All I Really Want is Money in my Pocket...

Mark Ronson's Wiley video ft. Daniel Merriweather. It's one shot, so good!

Fail Blog

This blog makes me feel a little better about my life. If you enjoy Jay Leno's Monday Headlines then you'll like FAIL Blog...

This last one is my favorite. ahhahahahhahhahaha...

MP3 - Jerri Blank - You Are A Failure
MP3 - Jerri Blank - Remember, No One Makes Friends With A Failure

Did Anyone See This??

Detroit Church Prays for Bailout



Seriously? This is crazy and barbaric and disturbing. What is wrong with people? Look, this bitch is about to cry and offer herself as a sacrifice. Well the high lord pulled through today and the U.S. House approved $15B auto industry bailout. Hallelujah!

A Snippit of the Article: .(click here for the full post)

With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.

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Ellis said he and other Detroit ministers would pray and fast until Congress voted on a bailout for Detroit's embattled automakers. He urged his congregation to do the same.

YouTube: Church Prays for Automakers By Putting SUVS on Stage

Hiroshi Watanabe Photography-Marina Ema & Kazusa Ito

My Shimoda and The Markness at Mandrake Tonight!

We's about to get funky on yo ass.

Mandrake

2692 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)

10pm-1am

21+/no cover

WEAVE!/ WE ARE THE WORLD/ RAINBOW ARABIA/ FOOL'S GOLD TONIGHT AT THE ECHO. FREE!!

December 1st at The Echo: WEAVE!/ WE ARE THE WORLD/RAINBOW ARABIA / FOOL'S GOLD

FREE 18+

WEAVE!

MP3 WEAVE! Little Liar
MP3 WEAVE! Mouthpiece Hysteria


WE ARE THE WORLD



RAINBOW ARABIA



MP3 - Rainbow Arabia - Omar K

FOOL'S GOLD

Helllllllo Kitty!

Tom Sachs' Bronze Collection:

Large scale bronzes of foamcore Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Miffy models debut at Lever House in New York City. Other bronze casts, including stacks of car batteries and skateboarding ramps, accompany these bronzes. Editions follow at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado and at the Trocadero in Paris, France.


See more of his work at: www.tomsachs.org

Hello Kitty Hell...

"From an AK-47 Machine Gun and Porsche 911 to urinal targets and contact lenses(pictured above). Sanrio’s Hello Kitty cash cow has managed to get it’s (now ubiquitous) face on just about everything. Well, just like any other subject you can imagine, there’s a blog that is logging it’s every motion. www.kittyhell.com is one man’s journey into cute hell. Check out his take on this unexplainable phenomenom. Look out for the Hello Kitty hotel and airport. Yup, they’re really is out there. Be afraid…be very afraid."

- TurboFresh

MP3 - J-Squad - Meow Mix

WEAVE! Tonight! FREEEEE

Weekend Picks Pt. II

Saturday Night:

1830 Sunset Blvd. Fashion show and music by Uncle Alex. Drinks, friends and then I think there's a big house party around there later.


Metromix

Weekend Picks Pt. I

Friday Night Picks:

Golden Animals, The Starlite Desperation at Redwood Bar aka "The Pirate Bar"
10pm/21+/$tba

Mp3 - Golden Animals - Try On Me
Mp3 - The Starlite Desperation - Born To Be Dizzy


Japanther, All Leather, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Killer Dreamer, The Amazements
The Smell
9pm/All Ages/$5

Mp3 - Japanther - Cable Babies
Mp3 - Japanther - Seventy Nine

**** TOP PICK ****

Samantha Pleet Pop-Up Shop Grand Opening Party w/ Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Space 15 Twenty, 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd, LA, CA 90028
7-10pm/rsvp @ samanthapleet.com

Mp3 - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Flying Circles
Mp3 - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Among Dreams
(See Part Time Punks Post for more Ariel Pink MP3s)


More Show info here! Oh My Rockness

el Guincho!

I hope you caught el Guincho on KXLU just now on Part Time Punks with Michael Stock. I tried to record it and was planning on uploading it here but it recorded everything... so it's me talking to my friend with the interview turned down too low to really hear. I'm bummed I missed it so I hope you didn't. This dashing, young talent from Barcelona is performing tonight at The Echo. I love his light-hearted, Spanish melodies and instrumental dancey beats. He is a one-man-band but always sounds like he's having a party. If I wasn't sick, I would be there tonight.

el Guincho with Glasser and ORO11
at The Echo tonight - 8:30pm
18+/$12

Here are a couple of songs off of his new album, Alegranza.

And the video for Palmitos Park is cute:

MP3 - el Guincho Palmitos Park
MP3 - el Guincho Final de Archipielago

Poladroid Picture

Poladroid: "Now that Polaroid is no longer, instant photography shutterbugs are hoarding what little of the expensive Polaroid film they have left, only to use it for "special" occasions. Lucky for Mac owners who prefer the camera's retro look to the slick boldness of modern digital photography, this free application can makeover any photo with the vintage color saturation of a Polaroid picture, complete with the traditional white frame."

-from Trendcentral IG Picks

I love that this application even gives you random thumbprints and dirt marks on the photos. I wish it allowed you to scale your pictures to the polaroid frame, but it doesn't so sometimes you get cut off (sorry eric!) and have to resize yourself and guess.

MAC users click on the link above to download. Then start dragging your pictures into the camera. Once the photos develop you can "save-as" a jpg and wah-la! Shaking is not really necessary. Here are some of my pictures of my friends, family, kittens and me that were very difficult to layout the way I wanted. Click on then to enlarge.

This song reminds me of a commercial for this app...

MP3 - Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me

Picture Picks:

MP3 - Echo & The Bunnymen - The Pictures On My Wall
MP3 - Anavan - Eel Air Camera
MP3 - The Seeds - Faded Picture

There's Gold In Them Thar Hills

With our suffering economy and the dramatic rise in gold's price, people today are actually panning for gold as a source of income. Harrigan McGregor, owner of Gold Fever Prospecting, a mining equipment retailer in northern California, claims that California is experiencing it's second big gold rush nearly 160 years later. McGregor's business has significantly boosted by the number of people quitting their jobs to take on gold panning full-time. Risky...!

If I don't get this job I've been interviewing my ass of for and Plan B falls through then I'm a get my pan out and head for them hills. Plan D, rob a bank. (shhhhhhh...)

Here are some songs about GOLD. Some of the titles are a stretch but I don't wannna hear no crit-tism or complainin' or I'll hit chu upside yer stupid little head with dis here Groundhog Pick I bought off of ol' McGregor.


MP3 - Brian Eno - Velvet Goldmine
MP3 - Prince - Gold
MP3 - High Places - Golden
MP3 - Stranglers - Golden Brown
MP3 - Micachu - Golden Phone
MP3 - Boney M - Heart of Gold (Neil Young Cover)
MP3 - The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
MP3 - Jurassic 5 - What's Golden
MP3 - Au Revoir Simone - Stay Golden
MP3 - Put Down That Science Pole - Where's The Gold?!?!
MP3 - Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
MP3 - White Rainbow - Guilded Golden Ladies
MP3 - Felt - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow

Part Time Punks Festival Highlights and MPThreeeeeees

I should have blogged about this festival before it happened... but I ran out of time. I missed the guest list and wasn't sure I wanted to shell out $20, (although you can't beat that price for all these bands), times are a bit tight right now... so we had to get a little creative... So glad I went! Part Time Punks every Sunday night at The Echo in Echo Park and every Thursday 2-6pm on KXLU, 88.9FM Los Angeles and streaming world wide.

Bands I saw in order I saw them:

Vivian Girls - Hot girls from Brooklyn that rock the house. I would love to see them at a crazy house party or small dumpy venue with a lot of drunk teenagers. The crowd just stood there and nodded their heads to their punky, surf synths and melodic singing. Vivian Girls are cute but every song sounded the same to me. I wanted someone to wail. I got bored, but their CD is good.

MP3 - Tell The World
MP3 - Where Do You Run

Nervous Gender & Medium Medium - I honestly don't know these two bands very well. Nervous Gender had much appreciated personality. The band was an eclectic mix of age and style. The singer looked like an Irish Mobster that at one point bent over and pointed his ass to the audience in a very Ace Ventura like performance. There was a cute asian girl on bass, a young, long-haired guy on guitar and another older dude on... something else. They had a prominent voice and held the crowd for a solid three of four songs.

Medium Medium played downstairs in the Echoplex and as my friend Jenny said, "Who are those old dudes downstairs with the saxophone?"

- I couldn't find any tracks for these guys... btw, a lot of saxophone last night.

Love is All - I was fading and wondering how long I would last at the festival until Love is All played. My second wind kicked in as soon as the Sweds started rocking out. The lead singer, Josephine Olausson, is amazing. She has the sweetest voice but can really wail. Busy Doing Nothing started off the dancing and screaming that later resulted in blisters and a sore throat. If you missed them go see them at The Smell this Tuesday, 11/18 with Abe Vigoda, The Vivian Girls and No Dzzz. They live in Sweden so catch them while they're here!

MP3 - Busy Doing Nothing
MP3 - Make Out Fall Out Make Up
MP3 - I Ran (Flock of Seagulls Cover)

Pylon - Oh my god oh my god oh my god. Pylon was the biggest surprise last night. Pylon is an amaaaaazing band from Athens, Georgia. They were really big between 1979-1983 and hadn't played together for an audience in ten years or so. This is a band that never lost their magic like some of the other reunion bands... I was up in front, dancing with my friends. Jumping, sweating screaming, going nuts. They were so great. I think they were wondering who all of these kids were that knew all the words to their songs and were losing their shit. They let two ecstatic fans come dance on stage and played two encores! At the end the guitarist took pictures of the audience and they all gave sincere thanks for being able to be there. Oh man... definitely the best show I've seen all year.

MP3 - Cool
MP3 - The Human Body
MP3 - Stop It

Softboiled Eggies - Yay Softboiled Eggies came on late so we got to catch them. Their soft, sweet melodies were perfect to wind down to post Pylon. The video screen above the stage was playing a video of shieks marching perfectly on beat.

MP3 - Can You Send Blame
MP3 - She Fell Through the Trees

A Certain Ratio - The headliner of the night was the most disappointing. They seemed to be playing newer songs and brought a guest female singer on stage that I wasn't into. I took a break outside and then went upstairs for Ariel Pink.

MP3 - Do The Du (John Peel Session)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - I LOVE Ariel Pink! I don't know what it is about them. They're all over the place but they definitely have their own style. They wear wigs and have fun and don't give a fuck about what anyone thinks. By the time I saw them I was so tired and sober but could not stop dancing. These guys are local. See them when you can.

MP3 - Interesting Results
MP3 - Every Night I Die At Miyagi's
MP3 - L'Estat
MP3 - Calm Me Down

Mika Miko - Six hours late and these girls finally made it on stage. The blond girl sang into a red telephone turned microphone and was the cutest thing I'd seen that night. I wish I had a camera, her colors were great. Music is so good too. I can't help but wish I was in a band like theirs. Too bad I was too tired, blistered and hungry to stay to the end. I'll have to catch them again.

MP3 - Wild Bore
MP3 - Business Cats

The Muslims - They played at the same time as Love Is All, so I missed them. I have seen them before though. They're great!

MP3 - On My Time
MP3 - Nightlife

The Urinals - They played so early and I missed them but I would have loved to have seen them.

MP3 - Surfin' With The Shah
MP3 - Sex
MP3 - I'm Like You

A big KXLU crew was there with the camera so pictures will be up soon. Only press was allowed in with cameras so I don't have any to post right now. There will be posted here soon along with photos from Gang Gang Dance too, so look out for them later!

Gang Gang Dance Tonight!

Gang Gang Dance, fine purveyors of tribal electronic experimental music for people who appreciate good guitar synth. Their new album is brilliant. It's a new add on KXLU and I love it! I'm so excited to see them tonight.

GANG GANG DANCE

11-15-2008 20:00 at El Rey Theater w/ Marnie Stern & Lucky Dragons
Los Angeles, California
All Ages
Cost: $18-$19 if not sold out...

Tickets and Info

Off their new album, Saint Dymphna.

MP3 - Gang Gang Dance - First Communion
MP3 - Gang Gang Dance - Blue Nile
MP3 - Gang Gang Dance - Vacuum
MP3 - Gang Gang Dance - House Jam