Well well well

Odd and ironic? Yeah I think this qualifies

Owner of Segway Company Dies in Segway Crash

Ummm, Yeah

Still trying to get my head around this one.

Wail of the 1%

Great NY Times read on the plight of America's most privileged elite.

"The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way."

Sweet and Fruity

Final Agony

HOW MANY MOHAWKS CAN YOU TAKE???

Fuck What Ya Heard

Platonic love can exist between two grown men.

Jason T: Happy birthday man, you're getting to be daddy age. No rainbow
Me: Thanks. At least one of us is still young and handsome
Jason T: Uh. If you were gay I'd hit it. Just be glad you're not. I'd do bad things to you
Me: Thats the nicest thing you've ever said to me

Twilight Zone

This is a good one. Thanks Kirk.

Like Whoa

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Hitched

Watched Scorcese's After Hours the other night and Terri Garr's appearance brought back distant memories of an adolescent crush on her (for some reason, maybe because we recorded it on BetaMax, I watched Mr. Mom like a million times as a kid).

So naturally, I Google image-searched her. It yielded plenty of crap, as well as some really great—though only tangentially-related—photos. (On a side note, this is one aspect of the internet and the search for knowledge as a whole that will forever amaze me: looking for one random fact inevitably leads to more. As John Muir more eloquently stated, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.")

And now the fruits of my search. No story on this first one, I just found it striking:


This next one was taken by the late, great Dennis Hopper. "Legendary underground filmmaker Bruce Connor (A Movie) is in the tub, while Toni Basil (Easy Rider, singer of Hey Mickey You’re So Fine) and Terri Garr (Young Frankenstein, etc) get ready to go out on the town."


And my favorite, a still from a 1964 pop awards concert called Teenage Awards Music International, which featured all of the big acts of the day—the Beatles, Stones, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, Beach Boys, et al. This photo shows the Supremes and one of the go-go dancers, "a 17 year old Teri Garr who can be seen dancing her ass off almost the whole show." In another account, "the Rolling Stones almost backed out after learning they were going to follow (James) Brown." And rightly so I should say.

Doom On!

Really siked that the St. Vitus interview I conducted with Dave Chandler a few months ago finally made it to print in the new issue of Maximum. These guys were the original hardcorepunkmetal freaks and there's absolutely nothing else like em.

Here's a classic vid featuring a mulleted Wino (his first show with them) and the doom wizard himself playing one of my fave tracks.

If Stephen Hawking Says So

Then it's probably true.

The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.

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Blue My Mind

Can't believe I'm just now discovering this mind-melter from self-proclaimed guitar god Randy Holden, who briefly joined Blue Cheer on side two of their "New! Improved!" LP.

The story goes that after becoming disenchanted with Cheer, he peaced out, teamed up with drummer Chris Lockheed, and rented an opera house to record this mammoth using a wall of 20 Sunn amps. The title, Population II, being "a reference to the fact that there were only two members in the band as well as being an astronomical term that defines a special kind of Star Group cluster type, having Heavy Metal in its composition." Even crazier than the amp wall is that Lockheed supposedly played both drums and keyboard simultaneously during live shows, though how he did this I just can't imagine.

Anyways, this is pure 70's doom unlike anything I've heard. DIG IT