i signed up for this last fm crud a long time ago and gave up when i couldn’t figure out what the point of it was. recently two people asked me if i was on it, so i figured i would start using it again. ……but the thing is none of my tracks are being updated:

what the hell? it’s been stuck on this since forever. there was one week back in october 06 that i listened to a lot of vh, but it’s been stuck ever since. now when people look up what i’ve been listening to and it makes it seems like it is always van halen. last fm you are so not cool.

i’m kinda obsessed with circus/western typefaces as well as serifs that look like this

today i found out about this section of myfonts.com called What the Font that lets you upload the image and gives you close matches based on the sample image. for ex:

I know Rosewood Fill is played out (especially for music flyers), but i don’t think it’s possible for me to get sick of it.

these ducks were total dorks. they saw that young had a bag of bread from about 30 feet away and they waddled over so fast that they kicked up a bunch of dirt. it was too much. mike and young attempted to feed by hand thinking that a duck bill clamping down on the fingers wouldn’t hurt, but they found out that their mouths were full of little rocks and sand. in addition a few ducks hopped up and down trying to grab the bread from our hands. it was comedy. i would like to keep a duck as a pet but that sounds illegal. plus i feel weird about it cause i find duck delectable and ducklicious. yeah, i just wrote that.

i like how the video starts with a duck snatching a
piece of bread off the ground and then running away fast

I didn’t know about this 2-ton elephant seal Minazo until i saw some amusing pics of him with a bucket and his tongue hanging out that made him look special. He kinda reminded me of a character out of a Studio Ghibli movie, like Spirited Away or My Neighbor Totoro.

Anyway, Minazo lived in some aquarium in Japan is famous for being the biggest elephant seal in captivity and liked to carry around a bucket of fish, i am guessing for snacking purposes. He supposedly was also very shy which is surprising because I’ve seen elephant seals fight on The Blue Planet series and they get buck wild bloody. He died in 2005 and Merzbow released a two volume Minazo tribute album with artwork of him sitting on a cloud with bucket in hand.

Somewhat related, I believe the same Japanese aquarium that Minazo lived at is where these poor walruses with big mock cellphones currently reside.

El-P at SXSW a few weeks ago

I bought the new El-P album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead today and it is so so good. I freaking love it. I always thought his production was sonically interesting, especially the stuff he did for Cannibal Ox’s album which i played to death in 01 even though the rapping was kinda bad.

The new album seems more inspired and surprisingly even more creative than the stuff he put out before. You can definitely hear The Bomb Squad influence in his chaotic and dense sounding production, but it isn’t derivative or wannabe at all. He really made it his own sound adding all this Neuromancer atmosphere and I honestly can’t think of anyone that sounds like him. There are so many layers of dissonant samples like sirens and horn stabs but it’s like he ran a Wendy Carlos filter through them or something cause it sounds so big and bleakly futuristic. The drums are detached and abrasive but headnodders at the same time. Like the Bomb Squad’s stuff, the album requires a few listens to pick up on sounds you don’t hear immediately. Sometimes shit is barely audible which i kinda love. Even below all the dissonance, there are some really jaw dropping beautiful moments on it. The synths are on the low end and apocalyptic sounding. With all those elements together, this is the kind of stuff that makes you feel invincible while playing in the headphones. I’m not even mad at the guest spots (marsvoltacoughtrentreznor) because even those tracks are fire. Sometimes Chan Marshall bugs me, but her track rules too. i’ll try to get some playable clips up in a way that doesn’t piss Def Jux off. they are notorious for having their promos audio stamped with the person’s name to pinpoint album leaks.

“Up All Night”

“League of Extraordinary Nobodies”

“Poisenvile Kids No Wins” f. Cat Power

it’s the size of a dog.

i have to say the long black dress + blonde telecaster is thee definition of “sexy & grown”.

you can get all episodes of The!!! Beat on dvd from Dusty Groove

i really didn’t dig I Heart Huckabees and ended up turning it off thinking it was too cutesy and obnoxious to bear. here’s Lily Tomlin & David O. Russell engaging in some epic egomaniac rage on the set with Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffmann, Marky Mark and Isabella Hupert on the sidelines. pretty intense. I would never expect Tomlin to be capable of such vitriol but Russell is another story…

i kinda like Jason Schwartzman for just sitting there in the chair while Russell is screaming, throwing shit and kicking textbooks around him. He doesn’t even flinch, it’s quite amazing. Poor girl in the corner caught a bad one though. In interviews Russell claims to admire Zen Buddhist teachings. oh the irony!

(edit: fox keeps pulling this from youtube and people keep reposting it. i’ll try to keep updating with a working video accordingly until i get tired. or you can check the Defamer link where they refer to it as an “existential cockfight” and have another video with all of them in a car)

my friend Jonny owns this record store in the east village called Good Records. it is often confused with Kanye West’s record label GOOD Recordings, so he often gets these weird audition videotapes, letters and phone calls from random people who want to get at Kanye.

So this one dude’s mom called the store a few months ago asking where to get a jacket Kanye wore in a Rolling Stone spread for the Grammys. Jonny played along and said “Kanye wears strictly Dolce & Gabana. But he only buys it at the D&G store in Italy.”

much time passes by and then he gets this ridiculous letter out of the blue.

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young bought a bike off of craigslist and peer pressured me to buy a “normal” bike with gears and crap.

it’s a 1971 Gitane Gran Sport and the fenders kinda bug me. i already have doubts about it and it’s hard to carry without a straight bar. my boss wants to sell me his wife’s unused Cannondale hybrid bike for $50 cause it’s too small for her. so i might just buy that and sell this one. it doesn’t look cool, but i don’t really care. it’s dirt cheap for a quality bike, plus an aluminum frame will be easier to carry.

Anyway, i already had a bike, but Bessie’s wheels are smaller than ideal, she’s heavy and not very practical for riding across town.

maybe i will finally sell her to porous.

i had no idea that animals could have this sleep disorder. rusty is damn cute. it’s sad to see him frolicking and playing energetically on the grass one second and then sleeping peacefully without any warning the next

Dear Phil Spector,

dude…. please just stop freaking me out. please? i don’t know if i can take these AP photos anymore. they were funny at first (especially your electrocuted Yahoo Serious look), but now i can’t sleep.

phil are you listening? are you there?
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phil?
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

last nite while watching lost highway, young said that baretta creeped him out in the same way that killer bob did in twin peaks. i agreed and told him that our friend eugene reminded me of killer bob based on one particular picture that he took of him:

another impulse buy, another unnecessary guitar.

it’s not a completely blind purchase. i’ve test drived one of these and the tone is alright. oh well, it’s a cheapy and i have been wanting a light and thin bodied guitar for a while due to weak arms so hopefully it’ll get more use. i can’t afford to drop cash on a mustang at the moment and this has been the best fit for me so far.

holy shit. Japan carries Doritos in all these exotic flavors such as: kinky circus crotch stomp, michael douglas falling down, little red riding wolfhead and sexual predator!

if all the packaging in japan is as great as this, i want to move there.

friday i went to milk for a 45th birthday celebration for DJ Stef. 12 of my favorite DJs and friends played an all 45 set and it was a good crowd, good selection and just good vibes all around.

first two snaps are from diane

saturday i was going to go to the west add radio 8th grade dance benefit @ deco but backed out because i was worried that it would be too difficult to get a cab home from the tenderloin. so me and my boyfriend stayed in watching movies and music videos and then we got into an argument about whether or not that was Prince in the Genesis “Land of Confusion” video who puts his tongue between the hotdog bun and proceeds to eat it.

at the 1:42 mark

i really don’t understand how anyone cannot think that is Prince! i did a search for it online, but came up with nothing. so i couldn’t prove it to him. ugh…it is SO Prince!!

sunday night it was still warm, so Young and i went to Dolores Park and sat around eating Grade A cream puffs listening to creedence while watching other people get into shape. we kicked ourselves for not realizing to bring our tennis racquets.

mike davis is the homie. he loves wizard-rock, nintendo and led zeppelin just like me. we are awesome at singing bon jovi wanted dead or alive on karaoke. another thing he is awesome at besides singing bon jovi is visual arty stuff. he hand painted this here burger dunny. he also has captured me in all my pissy glory and rendered me in 8-bit mode (on the right):

anyway, mike put together an excellent party mix that i really want you to download. NOW!

a friend forwarded me a link to these amazing vegetable photos. they’re cute and kinda creepy.
wish i knew who made these or where they came from.

Is this the same person? I saw a trailer for this new Ice Cube movie called “Are We Done Yet”. Basically the premise is that Ice Cube has gone family man and he’s moving from BK to CT to buy a big house that needs repairs but the house keeps falling apart and (cut to scenes of Cube in coveralls falling through the ceiling or accidentally hammering his thumb and then a can of paint falls on his head or something). It took about 2 minutes into the trailer for Young to say to me, “Hey Ice Cube is remaking that Shelly Long & Tom Hanks movie The Money Pit.” Amerikkka’s Most Wanted is probably my favorite rap album ever and one of my most favorite Bomb Squad productions. It’s surreal to see the guy who penned “The N***a Ya Love to Hate” changing diapers on the silver screen to the music of Madness (Our House).