May 2009

The Archives

• music

  My Heart to Joy at the Same Tone – Seasons in Verse

  05.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] We were lucky enough to play a stretch of shows with My Heart to Joy last summer near the tail end of our tour.  My Heart to Joy, who recently dropped ‘at the same tone’ from their name, play a mixture of emotional indie rock and 90′s Midwestern [...]

• articles, photography

  looks like a baby rat

  05.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  16 Most Horrific Human Growths of all Time These are disgusting.  This close up picture of a little kid with a tail on his neck makes me want to vomit.  Look at that little coating of fine hair.  Ugh, it looks like a rat tail super glued to his neck.  Does anyone else think the [...]

• articles

  What Makes Us Happy?

  05.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains [...]

• video

  blink + wizard

  05.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sorry for the recent run of skimpy posts.  Stuff is happening in real life and it’s keeping me away from the internet. + Blink 182 touring with All American Rejects? In a recent interview with All American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter… “We will be going out with a nondescript band that is rumored to be [...]

• art, articles, video

  Quickly, Quickly.

  05.11.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  + Goggle Maps LARPing This is picture is old to the internet, but new to me.  LARPers are the lowest form of nerds.  They are the scum on the bottom of the dirty Reebok classics that the sweaty kid at your middle school wore while reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Beautiful. + Deconstructing [...]

• art

  Jeremy Geddes

  05.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Hyper-realistic paintings + Excellent lighting + Astronauts. Jeremy Geddes is selling a handful of high quality giclee prints for around $100 bucks a piece.  Tempting.  If I had the money I’d jump on it. Check out what he’s got for sale HERE.

• art

  i’ve developed a problem.

  05.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent Acquisitions. Dan McCarthy i’m still waiting on this one in the mail. it’s a 19″x25″ six-color (including the glow-in-the-dark layer) sillkscreen by Dan McCarthy titled “1 of 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000″. The best part?? This is what it is supposed to look like in the dark: I’m really anxious to see how the physical print compares to [...]

• articles, music, video

  The Get Up Kids, Touche Amore, Photobomb, Jonas Brothers

  05.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + The Get Up Kids Reunion Show – I’m a Loner, Dottie, A Rebel (via The Punk Guy) + Touche Amore – Touche Amore Touche Amore hails from LA.  They kind of remind me of Modern Life is War’s general disposition + Ruiner’s vocals & a bit of their instrumentation as well.  In other words, [...]

• photography, video

  Sorry for these

  05.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Saves the Day at Sonar last Saturday night was kind of a bummer.  $23 bucks a person to get into the show, Saves the Day only played for 25 minutes or so, and we were encircled by a group of bros and their girlfriends that were on the verge of getting fingerbanged (or may have [...]

• comics

  Free Comic Book Day

  05.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tomorrow, Saturday, May 2nd, is the first Saturday in May – that means it’s free comic book day!  Go HERE to check out what stores around you are participating then go grab some free comics.