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About Me

LAUGHstock's MISSION STATEMENT:

We are an independant show booking, band booking, tour booking, band promoting, show promoting MACHINE. First and foremost, DIY (do it yourself) ethics are applied with a dash of realism and a pinch of nihilism.

We hate the radio.
We hate the television.
We refuse the mainstream commercialism that has lead so many to believe that greed is the only answer.
Fuck that. Fuck them.
As it says in Michael Azerrad's book "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991":

"... if you didn't like "the system", you should simply create your own"

And that's exactly what I plan to do. By creating my own form of entertainment in the way of live shows (both music and comedy), by creating my own unbias non-commercial heavy fanzine called "CXC" which started in March 2007 and by continuing my undying support for others who follow the same ethics and virtues as my own. People such as Culture Rising, the name says it all - these guys are here for you, please check out the alternative:

CULTURE RISING's MYSPACE

For more information about LAUGHstock Promotions, CXC Zine and Crunk Productions please check out our website:

CRUNK PRODUCTIONS WEBSITE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/28/2006
Band Members:

MATT. MILLER
*President - currently ruling with iron fist
*Booker of venues, bands and comics
*Editor..Writer of CXC Magazine
*Creator of terrible show posters
Check out his personal Myspace

STEF MARTIN
*Photography + Door(wo)man + CXC Magazine Layout Specialist
Check out her personal website

CAM "BIG HEAD" MCGLADE
*Thug + Door Toad + CXC Magazine's "Angry Big Head"
Check out his personal Myspace

MEGGYPEGGY BURKE
*Gossip Scene Queen + Chatty Door Girl
Check out her personal Myspace
Influences:
FILM:
*American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1968
Released on Sony Pictures Classics (2006)
Written by: Steven Blush
Directed by: Paul Rachman
Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore

*Fear and Loathing in Last Vegas
Released in 1999
Original novel written by: Hunter S. Thompson
Screenplay adapted by: Terry Gilliam
Directed by: Terry Gilliam

*SLC Punk
Released on Sony Pictures Classics (1999)
Written and Directed by: James Merendino
Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/slcpunk

BOOKS:
*Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991
Published by Little, Brown and Company (2001)
Written by: Michael Azerrad

*Doors of Perception
Published by Harper & Brothers (1954)
Written by: Aldous Huxley
Sounds Like:
THE BASEMENT YEARS (2006)
AA Milne (RIP)
Abbie Chase (RIP)
Acid Stache
Circuit Breaker
Corporation
Crown and Coke
Dance Electric
Eien Hi (aka Sooz)
Etobicoke Death Squad (RIP)
Ghost Hands [We Are Busy Bodies]
Kover [Engineer Records]
Lacerda
Madrid is Burning (RIP)
Project Fore (RIP)
Raid For Blood Diamonds
Rufus and The Sundogs ft. Mrs. Sleep
Silent Seymour
Straight Goods
Strawman Fallacy
Super Hero's Union (RIP)
The Brat Attack [Underground Operations - 3rd Generation]
The Good Times
The Haslund Project
The Knockouts
The Love + Terror Cult
The Rhythm Materials (RIP)
The Wizard of Rock
White Pandas of Fury (RIP)

THAT OAKVILLE SHOW (Jan. 2007)
The Heatskores [Pink Skull Records]
Rocketeer (RIP)
Straight Goods
The Rhythm Materials
The Exocentric

LAUGHstock does TORONTO (Feb. 2007 - present)
A Rockwell Resolution
Akroid [Gorgeous Industries]
Amarith
Arcs
Auto Racing
Azriel's Curse
Bedtime Sleepyhead
BingeNinja
Brad Bryers
Broadcast Zero
Circuit Breaker
Corporation
Courtney Lynn
Craig VK
Crimechanics (RIP)
Crookedhook
Crown + Coke
Defective by Design
Docile
Dreamboat
Eien Hi (aka Sooz)
Gardenia
Great Lenin's Ghost
Great Ohio Desert
HippyFlip
Huff Chubalaga
Hush Money
Kid Gib
Kover [Engineer Records]
K.N.U.F (RIP)
Lacerda
Lights
LLIONS
Malta Kano [Gorgeous Industries]
Man With Target
Mean Tangerine
Megan Young
Mob Mentality
My Flea Circus
No Brigade
Now Yr Taken
Of The Epic
Orca
Permanent Bastards
Proposterous
Revolution Love
Rocketeer (RIP)
Ryan Mills
Smile Case
Soft Floors
Straight Goods
Strawman Fallacy [Gorgeous Industries]
Struck by Truth
SureShot
TITAN
The Autumn Woodsman
The Binary Link
The Burnitdowns
The Clusterbombs
The Diamond Teeth
The Fallout
The Famous Monsters
The Februarys
The Good Times
The Hormoans
The Imports
The Love + Terror Cult
The Outbred Inlaws
The Paint Movement
The Postage Stamps
The Thurstons
The Veil
This is Picture
True Trout
Tunturia
Vangel
West End Riot
Wild Bill's Killing Spree
With Conviction
With Vanity
Whiskey Priest

Record Label: crunkXcore records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

cXc Zine - Issue #2 (April) is ONLINE HERE!

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Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:04:00 PST

CRUNK PRODUCTIONS website.

Displaying all things CRUNK. Explaining what CRUNK (CXC) is, as well as:CXC ZINE - On sale at Culture Rising http://myspace.com/culturerising and at all my shows http://collect.myspace.com/index....
Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

LAUGHstock invades TORONTO [February - April 2007]

LAUGHstock: Toronto InvasionFebruary - April 2007Everything and everyone needs to evolve. This is part of that process. LAUGHstock moves to Toronto which causes some major changes. No longer are we in...
Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Thu, 10 May 2007 04:42:00 PST

Moving out of the basement with THE HEATSKORES!

Holy Moly!First of all, let me just address everybody on the fact in which LAUGHstock is moving out of the basement. I'm sure for those who know, this will be redundant, but there are alot of people w...
Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:36:00 PST

LAUGHstock: The Basement Show Revolution, Vol. VI - X

LAUGHstock: The Basement Show Revolution, Vol. VI - XForeword:This is the second installation of LAUGHstock. The first half saw it grow, and the second half saw it expand - albeit with some minor setb...
Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:29:00 PST

LAUGHstock: The Basement Show Revolution, Vol. I - V

LAUGHstock: The Basement Show Revolution, Vol. I - V Foreword:I have decided to document LAUGHstock officially, so that anyone who was wondering where it started and where it came from could know how ...
Posted by LAUGHstock Promotions on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:04:00 PST