Keeping with the psychosis of the Religious Right trend this evening:
Frank Schaeffer; gettin’ worked up for the right [sic] reasons.
trampolining.
like pretty much everything else I've ever attempted,
this started out as one thing, and evolved into another.
daniel of 23-yrs, wait-listed in California's central valley. makes music with a revolving (not always revolting) group of noisemakers, frequently called Troubled By Insects--this is about those sounds and noise; also, infrequently related visuals, moving images, and words...and all sorts of nonsense otherwise...web-accoutrements, et cetera, whatever, amen. for the Internet is such an interesting and magical place.
AIM: motsfaux | email | myspace | virb | twitter | last.fm |
The_Progression_of_an_Album: | Trampolining |
DOWNLOAD: | CoatTrack Records Co-Op | the CLLCT |
Other_Sites: | DCLND 2 ST. | ExtraTeeth |
Web_Projects: | MPS: The One_Frame Project | PhotoROLLS |
this started out as one thing, and evolved into another.
daniel of 23-yrs, wait-listed in California's central valley. makes music with a revolving (not always revolting) group of noisemakers, frequently called Troubled By Insects--this is about those sounds and noise; also, infrequently related visuals, moving images, and words...and all sorts of nonsense otherwise...web-accoutrements, et cetera, whatever, amen. for the Internet is such an interesting and magical place.
AIM: motsfaux | email | myspace | virb | twitter | last.fm |
The_Progression_of_an_Album: | Trampolining |
DOWNLOAD: | CoatTrack Records Co-Op | the CLLCT |
Other_Sites: | DCLND 2 ST. | ExtraTeeth |
Web_Projects: | MPS: The One_Frame Project | PhotoROLLS |
Nov 24
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THE TWO-HEADED BOY MIXTAPE; 2009
#16 Every Time I Die’s “The Sweet Life”
Daniel:
The mystery of an ETID song is that they all sound the same, but, simultaneously, they rock more and more as you progress through an album. Ergo “The Sweet Life,” closing out their 2009 offering New Junk Aesthetic, which is technically immaculate and lyrically amazing. Riffing that Matthew Wilder lyric doesn’t hurt in boosting up the rock-quotient, either. It’s a “black out with your sack out” kind of jam.
Truitt:
I can’t hear this song over the sound of my dick screaming.
Although Freshjive has taken a subtler approach to their branding, trading textual logos for a black box icon, the same unfortunately can’t be said for their clothes. For a t-shirtcommentary on “how the Obama administration is maintaining continuity with its disgraced predecessor,” the streetwear company took a ham-fisted approach, clarifying their washed out, faded copy of Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” portrait with the words “is fading fast.” Designers take note: when your message is a manipulation of the most iconic image of Obama, and possibly any President ever, there’s really no need for superfluous text, which like explaining a joke, ruins it.
AWWW SNAPS [via clientsfromhell]
- Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
- Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
- Prospective client: Yes.
- Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.
Nov 23
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THE TWO-HEADED BOY MIXTAPE; 2009
#17 Julian Casablancas’ “Left & Right In The Dark”
Daniel:
Truitt once said to me that Is This It? will someday be remembered as the album that got kids to stop wearing baggy pants and skate shoes and trade into skinny jeans and stop washing their hair. And I agree. Unfortunately, that age has ended… even for The Strokes.
This song is so L.A. circa 1980s it’s terrifying. I mean, really, the Flock Of Seagulls’ “I Ran (So Far Away)” echo riff in the verses makes the trailer to The Informers play in my head every time I hear it. Not surprisingly, Julian is spending the month of November playing residency in Los Angeles. But what’s up with the fade-out-and-shock-back at the end? Maybe, for all the “wake ups,” it just needs an alarm clock.
Truitt:
I’m glad I said that to Daniel. I’m thinking about my “top of the 2000s” list and I can’t think of anything to put above Is This It? I still think it’s my generation’s defining album… our greatest contribution… a trailblazer? It’s a shame that they never matched their first album. Well, they got close with their 2nd and then fell off the deep end with their 3rd. I guess Julian used to write all the songs, so I was excited about this because I figured it would be the “Strokeseist” of the solo albums. It would be if it wasn’t on coke in the keyboard section at guitar center on Hollywood Boulevard at 3am. At least it’s better than Albert Hammond Junior’s album((s?) Does he have more than one album?). I like this album a little bit though, even though most of it sounds like Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix b-sides.
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