awww damn!

…and another batch of beer.

awwwdrey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:12:43 +0000

Here is the bottle label for my strongest homebrew yet.

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photo clog

awwwdrey — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:11:02 +0000

i am not so good at updating this but my photo blog is alive and well

more amazing ms paint renditions of lp covers

awwwdrey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:03:19 +0000

This guy has taken it to the next level recreating covers in MS Paint and I especially appreciate his subject choices. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

you can also find a huge collection of these MS Paint renditions in this set which has been collected from various user submissions on music forums. it’s a goldmine!

more homebrewing fun

awwwdrey — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:56:49 +0000

continued brewing after that last batch of beer, so here’s the bottle label for my hard cider.

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old jim thompson covers

awwwdrey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:21:16 +0000

i just got this copy of The Getaway by Jim Thompson in the mail thinking the cover artwork was so badass. Then I came across this gallery of his vintage editions that is completely next level:

The Tell Tale Heart

awwwdrey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:34:15 +0000

You should watch this cool 1954 semi-abstract animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s legendary short story, preferably while while sipping on a cask of Amontillado.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, MFers.

awwwdrey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:51:31 +0000

Laugh at McSweeney’s:
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherf***ers.

An excerpt for your enjoyment:

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is – it’s fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.

Flaming Lips @ Treasure Island Festival

awwwdrey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:22:10 +0000

Went to Day 2 of the Treasure Island Music Festival, didn’t bring my main camera but posted a few on the Tumblog from my phone. Flaming Lips headlined and their set was so much fun in an eternal pizza party sort of way: an LCD backdrop literally gave birth to the band as the entrance, lots of gospel dancing Yetis on the sidelines, Wayne crowd surfing inside a giant beachball/hamster ball, lots of robots and George Lucas looking creatures, lots of confetti and balloons and then confetti in balloons exploding every 4 bars…. I’m really digging the new album Embryonic which is a little dirtier sounding, way psychedelic, more percussion oriented, sparse with instrumentation but not with the spacyness or fuzz. Some of the songs sound like more thought out Silver Apples tracks off of the Contact LP with a hard driving low-end pulse. My kinda sound

Here’s some pics I found from doing a search on flickr:

and here’s some video:

Mark Weaver designs

awwwdrey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:02:37 +0000

Here’s another blatant steal from my friend Joy. I’m loving these images by Mark Weaver. They look organic and analog, not too graphic designey at all…

More 13th Floor Elevators obsessing

awwwdrey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:56:26 +0000

Now that I got a hold of the 10CD 13th Floor Elevators Box Set, I can share two incredible previously unreleased live versions of songs that sound so amazing and dynamic from the disc titled “Death in Texas” recorded in Houston in 1967.

Turn the volume knob to 11 and set your lasers to stun:

“She Lives in a Time of Her Own”
[audio:shelives.mp3]
“Reverberation”
[audio:Reverberation.mp3]

God I adore this band.