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September 05, 2008
Wknd
First of all, thank you SO much to everyone who ponied up and threw some cash at the Stence Auxiliary. We raised over a grand in 24 hours, and that's something we can all be super proud of. By the way, the Obama campaign considers us members of their Grassroots Finance Team - got the e-mail from the campaign and everything - so on behalf of The Stencil, I'd just like to say thank you very much for doing it so big.
I'm headed north to the homeworld in an hour or so for the Bills opener on Sunday. Me, P, Dusk, Nash, Mike 40, Dommer - we're all going home to drink Canadian beer and yell real loud, and I'm real excited. I have packed:
1 Bart Simpson "Run It My Way, Man" Bills T-shirt
1 Paul "Poz" Posluszny Throwback Jersey
1 Lee Evans Home Jersey
2 2008 Pewter Limited Edition Season Ticket Pins
1 Buffalo Bills Sunglasses
1 Buffalo Bills Flag
1 Buffalo Bills Fitted Cap
So I'm ready. And with the news that fat-ass Pro Bowl LT Jason Peters is coming back where he belongs, I'm pretty goddamn excited - even though the Crow situation is fucked.
2. In the BIG non-political-non-Bills news of the week, our man Catchdubs, in direct conjunction with the aged & learned Mr. Ducker, have teamed up to create RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER, a 90-minute 90s tape that will own your brain. Nick & Ducker did it for the cyclopses over at Mishka, making it even better somehow. Like Flex used to say, "THIS SHIT IS FLAVOR RIGHT HERE... FLAVOR ON TOP OF FLAVOR."
Here's Nick explaining shit, cause yall know I love that:
My good friend Mr. Ducker isn't a DJ, but he always wanted to make an ultimate '90s tape, something that brought a mixshow vibe to alt nation sounds. When he asked me to get down with his dream and collaborate, we delved deep into our middle and high school record collections (and used CD bargain bins) and brainstormed new ways to present all the alternative music we grew up on. We were inspired by DJ Spinbad's impossibly fun '80s pop mixes: big hits next to unexpected favorites with lots of movie dialogue and interludes for jokes, all smashed up in a dance party megamixxx. Picking from hundreds of beloved Buzz Bin jams was easier said than done (sorry Superdrag, you'll make Vol. 2!), but with the Mishka crew's annual trip to Magic in Las Vegas giving us an actual deadline, we finally finished this badmotorfinger as a giveaway CD for their new season. Even with double digit-old tunes, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter feels right on time, connecting the dots between Sonic Youth breakbeats, weeded Lollapalooza rap, gloriously fuzzed-out one hit wonders and much more. No irony, no empty nostalgia, just a lot of music we love that shaped what we do today. They used to play King Missile on the radio! In America! Download and enjoy. - Nick Catchdubs
Suffice to say this shit is getting put on blast in the Ralph Wilson parking lot at 9 AM. I don't know if I could pay it a higher compliment. Ok: This is one of the best tapes I've heard in a long, long time. Maximum respect to Nick & Ducker. Awesome tape great job.
3. I am not going to talk about the McCain speech. It was bad; it was boring; it was his fault...
4. Ok, one thing about the McCain speech. While he was talking, the geniuses at RNC put him in front of that big ol' screen they had on stage, and kept changing the backdrop. For most of the time, they had a blue sky and a lone American flag behind him - which of course just looked like a blue screen when the cameras were zoomed in, which was most of time. But for a little while there, they reverted to a disastrous green screen backdrop reminiscent of the one they used to such disdain on the night of Obama's nomination clinch.
When zoomed out, though, the audience at home could see that the green screen was in fact a picture of a random building... a mansion, even. Many probably wondered what the hell this building was . Well, TPM solved the mystery, and it's fucking hilarious.
After reading the above link, talented ol' Alex hit me with extra zing-age:
"Hey, intern-Dave! Did you get the image of the White House we need to throw behind the Senator's speech?"
"Psssh-yeeeaaahhh! Of COURSE I did. GAAWWWW!!!"
Awesome. Have a good weekend, yall! GO BILLS!
Posted by caps at September 5, 2008 02:29 PM