...everybody's got one

Best and Worst of 2007

Love:
Epicly Later'd
thanks to Nick and Zach I became hopelessly addicted to The Vice mag online tv channel VBS.tv. The site's chock full of amazing programming but for an aging skate nerd Epicly Later'd is pure gold. Speaking of skate nerdary, the Nike and Lakai video's this year were (to quote MMXEKE) Redonkulious.

Juno
Beowulf
Grindhouse
the best movies I saw this year for very different reasons. I would also like to take this opportunity to state that I will never be going to a movie theater again. I simply can not trust the rest of the human race to not fuck up my experience. The last time I went a kid started talking on a cell phone with his outdoor voice. No joke. Hello jank as fuck home theater system.

Music
There have been way to many good records this year, and those of you who know me are aware of my tendency to ramble on at length on the subject. So in place of actual artist shout outs, I'd like to give kudos to the following musical genre's that made it big on my stereo this year.

• Melodic Scandinavian Death Metal from the 90's
• Crust punk and D-beat (my bullet belt's in the mail)
  
• Anything fronted by an asian woman.
• Hip Hop artists that sound like chipmunks (thanks Anticon)
  
• Hip Hop artists that sound like bears (I was late to the chopped and screwed party)
  
• Bears with musical instruments (also known as Vancouver stoner rock or anything on Jagjaguar)
• European pop stars with questionable vocal abilities
• The thirty or so amazingly heavy bands from the 60's/70's that were not Black Sabbath or Led Zepplin
• Dubstep (for the third year running)
  
• 90's rock monster revival (Dinosaur Jr., Qui)

Hate:
Comic Sans
worst font ever, those that use it should die.

Project runway
Like when you buy and apple, cause you fucking love apples. And you wait to long to eat it and it's all soft and brown. Seriously.

more later

Spoken word hip hop at its best

Saul Williams has his new album "The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust" for free download at www.niggytardust.com I strongly suggest downloading it.

Lock & Key Re-up

a silver mt. zion: Stumble then rise on some awkward morning

Sensual Massage

it's my first flash animation!
my folks must be so proud

G.I. Joe "American Hero"

Uncomfortably Gay

Uncomfortably Energetic (Part Deux)

Uncomfortably Energetic

LETS HAVE OURSELVES A LEMON PARTY BITCHES!!!!!!!!!

Whose Scene?

mDude

my dad played this song constantly when I was a growing up. The best part is the "well I'd like to spit some beech nut in that mDudes eyes"
classic.

Beowulf

The.......most......awesomely......masculine........movie......EVER

Seriously, this movie is like a two hour ode to the erection. It's what Rob Halford's dreams must be like.

List of antics (spoiler alert!)

1.) Wrestles a man-demon in the nude to make it a "fair fight"

2.) Constantly unhooking and removing clothing to reveal baby smooth chest ( all item's of clothing during this time in history apparently unhooked simply and dramatically from shoulder clasps. The perfect mechanism to go from zero to nude in seconds)

3. If you replaced demon blood with semen, this would be the godfather of gay porn.

4. self references after any accomplishment. Rip off an arm "I AM BEOWULF!!", jump through a sea creature's eye "I AM BEOWULF!!!!!" seriously, I'm going to start doing this all the time.

5. When not killing things or talking about killing things, Beowulf carries on numerous extra-marital affairs with both teenagers and demons (played by an eight-foot Angelina Jolie) I'm not sure which is more disturbing.

thanks to Zach and Chelsea for the best plan-B ever

The next logical step

My new favorite band

all female grind metal from Japan.

Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation

be sure to check out the images for cutesy anime versions of band

2girls1cup Banger

New work from Tim Atwell @ delicious

The Museum is hiring

If anyone is interrested, 12.00- 14.00 per hour. full time
Prop/Floor manager

repair/build exhibits. Work with douchebags like me.

Herzog/Danzig shirt

Cinefile is selling shirts to immortalize great filmmakers in classic metal fonts.

http://www.cinefilevideo.com/2007/10/11/new-t-shirt-von-triervan-halen

The Blood Brothers call it quits

From Lambgoat:

Just two weeks after recasting their purported break-up as a "hiatus," The Blood Brothers have officially split. The following statement has been issued:

"After 10 years of making music as The Blood Brothers, we have made the collective decision that our time together has come to an end. We feel extremely fortunate to have spent such a deeply memorable and amazing part of our lives with each other. At this point, however, we feel it's best that our futures move forward on separate paths. We'd like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to all the bands we've played with, individuals who have helped us make our records, and fans who have come to our shows and picked up our music throughout the years. Your friendship, support and love hold such a profoundly special place in each of our hearts. We hope that the memories you attach to our music are as fond as those you have given us. Thank you and take care, we'll miss all of you."

Danzig's Book Club

Halloween Shenanigans

Man is the Bastard Documentary coming

The only PowerViolence band that really matters. Those of you that like experimental sound will recognize Henry Barnes as the nutcase behind Bastard Noise and Amps for Christ.

consistently funny

http://www.bendependent.com/dirtfarm/

Fucking Grim

Justin From Austerity Program (if you haven't heard them yet, I highly recommend Black Madonna) made a very humorous video mocking Black Metals low-fi recording approach.

Black Metal Makeover

From Sept. Issue of French Vogue

Scream of The Narwhal 0002 available now

We're back and number two is out now:

The Cassette Only, Request Only
The Whitesnake Probably
the comical and mostly un-listenable result of a less-than-cohierent session at Art Haus.

On the horizon:

15 minutes to awesome abs-(AOTU session 1)

Grand Maul - Thunder Mountain Monument

Hot Bomb - title TBA

Mr. Fusion - title TBA

Crotches!

http://smallswordsmagazine.com/articles/sound/rockcrotches.html

found this while researching the the W.S.P. album art (forthcoming)

Quilts

http://www.jenniferjenkins.org/

Further support for the "Andrew w.k. is actually smart and calculating" argument

yes I've been a bit youtube happy lately

Oink is gone I.T. down for now

For those that use them, trackers oink.cd and indietorrents.com are down and may be gone for good.

That reminds me...

I forgot to do my yearly Joe Preston Research.

it appears that in the wake of dissolving Men's Recovery project and quitting High on Fire, Preston is now making recording drum machine madness under the moniker Mancampus check it out.

also i found this live Thrones video on youtube.

Last night was epic!

In place of a pic or live footage I present the ever quoteable High on fire from an old tv eye episode. (not the one where he talks at length about "molding the riff" but still good

Melt-Banana

Wednesday October 24th @ the High Noon Saloon $10.00

edit: also Thursday @ the Cactus in Milwaukee.

Beautiful, beautiful condoms

These are images from a Beijing fashion show:

DEERHOOF!!!

Deerhoof has an album up for free on their website, it might be something that ya'll would be interested in picking up...

Anyone else in the wisconsin/illinoise area going to HIgh on Fire/Coliseum/Mono/Panthers on saturday?

Sure to be a good time
9:00 @ high noon saloon
$15.00

Oh my fucking god

I mentioned this a few months back. The Boredoms with a 77 member drum core.

wait for the trident.

Craft Time in Hell

http://www.kakoueda.com/

HOLY CRAP this is scary!

Today I made a two-story tornado

Sometimes my job does not suck, I forgot to mention that the tornado was supposed to have a swarm of flying monkeys (see old post) that the committee nixed (after i was well on my way to having them done). This reminds me, lets see more work up here. I would like to see what you all are up to.

can't step to this

Skate Night?

a couple of the indoor parks up here (national, cream city) have special "old man" sessions. any interrest in a skate night?

More 5RC fun

Deerhoof Video

Catherine's been jumped in..

welcome to the first female to "man-up" (this is slightly unfair concidering we never asked Eunice, Megan, or Bekah to go with us)

Max's Studio Mate-So Good

Amy Newell
http://winnebagostudios.com/artists/Amy_Newell/
http://www.portalwisconsin.org/online_gallery_artist.cfm?artist=65&sort=name

Also, Max is back from Europe (YAY).

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up

http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~ptk1nc/cinderella/horan/horan.htm

Now see, isn't this nice

I love the recent flourish of activity, I had honestly contemplating announcing a time of death for this fucking thing. Also, Congrats go to Tim ($oap) Atwell for finally getting the word pussy up on the board, It's been a long time coming.

Oh your going to want to check this one out too...

Hannah Linden

Clothing made out of the insides of animals

Pinar Yolacan

un-fucking-believable

POWWOW

I will be flying into Milwaukee on Monday, Nov. 19. I propose a AOTU/SOTN Pow Wow/Ice Cream Social sometime between then and the 27th. Rock and roll-tutti and frutti.

Dominos

Those are some fucked up pictures. Quit being a pussy and cowboy the fuck up. I want to see blood next time. So quit wasting my time. OH and I'm down for dominos tomorrow in Beloit. WORD!

$oap & Xeke on the horn

lets DO this shit

Justin Quinn

http://www.mmgalleries.com/artists/quinn.html

Soooooo. What's going on in Whitewater?

anything? Or Rockford?....... or Janesville maybe?

The new Baroness record = Roger Waters making love to Matt Pike on a bed of nails......that good

hear it here
http://www.myspace.com/yourbaroness


download it here (if you use IT)

http://www.indietorrents.com/details.php?id=97970

You can get the vinyl from robotic empire.

Shitty day, needed a laugh.

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/1322/page/top____most_ridiculous_black_metal_pics_of_all_time.html

Black metal - Metal + the color red= clowns

Yesterday I was hit by a Car

Last night around 8:00 a car made an unsignaled turn at the corner of St. Clair and Russel and hit me. The car hit my right leg causing me to flip over the hood and smash the windshield with my back and shoulder. The worst part is That I'll probably never know who did it. While on the ground The guy kept repeating to me that he can stay, and that he'd give me cash to not call the cops. When I refused and told him I needed help he took off. I have no idea what color or make the car is, the license plate number or anything.. He was gone before I even really knew what was going on. Thankfully two people from the corner bar called the cops. The only thing anyone knows is that his name is Justin and he's got a car with a broken windshield. As for me, I was taken via ambulance to the hospital where they removed the bits of glass from my back and arms. My front fork and both rims are trashed. Physically I'm o.k., but mentally I'm a bit shaken, as I could have just as easily died.

Base humor and industrial supplies

I came across this at work today. I think it's pretty much a ready-made album cover

random cedar river pic's (1)

dragon face

Bekah, Eunice, and Megan

Zach & Held @ Hip Hop Horses

Everyone (except Chelsea & Bekah) by the fire

Held and Eric Collide

From the video it looks like Held pushes Eric off of the box. It would have been way cooler if they started fighting and the shirtless launch ramp heshers that ruled the park had to break it up. (for an explanation go to http://www.escanabasucks.com) . I provide the douchey laughter at the end.

Photo's with tri-color led flash

ChelseaEunice

Eric & Cherry

Zach

Mike (aka Baby, aka Baby Larry)

I have more of Bekah, Megan, and myself. I may post them later.