space invaders are smoking grass

paddle play photo filched from the streets are calling



...Captured Tracks site...just finished drinking a case of shit beer,
my pecker wrapped in tinfoil and hooked up to a 9V battery... my pcp-addled index finger on its way through songs by each and every one of the thirty or so bands that this label has released: Nothing I heard rewrites the Bible, but Captured has gotten behind a few acts who could come out with an Epic tune if time, skill, money, and vibe all came together in the right way...There are some close calls- Check

1)the Cosmetics "Soft Skin",
2)Grass Widow "Tattoo," &
3)the Dum Dum Girls "Hey Sis",

...nobody else on the roster did much for me, but none of it was radio advert dogshit...and the Oh Sees, of course, I think there might be a few songs on Dog Poison that might be better than anything on Help- I'd have to listen to them both a few times to say for sure

speaking of dogshit...Man, is it shit for days out the window with corpses riding the escalators and nowhere near enough left on the credit card to up the dosage!- And now they are trying to use the MRI to make contact to my vegetative state...Get lost, you bunch of fucking tossers, your world is full of shit! If you're really feeling compassion for the coma of everyday life, shoot a little heroin into my feedtube!






this guy...piloting for the moons of Jupiter beyond the wheels of steel via multitouch controller DAW developments:

steeplechase - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

MINISTRY OF LOVE BLUE MARTINI 022110 kinda reminds me of that am idol since U been gone song- maybe a little more rocking (recording quality B)

WARNER DRIVE DOUBLE DOWN 022510 appetite for appetite for destruction (recording quality b)





...by the way, I can think of a few people who could possibly read this that I don't like. If this applies to you, I'd like you to remember that I'm still hoping for your painful death in a terrible accident...

punkrock bowling expands to three days...mary anne hobbs in coming to smash...neon reverb festival is in two weeks


...and this...this is pretty hitting; i tried to stay off the MCDE bandwagon for as long as I could, but the cat has finally stepped up to the sum of his influences...the vibes and the play on the vocal line is getting a simple thing exactly right

flowers on the wall

".........don't tell me...I've nothin to do........."


















DOPAMINE FLUX ARUBA SHOWROOM 020610 seven piece soul/funk combo...strong rhythm section and vocal (recording quality C)



NOMO ARUBA SHOWROOM 020610 horncentric collective afrofunk influenced focused playing generous vibe (recording quality C)



PAN DE SAL THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 laptop percussion and visuals fresh mix of agitprop & twee (recording quality B-)


KID MEETS COUGAR THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 fairly rocking 2 piece drums vocals and guitars over cyber-ridiculous video and odd-tone samples...(recording quality B)



JAGUAR LOVE THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 electro duo with quite a screech only got a snippet of this (recording quality a-)

THE KURGANS CHEYENNE SALOON 021110 thrash (recording quality a-)













SWEATER KITTY CHEYENNE SALOON 021110 pop punk vocalist tougher edged rhythm section (recording quality A-)

86 AFTER FREAKING FROG 021210 screamo (recording quality a)
















illustration michelle thompson- used (like i use all things, my friends) without permission

DINNER MUSIC OF THE GODS YAYO"S TACOS 021210 power metal and G3 shred very practiced musos
(recording quality A)
BLACK BEANS AND HIPPY LIVER TURKS LOUNGE 021210 jam band vibe but with rhythm focus strong playing 3 peice (recording quality D)





THE QUITTERS DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 021310
hardcore punk (recording quality c)


ULTRAVIOLENT LIGHTS BEAUTY BAR 021710 competent rock swagger...sunset strip post makeup and stardom (recording quality c-)









The only real weather is fog, because it comes in shades. Everything else you have to fight with. The sun disappears behind a cloud. The rain falls all at once. The wind blows and then is just as quickly gone. I remember the girl who could tell you that she loved you the morning after she slept with another man. In his memoirs, Black Iron Bill wrote that he had no conception of betrayal: Who is it that is really ever there? Nothing to home but a bed to shut your eyes on and a key for the door. For my part, I used to misunderstand the word "superstition". Superstitions have their own physics- like the conversation of mass- only when they balance themselves out exactly are you able to tell the future.

I married my corpse because I thought it could tell me the future. It suggested that I go wait in line at a beauty salon so that I could fill out a dozen or more copies of a missing person's report...In a riddle whose last name is music the only word you are not allowed to say is "maybe we should just be friends." The Greeks just had a riot, the French, too. I could tell you that coke tastes better than pepsi but I'm saving all of my anachronisms for the next revolution. It's like no longer believing in bubble gum- bubble gum is just something they put on TV to make you buy interviews with your fans.

"You want to know if I think coke is better than pepsi..." I held out one of my hands- making a gesture like the pope. "...Well... It's a moral choice obviously. I can tell what kind of people you would sleep with when you tell me which soda you drink-it's like...a moral expression of who you are...what kind of world you want to live in..." Behind my sunglasses, I could only see the photographers when the flashbulbs went off.

love theme from spartacus

THE LAZYSTARS FEELGOOD'S 012810
5 piece harder than average pop...ben foldsish vocals...catchy hook

IMAGINE DRAGONS FEELGOOD'S 012810
5 piece pop with some killers' vein eighties influences-


.........................................................................................Flash forward to a seance in which each of us were handcuffed
to one another...Harbor Island, you replied. We were listening to a book on tape confessional that allowed each of us to leave rubble and burning ash toppled skyscrapers far behind. We pulled up into the parking lot and quickly walked to your apartment. We were bothered four...five times...by the vagrants who wandered sleeplessly about the grounds..."You need something?"..."You got something?"

"No.I'm OK"

In your room. You wore a t-shirt that was far too big for you- with holes. Your hair is long and highlighted in three subtle shades "Have you seen this?" you asked. It was a video of crystalline tones and cathode green oscilloscope traces. You took some ketamine out of the microwave and opened a can of tuna for the cats prowling about the kitchen floor

above illustration by johnathan tran



working on a mix dvd with psychotronic vid clips against a backdrop of whatever the hell has been pulling my chain, groovewise...This mix is part of that: i had a digital player in one of my inputs but it's a live- in one-take run through. i have to stick it into ableton because the last track came in too hot- hopefully i can tork the EQ and bring it in line. there's some overlap and delay play so if yr looking to own any of these cuts... gonna have to look elsewhere
MIX #9:


"caravan" a surf band version. I totally forget how I got this or who did it...
"do your shing-a-ling"- pijuan y su sexteto off an andale comp basically the only decent cut on it, sadly
"nena" by the Tasaday...not 100% on who laid down this MONSTER of a track... I pulled it off "psychodelicias"a cdr comp
"let me do my thing" ... Los Dinamicos Exciters w/ Ralph Weeks- Soundway's first Panama comp
a few other O.K. cuts on this but this is the best
"there was a time" by Six Pack from the Good God comp which is chock full of party