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Eating off the People’s Princess
03.31.2010
11:57 am
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Here’s a shocking blog dedicated to eating off The People’s Princess plate? Yes, this does exist.
 
(via Presurfer)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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03.31.2010
11:57 am
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Holy Moly: If Patrick From Spongebob Squarepants Were Real
03.31.2010
11:27 am
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Wash away the horror!!!
 
Patrick Star by Brushcommander
 
(via Geekologie)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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03.31.2010
11:27 am
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New batch of remastered Nick Cave classics released
03.31.2010
01:11 am
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The next three installments (Tender Prey, The Good Son, Henry’s Dream) in Mute’s superbly remastered Nick Cave series came out yesterday and I’m pleased to report that they’re done to the extremely high standards established by the first batch. Each 2-disc set comes with a remastered stereo CD and a DVD-A with a choice of DTS or Dobly 5:1 surround mixes, as well as a PCM stereo version. There are ample B-sides, music videos and each set features the continuing, multi-part documentary by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard called Do You Love Me (Like I Love You) chronicling the recording of each album.

They sound fucking amazing. Tender Prey sounds especially good, with the surround versions offering total immersion in the Bad Seeds awe-inspiring swagger. Every Nick Cave album is an audiophile’s dream, but the Bad Seeds become a locomotive force of nature when experienced in these new surround versions. They sound so good, so like you’re right there in the studio with them, that it’s nothing short of exhilarating to listen to these albums at a high volume. When City of Refuge kicks in, it’s like being hit by an enraged Mack truck. My neighbors probably hate me.

The Good Son, one of my personal favorites, also unfolds remarkably in the airier surround mix. You can really hear how delicately the piano keys are being struck in The Ship Song and how hard the the xylophone is being pounded in The Weeping Song. The strings sound great and the drums really snap. It’s a great musical experience, nothing more, nothing less. These are albums that were meant to be listened to as complete song cycles and that’s how I consumed them. I highly recommend watching the docs before sinking into the album. Taken this way, it really builds anticipation for the music. The music does not disappoint.

In conclusion, now that there are seven of these sets, I’ve been listening to a lot of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds lately. I’ve owned these albums for years, I bought them when they originally came out, but as is typical, I’d listen to each for a while, then put it away, a year later the next one comes out, I’d listen to that one for a while, then I’d shelve it, etc, etc. With a solo career going back 26 years at this point, to hear all of them again, so masterfully refurbished, and so fresh sounding, I’m struck by the fact that only Nick Cave, of all of the major artists to emerge during the 1980s, has the back catalog to really deserve this kind of respect and archival treatment. Truly, Cave should be seen as one of the all time great artists of the rock era and these sets make a convincing case for that, indeed.

I’ll say it one more time: Mute really do the finest reissues of any label I can think of. You’d have to go to the recent Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (reviewed by me here) to find an equivalent to what they’re doing here (Depeche Mode got the same treatment a few years back). Each set is a fantastic consumer value. As the compact disc format dies, Mute are still giving punters an actual reason to return to the record store. Good for their business and good for the fans, too.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.31.2010
01:11 am
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Karma Police: 53 Glenn Beck fans have their cars towed in Florida
03.30.2010
11:44 pm
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Dear Glenn Beck fans, this is what God thinks of you, Witness this awesome cosmic punking!

Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.

A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.

The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn’t know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.
“Maybe the have a deal with the tow truck company or maybe they got kickbacks under the table,” Vedder said.

They all said an event parking sign clearly directed them into the lot. Students at the fraternity wouldn’t comment, but WFTV caught up with the owner of Orange County Towing and Recovery, Ronald Hulbert.

“I have a lot at stake, a lot invested. I’m not going to lose it over a $125 tow, times 53, times 53, it was a good day,” Ronald Hulbert said.

Hulbert admits he’s never towed that many cars in one day before; he said it took him at least eight hours to tow all the cars. Each driver had to pay cash, netting him more than $6,600.

This is a great prank to play on the type of assholes who’d pay money to see Glenn Beck speak, isn’t it? Perfection. Whoever did this, I love you.
 

 
Thank you Scott!

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.30.2010
11:44 pm
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Pimp Your Tomato And / Or Pretzel
03.30.2010
06:46 pm
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For those whom the colors of nature just don’t suffice, it’s edible (?) spray paint for your comestibles. Blech ! Wonder if it’ll turn your shit gold and silver ?
 
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via The Urban Grocer

Posted by Brad Laner
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03.30.2010
06:46 pm
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Surreal indie rock performance art on ‘Judge Judy’ ... or what?
03.30.2010
05:44 pm
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Forget the EBay scam artists and deadbeat landlords normally on Judge Judy. This case involves a dead cat, two destroyed television sets and a guy who routinely does stuff that would make Marilyn Manson blush.

Having said that, a recent “Judge Judy” face-off between two indie rock “former friends” Kate Levitt of the band Teeth Mountain (the plaintiff) and Jonathan Coward aka gross out performer Shams (the defendant) went beyond the merely unexpected into the realm of the ridiculously untenable.

Coward is a fellow who’s known for doing some rather extreme things, onstage and off. Things puking all over a piano and that can involve dead animals. If anyone in indierockland is a likely suspect for killing a cat, it’s probably him, but I don’t think that’s what happened, at least in this case.

Maybe Levitt pulled the wool over Judge Judy’s eyes, (although you can tell she’s wondering herself), but as you watch the clip, a few things become obvious:

1.) Levitt has no picture of the dead cat itself, just the smashed TV set(s). No blood is seen, either.

2.) Who in the world would still want to be friends with someone who deliberately killed their pet?

For those two reasons alone, it seems that what went down in the courtroom was probably a bit of indie rock performance art. The episode is pretty silly to begin with, but it gets really funny during the closing credits. Note the cameo appearance by noise musician Narwhalz, who calls Judge Judy “mama” and lives to tell. That’s what really lead me to conclude the whole case was fake!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.30.2010
05:44 pm
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Exodus of Zelda
03.30.2010
05:01 pm
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Legend of Zelda remixed Old Testament style!

(Via Encyclopedia Dramatica)

Posted by Jason Louv
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03.30.2010
05:01 pm
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Shabushabu: Honyanko Bushi
03.30.2010
04:59 pm
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Roving Buddha of the 177th Astral Highway explains… something to you. Message lost due to lack of subtitles, enlightenment deferred.

(Via Encyclopedia Dramatica)

Posted by Jason Louv
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03.30.2010
04:59 pm
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Vice: Mexican Narco Cinema
03.30.2010
04:43 pm
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The Vice Guide to Film uploaded this video guide to Mexican narco cinema. The genre focuses on “cocaine, guns, girls and trucks.” Vice went to Mexico to explore the budding new genre. Fun stuff, inspired by Mexico’s current drug cartel mayhem.

(Pictured above: Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of drug trafficking!)

(Vice: Mexican Narco Cinema)

 

Posted by Jason Louv
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03.30.2010
04:43 pm
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free the robots - ctrl alt delete
03.30.2010
04:31 pm
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Control Alt Delete is the debut album from local electronic warlord Free The Robots.  Consisting of one Chris Alfaro, Free the Robots is the humanized sound of machinery - spontaneously freezing and spazzing out on you in a moment’s notice.  Alpha Pup Records dropped a series of promo videos edited by Phil Nisco that highlight both the jittery nature of the music as well as the psychedelic haze that fogs the whole shine.

Promo Clip #1 is set to Orion’s Belt Buckle, my favorite joint and a staple during my Low End Theory sets.  Orion’s is a fuzzed out piece that warbles along and hits all sorts of unpredictable twists and turns before a twisted arpeggio takes over.

Promo Clip #2 features a woman-eating piano from hell set against Jupiter, an ominously mellow track that sounds like it was written by a possessed electric player piano.

Promo Clip #3 continues the deranged woman-eating piano theme but is set against one of the album’s many surprises, The Eye, a full on freak-out featuring organ shreds from Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta.

As if Free the Robots and first rate videos were not enough, the duo of Alfaro and Nisco also run The Crosby in Santa Ana.  An amazing venue that hosts local talent and serves some of the best food in Southern California.
 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Elvin Estela
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03.30.2010
04:31 pm
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