the bone blog

Be My Mother Lover

2009-05-14T08:10:00.000-07:00

Meat Is For Pussies

2009-05-14T07:41:00.000-07:00

John Joseph of Cro Mags on vegetarian nutrition, training and the healthy lifestyle.

Alf? uh, Alf?

2009-05-13T14:55:00.000-07:00

The Scratched Prince

2009-05-07T17:05:00.001-07:00

You're Going Love My Nuts

2009-04-30T09:07:00.000-07:00

Auto-Tune the news

2009-04-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

taken from...

2009-04-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

ATTORNEYSTRT.COM

An Interview with Ghislain Poirier from Maga Bo on Vimeo.

The latest in a series of mini-docs done by self described transnational bass artist Maga Bo. Previous installments include quick chats with Diplo, Daniel Haaksman, DJ/Rupture and more. All really great watches. That seems like a bit of an awkward phrase to us, but we don’t really know how else to put it. Anyway, check out the vids here. And thanks to ~~the fader~~ Attorney Street for the heads up.

GAY-THAM FOR STATHAM

2009-04-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

taken from the Patton Oswalt myspace blog...

GAY-THAM FOR STATHAM
Jason Statham has never been in a great movie.

He's also never been in a boring one.

Statham's imdb.com profile, collectively, is a promise to you, the weary filmgoer. It's a promise that says, "I promise that you will not FOR ONE SECOND be bored during one of my movies. You won't learn shit about the human condition, or feel a collective connection with the brotherhood of man. But if you give me $10, I will fuck an explosion while a Slayer song plays".

I just watched CRANK on Showtime, and I can't understand how I missed this when it was in theaters.

I'm buying THE BANK JOB and DEATHRACE on iTunes today. After CRANK, Mr. Statham can count on my $10 every time he makes a movie. If someone figures out how to make a movie for $8, and it stars Jason Statham, then they're guaranteed a $2 profit.

I look forward to any new film by Ang Lee, David Gordon Green, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Paul Greengrass or Ross McElwee.

And now, Jason Statham. I don't know how much say he has in the films he makes. But I get the impression that he reads the scripts. And if the script doesn't make him want to drive a bulldozer through a cake store, I'll bet he punches the script through a wall.

In fact, my entire stack of Academy screeners would have been vastly improved by the addition of Jason Statham. Here we go:

CHANGELING: Jason Statham plays the kidnapped boy, who immediately beats his kidnappers to death, then fights female assassins on top of a blimp.

CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: Jason Statham injects the backward-aging man-freak with a Sino/Chilean rage compound, and they fight in lava pit.

DEFIANCE: Jason Statham throws Hitler into a woodchipper, eats the entrails as they fly out the other end, and then shits out Winston Churchill.

DOUBT: Jason Statham drop-kicks the Pope through the core of the Earth, and the Pope's head goes up Meryl Streep's ass and then Motorhead's "The Ace of Spades" plays.

FROST/NIXON: Jason Statham pulls off David Frost's skin, drops him into a tank of sea salt, and then Statham and Nixon rent a limo and drive across country, shotgunning hippies.

GRAN TORINO: Jason Statham glowers at Clint Eastwood, who glowers back, creating a Glower Vortex which destroys the planet.

THE READER: Statham kills the teenage kid with a lawnmower, then fucks Kate Winslet literate.

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD: Jason Statham drives an 18-wheeler full of nitro into the title suburb, blows everything to shit, and then spends 90 minutes hunting down absolutely everyone involved with the making of this film, beating them to death with TV trays.

THE WRESTLER: Jason Statham, Richard Nixon, the 'roided-out Benjamin Button murder-freak, the Churchill feces-baby and Mickey Rourke drive cross country in a limo, with Leo DiCaprio's severed head on the hood, where they crash the Spirit Awards and kill everyone.

There you go. Statham! Full disclosure: I saw Jason Statham eating a salad at Joan's on 3rd, here in L.A. Really, I did. I wanted to say hello, but he seemed like he could chuck an arugula leaf through my skull.

Do yourselves a favor, Academy voters. CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE comes out April 19th. On April 20th, rescind all the voting categories. There should be one statue given out next year -- a 45-foot, sentient Oscar kill-bot, which Jason Statham will fight to the death at the next ceremony.

Statham! Yell it when you're fucking!

Chicken Tetrazzini

2009-04-10T18:07:00.000-07:00

I Got Next : Official Trailer

2009-04-06T11:43:00.000-07:00

Bruno

2009-04-05T15:28:00.000-07:00

repost : Philly Live ‘86

2009-04-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

taken from : CB

Jazzy Jeff

Carloscda40 just blew up youtube with with something close to a complete show at the famed Philly venue Wynne Plaza circa 1986. Jazzy Jeff, Fresh Prince, Cosmic Kev, Master Vic and more were in the building. Hit the jump for the rest. 9 more videos here

new U.N.K.L.E. video

2009-03-25T13:30:00.000-07:00

Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
by UNKLE_UK

LED's + Sheep= ?

2009-03-24T13:06:00.000-07:00

James Brown, why so crazy?

2009-03-23T13:24:00.001-07:00

more frodus, sxsw styleee

2009-03-23T13:19:00.000-07:00

SXSW#6 Frodus reunion show at Lovitt Records showcase from Denman C Anderson on Vimeo.

new converge

2009-03-21T16:09:00.000-07:00

oh face

FTW

2009-03-19T23:05:00.001-07:00

50 Minutes of Fresh

2009-03-16T14:59:00.000-07:00

DJ Eleven of the Rub just dropped this joint;

Fresh off the presses comes "50 Minutes of Fresh", a sampling of some of my favorite Mannie Fresh productions, features, and solo joints. It isn't trying to be a greatest hits. It's literally 50 minutes of Mannie Fresh. Enjoy, share, and let me know if you're feeling it!

clicky here son

Mannie Fresh - Not Tonight
Cash Money Millionaires - Project Chick
Lil Wayne - The Block Is Hot
Big Tymers - Get Your Roll On
B.G. - Bling Bling
Mannie Fresh - Real Big
Lil Wayne - Way Of Life
Mannie Fresh - The D.J.
Lil' Wayne - This Is The Carter
Big Tymers - Still Fly
Blast - Hood Rich
Juvenile - In My Life
Rick Ross - All I Have In This World
B.G. - Move Around
Mannie Fresh - Tell It Like It Is
Shawt - Im Da Man
Bun B - I'm Fresh
Plies - Pants Hang Low
Young Jeezy - And Then What
Lil Flip - What it Do
Dem Franchize Boyz - Mr. Feel Good
Squad Up - Parking Lot
Lil Wayne - Go DJ
T.I. - Front, Back
Big Tymers - Southern Boy
Big Tymers - Hello

No mo' bacon

2009-03-09T06:26:00.000-07:00

FRODUS REUNION>>>>

2009-03-06T12:28:00.000-08:00

wtf, i think i was going to make a point to go to SXSW this year. but here i am, working almost everyday of the first half of this month. so to cut to the chase...cut and paste!!!

Hello,

Lovitt Records and Slip Productions will be doing a joint showcase during SXSW week. We joined forces because we care about good music and want to share our love with you.
We have been working non-stop to create the best possible show and just as we were about to announce the amazing line up we got the the following communique from The Frodus Conglomerate International:

"2009 has seen the world economy crumble due to the unethical practices of businessmen and corporate oligarchy. The current administration with the assistance of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, has reached out to the Frodus Conglomerate International for aid. Calls were made, doors were closed and numbers adjusted. After weeks of vicious negotiation both parties agreed on a proper course of action.

The Frodus Conglomerate International will address the public for the first time in 10 years on Saturday March 21, 2009, at 4:30 pm in Austin, Texas. Austin will be the first of several public forums to address current global conditions forewarned by the FCI in years past. The Conglomerate has employed Liam Wilson of the Dillinger Escape Plan to supply bass guitar for this address while Nathan Burke organizes his North-West Contingency. We are the economic police.
"

In addition to announcing Frodus playing, we are happy to announce the rest of the amazing line-up! The show will take place on Saturday, March 21st at the Radio Room (508 East 6th Street) in Austin, Texas, on two stages.
The current schedule is:

Stage One
(times are approximate)

11:45 - Edie Sedgwick
12:15 - The Medications
12:50 - Quieting Syrup
1:20 - Tight Phantomz
1:55 - Pygmy Lush
2:40 - Auxes
3:25 – Ben Davis & The Jett$
4:10 - Des Ark
5:00 - Milemarker

Stage Two
(times are approximate)

11:30 - Head of Skulls!
12:00 - The Poison Arrows
12:35 - Young Widows
1:15 - The Life and Times
1:50 – Pinebender
2:45 - Silver Scooter
3:40 - The Van Pelt
4:35 - Frodus
5:15 - Cursive

DJ sets by Team Fabrication and Neil O'Brien from The Van Pelt.

There will be a suggested donation of $10 at the door. SXSW badges will not get you in. If you want to be on the paid reserve list, you can go ahead and pay pal $10 to: crcooper@usa.com. Those who do this will get a show poster and some other goodies.
Get there early!

Come out and support independent music and be a part of the best show this year.

Your Friends,

Lovitt Records

ok, that line up looks really really good. ugh.

guilty pleasure

2009-03-02T13:37:00.000-08:00

snacks strikes again...

2009-03-02T10:38:00.000-08:00

from smitten kitchen

CAR BOMB CUPCAKES

Slavery in our midsts....

2009-03-01T19:33:00.000-08:00

Read an article reposted on Boingboing.net today from Gourmet magazine about tomato pickers in the Naples, FL area that have been working under horrible,"slaver-like" conditions for years now. One such story revealed a group of men forced to live in a truck, pay $5 for cold, water hose showers, and threatened to be beaten by their "crew bosses" for being sick, exhausted, or malnourished. We are all very aware of the work conditions set in place for poverty level humans across the globe and even in this country, however, to have such basic slavery right under our noses in our own state is ludicrous.
there is a group called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers that has been campaigning for the rights of these workers for the past few years. the website is ciw-online.org.
check it out. send our governor an email.
i know that in these times caring for the income and well-being of others isn't necessarily easy, but these people are the ones pulling your fruits and vegetables everyday, making sure Publix has those perfectly red tomatoes in the Winter.
gettin off the soapbox now. atleast check it out. this is a huge part of our state.

Loser

2009-02-28T14:02:00.001-08:00

No, I don't want to talk about it.

Sweaty Palms

2009-02-27T13:19:00.000-08:00

Whenever I compete in any kind of video game tournament my palms get all kinds of sweaty. So at the gamestop tournament last week I was constantly drying off my hands on my pants in between matches, gross. Even so I still walked away victorious with some really crappy prizes and a spot in the semi-semi finals this up coming saturday.

Behold the crappy schawg. Yellow head band, wrist bands and a certificate. The tourney had two winners, Me and some asian dude who I think my girlfriend has a crush on. There were a quite a few asian dudes, which whom I defeated much to Connie's surprise. The attendees consisted of black dudes, asian dudes and dorky smelly white dudes. Needless to say gamestop smelled real bad that day. Even if I don't go all the way in this tournament I still plan on going to Evolution this july in vegas. Anyone wanna go? Seriously, I have a hotel room you can stay in, I don't want to be surrounded by nerds the entire week that I am there. Bah.

AHHHH!

2009-02-26T17:56:00.000-08:00

street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms, street fighter, mid-terms.

Regularly schedule programing resumes tomorrow. hadoken.

Two inmates escape from Greek Max. Security Prison...BY HELICOPTER!!!!!

2009-02-25T11:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/23/greece.prison.resigns/index.html

ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- The director of a maximum-security prison and two of his colleagues resigned Monday after two inmates escaped by helicopter.
Police at Korydallos prison after the daring escape.

The Greek minister of justice, Nicholas Dendias, said he had asked for and received the resignations of the director, security secretary and head of inspection and control at Korydallos Prison, in a suburb of Athens.

"The government will not tolerate the current situation," he said in a written statement. "Those involved in this escape will be brought to justice and punished."

The escape played out like a Hollywood action film.

It began around Sunday afternoon, when two men hijacked a helicopter from Athens International Airport and ordered the pilot to fly to the prison.

The helicopter hovered over the roof of a prison compound where inmates Nikos Paleokostas, 42, and Alket Riza, 34, were located. Rope ladders were unfurled and the prisoners climbed into the helicopter and escaped, the Justice Ministry said.

Prison guards shot at the helicopter during the escape, witnesses told local media. There were no reports of injuries.

The pilot was found gagged near the helicopter north of Athens, a state-run media report said.

The prison break by helicopter is the second from the prison for Paleokostas, who was convicted for abducting a businessman and escaped the first time in June 2006. He was recaptured several months later and returned to the prison.
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Investigators searched for the inmates and unidentified accomplices Sunday.

On Monday, the justice minister announced the resignation of Leonidas Karampekiou, the prison director; Foti Vlachou, the security secretary there, and Apostolos Economou, the head of inspection and control at the prison.

BAP

2009-02-17T11:59:00.000-08:00

BAP. Greetings everyone! Today is a beautiful day! Street Fighter IV comes out today, hopefully. In 3 weeks I will have a vacation from school and Orlando! I imagine that I feel like this guy does.

Everything else is ok, I have midterms all week which suck, but I belong to a really cool semi-secret organization called the bone society thats kind of cool. Are we ever going to get organized? Secret pass-words? A secret handshake that we don't do in public? A set of standards to become a member would be nice, a creed or a motto would also be a good idea. Oh I just realized the kind of people the society consists of, we only get ambitious when we get drunk. Which is fine since it was created under the influence of alcohol. IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO POST HERE? EVER?.....*exhales*.

Back to the vacation thing, I will be in NYC for a week with the Connie Monster and would appreciate any suggestions for places to visit/eat. As soon as we get off the plane we will probably bee-line for the noodle bar and then proceed to drink and eat until we pass out on the MET. Preston recommends the ninja place so we might try that. I think I might make reservations at the best steak house in NYC. Has anyone eaten there before? Is it worth the price? Anyways, to quote defame "no one reads your blog anyways" so I really don't know why Im asking for feed back, since Rymar stated writing his vagina monologues no one else posts or reads this crappy blog.

Pre-Game

2009-02-12T15:00:00.000-08:00

Its almost here, one the biggest nerd moments in my life. The release of street fighter IV. Gamestop called me up today to let me know one of my arcade sticks was in so went I down there to pick it up. It is really nice but an even better one is coming out with the game. The controller is nice and heavy, the parts are really responsive, over all a very well designed product. Now I have to wait five more days to use it. Thats not true, I am playing old street fighter as I type this.

It came with a nifty character card that has movelists and play mechanic descriptions, like the ones you would see on an actual arcade machine. I wish it was cordless but its not. Getting use to the arcade stick after so long on the pad is harder than I thought. The last time I was in an arcade was back in october in new york. I have a lot of work cut out for me.

FUCKING SHIT.

2009-02-10T10:59:00.000-08:00

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

Stop Dickin' Around

2009-02-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

Ok, it seems that every site that I visit today has a video of the awesome new invention, the joydick. Apparently you hook said device up to your dong and control the game through masturbation. I know what most of you are thinking, "yes! I can do two useless things at once now and have more free time during the day!". The harsh reality of this product is that most people I know would pull their dick right off with the way they play video games, me on the other hand am ever so graceful and precise that it would probably come second nature to me. Thats what she said.

NSFW

valentines day iz dumb

2009-02-08T19:56:00.000-08:00

Nudity

2009-02-07T14:22:00.001-08:00

What you have all been waiting for, pure ass. NSFW! Guess its a little late for that! I did this in the last drawing class I took which was bout 4 years ago. Yep, thats a nude female, the perks of being a serious "artist". Hope you like it, its charcoal on heavy stock, took maybe three to four hours. I gave it to my mom for christmas a couple of years back, and when I went to visit her she had it hung vertically, which looked stupid.

This is Mr. Dick Nose. He's a mask I sculpted out of clay and plaster then painted and added a cute little hat. He is a Tengu mask. If you have been to my house you have probably already seen this, and he is my avatar on the blog. I really like this and wanted to show something other than a drawing. This took about 4 hours and was a lot of fun to work on. Oh and ladies, he is totally single.

Drawings of Old

2009-02-02T21:13:00.000-08:00

First off, I need everyone who reads this to sign up for the Street Fighter IV contest. The winner gets a street fighter 4 arcade machine. You don't have to buy anything, just sign up and give me the machine if you win. DO IT. Their also holding a nation wide tournament held at local game stops (you better win jimmy), which yours truly will be entering, fuck yea. The winner of that also gets a street fighter 4 machine. Ok, time for more drawings.

This sketch was most likely done in 2001-2002. This was one of my first experiments with ink washing. I came to like the technique and have been experimenting with it ever since. I have no idea who the model is but the hand most likely belogs to me.

Hands. I have drawn my hands thousands of times. I like drawing hands, and I was thinking that I might do a series of painted hand gestures. This sketch could be as old as 2000, I don't know. If you can't tell it was done with charcoal, apparently under a very bright light. Until next, when there might be some nudity.

a new level of greatness...

2009-02-02T12:52:00.000-08:00

1. if churches bumped like this, i would go there. (if i was into going to church still)
2. i wish church goers were really getting down to drum and bass like this in the clubs.

i really hate myself right now...

2009-01-31T23:04:00.000-08:00

who the fuck is doing beats for Soulja Boy?

i wish i had more time on my hands...

2009-01-30T12:49:00.001-08:00

so i can make more videos not unlike this...

My New Obsessions.

2009-01-29T21:18:00.000-08:00

Why don't i live in Midwest city???

and IM A FUGGIN' NUGGG NUTTTT!

Holy Crap!

I do drawings

2009-01-29T14:13:00.001-08:00

I know that I have posted some of my work up here before but as I said in a previous post I want to start displaying some old stuff. When it comes to art I have been seriously neglectful over the past year so I am hoping this will challenge me to get off of my ass and start doing more work. If anyone has any comments, ideas or criticisms (Its my fault I chose the friends I did) feel free share.

This is a really old drawing circa 2001 maybe. It is a 15-20 minute piece done as an exercise that I thought came out alright. Its two overlapping poses. For those of you that have seen my stuff before you know that I separate tones into planes and this is obviously no exception.

This one is was most likely done the same day, or at least in the same class. What really sucks about these sketches is that they are dudes. With their clothes on. No, but seriously you learn next to nothing about drawing the human form when your models have clothes on. I didn't get to do that until a couple years later. And the one model on the left is actual a women. Nude drawings a few posts later.

fuhgeddaboutit (thanks to chris rae)

2009-01-29T14:09:00.000-08:00

i...just..wanted...a...cup...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2009-01-28T15:58:00.000-08:00

yeah a parody

2009-01-28T04:08:00.000-08:00

Bzzzt

2009-01-26T19:16:00.000-08:00

null - Watch more free videos
Thats real fucked up.

Here's to Managing...

2009-01-26T13:05:00.000-08:00

Keeping up with the resolution

2009-01-24T15:16:00.000-08:00

I was about to get ready for work when I realized that I had not made a post in a couple of days. Mark said he would be very angry with me if I did not stick to my resolution. I really have nothing to post about so I will give you guys some links to sites that I find interesting.

First is ConceptArt.org which is full of art by freelance artists. This stuff is pretty much amazing and really inspiring. Second up is another art site, but this time for a specific artist that calls himself eBoy. His art work is very detailed in the same vein as Geoffry Darrow but with a 10 year old boys sensibility. Ok, I have to go to work and listen to Preston (sorry about the spelling errors) complain about ass-hole customers and watch Henry try to tackle Hudge if he sees him. Bahgwap.

i can name that tune in ...

2009-01-23T16:25:00.000-08:00

soon...

2009-01-23T11:53:00.001-08:00

Butternut Reduction

2009-01-22T18:30:00.000-08:00

I totally lost it when he says "butternut reduction".

This one is really good also, watch the whole thing.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

via Mad Decent

300

2009-01-22T16:47:00.000-08:00

No, not the movie but close to what I currently weigh. Time to get back down to my fighting weight. Im back on the plan that helped me lose 50 pounds 3 years ago; diet and exercise. Don't ask me to go out to eat with you because I will spit salad on you. I think I will give the 100 pushup plan a try and start the couch to 5k plan again. Im also going to try to start going to Aikido more than the once a month that has been the norm for almost 2 years now. I have no idea why I stopped training, I never felt better in my life physically, mentally or spiritually. The diet part will be much easier than the exercise part, plus it will save me money. You do not want to know how much money I squander on eating out.

I got my bike back in working order today so lets go ride. It cost an arm-and-a-leg but it looks and rides much better than before, and no its not a "fixie". Not that I have anything against those types, Im actually friends with tons of ~~trendy fucks~~ young hip people. No but really, anything that can get people out of their cars onto a bicycle is fine by me.

For those that care, the pinhole camera pictures did not come out, Mark thinks the hole is to small. don't say it, just don't. So he will make the hole bigger, (again, keep it to yourself) and try again.

Starting next week I am going to begin to post images from my portfolio of work, for two reasons.

1. Apparently a lot of have no idea that I am an *ugh* artist and that I have been drawing almost my entire life.
2. Feedback. Tell me what you think.

This experiment is hopefully going to motivate me to do more work, regardless of the negative/positive feed back. In theory after I run out of pieces that I want people to see, I will do more because all 10 of you that read this will want to see more..........

now for a topic related video:

aikido kid versus fat kid

PWND!

VOTE FOR THE CREW..help a new bone member.

2009-01-21T10:45:00.000-08:00

So Brett Register, the brother of Turtle, needs your help with his project. Here's his post:
OK, it's very simple, we (The Crew) need you to vote for us for a Streamy award.

Basically you go here: http://streamys. org/nominate. shtml

Then you nominate "The Crew" at "http://TheCrew. tv" for:

Best Comedy WebSeries
Best Directing for Comedy Webseries (Brett Register)
Best Writing for Comedy Webseries (Brett Register)
Best Male Actor in Comedy Webseries (Craig Frank)
Best Ensemble Cast in Webseries
Best Cinematography (Tim Riese)
Best Visual Effects (Brett Register/Jeff Bell)

Vote for one or all. Thanks so much!

So, help a bone out. It's quick and simple. Nominations end January 23rd. Hurry.
Oh, and LOST is back tonight. Round table discussion at Burton's afterward I believe?

The pinhole adventure

2009-01-20T14:30:00.000-08:00

Out of chance I ran into my friend Mark today while I was on my way to take pictures for a class project. As it happened he was doing the same thing, except he was doing it for fun and, he had a home made pinhole camera. Mark made had made it himself from a quaker oats can, black spray paint, black duct tape and an aluminum can. Oh yeah and a pin. If your interested here is some instructions and galleries. It took the better part of the day but he took 10 pictures of various locations. Big Hudge is going to develop them tonight in his bathroom darkroom so expect to see the results after I scan them in tomorrow. Im excited. Aside from that it has been a normal day, school, pinhole camera, food, coffee, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, I also brought my bike in to get it fixed so my friends would start hanging out with me again.

Oh yeah, Carmelo's spawn should have been surgically removed from his wife a couple of hours ago, its twin time everyone! Congratulations Woptazza your a daddy! I think I will be buying them this in celebration of his journey into the unknown with strange new creatures. Oh yes, we have a new president, here to a new era and to new life! What a great day.

fuck it.

2009-01-18T11:07:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I never came up with a resolution this year because I have yet to think of one that I might actually stick to. Until now. I will resolve to update this blog at least once every other day. There, I feel better already. Also, thanks Asa, your trickle of posts have been about the only thing keeping this going, oh that and Johnmanrules.com (not a real site....yet). So lets start today shall we! In local news I have finally been mentioned by Miss Defame herself!

"I wish Face had a better nickname."

Yes! But right above that.....

"I wish that BBQ bar would quit playing live Hip Hop on Thursday nights and just stick with their tried and true jukebox."

Awww....But I like hip hop! Yea hip hop! You sound like Rymar ~~Meghan~~Defame! I can move on with my life now.

Heres an interesting article for you bike nerds, this new do-hickey, that I am sure Preston will try to pre-order after reading this, projects the image of a bike lane behind you as you pedal. Now only if it would project a giant middle finger instead of a cyclist stencil.

So a few of you I told but just to make it official I would like to announce my new project which will be the construction of something similar to this:

This guy built his own for about $3500, but as you can see he did a double sided cab where in my case it would be only one sided. His monitors are sony HD 40" where as I would just stick with a 32" vizo for half the price. Wish me luck on my ultimate nerd venture. Also, mine will probably not be as near as fancy, or as expensive. Any one know how to model plans in 3D? And on final note, for those of you who do not already know, Rymar has been writing an awesome blog that a lot of mommy and daddies have been reading, so check it out. Well, thats that and now for the mandatory video post:

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Bap.

who's going to hell with me?

2009-01-12T13:35:00.000-08:00

Seriously?! what do you think? might have to gettem. just for fun.

2009-01-11T17:28:00.000-08:00

more best of 2008 youtube vidz

2008-12-23T00:01:00.001-08:00

fuck auto-tune

2008-12-22T08:35:00.000-08:00

just do it yourself...

Mad Dog, you son ova' bitch!

2008-12-19T17:29:00.000-08:00

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

More Youtubery

2008-12-17T17:31:00.000-08:00

Here is my most recent favorite. Suck it republicans.

adding to the list : top 3 youtube vidz

2008-12-15T13:21:00.000-08:00

Ante Up

Walk It Out

Fuck It, Do Live!

Add to the list

2008-12-15T12:25:00.000-08:00

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

2008-12-15T09:48:00.000-08:00

FF13

Watch FF13　DKΣ3713 in Game Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

FFvs13

Watch FF13 Versus DKΣ3713 in Game Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Shoes thrown at Bush : shiteating grins abound.

2008-12-14T13:36:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2008-12-10T14:41:00.000-08:00

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...

Thanksgiving + Pulled Pork = YES!

2008-11-26T21:22:00.000-08:00

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!

Bone!

2008-11-05T17:36:00.000-08:00

Holy shit, Ryan watch and learn!

2008-10-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-30T09:30:00.000-07:00

teaser trailer from empirebegins.com

Empire from Empire on Vimeo.

CREEPY.

2008-10-29T12:56:00.001-07:00

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?

2008-10-29T01:07:00.001-07:00

Sunday Morning Smoke #9

2008-10-24T21:07:00.000-07:00

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)

This is my life...

2008-10-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

Well mostly

Thanks Andy.

TARVUISM!!

2008-10-10T17:42:00.001-07:00

Say Hebbo! from Torvakian on Vimeo.

Supporting Friends that do awesome things!!!

2008-10-09T13:22:00.000-07:00

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.

I Didn't Forget - weeks of Sept. 28 - Oct. 11

2008-10-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

two for one fire sale!

Old Man Gloom - Vipers
Scrotum Grinder - Capiam Deiis

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

2008-10-06T14:32:00.000-07:00

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.

YES!

2008-10-03T14:44:00.000-07:00

Punch-Out!! Wii 'Debut' trailer

Follow up to the taser post

2008-10-02T11:25:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

Enuff w/ da polatiks

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

SO CLASSIX

Head of Skate!

2008-09-27T12:13:00.000-07:00

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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

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

2008-09-26T17:51:00.000-07:00

DONT DO IT, hudge.

Seriously?

2008-09-26T01:14:00.000-07:00

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

I Didn't Forget - week of Sept. 21 - Sept. 27

2008-09-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

The Exploder - Go

The more you know

2008-09-24T15:51:00.000-07:00

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.

Register To Vote...if you haven't

2008-09-20T15:58:00.001-07:00

chris rae showed me this

2008-09-19T21:41:00.000-07:00

Kirby In The Skies

story here

Soulja Boy reviews braid. The game.

2008-09-18T11:28:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-16T11:56:00.000-07:00

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!

2008-09-16T10:45:00.001-07:00

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??

2008-09-16T07:16:00.000-07:00

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."

BURN!

2008-09-15T14:46:00.000-07:00

BURN!

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

2008-09-15T13:46:00.000-07:00

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..

2008-09-15T02:22:00.000-07:00

...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.

SUPPORT FOR ULYSSES

2008-09-14T09:16:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

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!

A Big Congratulations to Lil' Andy G

2008-09-12T12:10:00.000-07:00

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!

Old Future Sounds

2008-09-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

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."

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.

Tour DAY FOURTEEN

2008-09-09T08:51:00.000-07:00

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!!

The Great Big Goodbye Forever

2008-09-08T17:13:00.001-07:00

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.

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.

Click the Picture below to their Myspace

OH SHIT! ZUMMM ZUMMM ZUM!

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