Visual Coercion

Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA John Darnielle of Mountain Goats Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Atlas Sound

Talkin’ Shit about a Pretty Stage Backdrop

Witness the Shat dressed to go camping in front of a mountainous canyon backdrop on a soundstage somewhere, cut and pasted out of his previous no-less-bizarre, I’m sure, narrative moment and into the mode of musical entertainment.  I don’t mean the kind of musical entertainment Mr. Shatner normally engages in. This shockingly amusing video was [...]

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Cat Shit One – Disturbingly Anthropomorphic Animals Pumping Each Other Full of Lead

Someone brought this to my attention this week: An animated Japanese series about private military contractors, or mercenaries as they were once known, taking shit out in the fringe states of the former Soviet Union.  How about that? Some of these scenes are more graphic than what I can recall seeing in a live action [...]

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Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall – Feelin’ Weird about I Guess a Good Album

I plugged into the hype surrounding Jay Reatard last year when I picked up the Matador Singles ’08 record.  A good buddy had been extolling the necessity of climbing onboard the shortwagon (that’s a painful and awkward metaphor for joining a lot of other people in liking a guy whose stage name is a creative [...]

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Buddyhead is back.

When did this happen?  What a slick new website, what snarky, incisive, bullshit-cutting-through writing!  What a lot of video and stuff! Hey, even I’m tired of talking about Deerhunter (who I’m seeing rain or shine today).  How about I let a very ill Bradford Cox and Buddyhead do the talking about Deerhunter in this interview.  [...]

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