Monday, December 22, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

Mad Dog, you son ova' bitch!


Here is another recent favorite. WARNING: The nerd factor is real high with this one.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

More Youtubery



Here is my most recent favorite. Suck it republicans.

Monday, December 15, 2008

adding to the list : top 3 youtube vidz

Ante Up


Walk It Out


Fuck It, Do Live!

Add to the list

I want a collective top 10 of You-Tube video links here. So get those bookmarks out and start posting. Here are my top three to get things started...


The Slow Jerk




Close your eyes at 20 seconds in and imagine this woman riding you




Why I never want a daughter



The Worst Day Of Their Lives - Watch more Free Videos

Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII

FF13

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FFvs13

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Shoes thrown at Bush : shiteating grins abound.



Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush
Dec 14 01:52 PM US/Eastern

An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes towards George W Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi prime minister in his office in Baghdad on Sunday, an AFP journalist said.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Langerado 2009 looks good - does that make me old, white and hippie?

early line-up announced...

Death Cab For Cutie • Snoop Dogg • Thievery Corporation (Live) • Slightly Stoopid • Ryan Adams and the Cardinals • Dashboard Confessional • The Pogues • Matisyahu • Flogging Molly • Michael Franti & Spearhead • Broken Social Scene • Cafe Tacuba • Umphrey's McGee • The Disco Biscuits • Robert Randolph & The Family Band • Pepper • The Faint • Cold War Kids • Steel Pulse • Public Enemy • Gym Class Heroes • Tricky • Girl Talk • Chromeo • Mute Math • Bad Brains • Ozomatli • Against Me! • George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic • Tortoise • DeVotchKa • Black Kids • Grupo Fantasma • Holy F*ck • Budos Band • Tokyo Police Club • Lotus • The Virgins • The Gaslight Anthem • King Khan and the Shrines • Lucero • Murs • Ra Ra Riot • Tortured Soul • Rebelution • K'Naan • The Egg • Zac Brown Band • Tigercity • The Aggrolites • Cloud Cult • Spam Allstars • Rachel Goodrich • Blue King Brown • The Heavy Pets • Awesome New Republic • The Postmarks • Suenalo • Live Painting by LEBO •

help me not smell like patchouli and smack some sense into me...

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Thanksgiving + Pulled Pork = YES!

this is where i document my first try at making my own pulled pork.
8lbs boston pork butt.

tonight i put on the dry rub; sea salt, brown sugar, garlic, onion, chilies

pictures of the results in the morning.

8:45am




its been a long time since i've used a charcoal grill. almost forgot how to keep that shit burning.

11:15am

fipped and rotated it a couple times now. its starting to come together. the turkey is in the oven now too.

1:00pm-ish

i have nothing to say here. only a few hours to go.

3:00pm
Took the bad boy off the grill. It is basicly falling apart right now.


first taste, with some sweet onion bbq sauce!!!






time to kick thanksgivings ass.

BONE!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Holy shit, Ryan watch and learn!


This cannot be real. What is with the kung fu fighting remake in the background? Is he training his kid for the circus or to be an action movie star: Revenge Of The Flying Flesh Colored Nerd.


Via BoingBoing

attn fixed gears

teaser trailer from empirebegins.com


Empire from Empire on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

CREEPY.

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

i can't wait for this shit to be over with.

Queso isn't a bone is he?

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Sunday Morning Smoke #9

Sunday Morning Smoke #9
by DJ Diddles and Infinite Horns

1. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
2. Chubby Fingers - My Old Piano
3. The Foxglove Hunt - Love My Way
4. Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost Disco Mix)
5. Fully Fitted - Roll It (Fully Fitted Mix)
6. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
7. The Twelves - When You Talk
8. Top Billin - Willing
9. Che Grand - City On Fire
10. Bounce Camp - Big Dancin
11. Ghost Music - My Boo
12. Friendly Fires - Lovesick
13. Zoot Woman - We Won't Break
14. Roots Manuva - Let The Spirit (Hot Chip remix)
15. Mount Sims - Grave
16. Walter Jones - Deuteronomy Brown (L-F Edit)
17. Intoxicated - Burn It Down
18. We Have Band - You Came Out (demo)



Push it real good.
(aka, click the photo to d/l)

Monday, October 13, 2008

This is my life...

Well mostly




Thanks Andy.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Supporting Friends that do awesome things!!!

Not sure how many of you remember my friend Tyler Gray, he used to write a nightlife column for the Orlando Sentinel, played in the band the New Lows, and the very brief but awesome Trophy Wife with Dan Stone, Devin and others...

Sadly like most of the super talented from these parts, he got out of town and on to bigger things. He planted himself in NYC and has been kicking ass as a writer, and a Dad, and for the first time has a book coming out! Published by Harpers-Collins. It is so cool to see success come to people who work so hard for it... check out the book if you get the chance and more importantly save some cash and pick this up.



CLICK to Pre-Order Here

About the Book

Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a husky huckster who first honed his crooked business skills as a teenage math nerd and blimp enthusiast in Flushing, Queens. From there in the mid 1980s and from his Orlando, Florida, base in the early 1990s through 2007, he cheated hundreds of investors out of nearly $500 million. When they finally caught on to him and started demanding he return their money, the “Sixth Backstreet Boy” had already fled to Germany and then to Indonesia, where he was eventually nabbed by authorities and charged with a historic federal fraud.

Tyler Gray (the only journalist to speak with Pearlman while he was in jail) weaves together the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the greed and desperation of this boy-band mogul and monumental scam artist. Gray unravels Pearlman's twenty-year long Ponzi scheme and explores persistent rumors about alleged inappropriate behavior by Pearlman toward members of the boy bands and other young men. Along the way, former friends, family members, Pearlman business associates, and band members themselves reveal detailed accounts of everything from the heyday of their stardom to Pearlman's more troubled times.

The Hit Charade starts with Pearlman's awkward youth and follows along as his juggling act becomes increasingly complex, then builds to the heartbreaking moments when investors—retirees, relatives, and friends—and government authorities discover that the man they had trusted had been cheating them all along. How did this chubby boy from middle-class Queens, who pioneered some of the music industry's most lucrative pop ensembles, mastermind one of the largest and longest running Ponzi schemes in U.S. history? Here, finally, is the true story of Lou Pearlman's epic rise and fall.

About the Author

In his thirteen years as a journalist, Tyler Gray has covered everything from a teenager's death-penalty trial for murder to the drug- and sex-fueled shenanigans of fuzzy theme park characters in Orlando, Florida. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Radar magazine, Men's Journal, the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, the St. Petersburg Times, and other publications. He has appeared as a pop-culture and news commentator on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Comedy Central's the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and other television broadcasts. Gray is currently a senior editor at Blender magazine in New York City.

Monday, October 6, 2008

if there is anything i want to do in life...

i want to drink out of a skull.



Crystal Head Vodka, brought to you by DAN FUCKING AYKROYD.
check the site, watch the videos.

I just hope this is for real.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Follow up to the taser post

Lt. Michael Pigott, the police officer who delivered the order to Tase emotionally disturbed Bed-Stuy resident Iman Morales — a decision that resulted in Morales falling ten feet to his death — has committed suicide on his 46th birthday. In his suicide note, Emergency Service Unit Lt. Michael Pigott said he put a bullet into his head over fears that his three children would see him in handcuffs or behind bars, the sources said. The note, which included pictures of Pigott’s wife and children, was left in the locker room at Emergency Service Unit headquarters in Brooklyn. Apparently, Pigott was repeatedly being taunted by one of his ESU superiors with threats of being jailed.

via Guanabee

Sunday, September 28, 2008

I figured it was time to talk about hood rat stuff.

Enuff w/ da polatiks

" i yanked it, i yanked it, the thing! "

SO CLASSIX

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Head of Skate!


I really enjoyed mighty ducks 1-10 so I think this will follow suit and be just as awesome.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Next time you think getting naked in public is a good idea...


DONT DO IT, hudge.

Seriously?


I can't believe they let her do this interview. Wow. I think the Republicans are really starting to lose it. This is just a small clip, you can watch all of it on cbsnews.com


Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The more you know

This is a post from boingboing.net by Douglas Rushkoff entitled PRINT YOUR OWN MONEY


Everyone seems to want to know about the economy these days, so we may as well go there. It's as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. We think of the economy and its rules as given circumstances, when they are actually constructions.
In brief, the money we use is just one kind of money. Invented in the Renaissance, and protected with laws banning other kinds of money, it has very particular biases that lead to almost inevitable outcomes.

I just finished a book (more on that later in the week), where I make the case that our highly corporatized society was really forged during the Renaissance. Aristocrats were losing power just as a new merchant class was gaining it. So they made a series of deals through which merchants' companies were granted monopoly charters from the monarchs in return for a sweet cut of the proceeds. Merchants got to lock in their status as newly rich, while monarchs stopped their own descent. Merchants supported the monarchs whose charters granted them exclusive access to new territories or industries, and monarchs got to do colonial expansion once-removed.

The invention of centralized, national currency was meant to support all this. Where localities had previously been free to mint their own currency based on the crops they had grown, now they were forced to borrow money from a central bank. This allowed the issuer of currency - the crown - to extract value from every transaction. Anyone who wanted to buy anything from anyone else had to run it through the central authority - coin of the realm - one way or the other.

This engendered competition for money, which was now a scarce currency issued at interest, instead of a local currency as abundant as the year's crop. Moreover, any business wanting to borrow money for equipment or development had to pay back several times what they had borrowed. This meant bankruptcy was built into the currency system. If a business borrows $100,000, for example, they'll have to pay back $300,000 by the time the loan is due. Where does that money come from? Someone else who borrowed.

Meanwhile, local currencies had the opposite bias of centralized currency. Local currencies lost value over time. They were really just receipts on the amount of grain that farmer had brought to the grain store. Since some of that grain was lost to rats or water, and since the grain store had to be paid, money devalued each year. This meant the money was biased towards being spent. That's why reinvestment in infrastructure as a percent of total revenue was so high in the late Middle Ages. It's why they built those cathedrals. They were local efforts, by people looking to invest their abundant wealth into real assets for their communities' future. (Cathedrals were built to attract pilgrims and tourism.)

Unlike local currencies, centralized currencies were biased towards retaining their value over time. Capitalism (in addition to being a lot of other things) is the way people get rich simply for being rich. Capital becomes the most important component in the capital/labor/resources equation. Since the purpose of the Renaissance innovations was to keep the currently wealthy wealthy, the currency was biased to favor those who had it - and could mete it out at high interest rates to those who needed it for their transactions.

What we witnessed over the past decades has been the necessary endgame of the scenario.

Today, in essence, the central bank lends money to a federal bank, which loans it to a regional bank, and so on, each bank paying interest to the bank above, and charging more to the one below. By the time the person or business who needs the money gets it, they're paying an awful lot of interest - so much, that it amounts to a drag on their ability to do business. The speculative economy, rather than fueling the real economy, drags it down.

The only way for banks - who run such an economy - to make more money is to lend more out. So they looked for more borrowers, as well as more places to park their cash. As a result, the things you and I depend on in the real world became investment vehicles. Homes, oil, resources...you name it. So the costs of all these things went up not because of any real laws of supply and demand, but because they had become new classes of investment.

As for finding new borrowers, well, that's why Bush kept talking about "home ownership" as the right of every American, why lending standards were lowered and, of course, why bankruptcy for individuals was made so much harder. They wanted to lend more money, but didn't have any more qualified borrowers. By changing bankruptcy laws, they meant to make it impossible for borrowers to cry uncle. (This was a 150-million-dollar lobbying effort by the credit industry, over the course of an entire decade.)

Eventually, the tension between the speculative economy and the real economy simply had to become too great. Lending money, in itself, doesn't actually produce anything. On the contrary, it strains those few who are still attempting to produce things. It's what turned so many companies into balance-sheet-driven outsourcing operations. Only so many bankers and investors can be supported by industry and homeownership.

We're not really watching an entire economy fail. We're watching a particular program fail. Only because it's not sandboxed like a bad plug-in in Google's Chrome browser, the resource leak sucks money from everywhere.

If we can adopt what we Boingers might call the "Happy Mutant Approach" to this crisis, however, this is not an entirely hopeless situation. Yes, corporations may lose the ability to keep us employed as the banking investment they depend on to operate dries up. But this corporate activity was always extractive in nature, getting (or, historically, forcing) people to buy mass-produced, and nationally distributed food and other goods that were once produced locally.

The collapse of centrally controlled commerce and currency simply creates an opportunity for local commerce and currency to revive. For people to learn to work and live together on a human, local scale - as the original free market advocate, Adam Smith, actually suggested. Admittedly, this would be a painful transition for many - but it's better than maintaining dependence on a fiscal system designed from the start to turn people and communities into extractable corporate assets. (Think about that the next time you're called up to "human resources.")

Whether or not we've had time to fully embrace the Craft/Maker/cyberpunk/Boing ethos, our ability to provide for ourselves and one another directly, locally, even socially instead of entirely through centralized commerce, will determine how well we can navigate the near future.

For starters, check out the LETS system and other complementary currencies for how to make your own currency, Bernard Latier's book The Future of Money free online, and Local Harvest for Community Sponsored Agriculture opportunities near you.

Money can be just as open source as any other operating system. It used to be.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Friday, September 19, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

I Didn't Forget - week of Sept. 14 - Sept. 20

i'm going to start posting old hardcore/indie rock/blah blah blah that i(i'm?) was(still?) into.

Majority Rule - 49 Words

Dream 6 just added new matches!


These new fighters make me wanna try that homosexuality thing the kids have been talking about. Rear Naked Choke! Image by jason lake.

take the money and run, pt2??



wait for 45 seconds in.

but really...


if McCain thinks we're going to be ok, what the hell right?

and i'll end today's run with our doom with a quote from some nerd borg i'm on;
"i'm glad the goverment told lehman to fuck off. all these bankers love the invisible hand until it starts fisting them."

Monday, September 15, 2008

BURN!

BURN!

DREAM 6 Middleweight Grand Prix Finals - Party SEPT. 23rd!!!

since it airs live at 3am why not just DVR it?
early lunch/brunch/what the fuck ever at my house? bring some food/drink 11ish-4ish. its long but we can fast forward the in between talky.


how much better does Japan promote than USA productions?
anyway, here is the card so far...

Middleweight Semifinals

Croation Zelg Galesic
faces
Brazilian Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza

AND

Dutch fighters Gegard Mousasi
and
Melvin Manhoef

the winners fight each other for the Middleweight Final later on in the "night".

also;
Heavyweight battle between Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Alistair Overeem and about 6 or 7 other fights.

STOKED!

Take the money and run..

...grabbed from boingboing.net...


The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp. The U.S. government, which bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a week ago and orchestrated the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in March, played much tougher with Lehman. It refused to provide a financial backstop to potential buyers. Without such support, Barclays PLC and Bank of America, the two most interested buyers, walked away. Late Sunday night, Lehman said it intends to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

For anyone wanting a primer on how the mortgage crises started, I highly recommend listening to the whole hour of This American Life: #355: The Giant Pool of Money. It's the best reporting I have ever heard on anything, let alone the housing crises. While it doesn't go beyond events after April 08, it will bring you mostly up to speed.

the above edition of This American Life was released on May 09, 2008. look it up @ thisamericanlife.org.

Gettin scary out there.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

SUPPORT FOR ULYSSES

Ok, so Ryan has 3 photos up for voting on JPG.com that could be published. Support his amazing talent and great eye and get on there and vote. If your not a member, it takes 1 minute. then follow the link that he has set on this page and vote for them on the right of the page. Also, view the fuck out of the rest of his photos and build the bone rep. 2008 got off to a great start, then got slow, and now we need to get back on that positive tip. VOTE FOR ULYSSES, PROMOTE AND ATTEND CRACKER J's SHOW, and BUILD THIS EVERYDAY. the more you know. dun-dun-dun-dahh

Tour: DAY EIGHTEEN

It has come to a close. Tonight we play with Mates of State in Tallahassee at the Club Downunder. Not really a big fan, but definitely a well paying gig.
Went swimming in the ocean for the first time in probably 2 years the other day in Virginia Beach. Sad, seeing that I live less than an hour from a beach.
We played at a venue/restaurant called The Boot, in reference to Italy. We were offered a family style pasta dinner that was amazing and contained all fresh local ingredients. A great beer and wine selection, the wines were Virginia and Italian exclusive wines, and the rest of the menu was amazing. Definitely check the spot out if you ever happen to be in Norfolk, VA.
Greenville, NC was kind of a bust. I am going to skip that show. No point.
Charleston, SC was great, as usual. This was our 3rd or 4th time playing the Tin Roof there and I really dig the place. They take care of us really well there. We ate good dogs for cheap and drank a lot, for less. Went into downtown Charleston in the batmobile, well atleast the the car that was used in the original batman series in the 60's. dope.
Meant to buy a bottle of their Sweet Tea Vodka and bring it home. Got drunk. Forgot.
Yesterday we played the REAL BIG DEAL festival in Gainesville and, despite first thoughts, wasn't really that bad for a new fest. Carnie food, 3 or 4 stages, all named something great....Ultimate stage, Amazing Stage, Awesome, Stage, etc....and some reputable acts. WHOLE WHEAT BREAD.
Like I said, tonight is the last night, and thnk we're all ready to be home. The factors of touring can be really taxing internally and externally and can begin to drive you and those around you crazy. 3 weeks is enough....without a bus. gimme a bus and I'll stay away for ever. promise.
So, it's done. see yall tomorrow. I expect to see some of you at BARBQ, cuz i have to work tomorrow night. be nice. come say hello. BA-BOP!

Friday, September 12, 2008

A Big Congratulations to Lil' Andy G

Good friend Andy Gurjian narrowly escaped Houston just ahead of (Man Killer) Hurricane Ike, and landed safely at home here in Orlando to announce good news. He was in Houston attending the Pabst Blue Ribbon National Sales Meeting and to his surprise was named "Salesman of the Year"!!! Beer Man of the year! To those of us not in the corporate world, that is a huge huge accomplishment and we should all be proud of him. So be sure to slap him extra hard on the back tonight when you see him and tell him nice work. And make him buy you a beer so that he can win again next year,

Seriously good Job Andy, we are all proud of you!

PBR Man in Your Face

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Old Future Sounds


Please be sure to give some attention to my JPG site if you have not had the chance to sign up and vote for my submissions for the next issue of JPG. It really does only take a minute, and ensures you my love for life. Not that this is conditional or anything...I just never forgive. You can follow this link and vote away.FOLLOW THIS LINK

Also.
More cool things being put on display... Devin Moore has posted some news:

"Dear Web-log,
Today I wait patiently for the first mix on the first song from a new set of recordings I did over the last 3 months. In near complete isolation from humanity in the purgatorial setting of Tampa, Florida I stitched together a group of songs using a Mac, a cheap mic, an even cheaper pre-amp, some sort of outdated Yamaha guitar amp simulator, and a cd of curious drum samples I found in my roommate's closet. Since no one was around to tell me that this might be a foolish waste of time, I finished it. Now when I say there wasn't anyone around I guess thats not entirely true. I was frequently visited by my old friends; regret, despair, hopelessness, ugliness, social anxiety, self loathing, depression, abandonment, obsession, loneliness, and Jeff Lataille. Also during this time period a psychologist and a general practitioner declared me to be both morbidly single and terminally un-dateable, which I thought was a little unfair, and only added insult to already suffered injury. Anyway. . . the "record," if such things exist, will be called "Slit Your Wristbands" the first song I will post will be Take the Knife to Bed and despite the unfavorable recording conditions it turned out fantastic.
Please stand by.

Yours, devin"


Also. In much more grim music news... a reminder that Josh is committing career suicide to the career of adored persona Cracker Jackson on Seppy 17th. Here is what he has to say about that:
"Last. Show. Ever.

You know how it's really hard to let something go that means a lot to you but the need to let it go is so great that you would rather bear the burden of it's loss than maintain it's unhealthy yet familiar perpetuation?

Well this isn't really one of those times. I am just kinda over being the dancing clown.

My last show as Cracker Jackson is next Wednesday, the 17th. I have been kinda kicking around the idea of the "last show" for a while now, and I am sure you have all noticed that I have not played a show in quite some time. All five of you. Well Ryan had a great idea and asked me if I wanted to play with Tu Shi Ma Mi Re and I was all like "sure."

The stuff legends are made of.

I will say this: It's going to be a fun show. I promise. I really hope that all my friends come out and help me put this spazzy project to rest once and for all. I know I sound very self-effacing about it, but I really did love it at one point.

See, I was trying to do something different. That doesn't always work. I think my attempt at hiding intelligent and clever concepts and content inside humorous and flamboyant songs just translated as "Omg it's funny when you talk about pussies and Jedi." Not that all my songs were intelligent in concept (Front Bottom being the biggest offender) but I like to think that there was some stuff in there for everyone. I like to "think."

So in the end it all just felt too jokey. I considered just soldiering on and writing more serious material, but I hate the name "Cracker Jackson" anyway. I mean really? REALLY? I used to smoke a lot of pot, man.

Come out to the Social next Wednesday and hang out with me and watch some great bands. Laugh and tease me. Watch me hump a monitor like a retard. Whatever. For what it's worth, it will be the last chance you ever get to realize you really won't miss it at all. :P

Plus I am fucking ill."


LastShow


And last bit of awesome shit happening of course is another edition of Pop Off!!! See you all there. Don't forget to do your part and spread the word about this night. But not too much, you don't want a bunch of little brats showing up and ruining it for all of you.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Tour DAY FOURTEEN

ok...New York was a blast, as always. Ate a lot of great food, no burgers no wings no fries, and went to a lot of spots i'd never been. Kaley flew up for her birthday and we went out on saturday night to celebrate. We ate at a restaurant called The Lodge, which by every respect turned me off immediately, but turned out to be amazing. Looking over the menu I noticed that all the ingredients used in each dish were pulled from local resources and farms making it all so fresh and tasty. I ordered the curry lentil soup followed by an order of Old Bay Beer Broth Mussels. Awesome. The girls were boring and all had Veggie burgers. Good spot, check it out. Corner of Grand and Driggs in Williamsburg.
We played the Trash Bar that night and the show was great. A lot of Orlando transplants showed up. the place reminds me a lot of BarBQBar in that it has christmas lights strung from one side to the other and license plates all over the walls. Our place is much better looking and way more authentic. One bar I was extremely impressed by was a place called MOTO. Great beers and Wine and an art deco aesthetic that reminds me of BIOSHOCK for some reason. Like a Mid-century jazz club shut down and forgotten, it is awesome. Great jazz records playing all night and two brothers running the place, all smiles and stories.
We left New York yesterday and played an early, outdoor show in Delaware for a bunch of youngsters who really dig the music. We were done before 11pm, so we cut out and ended up at this Holiday Inn Express in Maryland on our way to Norfolk, VA. By the way, the "amazing showerhead" at these H.I. Express' is no joke. It's awesome. Cleanest I've ever been. Some of you know.
These are the final days of the tour. Norfolk today, Greenville, NC tomorrow, and Charleston, SC on Thursday. We'll be back in Florida on Friday for a show @ the Crowbar in Ybor City with Gil Mantera's Party Dream, then the Real Big Deal Fest in Gainesville, and then the final show on Sunday @ FSU with Mates of State.
Miss you guys. See ya soon. BAH!!

Monday, September 8, 2008

The Great Big Goodbye Forever

So as none of you know. Our friend and hip/hop hero Josh Hettel is laying to rest super awesome Alter Ego Cracker Jackson. The charismatic, dry humping, bar dancing, word smith, is turning off the valves to his fast flowing wit, zipping up the smart-mouth and winding down for good. Some of you have had the luck to watch his shows over the years, and some of you have only heard about them. Either way, it is always legendary and never the same.

LastShow


Next Wednesday at the Social Josh is going to close the show with one final performance for friends and fans and put this to bed for good.

Please spread the word. Light the fires, whisper around the coolers, do whatever it is you do... twitter, facebook, blog, get the word out to anyone you think would want to see Cracker Jackson one last time. Don;t miss this party. Japan Nite w a farewell performance by Cracker Jackson... are you kidding me?!

This is all part of a big night of bigger performances as the opening acts are my friends from Tokyo Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re. All the info is below.

AND DON'T FORGET


These are my friends from Tokyo and they are back. Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re is a all girl rock trio that plays with as much force as a funnel cloud wrapped in a hurricane. It is a quality time and I really hope you all come and hang out at the show. They are touring around with another Japanese Rock act called The Captains and they look to be as awesome as the hype as well.



Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re (show poster)

Click the Picture below to their Myspace



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Sunday, September 7, 2008

OH SHIT! ZUMMM ZUMMM ZUM!

Check out those sweet Reeboks and his little ( big ) package

Friday, September 5, 2008

Tour: DAY TEN

So....let's start with Richmond, where I left off. Show was kinda bo-bo, in that we didn't play until midnight after 3 local openers and played for about 15 people. It's all good. Played like there was 100. Always.
Then, we headed to a bar, had a few, and the boutique owner allowed us to stay at the store, unsupervised. Bad idea girl. So..there was a box of wine, a case of beer, some opium and weed, and a shit load of clothes, masks, and props to be had. Needless to say we had a great time having a booze and drug induced photo shoot with wheat that ended in a wall, a turntable, and a mannequin being broken. all in all, a blast.
The next morning we chilled, got some good food, and headed towards D.C. where we met the second act in our amazing journey, a woman named Kate from Pittsburgh who has apparently been stalking the band via myspace for or short time now. She is basically a cracked out yoga fiend bent on Burning Man never ending. She did yoga in front of the stage at the show and then wanted to go hang with us afterward. Brad did a number on her and got her to leave us and go to a hotel.
Shoot the next day when brad has multiple crazed texts from her and a guarantee that she will be in Philly. Awesome.
D.C. sucks a fat one by the way. People there say we "just don't know", but I say fuck you, you fucking suck. Shitty attitudes, shitty tastes, and boring spots. Pharmacy Bar has a great jukebox. I'll say that.
Philly blew as well. Played in a basement in a gallery for the promoter, Gavin(Diddles bro), his girl, and kyle and wheat. Bogus. Good to see Gavin though. That kid is awesome. Kate, the yoga bitch, showed up, freaked Gavin and his girl out, gave us some tomatoes that she picked with a 70 year old man on the way, and then got fucking nuts and said she'd see us in Boston.
Thankfully, she didn't. She got wacky and lost and never showed up. No matter though, we didn't need her for the show to suck. We played @ a joint called Bill's Bar. Basically, Mako's mixed with I-Bar for college kids; 18and up. 2 drink tickets TOTAL for the band and we had to leave our stuff there all night because they wouldn't let us load out. Love Boston..hate anywhere near the stadium or out of Cambridge. Period.
Hung with Sean Fitz and Elissa, went to Bukowski Tavern and had great beers, got up this morning and headed here to NYC.
so there is the update. the northeast is hard like i said, and i miss all ya. BAH!! FUCK PALIN IN HER BEADY EYES '08!!!!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

We could only wish bob ross did more of these...

David Byrne / Bike Racks

David Byrne, being the New Yorker that he is, parterned up with the NY DOT and New York art gallery PaceWildenstein and installed nine bike racks around Manhattan and Brooklyn.

click the pic for the story...

Monday, September 1, 2008

Mr. Miyagi...for Erock



thought you might like this Erock...some people think he's the next best thing to hit the shit. you be the judge.

Tour: DAY SIX

Well, we are at a dope clothing boutique called RUMORS in Richmond, VA, where we will be playing tonight. reminds me a lot of Etoile but with less vintage. Wheat and I rode by a huge monument of Robert E. Lee today, gotta love the south. Apparently it's supposed to rise again. Still waiting. Wheat has been photo documenting a lot of the tour, as well as a lot of girls for his personal enjoyment. He and Kyle have been on a Canadian Mist binge thus far culminating in Kyle allowing me to Joe Strummer his hair last night in the hotel. eat yer heart out Alchemy. shit looks good. As some of you know, we brought along all of our bikes; 5 in all, and it's been a blast getting to ride around every city with our own agenda. However, yesterday as we were leaving charlotte the bike rack on the back of the van slipped and broke itself and the back window. $100 dollars at a Wal-Mart later, we have a new and improved bike rack that no longer sits on the back window.
All of the shows have been going great so far with awesome turnouts and cool folks. By far the best tour we had(knock on wood), although I do still miss Yardley and Brian coming. probably the only thing that could make this better.
This week we venture into the Northeast and leave the warm embrace of southern hospitality. More folded arms and "i've seen this before" faces staring back at you. always a tough sell. If any of you bones, or reader of bones, have any friends in Washington,D.C., Philly, New York, or Boston, try to get them out to one of our shows. especially D.C., for we know not a soul up in that bitch.
we all miss you guys and wish we could experience this with all the bones, that's why I'm trying to keep you up to date as well as I can. Still kind of a bitch finding a good spot to chill and write with a decent wireless signal.
Oh, and if you ever get a chance definitely stop through Richmond. Old southern history in every building and, like I said, one of the last stops before the south fades to north. be well. BAH BAH!!!

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Fucking WoW!

Sharolaid - DOO DOO GIRLS

From Hollywood, Fl.

Terminator 2 Sweded: Low Budgment Day



This should be done to every movie.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Tour: DAY THREE

Things are running smoothly so far. Everyone's getting along and we all have our bikes with us, however, we haven't had the chance to use them at all as of yet. bummer. Not having an I.D. really sucks. I am truly a fucking idiot for not getting my shit together and getting an I.D. It's really starting to bum me out, seeing as I am limiting myself to what I can do with everyone and where i can go. We are in Asheville, NC right now. Home of the Biltmore Estate and the Black Mountain...and a bunch of fucking hippies "locked" in a dread contest. Really beautiful place that I would never want to stay in. I did just eat one of the best burgers i have ever had...a patty filled with bacon and cheese and topped with a yellow tomato and spring greens. all for free. the New French Bar is awesome in that respect, very tiny though. Well, i will try to keep everyone as up to date as possible based on wireless availability. Oh, last night we ate weed cookies and went out of our minds..first time I think I've come to freaking out in a long time..probably since high school. That shit was unreal. I was SO happy when I woke up today sober and went into the Register kitchen for steak and eggs. So far no money spent on cigarettes or booze. A definite plus. More to come..

Saturday, August 23, 2008

look for this at kevin's birthday


COOLEST DUDE EVER!!!!

Down East



So Maine was sweet. Highs in the 80's, lows in the high 50's and it only rained once. Mark, Brandon and my self did pretty much nothing. Wake up early and eat breakfeast, lounge about all day by the lake swimming here and there or go into town to get food, beer, ect. Nights were sitting around the fire on the shore drinking whiskey and beer, then drunk swimming. Super relaxing, no stress, no bars, no people, no nothin'.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Simpsons x Kid Robot

who wants to go in on a box or two?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Can we please all run for the hills

This terrifies me. Be sure to watch this long enough or just skip forward till you see this thing in a swimming pool.







And then there is this Fucking thing on the ice...

Friday, August 8, 2008

Uh-Oh Tokyo!!!

Big Time!! What? Are you serious? Yeah, these are my friends from Tokyo and they are back. Some of you were lucky enough to catch their show at the Social last time they were in town and saw first hand how bad they slayed the crowd. Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re is a rock trio that plays with as much force as a funnel cloud wrapped in a hurricane. It is a quality time and I really hope you all come and hang out at the show. They are touring around with another Japanese Rock act called The Captains and they look to be as awesome as the hype as well.

A party is being planned and we are going to just throw down after the show at the Social. We are working out music and drinks, and other shenanigans... but both bands are excited to hang with all of you crazy big time Americans and drink the drinks and have big laughs.

Do me a favor and repost this poster where you can on the ol' internet machine.

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re copy

Click the Picture below to their Myspace



Thursday, July 31, 2008

NEXT MONTH AT POP OFF!

I already got a hold of these guys and they said they would do it.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Sunday Morning Smoke session #8

Tracklisting

1. M83 - Kim & Jessie
2. Pressurized Chamber - Zeigeist
3. Amplive - Weird Fishez
4. The Hood Internet - Your Love Iz What It Iz
5. Air - Gordini Mix (breakes on mix by Alex Gopher)
6. Firefly - Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side)
7. Hercules and Love Affair - This Is My Love
8. Late of the Pier - The Bears Are Coming
9. Fujiya & Miyagi - In One Ear & Out The Other
10. Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
11. Air France - Beach Party
12. Architecture In Helsinki - Debbie (U-Turn remix Instrumental)
13. CSS - Let's Reggae All Night
14. Human League - Shameless
15. Chromatics - I Want Your Love
16. Debbie Deb - Fantasy
17. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
18. Donnis - Party Works
19. Pittsburgh Slim - Girls Kiss Girls



crank that robot!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Something for Summerbirds to look forward to..


If Neal Pert fucks up, then I don't feel so bad anymore about sucking on drums.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

I fucked that balloon right in the blow hole

So...

I guess the first question would be how in the F did I stumble across this fucking insane bitch and her website? Well let's just say sometimes you find weird shit when you're planning a birthday party for a 4yr old boy and you want some super cool balloon action going on. Anyway, here is Tara Bush... and apparently she has a real sexy connection with balloons. I guess this entry to the bone blog has to be chopped up to the I can't believe these people exist category. Of course she is originally from Jersey and moved here to Florida. How long do you think she waits to tell the dudes she dates about her balloon site? A week? Two? or does she just open with it?

Enjoy...

Introducing Tara Bush a 23 yr old idiot that sells fetish videos. She had too many to count on her site, well over a 100 it seems, here are some clips to some of her "sexy" balloon videos you can order for like 8 bucks a pop. Get it? I said POP! shoot me.






It really starts to get insane when you try and watch a minute of her video on You Tube which she disabled the embed code to but here is a LINK

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Radiohead "House of Cards" vid



No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

THE END IS NEIGH


These assholes exist and will be playing at the social in august. Can we picket this show? I mean this shit is just ridiculous. I a little bit pissed off right now.

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OK, will somebody tell me what the fuck this is? For some reason I could not stop watching this until it was over, I just had to see if a cat was going to be skate boarding on a dog. You know what, it happened. There is some pretty fucking weird shit going on in this video and Im digging the sound track.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Here is your goddamn RSS feeds.

Now leave me alone before I send the sex viking (no relation to the Techno Viking) to see you.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Photo Royale Pics

Last night showed up and pretty much ruled, rocked, exploded awesome juice, and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Can't wait for next year. I still think the most amazing thing about Photo Royale is getting all of the teams to not only show up, but to show up on time. It blows my mind. There was so much drinking last night, pretty sure I am still drunk. In the meantime... here is a photo set I put up on the bone society flickr page. PHOTO ROYALE III PICTURES

Love you guys, thanks for playing - Ryan

P.S. For the love of GOD will someone please fix this blog so it does not crop pictures. Who the F is running this thing?

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