TRMW Archives

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October 31, 2005

“Aimless Sex Zombies. Yeah. Bring it on.”

I just sent out a press release for this guy’s art show at Berbati’s next month. It’s the stuff above, plus some paintings. I really dig his comics, especially on this rainy Monday (bbbbllleehhhhhhh). Here’s the info:

Berbati’s Pan presents:

ROSS FARRIAR
showing his fabulous mix media works, namely paintings and cartoons

Showing November 3rd – 30th at Berbati’s Restaurant

Opening reception November 3rd, 6 – 9 p.m.

Music by Pippa Possible

Live Performances by Ross Farriar and his alter personalities

21 and over

Berbati’s Pan, 10 SW 3rd Avenue, Portland OR

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October 28, 2005

Yeessssss!

Yesss! #1: BUSH’S SHIT IS HITTING THE FAN. And the best part? This case encapsulates in one sensational nutshell so much of what is fucked up about this administration, and there it is, right on prime TV, for all to see. Politics over truth, drive for war over rational debate, CORRUPTION CORRUPTION CORRUPTION. All this on top of the 2,000th death in Iraq, Miers resignation, Katrina, etc, etc. For the first time in a while it feels like extremely powerful spades might actually be called spades; I smell hope.

Yesss! #2: Two of my favorite bands in the word, Nice Nice and Deerhoof, are playing together for the first time tonight, and many of my favorite people on the planet will be there, all at one show for the first time in forever, maybe ever. Nice Nice’s latest EP is entitled Yesss!.

YESSSSSSS!!!!!

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October 15, 2005

DON’T SLEEP TONIGHT

Don't Sleep Flyer

I am honored to be a part of this very fun event tonight, as curated by UrHo buddy DJ Safi, and presented by Connie’s rad DJ collective thing, Stylus 503. It’ll be really fun, so come out!

PS: Can you guess which one is me?

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Tar Pit #1

tarpit1 tarpit2 tarpit3

I bought this at Reading Frenzy a little while ago and just got around to reading it. I read the whole thing in one poop! Now that’s a good comic. “Tar Pit” is kind of a compilation of sort, which seems to be put together by the guy who does those excellent “Crappy Comics”. The contributors are listed as Tim Root, Corey Lunn (who has an excellent UrHo blog here), Tim Wenzel, Eliott Orr, Brandon Smyth, Levi Hanes, Josh Kermiet, and Tyler (no last name, like Madonna). My favorites are the two artists pictured above (anyone know their names?) and of course, Mr. Lunn. It’s numbered, which seems to imply they’ll be doing more of them. This is a good thing. Can’t see any website on it, but there is an email.

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October 14, 2005

Indian Jewelry (mp3)

indian jewelry

I saw this band open for The Planet The last night at Holocene. I’d read some good things about them on listservs and stuff (mostly from the E*man), and was stoked to check them out. Their sound is kind of a mix of bassy electro stuff like Alter Ego, tribal drumming a la Tussle, and weird psych rock like… um, I can’t think of an example right now. They filled the whole room up with fog, then went ballistic with the strobe light. It was pretty fucking trippy, maybe too trippy, depending on your personal trippitude. I was pretty into it, bought the above 7″ and am pretty into that too. The first track captures what I like about them – that unique mix of electronic and psych styles – and the other two don’t really grab me. I wanted to post that first track but I can’t find it online, so here’s one that’s kind of similar:

Indian Jewelry - Going South

Also, The Planet The are awesome. They are on tour now, and very much worth seeing.

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October 13, 2005

On Any Sunday / Biker Dogs

On Any Given Sunday poster

I rented this movie last night and totally dug it. I heard about it on the awesome Dailysonic podcast, which I also recommend checking out. The movie is this super cheesey 70s documentary about the various styles of motorcycle racing, as directed and narrated by Bruce Brown aka the Endless Summer guy. It was funded by movie star / motorcycle enthusiast / ultimate 70s male Steve McQueen, who also just happens to be presented in a very positive light throughout. I could get into the details, but yeah, pretty much just 100% sunshine and smiles and happy people doing stupid things. The soundtrack is great too, kinda surfy, cheesey, with happy girls singing way OTT cheeseball lyrics. So yeah, there’s some major kitsch going on here, but there’s also a whole lotta heart, soul, and good vibes aplenty.

There’s also a really cool motorcycle-riding dog, as seen here:

On  Any Sunday bike-riding dog

And there’s 140 more awesome motorcycle-riding dogs on this page. YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT!

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October 11, 2005

BEST BAND BIO EVER

HOLY CRAP PEOPLE:

“At age 16, John Swingset was at his house with 4 of his friends doing LSD while his mom was out of town. After hours (days?) of psychedelic revelry and well after the height of the trip, John needed a break from his friends and stepped out onto the balcony.

The sky was brilliant between the golden orange clouds as if painted on the azure blue by God himself. It was at this moment, the world broke. A huge eyeball opened in the sky, and communicated telepathically with him. It told him that he must learn to play guitar and sing. Shocked, unprepared, and in utter disbelief that he could ever learn to either sing or play guitar, much less at the command of a disembodied eyeball, John challenged it with a Question: How and/or why should do I do this? Its response was simple, “You have work to do.

At that moment, My Epiphany was born. A synthesis of electronic and organic instrumentation, that allows their audience to soar to ecstatic heights through heart pumping anthems as well as explore the pits of despair in bittersweet haunting melodies.

My Epiphany has played with Thursday, The Faint, Desaparecidos, Glasseater, Brandston, Coheed and Cambria, The Used, Further Seems Forever, Hopesfall, Stretch Arms Strong, Vaux, STUN, Now It’s Overhead, ScatterTheAshes, and Milemarker.”

Words fail.

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My Blog Looks Different

Yep, it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally gotten around to redesigning this thing. I was getting really tired of all the tiny text and boxes on the old design and wanted something a little brighter and easier to read. I also wanted something simultaneously dentist-office ugly and early-nineties neon fugly, apparently. Hopefully this is a move in all those directions at once. What do you all think? Seriously, any and all suggestions are really helpful, as this is by no means a final draft and I want to make this as nice as possible for all of us. HOLLABACK!!!!!!

Also, check out this rad thread on the Urban Honking msg boards. It involves a certain really influential music website, an insta-big band, the (non)existence of absolute truth in the universe, and some French philosopher guy. Yeah, some very interesting conversation going on in there these days.

Smoke em if ya got em: ;’)-~

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October 7, 2005

Hustler White, Wet Confetti, Channels 3&4, Ikebana @ Hotel, 9/23

[This post originally appeared on Team Tinnitus]

Soooo I actually didn’t end up making it to this show, which sucks, but Jason Quigley sent me an email with some rad photos so here they are. If you went to this show and want to review please send an email and I’ll post here. Enjoy!

All photos by Jason Quigley

HUSTLER WHITE

hustler white

WET CONFETTI

wet confetti 1

wet confetti 2

wet confetti 3

CHANNELS 3&4 (or is this Ikebana? Help?)

channels

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Blast from the present!