creatures and criminals

Please Don't Insist

2007-08-21T08:43:00.000-07:00

T & S - Ghost:
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost [UGO]

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Airport Heist/Feist:
Feist - My Moon My Man (Promo Video)

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Mushaboom:
Feist - Mushaboom

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Should We Go Outside?:
Joanna Newsom - Sprout And The Bean

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2:17 cat gets slashed

2007-08-14T10:11:00.000-07:00

they made frogs smoke'til they exploded

goin' stupid on the roof

Quentin Takes a Ride

2007-08-10T13:46:00.000-07:00

The mule looked like a rabbit. I raised the window.
"Hey, Uncle," I said, "Is this the way?"
"Suh?" He looked at me, then he loosened the blanket and lifted it away from his ear.
"Christmas gift!" I said.
"Sho comin, boss. You done caught me, aint you?"
"I'll let you off this time." I threw the quarter out the window. "Buy yourself some Santy Claus."

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Russian

Marvin's Debut

2007-03-18T00:14:00.000-07:00

Marvin likes Weezer

Stale Raisin Bread

2007-02-19T21:55:00.000-08:00

Lookin' for a new/early '90s car? Go to hell:

(thanks to Uzzie and BooNat)

The LIST 2006

2007-01-02T10:22:00.000-08:00

This was a good year for rock 'n' roll - here are my picks for best albums of 2006, and also my favorite songs. There seems to be more local music in my list this year (Comrade, Centro-Matic, Midlake) and also more old guys than usual (Dylan, Simon, Springsteen) but it just worked out that way. These are the albums that made me take notice of the changing landscape of music and also made me dig deeper into some of the artists' older work. These are the musicians and bands that grabbed me and wouldn't let go.

Best Albums:

1. Bob Dylan Modern Times

2. Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther

3. Paul Simon Surprise

4. The Flaming Lips At War With the Mystics

5. Built to Spill You in Reverse

6. Thom Yorke Eraser

7. Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit

8. Centro-Matic Fort Recovery

9. Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain

10. Comrade There's Many A Slip Twixt the Cup & the Lip

11. My Morning Jacket Okonokos (Double Live Album)
12. Mars Volta Amputechture
13. Beck The Information
14. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
15. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
16. Cat Power The Greatest
17. The Dears Gang of Losers
18. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
19. Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions
20. Cursive Happy Hollow

Best Songs:

1. I See Through You - Centro-Matic
2. Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
3. Another Galaxy - Paul Simon
4. It Overtakes Me - The Flaming Lips
5. Ain't Talkin' - Bob Dylan
6. Black Swan - Thom Yorke
7. Liar - Built to Spill
8. Young Bride - Midlake
9. We Are the Sleepyheads - Belle and Sebastian
10. Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away
11. Goin' Against Your Mind - Built to Spill
12. Think I'm In Love - Beck
13. I Don't Believe - Paul Simon
14. Roscoe - Midlake
15. The Clock - Thom Yorke
16. Nettie Moore - Bob Dylan
17. Make / Break - Comrade
18. Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung - The Flaming Lips
19. Fear Made the World Go 'Round - The Dears
20. Day of the Baphomets - Mars Volta
21. Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley
22. Into the Fold - Cursive
23. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
24. Level - The Raconteurs
25. Lowdown (live) - My Morning Jacket

Sleeve of a Wizard

2006-12-03T22:21:00.000-08:00

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Pg. 289 - Colonel Aureliano Buendia has just died while urinating on a chestnut tree and the vultures are descending.

Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy: 19.3% completed.

November 18th at Stubbs: Closed the set with Mahgeetah and Anytime

Fantomas & Jibbs

2006-10-24T15:58:00.000-07:00

Metal:

St. Louis Cardinals have his support:

The ACL Festival Files, Sep. 15th, 2006

2006-09-18T15:57:00.000-07:00

I ended up going to the first day of the 2006 Austin City Limits Festival and I had a great time listening to the bands and not getting (too) sunburned. The lineup was splendid this year and I was able to see a handful of performances on Friday that made the 4 hour drive worth it. Time to break it down:

Wolfparade These Canadians started off my ACL experience with a much needed jolt of energy, after I had spent the last 2 hours looking for parking and taking a shuttle from downtown Austin. The band had an hour set and played mostly from the album Apologies to the Queen Mary. I got pretty close to the stage and the highlights were "I'll Believe in Anything," "Dinner Bells," and "This Heart's on Fire." One Lone Star Beer in a can was consumed.

Gnarls Barkley Cee-Lo, DangerMouse and a mini-orchestra came out on stage in lab coats but I couldn't see much from a mile away. There was a huge jumbo-tron screen that gave the audience closeups of C-LO's chins and DM's white-boy fro and for that I was grateful, I think. They played thier songs and did some cover songs. I guess they got crazy. One bottle of water consumed.

Okkervil River This Austin band is just a sweet treat to see in concert. The band's overall sound suffered a little in the outdoor/festival setting but the good songs broke through and had an impact nonetheless. "The Latest Toughs," "A Stone," and the infectous set closer "For Real" were my favorites.

Cat Power Miss Marshall was with her Memphis Rhythm Band and sounded excellent with the supporting players. She took charge of the stage playing stuff from her newest album The Greatest and did a few covers. She did the Stone's "Satisfaction" with the whole band and sang that Gnarls song with a repeated chourus of "You're fuckin' crazy/Yeah, You're fuckin' crazy." One plastic cup full of lemonade mixed with pieces of dirt and grass consumed.

Sparklehorse Mark Linkous was one of the reasons I went to ACL this year and he didn't disappoint me at all. The rest of Sparklehorse were really tight and played some old favorites of mine. It reminded me of the time I saw the Pixies at 2004's festival. Knowing every song and just enjoying the euphoria that comes with recognizing and hearing your most cherished music is what going to Austin City Limits Festival is all about for me. The best songs of the set - "Hammering the Cramps," "Spirit Ditch," "Gold Day," "Pain Birds," "Apple Bed," "Happy Man," and a new one, "Don't Take My Sunshine," was great too.

Here's a video of Sparklehorse playing "Gold Day" at ACL 2006 (i didn't film it):
Sparklehorse

Aimee Mann Performance I wish I'd seen on Saturday:

Who played this year? Check it out:

angels in the architecture

2006-09-08T11:33:00.000-07:00

Fun with Art:

A Tiny Street Art Project small

Jackson Pollock Would Have Loved It crazy

Vote for STORKER trash

Current Playlist:

1. Thunder Road written by Bruce Springsteen, performed by Bonnie Prince Billy and Tortise (We got one last chance to make it real,
to trade in these wings on some wheels)

2. Wild Wild Life by The Talking Heads, from True Stories (Things fall apart, it's scientific)

3. Under African Skies by Paul Simon, from Graceland

4. "When the Deal Goes Down"
Directed by Bennett Miller
Music by Bob Dylan

(Soul to soul, our shadows roll)

5. How to Fight Loneliness by Wilco, from Summerteeth (Fill your heart with smoke)

6. Fear Made the World Go 'Round by The Dears, from Gang of Losers

A quote from Naztea Matt's favorite graffiti artist:

"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit." -- Banksy

oh Comrade

2006-08-26T17:51:00.000-07:00

Welcome, Comrade

11:03 AM CDT on Thursday, August 24, 2006

Dallas indie rock band Comrade will release There's Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip this weekend with a pair of shows in Denton and Dallas. Although the recordings don't sound low budget, singer Jonathan Clark reveals, "The album was recorded at home on a recorder I bought for $300 at a pawn shop."

Comrade is Jonathan Clark, Daniel Hall, Kevin Schultz, Jonny Humble and Benjamin Moore. Self-described as "a blend of Sparklehorse and Paul Simon," the band has been fighting to get the word out on its unique sound by passing out CD-Rs at shows. Here's more from Clark:

Q: Your album title is quite a tongue-twister. Where did you come up with it and what does it mean to you?

A: "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip" is an old saying that means, more or less, that things change – a lot could happen between now and then. I was sitting in the bathtub – this is true – reading The Brothers Karamazov. A good portion of the record was already recorded, and I was still wondering what to do about the title. So I come across this phrase ... it was perfect for the idea of the EP.

Q: What can someone expect from the show if they haven't seen you before?

A: Expect it to be like a KERA documentary that you have to pay to watch.

Q: Who are your band comrades in the area and who's one to look out for this year?

A: Well, all our favorite bands are about like everyone else's in Dallas. Midlake wins the prize for being good. Bosque Brown is tip-top (and they're letting us steal their guitarist for our next few shows). Tomahawk Molly is an awesome new band that you may not have heard yet. Their drummer is our keyboardist. I should stop here cause then it'll just be a thing where I'm supposed to give shout-outs.

Q: What do you expect this album to do for you?

A: What it has done is help us narrow down the options of what we want to make. That's helped us musically, but just the fact that we have something to show for ourselves puts wind in our sails. A band without a recording is a band that doesn't quite exist yet.

(by Paul Salfen)

DETAILS

Comrade performs twice this weekend:

•Tomorrow night at Hailey's in Denton with Ryan Lindsey (of Starlight Mints) and This Will Destroy You. 9 p.m. $5 for ages 21 and up; $7 for under 21. 122 Mulberry St. 940-323-1160.

•Saturday at the Cavern with Stellamaris, Gazelles, Quiet Company and Here, In Arms. 6 p.m. $6 for ages 21 and up; $8 for under 21. 1914 Greenville Ave. 214-828-1914.

Hear some music at myspace.com/comrade.

2006-08-11T00:48:00.000-07:00

"He got dragged by a donkey
Through the dust and the myrtle
But he was once a little fat baby"

Happy Easter:

August 29th: New Dylan

2006-08-08T12:44:00.000-07:00

Bobby D's first new record in five years will be released on August 29th. It's album #44 and has 10 new songs featuring Dylan on guitars, keyboard and harmonica.

A few of the song titles:

"Thunder On The Mountain," "Spirit On The Water," "Workingman's Blues," "When The Deal Goes Down," and "Ain't Talkin'."

99 THESES (excerpts)

by Michael McClure

1. MAN IS A CARNIVORE EXPERIENCING HIMSELF.
2. MAN IS A MAMMAL.
3. THE UNIVERSE IS THE MESSIAH.
4. THE CREATURE IS ONE BEING.
11. ALL LIFE IS A MEAT SCULPTURE FREED OF TIME, SPACE & DIMENSION.
12. THIS SOCIETY IS A CAGE FOR THE MAMMAL.
13. ALL CREATURES OF WING, FIN, FUR, TENTACLE, PROTOPLASM -- ARE EQUAL.
14. THE PANDA IS A PEACOCK.
15. MAN IS A PANDA.
16. THE SALMON IS A MAN.
17. THE WOLF SINGS.
43. THE SEA URCHIN IS A GREAT PHILOSOPHER.
47. CLOVER IS A CREATURE.
53. MONOTONY IS MADNESS.
79. WAR IS ONE COLOR.
90. THE YOUNG CREATURE IS AGILE.
91. THE OLDER CREATURE IS STRONG.
98. THE EYE AND TONGUE ARE A FIELD OF CREATURES.

-Paris 1970

Yeah man, remember: Relax Your Eyes

2006-08-06T01:33:00.000-07:00

Austin City Limits 2006

2006-07-27T15:09:00.000-07:00

Here's who I'd like to see at the 2006 ACL Festival:

Friday Sept. 15th

Sparklehorse
Okkervil River
Wolf Parade
Van Morrison
Cat Power & the Memphis Rhythm Band
Gnarls Barkley
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Saturday Sept. 16th

The Shins
Centro-matic
Iron and Wine
Explosions in the Sky
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
Calexico
Aimee Mann
Massive Attack
TV on the Radio
The Raconteurs
Nada Surf

Sunday Sept. 17th

Tom Petty
MUSE
The Flaming Lips
Ween
The New Pornographers
Son Volt

...Looks like Saturday wins

creatures

2006-07-26T11:40:00.000-07:00

rock out

aaroncreech

2005-12-07T13:15:00.000-08:00

I would like to compose a dark painting on a dark night...soon.