Probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

"WHY YOU SHOULDN'T SHOW OFF"

hahahahaha!!!

so serious!
so sesame seed bun!

RATM PATRIOT CENTER '96 w/ Jesus Lizard...

Welp, it's 6am , i haven't gone to sleep, and im stuck in you tube land. please bare with my fast typing i feel sleep coming on like nobodies biznasss

here we go:

Man... I really really really really wanted to go to this show... 

 I remember looking at the "weekend section" of the washington post, where i always looked for shows every friday morning, and begging my mom to let me go for weeks and weeks to this show. i still remember seeing "Rage Against The Machine with The Jesus Lizard at the Patriot Center Fairfax Virginia"

 It's one of those "top 5 shows i wish i could travel back in time and go to" type of shows. Evil Empire had just come out... i wanted to see this band more than anything at that time in my life. I had the self titled album since the 3rd grade or something when my friend stole it from his older brother to give to me... but in my opinion, it was nothing compared to evil empire... 

evil empire encompasses the most purely angry screams of any human i've ever heard in my entire life. I talk about this with Mr. Puciato all the time and we def agree that he was easily the angriest man in the world at one point. you can hear it at the end of "down rodeo" and at the end of  "year of the boomerang". 

still to this day one of the reasons why i feel i play music is that picture on the inside cover of evil empire when they are all in their practice room going off... that says so much. practicing with your friends and writing music you care about and putting your all into it. not really doing it for anybody but yourself.

Anyway, the summer of '96 was my 6th grade summer (going into 7th) and i was skateboarding ALLL the time. I was really pissed off for some reason and i don't really remember why haha (i've kind of put that stuff behind me). It probably had to do with sleeping on random floors and sharing floor spaces with my sister of whatever "whacked out rich guy" boyfriend my mom was seeing at that time but yea.. i was young and pissed off and I constantly listened to Evil Empire, not for political content obviously at that time but more as that "wow... i'm feeling something awesome" content.

I had a white Rage "ringer" shirt with the logo "type writer" font that just said "rage against the machine" on the front and the globe/cage thing with people on the back trapped/ trying to get out. I wore it everyday to the point where it was yellow  and permanently stretched out neck holes from playing drums at my friends house and skating all day around bethesda or wherever i was at the time.

I knew that Jesus Lizard was opening and was very familiar with them. i had heard about them through seeing that they had opened for Nirvana on one of their tours... i think it had been on "live tonight sold out" nirvana tape... I'm not sure. anyway, i had asked for the jesus lizard album "shot" earlier that summer and actually got to go to the cd store and buy it i was so excited and not disappointed by any means... random but i really think that album "shot" had a huge influence on my drumming subconsciously. 

anyway... i really really really really wanted to go to this show....

and I still ask people,  who were there, about it all the time. good ol' mr. moffet went and said it was awesome, so did metal nick. and i just thought at the time that the jesus lizard opening for rage was such a perfect and weirdly awesome thing to happen even though i was in barely 7th grade. (like later when dillinger opened for mr. bungle @ 930club). i tend to like it when that happens.... (also like ISIS opening for tool etc...)

so yea... it's fucking august, it's gross and hot and i always think about this show during this month and the amount that this album got me through.

so fucking angry and raw and awesome...

it's so late/early (god that's depressing)  and i'm going to sleep. this rules.

like I said... I really really really really really wanted to go to this show... 

I get goose bumps at like 4:15 till that part ends still. 

-sir james a lot

jazmine

this girl can't sing at all.

Metallica Played A VERY Small Venue The Thursday Before Bonnarroo

The venue is called The Basement, located in Nashville. It's probably barely over 100 capacity. Super small place.. maybe slightly bigger than Velvet Lounge's standing area. Anyway, Metallica played an unannounced show there the other night, I guess as a warm up for their Bonnaroo set (Bonnaroo is an hour south of here), for a crowd of 120 fan club members and 'in the know' people. My friend got in (he is one of the latter group-- apparently a few people got a phone call that was similar to "Come to The Basement right now.. I can't tell you why, but goddammit just come") and while he shares the "Metallica's old shit is sweet but their new shit is gay" attitude that we all probably could agree with, he said it was fucking awesome.. that they were super tight, loud as fuck.. and tore through a bunch of old stuff. Apparently there were like, 8 tour buses around perimeter, and the owner of The Basement, Mike Grimes (also owns Grimey's, the upstairs record store) was absolutely terrified all day that word was gonna get out, and that there'd be some metalhead riot outside his business. Anyway, I guess the show went on without any problems.. And I'm jealous as shit!



A picture of James & Lars with some of Nashville's Finest Riot Protectors


"Master of Puppets" from The Basement

Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute

Cornelius-like, but with more of a range in regards to song-writing.

My First Post Is Basic

HERE ARE SOME VIDEOS ENTERTAINING VIDEOS TO CHECK OUT...

JEFF BUCKLEY LIVE:




FRIGHTENED RABBIT (SERIOUSLY...WATCH THESE...THIS BAND IS CHANGING MY LIFE)



I <3 YOU ALL

Never trust robots.

It's amazing how good bad music can be...and how bad good robots can be!!



I feel like I just misused this blog somehow.

Be prepared to have that song stuck in your head for days.

sorry. should of posted this one instead

kenneth schalk... such an underrated powerhouse.

this is genius... i'd even say "choice".

NY Movement

One Drop

Unconditional Love

We played with This is My Condition in Lawrence, KS. Definitely the best band we played with on tour. One guy, a guitar, drum set, microphone, and loop pedal.

TED - Ray Kurzweil

Scheffey was telling me about Raymond Kurzweil, the inventor who believes technology is increasing exponentially, and that he will live long enough to live forever. OK, it sounds really stupid when I say it, but not when he talks about it. Here he is discussing it at TED in 2005.



TED is an annual conference for geniuses. It's pretty awesome. TED 2008 is going on right now, so look out for new videos soon. For now, here's a link to their archives. If your brain is ever feeling dull, just watch a video from this page.

Mark Guiliana drum solo with Jason Lindner's NOW vs. NOW

Brian and I watch this frequently.

Dan, Keep Posting

I like this video:

in other words; Dan, keep posting.

Torture Playlist

Dope will be proud to know that their immortal "Die MF Die" is being used to torture terrorists in Gitmo.

Update: Sorry about the autoplay. Here's a link to the playlist.

OMG, Fred Durst is hawt!

I think we're going to look back on Limp Bizkit as the Sublime of its day.

Stuff White People Like

Stuff White People Like is an outsider's guide to ourselves. Hilarious. Topics include "Being the Only White Person Around," "Not Owning a TV," and "Divorce." Here's part of "#13 Tea."

If you find yourself in a situation with a white person, acceptable things to say include “I’m really into tea right now,” or “my favorite thing is to get a nice cup of tea and curl up in a chair with a good book.” But do not remind them about the role of colonialism in tea, it will make them feel sad.

Stuff White People Like

ahSPAHGHET!

Down w/ Bali

You are getting me hooked TAHMMMMMMMMMMMM

Santogold
http://www.myspace.com/santogold

PS, this is what I was talking about @ Maf's

Pre-Afro

kinda sweet when you realize who this is..

Go-Go of the day..

the shit..

SPAGETT!

ObZen + Factcheck

ObZen.
Thoughts?
The cover is lame.
Diggin' it after one listen though.


Also, for those worried about the future of their country, this is a useful website:
http://www.factcheck.org/

This kicks ass!!!!!

Ben Jacoby showed me this last night..

she's a playa!!!
it has to be set up.. but still fucking crazy that this shit is on tv.

The Meat Guzzler...I'm not even a vegetarian...WTF, my blog might be better than yours TOMMMMMMMM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

"the smoothest white music nerds ever"

Following up on Tom's Steely Dan post, there's Yacht Rock. I have to think he was thinking of this series when he called Steely Dan the smoothest white music nerds ever.

DO IT

...you know you want to.

Dennis Coles

I felt compelled to list Ghostface Killah's various nick names:

Tony Starks
Ghostface
Pretty Toney
Ironman
Captain America
Faceless
The Wally Champ
Pretty Starks
Ghost Deini
Scott Kitner
Pretty Toney
P Tone
Paisley Fontaine
Theodore Deini
Talk of New York Tony
Captain America
Scott Kitner
Starkey Love
Wally Champ






he's still my boy though

Steely Damn

I have been getting DEEP into some Steely Dan. What can I say about them... other than, they have 3 perfect qualities:

• Great Songs. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are great songwriters. I heard that they were actually professional song writers before they started Steely Dan for fun, more or less. But yeah, the songs are hooky, but remain interesting with cool changes and/or weird and surprising bridges, etc. I've not read too many lyrics yet, but from what I can gather so far, they're pretty good story tellers as well.
  
• Great Players. They had a fucking field day with getting guys to play with them.. seriously the best of the best. Drumming is awesome.. Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie, etc, etc, etc...
• Great Production. This stuff sounds amazing. Everything sits exactly where it needs to be. Nothing is over the top. Everything is tasteful and perfectly complements the song. Oh, and when it is occasionally over the top, they pull it off because they're just badasses (or they were really high on something.. or both).
  

I was telling a friend about them.. i've concluded that they're the smoothest white music nerds ever. If you don't know about them, I would suggest getting Royal Scam or Aja. But really, I've only scratched the surface, so I can't offer up the best place to start. Find a comfortable couch, some type of drug, and good luck.

HEY!!!!!!! penny?

I just saw the band Heypenny last night at the Basement. They are from Nashville. They were really fucking good. www.myspace.com/heypenny. Listen to "Parade". They might be my new favorite band in town.