at him and he would laugh. The keyboard guy was playing a guitar in the video, something that us crew guys didn't understand. My favorite was the drummer. This guy looked like he should have been in MANOWAR. Plus his BADASS look he would do while he was playing was the fuckin funnniest thing ever. He would be looking all hardcore and then in between takes he would be giggling, and dropping stuff, and singing silly little songs. Everyone treatewd him like the lttle brother and they were always telling him to do shit. He didn't seem to care like it happens all of the time.
Mixed with the circus that was in front of the camera was the circus within the crew. The Director looked (an awfull lot) like Nick Oliveri, some guy shaped like Mr. Potatohead who was wearing STAR TREK clothes, the other director was a chick and would whine about everything, a lighting guy named after a gay magician who's partner is ROY, and some other guy who SLIPPED ON SOMEONES SANDWICH THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR(!) AND FELL OFF THE STAGE. When the video is done being edited, I'll post it.
On the bands page, the pictures of the band only have two of the people who are still in it, but you should be able to figure out who the singer is (the APC MAYNARD-type) and the drummer is the blond silly one.
If you want to here a sample of the song I had to hear about 100 times its on the audio page, but here it is also.
European Version of Poster:
Proof:
The Girl /\
The Comments \/
"Angel" starts us out with some sweet-talkin' only a man of his demeanor could provide. I'll bet you $3 he's batshit for NASCAR.
"GAYASS JESUS" let's us in on a secret.
You know what, "The WEST is the Best," I've had that *exact* same problem before.
I told "Jerrad" that nice guys finish last, but he wouldn't pay attention -- he kept trying to use the handle of a pool-net as a bo-staff.
For such a professional, "Daddy Doyle" sure has a foul-fuckin' mouth on him.
"Vincent" learned shapes three days ago.
AYE AYE AYE indeed, Mr. "prieto."
In my biology textbook, "Auggie" is classified as a Benandjerryus Zombius
"Rashon" drops poetic science like weight.
"Bad Boy" illustrates that it's not sexual harassment if you end with 'lol.'
I'll bet that "Robert" rent's bicycles for the Spring tourist rush on Lake Michigan. I'll also bet that he sniffs the bike-seats when they get returned.
Damn this internets is a crazy place.
Yeah, that's correct Kyuss and Patton. I had to do a double take whwn I first found this, not that I would doubt these rad ass dudes would associate with eachother - cuz I thought Patton was Lord Bearded(mid-Scholl House Era) for a second.
Anyway, if you have ever wondered what Minus the Bear or Dillinger Escape Plan would sound like in a Nintendo game go here scroll down and click on the photo "Desklazer Covers Oxes Nintendo Style."
When you're finished with that, check out one of the best rock videos I've seen in a while. A contemporary version of "The Wall"?
bye.
Beware
of
Strange
things
on
the
internets
SUCKAZ!
1. E is 4 F (B G)
2. 2 L 2 Q
3. J C is L
4. I S 2 G I G 2 K Y
Highlight below for answer key.
1. Emo is 4 Fags (Big Gay)
2. 2 Legit 2 Quit
3. Johnny Cash is Lord
4. I Swear 2 God I'm Going 2 Kill You
WOW.
according to punkbands.com:
Melvins Have Solid Lineup
Posted on Tue January 17th by Kiran
After numerous changes, Melvins have finally solified a new lineup by enlisting the aid of Hydrahead act, Big Business. That band released Head for the Shallow last year and the addition of the two piece gives the Melvins a new bassist and two drummers.
Current drummer Dale Crover had this to say about the unusual setup to Billboard:
He's left handed, so we want to do this 'mirror image' type of thing. We've kind of fused our two drum sets together, and we're going to try and do some crazy thing with it. We're sharing these big toms in between us
The band hopes to begin working on a new studio full length in the next year, but are planning a live CD which documents a recent performance of the entirety of their 1993 release, Houdini. In addition to the live album, the band will continue performing with Jello Biafra as they continue to support their collaborations with him: Never Breathe What You Can't See and Sieg Howdy!.
Melvins most recently issued Mangled Demos From 1983 which collected some of their earliest material onto a disc.
Here: watch this.
It has started again: lost sleep, homework and general stress. I suppose all good things (ie: Eric's winter break) have to come to an end. Instead of the mundane details of my workweek, I thought I'd just share the things I found this week, incorporated into a review for the movie that I wish I had seen:
Wedding Crashers: Eric's version: (bold where edited)
Two "mediators" anxiously await "The Wedding Season" as the prime women-meeting-opportunity of the year. Upon charming the attendees of said wedding, they seduce married, pregnant women. After sleeping with them, they break it off and tell them they look fat. After like 45 minutes of funny wedding bullshit, they meet some really amazing girls. Girls *so* amazing that these proud, seed-spreading men would give up "the hunt." But then it turns out that the girls are really fourteen. One of the bitches runs her mouth about her "super mature boyfriend" at Catholic School and in turn, the five-oh gets the news. After the police tell their fathers, the two of thempool their resources and have the two men shot, gangland-style, by one of their respective connections (one of which would include Bruce Willis in some awesome way)*.
This link deserves it's own sentence -- "Make it so, Picard."
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anywho... life is crazy right now. my unit is getting ready to deploy in like a month or so, and there is sooo much work to get done, so i've been going in during the mornings to help out. PT every morning is kicking my ass (i haven't done physical activity on a regular basis since i got done with training), but i guess it's nice to be up and going each day.
the schedule is kinda crazy, though. working at the armory from 7am-noon, class from 1pm-4pm, then the gap from 5pm-10pm... sleep a little, perhaps homework, then do it all over again the next day.
but tomorrow... ohh, tomorrow there is NO work. tomorrow i am going to try and at least get a start on my thesis. yes, that is correct, i have yet to even start it. i wonder if i'll actually graduate this year.... we shall see.
for now, gonna go sit on my ass and watch tv. holy shit, when's the last time i got to do that???
hope everyone has a fabulous weekend.
always.....
Rent this now. It may be more appropriate to actually watch it in VHS. My painting instructor managed to find a French copy of the DVD (I don't think you can get it in that format in the states). We got to see it on a theater style screen. Most everyone else in the class was confused and/or disgusted, we'll see when we "share our thoughts" in class on Tuesday. Our assignment is to compare our ideas of the film to a painting by
Francis Bacon, a guy who's paintings are nearly as terrifying as Robert Blake.
2. not have to work until 9 am
3. listen to road trippin and think of awesome posibilities.
4. not get left on the zepplin, meaning i would have went back to the place where i came from. but i didnt and now i am in some oger village on the second contenent. SWeet!
5. just a mirror for the sun
6. ...some really cheep gin and some dank weed.
if anyone can think of a job that would suit me i would love the advice.
he took it all to far, but boy could he play guitar...
i supose this is adios. i have noting more to write, because i my brain is not with me now, it may return.
Nice fucking guitar.
My break was superb. Much time spent relaxing and being a lazy peice of shit. A few days into it, fed up at my own unproductiveness, I started running. The first few days were incredibly painful (physical exersize and the internets don't mix). But, after the initial shock, things got better. I am up to about 3 miles without feeling like my heart is going to explode.
Christmas was wonderful. I love my family.
New Years was wonderful. I love my friends.
I'm back in Corvallis now. It's still quiet in the house as neither of my roommates have returned. I put a bow on some bottles of Rothschild as belated Xmas gifts for them. I hope they like it. I plan to get them drunk and then convince them to kiss and then videotape it. I will market it as "Gaybashers gone wild," and by 'wild,' I mean gay.
School starts tomorrow. 12 credits. I haven't had less than 15 credits EVER. I believe this term might be pretty good. We shall see.
More as it comes. I hope the new year finds you all happy and prosperous.
I am a solitaire god.
My to-date tally:
Score: Time
3721: 229
4484: 182
4641: 176
3873: 216
4352: 190
3477: 240
4075: 203
5045: 159
4464: 183
4529: 181
5185: 154
5328: 151
5120: 158
5684: 139
5003: 162
5847: 135
Score: Time
3721: 229
4484: 182
4641: 176
3873: 216
4352: 190
3477: 240
4075: 203
5045: 159
4464: 183
4529: 181
5185: 154
5328: 151
5120: 158
5684: 139
5003: 162
5847: 135
I have always prided myself on my pattern recognition abilities.
Random Links:
Things you can do with your body. I tried #10 -- it worked.
The original cover of Electric Ladyland. Goddamn I love Jimi.
High-tech shit. Ground control to Major Tom...
Sexy clothes for my nice new 20.1 LCD.
I don't know what the fuck it is, but there are some neato games on the side...
In the words of the wise (and sexy!)Neal: "Compelling."
Sigur Horse. (click them, you asshat).
A kid was at my register who kept asking me questions, I'd answer them, and he didn't seem to get the simple answers. His mind kept wondering and he kept looking around.
Why the fuck are you so retarded? Why haven't I killed myself yet? These questions ran through my mind as I wiped butter flavoring off of my sleeve.
A man steps up to the registewr next to mine that my boss was on.
He was big. He was black. He was famous. I finally realized why the kid at my register was distracted.
Me and the kid stared at him. The big guy asked me: "What's your name?"
"Ian" I said.
"I know that, he said, but whats your whole name?" He touched my nametag.
He did this to the two other people behind the counter as well.
"My name is Shaquille." He said.
He walked into the theatre that was playing HOSTEL, with his arm around some fly chick.
All of us employees of the theatre discuss it for a moment and go about our business. It's not terribly uncommon for famous people to come into our theatre as it is located right in the middle of all the really nice hotels in Portland. Billy Idol has come in. I think Cher came in once. Alice Cooper was the last celebrity to do so.
So I closed down the snack bar and did my usual end-of-the-night stuff. Hostel started to get out and I didn't think anything of it because I figured the big guy would go out the back exit door to avoid people. I prop the door open, and start talking to a guy I knew that had just seen the movie.
All of a sudden, I am purposely bumped by a huge body by an unknown assailant. I whip my head around and there is SHAQ. He wiggles his fingers in my face and makes some noises that are in the same essence as saying "BOO!" and he walks away. What do I say? Well, the best thing I came up with was:
"Oh... hey."
Flickr
You will like this if you have ever poked around on flickr.com.
At least, I think 2005 was the year of the rooster- cock according to the chinese calender,(keep the comments to yourself). And yep, you've guessed it we now enter the era of of the DOG. I don't know what traits our favorite canines hope to reveal to us in these fresh days of rebirth, but the cock served me well for the past 365ish days.
To make myself feel important, and an attempt to make my opinions matter, I have made a list of 13 things that I found to be signifigant during the past segment of my life (take it or leave it):
13. The Portland Art Museum - The North Wing: For Oregon, the galleries in this building have art that needs to be seen by all; containing decent works of 20th century masters as well as great pieces by contemporary artists extending into the 21st - awesome. If you are in the area, set aside an hour or two and dig that shit.
12. Living at EEN and Jeff's house - nuff said.
11. Eggos - recent obbsession, my junk food deprived childhood surfacing.
10. Lightning Bolt - "Hypermagic Mountain", these TWO guys need to be cannonized. Maybe the coolest duo next to Batman and Robin or . . .
9. HELLA- "Chirpin Hard/Church Gone Wild" & "Concentration Face/Homeboy" - HELLA is band that works hard and plays hard and makes me want to hard play. They managed to release a double album, an EP and a movie, in addition to multiple tours all of which I managed to miss.
8. 'Sin City' - For all the obvious reasons, that have been explained by so many others already. I only wish I could find a version that was dubbed in Italian, somehow makes the characters so much cooler.
7. 'Rubber Johnny' by Chris Cunningham - I will never need to suplement an acid trip for smoking crystal meth laced with heroin while high on coke and speed, wearing night-vision goggles and dancing with the elephant man in wheelchairs dancing with a small animal thanks to this film.
6. ISIS/Jesu (live) - Bologna, Italy - Beyond words.
5. Red Sparowes - "at the soundless dawn" amazing album with a live performance to match.
4. The 51st Bienale of Venice - The most massive collection of contemporary art in an event to be witnessed by humans in one of the most bizarre/beautiful/pigeon infested cities in the world.
3. SUNN 0)))- "Black One" - Phenomenal album, concert, work of art. Destroying and reconstucting elements of rock music at its most basic impression.
2. Italy.
1. Medford Airport, June 25 - Coming home and seeing Daria.
Julien Donkey-Boy - Hot damn thats some hot shit!
The Warriors - Makes me want to join a gang.
Brokeback Mountain - Sucks, Jeryl.
King Kong - Better than Mission Impossible 2.
Bloodrayne - Sucks, although I have yet to see this Uwe Boll picture.
Hostel - Saw 3?
Machine Gun Dragon - Best Movie Ever.
today was day one of class for my jan term. i'm taking a peace and conflicts studies class entitled 'the sociology of violence.' looks like it has real potential to be real interesting. unfortunately i have one of those people in my class. you know, the one who always has to ask the unnecessary questions, has to debate with the professor over the most trivial things (and usually ends up being dead wrong), has to ask for the extra clarification of the simplest points, and has to throw out examples or commonalities to things just to seem like they are very experienced and knowledgable.... really, by the time our break rolled around i wanted to put my cigarette out in her eye. maybe she'll get sick and lose her voice. that'd be neat....
work was lame tonight. i got all the crazy customers. seriously, it's like they flock to me. and i had to return a lost child. this kid walks out of the bathroom and i assume his mom is in the store somewhere (he can't be more than three). then when i'm in the front folding down clothes he goes up to the doors, then walks out the doors. so i go out after him and ask where his mom is. he says she's at vitoria's secret. um, ok, that's like a block away from our store (it's an outdoor mall). so i tell him we're gonna go find her and he takes off running. i'm sure i seemed like one of those scary strangers that his mom always taught him to run away from, but i was terrified that this kid was gonna get hit by a car. i catch up to him and we get to VS, just in time to see his mom having a panic attack with all the VS ladies. apparently he had to use the bathroom. and he knew we have one at the gap. so he used it.
i freak out when i lose my purse when we go out to the club (and i lose it quite often). i can only imagine how panicked i would be if i lost a child.
ok, homework and then sleep. bah! i hate school! 21 more credits and a thesis....
always.....
Happy hollidays to you all. i have been away from a computer for some time, time for a recap on wispys past week and a half....Christmas was good. i drove up to my sisters new house in salem with my little sister melody. it was pretty crazy, at times there were like over 20 poeple from both sides of the family, but it was fun. i went out with kelsey and her friend crystel on x-mas eve. i got pretty drunk and sang wanted by bon jovi with crystel. i heard myself in the mike a couple of times, i even crindged. Christmas was pretty mellow, i felt like shit the whole day...but after playing dance dance revolution, that my nephue got, for about 5 hours i felt better. the week in between new years was chill, just workin and hangin out with the dudes.
Aww now new years, here is a night that always turns out to be crazy. i started the night out popping into a couple of friends houses to say hi and happy new year. i started drinking at this girl alex's house. now for the night i bought one of those $6 little bottles of jack that have like 6 shots in them? anyway i drank that in an hour and walked up to the creekside where i met eric and kim at 11. the booze weren't kickin in so i got a tall wiskey coke. drank that down. in the mean time eric tried to get some footy for zacattac.com, i dodged his slap and tried slapping him back and made full contact with his camera which went bouncing on the floor (again im sorry bout that E) luckly it didn't break. i was so releaved i found this a perfect time for shots. so before 12 two rounds of jeager were drank and it was time to go to the plaza. midnight struck, i lit up a cigar, eric got some pics and i don't remember anything past 12:30-1:00. too much way too fast. The last couple of days have been pretty mellow. played ninja turtles (for playstation 2) with eric for about 3 hours on the first and hung out with rabbo last night. now that you all have been caught up, im out.
well i don't really now where i was going with this post. i am a little rusty at this posting stuff. Things have been good though, i have been drinking alot. and i must say i am a pothead again. it seems crazy that i didnt smoke for so long. because it feels so comfortable to me. playing video games and getting high is so sweet, and yet dangerous. because i can almost fade out of existance. i am high and emmersed in WoW (world of warcraft). i dont need to eat or drink, or talk to anyone in person. sometimes i dont even need to smoke weed, but now a days that seems silly. Yes very dangerous.
i think you should all have a good day. right now i think me and my friend gabe and me are going to watch SEVEN SAMURAI. Maybe a beer would be a good idea.
A GUN CALLED TENSION - s/t
Don't even get me started. Anyone who has even a passing interest in rock, hip hop, and electronic music must buy this right now! HURRY! Make sure you can say you were into them before they got "all popular" and shit! Spencer Moody on the track "Treason".
2.
TALKING HEADS - REMAIN IN LIGHT
How the hell did I never hear this album before? I got a turntable for xmas and I put this inherited record on it. I played it and played it and played it again. Then I remembered that records are two sided! Some of the funkiest shit you'll ever hear. I want to fuck this album however it would most like me to.
3.
GORILLAZ - DEMON DAYS
Well, it happened. I tried to not let this one into my personal solar system. I didn't want the guilt. Well it snuck its way in and now I yet again have Gorillaz-on-the-brain. At work. At sleep. At walk. At eat. That shit will not leave your head. EVER. This hasn't happened to me since the LAST Gorillaz album came out. I guess if I have to like POP music, then this isn't the worse I could do. Danger Mouse was on a roll this last year.
4.
BECK - GUERO & GUEROLITO
It took me a LONG time to get into Guero, and the main reason I did was because of the remix album Guerolito. So to me these two go hand in hand. Guerolito features some duderad remixes by lots of awesome people. For a full list look here.
5.
TEETH OF LIONS RULE THE DIVINE - RAMPTON
Ever wanted to be fucked in the ass by SUNN0))), EARTH, KHANATE, and/or BURNING WITCH? Here is your chance. This "all-star" band features Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, as well as Justin Greaves and Lee Dorrian. If any of those names mean anything to you then you will like this album. A LOT.
LOVE, IBAX
ps. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN sucks, although there is some pretty good grizzly butt sex. So, you know, thats good. My girlfriend liked it though, so if you are trying to impress a chick or two maybe seeing that is the way to go. I don't know. All i know is that I need to stop letting Sugarbutt pick the movie when we go out. She doesn't have a very good track record.
That being said Minus the Bear along with These Arms Are Snakes, the Blood Brothers, and Riot Actâs newest family member the Crystal Skulls will be playing at the Showbox in Seattle this coming January 28th for the Vera Projectâs 5-Year Anniversary Party.[see full story for more of the band's 06 plans