Archive for March, 2009
This video looks like the best spent 100 dollars I have ever seen. I love the colorful swirls of soft-focus ink. They remind me of the opening sequence of the scariest film ever made, Kwaidan. I also love that dirty analog synth sound. That always makes me like a song more. Always.
Too great. I love Eric Wareheim.
I watch a LOT of music videos; I love them. Especially ones that aren’t just the god damned band trying to look cool. The less performance then better, I say. It’s rare that I come across a video in which I would change nothing. This is one of those videos. It’s perfect. Totally perfect.
I wish it could last forever.
…it is your fault I find this funny. Thanks, dick.
Are you serious? This is the greatest shit I have ever seen.
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.
I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that’s strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably “controversial.” One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its “Fuck the Man” symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.
Check out all of them here: Justine Lai – Join or Die
Obviously, this is Not Safe For Work.
Because I haven’t posted anything with lasers in it for at least 30 minutes, and it doesn’t hurt that this song is pretty awesome. I was way into the first record by The Juan Maclean and, apparently, they have a new one. Killer.
Everyone’s favorite Christian Death Metal band has a new record coming out later this month and I am super stoked about it. My brother “found” a prerelease copy on the interwebs and sent it to me. It’s pretty awesome. It lacks the mind-blowing punch experienced the first time you heard Impending Doom, but that doesn’t make it a bad record. I’ve given it a casual listen through and I am excited about my pre-order come the end of March. Overall, they’ve broadened their musical battalion in a way that shows real growth for the band. And, oh, is that harmonized growls I hear? Oh yes, yes it is.
Awesome.
Here are two tracks from the record that I feel are demonstrative of Impending Doom’s growth.
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