I love John Lurie’s deadpan sense of humor and I’ve mentioned his Fishing with John show here before. He’s better known as a musician and actor first, but he is also a visual artist. Look at his paintings, especially the titles he gives them.

www.johnlurieart.com/art

OK last one for tonight, I promise. I’m so grateful that quality old music television programs like Rockpalast, Musik Laden, Beat Club, It’s Lulu, Revolver, Top of the Pops & Old Grey Whistle Test existed for me to visit my favorite parts of history in moving picture form.

Van Morrison’s first band THEM. He was only 19 here.

//photo by jeff luger

Remember that footage I took of Deerhunter back during Noise Pop? There was a song they did that I’ve never heard before that I really liked. My friend Jesse, who incidentally is the third person in the last month and half to compare me to an old man, ripped the audio from my video, played it for others and miraculously located the original version. Nice one, Sherlock! And it hasn’t even been released yet. It’s a cover of a Tears for Fears song called Famous Last Words and it rules, although I agree with him that his vocals were actually sweeter live. Anyway, I’m not going to pilfer audio from Jesse like he does from my site (kidding), so here is the direct link to his Secret Deerhunter song entry on his site where you can listen and download:

Jesse’s 50th Deerhunter post on his blog

Enjoy.

i think i see ringo starr in these mammatus clouds

here’s another

i wish these happened in the bay area more often

Snaps of Dolores Park during movie night Thurs and AT&T Park for Giants vs Mets Fri








exit jam


palms @ at&t park

I love San Francisco.

Dave Vanian is a freak.

I had no idea they were making a movie out of this.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis from Dirty Three on music score too.

I can see Talking Heads as a band people either love or hate, but I came across a hypnotic vibraphone drenched version of “The Book I Read” that’s melting my face. DB’s vocals are so reserved and understated on this one, It’s magic:

[audio:bookiread.mp3]

This was hanging on a tree outside when I came home this evening:

There was no note attached, but I know it’s from the same person who sent me this 3 years ago.

Uh-oh! Guess who just figured out how to rip video clips from her DVDs?

Clare E. Rojas and Andrew Jeffrey Wright have some white out fun with stuffy fashion magazines:

Devo “Through Being Cool” video:

The pack of teens terrorizing the family of joggers is pretty great, but the odd non-dance oriented choreography amuses me too.

Here are my pics from favorite cities London and Barcelona. Hit the right arrow on the keyboard to advance to the next pic if you hate mouse clicking

Here are my pics from Paris/ Normandy/Loire Valley finally. I’ll post London & Barcelona later. Hit the right arrow on the keyboard to advance to the next pic if you hate mouse clicking

That’s what she said. Got this in the mail today and the packaging rules. Sub Pop released a bunch of 7″ colored vinyl exclusives for Record Store Day recently and I nabbed this because there were 2 songs not on the LP.

I haven’t mentioned this here, but Sub Pop linked to my “Fake Kinkade” post on the Obits artist homepage, which made me smile I have to admit.

5/14/09 update: The date was changed to 4th Fridays starting in June. Stay tuned!

Here’s the teaser vid I made for me and marco’s anything goes DJ monthly. Since people aren’t going out as much these days do to recession & regression, I thought reversing this old timey footage of Market St in the 1900s around the infamous earthquake would be appropriate. Let’s start mining for gold again!

Ahhhh!!! These little fuckers are so cute. It would be sad if there were no more left for future generations to stare blankly at on computer screens during hungover mornings at work.

from Evilmonito

Half salamander half H.R. Puff ‘n’ Stuff, the Mexican walking fish is on the verge of turning belly up and floating down the river of extinction. Known widely as the Axolotl salamander, these cute little buggers are being seriously threatened by water pollution and habitat destruction. Another big problem is that they are easy prey, basically defenseless, against the non-native species, like the Tilapia and the Asian Carp, that have been introduced to their habitat by the fishing industry. If the Axolotl survives the attack with a missing limb, they have the unique ability to regenerate most of their body parts.