Archive for April, 2006

Sea Change

April 30th, 2006

Well, in keeping with the drug theme of the past couple posts. This bit of news probably stands as one of the bigger drug news stories since Carter’s nearly successful attempt to decriminalize marijuana in the late seventies (before the drug scandal… see a classic episode of Benson for a sitcom interpretation of the [...]


Feel the Rush

April 28th, 2006

“The FDA says there’s no — zilch, zero, nada — shred of medicinal value to the evil weed marijuana. This is going to be a setback to the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd.” (Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, April 21, 2006).
Rush Limbaugh Arrested on Prescription Drug Charges April 28, 2006
This is going to be a [...]


It’s not easy.

April 26th, 2006

Heh. Right. New Song Alert! We recorded the tunage live a week or two ago then I cloistered myself away yesterday and put down some vox. My voice gets a bit weird Al at the beginning. In a new twist I’ll put the lyrics up right now cause they have stuck [...]


American Apparel trip 2

April 24th, 2006

So, on a whim, after reading the Belly Fat Blues in the LA Times, I decided to book up to Silverlake/Echo Park to meet up with B. Bobby “Foodmagellan” R. After playing Macintosh with him (similar to playing legos) and fixing up my (beater) bike (Note to self, your bike chain is not long [...]


Lyrical deadlock

April 23rd, 2006

So… the other day we went in and recorded a few songs. Totally live and one of takes came out swimmingly. Thing is, we did these totally live takes sans vocals and now I have to write lyrics for the tunes. I thought I had some for the one that came out [...]


bike dumbness

April 19th, 2006

The other night at a bar, I approached a dude wearing a Bicycle Kitchen shirt. In hindsight, he looked familiar possibly from the LA treasure hunt. He told a story to me of losing the chain on his brakeless fixed gear bike downtown. He said it was the most fun he’d ever [...]


Promos self and otherwise

April 18th, 2006

Ok, two things real quick.
One, check out this friend of a friend’s (PeiPei) bgirl/stunt/snowboard/etc action reel. I can recall once being at a party (last century) and she busted some moves that left me feeling … not worthy and ill-coordinated, but happy.
For the self promo side of things, the Hear Here show that Clark [...]


Saul Williams, MC Supernatural and…

April 16th, 2006

Mos Def
Absolutely stunning show put on by these three at the USC SpringFest… (Ozma… uhm… sorry no) I mean, I was completely transported. Thanks to E. for coming by at an opportune moment. Mos Def’s two DJs (armed with cdj’s, 1200s and an sampler) were in control. The sound (as [...]


Coming out of the closet

April 14th, 2006

Mom, Dad, friends, neighbors. There’s been something I’ve been trying to hide for a long time.
I’m… I’m … a Mac person.
I mean… in spite of all those harsh words when the first aqua beta hit it was the first time a computer really made me smile. I still remember that day. Ted [...]


Force times distance

April 14th, 2006

So, yeah… Work, you know. Somehow we’ve all been sending around insane youtube clips of X Japan (and other japanese things). Getting all of my rock news via MTV growing up, I heard about X Japan before I ever heard of X (err well, I heard X mentioned as the reason X Japan [...]