Volume 8 (Fall)

Volume 8 (Fall)

1. Cookie Monsta - Misunderstood >
2. Cheap Dinosaurs - Gnip Gnop
3. Bob Thompson -Diga Diga Doo
4. Cybotron - Clear
5. Gregory Issacs - Night Nurse
6. The Dead Science - Make Mine Marvel
7. Negativland - Drink It Up
8. Freddie Kigozi And The Hodi Boys-Fumbira Abanna
9. Nosaj Thing - Fog
10. Asobi Sesku - Thursday
11. Irepress - Diaspora
12. Romona Falls - Melectric
13. Charles Aznavour - Monsieur Est Mort
14. Hanggai - Flowers
15. The Plague-The Face Of time
16. Underground Resistence - Jupiter Jazz
17. Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
18. The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass

NYC UYD flier

submission for a live podcast show in NYC. runner up in competition < more optimistic way of saying it wasn't chosen. Filed away in "rejected genius."

geoff Barone: The Calm Collection I & II

design for a progressive rock artist from NYC

The Five Towers

a low quality cell phone picture of The Five Towers; a series of five laminated drawings on construction paper with crayon and oil sent to five anonymous recipients.

soar and plunge

vahalla

the ages

(the ages) swell and yawn
like lumbering giants
awaking from shallow stages of rest
the earth splits and shifts
floods and scalds
the concave mantle
with delicious
precambian broth
living organisms
bloom and decay
sentient creatures
become cognizant of the breadth
comprising existence
before being hit by a bus

agamemnon

i dont want to set the world on fire

Volume 7 (Early Fall)

Volume 7 (Early Fall)

1. Kishore Kumar - Mere Sapno Ki Rani
2. Deastro - Tone Adventure #3
3. The Mummies - Your Ass (My Face)
4. Roger Harpham - Pastoral
5. Commodity - pathetic >
6. Commodity - dead
7. Django Reinhardt - Dinah
8. Hawkwind - D-Rider
9. James Chance & The Contortions - Flip Your Face
10. Leo Addeo & His Orchestra - Stumbling
11. Pulp - Common People
12. The Story Tellers - Cry With Me
13. Bracewar - Calling Out
14. The xx - Islands
15. YACHT - The Afterlife
16. Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers
17. Mastermind - Mix (Side B)
18. Das Schuricke-Terzett - Das Blonde Kathchen

64BG

Final Fantasy Poster

this place is haunted


Untitled drawing backstage below a hand drawn "Trail of Dead" logo

Century Lake

Set of 2 postcards mailed on Friday August 21st and Saturday August 22nd

Epileptic Peat > Ace Of Clubs > NYC > 9.15.09

Epileptic Peat > Ace Of Clubs > NYC > 9.15.09

Dawn Land

Set of 2 cryptid postcards mailed on Thursday August 20th and Friday August 21st

Volume 6 (Late Summer)

Volume 6 (Late Summer)


1. The Tremolos - Kackle
2. Tapes and Tapes - Insistor
3. jj - my love
4. The Social Outcasts - Mad
5. The Doors - Summer's Almost Gone
6. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
7. The Rockbusters - Tough Chick
8. Gregory Issacs - Never Be Ungrateful (12 inch mix)
9. S & H Scamps - Punjab
10.Grizzley Bear - Two Weeks
11. Solitude Aeturnus - White Ship
12. Secret chiefs 3 - Sophia’s Theme
13. Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger
14. The Exports - Car Hop
15. YOB - The Great Cessation
16. Cass Macombs - Harmonia

Volume 5 (Summer)

Volume 5 (Summer)

1. Tom Waits - Lucinda > Ain't Goin' Down To The Well (live)
2. Crippled Black Phoniex - paranoid arm if narcoleptic empire
3. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
4. 80sKidz - Miss Mars
5. Betlehem - Schuld Uns'res Knoch'rigen Faltpferd
6. The Decemberists - East India Lanes
7. DD/MM/YY - They >
8. DD/MM/YY - Infinity Skull Cube
9. Modern English - I Melt with You
10. Green Day - Murder City
11. Akron/Family - Sun Will Shine (Warmth Of The Sunship Version)
12. HP Lovecraft Society - Byakhee Byakhee
13. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
14. Queen - Seaside Rendezvous
15. Pelican - Ephemeral

Volume 4 (Early Summer)

Volume 4 (Early Summer)

1. Ultravox - Astradyne
2. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
3. Camera Obscura - French Navy
4. Future Of the Left - The Hope That House Built
5. Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
6. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
7. Genisis - Misunderstanding
8. Dozer - Empire's End
9. Human League - Don't You Want Me
10. Sonic Youth - Antenna
11. Martin Denny - Japanese Sandman
12. Gryphon - Second Spasm
13. Future Of the Left - You Need Satan More Than He Needs You
14. Saxon Shore - Tokyo 412am

Volume 3 (Late Spring)

Volume 3 (Late Spring)

1. Spike Jones - Laura
2. Sporto Kantes - Impressed
3. Jean Jaques Perry - In The Heart Of A Rose
4. Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song (live)
5. W. Wright & The Upsetters - Liquid Serenade
6. Caspa - I Beat My Robot
7. Ghost mice - Critical Hit
8. Paranthetical Girls - Young Eucharists
9. Department Of Eagles - No One Does It
10. 65 Days Of Static >
11. 65 Days Of Static >
12. 65 Days Of Static
13. Epileptic Peat - Avalanche
14. Candlemass - Gothic Stone >
15. Candlemass - The Well of Souls
16. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin Of Myself
17. Lindstrom - Tirsdagsjam (Lang Versjon)
18. Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces

Volume 2 (Spring)

Volume 2 (Spring)

1. AC Slater - Rock It Out
2. (untitled silent track)
3. The Bee Gees - You'll Never See My Face Again
4. The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
5. Anamanaguchi - Tempest, Teamwork, Triumph (At Sea)
6. B Flieschman - Broken Monitors
7. Rainbow - Tarot Woman
8. Martin Denny - I Talk To The Trees
9. Pink Mountaintops - And I Thank You
10. the Thermals - When I Died
11. Caspa - Victoria's Secret
12. Uriah Heep - The Wizard
13. Cursive - From The Hips
14. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle
15. Bon Iver - For Emma
16. Peste Noir - Dueil Angoisseus (Christine De Pisan, 1362-14
17. Epileptic Peat - The Doldrums


Two more tracks were on this cd but the original listing was lost in the flood.

#Waaves - So Bored
*Vashti Bunyan - Another Diamond Day

Volume 1 (Early Spring)

Beginning in Spring, I began sending mix CDs to various people via the postal service. These mixes consisted of mostly new music segmented by old favorites. I began sending these discs every month along with artwork and photographs. It wasn't until recently that I made artwork for each of them and began cataloging the contents. At first, I enjoyed the idea of having blank song titles and artists names. It gave a sort of mystery to each song dislocated from its artist. Well due to continual interest and piles of fan mail, I have decided to post the artwork and track titles for each monthly mix. If you, the loyal reader would like anyone of these mixes please email me at Carbon@warpath.tv and we will make arrangements.

Volume 1 (Early Spring)

1. Jean Jacques Perrey - Mary France
2. Bee Gees - Lamplight Mail Art
3. Apes And Androids - Hot Kathy
4. Harry Belefonte - Star-O
5. Laserdance - Humanoid Invasion
6. The Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat (feat. T-Pain)
7. The Bee Gees - Black Diamond
8. Dan Deacon - Get older
9. Renaissance - Carpet Of The Sun
10. Apes And Androids - We Don't Understand You
11. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy
12. Eluvium - Prelude For Time Feelers
13. Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
14. The Lonely Island - Boombox (feat. Julian Casablancas)
15. Bulent - Olmali mi Olmamali mi
16. Apes and Androids - Riverside
17. Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)

Utawarerumono (I)

This past week, I just finished the first disc of the anime series Utawarerumono. The series comes from a Japanese visual novel (a mixture between choose your own adventure and an RPG). The story revolves around a masked character whose is shrouded in as much mystery as he is kindness. He becomes attached to a village as they deal with daily strife in feudal Japan...err fantasy feudal japan with fox creatures and dinosaurs. The masked stranger befriends two tweens, Arurū and Eluluu as they fight against local leaders and hired assassins. I found the protagonist to be very much an fusion of every good quality thought up by an inexperienced writer. This character has no visible flaws besides an unwavering kindness and intrigue. This makes him extremely boring to watch at parts. My girlfriend disagrees with me and tells me that the protagonist is different than most anime archetypes and in fact the hotheaded local Oboro is more akin to the anime stereotype. I do not know. We are getting the second disc. I am disinterested in the series however i do not despise its very existence. perhaps my mind will change.

The Doom Tower

Digital Prints from dragging things across a scanner...
http://doomtower.blogspot.com/

Before The Throes

Before the Throes (1-5) available on the "beforethethroes" blog (now available on the side) and also on my main website. A set of 5 will be mailed shortly to five lucky participants.

Department of Eagles

Lord Flash

Sin City 2?!?!?!?!

Uh UHUUHHUHUHUHUH...oh....its still not made. Well this isn't a surprise. However, Robert Rodriguez, this week, promises that its "in the works," pushing the delayed sequal closer to an eschelon shared by Chinese Democracy. Rodriguez is busy at the moment with Red Sonja and Shorts but plans on throwing "something together." Below is an interview with Miller who makes comments on upcoming films much like a hungover employee in the middle of a performance evaluation. "Its almost done...I promise...I'll get that to you tomorrow."

Macgyver Movie...

...is finally in the RUMOR stage! Wait. We all know what is going to come from this. Like the new Lethal Weapon reboot, the original star will have either little interest in reprising the role or will not be able to evade a swarm of fire ants like he used to. I think I speak for all people fascinated with early 90's pop culture when I say this movie will only be decent if Richard Dean Anderson was Macgyver, Bruce Mcgill was Jack Dalton and the villain was Murdoc, played by Michael Des Barres. Let us forget about an adrenaline laced reboot. I believe that the writers focused their attention on story rather than feeding steroids into a still respected franchise the newer audience would not care if the majority of the cast is over 50. Sadly everyone know what will come of this rumor. If a movie is made, it will feature Richard dean Anderson and his young sidekick on a zany adventure to save the world. Explosions will be many, Macgyver will spray uzis and I will end up paying 14 dollars to see it alone among a theater of disappointed fans.

Couldn't we just once give the newer generation the benifit of the doubt and make a movie without a hacker plot, fast cars and CGI and trust the story to hold their attention?

AC Slater

Is it impossible for electronic artists to sit down and write an entire album? Progressive metal bands can write a double album in a weekend. The "single" format is the staple in electronic music. Dubstep is notorious for this prolific output of singles, so is House. This way record stores can charge 10$ for a an imported 12". To somehow combine the two areas of thin but steady work is yet another crossover genre called Fidget House...or Dubhouse. Taking the structure of House, and keeping the "wooble" and heavy beats of Dubstep, Fidget House is a junkyard construction hell bent on crashing through your living room window and starting a party. What fidget-house lacks in street cred from dubstep fans it makes up with in incredibly addictive beats. AC Slater (best name ever) recently released the Rock It Out EP, a combination of 4 songs and two remixes, which is like a triple LP in the world of electronic music. The way AC Slater hooks listeners into a song is almost the same, if not cloned, from the deceased 8-bit candy crunk OCDJ. Enjoy the early summer with a mindless dance record.

pearl

We're All In This Together...

Back in the Wiredown days, I wrote a short news blurb about the Phish reunion which turned into nonsensical gibberish. I was only voicing my distaste for public hiatuses and much hyped reunions. I remember getting an comment on that article, by a casual user, which stated that "Phish has more talent than any band you probably listen to." While I think that comment was a little derogatory, my demeanor in the article was a bit aggressive. So it goes, that Phish's entire reunion at the Hampton Coliseum was made available in high quality mp3. A staggering 3 day, 6 set, 12 hour concert was now available for free. I must admit and confess my complete and utter enjoyment thought these multiple days Phish has been playing throughout my apartment. Reviews of this show have been mixed with many people commenting on the limberness of the music after a 5 year hiatus. This show is widely not accepted the zenith of creativity and versatility (sources point to new years 1999), but it is a decent shot. It is like the 40 year old who gets caught up in a 20 something year old adventure. Sure he will be tired in the morning, but he never complained during the time. This Phish reunion soundboard tapes have opened up my jam band scab which has hardened over the years under layers of Metal, Indie Rock and various forms of electronic music. I am now in complete enjoyment of long electric jams and hours and hours of energetic improvisation. To please my critics, Phish does have talent which cannot be ignored, however, whether or not that talent eclipses other bands who are in my library is still up for debate.

Free Mp3's: http://www.livephish.com/

Slim Whitman vs. Vocoder

Daft Punk vs. Tr2n

Last time I tried to watch Tron was 2 years ago during spring break. I contracted Strep Throat and fled to my parents basement for three days of eating soup and yogurt. During that time i rented a pile of movies to keep on 24 hours a day. I tried to watch Tron but passed out and never finished the movie. The news of Tron2.0 or Tron2 or Tr2n has caused me little excitement. I missed the movie when I was 2 and thus missed out on the nolstalgic hook. Although the incredibly outdated technology could excite my retro-futuristic fetish; it is just a movie I never got into. The original score for the Disney film was composed by transexual genuis; Walter Carlos. To follow in the hip electronic trend, Disney has hired French Electro-robots, Daft Punk to compose the score for Tr2n. Perhaps this will be interesting. Whether or not Daft Punk will be enough for me to sit in a theater full of families and stoners is another.

Dark is the Knight

Dear Fan.

Hello, you are receiving this Email because of your membership on the
Knight Rider Online forum.

Tonight in the US at 8PM EST/7PM CST, NBC will air the finale episode for
this season of Knight Rider. After 17 episodes, the show is starting to
find its groove creatively which will lead us into a strong second season.
But we're not there yet. Because of the economy and weaker viewership
across all episodic television, networks are making tough choices about
next season schedule. It is important that we as fans work together to make
our presence known. Only then will NBC be forced to see that we are an
international community strong in support for Knight Rider

If you were planning on tuning in tonight, thats great - but please tell a
friend, and then ask them to tell one as well (specially if they are a
Nielsen viewer!). If you tuned into the beginning and were turned off,
please try it one more time as the show 17 episodes ago is completely
different then tonight's. If you're a member of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace
or any other social network - let your friends know what you'll be
watching.

It's been an uphill battle for Knight Rider. With little promotion from
NBC, no one has any idea that the show is still on the air - and skipping a
week last week does not help. We need to remind people of Knight Rider -
now.

I received the above email and felt ashamed. I did not feel shame for being apart of the Knight Rider Online Forum community, but rather from a failed project venture. In the fall of 2008, I wanted to view the life of a television show. Every season, shows are lit like fireworks with every good intention only to crack to the silence of an absent audience. Shows that fail to capture massive attention are lined up and shot outside the studio walls. The reboot of Knight Rider promised to give me the scope of a filed television venture. I predicted the show would not live to see a second season. I intended to watch the entire season. I watched two episodes and stopped. Fast forward to this morning when a desperate plea goes out across the internet. Save Knight Rider? I forgot that show was even on. Now I feel shame. I feel shame for letting this television project fail. I feel more regret because it appears that Knight Rider is in its death throes and every prediction I made is coming true. Knight Rider is in line for the proverbial sharpened toothbrush to the kidney. What is even more fascinating is that the online community for Knight Rider seems strong. Whether that support will manifest itself into a second season we have yet to see. Although as this television season comes to a close and undesirables are taken out to the back, we await a new set of shows that promises to contain at least one new candidate for study and analysis.

An Epic Failure

RIP
2005-2009

I read the Chronicles of Narnia series when I was a kid. I also read it in college when I was a deadhead who loved reading on the lawn (see Bonaroo post). Because of that time, I was REALLY into fantasy and thought the Narnia series was so much more epic than CS Lewis perhaps imagined it. I used to sit on the lawn with my jaw dropped at the monumental forces which were at work in front of my eyes; finding connections with quantum physics beneath the melting pages. These were also kids books, so reading one of them in a few hours made me feel accomplished. I also formed a personal attachment to one of the characters: Prince Caspian. Because I liked the name, I took the title and applied to one of my characters in my novels and artwork. Back in 2005, I was really excited at the announcement that they were going to take the series and make it into seven films. The first film (Lion Witch and the Wardrobe) was released in 2005 to many underwhelmed fans. three years later in 2008, I sat watching the second film (prince Caspian) by myself, surrounded by families. Now in 2009, I have learned that the third film (Voyage Of The Dawn Treader) has been pushed by to 2010. The films adaptation to the story is fair, even to the point of loyal. However this gap between films is corroding my fascination with talking lions and wood nymphs. There are a number of reasons why the seven films will never get made. Despite constant rewrites and lack of directorial vision, the audience for these films is not as strong as it should be. Lord of the Rings had the unwavering support of the high fantasy crowd. The Star Wars series had a stranglehold on the Science Fiction Scene. Chronicles of Narnia is a children's fantasy which has the nostalgia of parents but can never lock into the Young Adult demographic. Perhaps if the movies were released yearly, interest could be kept up, but changing fasincations will certainly delay further pictures. These films are certainly catered to children who identify more with singing high school students and romantic vampires than the magic of talking animals. The fourth film (Silver Chair) in this series is planned but it is anyone's guess whether or not we will see it.

And The Award...(2009)

It feels like ages ago since I sat through the Love guru trying to drown out the insanity with wine. The Award Season ends with the grand finale of The Oscars and the Razzies. Im sure you have heard by now that the Indie/Indian firecracker Slumdog Millionare swept the Oscars. Additonally it is also garnering hatred from pretentious film critics who sung its praise for just before it gained demigod status. While I still firmly believe the award season has nothing in common with artistic merit, I will still keep an ear open for the worst film awards. As with most Razzie ceremonies, certain movies stand out to be the worst overall and leagues above other movies in poor quality. This years grand slam belongs to Mike Myers cosmic insult to the nation of India in the The Love Guru. I guess the same year India is recognized as a major cinematic force is a poor time to make the Love Guru. Actually I think anytime is bad for the Love Guru.


Worst Picture: The Love Guru
Worst Actor: Mike Myers, The Love Guru
Worst Actress: Paris Hilton, THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE
Worst Supporting Actress: Paris Hilton, REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA
Worst Supporting Actor: Pierce Brosnan, MAMMA MIA!
Worst Screen Couple: Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE
Worst Prequel,Remake, Rip-off or Sequel (Combined Category for 2008): Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
Worst Director: Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, and Postal
Worst Screenplay: The Love Guru , Written by Mike Myers & Graham Gordy
Worst Career Achievement: Uwe Boll, (Germany’s Answer to Ed Wood)

someday...

Someday, I will make a piece of misleading disinformation that will leak its way onto the internet. Someday I will create a fact that will strike fear in the hearts of everyone's inbox. someday I will be famous. While this list is fake, maybe someday we will be given an advanced copy that will be tacked on a cork board in the hallway. It would save everyone 3 hours of their life. Enjoy the Oscars and the buffett which follows.

Tekkonkinkreet (2006)

While I was looking in blockbuster one Friday night for Pineapple Express, my girlfriend chose Tekkonkinkreet as her movie for the night. I have no idea why I was so enthusiastic about watching an Apatow related stoner comedy (but I was.) Perhaps it was because I saw a commercial for Pinnaple Express only a few hours before and trudged my way to blockbuster just to rent it. Tekkonkinkreet is an Japanese animated movie from Studio 4C (The Animatrix).Studio 4c prides itself on straddeling the gap between mainstream animation and independent credibility. The story written by Taiyō Matsumoto revolves around two orphans who protect a decaying metropolis from professional gangsters, street thugs and aliens. While the plot is simple, the charm of Tekkonkinkreet lies in its depiction of dense urban lifestyle and magical action from each of the characters. Additionally, the inner dialogue between all of the characters (side and major) is astounding to the point of poetic. This film ranks in the upper echelons of anime which did not make me fall asleep drooling on the floor. I watched Tekkonkinkreet immediatly following Pinnaple Express. Some of you few readers maybe wondering how the Apatow related stoner comedy faired with his other movies (or even against the broader scope of buddy comedy action). Let me just say everything works out in the end with the majority of laughs front-loaded against a ungodly long climax. Maybe next time Apatow.

Apache

Bonnaroo 2009

I specifically remember Bonnaroo being one of the biggest festivals in the early 00's. I spent a considerable amount of time around the turn of the century going to shows and basking in the echoes of the 60's. Festivals, for me, were gathering of free spirits to celebrate music and open thinking. I was in community college at this time and convinced that the music of the jam band scene constituted a second wave of counter cultural activity. I wanted to major in philosophy at this time and engaged in discussions on existentialism in barefeet. I had long hair and I wore a green crystal wrapped in a net of hemp around my neck. I found the archetype of the genius pothead to be incredibly appealing. I carried incredibly ethereal books around with me and tried to read them after my morning rides. Notes on Relativity. Victorian Poetry. Being and Nothingness. I never finished any of them despite me carrying them in my backpack everyday. My unread philosophy books piled up on my shelves. I had terrible attention deficit which prevented me from fully understanding my books. I wanted to be cultured and subvert the stereotype of the slow deadhead. I was also perscribed medication for ADD which I sold and overused for a period. It would just be for tests and days when I could sit on the college lawn for hours talking about things which were important to me. Eventually my stomach hurt from lack of eating and cigarette smoke. I would still be up some mornings furiously sketching out ideas for new Grateful Dead shirts. In the morning I would ride to school and spend my time with other free thinkers. They would also be philosophy students on their 5th year associates. We would all sit together and talk about things we thought were important. My friends would make plans for upcoming shows and we would all talk about the possibility of going to Bonnaroo, Burning Man or Amsterdamn. Five years later, I came home for Christmas and went to a party filled with the very people who I described. They were my alternate selves if I never stopped and left. If I stayed in that college graduated and moved down the street, I would be here right now. Not tallking to myself. I met me in the kitchen with dreads who got into a violent discussion on legalization and psychology. My other self was freindly and helped bring in empty beer bottles with a sense of determination. However, when others refused to hear my point of view, I got fustrated. How could others not see what I think. Could that of been me? Could I of stayed and had stories of finally going to Bonnaroo? Bonnaroo always seemed like an odessey for people willing to invest the time and money into seeing an unbelievable line up. Right now, Cochella and Bonnaroo battle for who can have the more unbelievable act. I still wont be going to Bonnaroo despite an amazing line up. That was another time for me. I threw away my tent ages ago.


2009:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello Solo
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov’t Mule
Andrew Bird
Merle Haggard
MGMT
moe.
The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
The Del McCoury Band
Of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Band of Horses
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross

Myspace Suicide Now Movie

Back in 2006, a cyberbullying case led to the death of a young teenager named Megan Meier. The case prompted national attention to social networking sites and undo speculation by pundits who know little about the internet. Because the story is fabled; studio execs found it ripe for adaptation. Supposedly, this story will involve original events woven together by a vigilante story. The story will have a grieving mother "dealing out her brand of social justice," to the culprits who caused her daughters death. Awesome. This is strange only because a vigilante story never existed and is the product of ad wizards. Tragedy in Hollywood has always been prime investment. So this story shouldn't come as any shock. I do not know why I am surprised as this movie but this adaptation has prompted more concern than laughter. Maybe it is because it is still fueled by fear of technology no one bothered to understand. To some the Internet is still a breeding ground of sex predators and cyberbullies. A marginal cross section of assholes will define an entire generation. Since it is social networking, I am also weighed down by an incredible lack of care and empathy for all parties involved. I can see no possible gain for this movie existing except the complete trivialization of tragedy. The older generation will fear the Internet more and the younger generation will care less about responsibility because the outcome has been made into a breathing parody. with any luck, this movie will be adopted by schools and shown in special assemblies. The story of Megan Meier will be seen by everyone and laughed at due to poor acting and ridiculous script. You have done again Hollywood. Feel proud.

Black Dynamite (2009)

An upcoming spoof on Blaxpoitation films from the 70's starring Michael Jai White (spawn, toxic Avenger). This is not the first post 70's Blaxploitation film (Jackie Brown, Original Gangstas) but it seems to be more comedic than others done before. The trailer looks entertaining and promising, however let us wait and see if the joke can be stretched 90+ minutes. The red band trailer can be seen here which not only has nudity and profanity it basically shows you the whole movie.

Genghis Tron - Board Up the house (Renolder Remix)

The Underworld series for me has slowly ascended from erroneous Hollywoood bullshit to slightly shameful timekiller. Underworld 3 was a suitable installment in an epic guilty pleasure which continues to drain me of money. I believe it is the movies themes of industrial rave / dark Victorian which strikes a chord in my past. This is the movie I would of written when I was 15, if approached by studio execs. Vampires vs Werewolves. Trenchcoats, pale skin, corsets and sub machine guns. The soundtrack for my film would be remixes of popular metal and alternative music. The ending credits for Underworld 3 features a remix of Genghis Tron's "Board Up The House." Daniel Lohner (Nine Inch Nails, Tapeworm, Marylin Manson) has successfully transformed the innovative sound of Genghis Tron into a dripping industrial remix circa 1995. I would be lying if I said I wasn't 100% enthralled in the heavy sounds which rolled over the credits. However, I would also be lying if I said I wasn't blushing during the entire song. Lohner's remix makes my more sensible 28 year old experience battle against my hedonistic 18 year old past self. Who will win? I have no idea.





Remix



Original

Watchmen Soundtrack

::raises whiskey glass::

here to hoping the movie lives up the the depth showcased by its soundtrack which seems to have as much character as a classic rock radio station. I enjoy Leonard Cohen and it seems that they dug deep into the vaults to pull out his most recognizable song. Wont it be entertaining to hear Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan while thinking about the movie?

Desolation Row My Chemical Romance

Unforgettable Nat King Cole

The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan

The Sound Of Silence Simon and Garfunkel

Me & Bobby McGee Janis Joplin

I'm Your Boogie Man KC & The Sunshine Band

You're My Thrill Billie Holiday

Pruit Igoe & Prophecies The Philip Glass Ensemble

Hallelujah Leonard Cohen

All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix

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goodbye assholes #2

Im on my way to spain...

Dear: Sir/Madam,

My name is Barrister PERE A DANIS, an Attorney (Lawyer) to late Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk.

I am writing to notify you of the TESTAMENT of my late client Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk, a Ukrainian who unfortunately lost his life in the Madrid Bomb Blast on March 11, 2004, in Madrid-Spain.

My late client (Mr.Yaroslav Zojniuk) was a prominent business man who travelled to Spain on business survey/holiday with his wife and their only daughter when they met their tragic death.

My client before his death made a deposit of Thirty Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,300,000.00) in his effort to set up a business in Europe .

However, I am searching for a trust worthy person or the relatives of the deceased regarding his deposit, as the holding financial institution wants him to come forward for the endorsement of the re-investment documents, hence I am seeking your assistance to provide you as the next of kin to my late client, since he died with his wife and their only daughter without making a WILL in all his deposit paper works.

This transaction is very confidential as I can re-draft his LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT to bear your name as the TRUSTEE & EXECUTOR. This transaction shall be executed under legitimate and legal procedures that will protect you from any breach of the Law.

It is in this regard that I decided to solicit your assistance, by presenting you as the Executor and Trustee (Next of Kin) to my late client. Although, I have agreed on the following sharing ratios: 35% for your assistance and 65% for me but this is still open for negotiation.

Kindly revert back to me urgently on your kind interest to lay claim of the deposit. You are to send me your complete Names, Telephone and Fax numbers, Present contact address, and Occupation for more information on how to release the inheritance sum via this email address: peredanischambers@gmail.com OR danipereabogados@aim.com

Regards,
Pere A Danis (Barrister).
Attorney At Law.

goodbye assholes...

I am on my way to China...


Though seems unsolicited, this email is a business proposal to you. I
appreciate the fact that you have every reason to be suspension, please note
this proposal is very real. I will employ you to read it with open mind and
act in the best way as directed by your mind and instinct.

My name is Lin Yong, operations manager of the Bank of China (Hong Kong).
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you
do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual benefits
to share with you.

In June, 2001, a late client of mine, a Crude oil merchant from your
country whom we presumed (rightly or wrongly) to be a relative of yours made
a numbered fixed deposit of Twenty-one million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars (US$21,500,000.00) only in my branch. Upon maturity several
notice was sent to him Five years ago (2003) with out response. We later
found out that he and his family had been killed in a plane crash.

After further investigation it was also discovered that he did not declare
any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank
deposit and he also confided in me the last time he was in my office that no
one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty-one million five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one
will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according
to the laws of my country at the expiration of seven {7} years the funds
will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies
to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin so that you will be able to receive
the funds.

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin (AT NO COST OF YOURS), all
that is required from you is to provide me with your Full Names and Address
so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next
of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure
the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the movement
of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. We are going to
adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary
documents in your favor.

There is a reward for this project and it is a task worth undertaking.
There is no risk involved at all in this transaction, I have evaluated the
risks and the only risk I have here is for you refusing to work with me and
alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good
fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of
relevance in my life. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all
matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been transferred to your
nominated bank account we shall share in the ratio of 50% for me, 10% for
legal and other miscellaneous expenses and 40% for you but this can be
subjected to further negotiations. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to the consequences, but I know within me that nothing
ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on
a platter of gold. Please observe this instruction religiously.

Should you be interested please send me your,

1, Full names,
2, Current contact address,

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address:
llinyong@yahoo.cn and finally after that I shall furnish you with more
information's about this operation. Your earliest response to this letter
will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Lin Yong

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Crank 2 (2009)

And doesn't it look amazing...Lets hope Crank 2 is better than Transporter 3.

Crystal Method's "Name of The Game" movie count: 8

Academy awards

Since the abrupt hiatus of the greatest movie podcast ever created, I have found myself falling away from movie news despite my best efforts. Am I disenchanted? Maybe. Am I jaded to the constant grime I am exposed to when reviewing cinema? Perhaps. Have I thrown my arms up at current cinema? Not yet. This is why I am almost a week late on reporting the Academy Awards for 2008. Why do I feel the need to report? Simply because I paid very close attention to 2008 and now have a vested interest in the awards season despite how frivolous and unimportant it is. Grab your seat mark your horses folks, its going to be a long race.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
• Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
• Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
• Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
• Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
• Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

• “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction

• “Changeling” (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

• “Changeling” (Universal), Tom Stern
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design

• “Australia” (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature

• “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
• “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
• “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
• “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

• “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
• “The Final Inch” A Vermilion Films Production, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
• “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
• “The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

• “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
• “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
• “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
• “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
• “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

Achievement in makeup

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Alexandre Desplat
• “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
• “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
• “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
  

Best motion picture of the year

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
• “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film

• “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
• “Lavatory - Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
• “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films), A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• “Presto” (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
• “This Way Up” A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
• “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
• “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
• “The Pig” An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
• “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King
• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• “Wanted” (Universal), Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
• “Wanted” (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

• “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
• “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
• “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
• “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter