Well, Then There's This.......

Muppets with people eyes................

My Top Ten Albums for 2010

I'm not a writer as you probably know by now and I sure as hell hate describing music but we're gonna keep this tradition going. These are my top albums of 2010. Again if it didn't come out on vinyl it doesn't exist. I'm sure I forgot a few but here goes.... in no order:

Forrest Swords - "Dagger Paths" - super trippy dubstep-esque

Grinderman - "2" - straight ahead rock and roll with some good noise

Ted Leo + Pharmacists - "Brutalist Bricks" - I can sing this in the shower, Ted keeps rolling

Spoon - "Transference" - best pop crafted songs, I never get enough SPOON

unFact - "Bleached Valentine" - David WM. Sims experimental bass/guitar project - etherial and dron

Four-Tet - "There is Love in You" - trippy repeative music with vocals as an instrument

Kvelertak - "Kvelertak" - metal album of the year for me, so good, in the same vein as Turgonegro

Coliseum - "House With a Curse" - another good rock record, nothing you haven't heard before but I'm feeling it

Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - sparse beats and all around electro weirdness

Caribou - "Swim" - more electronic goodness

the Roots - "How I Got Over" - just cause they're on TV doesn't mean they don't rip - a solid hiphop chunk for 2010

Black Mountain - "Wilderness Heart" - kinda retro, fun to pull on the influences and I love the male/female lead vocal swaps

SKREAM - "Outside the Box" - king of Dubstep makes a more accessible album, but it still kills

Sharon Jones + Dap Kings - "I Learned the Hard Way" - sweet, sweet soul this album just kills it

High on Fire - "Snakes for the Divine" - crushing metal from Matt Pike and the boys - you know what it sounds like just turn it up

Dead Weather - "Sea of Cowards" - more heavy on the Jack White than the last album but rocky and groovy

Aloe Blacc - "Good Things" - this one hit me from nowhere a solid modern soul record

Flaming Lips - "Dark Side of the Moon" - this doesn't hit the decks too much but I love the effort, "Embryonic" is good too...

OFF! - "First Four EP's" - makes me wanna go skate

Thou - "Summit" - the most brutal sludge Baton Rouge has to offer this one just slays

White Hills - "Dead in Circles" - reissue but killer, wall of sound knock your teeth out space rock

Jan Jones for Versace

The 'Mad Men' actress poses completely nude, covered up by a well positioned hand bag for the Spring/Summer campaign for Versace accessories.

TIME's Top Ten of Everything

in case you're bored and can't make up your own mind

Mona Lisa's Eyes

da Vinci painted letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa

New Comedy Central Identity

I know this is getting the cranky designers out there talking about about how lame this is, but I disagree. This is great.

the old logo was weak - blue buildings and the talk bubble - I never liked it. This one is clean and simple, AND I like that it looks like the Copyright mark too. Bring on the new. Good job CC designer.

50 Best Juggalo Pics of 2010

as Judge Judy once said - "you all are marginal human beings"

Henry Gets Violent for National Geographic

“During shows, I have been burned with cigars and cigarettes, butane lighters. Keys have been stabbed into me. I’ve been hit with ashtrays, fists, feet, whatever.”

10 Slowed Down Pop Songs

now I can get into Katy Perry

Hairpiece or Herpes

so good

Interesting Article on Airliine Security

FTA:
"A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.

Take all the money spent on new security measures and spend it on investigation and intelligence.

This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it."

New Album from Electric Wizard

Black Masses

30 Rock is Really Just the Muppet Show

what a ripoff!!!! - great read!

Hourly Cost to Fly the President Around in AF1

$181,000 an hour I know we gotta protect him and he needs this, but man to hear the actual number is a bummer to say the least.

US Budget

If I had to pick one thing about politicians in this country it would be to ask them to balance the fucking budget. This is a nice interactive graphic that lets you slash budget items and see how they play out in the future. Well done graphic designer, well done.

thee Most Expensive Record Ever!

Double Fantasy - signed by Lennon minutes before he was killed.....

Danny MacAskill

another video from Danny, beautifully shot by RedBull

Finally an Inforgraphic on How to Tell if That Guy in a Beard is Trustworthy or Not

my facial hair lurks around the neutral middle of the scale......

New FingerBoard Ad for Hermes

New Girl Talk Record - All Day

and he opens with SABBATH!

I Miss MY 1966 Mercedes Benz

this is a great story/read

Fifty Stars with Lipdub Kid

this made me wet myself a little bit

Money Don't Buy Happiness

some neat people for sure

Vinyl Wall Clocks

some neat ideas in here....

DIPLO drops a DubStep Remix Today - Free

let's get wobbley!

New MixTape from Mad Decent

love me some Mad Decent, great mix for the onslaught of fall

Caught Dead in That

Indeed

Vote Against

I totally agree with this article, people are not voting for candidates in this election they are voting against candidates - in my opinion this is not a smart course of action. This fully illustrates that the general public has lost all faith in politics, me included. It's a game in which I will not participate, go ahead and vote.....how's that going for you?
FTA:
"More precisely, it is a rejection of a bipartisan political elite that's lost touch with the people they are supposed to serve. Based on our polling, 51% now see Democrats as the party of big government and nearly as many see Republicans as the party of big business. That leaves no party left to represent the American people."

thanks Wes!

Saville's Tombstone for Tony Wilson

very nice, Peter

19th Century Photography Technology for 21st Century Portraits

I like these a lot!

Seth Kills it Again

"Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year.

Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here."

Deliberately Uninformed.

Killer Product Design

the new Heineken bottle

Simpsons Explains How Banksy Did the Opening Scene

"I think that we should always be able to say the holes in our DVDs are poked by unhappy unicorns."

New Halloween Mix from MAD DECENT

so good, I haven't heard most of these jams in over a decade. 10000 HOMO DJ's doing Sabbath? man that takes me back, I need to find that 12" great shit! Early 90's flashsback!

the Vinyl Conflict

still looking for some of those elusive SLAYER records that have been out of print? Yeah me too - I'm missing a couple. Anyway SLAYER is repressing all of them from Reign in Blood to now as a special box set. Thanks for the tip Colin!

Brooklyn Space Program

these guys launch a camera and an iPhone into space via a weather balloon. This is so cool!

Chipotle Ditched Ad Agencies

Mr. Crumpacker(Chief Marketing Officer) points out that the chain hasn't added a menu item in 17 years and it also does not have a regular cadence of pricing promotions. For those reasons, he said, agencies' experience with other fast food chains is irrelevant.

"We've looked at TV; we've looked at it all," Mr. Crumpacker said. "Chipotle was built on word-of-mouth marketing. We're focused on reigniting word-of-mouth marketing, rather than big advertising campaigns."

Love this kind of attitude, and I still love Chipotle.

Banksy Takes on the Simpsons

nice one!

Biggest Skatepark in the World

Holy CRAP!

Facebook to Become Bigger than Google in 5 Years

Pretty cool read if you're into this kind of stuff.....

FTA:"Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that."

Golf Photo

This shot of Tiger Woods is cool – but check out the dude on the right side of the picture with the turban and the cigar, wtf???

Why Are Records 12 Inches Across?

Around the same time that Thomas Edison was working on recording and playing back sound on cylinders, Berliner was doing similar experiments with flat discs.

Diplo for Blackberry

No way, congrats man! you won't hear sellout from me - I love you!

Overcoming a Bias - You May Have an Opinion!

Signs that your opinions function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth. #9 - You find it easy to conclude that those who disagree with you are insincere or stupid.

Pantone VISA Cards

these are bloody brilliant!

He's Fucking Dead

Pat Tillman's brothers speech at his funeral. Balls, and the right call.

Guy Puts a 1908 Lens on a Modern Camera

love the tone of these pics man

Joy Division Law Firm

this is a gag right? with the Factory logo and all??

Murakami at Versailles

The Takashi Murakami show features 22 works including 11 site-specific pieces which aim to create a story within a story. Curator Laurent Le Bon states, "The unique experience seeks above all to spark a reflection of the contemporary nature of our monuments and indispensable need to create out own era." Murakami ties the past to the future by placing bizarre brightly-coloured creatures in ornately decorated stately rooms. The show will be running until 12 December 2010.

Free Climbing a Ridiculous Tower

this makes my hands sooooooooooooo sweaty

John Talks Tim Tebow

TIM TEBOW

the FACES of OPRAH

so awesome

Johnny Knoxville hits Detroit

cool quick flick on Knoxville visiting Detroit

Artworks by Leonid Afremov

I love this guy's work, so much paint he's using on the canvas, like frosting.

Tashi Mannox

some killer calligraphy from Mr. Mannox

Hidden Logos of 2010

some nice ones in here

Is It Because?

sweet soul on a Thursday afternoon, check this track from Syl Johnson.

Yahoo Answers

holy cow these are funny

Barry McGee Bombs Houston Corner

Simple red tags all over the wall, a nice bit.

Mad Men - Rolling Stone - Photoshop Disaster

this cover is bloody awful!

This is My New Favorite

Budgie - Breadfan

Big Joe Williams

Of course I was turned onto this by AC/DC as a kid, but man Big Joe was the first to play it and he's playing a 9 string guitar. I bet Matt Pike digs this 9 stringer.

more SLO MO

the Lindy Hop in slo-mo

SLO-MO

tennis pro hitting balls in slo-mo

the Walking Dead

I dig the comic book, and this looks promising.

Bees Under Glass

this is what happens when you cover a hive hole with a glass jar

Tattooed Lego Men!!!

check the work!

Yo-Yo Madness

this guy is so tight, I love the flow and style he throws.

35 Lessons in 35 Years

there's a few gems in here

Digging in the Crates

this is pretty good short essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic on why Andy Rooney doesn't know music. A friend of mine in college would always argue with me about music, I was into anything outside the mainstream and he was into classic rock. All of our arguments ended the same way - I could talk about any band he knew of, but he could never talk about bands I knew of. Ta-Nehisi breaks it down - "Whatever you think of the music, no self-respecting hip-hop head, at that time, could ever get away with saying, "Man, I don't be listening to no Ella Fitzgerald!" Your friends would have looked at you like you were crazy. Knowledge—not the kind of ignorance Rooney evinces here—was prized."

Women in the Tattoo Subculture

maybe because I have been watching so much Miami Ink on the Wii/Netflix - I've had tattoos on the brain, anywhoo here's a brief photoessay on girls that have some ink. NSFW

Insane in the Brain

Prince Fatty kills it on this Cypress Hill cover

Out Here in the Fields

isolated bass of John Entwistle playing Baba O'riley

Campbell's CEO Sends Letter to Warhol

this is so cool, can you imagine what would happen today with all the lawyers and copyright nonsense?

Tim and Eric Skate Vid

so good, so fun

We Are Skateboarders

trailer for the documentary here man, I need to roll around.

new record from THOU

getting some big press from NPR and you can hear the whole album. Wicked.

Don't Bother Me

some Bad Brains on a beautiful Thursday morning!!!

Photos With Interesting Backdrops

nicely done!

Tokyo Disney

Submarine photos oh yeah, at night!

On July 25th 1980

Back in Black is released by AC/DC. The first album I ever had on vinyl that was my very own. My Uncle Mickey gave it to me on my 10th birthday in 1980. Yes, I still own it. I loved it so much and with some dough from my Grandma from the same birthday I went to the record store and bought Highway to Hell. And then my love affair with Bon Scott began. I truly believe Back and Black is a stellar album but can't to think of what it might have been if Bon had stayed alive. Anyway here's some more on Back in Black.

Custom VW Pool Table

this is so cool! and yes I'm still working on my Mercedes DJ Bar......

Keith Moon

Won't Get Fooled Again - just the drum track

Shane McGowan and Christy Moore

Dirty Old Town, God Bless you Brothers

28 Pics of Christina Hendricks in Various Desses

Oh Joanie!

KnuckleBuster

so rad

TurboNegro Covers the Mighty Black Flag

I'm About to Have NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Party Tricks

I am so gonna try the pouring CO2 onto candle flames!
thanks Coudal!

Q&A with a Pro Window Washer in NYC

I love this kind of stuff

the Real Life Social Network

brilliant deck from a UX Designer at Google. If you're interested in what's happening right now and where the web is trending this is a must read for you. Thanks Paul.

RIP Harvey Pekar

forget the stupid news about a basketball player leaving Ohio. The real news, sad news is that Harvey Pekar has passed on. Brilliant writer and fellow record enthusiast, at least we have the comics.

New M.I.A.

// / Y /

Cut Chemist

Different than the traditional mix CD using two turntables, this exclusive offering was created live using only one turntable, a mixer, a loop pedal and all original vinyl pressings.

Good Tune for a Rainy Day in Denver

check the beats here

the Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the Unexpected

great read FTA:
"I spent much of my youth, from the moment I could drive, rifling through the musty bins of the used record stores on Coventry Road in Cleveland looking for hidden gems (where I first heard Yo La Tengo playing while I shopped). After college, in NYC, I spent even more hours on St. Mark's rifling through even bigger bins at five or six stores along one small block - they are all gone now. After moving to San Francisco, just over a decade ago, I was introduced to Amoeba Records, a massive former bowling alley on Haight Street still filled with literally millions of pieces of music. Although it still survives, I haven't been in years. I have probably spent a few thousand hours of my life collecting music, flipping through vinyl, inspecting the grooves, breathing in the unique smells of the stores, chatting with the overeducated clerks and peering over the shoulders of the surrounding hipsters looking for tips. "

DAIM

check this guy out. Some of the coolest 3D graf I have ever seen. More on his own personal site here.

July New Yorker Cover

only posting for imagery and my love for Escher, not for any political comment on the gulf accident. Excellent illustration from Bob Staake ala M.C. Escher.

I LOVE the New High Life Cans

these are bloody brilliant and I bought a pack last week just because of the packaging, well and that and my love for cheap beer!

I saw a great flick last night

The King of Comedy De Niro and Scorsese in 1982. Bloody brilliant, lots of Taxi Drivers parallels.

Diplo Drops Another Remix

love the Rihanna sample, Diplo drops this one yesterday.

Happy Birthday LP!

1948: Columbia Records puts the needle down on history’s first successful microgroove plastic, 12-inch, 33-1/3 LPs in New York, sparking a music-industry standard so strong that the digital age has yet to kill it.

Inforgraphic on Major Oil Spills of the Past Century

Interesting stuff and puts in to perspective the current spill in the Gulf

New Summer Banger from Diplo

man this rocks!

the Joan Holloway Style is Deconstructed

nice piece on Joan's style from MADMEN

I'll Be Your Love

Truly, Madly, Deeply sung by Hooligans, I fucking love this stuff. An ad from the genius that is PUMA.

Airplane House

house in Malibu built from an old 747

Charles Schultz Draws Adults

yeah I know, weird right?

New Mark Ronson

comes out in July, check the new single here

Great Advice

this is spot on

Sex Sells

sexy ads from all over

Diplo hits Marley's Studio - Tuff Gong

I love Diplo

Mercedes-Benz

killer ad for Mercedes-Benz

Gauntlet Hair

"I Was Thinking" great song!!! these guys are from Lafayette CO? awesome!

SK8FACE

documentary about skateboard graphics

Ebert Reviews *cough* Sex in the City 2

Electric Boogaloo...... no, kidding. I mean Evert does review it, I'm not sure why though? I'd much rather read his take on Human Centipede but he has vowed not to review that one.

Google has PacMan!!!

Munch Munch munch

2 New Cool Logos for Hickenlooper

I like them both!

Empty Pools

man I love empty pools, and this photoset from J Bennett Fitts is right up my alley.

ESPN + Boba Fett

Can not be unseen

Crazy Train

Randy Rhoads......still got so much soul, yeah I know we've all heard Crazy Train ten thousand times from TV, sport events, elevator muzak etc...... but man it's clips like this that get me through the afternoon......

Irina Vinnik's Sketchbook

wow! killer work

the Ketchup Conundrum

brilliant essay on Ketchup from Gladwell, link lifted from the mighty Coudal

RIP Frank Frazetta

Truly a legend.
Illustrator, comic artist and book cover artist, Frank Frazetta died today at the age of 82. Through his iconic paperback covers of muscular men and half-naked women, he defined what many of us now think of as fantasy. Frank thanks for the amazing art and giving us a hero like Conan. You will be missed.

Fantastic Interview with Jerry Casale of DEVO

really stop what you are doing and read this.

Going back to your early days. You were present at the Kent State shootings in 1970. How did that day affect you?

Jerry Casale: Whatever I would say, would probably not all touch upon the significance or gravity of the situation at this point of time? It may sound trite or glib. All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was white hippie boy and than I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew. Two of the four people who were killed, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, were my friends. We were all running our asses off from these motherf&*$#ers. It was total utter bullshit. Live ammunition and gasmasks – none of us knew, none of us could have imagined. They shot into a crowd that was running. I sopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution. I got real, real pissed off.

more Horseback

so good

Horseback

wow! I don't even know what to say about this? It's so good.

Make It Rain

no, no not Fat Joe and Lil' Wayne..... it's Tom Waits with Russell Simmons and Judah Bauer from the Blues Explosion.

Flying Lotus

In case you can't wait until next week to get this on vinyl - you can hear the whole album now - here.

In Case You Forgot - Spiritualized Still Rules

I Think I'm in Love, Maybe Just Hungry

Birds of a Feather

Lots of airline logos If I had to pick one......it would be Condor

new MIA track

no, I'm not posting the video - but if wanna listen - here you go She is heavily sampling the classic Suicide song "Ghost Rider"

Chris Ware's Fortune Cover

rejected by Fortune because of the gags he threw in, click on it to see it larger

New York's Freedom Tunnel

some killer pics in here

Wheel of Fortune Disasters

I like Wheel of Fortune, I really do. I enjoy guessing the words with my kids when we get to watch together. I also like to see what the "normal" people wear on the show, and of course I like it when the contestants guess something funny and wrong. Here is a grips of Wheel clips gone wrong.....

Graffiti

Can Control

Proof of Time Travel?

The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera!

Record Store Day - TOMORROW!

see you bastards there!

Cool Illustrations

from Mcbess

Video from Inside Texas Stadium

demolition

Puma Reinvents the Shoebox

I love Puma and I love clever packaging. Pretty cool.

the Party Don't Stop........ ..... .. . ...... .... . .... .......

Tik Tok Chrispy DUBSTEP remix

Dead Wax

Matrix Messages, I always look at these on my records. Little messages scrawled in the dead wax next to the paper label on vinyl records. This site has complied a few, I'll have to send him some.

GBH

new record from GBH - Perfume and Piss you can preview a couple of tracks up on the site.

Why Do Girls Like Guys Like That?

one of my favorite Weird War songs. Michele's bass is just sick.

Jesus Lizard first tour pics

some cool shots of the Jesus Lizard on their first tour in 1989.

Cello Headbangers

covering ONE

Got Soul?

man this is tight, I am just discovering Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

the Street

there are streets like this in every city......

the Woods

Killer jewelry from Denver/Aspen based the WOODS. Check it out. More here.

the Notorious XX

Classic Biggee over the XX record. Nice.

Hottest Woman in a Painting?

Lippi? Sargent? Hayez?

Record Player Made Out of Cardboard

I love this stuff. So cool.

Matt Pike's guitar

nice shot of it here and a grip of other shots from SXSW.

Record Setters

Boston.com has more killer shots. Love, Love the last pic.

Rotary Phones

some really cool poster/imagery in here

Google TV - News

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Business Technology Research, also is seeing an accelerating convergence of content and display between PCs and televisions.

"People are watching videos and television content on their PCs, and doing some Web viewing on their TVs," he added. "You want to watch your streaming or downloaded stuff on the big screen with the big speakers, but it's inconvenient. There are browsers in the game consoles, and in some TVs, but the user interface is limited."

Bring it!!!

Wonderful Facts About Guinness

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Phobos

Closest pics yet of Mars Moon

Chuck's Unplayed Copy of Nervous Breakdown

goes for $4200.00 !!!!!

Nervous Breakdown

Friday afternoon with thee mighty BLACK FLAG

Strange Things

get this Friday started with some John Holt

Jason Selling Some of His Records

relates to the post below.....

A good friend of mine Jason Heller with whom I have DJ-ed countless times with is selling some of his vinyl, here's a link to his wax. Just don't bid on the Eno record!

the Vinyl Sickness

Living Proof blog has quite a literate study on what goes on at/in Record Fairs - worth a read if your a goof like me. FTA:
"Marked prices for used records depend on a number of easily definable qualities: the quality of the record itself, the quality of the record sleeve, the relative scarcity of the record, the release history of the record (that is, if it was ever discontinued, how many times it’s been repressed, what record labels have issued the record, etc.), and any extraneous anomalies—if the record is a promotional copy, signed, or accompanied by some other relevant memorabilia, then the price will be higher."

HyperReal painters

killer collection of the Hyper Real School going on at the moment.

Throw a Kit

this is awesome, thanks Colin!

Forrest Swords

Miarches

EIGHTIES!!!

get some fucking Killing Joke going on this brilliant Thursday

Perky Cups

We got a new coffee shop in Denver. Reminds me of Debbie's Donuts.......

OK Go

This too shall pass

Hit the Lights

first recording of Metallica, pre Cliff Burton and still with Mustaine on guitar, Hetfield hasn't even learned to play yet so he's on the mic sans guitar.

Bricks and Mortar!

"Reflecting shell-shocked dreams....." ahem, check these killer old buildings with fading hand painted ads. Oh, and I totally got this at Coudal.

R.I.P. Bob Biniak

Original Z-Boy and old school ripper, rest in peace.

Defaced

US currency that has been painted and drawn on. Love the Spider.

HARVEST by haroshi “Skate & Destroy” Exhibition Recap

HARVEST by haroshi has been a refreshing take on recycled artwork, known for producing various items out of used skate decks. Showcasing all of the collective’s work throughout the years, they recently held an exhibition at the PLSMIS Gallery in Tokyo. Some killer stuff in here.

Punny Tattoos

Camel Toes and Knuckle Sandwiches

I'm Diggin the Flip Side

I know there's a lot of hate out there for this redesign, but I like it. Simple, clean and refreshing.

Wooden Shjips

Start to Dreaming I can not get enough of these guys, wicked psychedelic band from San Francisco.

Skull Shirts

there's a few in here that are killer

Lots of Americans Pissed About the Supreme Court Ruling

Nice to see I guess, but it doesn't mean shit really.

Wizard Smoke

and sounds by The Seeds

A New Kind of Beauty

whoa, Mr. Toledano puts on some kind of plastic surgery horror show here in this photo essay. Jeebus.

Killer Portrait Photography

from Tom Lacki, some are NSFW

ZTrip with Slug Remixes the Dead Weather

Treat Me Like Your Mother

the Secret to Happiness is

is?????????

Evan Hecox

Check the video at the bottom to see how Evan works. Nothing short of beautiful. Keep up the good work!

As We Up We Go Down

I can't terrorize I see terror in your eyes
As we go up, we go down
I can't socialize I'll be institutionalized
As we go up, we go down

And see the truth, yeah, is just a lie, oh
And see the truth, yeah, is just a lie, oh

I speak in monotone: "Leave my fucking life alone"
As we go up we go down
As we go up we go down (And see the truth yeah)
As we go up we go down (Is just a lie)
As we go up we go down (And see the truth yeah)
As we go up we go down (Is just a lie)
As we go up we go down (And see the truth yeah)
As we go up we go down (Is just a lie)
As we go up we go down (And see the truth yeah)

the Wisdom of Paul Weller

On being a mod: "I still love the whole look, the music, the imagery, the attitude, even the scooters. It will always be in my heart."

Weller!

Paul Weller is to be named this year's Shockwaves NME Awards Godlike Genius. Cheers Paul! thanks for all the great music that has been part of the soundtrack of my life.

CHIQUITA!

I love banana stickers

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

I listened tom some Doug this morning in the car on the way to work. And I played it LOUD.

Here's Doug play for some kids on the sidewalk.

OK, one more - Going Against Your Mind, my fave from tune the album before last.

$1.9 Trillion MORE in Debt

I'm just curious, do you spend more than you make in your house? I don't, and I certainly think the House of Representatives should be held to a higher standard. Really, this is ludicrous.

Photography of Jason Koxvold

bleak visions of desolation

Bill Watterson Gives Interview!

dude, he's always quiet and hard to track down. I do miss Calvin and Hobbes.

MIXTAPE

a short film called "Mixtape" - so good.

On the Decks

Broken Bells

Spoon//Transference

Death - For All the World to See

Battle For Hearts and Minds

Heavy stuff, Afghan documentary. I have to remind myself that we are at war sometimes.

FROST HAMMER

thee mighty High on Fire releases new single today!

Meghan Paterson

paintings on glass bottles, I love these!

new Beats From Jake One - this one with Freeway

Know What I Mean?

1954 Bentley

wow! I want this as my daily driver - crocodile interior?!?!!?!?!?!?

I Always Hated Karaoke but This is a Great Story

Actually, many of us -- myself included -- got so used to hanging out with music nerds, and being music geeks ourselves, that we feel like everyone must love music with the same fervor we do, and possess encyclopedic knowledge of it to boot. I totally poached this link from Coudal.

Supreme Court overturns ban on direct corporate spending on elections

So if I have a $100 to spend on a politician's campaign, but a corporation wants to spend $100,000.00 on the opposite campaign - does my $100 really mean anything? I don't understand? Why would the Supreme Court of the United States want to overturn this law? Smells like more reasons why you and you opinions don't matter.

New Logo for New York City Opera

Controversial, I can hear the goofs now - "a white circle? I could've done that!" um no, you could not. This is bloody brilliant. Good work 2X4.

WU-Tang meets the Beatles

pulling out gats for fun! oh relax, it's just another mashup.

SPOON

drops the new album today, listen free on the site or buy digitally or come with me to the record store on the 25th and get it on vinyl, suckers!

The Weather Will be Getting Nice Soon

check this bio new Adidas spot....... yum

Morning Breath Illustrations

some good shots of a current Morning Breath show

Imperial Bikes

wow these guys make some killer moto-bikes

Peugeot 3008

really neat new spot for Peugeot

Photo Benders

some cool photo trickery, if you get 10 minutes

RIP Jay Reatard

dead at 29

John Talks Birdman

New sports column from Denver Hooligan John Reidy

During 2009, once again more vinyl albums were purchased (2.5 million) than any other year in the history of Nielsen SoundScan (since 1991).

Daywrecker

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RIP Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland, who painted some of the great emblems of the postwar American abstract style called Color Field painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Maine. He was 85.

Banished Words for 2010

goodnight Bromance!