November 2011
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Immortal - Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
A buddy of mine has turned me onto black metal from Norway, Sweden, & Finland. I do chuckle at the tropes that contribute to it all, what with the face paint, vocal styles, and ridiculous lyrics. This is as close to liking Kiss that I will ever get.
October 2011
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I forgot most of what happened in this dream when...
I do not remember the beginning or the end of the dream I had last night, but part of it included getting yelled at by catholic grown-ups (I forgot to mention, I was a kid in this dream), and then running around outside at night and shooting light out of my fingertips.
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Totally awesome dream:
My wife and I wake up. Our daughter is also awake. We mention to each other that we are pretty hungry and we begin to list breakfast spots that we’d like to go to. We think of places in St. Paul that we haven’t been to. I suggest a restaurant. Incidentally, this is a restaurant in which I’ve received cryptic notes while dining ( note: this has re-occurred a couple times in...
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A photo of Mr. Rogers on set smoking the biggest blunt you’ve ever seen, with Jordan 1’s on
August 2011
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So a blogger (aka Robocratic-States) walks into a...
… and says, ‘Doctor, I’m having all of these problems.’ Then the doctor says, ‘That’s because your body stopped being able to process vitamin D in February 2011.’
Massive quantities of vitamin D is the exact same buzz as a vicodin, but you don’t have to worry about having a beer with it. And you can’t sleep.
I agree...
…. With Dr. Mystery on this one. Nostalgia serves, at times, an important and nice purpose. Usually it’s not though. Usually it’s cloying, stupid, and a waste of time.
July 2011
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Mandatory Viewing: MARLOWE
Marlowe from ALCHEMYcreative on Vimeo.
I’m not a car fan. I’m not going to go into all the reasons why I am not. That said, I do love the sound of muscle car engines and the bond that develops with technology and their users.
June 2011
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Battles playing 'Wall Street' inside of Paris City...
Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
Battles are a musical obsession of mine from 2004 to the current year of 2011. Think post-rock, post-trance, and probably one of the greatest living non-‘Neil Pert’ drummers in the world. The juxtaposition of their music inside the darkened baroque room is all sorts of the ‘finale of ‘2001: A Space...
WORTHWHILE LINK
DANGEROUS MINDS blogs celebrities and their records. Note, some are merely photos of celebrities with records, but are nonetheless very fun to look at.
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May 2011
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Battles - "Ice Cream" ft. Matias Aguayo
I do enjoy this video, probably the first and only music video I’ll see this summer. I’m working on a lot of stuff simultaneously as I write, so I’ll be brief:
THE GOOD:
+ The song is by Battles. I like their music (best show I saw in 2004) and this is their departure from their previously release stuff.
+ The video was shot by a Spanish collective known as Canada. Some of...
Goings-on: Minneapolis Edition, June 2011
Minneapolis friends: If you’re in Minneapolis on June 4th-5th and you’re not doing anything from 9 pm until 5 am, you might want to check out the Northern Spark Festival. My own participation will have to be pretty limited (married, daughter, stupid job that only pays $10 hourly and requires me to work at times when fun shit gets to happen), but I’m going to try to sneak out...
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MANDATORY VIEWING: "THE S FROM HELL"
The S From Hell from Rodney Ascher on Vimeo.
“The S From Hell” by Rodney Ascher is a darling short documentary about a logo, a minimalist synthesizer arrangement, innocent children, and what has amounted to a legacy of terror. Apparently.
Irrational fears are great fun if you don’t have them but have friends or family who are willing to confide theirs to you. This truth...
April 2011
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I'm going to do John Hughes justice times one...
So here’s an extended treatment:
The film will begin with the screen split into two mini-film images side by side. One side will show the ‘poor side’ of the tracks, and the film will be comprised of scenes of white American poverty with repeated emphasis on the cycle of life and death. The white viewers will feel both shame and compassion to see members of their own race...
February 2011
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"Where's Becky?" "Taking a shit."
BIRDEMIC - “Where’s Becky?” from Severin Films on Vimeo.
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Armory Show Poster Design
For the extreme significance that the Armory Show, the first major exhibition of international modern art in America, I can’t figure out if the poster for the show (as seen above) is appropriately understated or inappropriately simple.
Best Dream of All Time
I’m in Los Angeles, in the year 2019, and it is very much the same Los Angeles as seen in the movie Blade Runner. It is night and it is raining. I have been traveling for a long time. I walk down the streets, lit by neon lights and crowded with exotic people. I take a turn through an alley, and I eventually find myself facing a disused wharf. Run down apartment buildings sit along the old...
January 2011
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Mandatory Viewing tonight: "UNDERCITY"
UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo. Watch in full-screen mode.
It’s been a rough year and a half for me in my hometown of Minneapolis: the job market is in the latrine and I am poor. I seldom go out to enjoy myself and see what the city has to offer. I’ve pretty much begun to shun the art & social scene and have whittled my list of hobbies down to feeling bad...
December 2010
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'Like special little blue pill, and its like, like...
My friend Brad and I sat down a few nights ago to annihilate some delicious beers, listen to records, and talk about a bunch of various subjects. Eventually, we got on the subject of music, and then rock and roll interviews that were either insightful or a total biff of publicity. Brad recalled this gem of the latter: an interview with Alex and Jade of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic...
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Mandatory Viewing: "Krautrock: The Rebirth of...
Even better than the BBC Radiophonic Workshop doc, “The Alchemists of Sound”, is this BBC Krautrock documentary “Krautrock; The Rebirth of Germany”. Drink 5 beers and watch this, just like I did.
November 2010
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Mandatory Viewing: Alchemists of Sound
In what has been a glorious improvement in my state of being, I have joined a band with enough people in it that we are fully able to adequately cover all the positions between guitarists and drummer. Even more astounding is that fact that three of us have decided that the goals of the first band are too small in terms of our capabilities and have now elected to start a second band to play...
I wrote a post, but I'm too tired and depressed. ...
October 2010
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When Does A Dream Become A Nightmare?
Who would have thought that there was more to this damn gem? Not I.
Bonus fun: make your wife watch this with you. If she is like mine, she’ll hate you for the rest of the night as you sing “I want pizza. p-i-z-z-a.” really slowly.
September 2010
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Contrast your life to Danzig's.
Times are rough; times are shit. Want my advice? Take solace in the fact that no matter how hard you might try, you’ll never be a bigger tool than Glenn Danzig.
No book is worth reading based on the recommendation of a shirtless man, even if he wrote the song “Mother”*. Now watch our resident bookworm as he takes a break from his library:
*I have to admit though, I...
August 2010
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IT'S A MATTER OF ECONOMICS, PEOPLE.
“Crafty Planet is a rip-off. They sell googily eyes for thirty-five cents a pair. Instead, I go to Michael’s and buy googily eyes for twenty cents a pair because Crafty Planet is, again, such a rip-off.”
Clearly, the person who scolded my wife for taking sewing classes at Crafty Planet should purchase googily eyes wholesale, should they purchase so much in volume that such...
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Manditory Viewing Tonight: LABORATORY CONDITIONS
If you have 30-45 minutes and want to get your well-shot documentary fix in, I highly recommend Laboratory Conditions, a film about a man, a town, and the industry and politics that drive it.
It’s in five parts, so if you need to get beers in between the chapters, you can.
Godspeed, Jack Horkheimer. Godspeed. →
I don’t know if you ever stay up late and watch PBS at 2 am, but in between shows, if you’re lucky, Jack Horkheimer comes on to talk about star gazing. Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job-level production values, but Jack is earnest in his passion and that’s worth mention.
Revenge reasons, naturally.
Staying up way late because we have no spare pillowcases and my wife left the drier on ‘fluff’, so the previous attempt to dry my pillow shrouds failed completely. Here is what is new with me:
1. Starting a business is fun. I like to conceptualize. I like to analyze. I like to drink at night and research. There’s some legislation in the senate that I’m keeping an eye...
July 2010
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VELOCIRAPTOR IS THE TONYA HARDING OF DINOSAURS
I’ve had a lifetime of interest in dinosaurs. My aunt and uncle used to work on digs in Wyoming and South Dakota, including the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Sue’ that was the center of a scandal. I have a few actual dinosaur fossils: mostly hadrosaur vertebrae. I still keep an eye on what developments are happening with all things ‘dinosaur’...
Proclamation:
After 16 months of economic-depression and depression-depression, I’ve decided it’s time to turn the tables on circumstances and do something about it. Pacts have been made, investors have been courted, ideas have been plucked from the ether, episodes of Mad Men and The IT Crowd have been viewed while drunk (by me), and wives have approved.
Mark my words, in three years, we’ll...
June 2010
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Mandatory Viewing Tonight
Hotel Torgo, the documentary of the making of the film ‘Manos: Hands of Fate’. I hope it manages to be funny.
Jack Rebney, Patron Saint of Bad Days.
100 Watt Clock - Pock Mark Out
It disappoints me to no end that bands like 100 Watt Clock are in short supply. It seems newer music, once again, is shooting for folksy or electronic. It’s like all that Cat Power has to do to get into the rock and roll hall of fame is record an album of motown covers and then music can be over forever for some people. Maybe thats my hangover talking.
Tune In Tokyo - See You In Your Dreams
May 2010
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Why do people even bother asking Charles Manson...
Almost makes you realize how spot on Bob Odenkirk was as Manson on the Ben Stiller Show:
TIME TRAVEL via old Hüsker Dü videos.
I’ve been living in Minneapolis long enough to notice the massive growth of the last 20 years or so, as evident by this video for Hüsker Dü’s ‘Make No Sense At All’ & ‘Love Is All Around’ (the Mary Tyler Moore Theme).
Note:
the buildings not yet built in the skyline
the seedy theaters that no longer exist
the IDS Crystal Court will never be in...
April 2010
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Here is what you can do for the next 9 1/2...
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Despite having heard this song literally hundreds of times, it is still fantastic.
Gene Simmons vs. Terry Gross
I’ve been scarce in parts all around, for the reasons that I am completely, unrelentingly broke, as well as the father of an adorable girl who inadvertently altered everything in my life forever. I’ve been worrisome and tired as hell, but simultaneously, I have more love and happiness than I can ever remember. I’ve enjoyed having time and some energy to ruminate on more...
"Cameron went to Egypt land, Let my Cameron go."
Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is for sale. Time to start playing the lottery, I suppose. Or get to work blackmailing the rich.
Growing up, I loved the movie, and had hopes that teenage life would amount to some semblance of Ferris Bueller’s adventures. Alas, not to be.
February 2010
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"...started making trouble in my living area..."
I usually don’t make light of other people’s belief systems, unless they’re being imposed on me via legislation or if Pat Robertson says something ridonculous like Haitians made a pact with the devil. This is gold though.