Review: Below Code
OnTerre Thaemlitz is pretty cool, and he’s got his own label, Comatonse , and has had it for a long time. For the 10th anniversary, he compiled Below Code. The original release was a CD in a DVD case filled with postcards…
Wouldn’t It Be Nice If You Could Rock Like We Do?
OnSort of along the lines of The Grey Album, apparently the Beatles/Beach Boys rivalry isn’t dead. Here’s Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds, a remix/cut-up of the original Pet Sounds album by a bunch of different artists.
Review: God’s Angry Man
OnImage via Wikipedia I’d been wanting to watch God’s Angry Man for a while, now; after all, it’s a documentary on a televangelist [SFW, despite being rotten.com] made by Werner Herzog. So, you know, it’d stand to reason that I’d be all…
In Defense of Beavis & Butthead
OnYeah, I was going to say: It’s easy to dismiss that series as just ‘idiots on TV watching idiots on TV‘ but if you really stop to appreciate what Mike Judge is laying down there, we’d see that what’s so appealing about…
Review: Interior Design
OnWho don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by reviewing ALL the Sparks records…
Death Mucus!
OnImage via Wikipedia If you’re a fan of the Found Footage Festival (or the Found Footage Show on the AV Club), you may have already seen this video . Especially since they posted it a while ago, and I’d been meaning to post…
Review: The Spine (and related EPs)
OnCover of The Spine 2004 was an active year for They Might Be Giants; in April, they released the Indestructible Object EP as a teaser for their new full-length album The Spine, which came out 3 months later, along with a companion…
Music 2, Books 1
OnCover of The Hollywood Argyles Sports Match Of The Ages! Books versus Music! And it is over! And Music has solidly trounced Books with all sorts of vaguely creepy war and fighting metaphors! The 2-String Bass: I got this from the WFMU…
Things That Are Neat: Breasts!
OnImage via Wikipedia Man, breasts are awesome. I mean I know a lot of people know this and all but sometimes things require saying. Everyone’s got ’em, so that’s kinda cool, and also they come in all sorts of different sizes and…