Archives: 2007 June

Archives: 2007 June

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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some stuff……………..

June 22nd, 2007

There’s kind of a bunch of stuff I’ve kind of been meaning to talk about, so here goes.

On Monday this band called the Late Severa Wires played a set at wnur. They’re a noise band from Santa Fe with guitar and bass and drums and electronics as well as a turntablist, which is a nice addition, keeps things fresh. The set was pretty nice, I helped record it so hopefully it sounds ok. We played it Tuesday on Expansion Experiment, which you probably missed, and the band played that night at the Empty Bottle, which you probably missed, but fret not! for the live set will be rebroadcast this Saturday on Airplay, and the Late Severa Wires are returning to Chicago to play at Ronny’s on Wednesday. Go / listen, seriously, they’re really good.

http://www.myspace.com/thelateseverawires

In other music news, I saw Warmer Milks last night at SUA, knowing nothing about them other than that one of my friends is always talking about how good they are. They’re so good. The set started off with this pretty drone, which would have been a pretty nice drone except this crackling noise kept creeping in and messing it up. A mistake? no - the static soon took over, just an early example of the weirdness and expectation confoundingness that is Warmer Milks, I guess. Buzzing guitar and bass and randomly bowed violin, then adding in the gutteral vocals, a bit of a verse about “Rock City” that should have been a crescendo for any other band, but instead everything fell away. After a while the singer wandered over to the next group’s drum set and banged for a while, then at some point it ended. If the way I described this makes it sound like it was not a good show, then that’s my fault, because it was a really good show.

http://www.myspace.com/warmermilks

The headliners, Tirra Lirra, were pretty fun, it was like tribal drumming and hypnotic psyche guitar and analog electronics played over the Cure… but mostly in a good way. The group before WM though was this boring post rock trio, and the guitarist made the grossest faces I’ve ever seen, he kept opening his mouth in this really gross way, like the notes he was playing were so frigging emotional he couldn’t help but open his mouth, it was totally gross.

In other music news, Blood Waterfall recorded some new stuff this week. There are a few annoying parts and some good parts, I need to figure out how to keep making good parts while making fewer annoying parts. Overall I like it.

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/061607-grot.mp3

thanks for visiting my webpage everybody

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hella shows coming up

June 13th, 2007

Last night I saw Mouthus and Cousins of Reggae and the Fortieth Day at Elastic. It was actually a five group bill, but I showed up at 9:45 for the 9:00 show and somehow missed two acts - which sucks, Locrian was cool as hell last year. The stuff I did catch was plenty, though, even though you couldn’t really hear Mouthus’ triggered drums most of the time, the guitarist’s post-apocalyptic factory sounds were just nuts. Cousins of Reggae actually kind of sucked for two of their three songs, again the guitar was way too loud, but in the Cousins’ case it was also very stupid sounding. The bald dude from Bloodyminded and some other guy I know I’ve seen somewhere before were the Fortieth Day, kind of a drone thing with Mark rocking out on guitar, along with live video accompaniment - cool abstract black and white loops, I don’t know how you mix video but it was cool.

You most likely missed that show, but DON’T FRET ; there are tons of cool shows in the next few days and weeks and months:

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

Scapels, Double Dagger, Binges, Yukon, Archeopteryx
9PM, RONNYS

I don’t know most of these guys but Binges totally rules

MONDAY, JUNE 18

Bread Fang, Brenmar, DBH, Ohinigosien
9PM, BORIS KARLOFT

I don’t know most of these guys but Boris Karloft totally rules

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

Tirra Lirra, Warmer Milks, Matina, Dax Tran-Caffee
8PM - SOUTH UNION ARTS

16 Bitch Pileup, Burrow, Magic is Kuntmaster
8PM, $5 -ENEMY

Women’s Worth, Binges, Fake Lake
10PM, BORIS KARLOFT

three cool shows in one night? damn.

Then Friday June 29th and Saturday the 30th are FUGUE STATE, a Rebis Records curated drone festival at the Empty Bottle. How cool is that?

Friday, June 29 (6/29):
DRMWPN
Haptic
Goldblood
Matt Clark
The Number None

Saturday, June 30 (6/30):
David Daniell / Sunfish Ensemble
The Fortieth Day + Noise Crush
Good Stuff House
The Zoo Wheel
Glass Bath

Almost everything I mentioned is copied from here, and I’m sure there’s a lot of cool stuff I forgot to mention, so just check that page and go to as many shows as possible forever.

also lookit this:

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flappin his french fry teeth

June 4th, 2007

I really like Marc Bell’s work (2) in the Kramers Ergot books and elsewhere, terribly intricate mixtures of cartoon figures, geometric patterns, alien landscapes, and text, where everything is bizarre but makes sense according to its own tripped out logic. They basically lose everything in the blurry snapshots I linked to, there are all sorts of little jokes and weirdnesses packed in. As it turns out, though, there is/was a whole group of guys doing similarly minded stuff out in Vancouver over the last decade, producing their own zines and riffing off each other’s work, and Marc compiled art from those zines for a book called Nog a Dod.

It came out a little while ago, I think, but I just picked it up. It’s full of psychedelic doodling and non-sequitor humor and photo collages and other kooky stuff. There are a couple cool places where they show how different artists would redraw others’ book page by page in their own style, it’s pretty interesting. I also enjoy the restaurant review column where the guy “reviews” the same fried chicken place in every issue, and the Lord of the Rings comic, and oh it’s all amazing just get the book.

After flipping through half of the book I decided I was inspired and want to do a zine. It’s been a long time since I’ve drawn anything, but I started doing some stuff last night and assuming I don’t lose interest soon (not a safe assumption) I think it’s going to happen. I’m still trying to work out if it will be an online thing or a printed thing - on the one hand online would be much less work/money but on the other paper might make me feel like I actually accomplished something - but stay tuned.

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Summer 2001: Summer of the Shark

June 4th, 2007

never forget

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Blood Waterfall played a show last night

June 2nd, 2007

Me and Pat played some music for people last night after Sonic Celluloid, I guess I should have mentioned the show beforehand but it happened on pretty short notice. It was really good, though, we opened for Fifty Pounds of Grits in a friend’s apartment, and some people liked it and I liked it, so it was good. Now our duo will take a three month hiatus to meditate on the show, but maybe Blood Waterfall will play again sometime????????

This is us training in ten times Earth’s gravity prior to the show:

Oh yeah and Sonic Celluloid was totally amazing.

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