bike messenger boyfriend

2010-11-23T11:33:00.001-08:00

2010-07-07T23:45:00.000-07:00

You wanna see my alligator lizard?

2010-07-05T22:34:00.000-07:00

2010-07-04T23:26:00.001-07:00

I've been putting in some major work lately.

2010-06-30T12:02:00.000-07:00

musical shaggs

2010-06-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

i'm not sure how to react to this... i've always had a softspot for the shaggs... as sad as they are sweet...
somehow they always reminded me of this sandwich i used to love as a lttle kid... balogna and jelly... it doesn't make any sense, and by all accounts it's gross and wrong... but it was perfect for what it was right then.

Outsiders No More: Shaggs Musical Coming in 2011

drogas

2010-06-05T13:42:00.000-07:00

4AM - Gary Numan's Psychedelic Hot Tub Party by 4AMSOUNDS

This is probably the audience for this one.

2010-05-29T13:26:00.000-07:00

Billy Paul - East 4AM's Shaman Mix by DJ4AM

My new edits are up on Soundcloud...

2010-05-27T20:07:00.001-07:00

Buddy Leezle - The Formula 4AM's Like 96 Illbient DubMix by DJ4AM
Atlantic Starr - "Love Rules" 4AM's Lunchroom Table Rework by DJ4AM
Lemonade Big Weekend 4AM ReMix by DJ4AM
Fleetwood Mac - "Lovin' In Store" 4AM's more hiss than a rattlesnake remix by DJ4AM
U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday DJ4AM's Subliminal Rework by DJ4AM
Fleetwood Mac Hypnotized 4AM Rework by DJ4AM

...and some classics as well...cheers.

for you

2010-05-23T16:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgghEc5_xk

embedding disabled by someone elses lame request

mor(m)ons

2010-05-19T18:47:00.000-07:00

endless celestial sex, lucifer and his brother jesus, and apparently black people are cursed?

Rod Serling on Mike Wallace interview

2010-04-30T00:06:00.001-07:00

Rod Serling on Mike Wallace interview

2010-04-30T00:06:00.000-07:00

You're welcome.

2010-04-18T15:55:00.000-07:00

The Scene

2010-03-20T05:23:00.000-07:00

Detroit techno.

I didn't even smoke my last joint, I just went to bed...

2010-03-02T02:16:00.000-08:00

I had not heard of Butch Willis until 8 minutes 51 seconds ago, I was so much the poorer for it.

cover me

2010-02-25T20:20:00.000-08:00

Disclosure

2010-02-25T19:52:00.000-08:00

We've been here the whole time, right under your noses, in your schools, churches, government, military, shoot... even on TV.

Springsteen covers Suicide

2010-02-24T23:19:00.000-08:00

A gift for you.

2010-02-20T20:01:00.000-08:00

No, not even my thought process is random enough to conceive of this. There's a fine line between madness and genius... this one starts with an "M."

street trash.

2010-02-11T08:30:00.001-08:00

dude

2010-01-29T19:54:00.001-08:00

how to dance to dubstep.

2010-01-24T10:44:00.000-08:00

fake blood... memories.

2010-01-24T01:34:00.000-08:00

back in the day.

when i was young, i'm not a kid anymore... but sometimes i sit and wish i was a kid again.

let's go...

2009-12-03T09:12:00.000-08:00

watch the whole thing... it will jugga-blow-yer-mind!

Kraftwerk Also Invented Stoner Metal

2009-11-21T06:11:00.000-08:00

1971, the birth of postmodern metal.

Heavy Metal Kids, from Kraftwerk 4, Live on Bremmen Radio
Full album

doobies

2009-11-20T00:04:00.001-08:00

Touch Down!!!

2009-11-13T13:01:00.001-08:00

lalala

2009-11-08T07:39:00.001-08:00

pump you up?

2009-11-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

exercise is creepy.

and the womens version that someone set to a missy elliot song?

yooouuutuuube.com

2009-09-24T21:26:00.000-07:00

someone made this site that will
take any youtube video and tile it
across your computer screen
it makes good things gooder

do it yerself.
here

I figured that this belongs on this blog...

2009-09-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Casual Observer

2009-09-12T13:08:00.001-07:00

here are some more of my recent photos

Psychedelic Pink, Blake Edwards

2009-09-08T02:32:00.000-07:00

Casual Observer

2009-09-01T00:52:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of my recent photographs
enjoy the beauty
ENJOY IT!!!!!

people of wallmart=the better angels of our nature.

2009-08-27T13:05:00.000-07:00

or something like that...
this blog is ummm... fantastic?

seriously... people of wallmart
i'm gonna add it to the better than us tab right now.

inspired by the monkey post.

2009-08-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

part 1

part 2

they do not want to wear little hats...

2009-08-24T04:56:00.000-07:00

via drowningkittens

animatronic hot dogs....

2009-08-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

if fer some reason you can't wade through this banksy vs. bristol museum video... start around 1:35... awesome animatronic action...

speaking of absurdly creepy animatronics...

2009-08-18T02:02:00.000-07:00

you can live forever... but robots are gonna take over the world... k?

2009-08-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

and a one eyed film maker trying to build a camera eye... for good measure.

EYEBORG-- The Two Week Trial from eyeborg on Vimeo.

The Chickening

2009-08-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

The Chickening is a new video game.
In it you play agent 69-420, a chicken that shoots lasers. Out of it's eyes.
Download for free here

Dinosaurs: Big, Awesome, And Really Know How To Party

2009-08-03T05:47:00.000-07:00

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I want to become a film studies teacher, then conduct seminars on dinosaur movies of the 1990's.

Mad I tell you... MAAAAAAAD!

2009-07-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

"Ragtime [music] is syncopation gone mad...

...and its victims should be dealt with in the same way in which you deal with a dog who has rabies, with a dose of lead..."

-Edward Baxter Perry (Late 1800's-Early 1900's)

Wow, imagine if Mr. Perry had heard Public Enemy.

DJ Requests: Translated...

2009-07-25T04:04:00.001-07:00

Now first let me say that if you come into a club where I am playing and dance, smile, have a great time, I am very grateful. However, I am a people watcher, mediator and lover of language. I realize that what people say isn't always what they mean. So here is the first of what I'm sure will be many installments of what I like to call:

DJ Requests: Translated...

Basically I'm going to translate what people are really saying when they walk up to a DJ at a club and request music. Ready, aiiight let's go.

Request: Jeremiah "Birthday Sex"

(One R Kelly is enough per lifetime.)

Means: Hey, can you kill the dancefloor, make everyone stop dancing so I can commit a PDA with my boyfriend / girlfriend and make everyone uncomfortable?

or... Hey, can you make everyone stop dancing so we can all stand around akwardly for about 5 minutes.

Request: Nelly Furtado

Means: Hey, I'm really only 12 years old and I want to get drunk and hear my song before security finds out my I.D. is fake.

Request: Hey man, play some classic Hip-Hop.
Means: I'm over 30 and I want to prove to my friends that I can still do the running man and the Kid 'N Play kickstep.

Request: Play some T.I.

(How come this man doesn't know how to wear a hat?)

Means: I like songs that go "AYYYYYYY!" and when the song goes "AYYYYYYYY!" I like to pump my fist in the air and go "AYYYYYYY!"

Request: Play some T-Pain.

(When I was a child I was deathly afraid of a metal toothed monster waiting in the closet to eat me, or my Grammy's, wow, he has Grammy's)

Means: I'm tone deaf.

Request: Play Lady GaGa
Means: Don't you just love "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" as much as I do?

Footnote: If you are a male and straight you have no business pumping your fist to Lady GaGa and singing along.

Request: Hey man, do you have any "real" Hip-Hop.
Means: I will be leaving this club alone.

Request: Play some Akon.

Means: I'm really tone deaf and I like to sing along.

Request: Play some Kanye West.

Means: I hate music (and books apparently).
Footnote: If the requestor is dressed like Kanye when he makes the request it's okay because he's just preparing for his role as Theo in the updated stage revival of The Cosby Show.

Request: Drake
Means: I used to really love DeGrassi High.

or I like songs that sound like Lil' Wayne but aren't by Lil' Wayne.

Request: Master P

Means: I think it's 1994.

Request: Beyonce "Single Ladies"

Means: You hate me.

Request: Prince.

Means: You're awesome.

Now before we wrap up this installment I have to make a couple comments about club fashion. I am a male so feel free to correct me on this but:

If you wear a backless dress and or top isn't it tacky to have your entire bra showing?

FauxHawks are dead.
Colored fauxhawks and deader.
Colored fauxhawks with a gotee and an Ed Hardy-esque shirt, deadest.

I love you all.

-Jason

Get u a book (forgive the bad grammar)

2009-07-23T21:40:00.000-07:00

Books are where people keep knowledge, ideas, memories, emotions, past lives and the love of language. Through the invention of written language, one can commit complex emotions and ideas to paper, preserving them for as long as the words survive. You can make your mark, you can express your ideas, they will survive, untainted and pure, immortal, as long as there is someone there to read and experience them. The act of reading is meditative, it teaches patience, but that is also subjective.

In centuries past people were more patient than our society is today, because that was just how life was, no television, no movies, no internet. To gain knowledge and entertainment you had to prolong the payoff. Knowledge took research, entertainment took a commitment, to read is to invest time into a process, you're not watching a half-hour sitcom or reading a tabloid full of gossip, a book might take hours, days, maybe weeks to complete, but in the process you absorb subtleties, nuances and complex emotions that require patience and commitment to absorb and enjoy. This all translates to beauty. The process is just as important as the outcome, the journey is where the rewards come from. In a sense you are "stopping to smell the flowers."

As a consequence of our high tech lifestyles we expect instant returns on anything we do. We no longer require patience and as a consequence, our society and our art suffers. Sure our scientists, now, are light years beyond our ancestors in technology, but that doesn't mean that we as a society are smarter, it means that THEY are smarter. The separation between the "haves" and the "have-nots" grows everyday, not only in monitary wealth, but in spiritual and intellectual wealth.

This, in my opinion, is no accident. The more illiterate we are as a society, the easier we are to control. The less we expect from our art and entertainment, the less we will be given. The less we know about politics, the easier it is for politicians to take advantage of us. It's all relative. We as a people have been in a steady state of de-evolution for centuries. If students today had to take Latin and Astronomy they would lose their minds, most people in society today can only read on a Jr. High School level. Reading frustrates them, therefore they don't learn, don't grow and become easily positioned mannequins for control and exploitation.

I'm not saying you can't watch silly movies or read fluff-pieces in the paper, we all need to turn our brains off in order to stay sane. However, we need to turn them on too. We need to learn patience, to enjoy the journey, the process, not to focus solely on the end, but to realize that the knowledge and reward are attained on the road to the end. We need to stop being so obsessed with youth, your life isn't over after High School, it's just beginning, so live damnit!

As a DJ and musician I see this daily. The most popular songs on the radio and in the clubs are basically nursery rhymes and jumprope songs over the most primitive of arrangement and melody. They are the most basic of ideas and emotions and sure, some of them are catchy, some of them are fun, most of them are crap. The quality control is gone, people don't demand greatness, so they don't get it and in the process they devolve. It effects every aspect of society.

Sexism, racism, ignorance, war, greed... all products of ignorance.

I'm not saying you can't have fun. I'm not saying you can't have your guilty pleasures. I'm not saying there isn't room for everyone. Just make sure there really IS room for everyone and make sure you take in more than just mental junk food. Being intellectual is fun, keeps you from being bored, makes you fun at parties and grows your sense of balance, awareness and humor...word.

"Dig" & "Dig (Deeper)": Groovy Jazz mixes for download:

2009-07-22T18:28:00.001-07:00

Here's another couple from the DJ4AM vaults. Volume 1 & 2 of my "Dig" series, highlighting classic funky Jazz and spiritual grooves. V.1 contains tracks that have been pretty famously sampled, V.2 does get a bit deeper.

Enjoy...

Click to download:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VWBZ47T1

Click to download:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PYP80R8F

2009-07-22T12:24:00.000-07:00

via thesmokingsection

Rainy Wednesday (PsychedelicSingerSongwriterSoul) mix download

2009-07-21T20:58:00.000-07:00

I made these mixes a few years ago to highlight some of my favorite experimental 70's dontempo soul.I mixed them with a lot of ambient noise and record static...

DJ4AM presents "Rainy Wednesday" Volume 1 & 2...enjoy.

Links:

Volume 1:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PE4FGNIG

Volume 2:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q7IMQPRE

Where are all of the female MC's? (free mix download)

2009-07-21T15:31:00.000-07:00

I've been hearing a lot of people lately talking about women rappers and if there are any. Even my dad, as we watched Queen Latifah on Good Morning America, asked if there were many female rappers. There ARE many, however, we are dealing with a male dominated industry and many, very talented female rappers are overlooked. I've always loved female MC's because there are so many dope, unrecognized talents out there who rap from a different perspective than most people are used to hearing. I put together this mix a few years ago while I was working at Amoeba SF in the hip-hop section after a customer asked me where all of the female rap cd's were, I was ashamed that I could only come up with a handful of in-print titles. So a tribute, retrospective, compedium was necessary. I present the DJ4AM classic mix "The Ladykillers," because these ladies be killin' these mic's. It's in no way complete, but it's a pretty solid start.

Word.

Click the link to download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JMFWM5AF

(original cover circa 2004)

goth. shoegayz. rap. cold wave. acid.

2009-07-20T16:05:00.000-07:00

...somehow this just feels right... more than right... it feels like everything.
this is how everything feels...
someone (coralcola) made a near perfect summertime mix... and it makes me feel like everything is exactly as it should be in the world.
side a
side b
(found this on the lemur blog)

Slowed & Surrealed (mix download)

2009-07-20T03:38:00.000-07:00

I've been a fan of "Screw Music" (the Houston based legacy of slowing down music) for a few years now. I recently found that peeps were slowing down all kinds of music, it really gives it an eerie quality. So I gave it a whirl.

Instead of "Chopped & Screwed" or "Slowed & Throwed," I call my take "Slowed and Surrealed." It's less of a DJ mix and more of a production experiment (slowed, flanged, bassed and reverbed).

DJ4AM - Slowed & Surrealed 1:

The Flamingoes "I Only Have Eyes For You"
Jimi Hendrix "...Electric Ladyland"
Bob Marley "Slave Driver" (Jamaican Version)
Prince "The Beautiful Ones"
The Doors "Indian Summer"
R.A.M.P "Everybody Loves The Sunshine"
Lenny Kravitz "Black Girl"
The Notations "I'm Still Here"
The Tequniques "Love Is Not A Gamble"
The Deftones "Teenager"

This is some real late night hype, downtempo for the end of the world (Le Fin Absolute Du Monde).

Get U Some!

Dear Def Jam recording "artist" Jeremiah...

2009-07-19T02:36:00.001-07:00

As a club DJ, music fan & human being... I feel that you owe humanity an apology for your new "R&B" single.

Not only for me, but all of the future children that your "song" will no doubt "inspire" into existance.

(If this becomes the new "birthday song" I will officially retire from society, move to the mountains, hunt squirrels for food and use large leaves as bathroom tissue).

Oh and... "Oh yeah..."

Thanks to DJ Platurn for the heads up...

lame discovery...

2009-07-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

it's like they're the same song...

Moonlight Feels Hella Right

2009-07-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

The "War and Peace" of 4AM edits...

2009-07-16T23:14:00.000-07:00

Edit Videos (back catalog)

2009-07-14T19:03:00.000-07:00

New 4AM edit videos

2009-07-14T01:20:00.001-07:00

i'm speechless.

2009-07-11T21:31:00.000-07:00

pearl merkins. and's that's just the tip of the iceberg...

(fyi, this video is widescreen hd, so i suggest watching it at youtube to get the full effect of the awesome)

dating is hard.

2009-07-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

2009-07-07T18:39:00.000-07:00

OK so I'm not totally sure how I came across this series but it really needs to be viewed. It's called 'green porno' and stars Isabella Rossellini - yes the same woman who was in Blue Velvet and used to model for Vogue. I'll let her take it from there...

lookin ass kittie

2009-06-30T12:05:00.000-07:00

Astronomy

2009-06-22T04:16:00.001-07:00

new album in the works...word

vegetable orchestra

2009-06-21T17:31:00.000-07:00

(seriously... at least watch the last couple of minutes)

D.O.A.

2009-06-20T05:41:00.000-07:00

Last month Jay-Z proclaimed the death of autotune, a digital effect with it's roots in analog vocoders developed early in the 20th century.

Originally developed with the telecommunications industry in mind, the technology was eventually discovered by musicians who began to incorperate it into compositions as a novelty.

The Sonovox

Here's a clip of Alvino Rey whose 'singing guitar' used technology that would eventually become the Talkbox.

Along with the vocoder, the talkbox was frequently dismissed as a gimmick.
Nonetheless these devices that electronically merge the voice with instrumentation found their way onto a huge number of records, across genres and across decades throughout the 20th century.

Around The World Daft Punk, directed by Michel Gondry (not)

Battlecat using a Talkbox.

Mack Maine with Lil Wayne on autotune

Autotune, B.o.B.

weegee's distortions

2009-06-16T09:32:00.001-07:00

from matthewmarks.com:

"Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), known as Weegee, began work as a freelance photojournalist for New York tabloids in 1935. A decade later, he became famous after the publication of his first book, Naked City. His images of car crashes, murder scenes, and life in the streets of the city are widely known and enormously influential. Less well known, however, is the work to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life, what he called “his ‘distortions’, ‘creative photography’, or most often his ‘art’.”

sky mall

2009-06-14T22:20:00.000-07:00

i fucking love sky mall...
for today let's just focus on the lawn and garden section.
bigfoot

peeing boy

bionic gardening glove-elite

poison oak tree sculpture

and my absolute FAVORITE!!!
zombie of montclaire moors

caturday.

2009-06-06T11:44:00.000-07:00

seriously... my wife refuses to leave the bed and keeps teetering between full on sleep and sleepy faced mumblings where she explains to me that it's caturday... and i wouldn't understand because i'm funemployed...
...there are so many ways that the interweb has changed to world we live in...

caturdays are weird.

for some reason, i've been severely lax on the showing the interweb things i like on the interweb front lately... well no more.

2009-06-05T14:23:00.000-07:00

everything is terrible
not that there's much of a chance you don't know about this yet... i mean, if you are bothering to read this blog, you are likely severely addicted to radical insanity, pointless/pointed media, and possibly drugs... or maybe you just know somebody who knows somebody, and you really like inconsistency in updates. but i digress, did i have a point? yes... yes i did. everything is in fact terrible. and i very much appreciate people who can distill shit media down to it's crunchy, bitter awesome. and that's exactly what this is about... and yeah, thats right... i put the same link in 4 times now... so fucking go there (5) all-ready. it's not all perfect, but it is consistently horrible in an oft perfect way. scroll through the older posts... waste some time... if the numbers are right... theres a good chance you're unemployed... so have fun with it...
here's a taste... welcome to my mind.

why am i so different?

Christy Karacas on Youtube

2009-06-03T09:24:00.000-07:00

via selfademus

After like 20 seconds into this cartoon I was thinking 'this reminds me of Superjail'.

I looked up the names in the links, and found out that this is beacuse Christy Karacas worked on both of them. True story.

wow...

2009-05-12T16:44:00.000-07:00

uhhhhhh...

Taste The Waters Of Freedom

2009-05-08T03:27:00.000-07:00

narrated by Orson Welles

Hi 'n' Lo,

2009-04-01T04:32:00.000-07:00

A new Ruben Ortiz Torres video just showed up on youtube.
It's described by it's author as:

"The missing link between Brancusi, constructivism and the low rider pick up movement of the late eighties and early nineties."

I think you could also add Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Fernand Leger to that list.

Last up, is the first work by Ruben Ortiz Torres I ever saw. I guess it's his most famous.

It still looks and sounds good after all these years, especially on youtube.

It belongs mixed in-between a whole list of low bit rate rips of constructivist/futurist films and 3gp's of radical beds and hydraulic hops.

they just don't make 'em like this anymore.

2009-02-27T17:26:00.001-08:00

ads, that is. i'm sure the valium is still the same.

HYPNOTIZED

2009-02-25T19:21:00.000-08:00

So the re-edits have officially started...

First up is a sleeper from the second incarnation of Fleetwood Mac called "Hypnotized."

Here's the original version taken off of YouTube:

The track is from the 1973 LP "Mystery To Me,"

a great album led by Bob Welch...

...who left the band before Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks could make them pop superstars.

Hopefully I've done this great track some justice...

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MY RE-EDIT OF "HYPNOTIZED"

FEVER

2009-02-25T19:20:00.001-08:00

Next remix up is "Fever" by Peggy Lee:

Here's the original from YouTube:

I gave it some bump...

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MY PEGGY LEE REMIX

MORE FLEETWOOD MAC - NESS

2009-02-25T19:19:00.000-08:00

2 more edits for your consideration...

The first is a later Fleetwood Mac song "Everywhere"

from their 1988 release "Tango In The Night:"

Here's a live version from 1987:

I made it a bit longer and more club friendly...

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MY "EVERYWHERE REMIX"

Next up is "Easy To Fall" by Bob Welch from his post Fleetwood Mac solo LP "French Kiss."

This LP has my favorite Bob Welch solo cut "Sentimental Lady":

Love that song....

However, I chose "Easy To Fall" because I felt like if I remixed it it would work on a dancefloor (I may do "Sentimental Lady" later, in the meantime you can find it as part of my 70's AM / FM tribute mix DJ4AM/FM Presents a ghostly 70's radio composite).

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MY REWORK OF BOB WELCH'S "EASY TO FALL"

I gave it a major overhaul in arrangement, no disrespect, but I felt like the string parts were just to good not to exploit...word.

thanks and enjoy...

Jason Chavez

DOUBLE DUTCH LIVE SET

2009-02-25T19:17:00.000-08:00

I played a pretty solid downtempo, reggae and classic hip-hop set at Double Dutch last night.

It's got a couple of my edits mixed in alongside Bjork, Portishead, D-Nice, Chi-Ali, The Wascals, Toni Tone Tony, Desmond Dekker, Group Home, T-Love and an edit by my homeboy Kev.

word

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD DJ4AM LIVE AT DOUBLE DUTCH IN SF 2-24-09

old new scarface... porn?

2009-02-24T18:07:00.000-08:00

calling planet earth

2009-02-22T11:01:00.000-08:00

2009-02-21T21:00:00.000-08:00

they just don't make music videos like this anymore...thank you screamin jay.

pinwheel!

2009-02-20T22:21:00.000-08:00

opening:

chapi chapo:

hattytown:

simon in the land of chalk drawings:

le manege enchante:

today's special:

bunny in a suitcase:

ebeneezer:

emily:

obama's elf

2009-02-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

Charles and Ray Eames On Youtube

2009-02-17T01:03:00.000-08:00

Here are some corporate commissions by the husband and wife design team Charles and Ray Eames.

The concluding statement in the commercial for the polaroid SX 70 by Phillip Morrison manages to summarize the ideals that inform all the Eames' design work. It stresses an optimistic and humane take on modernism, in which technology is seen as the ultimate creative enterprise.

I find this attitude especially moving since it comes from a era reeling from the recent discovery of the destructive power of atomic weapons, and a technophobic skepticism of applied science could be so easily justified.

I'm definitely looking forward to visiting the Eames Office, and some of their buildings when I'm in LA.

Journey Plays Softball

2009-02-08T11:33:00.000-08:00

really really nice and really fresh and comfortable.

c'mon people.

2009-02-05T22:29:00.000-08:00

Skeleton Dance V Skeleton Frolic

2009-01-24T12:59:00.000-08:00

Which is the superior skeleton cartoon
SKELETON DANCE

SKELETON FROLIC

lotsabamas

2009-01-23T22:25:00.000-08:00

woody guthrie.

2009-01-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

woody guthrie.
for some reason or other... i think it had to do with the mention of the game monopoly, i've been thinking allot about the ludlow massacre recently... rough thing to have stuck in the brain though, hard not to obsess over.

The blood of Colorado miners
machinegunned down by Rockefeller’s cops in 1914
forms abstract expressionist smears on canvasses hung
on the boardroom walls of Chase Manhattan Bank
-Sarah Menefee

the ludlow massacre

see how many you can get going at once

2009-01-07T00:24:00.001-08:00

hopital brut

2008-12-27T09:16:00.000-08:00

from le dernier cri, commissioned for french tv

just because

2008-12-23T11:03:00.001-08:00

wow.

2008-12-18T12:16:00.001-08:00

Space Ish

2008-12-17T03:58:00.000-08:00

6000 SUX

2008-12-15T21:35:00.000-08:00

creepy.

2008-12-15T17:34:00.000-08:00

that was the warm up... here's your main event...

cock

2008-12-14T13:46:00.000-08:00

mercy seat

2008-12-13T22:38:00.000-08:00

this song has been an obsession of mine as late... and by that i mean off and on for the last several years... and by this song, i suppose i mean nick cave in general... but with extra emphasis on this song... or not even...
and here is a cash version...
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if yer not completely over it, this is an amazing live version.

you should also check out shivers by boy's next door as well (caves first band when he was like 18 or some shit...).
and then of course there's cave right now...
grinderman is infact awesometastic

Mr. Jones...

2008-12-01T20:20:00.000-08:00

I know you're a CEO and famous rapper and a hustler and a Harlem American Gangster and all of that but...WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN!!!!?

(Does it mean that the sight in your right eye is just peachy?)

Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones...

I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE FRENZY THAT OCCURS EVERY YEAR WHEN...

2008-12-01T20:11:00.000-08:00

...3 BILLION XMAS CD'S HIT THE STORES ALL VYING FOR OUR HOLIDAY DOLLAR.

WHOA!!!!

I've been in the record business for 14 years now and it seems that no artist is above the xmas temptation. Even the most hethanistic rock stars catch the xmas bug, no one is immune. Below is a small cross section of album covers meant to show the ridiculousness of this phenominon (1 or 2 may be fake, but probably only 1):

Now, I'm not an unfeeling heathen, I have a very specific soft spot. When I was a kid the radio stations in Fresno would switch to 24/7 xams mayhem around late November. Every year, me and my mom would wait for one very special song to hit the airwaves and we would always sing along. here you go, Merry Xmas:

THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER RECORDED!!!