About Me
"Our strategy should not only be to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubborness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe." - Arundhati Roy
"We are trying to preserve the best of alternative music culture from the creeping mediocrity that always seeks to envelop it." - Greg Shaw
I don't know why somebody becomes one way and someone else becomes another way. Say you have ten dogs, or five dogs, and you beat the dogs and you kick them. A couple of dogs are gonna get really vicious and they're gonna be like, vicious killer dogs, and then maybe one or two are going to be crazy. And one of them will be a little crazy but also kind of always looking for affection, and really loyal to the person that beats them.
-JT LeRoy
SOME OF MY FAVORITE MUSIC, FILM, EPHEMERA OF 2008:
films:
1 in bruges (martin mcdonagh)
2 synechdoche, ny (charlie kaufman)
3 the fall (shot 2006, tarsem)
4 milk (gus van sant)
5 religulous (larry charles, bill maher)
6 mister lonely (harmony korine)
7 encounters at the end of the world (werner herzog)
8 frost/nixon (ron howard)
9 my winnipeg (guy maddin)
10 burn after reading (coen brothers)
albums:
1 Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
2 The Shivers - Beaks To The Moon (Keith/Self-Released)
3 Blank Dogs - On Both Sides (Troubleman Unlimited)
4 Vampire Hands - Me and You Cherry Red (Modern Radio)
5 Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
6 Woods Family Creeps- S/T (Time-Lag)
7 Weather Is Happening - Young Country (Nail In The Coffin)
8 Fire On Fire - The Orchard (Young God)
9 Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
10 Alastair Galbraith - Orb (Nextbestway)
Prior bookings (1999-Present):
Aloha, The Anniversary, Askeleton, At The Drive-In, A Day In Black and White (2x), Devendra Banhart, Beauty Pill, Black Eyes, The Blood Brothers, Botch, Tyondai Braxton, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (2x), Caligari, Calvary, Cat On Form, Challenger, City of Caterpillar, Coliseum, The Dead Science, Death Ships (2x), Denali (2x), Dispensing of False Halos, DMBQ, East Side Guys, Envy, Examination of the…, Fautlines (?x), The Faux, Flaccid Trip (3x), Fork Knife Spoon, Forstella Ford (?x), Frankenixon, The Forty-Fives, The Gap-Scatter Recovery, Ryan Garbage, The Good Life, The Goodboy Suit, Gospel, Gowns, Grand Ulena, Ham, Heads & Bodies, Helen of Troy (2x), Hella, Hero ofa Hundred Fights, Holy, Hot Cross, Hugs (5x), Hum of the Wire, Humans, In Loving Memory (?x), k., Karate, Kelpie, Khanate, Law of All Ends (2x), Let's Drown Each Other, Lightning Bolt, Low, LWA, The Mae Shi, Majority Rule, Mahkato, Malady (2x), marah-mar, Martian Water, Medusa, Meneguar, Meth & Goats (?x), Milemarker, Minus the Bear, The Mountain Goats, Navies (2x), Need New Body, Neptune, O'Jesus, The One AM Radio, On!Air!Library, Open Goat, Panthers, Parts & Labor (2x), Pelican (2x), Pinebender, The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Preacher Gone to Texas (?x), Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prom Night Tornado, Q and Not U, Raccoo-oo-oon, Racebannon (3x), Raise the Red Lantern, Rapider Than Horsepower (3x), Rickyfitts (3x), Rgnz! (?x), Rue Morgue (?x), Safety Second (?x), Seven Days of Samsara (3x), Sergio Leone (3x), Scenery, The Show Is the Rainbow, Six Organs of Admittance, Shanghai to Video, Sicbay (2x), Signal to Trust (3x), Since by Man (3x), Sightings (2x), Sometimes Sam, The Spirit of Versailles, STNNNG, Swing By Seven (3x), The Tanks (2x), Ten Grand, Rosie Thomas, To Dream of Autumn, The Twelve Canons (3x), The Unicorns, US Maple, Vampire Hands, John Vanderslice, The Vets, The Vine And The Archer (2x), Weather is Happening, The Weird Weeds, Wet Hair, William Elliott Whitmore, The Wind-Up Bird (2x), Denison Witmer, Wooden Wand, Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, Xiu Xiu (7x), Yaphet Kotto, Zombi
