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adventures in solitude.: i made this. for you!

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:24:09 -0400

adventures in solitude.: i made this. for you! :

like a cardboard box of tiny kittens, this little collection of covers i recorded for facebook’s Theme Music group over the last six months would like to go to your loving home. it costs Free Dollars (+your email address, so i can send you lots of important information about getting out of debt…

My friend Brandi is an awesome musician and you should download this, then her version of “White Winter Hymnal” will supplant the original in your mind grapes for all eternity.

comixguru: One of my favorite movies this year was The Cabin In...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:14:19 -0500

comixguru:

One of my favorite movies this year was The Cabin In The Woods. I normally don’t enjoy horror movies- but this one was different. This movie turned horror on it’s head and spun it around in a fun and unexpected way. The movie is (finally!) out on DVD and Bluray today. So in celebration of this epic film, I created this piece of art, combining the movie with one of my favorite childhood book series- Choose Your Own Adventure! It seems fitting, don’t you think? Please let me know your thoughts and leave a comment if you are so inclined. I’m looking into printing this up as a poster/print in the near future- so let me know if you’re interested and I’ll email you the details when I get them nailed down. Cheers!

This picture is The Best. The Queen Shirley and her royal...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:19:59 -0400

This picture is The Best. The Queen Shirley and her royal subjects. :)

amandapalmer:

the doctor ordered, the prescription arrived. cuddles from @garbage’s Shirley Manson, with co-cuddlee Marissa Paternoster from Screaming Females.

thanks to @drayven_darko. if he hadn’t tweeted, FROM AUSTRALIA, that me and Shirley were 3 blocks from each other without knowing it, Shirley never would have tweeted me back, I never would have known, and I would have remained Unrocked and Uncuddled on my off night in Portland.

magic Internet is magic and digital 1s and 0s make rock stars cuddle. i welcome the future and everything that is to come.

in-backyards: Not saying, just saying.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:44:57 -0400

in-backyards:

Not saying, just saying.

johnpgelety: DAVID 8, STOP TOUCHING ALL THOSE THINGS!

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:56:37 -0400

johnpgelety:

DAVID 8, STOP TOUCHING ALL THOSE THINGS!

the Green Lantern situation

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:59:10 -0400

frankiethirteen:

Yesterday, I had a chance meeting with a female geek on a train heading home from Wizard World. She was dressed as the Fourth Doctor (there are a lot of rule 63 Doctor cosplayers these days—rock the fuck on), if that has any bearing on this story. I think it might, but I haven’t figured that out yet.

Anyway, the discussion somehow turned to Star Trek, and right away, she launched into an explanation of how Kirk and Spock’s homoerotic relationship and the elements of televised canon that support it. When she started citing examples (in episodes such as “Shore Leave” and “Amok Time”), my mind shut down and I kind of freaked out a little bit. Like I was thinking, “Holy shit, girlfriend, who are you to challenge the masculinity of made-up people created decades before I was born to whom I’ve ascribed some sort of sacrosanct mythic status?”

And then I got angrier—at myself this time, because my feeble counter-arguments sounded like more politically correct versions of those being fired off en masse by geeks all over the internet after DC Comics went ahead and told everyone Green Lantern is gay.

Yes, this just happened. But it’s not what you think.

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confessionsofamichaelstipe: THANKS PETER, MIKE, BILL, BERTIS...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:54:06 -0400

confessionsofamichaelstipe:

THANKS PETER, MIKE, BILL, BERTIS AND EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER THERE, WHAT AN ADVENTURE!!! XXX MICHAEL [foto circa…1985 i think]

A rare use of Tumblr for me to help Pass It On. Enjoy my friend...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:00:06 -0500

A rare use of Tumblr for me to help Pass It On. Enjoy my friend John’s contribution to this meme…because it’s the Best One Yet.

johnpgelety:

Here is MY re-edit of the new, great Radiohead video for Lotus Flower. My little contribution to the current meme trend. Also, ELECTRIC SIX!

31 Days Of Music Day 31 - Your favorite artist of all time Well...

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:16:46 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 31 - Your favorite artist of all time

Well this is kinda anti-climactic…the big finale being something I think I’ve essentially said in half the posts. Let’s count - eight of my previous 30 days have been devoted to R.E.M.

On the one hand, I could write a ton more about them, how they’ve influenced me with more than their music…with the way they carry themselves, with their attitudes, with their politics…

On the other hand, I feel like I already wrote enough about the boys from Athens and will just bring this fun exercise to a close.

Thank you to Sarah for spearheading these 31 Days of insight into a small, but passionate group of music fans from around the globe.

31 Days Of Music Day 30 - Song/Album that brings up a certain...

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:49:19 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 30 - Song/Album that brings up a certain time in your life

Wow, we’re almost done…and this one is TOTALLY wide open… I mean, almost any song or album would bring up SOME time in your life, right?

That said, Radiohead has been the bridesmaid all month, being my 2nd-favorite band, they keep losing out to R.E.M. every day…

So I’ll write here about the album I’ve written more about than any other: OK Computer. (Mainly because I wrote a paper in college that was partially about it.)

Also, Waneeta beat me to it already today, because I didn’t have time to finish writing this…OH WELL!

OK Computer came out in the U.S. on July 3, 1997. I’m pretty sure I listened to it almost every single day for the rest of that month. I remember the first time I heard “Paranoid Android” and “Let Down” on the radio earlier that summer. I remember reading the rave reviews on NME.com, as I began to learn about the U.K. press and their love of hyperbole. I remember buying it at a now-defunct independent CD store. I remember floating in a pool at an old friend’s house and wishing I was listening to it then. I saw Radiohead on my birthday the next month at the Electric Factory, the last time they played a venue that “small” (and the last time they’d actually play IN Philly for years and years). More than any one album I can point to specifically, OK Computer really did change my life and affect my worldview as I was coming into my own and growing up.

31 Days Of Music Day 29 - An artist everyone hated but you...

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:20:14 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 29 - An artist everyone hated but you liked

Let’s go with the oft-absurd and offensive Bloodhound Gang.

Yes, their sense of humor is what it is…but they grew up just a few towns over from my hometown. And ”if you ain’t never been to the suburbs, don’t you ever come to the suburbs, because you wouldn’t understand the suburbs.”

And c’mon, this video has a profane Pac-Man on crack!

31 Days Of Music Day 28 - Song/Album that you feel is your life...

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:55:54 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 28 - Song/Album that you feel is your life anthem

This is kinda a cheesy category but…

R.E.M. - “Walk Unafraid”

31 Days Of Music Day 27 - Artist you’ve seen live the most They...

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:27:01 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 27 - Artist you’ve seen live the most

They don’t tour as non-stop as They did a decade+ ago, but by virtue of seeing They Might Be Giants at least 9 times in 4 years of college, John & John take the cake in this category. Being older and having all these other studio-based projects in recent years has slowed Them down, but in the late ’90s, TMBG would play a regular show and then a college gig every six months or so…a fall show at the Factory or TLA and a spring show at a local college, like clockwork. Here’s my all-time favorite TMBG song, “Ana Ng.”

The runners up are Ben Folds (including the Five) and Mike Doughty (counting the three times I saw Soul Coughing).

P.S. - This doesn’t count any local bands my brother or our friends have been in…

31 Days Of Music Day 26 - An song/album that changed your...

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:52:06 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 26 - An song/album that changed your opinion about an artist

I always said Nine Inch Nails’ With Teeth was the NIN album for people who didn’t consider themselves NIN fans. A few of my friends luuuuved Trent in HS and college and while I always respected his musical skillz, his lyrics were just wayyy to angsty for me to get into. With Teeth let me finally have a good access point, and now I have the whole NIN catalog (well not every Halo, etc. etc. but all the actual albums) and got to see the band thrice in concert before they Waved Goodbye.

And I’ll swear by the Lights In The Sky tour as one of the most mind-blowing, still-ahead-of-its-time concerts I’ve ever seen in my life.

31 Days Of Music Day 25 - An album that disappointed you I know...

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:57:24 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 25 - An album that disappointed you

I know this is kind of an easy/obvious one, but the last few years of the Weezer catalog…Make Believe was halfway OK, The Red Album has its moments, but Rivers Cuomo and the guys have become this bizarre Frankenstein monster of guitar-Pop… “If You’re Wondering…” could be their Last Great Song…but you can never count a madman like Rivers out. Hurley and Raditude were insanely inconsistent, I haven’t heard all of the crazy mishmash that is Death To False Metal yet…

Cuomo just hit this perfect, raw emotional nerve on the first two albums and is incapable of emotionally and musically going back there again. We’re not getting another “Why Bother?” folks.

31 Days Of Music Day 24 - An song/album that you wish more...

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:19:49 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 24 - An song/album that you wish more people would’ve liked more

This is kinda sorta similar to Day 7…

I’m going to write about one of my favorite albums of 2009 - Spinnerette’s self-titled release. After The Distillers split up, Brody Dalle got married (to Mr. Joshua Homme!) and had a baby and worked on her next musical identity. Spinnerette released an awesome EP at the very end of 2008 for the song “Ghetto Love,” which combined Dalle’s raspy punky vocals with a sexxier grind. The full length album came out in the spring, with its provocative artwork, but sadly kind of came and went. Brody did some sporadic touring, played Letterman (with a sore throat) and made a gorgeous video for the single “Baptized By Fire” (which I linked above). But it looks like the band has been on hiatus since a short tour of her native Australia in March. A shame because we need more bad ass ladies like Brody front-and-center in the musical world.

31 Days Of Music Day 23 - Favorite lyric from a favorite...

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:01:53 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 23 - Favorite lyric from a favorite song

It’s just too easy to keep going back to the R.E.M. well…

“Trust in your calling/Make sure your calling’s true.
Think of others/The others think of you.”

Some good advice from “I Believe” (and not “Good Advices”).

31 Days Of Music Day 22 - First album owned Oh man, there were...

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:49:35 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 22 - First album owned

Oh man, there were allll sorts of kids records I owned on vinyl growing up… I really don’t know what was first, I’m trying to picture the records I had… thinking about stuff like Mousercise…or even book-and-record sets like a Star Wars one or Pete’s Dragon..

Then started to write an entry about The Amazing Spider-Man: A Rockomic, but I scrapped that when I realized that I distinctly remember going to a department store with my Mom to buy a replacement copy of The Twelve Days Of Christmas with The Chipmunks.

I’m pretty sure our original copy was scratched or broken, hencing buying a new one. Because I listened to our Christmas records over and over and over… There are a ton of different Chipmunks Christmas albums, apparently this particular one never made it to CD from vinyl.

However, I have to give an honorable mention to the greatest Christmas album of all time, one that I’m sure I listened to as much as the Chipmunks (I just don’t remember our acquisition of it). That would be John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together, which I certainly do own on CD and listen to every year.

31 Days Of Music Day 21 - Favorite song from your childhood OK...

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:45:54 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 21 - Favorite song from your childhood

OK this one is going to be totally out of left field, but being a gigantic nerd, one of my favorite shows in elementary school was Square One TV. Earlier this year I randomly thought to look up the old “Palindromes” song/sketch from it, which led to my girlfriend & I finding just about every single one of our favorite old Square One songs and bits (yes, we are both gigantic nerds).

I probably watched this a zillion times circa 1986-87…I give you Larry Cedar singing ”Count On It.”

31 Days Of Music Day 20 - Favorite Love Song At first, I was...

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:08:54 -0500

31 Days Of Music

Day 20 - Favorite Love Song

At first, I was stumped with this one, as most of my favorite so-called love songs are the oft-popular unrequited kind. Then I started coming up with some good ones but nothing that truly deserved to be my Favorite.

Then I realized that my favorite Talking Heads song totally counts. So here is David Byrne dancing with a lamp to “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).”