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Monthly Archives: October 2007

UNKLE @ Vegoose

Sunday, October 28, 2007

…was fucking incredible. I caught five minutes of Muse. Eh. Alright. Not great. But UNKLE was amazing. Eight piece — drummer, keyboardist, DJ, bassist, two guitarists at any time, Gavin Clark on vocals and James Lavelle mixing and singing. The Thom Yorke, Ian Astbury and Josh Homme tracks were prerecorded vocals, but Gavin and James […]

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And Let Me Just Say It, Since Nobody Else Seems To Want To

Thursday, October 25, 2007

New Orleans, 2005: a festering football stadium with corpses left to rot in place, shit and urine on the floor, and no water. For days. And the National Guard will shoot your black ass if you try to leave.
San Diego, 2007: clowns for the kids, massage therapy and acupuncture during your lovely stay in Qualcomm […]

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Out Of Nature: Autumn 1

Thursday, October 25, 2007

This is a Flash piece I wrote last night. I took photographs of the flowers in my front yard, and then brought them into Illustrator and ran Live Trace on them (converting the image into vector form). I then separated out twenty of the most interesting shapes, brought them into Flash and made them movie […]

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New Wacom Cintiq — 12 inch!

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Oh, my God, I really, really, really want this badly. This is the new smaller Cintiq, which — if you’re not familiar — is a pressure sensitive LCD drawing tablet. You draw right on the display, and the stylus is both pressure and angle sensitive, which makes digital drawing as natural as real drawing.
Probably a […]

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Vegoose

Monday, October 22, 2007

James from UNKLE and his management were nice enough to get me a ticket to Vegoose on Sunday, so if you’re there, look for me. I’m hard to miss.

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Why Doesn’t Alt.Culture Exist?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

SuicideGirls > News > Culture > The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis
One of the best non-fiction things Warren’s ever written.
Every corner of the web is blitzed with the light shone by thousands of curational blogs whose job is to parse the internet for their readers. I mean, I hunt for research material all the […]

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Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Mondo 2000: Where Are they Now?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Mondo 2000: Where Are they Now?
So, what made Mondo 2000 so special? It was, in my opinion, the best alternative culture magazine that America ever had. They wrote about smart drugs, brain implants, virtual reality, cyberpunk, Cthulhupunk and cryogenics. They covered Laibach and Lydia Lunch in the same issue. The […]

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Rockity Rock Rocky Rock Rock Rock

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Somehow, I’ve managed to write a goddamn Weezer song.
(The song is called “Sky Blue” and it’s probably going to be the single, because it’s a pop song. Fuck you, I can write pop rock songs too.)
We’re going to record all live instrumentation + vocals at Ryan Marth’s home studio. ‘Cause he’s got a Neumann, and […]

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An Open Letter To America

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Hi, America. Josh Ellis here.
So I’ve been noticing, for the past couple of years, a rising backlash against the current presidential administration. I hear a lot of you talking, wide-eyed and horrified, about Bush’s lies and the excesses of the NSA and Gonzalez’s Justice Department, the stupidity of the war…you know what you’re all so […]

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Pushing Daisies…

Thursday, October 11, 2007

…is officially my new favorite TV show. It’s from Bryan Fuller, who did Dead Like Me, which used to be my favorite show, until it got cancelled.
It’s about a guy who can quite inexplicably make dead people come alive again. But if he touches them again, they die; and if he doesn’t touch them again […]

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