Enuff w/ da polatiks
" i yanked it, i yanked it, the thing! "
SO CLASSIX
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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
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
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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.
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
Thursday, September 18, 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
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
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!
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.
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!
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!
Seriously good Job Andy, we are all proud of you!
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."
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!!
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.
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
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.
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.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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!!!!
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
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...
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!!!
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!!!
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