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October 24, 2005
MONDAY BLOODY MONDAY
1. Thanks to everyone who came out to the (tha?) Knitting Factory last night to see me play with Hexa, Miami Ice Machine, Child Abuse, and Behold...The Arctopus. (Double shout to the NY Times for the listing and the kind words.) I had fun playing Ice Cube & Yo-Yo to the metal kids, and I'm betting we raised a sack full o' cash for New Orleans's WWOZ 90.7 FM.
Highlights: Death From Above, Can, Dead Boys, Misfits, Suzanne Vega, Everly Brothers, Chicago, Sonic Youth, Gyptian, Brian Wilson, Big Youth, Sir Lord Comic and the aforementioned Yo-Yo, Ms. Stompin-Into-The-Nineties herself, all got aired. Plus the Sesame Street Monster Mash, sung by The Count (which, interestingly enough, substitutes "instant smash" for the presumably kid-frightening "graveyard smash"). During the night, I got a lot of new ideas; me and Jonesy are heading into the studio (read: my basement) to bang out a new half-hour mix tomorrow, so you'll probably hear some of this in some form real soon.
2. Plus, playing music was a much-needed non sequitur after the Bills' spectacularly pathetic Annual West Coast Flop. SI's Peter King speaks the truth: "I think no team had as disappointing an effort as the Buffalo Bills this weekend. Awful. Just awful. Without Randy Moss as a factor, the Raiders muscled Buffalo around for 416 yards, 162 on the ground, and the Bills got to the efficient (69 percent) Kerry Collins for just two sacks. And how about giving Willis McGahee more than 16 carries, Mike Mularkey?"
3. Being an interweb-savvy dude(tte), you've probably heard about Prussian Blue, the white supremacist 11-yr-old twins who sing pop songs about preserving the sanctity of the white race to increasingly large audiences. ABC did a piece on them last week, Drudge picked it up, etc. But! Have you seen their message board? Predictably terrifying and depressing (albeit with lots and lots of heartening conflict with outraged outsiders) the site is also sprinkled with occasional flashes of laugh-to-keep-from-crying unintentional humor. (E.g., one fan's take on the duo, who sing about race war: "They're soothing.") I couldn't take it for more than nine minutes of jaw-dropped lurking - I think that's about the human limit - but if you need an appalling stupidity fix, this is your spot. Free Republic's got nothing on these fucks.
4. Speaking of idiots, Anne Coulter stays dumb. Not really news, I know, but since we're doing our fringe right wing watch, I thought it was appropriate. Here's a snippet:
The audience, decked out in patriotic garb and cowboy boots, fanatically surrounded Coulter before dinner, asking her to pose with them for pictures. One woman caught Coulter's attention by begging for a picture, saying, "my husband loves you." The Republicans got in the spirit of the night while enjoying an SUV-size trailer full of Budweiser beer. Attendees paid between $25 and $75 to attend the event; the latter price included dinner. The money went to the Alachua County Republican Party, which paid $30,000 to have Coulter speak.... Coulter defended the war in Iraq and chastised Democrats for "demoralizing America." "The war was a magnificent success," she said. "We're a few years into the rebuilding." She also criticized the media for being liberal and Democrats for whining about their rights under the First Amendment. "They're always accusing us of repressing their speech," she said. "I say let's do it. Let's repress them." She later added, "Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment."
5. Enough bullshit. Back to the real shit: Rapid Ric tonight at Sway.
6. RUBOWEEN THIS SATURDAY. Me, Jones, Cosmo and Ayres on four turntables - with a double-super-secret special guest dj from a popular Philadelphia duo! - and System D-128 on the projector cut. YO.
Posted by caps at October 24, 2005 06:24 PM