Category: signs n such

life is so beautiful…..

October 5th, 2009

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someone wrote DOGBALLS in the sidewalk

June 15th, 2008

check it out, someone wrote DOGBALLS in the sidewalk

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May 3rd, 2008

look at this guy’s bag

it’s incredible

When I saw it I was so moved that on the spot I composed and performed an ode called WHAT A BRO BUT OH! THAT BAG and was rewarded with light applause from the small crowd that had gathered.

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à¹‘Û©ÛžÛ©à¹‘ Michigan Adventure à¹‘Û©ÛžÛ©à¹‘

April 15th, 2008

I meant to post this closer to when it happened, but I drove to see my family in Michigan a week ago and took some cool pictures and acquired at least one annecdote

oh and I guess by family I meant WARMER MILKS

I bought this tape from them, POT 5, it has duct tape on it and when I tried to put it in my walkman the walkman’s lid just fell off, the cassette cut through it like butter

that’s about the coolest thing a tape can do, I think, and now I have to use my walkman with the lid broken off

now here’s some mics pisc of thrift stores and bathrooms

I bought these for like four bucks total: a broken transcribing machine and this crazy toy thing, hopefully I can make them do something that’s worth at least four dollars

here’s my cool dog

ANNECDOTE ALERT - I was at my dad’s house and this high school girl came to the door selling candy or something for her sports team, and when I answered the doorbell she just looked at me for a second and asked if there was a grown up home, and I was like NO and she left.

that’s all for now I guess

PCR3 is going through production issues but it’s going to be the best yet, here’s one new comic that will hopefully add context to the second part

PEACE OUT

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a noncomprehensive list of stores on my street* whose names end in ‘plus’

October 30th, 2007

Dollar Value Plus

Arizona Dollar Plus

92 Cents Plus

Corky’s Discount Item +

Insurance Plus

Mega Dollar Day Plus

Mo Rugs Plus (closed???)

Express Dollar Plus

yeah my neighborhood rules

*N Clark St between 7200N and 6400N (here)

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dude look at this mp3 bro

October 28th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/100907-good_evening.mp3

It sounds pretty good, I think, and it goes through a bunch of different things.

The noise at the beginning is a mic running into the rng from the previous post, actually it’s the way it sounded before I soldered it, because while I haven’t really tested it a whole lot since I put it together for real, it definitely doesn’t work right. I really need to figure out what I messed up, because it sounded amazing in the breadboard. [Ed: ok maybe that first sound is something else / in addition to the rng, I forget... it's definitely in there somewhere, though]

If you look at the date you’ll notice it’s a few weeks old, but I just cut it out and encoded it and put it online, so it’s new to you. We’ve got a bunch of meandering recordings, sometimes it’s hard to pick out a discrete section, but this one is cool, give it a whirl.

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whatever I do it’s right

October 4th, 2007

ok so I’m starting this post with the intention of it being a long post, so bear with me it might be a long post, but to keep things clear the thesis of the first part of the post is that HEALTH FUCKING ROCKS

Yesterday, I was recording Yea Big and Kid Static for Airplay - they are also amazing, incidentally - and when they were hyping their upcoming show, they mentioned a band called Health, which triggered something in my memory because I guess I downloaded their album a while ago, and anyway this whole chain of events led me to Reggie’s Live tonight.

The website said the show started at 8, so I got there at 8:45… and was the first person there! and the only person there until 9! and the first band didn’t go on until 9:45! But anyway I am kind of used to being early/alone (to shows I mean in life I am generally late/alone) and the story is not about me, nor is it about the first band who did boring dance-punk/synth-pop and fucking sucked and if that wasn’t their first show ever then I hope it’s their last ahahaha BOOYA. Ok, they weren’t that bad but they were fricking bush league and I thought up that line and didn’t want to waste it.

Yea Big and Kid Static were up next and totally slew, it was much better to see them when I am not the sole audience member, the amount of enthusiasm I can show is woefully inadequate. The penultimate act was Crime Novels, a fun burst of noisy-hardcorey-shouting into a telephone and running into the crowd. I approve.

The three tiny LA-hip dudes who I assumed were HEALTH were, plus some long-haired, bearded metal dude on drums who started things off by beating the crap out of the drums for a warm-up vocal chant. Each non-drummer had a guitar (two guitars and one bass guitar) and a little briefcase of pedals, and it was cool when they started off playing some jagged guitar stuff, but the best moment of the whole night was when they all simultaneously threw off the guitars, dropped to their pedal cases, and turned their effected mics on, pointing them at amps and screaming and everything exploded in ring modulated feedback. The whole set ruled, the drummer kept hittin those drums real hard, in complex rhythms that are hard to headbang to (those are the best kind), while the rest of the guys made all sorts of noise. Overall it was amazing, they totally blew me away.

On an unrelated note, on the way home I stopped to buy some pop, and this is the receipt that came with my 24 pack of Diet Coke:

According to my fly new stapler, which is the closest thing I have to a ruler in my room, the receipt is about 10.5″ x 3″, like a third of a sheet of letter paper. It just seems like kind of a ridiculous amount of paperwork for a single item, that’s all.

who wants to go to this:
http://www.chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8590
I just saw the lineup and am seriously considering a trip to the great city of Detroit…

I left out some stuff I was going to write, so this post’s not that long, and to tell the truth I didn’t even finish last night, it’s actually tonight now, and I wrote everything that happened last night as if it had happened tonight, but it didn’t, tonight did.

ta ta for now

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Happy Tooth fever is sweeping the nation

September 18th, 2007

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she’s aware of her implant

July 4th, 2007

They closed that Salvation Army at 55-whatever Clark. It sucks, that was like the closest one outside of Evanston, and it was kind of my favorite. I’m not sure why, it had the same stupid vcrs-and-nothing-else electronics selection as everywhere else in the city, but I liked it for some reason.

Here’s some cool shirts from another place:

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Pussy Control, a photo essay for bp.com

June 27th, 2007

Here are some pictures of signs and what the signs would say if they were instead about pussy control:

107A

On Pussy Control

PUSSY
CONTROL
HUMPS

15
M.P.H.

WASH HANDS
(LÃ¡vese las manos)

For Pussy Control

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