it's been a month since i've done a post

Indeed time has not been on my side lately, which is odd given my current professional duties. Anways, yesterday was my friend Jeff's birthday. A group of five of us gathered to celebrate with him at once of Chicago's secret masterpiece's, The Paramount Room. I don't know whats up with that tribal logo surrounding the glass of beer but they do have fantastic beer and food. We had interesting discussions, my friend Karl gave Jeff an interesting book that I must now track down. The book is "Wreckers of Civilization" and it's basically the insane story of psycho jazz legends Throbbing Gristle.
These guys also spoke quite a bit about Nurse With Wound who I was unaware of and really don't have the time to explain, but it's worth checking out.
After Jeff made his exit to go watch the Chicago White Sox dominate the Chicago Cubs to make the sweep official, we headed over to another bar for one more beer. There we tried to figure out if we are old or if new music really just sucks. We all agreed that if we are in fact victims of a generation gap that we could accept that. However we also could not find a musical or other artistic movement today that was worth praising.
I then went to work and continued reading Naked Lunch and then I felt filthy and vile but hey, is't that why you read William S. Burroughs in the first place?
Anyways... I woke up this morning, checked wherethehellismatt.com and found his latest video and it made me happy for some odd reason. I'm not sure if I like Matt or hate him because I am jealous of what he gets to do.
For all the people that really think people that live in other parts of the world are so much different than us Americans, I think this is quite possibly the best and most simple example they are indeed very similar to us. If you're not in a better mood after watching this I will pay you $100 dollars (just kidding, I'm not giving you shit!)
Check it out and enjoy your day!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

White People For Peace

Against Me! summed it up with this song. If you don't know Against Me! then you should go buy their music at your local record store (if you can find one) or obtain it on the interweb. Anyways... if you are curious of the lyrics you can find them here!

White People For Peace by: Against Me!

revisit connect four

my guy brian is not very good at connect four, but his heart is in it.

seriously though... this shit gets funnier every time you watch it....



check out his other shorts:
rick jeffers

falseface

superchunk rules!

One of the better things about the 90's was a little band called Superchunk (whose re-union I missed last year at the Metro in Chicago because I was in California, but we won't talk about that right now...or ever again).Superchunk was catchy noise pop at it's finest. they just don't make pop music like this anymore...Yes I am aware that the previous statement makes me sound old! Enjoy some superchunk on me! AGAIN... don't say that I never gave you anything!

SUPERCHUNK - Hyper Enough

SUPERCHUNK - Precision Auto

AND FINALLY
A great live clip of Superchunk playing "waterwings" from the "like a fool" record (their best imo)
man that mac can sure bounce around... goodtimes!

banksy paints the israel/palestine wall

The previous post before this about the banksy record got me fired up on his efforts in painting the Israel/Palestine wall. I think these are all of the paintings from his effort there. The post before this one has some video footage of this whole ordeal....check it!

banksy on wax yall !

The more popular an artist or band gets, it becomes more uncool to like them... say what you want about banksy, but when was the last time you braved bullets in the West Bank to put up art on the Israel/Palestine Border? That's what I thought....
Anyways...the company I am working for at the moment is selling some limited edition Banksy Records. Not sure if he made the tunes (which is a breakbeat record that also includes a mental laughing track lock groove) . It comes in a few different color sleeves (pictured above)... if you feel so inclined you can pick up this sure to be collectors edition vinyl here!

Here is some footage of Banksy in the West Bank

If you are not familiar with Banksy... He is a famous British Graffiti Artist who primarily works with stencil art. Here are a few glimpses into his work:

more stop motion: human tetris

OK so this video probably does not need to be 2:38 long but it is. I do like to think about these people sitting around for hours most likely to make these videos. The guy who does the "music" is pretty comical as well.