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Cover!

Now that's great. And you can dig on the first single, 'The Fixer,' here.

Gene will kill you with his glare

Another thing I dug up this weekend were my Kissology DVDs. I popped in the second disc of the second volume. It had some Elder-related stuff that I really dig. And now you can too! You can thank me later.



They kind of look like an evil Duran Duran, don't they?

if you'd been a dog, they would have drowned you at birth

As I was moving, I located my copy of Radiohead's Amnesiac in a box with a bunch of my books. I hadn't listened to it since (probably) 2002, so this weekend I listened to it again. Holy shit, what a great album. I really didn't 'get' this and Kid A when they were first released. I was really getting too ahead of myself, since just a mere year before these albums were released, I was an unabashed metalhead. Now though, I'm really getting it.

It sounds like the era in which it was released- before 9/11; just shortly after GWB took office and hadn't had time to completely destroy the world as we knew it; and more than a little ambivalent. It was an album for the sake of art, going beyond a usual five-piece band, adding electronic somethings-or-others and Thom Yorke using his voice as another instrument. An interesting experiment that I doubt anybody but Radiohead could have pulled off.

It's not as satisfying as OK Computer or In Rainbows, but could ANYTHING be comparable to those? I remain doubtful.

got some

Wow, long time no post. Anyway, this happened a week ago, and it's Pearl Jam related, so I'm shocked it's taken me this long to post this...



It's a new song 'Got Some' from the new album due in September, titled Backspacer.

it's like this

In order to get you so fuckin' pumped for the comic, I'm going to show you what really inspired me to go with it in the first place- a band called Sons of Butcher.

"We Fuckin Rule (All Your Asses)"


"Fuck The Shit"


Best not to watch these at work, around children, or big babies. You know who you are.

international radio sensation

Work continues to proceed on the heavy metal comic. Still working/fucking with the copyright stuff, but I want to have a backlog before I start since I work remorselessly slow on stuff like this. That and I'm a Luddite and haven't figured out my scanner yet.

I've been thinking that I'll need a pen name for this comic. Sure, I'm a hound for the glory and would love to have everyone know that it was me that created this little absurd comic, but some of the things/song titles in these comics MIGHT come back to bite me in the ass in five or ten years. I was thinking Joseph Gravelshitter. Yay? Nay? God help me if I ever have to name a kid, amirite?

Oh yeah, I recently dug out some stuff I haven't listened to in a while. You should dig on Black Mountain. I've written about them before, but you should do yourself a great favor and get a copy of their album 'In The Future' or at least just listen to 'Tyrants.' It's kind of like if Rush, Jefferson Airplane and Uriah Heep did acid together, got all freaked out, read the Lord of the Rings, and wrote a really bitchin' song.

moving. blah.

I really don't like moving. Sure, I like being in a new and better place, but getting there is such a bitch. It doesn't help when you have as much shit as I do, and it all has to be boxed. As far as all my music is concerned, I am really considering leaving most of it in the boxes I've put them in for long-term storage. I won't sell them, since I won't get much for them and nobody buys CDs anymore anyway. But with as many as I have, they are difficult to keep around sometimes. To say nothing of the LPs.

Anyway, this was just an outlet to complain about the packing-up thing. Ha, made you read.