More Stupidity

Last weekend I met up with some of the usual suspects out here in OHGACK! Good conversation, good tunes, and good folks. The only problem was that I was supposed to meet my friend Reiko early the next morning to hang out in Nagoya, and getting to sleep at 3 AM isn't exactly the best thing to do when that's your plan, but I was up at 8, in Nagoya by 10, and at Nagoya castle by noon. Nagoya castle's grounds are pretty cool, a super giant moat, lots of greenery, a nice park where we witnessed a bunch of creepy dudes following a girl around who would stop and pose periodically at different scenic locations... but I'm off on a tangent now. I guess what I was trying to get at was that, even though I enjoyed visiting the castle, it's more of a museum to the old castle than it is a living monument. The inside has way too many visible modern conveniences and an elevator, so I was a bit disappointed. Regardless, though, it was good times.

We headed out to Osu next to meet up with the usual Nagoya suspects for lunch. Reiko wanted to eat specialties specific to Nagoya, so we had miso-katsu, and later on we had tebasaki (super salty chicken wings) and IT WAS GOOD! (imagine the Rock reading Genesis so you can get what I was going for there) Reiko ended up coming back to OHGACK where we met up with the same usual suspects and chatted for a bit and watched a Pteradon video, as well as video from the super awesome 38-band punk festival I went to in Tokyo last week (you're gonna have to wait to read about that one!).

The next day, Reiko had to catch the bullet train back home to meet up with her boyfriend, whose birthday it was, so we stopped off at my favorite Brazilian place for lunch. AND IT WAS GOOD! By chance, there were some pamphlets on the table for an art festival happening in town, but I didn't think much of it, even though I had heard a bit about a different music festival happening at the same time. On the way back to the station to drop off Reiko we happened upon this art gallery whose walls and floor were covered in scrawled gibberish, kind of like a horror movie set or something. It was tight. We also walked through an underground tunnel with rocks that moved on their own accord. N?

Reiko left and I decided to check out more of the festival, which actually ended up being pretty cool. There was a really cool book compiled featuring photos of signs from all over OHGACK, and a camera obscura bus thingy that you could ride inside of and see images from outside the bus projected onto a screen inside. If I ever figure out how to transfer photos from my cell phone to the computer, you may actually see some of the stuff someday, but for now this insufficient description must suffice.

My friend Josh's band was playing as part of the music festival that evening, but since it was raining, they moved the performance into this giant gym so the sound was pretty awful. I was impressed by Josh's skills though, so that was N. The band that performed before him was made up of a bunch of 16 year olds, one of whom was wearing a tuxedo vest, and another who was wearing a sweater-shawl combo thingy. They looked goofy, but they could all shred, so who am I to diss these 16 old prodigies???

Anyway, the next Tuesday a bunch of us went back to check out the art and music again, this time to see some OHGACK hip-hop. There was a giant dude in a Yankees jersey who kept on pronouncing Ogaki as OHGACK, doing his best American-thug impersonation. One of the other bands was this really sleazy, all-girl psychadelic band. Not sleazy in a racy sense, but more just that their music was super dirty and garagey sounding, it was actually alright.

I was pretty jazzed to see some art and culture in Ogaki, even though it was kind of disappointing to find that so few people knew about what was going on, and the events didn't seem too well attended.

Tonight I finally found the one club in Ogaki that hosts live music, and some of us are thinking about starting a band, so keep your eyes open for what may come...

Ah yes, yet another stupid post, hurried due to my rush to finish it before my tenuous internet connection stolen from my neighbor's wireless signal fades...

PEACE!

Life Is Forever

My new favorite TV show is this show called 青い瞳の聖ライフ, or Aoi Hitomi no Sei Raifu, or Blue Eyes' Pure Life (that's my wack translation anyway). It's this show about an American girl named Beth from New York who ends up in Japan somehow at a Japanese high school, and she falls in love with this dufus named Yuu, and her dream is to organize a rock festival at the school and marry Yuu. But, every episode, someone gets hella mad at Beth and they yell at her for being such an insensitive foreign/white/American bitch, even though Beth is unimaginably thoughtful and kind. Beth speaks perfect Japanese in the most ridiculously butchered American accent, and I'm not sure if she is purposely hamming it up, or if she really is incapable of bettering her accent. Heck, I get made fun of everyday by my students for speaking Japanese, and my accent isn't even a tenth as bad as Beth's is (but her Japanese skill absolutely destroys mine regardless). Did I mention that this show was made in 1984? I don't know why they're re-running it on TV here now, but it is the highlight of my cold, lonely, depressing, dreary evenings... *sigh* (I only pay $50 in rent, suckers!!!!)

I dug up as much info as I could on the show, so here's some more info and videos for all of you, who I'm sure are VERY INTERESTED, right???

Here's the opening theme:



Here's Florence Haga, the star of the show, [poorly] singing a cheesy pop song:



Here's some links too:
Screenshots and Info

Japanese Wikipedia Entry



What is wrong with me?

Yesterday...

...was one of those days. All those stereotypes that really annoy foreigners finally popped up all in one day, and more!!! I got a "You're good with chopsticks!" and another "Wow, you can write Japanese!" for the first time since I've been here, which actually didn't annoy me all that much. What really annoyed me was that on my way home some guy commented as I rode my bike by "Oh, a foreigner..." HELLO FOOL!!! There's thousands of foreigners all across this town!!! I even rode next to four spanish speaking women this morning on the train, not to mention all the Brazilians, Indians and whiteys I see every dang day. I'm not so annoyed about having been recognized as a foreigner (because I totally am!) but that it's such a big deal for this guy to comment about it out loud.

ALSO, to cap off the bummer that was yesterday, the rain starting pouring cats and dogs a few minutes before I left work, only to subside completely right about the time that I arrived at the station near my house. I tried to cheer myself by going to my favorite restaurant in town, Landy Shop III, but it was closed inexplicably. On the bright side, I went to Hard Off, the local junk electronics shop, and found out that they're opening a second location in town! WOOHOO!!! I saw the same guy there digging through old LPs that I talked to at another junk store across town. WHICH REMINDS ME that I think all you loyal readers should know about the Warren G record that I found for 100yen in said junk store amongst hundreds of Seiko Matsuda and Southern All Stars records.

This is probably the stupidest blog entry ever.

Otsukaresamadeshita

HELLO!!!
Loyal readers, here I am writing to you live from Ogaki, Japan. My town of 150,000 has a lot of shopping malls, a lot of "snacks" (places where you pay to go sing karaoke and drink with old ladies), and a lot of Brazilians!!! The Brazilians are the good part of that statement, because they make the best dang food in this town, and they also take the heat off of me, because I'm not the only foreign looking guy around.

I always think of stuff to write about while I'm walking around town, but I forget it once I sit down to actually type, so, thus, I will just recap my final weekend for you:

Friday night, I thought about going to the neighboring city of Gifu, so I hit up a few of my homies out there. I went to Gifu and found a little punk rock/hip-hop record store called Sabotage Records, where I bought a 3000yen BREAKfAST 7", then I finally heard back from a friend who invited me to go get sushi. I met up with her and 3 other girls, but we were soon joined by another dude. The sushi was super expensive, but super good!!!!!!! I went home around 10pm, and as I was exiting Ogaki station I ran into my next door neighbor and some other friends who were waiting for someone, and he exited 10 seconds behind me. I ended up hanging out with them until 4am!!!!

The next day we were supposed to go to some posh all-you-can-eat/drink place in Nagoya, but it was on the rooftop of some building and due to the heavy rain we'd been having it was cancelled. A small group of us went anyway, AND IT DIDN'T EVEN RAIN!!!! But, since it had already been cancelled, we just ended up meeting up with my friend Adam in Nagoya and went to this place called Misfits where he works. Apparently it was a bit of an off night for the place, and there was a total dufus playing bad covers on his guitar with drum machine accompaniment, but we all had a good time. After leaving Misfits, a couple of us wandered down to Sakae, the hub of activity in Nagoya, and there we went looking for a place to settle down. Whilst waiting, we decided to be all Rocky-core and down some raw eggs, which may or may not have been a great idea. Right after we had finished doing that, we witnessed an old drunkard grab some young dufus by the shirt and start pushing him around. It was a super tame fight, and when the cops pulled up to stop it, they actually just sat in their car watching for a good minute before getting out. They let the old guy walk off and gave the young guy a stern talking-to. NICE?

We ended up getting some kebabs from a cart on the street, except they were more like falafels (there was no stick). Apparently they call them kebabs in the UK when they're like that anyway, but I digress... Adam ended up meeting up with us again sometime around this point with a friend of his and we went to check out some place that his friend recommended. There were tons of young'uns hanging about, mostly Brazilian, and this one skater fool came up to us and asked us to "go smoke the hemp" with him. I borrowed his skateboard to try and ollie, but ended up bum rushing me from behind, took his skateboard and proceeded to go full speed into a wall. NICE?

This night progressed until we ended up at a ramen shop called Coco Ichiban, where they serve ramen on a spicy scale of 1-10. My Japanese coworkers say that 3 is hot enough, my American friend from Chicago said he could handle 7, but I went for the 10 of course, DUH!!!... What a horrible decision!!! I couldn't even finish it, and I felt pretty disgusting the rest of the night, which I ended up spending napping in a Denny's for about an hour. After that, it was about 6am, at which point I was able to catch the first train of the day back to Adam's house and sleep.

The next day Adam and I explored the town, and I found a rare 7" with the only Fruity song not included on their complete discography CD, and a copy of the first Alkaline Trio LP for super cheap. Ebay, here I come!!! We hit up some other cool places, had dinner with his in laws, and I went home and slept at a reasonable hour.

Good times...? YES!

Love,
B

July 17, 2008

The Unicorns - Jellybones
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Chris Murray - Moment
Sebadoh - Ocean
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The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
The Botticellis - Old Home Movies
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
The Specs - Everything You Wanted
The Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty Room
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The Television Personalities - This Angry Silence
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The HOLiDAYS - Your World
The Muffs - A Little Luxury
Track Star - West Coast Weather
Hockey Night - Style Raiders
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Mr. T Experience - I'm Like Yeah, But She's All No
The Cribs - What About Me
Beulah - Slo-Mo For the Masses
Apollo Sunshine - Money
The Morning Benders - Damnit Anna
Weezer - No Other One
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Jason Webley - Almost Time To Go
Modest Mouse - All Nite Diner
Mu330 - Baby Rats
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King Khan & The Shrines - Sweet Tooth
Harold Ray: Live In Concert - Ain't Nothin' But A House Party
Toys That Kill - Illegitimate
The Soviettes - Bottom's Up, Bottomed Out
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The Lawrence Arms - Cut It Up
Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
Les Savy Fav - Blackouts On Thursday
All You Can Eat - Their Glass Ceiling
Minus The Bear - Let's Play Clowns
The New Trust - The Lost Language
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We Versus the Shark - (After)life Things
Unwound - December
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Spring Heeled Jack - Mass Appeal Madness

July 10, 2008

Minus The Bear - Let's Play Clowns
Unwound - Seen Not Heard
No Knife - Your Albatross
GO!GO!7188 - Ukifune
Modest Mouse - Interstate
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Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Do Better Than Me
Alkaline Trio - Snake Oil Tanker
Jets To Brazil - Starry Configurations
Boilermaker - Norman
Weezer - Pink Triangle
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Superchunk - Hero
Track Star - These Horses Carry Blood
We Versus The Shark - I Am A Fantastic Battle
Short Round - Same Old, Day Old
Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing
Pixies - Velouria
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
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The Weakerthans - Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
Jason Webley - Little Sister
Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer
Bracket - Warren's Song Part 9
The Shins - So Says I
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The Specials - Monkey Man
Pizzicato Five - Kanashii Uta
Baffalo Daughter - Sky High
Making Time - I Gotta Move
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Falafle Babies - An Ode To Keith And Ted
:Dz: - I Don't Understand. Do I Say The Right Words?
Augustus Pablo - Ape Man
Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things

June 26, 2008

La Plebe - Mi Tierra
Skankin' Pickle - It's Not Too Late
The Aquabats - Cat With 2 Heads
Slow Gherkin - I Only Smoke When I'm Drunk
The Siren Six! - Burn
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Satori - Finding Your Place
The Slackers - Henderson Swamp
Bad Manners - Sally Brown
Fishbone - Ugly
Sugarhill Downtown Orchestra - Home Made Song
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Bomb The Music Industry - Depression is no Fun
Common Rider - Signal, Signal
Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop
Rx Bandits - Apparition
Hepcat - Yoko Zuna
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Blindspot - Right Field
Blue Meanies - Johnny Mortgage
Mu330 - Baby Rats
Operation Ivy - Yellin' In My Ear
Fruity - Cinderella Boy
Shiina Ringo - Mayonaka wa Junketsu
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Alkaline Trio - Help Me
Alkaline Trio - For Your Lungs Only
Ging Nang Boyz - Trash
Lemuria - Pants
Little Mercury - I'm Not & You're Not
Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
The Thermals - An Endless Supply
No Age - Here Should Be My Home
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Minus the Bear - Let's Play Clowns
Boris - BUZZ-IN
Unwound - Unauthorized Autobiography
Bangs - Sweet Revenge
Blue Hearts - Chernobyl
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The Night Marchers - I Wanna Deadbeat You
Superdrag - My Day Will Come
The Cherry Tempo - Treble Is High
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
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Andrew WK - Party Hard

Bullet (not the Misfits song)

I never knew that there was more to this than just rumors, but here is the California High Speed Rail Authority website, detailing their plans and ideas for routing and financing the bullet train that will be able to travel from San Francisco to LA in just an approximate 2 hours and 40 minutes. With the prospect of a drive to LA from San Jose looming ahead for me, the idea that I could cut the trip time in by a third and do it for cheaper has me very excited!!! (Note: a projected 2020 completion date has tempered my excitement a bit)

I am McLovin

I watched the movie KIDS last night for, believe it or not, the first time ever. Aside from being totally depressing, I was struck by how much Telly from Kids looks and talks just like McLovin from Superbad. This only exacerbated the feeling in my mind that Telly looked like a total dweeb, so I couldn't understand why he was such a mack in the movie...

Afterward I felt validated (but still kind of depressed) when I did this search online and found this.

We Versus The Shark

Here's a cool interview that Carrie Brownstein did with We Versus the Shark. I saw them at SXSW as well (different show though) and they are truly good dudes.

June 19, 2008

Special Extended Show with guest DJ V-Dogg

Track Star - West Coast Weather
Stephen Malkmus - Phantasies
The Unicorns - Ghost Mountain
Television - See No Evil
The Hold Steady - Stevie Nix
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Little Mercury - You're Not & I'm Not
Lemuria - Get Some Sleep
Alkaline Trio - Help Me
Underground Railroad to Candyland - Don't Expect For Me To Sleep
No Age - Cappo
The Thermals - I Know the Pattern
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No Knife - Your Albatross
The New Trust - Absence Makes the Heart Go Wander
Sparta Locals - Ougon Wave
Minus Bear - Fine + 2 pts.
The Dismemberment Plan - The City
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Just A Fire - Hot Export
Calling All Monsters - Western Style Town
Built to Spill - Sidewalk
Death Cab For Cutie - No Sunlight
Superchunk - Her Royal Fisticuffs
Superdrag - Carried
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My Korean Friends - Wait Outside These Walls
Magnetic Fields - California Girls
Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
Cursive - Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand
Unwound - No Tech!
Afrirampo - Akan Kono Mama Kaesanai
Molotov - Here We Kum
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NOFX - Linoleum
Going Steady - Kakenukete Seishun
Toys That Kill - Moon=Ghettobird
La Plebe - Runnin'
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Lawrence Arms - 100 Resolutions
Dillinger Four - Smells Like OK Soda
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Ging Nang Boyz - I Don't Wanna Die
The Muffs - Oh Nina
Leatherface - Dead Industrial Atmosphere
Reggie & The Full Effect - Food
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Where Have All the Rudeboys Gone?
Nerf Herder - Nosering Girl
The Crypt Keeper - The Crypt Jam
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Polysics - XCT
Operation Ivy - The Crowd

Reviews!!!

Here's a review I wrote of the S/T EP by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs (yes, that is a very weird name):
http://keikaku.net/reviews/178

I also reviewed Blotto for the same site a while back:
http://keikaku.net/reviews/176

Enjoy!

People

I think that Andrew Jackson Jihad are the bestest thing since the last thing in life that I thought was best (which means that they are super best, nahmahsay?). One thing that kills me, however, is how horribly they are misunderstood by the masses. Let's start off by checking out the lyrics to "Bad Bad Things" below:

Do you remember me?
I killed your family
And now I am going to kill you too
I made your brother bleed
I made your father scream
And I made your mother say those things that she said to me
She said, "Do with me what you want, but please don't hurt my family, don't hurt my family
Take my pride, take my life, take my body but don't take the ones that are close to me.
Oh, do with me what you want, but please don't hurt my family, don't hurt my family
Take my pride, take my life, take my body but don't take the ones that I love."
And I continued without mercy
So I looked into your eyes
And I saw a reflection
Of a coward that you and I both hate very much
And then I grabbed the knife
And I let the blood out of your throat
And I smashed those tiny mirrors inside of your skull
And I got to thinking
If I don't go to hell when I die I might go to heaven
If I don't go to hell when I die I might go to heaven
If I don't go to hell when I die I might go to heaven
If I don't go to hell when I die I might go to heaven
Might go to heaven, but probably not

Does this song promote murder? Is this song about something that AJJ want to do? NO NO NO NO!!! It's a song about a murderer with no soul, integrity, or shred of respect. I will admit that it's a shocking song, but it fits in with AJJ's overall lyrical scope, which will readily admit that the world is a horrible, nasty place at times, but that we should live life to the fullest and be nice to each other in spite of it! Though it may be of little solace to the victims, there is the notion in the song that the murderer has to live with his own self-hatred, and what is the ultimate goal in life but to be happy with oneself?

Some guy named Scientistrock reviewed the AJJ album for punknews and said this:

The simplicity of the music allows the vocals to come to forefront on this record. Bonnette’s nasally warble fits the music pretty perfectly. He passionately delivers lyrics that are sometimes disturbing, sometimes uplifting, but always clever and honest. On first listen, the songs are hysterical. But with repeated listens, laughter turns to contemplation. Bonnette explores motifs as varied as the duality of human nature, his own troubled past, the ethical implications of drug use and burning houses, all with a mix of sharp sarcasm and meaningful insight. Take, for instance, the following line from “People II: The Reckoning”: “There is someone in your head waiting to fucking strangle you.” That line is inherently funny (it almost always elicits a chuckle from me), but the song as a whole demands you pay serious attention to it. And that seems to be the trap that Andrew Jackson Jihad gets stuck in. Most listeners (at least, most people I’ve shown this to) have trouble getting past the humor.

Apparently his circle of acquaintances are equally dense as some of mine are as well (not all of you, sorry!). Overall, Scientistrock's review is pretty spot on about how clever and inspired AJJ are lyrically, but I will disagree with him when he refers to singer Sean Bonnette's "somewhat twisted world view" later on in the review. Is it twisted to acknowledge the inhumane and cruel elements of life but choose to remain optimistic and friendly in spite of said fact? Judging AJJ by the utter desperation of certain select songs is really irresponsible, since those songs fit in with their overall oeuvre of sad vs. happy songs as the temporary sadness that will ultimately be overcome by the human spirit, as this song below, "Jesus Saves", demonstrates:

There will come a day when our cells won't regenerate
and everyone you know will rot away, rot away
Your friends and enemies and all your family
we will all be buried in the ground, in the ground
So make the most of it.
Life's too short to fuck with.

Once an hour a day I get very sad
Once an hour a day I get depressed
When that hour is over I start to feel okay
because I'm reminded I'll rot away, rot away.

I don't have much time to hang out here and cry
and though that may feel nice I can't do that everyday

I've had a lot of friends and they've done a lot of drugs
and those drugs made my friends rot away, rot away
They say that Jesus saves but Jesus doesn't care
because he is in a grave, in a grave
Let's be our own God, take care of ourselves and the ones that we love

The ending lyrics are super shocking, totally bucking the Christian tradition so prevalent in our country, but more than the shock, the lyrics that follow are downright amazing when they suggest that we take the fate of humanity into our hands and that we love and care for our fellow man as if it were a mandate of some inate human code, not just some religious commandment.

Amen, brothers, AMEN!

Updatezors

Oh HEWWO!
I made a flickr account. You can see it here:
http://flickr.com/photos/bobbaloo5/

There you can see some photos I took of Bomb The Music Industry at the Asian Man Records tour stop in San Jose, June 6. What a tight show. I'll be posting video from the San Francisco and San Jose shows when I have some time. (I missed my radio show last week because I was at the San Francisco stop).

Which leads me to today: I'll be missing my radio show to see another show this week! Sooo... see you next week loyal fans! The online streaming is back online again at kscu.org.

Stupid stuff pt. 3,004,286,740

A few weeks ago there was a scare here in Japantown, as the firemen came and closed off 6th Street between Jackson and Taylor. It turns out there was a gas leak at the recently closed cuban restaurant. Now, with the demise of the restaurant there, that makes for three empty and decrepit buildings on 6th Street! The way I see it, either someone's going to come in and spend HELLZOF money to fix these places up, or the next earthquake is going to level them all. Hmm...



They've also been installing all these granite benches around Japantown commemorating all the historic buildings in the area with a little chiseled blurb. That's money well spent, eh...?



Also, I ventured up to the INVISIBLE BICYCLE mural in San Francisco, at the end of the alley on Quincy St. I highly suggest that everyone go check it out for themselves... AMAZING!

May 29, 2008

La Plebe - Plebe Por Vida
Molotov - Frijolero
The Night Marchers - In Dead Sleep (I Snore ZZZZ)
The Specials - Little Bitch
Bomb The Music Industry! - I Don't Love You Anymore
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Lemuria - Buzz
Track Star - This Is Number Forty Two
Enon - Disposable Parts
Underground Railroad to Candyland - Yuppie Hip Hop Ad
The Briefs - Poor & Weird
Slow Gherkin - He's Gotta Go
Twinkle - The Candidate
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The Queers - Teenage Bonehead
Hot Snakes - XOX
The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta
Spandecks - Paranoia
I Sing The Body Electric! - I Do
The Slackers - Please Decide
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Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Nate Kavanaugh & The Replacematts - Nightcap
Weezer - I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
Guided By Voices - A Contest Featuring Human Beings
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Great Communicator
The Pharmacy - Five Five Five
Death Cab For Cutie - Cath...
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Islands - Rough Gem
Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
Supergrass - Alright
Subtle - The Crow
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Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Alison
The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
The Owls - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The Magnetic Fields - Three-Way
Andrew WK - Get Ready to Die
Dillinger Four - Open and Shut
Gunmoll - Less Than You Hoped For
Alkaline Trio - Help Me
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Andrew Jackson Jihad - Let Us Get Murdered
Good Hustle - Pygar
Ging Nang Boyz - I Don't Wanna Die

May 22, 2008

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
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The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
Lemuria - Pants
Underground Railroad to Candyland - Over and O'er
Modest Mouse - Interstate
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The Pharmacy - Five Five Five
The Hold Steady - Cattle and the Creeping Things
Mission of Burma - Ballad of Johnny Burma
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Frightened Rabbit - Who'd You Kill Now?
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Slow Gherkin - Sally Boulevard
The Shins - So Says I
An Horse - Postcards
The Unicorns - Ghost Mountain
Death Cab For Cutie - Blacking Out the Friction
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Mates of State - Help Help
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Thurston Moore - FRI/END
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The New Trust - Wake Up, It's The Nineties
Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
Boilermaker - Ladyfinger
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At The Drive In - Rolodex Propaganda
Jawbox - FF=66
Avail - New #2
Crimpshrine - Trying Too Hard
Dillinger Four - doublewhiskeycokenoice
This Is My Fist! - You Sank My Battleship
Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon
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The Thermals - A Stare Like Yours
The Night Marchers - Panther In Crime
Hockey Night - Saturday Night Gallop
The HOLiDAYS - Friends
Imperial Teen - Butch
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Scared of Chaka - Wanna Make It Happen
Silworm - Wet Firecracker
Helium - I'll Get You, I Mean It
Jawbreaker - The Boat Dreams From the Hill
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Superchunk - Her Royal Fisticuffs
Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts
Weezer - Across the Sea

Frowning of a Lifetime

After posting up that lil' comic review a few days back, I just felt like I should hype up my boy BILL down in Lancaster, author of FROWNING OF A LIFETIME. He posts an online comics journal of sorts, and I really like how he captures the exciting moments in everyday life through his scatterbrained single panels masterpieces. Super good stuff, if I do say so myself.

This comic, below, was one that I thought was particularly goofy, and sort of unrepresentative of his normal stuff, but still very entertaining.

O HAI

Here's an amazing feature about a lolcat mural in San Francisco. GENIUS!!!

Also, peep this guy's awesome lolcat license plate!!! For those of you who know me, this license plate is the find of the millenium!!!

It's funny 'cause it's racist