illogical contraption - shelby cobra understands bad-assery and is ready to school you. dggba - dggba stands for dave gulbis gives bad advice. need i say more? new noise net - downloads of killer new diy noise jams. fuck tha muthaphukkin police - downloads of amazing rare old school west coast rap and g-funk shit. vintage girlie mags - does this really need explaining?
i just discovered this french photo blog called histoire de l'oeil. they offer up a vast selection of intentionally and un-intentionally surreal and absurd eye candy from the bowels of time. some of it is NSFW. all of it is awesome.
I saw this post at Pink Tentacle about some Sony commercials featuring Atsuhiro Ito and his Optron. My favorite part is when you can see him twiddling knobs with his toes. That's what I want from a one man band. Here's a live clip:
and a duet with Ohio's favorite freeform violin magician C Spencer Yeh:
The "Lost Treasures Of The Underworld" label from Columbus, Ohio is continuing to kick ass with their series of solo 3" cdrs by local wizards, as well as a steady stream of killer limited run vinyl shit by people like Thurston Moore, Lambsbread, Robedoor, etc.. CHECK 'EM OUT
the INC tour hit Columbus on 4-20 and fucking slayed.
here's the megamix with Quiet Pepsi , Sky Corpse, Peasant Graves, Biff Boff Barf, Larry Marotta / David Reed, Hasan / Bennett, Relentless Corpse, Social Junk, Out There Dudes, Laundry Room Squelchers
i didn't get Twink Bully, The Sprawl, Face Place or Psychedelic Horseshit but John Bennett described them quite well:
"Twink Bully was up next. Twink Bully always plays behind a projection screen with nothing on it so you can see them, and takes gravity bong rips while they play. it's kind of a "fuck you" thing, I think. their set ruled - Aaron Klamut's drumming was awesome, he was wearing some kind of Pirate Outfit or maybe just a nice shirt (puffy shirt?) and tearing it up. these guys create some kind of wall noise shit but it's different than other bands i've seen, with dual guitars, nathen snell on synths and drums. hibb's and jaycees guitars are crunched out. their shirts are 5 dicks cumming on a pentagram. SICK!
next up was Jay Harmon and the Sprawl. Sorry I'm calling it "Jay Harmon and the Sprawl", I'm sure the other members wouldn't want that. I thought they were pretty cool but I couldn't really grab on to anything while they were playing, seemed kind of disjointed. cool video game glitch projections.
god, i was so stoned at this point. pretty much all day long. done usually smoke that much weed but noise conference on 4|20 kind of changes things. i think about this time i wasn't really talking to anybody except for maybe Max, who was just as stoned as me. I sat in the front room and zoned for a while, and heard Face Place's set. It was pretty awesome, what I heard of it. I wish I'd have payed more attention to this one because Jen and Mark always bring that real Wizard Castle steez!
OK, finally dark outside at this point. Getting really rowdy now, feeling better, drink drink smoke smoke ---- Psychedelic Horseshit time. I just saw them the night before, but this time matt had a bigger band. I had to run to eric's car to get some batteries. but when I got back they were jammin on some pretty groovy shit. Ross, who played in the Sprawl, was on a keyboard and suddenly busted out this fucking AWESOME keyboard solo. WHOA. where the hell did that come from?!? that was a total highlight, sounded like the zombies or something. shit yeah."
Oliver Sacks is a total bad-ass . If you don't know who he is, he's a neurologist and author who's written a bunch of books exploring some of the stranger aspects of the human mind in a way that's both professional and empathetic, humanistic and intellectual. His newest book Musicophilia is a collection of essays on music and the brain. I'm totally looking forward to checking it out.
Killer show at Skydad last night. Twink Bully came out from behind the screen, Axlotl induced strange trances, and Rage Against The Cage busted out an acoustic set in the living room, but I didn't get pics of any of that. I did get some shots of Lambsbread's first show in a while (It was fucking great, they're on some rock n' roll shit right now and I'm way into it), C(hief) Spencer Yeh dropping a typically amazing set of violin wizardry, and Skaters weaving some acid-magic incantations. More Here
I forgot to post the link to the podcast mega mix from The Ohio Experimental Music Festival, so here it is, larry marotta, skin graft, bee mask, kult of unicorn, mike shiflet, twink bully, sonitus intortus, wasteland jazz organs, queen mae and the bells @ skydad 12-01-07: http://226hurtz.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-01-12T16_22_33-08_00
I just found a bunch of youtube shit that reminded me how much these dudes rule. Have you seen that throwing star shaped CD? Fucking sick. This first vid is from the first or second time i saw them live. How can you not love a band that makes a cowbell seem so punk rock? Mofo Dissonance indeed.
An old doodle from the sketchbook.
Pod Blotz
Super Pizza Party
Headmolt
SHV
Anyone know what this was called?
Drums Like Machine Guns
