Wednesday, November 7, 2007
well, better late than never i suppose. anyways, my halloween show is now available for download. check it out.
CREAMY GOODNESS!sorry about it being so goddamned late. i tried to make up or it by posting a bunch of youtube links to various performances of the artist on the show. most of the videos are live performances of the song in question, but a couple i couldn't find so i found something similar. by the way, that boris link is a link to an hour long show they did. it's fucking fantastic! anyways...
the quality of this show is A LOT better than the last one i posted. i re-mastered the entire show and made it sound as pretty as possible, and it really does sound awesome. here's the tracklisting:
1.
dead kennedys - halloween2.
the screamers - 122 hours of fear3.
boris - the soft edge4.
aphex twin - come to daddy5.
the dillinger escape plan - 43% burnt6.
mastodon - iron tusk7.
the birthday party - death by drowning8.
big black - kerosene9.
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - a perfect teenhood10.
khanate - skin coat11.
melt-banana - chipped zoo on the wall, wastes in the sky12.
el-p - flyentology13.
dalek - antichristos14.
fantomas - rosemary's baby15.
pig destroyer - pretty in casts16.
cristina - is that all there is17.
catharsis - sabbat18.
harvey milk - where the bee sucks, there suck i19.
xiu xiu - ian curtis wishlist20.
sonic youth - superstari've been typing this post for a couple hours now. i never thought finding a unch of youtube videos would be so hard to find, but here we are.
i'm really tired and i need to get ready for my show tonight which will, hopefully, be posted up a lot sooner than this one. *fingers crossed* in the meantime, keep yourself entertained at the
illegal art video page. you should especially download superstar. totally fascinating. later, bitches!
love,
-+>area877
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Monday, October 29, 2007
ok, so it's been over a week since i last updated this thing and i feel kinda bad. i don't know why. it's probably because i started this blog in hopes that if i posted things of substance i would update on a regular basis or at least every three days or so, and i'm slacking off. awesome! sorry about this.
anyways...
i did my first show back on
akaradio and it was a lot of fun to be back in that chair. i fucked up a couple times and i had a couple incidents of radio silence, but overall i was pretty happy with how it came out. the show is now available for download
here. the file is around 120 megs and the person recording the show accidentally threw in a little audio surprise. while she was recording, she decided to check out a myspace page...why i have no idea...and it was one of those pages with embeded music so there's a little snippet of nickelback during one of the songs...so, uhm...yeah...sorry about that...but yes, it's a really good show overall and i think you'll enjoy listening to it in your car or while your jogging or perhaps while you're masturbating to internet pornography. either way, check it out, won't you?
i went to go see
comedians of comedy last night. i have to say that it was absolutely amazing. i got to meet henry owings, the tour manager/editor-in-chief of
chunklet magazine and he seemed genuinely surprised that someone recognized him. he's a pretty nice guy and told me the new issue is coming out very soon AAAAND he's coming out with a new book called "the rock bible." he told me it's going to be amazing, so i'm totally gonna buy it. maria bamford was the first to perform and she's a lot funnier live than on cd. her facial expressions, i found out, is what makes her absolutely hilarious. the gf wasn't a huge fan still, which kind of disappointed me. eugene mirman was amazing! his riffs and non-sequitors were genius and when he interacted with the audience people were dying. brian posehn was pretty alright. i mean, he was funny but it wasn't as great as i was expecting it to be. his bit on a party bus stripper was pretty great, though. patton was, of course, pants-shittingly hilarious. he mostly did stuff with the audience and new material, including an update on his "kfc famous bowls" bit by talking about a new kfc product coming out called the mega leg which is, apparently, a drumstick the size of a turkey leg. if you get a chance, you need to go see them. a couple of criticisms, however:
1. brian posehn did too many jokes abut him and his wife. they were funny jokes, but i was getting kinda bored with them after a bit.
2. jasper redd didn't perform, which thoroughly bummed me out. i've only seen him perform on the comedians of comedy live at the troubador dvd and i was looking forward to seeing more of him. i wonder why he couldn't make it, even though he was on the bill.
3. patton's set was way too short. i was looking forward to a marathon set in the vein of his "222" cd, but i got about 45 minutes of it. ah well.
4. the audience was kinda ridiculous. there was this metal dude that was obviously there only for brian posehn because he was "that guy" (wearing a posehn shirt) and not laughing during the other comics unless his girlfriend turned around and glared at him for not laughing. also, there were these two girls in front of me that kept shaking their heads whenever someone made a rape joke. i hate it when people take themselves too seriously.
there was a piece of merchandise for sale that i almost bought, but i decided against it. it's a plate that had a picture of eugene mirman as a child on it with a cartoon bubble coming out of him that said "i will kick you in the dick hard so hard you'll cum fear." i don't know why i didn't buy it there, but i'm going to do my best to find it now. and on that note, you need to go see comedians of comedy if you likes the yuk-yuks.
i'm going to be spending a lot of money on comedy shows next month because michael ian black and michael showalter are coming in november AAAAAND lewis black is coming that some month. FUCK YES! FUCKING LEWIS BLACK!!! lewis black is the guy who got me interested in comedy again. i honestly hadn't paid attention to stand-up comedy after the mid-90s and then i saw lewis black's "end of the universe" stand-up special on comedy central and i was in awe over how hilarious it was. i have made it a point since then to watch every single thing he makes an appearance in and buy every single one of his cds. without seeing lewis black, i wouldn't have checked out david cross, who in turn got me interested in patton oswalt, and it's been a loooooong journey since then. lewis black also got me interested in trying out stand-up comedy as well, which i'm still in the process of getting started up. good luck with that, i suppose.
anyways, here are some of my favorite bits from lewis black's "end of the universe" cd, which was recorded in my hometown of atlanta. DIRTY SOUTH!
atlantacoke, pepsi, and the super bowltax rebates and common sensetv news & jerry falwellwhat i've learnedbe sure to tune into
akaradio this wednesday at 8 for my halloween special. there's gonna be laughs, tricks, treats, and lots of creepy/fucked-up music that will make your parents question your sexuality. good job!
love,
-+>kevin
Labels: aka, brian posehn, chunklet, comedy, eugene mirman, lewis black, maria bamford, mp3, patton oswalt, podcast, radio, stand-up
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Friday, October 19, 2007
it's 3:01 am EST as of writing this sentence. this means i have been 26 for three hours now. i seriously hate my birthday. i mean, aside from the whole mortality thing and the fact that getting older honestly scares the shit out of me, it bothers me because people want to make a big deal out of something that i honestly would rather have not acknowledged.
ok, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement. as long as the big three (mom, dad, gf) acknowledge it's my b-day, then i'm happy. otherwise, get the hell away from me. why do you feel the need to make a big deal out of the fact that all i did was not die. seriously, is it that important that you further reinforce the idea that life is a terribly fragile gift by making a mountain out of the molehill of a fact that all i did was not die from circumstances that are under my control? you're an asshole.
i also hate my birthday because everyone always asks me what i plan on doing for my birthday. know what i did? i let gf treat me to dinner by picking up a sandwich from the italian deli down the street for me, a bag of chips, a half gallon of tea, and a cake. we ate our sandwiches and watched the first disc of the
it's always sunny in philadelphia boxset. afterwards, we ate cake and went into our bedroom and fucked like wild beasts. after that, we watched the soup, cuddled on the couch and tried to make each other laugh, and then she went to bed a couple hours ago. that's it. you know what? that makes me a lot happier than going out and getting trashed and drinking to the point that i don't even KNOW what my age is anymore. that's stupid and way too expensive. i'm too old for that shit. you're too old for that shit. what's wrong with you? GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
ever since gf went to bed, i've been listening to
GS I Love You, which is this awesome japanese psych-rock/big beat compilation. some of this stuff is very good and doesn't just sound like a rip-off american psych-rock and british big beat bands of the era, which is quite typical of japanese bands once a new fad/genre hits their side of the pond. all you have to do is take a look at the whole visual kei thing. does it remind you of hair metal at all? it should. they're nuts about that stuff, and so are all the
wapanese kids. that kind of pisses me off because if motley crue or poison did it, it's stupid. but because they're asian, that means it's awesome by default. of course, you won't hear them listening to this stuff. they're too busy trying to imitate their heroes in dir en grey or wtvr to realize that there is japanese music that goes beyond bands that are nothing more than a collection of fashion gimmicks playing bad hair metal.
anyways, i thought i would post links to download songs by the best band on the collection, the out cast. check it:
everything's alright (my personal fave)
let's go on the beachbokuno sobakaralong tall sallykimamana shellyi'm probably not going to post anything again until thursday, which is when i will have my first broadcast available for download...hopefully. in the meantime, enjoy this youtube link to see a performance by japanese psych-rock giants
the spiders performing their song
na-re-ba-i-i. it's from a japanese movie of some sort, so the performance is kinda lacking and bizarre in the sense that it jumpcuts between the performance and scenes from the movie (wtf is up with the waltz in the middle?!), but it's still pretty awesome. alright, i'm going to attempt to go to sleep now. laters kids!
Labels: 60s, birthday, japanese, mp3, outcast, psych, rock, spiders, video, youtube
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11:58 PM
Monday, October 15, 2007
so i just watched this vincent gallo movie called "the brown bunny" and i have to say that it is the most boring goddamn thing i've ever seen since daft punk's "electroma." seriously, it is so masturbatory and self-serving that it's insane, which is really the only reason it got any press...that and the whole on-screen BJ thing with chloe sevigny. the reason i say he's an asshole isn't because he made a bad movie, though. the reason i think he's an asshole is because the dude can't take any criticism. when the movie was criticized by roger ebert as the worst movie ever screened at cannes, homeboy decided it would be awesome times to place a hex on ebert's colon and his prostate. what a dick. he also says things that are mildly racist (read his
music bio) in order to sound provocative, but he just ends up sounding like an idiot. and no, i'm not saying he sounds like an idiot because he's saying things that are mildly racist, but rather because he's doing it in order to elicit a "shocked" response from the reader. douchebag. he also sells a bunch of his old shit to his fans for astronomical prices, including a night with vincent gallo for 50 grand and his sperm for a cool million. yep, he's a dick all over.
the reason i'm talking about this guy is because, despite his faults, he does have some pretty killer taste in music. he curated ATP in 2005 and one of the bands he commissioned to play were
afrirampo. afrirampo are a japanese band from osaka, which is the birthplace of the boredoms. there's a lot of parallels in the sense that both of their music is free from any traditional constraints and is highly experimental, but afrirampo also have an ear for melody, as well as pretty bad-ass free jazz chops. they've gone on tour and recorded with
acid mothers temple, as well as releasing some straight up amazing shit from themselves. their live shows are pretty insane as well. check it:
i did areif you want to hear something more structured...structured being quite a relative term, of course, then check out the song
artbreakou from their album "urusa in japan." click
here to buy the record. yes, yes, i know it's ridiculously expensive but it's totally worth it. not only that, but if you can find a place to score the limited edition version that comes with a live dvd, that will only set you back about 24 bucks. that's a fucking bargain! they have other albums that are just as good that are actually distributed in the US for cheaper prices, so if you can't shell out eh 23 bucks for this specific albu, pick up any of their other stuff. i guarantee it will be good. do this thing, people. i'm serious. that's all. i'm done.
love,
-+>area877
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Friday, October 12, 2007
oh neat. i have a blog. isn't the modern age wonderful? this is mostly going to serve as an area for me to post tracks that i've played on my radio show, as well as awesome youtube finds and the occasional rant. so let's say we start with two of those three?
mu - hatersmutsumi kanamori and maurice fulton make up mu. mu are an absolutely insane/sick group from england that make the darkest, stickiest, scariest, most fucked up dance music i have ever heard. it is absolutely dirty and amazing. the somewhat barebones production just adds to the skeletal beats, chirping synths and ms. kanamori's rants. amazing. this is from their album put out in 2005 called "out of breach: manchester's revenge." you can buy the album from
output recordings. i know it's in british pounds and it costs more to buy it from independent retailers. don't be a dick and support the little guy, ok? anyways...
michael jackson - smooth criminalperhaps the best music video ever made?
cobwebs!
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