The English have low cat tolerances.

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Trust UCB

“But he smells like Ranch dressing…”

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From the book More Show Me How (c) 2010

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THE WORDS OF CHRISTIANS IN THE MOUTH OF CHRIST.

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English subtitles may be NSFW, as it’s called “The Big Tits Zombie.”

Relating Dudes to Jazz (from some socal public access show!)  Check out drummer George Hurley’s hair–nicknamed “the Unit”–while he works that 5-piece drum kit!

Flying the Flannel!

and last, but not least… Chemical Wire, live circa 1993

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Side note: Why do all these metal guys think they are so frickin hilarious?  Also beards are lame, make a note of it.

“Johnny Orlando Jr. Jr., son of the guy behind The Antibiotic Resistant Metal Show, interviewed a bunch of tattooed metal band members. He asked them, “Where do babies come from?” and got wildly varying answers, from storks to Walmart.”

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Richard Colman’s solo exhibition opens this weekend at New Image Art. It is his first LA solo in 3 years.

Link: Wooster Collective: One Not To Miss: Richard Colman at New Image Art

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Crom: All Hail Those who Fail from Peliculas Cochinas on Vimeo.

the CROM movie is touted as a “feel-bad” movie about a band who embraces the ethos of never getting it together.

Link: Can LA’s CROM Become This Year’s Anvil? – Los Angeles Music – West Coast Sound

And no matter what people say or think of me, you still can’t fuck with me, my shit, or the riffs I wrote. I mean some guys can fake it and play the right notes and shit Craig and that Chinese kid or whoever else he gets. And that’s not to say they are not OK bass players and I’m not trying to dog them as people, they’re nice guys and everything. But let’s get real…they ain’t really doing it right, they ain’t got my right hand or my rhythm chops or skills and they don’t bend the strings the way I do or have the grip I do. And I’m not bragging or talking shit.

Link: DOUBLE CROSS: 3 questions with Harley Flanagan

Novelty records, like everything else, reside between Heaven and Hell. For 67 years Ronnie James Dio resided there as well.

Link: Ronnie James Dio: The Early Years – WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

The single on the rock radio station at the time is “Street of Dreams by Rainbow.”  It’s catchy but keyboard driven, so I am not impressed.  I’m an above average metal head.  I bought the vinyl version of Kill ‘Em All at the Record Exchange in Walnut Creek.  I had at least one issue of Circus or Kerrang in my backpack at all times.

Jeff Macario tells me he has the cassette of this new band Dio.  He plays it so loud in his ridiculously large orange truck that I am convinced it is musical genius.  The lead vocals are superb growls and mournful minor key wails.   The band’s namesake Ronnie James Dio has a catchy name, familiar but I’m only partly sure he sang for Black Sabbath on their last two albums.

The album is  a tour de force for metalheads.  The single is the first track and the title track, “Holy Diver.”  A giant demon on the cover whips a drowning, chained priest as he sinks into pounding surf along a jagged coastline.  The second single was called “Rainbow In the Dark.”

After a tour opening show in Antioch, California at the Concert Barn sells out in July, the tour swings back through Northern California in early October.  A 5000 seat venue is chosen in San Jose and quickly sells out when Queensryche is announced as the special opening act.  A rare 4pm early show is added.

Trent, Ron and I somehow trick our parents into not only buying the tickets for us but also chauffeuring our 15-year old butts to and from the show.

Dio Ticket Stub 10-5-83

Suzi  Cloutier, also known as “Roadkill” is currently hanging out in the smoking section, and has a Sucrets tin full of joints for sale.  She wants 5 buck a piece, double the going rate.  Ron ponies up ten bucks for two average sized joints.  We now have supplies for the show.

PART 2 coming soon: “The Lights Dim”

It’s 2001: The whole world is rocking out to the Alien Ant Farm groove. We just released our album ANThology, we’re touring the globe, and people are going crazy for our hard-rock cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.”

That was the balls. Back then, everyone wanted to be in AAF, and who could blame them? We were the absolute shit! But when I look at my bandmates today, I can’t help but notice a few of them have lost their initial enthusiasm for the group.

Link: I’m In Alien Ant Farm For The Long Haul | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Mark Ryden has a show of exquisite new paintings and drawings at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City. The exhibition, titled “The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show” runs until June 5, and selected works are also viewable online

Link: Mark Ryden: “The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show” – Boing Boing

A San Francisco prankster has modified a piece of street art attributed to the infamous graffiti artist Banksy.

The modification, which appeared late Tuesday night in San Francisco’s Mission District, transformed Banksy’s Native American – ironically holding a “No Trespassing” sign – into beloved local eccentric and 12 Galaxies protester, Frank Chu.

The prankster, who remains at large, is unknown and presumed snarky.

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Rene Magritte’s “Son of Man” explained.

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Make no bones about it, this is a pure Mexploitation film, but like real exploitation at its height, that shit was pulled straight out

Link: Hey Arizona, Don’t Fuck With This Mexican… MACHETE has some Cinco De Mayo words for you!!! Now in 720p! —
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“I think Rambo’s pretty well done. I don’t think there’ll be any more. I’m about 99 percent sure.”

So ends the long journey of a pop culture icon. Despite long-standing speculation that Sylvester Stallone would write, direct and star in a fifth film in the “Rambo” series later this year, the man himself has finally come clean to Empire Magazine about his desire to retire one of his most beloved characters.

Link: The Playlist Nation: Sly Stallone Says “Rambo V” Dead, Wants To Do An ‘Expendables’ Sequel

I dare you to look at Swing House Studio’s client roster and not find at least one artist you absolutely love. Both the quality and quantity of acts that have rehearsed or recorded at Swing House over the course of the studio’s 16 year history is staggering, and one man has been there for it all: Swing House Studios President and CEO Phil Jaurigui. From humble beginnings as a one-room rehearsal space, Jaurigui and his business partner Warren Huart have grown Swing House into one of the go-to spaces for artists to create some of the most memorable recordings of the past two decades.

Link: Interview with Phil Jaurigui of Swing House Studios | LA Music Blog

Season One is out on July 20th. New commentaries by me and Pete, our brilliant director Tim Kirkby, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, South Park’s Matt and Trey, Jonah Hill and Michael Cera.

Link: Look Around You on US DVD…

Link: REBEL8 — INSTITUTIONALIZED Skateboard Deck

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Link to full article below, but here’s the article with my favorite parts in bold…

Aware of the stiff penalty of the law, religious stance and societal revulsion to sex with members of the same gender, gays outside Nigeria have launched a website to recruit young Nigerians.
On the website, www.manjam, self-confessed homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals post their photographs, profile, interest, social habit and sexual preference.

The website is restricted to members only. To penetrate the group and investigate their sordid, hush-hush activities, our reporter registered online, and for two weeks played along with the depraved group. Within the period, 1,847 gays in Nigeria lusted to hook up with him. In Africa alone, he got 13,836 men longing to lay their hands on him.
Their membership cut across the cities and towns in the country. They use real or pseudo names to socially network, meet and consummate their relationships.

Gays gallery
Wendyfox is 24 and busty. She lives alone in Lekki, Lagos.
“I live for a moment like this. I am a girl with great touch. A lesbian of many colours…”, she revealed.
She is actually bisexual – attracted to both women and men. She clearly disclosed her interest in both sexes in her profile.

Another teaser: Biglongdick (this can’t be a real name) claims to be a fresh male graduate searching for job and living with his sister in Fadeyi, Lagos.
Like Wendyfox, Hotseed is 24. She lives on Victoria Island, Lagos. As she states in her profile, “I’m a girl, a lesbian…Exceed expectations whenever possible.”
Her interest gives her out as bisexual. “My type of men are sinful beauties, hot big guys with regular trimming end…Girls, ouch, I love them hot, fragile with immense character.”

This one goes by the name Olumide Mark. He is only 19 and lives in Enugu. He says he wants “athletic bottom only and friendship, sex and a whole lot more,”
Jerryman, 23, lives in Kaduna and travels to Anambra, Umuahia, Owerri and Abuja. He claims to be bisexual and likes oral sex.
This one only posted his hotline: 070…and no photograph. He lives in Port Harcourt. In his profile, he says: “I need a mature guy.”
Another gay, Yetty, is like him. This 24-year-old man stated that he “wants very caring sex mate.”
Looking calm, relaxed and serious in the photograph he posted, Amanzux claims to be a Christian. He lives in Abuja and likes anal sex. The man also wants to have children but declined to say who will make the baby for him.

Princewill4life is 27 and lives in Oyo, Oyo State. He is listed as longing to only socially network with other gays. His photograph is neatly displayed.
This 25-year-old gay who lives in Calabar, Cross River State didn’t post his name or photograph. He slammed his hotline instead: 080…When our reporter called the number, he promptly reeled out his interest in a voice quivering with desire: “I’m into anal sex, kissing, massage, masturbation, one-on-one, oral sex, porn, public sex, role playing, underwear and videos.”

Hotass4blow, a gay in his early 20s who lives in Benin City, simply stated in his profile: “I’m just everything you see in my pic (photograph posted), down to earth. That’s me. Loves attention. I love people very real as I am.”
He further revealed he wants to be Nigeria’s ambassador to any country someday. In one of his photos, he posed almost nude.
Mystyle (certainly not his real name) is a 25-year-old white man living in Benin City. He posted his photographs and revealed that he is into: “Vanilla-anal sex, body contact, bondage/discipline, exhibitionism, fisting, kissing, masturbation, massage and so on.”

Sexyhonney, 21, is a gay male. He simply says he lives in Delta and travels to major cities in the country. He wants: “chat, friendship, relationship and 1-on-1 action.”
Derbydoll is 23 and bisexual. She lives in Lagos. She stated: “Wooow, I kissed a girl and it was my boyfriend’s idea. Now I am hooked on the crucial aspects of my sexual history.
“I’m a lesbian, a bisexual and so be it. I love men and women at the same time. I am a very beautiful girl with a classical lifestyle…”

Listed only as Cjbrown, this 22-year-old gay lives in Owerri and frequents Enugu, Umuahia and Okigwe. He boldly posted his photograph and phone number: 070…He says he wants “Loving, caring and affectionate affair.”

Sex for money
Just like whores prowling the streets, a bunch of them contacted on phone and online clearly demanded for money. Musa, who lives in Zaria, demanded for air fare and N50,000 down payment before coming to Lagos “for a weekend fling.”
Elvis, a Festac Town, Lagos resident, demanded N10,000 “for a night of wild entertainment.” He also said he wants “friendship and a regular maintenance,” which to him is money for GSM recharge card, clothes, toiletries, beer and cigarette.

Gay pastor
A gay pastor, simply called Macaulay, Sunday Sun learnt, is also recruiting gays, lesbians and bisexuals online. Last year, the same pastor tried to organize a gay rally and church service at Ojodu, Lagos, but failed. He literally ran underground when journalists and security men staked the venue of the event, Rainbow Church Inc, Ojodu, Lagos.

International angle
The gay website recruiting members in Nigeria also pair the new recruits with foreign partners. Once your sexual preference and social habits like drinks, drugs, age, music, status are posted online, those with the same weird taste get in touch and arrange a tryst. Sunday Sun learnt that a lot of rich, powerful but depraved people are the ones the new Nigerian members hanker after.
The website act as a matchmaker and provide a vast supermarket for all types of sexual and social preference.

Punishment
The penal codes of the north and southern parts of the country frown heavily on this depraved, unnatural liaison. A lawyer in Lagos, Godwin Ewa of Adekunle and Associates, told Sunday Sun that the Penal Code of the North stipulates 10 years imprisonment without option of fine for an offender while that of the states in the south punishes offenders with two years imprisonment with caning.
“In the country’s Criminal Code, section 216 to 227, the courts have all the powers to prosecute offenders. But the problem rests with the police who are supposed to arrest offenders and give evidence in court,” he said.

Link: The Sun News On-line

What is this movie?  I need a copy.  Torrent anyone?

Link: Good Show Sir – Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers

Young people who gathered to celebrate spring by blowing bubbles at an annual flash mob in central St. Petersburg were attacked by a group of suspected neo-Nazis who mistook the gathering for a gay pride event, flash mob organizers said.

Some 500 people stood blowing bubbles on the steps of Gorkovskaya metro station and in the surrounding Alexandrovsky Park at about 4 p.m. Sunday — the agreed time for the start of the flash mob — when about 30 men ran up and started beating them and firing rubber bullets.

Link: Bubble-Blowing Teens Attacked in Gay Mix-Up | News | The Moscow Times

Link: Report: China To Overtake U.S. As World’s Biggest Asshole By 2020 | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Link: Every comic is funnier with “Christ, what an asshole” for a punchline – Boing Boing

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SO couldnt someone GO to a museum for me–and how about on April 10 2010?  This might work.  I’ve never been to NY’s MoMA, so this will definitely have to suffice.

TQH, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Jim Carroll twist the cliche about “knowing” art…

“I may not know what I like, but I know art.”

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How did David Lynch and Mark Frost capitalize on the zeitgeisty momentum that was Twin Peaks?  With 1992’s On The Air, an unlikely mash-up of, well, Happy Days and 30 Rock.  From its Wiki entry: “The program followed the antics of the staff of a fictional 1950s television network (Zoblotnick Broadcasting Company or ZBC), as they tried to put on a live variety program called ‘The Lester Guy Show’ with disastrous results.”

Link: Dangerous Minds | David Lynch’s On The Air