San Diego, California

Come on people, now, smile on yr brother, everybody get together and love one another right now.







This crap is freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. FUCK.

Perfection Annoyingly Linked

Fuck, you know what the fuck I hate? When you find a gem of a video on Youtube, I mean like something you've been waiting FOREVER for, and it says, "EMBEDDING DISABLED BY REQUEST". I just want to share. Shouldn't we spread the disease? Who the hell do you think you are, you god damned video uploader man? Or woman. Whatever. So selfish you beast. You're not even a man or a woman anyway, you're a selfish ugly greasy fat beast. With hooves. So now, instead of looking all cool, and like totally down, I have to post a busted ass link. Thanks butthole. This blog is for coming off cool, not building nice little boring links.


Nice by Kleenex, 1978

Internet Forever

Fuck man, this is my latest obsession. London's Internet Forever. Pure abrasive pop perfection. I literally listen to these songs twice, three times daily. It's a guitar, a keyboard and a wonderful voice (and voices). I challenge you to get these songs out of your head after you listen. A perfectly sweet sounding noisy mess. I see big things for Internet Forever in the future, maybe as early as 2009.

Ye Olde Maids 'God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us' LP Done, Release Date Soon!

Very good news! The Ye Olde Maids lp (Art Fag 004) is totally done. 10 songs. Front cover (was) above...but it's being changed. Anyway. Wesley Eisold (Cold Cave, Heart Worm Press) has made a masterpiece. Will be up for preorders VERY soon. So excited. ECSTATIC. This record is amazing. I want to post some samples so bad, but I have to keep it under wraps. Believe me you'll be blown away. If you're not familiar with YOM, I'll be posting some samples when pre order time comes. I promise. You can sample a couple at YOM Myspace. As stated above, the title is 'God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us'. Here's the track listing:


Side A

1) Cocoa Cherubs
2) Candy Cigarettes on Fire
3) Love Theme from a Cannes Cafe
4) Hawk Over the Highway from My Way to You
5) Dreamscraper

Side B

1) Advice to a Future Giallo Killer
2) In the Palms of God's Hands
3) Love Theme from a Car Commercial
4) I don't think I'll miss the Beaches
5) White Impatiens

Going to be vinyl only and only 500 pressed. Stay tuned...we're so close!!

The Soft Pack Signs With Kemado

Congratulations to the The Soft pack on their recent signing to Kemado records. Looks like 2009 is shaping up like I thought.

Crocodiles Have Signed With Fat Possum

Crcodiles have signed a two album deal with Fat Possum Records. Their debut cd/lp is complete and should be released around May, not only in the US but worldwide. Expect a ton o' touring. Congrats doggies.

Althea And Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

I love this song. There are some songs that no matter who you are, you like it. Examples: Tally Ho! by The Clean, Teenage Kicks by The Undertones, Lo Boob Oscilator by Sereolab, Ca Plane Por Moi by Plastic Bertrand, the first five Ramones records and this, Uptown Top Ranking by Althea And Donna. Ha, after writing that list, it also seems that sometimes you record a song so perfect that your career is fucked. Anyway, can you believe these gals were 17 and 18? Produced by Joe Gibbs, co-written by Errol Thompson.

A Mini Baby Planner

This is stuff in January that's Art Fag Recordings or Crocodiles related. San Diego & Los Angeles.

Saturday January 17 - Crocodiles @ Motion L.A. Art Gallery in Los Angeles

Don't know much about this 'cep for I'm going, Crocs are going and that's a good combo. Dunno if it's free either.

Sunday January 18 - Too Many Creeps / 'The Shield Around The K Screening' @ The Whistle Stop in San Diego

Not only is it our weekly post punk / indie / underground records party, but at 8:30 we're screening the K Records documentary! We love K and so should you. As usual 'djs' Mario Orduno, Brandon Welchez and Sir Charles. Always free so don't you ever EVER trip.

Tuesday January 27 - Magic Bullets @ The Soda Bar in San Diego

San Francisco's Magic Bullets return to San Diego! Indie pop magic. SD's Spirit Photography and Sunday Times play before along with 'djs' Mario Orduno and Jeff Graves. $5.

I think that's it. I'll add if I remember more. In the meantime enjoy this magic ass classic.


Beat Happening's Indian Summer

Happy New Year Man

Hey man. How are you? It's been a while. I just didn't feel like it. The end of the year sucked right? I was jonesing for 2009 bad. And here it is. what better excuse for starting it up again than sitting here at 11:55 on a Friday night, right? So anyway. Ecstatic about this year for real. Art Fag Recordings is up to a LOT in the next three months. Soft Pack live lp, Ye Olde Maids lp, and the split 7" with PENS (London), Crocodiles (San Diego), Dum Dum Girls (Los Angeles) and best Fwends (Austin). All that shit's limited and vinyl only buster brown. Dum Dum Girls have a slew of records coming out including ones on labels Hozac, Captured Tracks and the aforementioned Art Fag release. Crocodiles are doing crazy shit too, with a new single on Down In The Ground which also features Cold Cave and Blessure Grave. They have two tours in Jan and Mar as well as an lp coming out on a yet to be announced label (stay tuned buster brown). More? Ok. Christmas Island is set to release their lp on In The Red. More? Wavves is soon releasing his lp on Fat Possum as well as a big ol' Euro tour and US tour in Feb and Mar. Magic. California magic. It's good to be back buster brown. xo

p.s. 2009 rules.

p.s.s. Barack Obama

MILK

Fuck I'm lazy. Sometimes I just really don't feel like taking part in this blog-O-thing. And then I snap back, fuck it.

Anyway, I just got back from seeing MILK and am totally inspired and want the world (or the 78 persons that read this daily) to go see it. You must. And after you see it you should tell a friend but more importantly, you should do something to rally people to do something positive. As beautiful as it is to promote human rights and animal rights and those kinds of great issues it can be about music and art too. Have a meeting, start a label, set up a show, organize a rally, SOMETHING. And I don't mean the cheesy Myspace bulletins that for some reason I'm skeptical of the intentions. I mean flier, poster, email, round fools up, start a zine, AND myspace if you really want to. That means you really mean it and are devoted. At least to me it does, and I'm just saying what's on my mind. But back to the issue here. Fuck, you know what? Don't even do that shit if you're not that type of person. Be part of something though. Like support something good. I sound like a fool, but I'm just buzzing from the movie.

You know what's funny, too? I usually HATE when there's applause in movies like the beginning of Star Wars 1 when the silly yellow words scrolled and people went bananas. But when Milk ended and people applauded I kinda liked it. But, no I didn't clap because it's kinda stupid to applaud a movie.

Sooo start with seeing it and if you're alive inside you'll agree. DO SOMETHING.









Oh shit!! I almost forgot! It's crazy how this movie relates so much to the Prop 8 issue. I mean Prop 8 could literally be in it. I think it's moronic nd borderline irresponsible for this movie not to be released a full month before November 4. Actually makes me a little sick.

Events Round Up: Art Fag & Crocs Stuff

So nice to see you on the Lord's day. Happy sabbath to you and yours, and remember..He's a good god, a just god and heck, a giving god. And I'm bored. On with the round up!!

Thursday December 4 - blackblack and Crocodiles at Mountain Bar in Los Angeles. $?

Sunday December 21 - Too Many CHRISTMAS Creeps. Our Sunday night weirdo fest gets a yuletide screw in the butt. Count on xmas jingles mixed in to the usual punk, post punk and underground fare. We'll be wearing antlers and santa hats. DJs Mario Orduno, Sir Charles and Brandon Welchez. FREE @ The Whistle Stop in San Diego.

Saturday December 27 - Nite Jewel, Spirit Photography @ Soda Bar in San Diego. Also, djs Sir Charles and Mario Orduno. $5.

Monday December 29 - Finally Punk (Austin, TX), Crocodiles, Doctor Bird and Blessure Grave @ The Casbah in San Diego. Also djs Jeff Graves and Mario Orduno. $8 no presale get there early!!

NYE09 @ The Whistle Stop in San Diego. Dancing crap for 5 bucks. Count on the usual crappy and untalented mix you're grown to love from yr drunken dogs. No midnight toast, no photographers, and no tramps 'hosting'. Just us and masses of booze..

Is this it? Not really a round up per se. More like a blurb.

The Muslims Change Their Name

The Muslims from SD/LA are now called The Soft Pack. Get with it.

One Last Wish / Faith/Void Split Reissues

Soooooooooooo, next week Dischord Records is going to reissue two of the best recordings they ever released. 1986's One Last Wish record and the long out of print Faith/Void split (1982). These have been on cd for a long time bit the vinyl has never exsisted for OLW and F/V went out of print god knows when. Needless to say, I'm ecstatic. In celebratory fashion I'm posting my favorite song by OLW, filmed at one of their 6 shows AND Void's Who Are You. Enjoy.

And in parting, there was this girl back in the day here in lovely San Diego that everybody wanted to marry. Not just hook up with, but MARRY. She had a VOID tattoo in her bottom lip.


One Last Wish "My Better Half"







Void "Who Are You"

Jilted John

You want to be made happy? Or maybe just develop a snicker? Well then just watch this little gem. Dumped? Write a song! GORDON IS A MORON! (And she's a bitch, mind you...and it's not fair.)





How funny. This was produced by Martin Hannett!! So great...

Big Shows By The Bay / New Music Alert : Dum Dum Girls

I'm super excited about the string of shows this weekend in the bay area. Not just because Crocodiles and I tend to get blackout drunk on these trips, or that we'll make another visit to Rooky Ricardo's in Lower Haight. Not even because it's the birthplace of the 60s (inside joke). The reason I'm super excited is because I was able to coax the reclusive Dum Dum Girls to play these shows. Dum Dum Girls have been pulsing sweet addictive nuggets from my stereo for the weeks since I got this disc in the mail. It doesn't look to be ending anytime soon either. DDG is really just a gal from Los Angeles named Dee Dee. Don't know much about her except she's really polite, painfully shy, makes super good shoe gaze bomb cuts in her room and lives in the city of angels. As polite as she is, don't count on her answering any questions, she won't give up the 411. But, hey, if you're in the bay area this weekend, you can see her in person and share the magic. Listen to this song below and get all into it. There'll be a release soon so look out for it!! In uniform with her steez, there's not any info available on the release except that it's a cd. 7" Singles on Art Fag and HoZac in the coming year too. See ya in the bay Thursday and Friday.



Dum Dum Girls Myspace








San Francisco





Oakland

Negative Creep

Fuck this is so good. Boredom brought me here and I'm very thankful. I'd never seen this footage, and I think it has to be the best I've seen of this song. Negative Creep was the first Nirvana song I ever heard and it ranks in my top 10 maybe 5.

I was at a Nirvana in-store much like this one and it was amazing. I got a Smells Like Teen Spirit 12" signed by the band and 10 years later sold it for a thousand dollars. It still kinda makes me sad.

Crass' Walls From 'Stations Of The Crass' 1979

This is one of my favorite Crass songs. A lot of people don't even realize Crass made a song like this. Walls (Fun In The Oven). It's from Stations Of The Crass (1979) and if you don't have it you should get with the program. The video below is fan made, sure but it is done kinda well and fits with the lyrics, you know what I mean? I'm just tying to give something to enjoy is all. Some visuals or something. But I think I can promise video or no video you will love this song. Joy De Vivre's vocals are perfect. I used to sing along like "toodah toodah toodah toodah toodah toodah toodah toodah", but so that you won't go through the same shame, I put the lyrics down below. C-Ya.






...desire, desire, desire, desire,
Desire, desire, desire, desire,
Desire, desire, desire, desire,
Describe, desire, defile, deny.
Defile, desire, deny, desire.
Describe, describe, describe, describe.
No air to breath inside your walls,
Left to dream inside your walls.
Left us in a wilderness,
Well I can make my paradise.
Without your walls I am alive,
No body I, in rank and file.
Girl and boy and man and wife,
Flesh your measure with a smile.
Have and hold and hold and have,
Have and hold and hold and have.
Desire, deny, deny, desire,
Have a child to justify.
Images that you apply,
I won't bow my head in shame.
I won't play the game the same,
Without your walls I am alive.
Without your walls we all survive,
Without your walls no guilt to bear.
Without your love, our love to share,
Without your walls I am alive.
Without your walls I am alive.
Without your walls I am alive.
WITHOUT YOUR WALLS I AM ALIVE...

Mobile Again

Jesus Christmas, after EXACTLY 1 1/2 years without a vehicle (R.I.P. '87 Cadillac w/ perfect leather interior), I now have one of these god damned things. The Vespa LXV 150 in sienna. I call it cream, beige or tan, but they call it sienna because evidently it's fancier. Fuck, this is going to be fun.

Check out these cool commercials.







Vespa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!

Mister Lonely Screening This Sunday @ Too Many Creeps / San Diego

This message is a San Diego message. So just scroll down readers in Seattle, Osaka, and the Heavily Fortified Green Zone, Iraq.

This Sunday Too Many Creeps presents a screening of Mister Lonely by Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo). We're really excited and have been waiting FOREVER for this. remember how long I wrote about this movie? Jesus, like April or some shit. And then it never even opened in my beloved city. But never fear sunny San Diegans, we got it for you TWO days before you can rent it. Screening begins at 8:30pm SHARP!! This is FREE!!








Immediately after the movie we're going back to the same weirdo music and cold suds you've grown to love at Too Many Creeps. MAXIMUM JOY ON SUNDAY NIGHTS.






So, as you should know, Too Many Creeps takes place EVERY Sunday at The Whistle Stop. C-YA there San Diego, California!!

Jess Holzworth / Awesome Art / New Beck Video

Some years ago I had a night thing here in in San Diego called Contort. We played all kinds of loud, noisy, crazy crap and it was a lotta fun. When I needed a flier my friend Jess, who was an already accomplished artist but kept it on the down low, volunteered to make it for me. What came of it was an offensive, beautiful masterpiece. A collage of porn, wild animals, duct tape and glitter. If my scanner wasn't on the fritz, I would scan it in below. Maybe in the near future I'll take it over to FedexOffice/Kinko's/Kinko's Office Depot. In the meantime, check these similar "pieces" she's created not too long ago.










So, the reason I'm bringing this up, is because Jess has recently directed her first video for Beck, and it's seriously that flier, or the rest of her art come too life. Substitute the porno star with Jess' pal Chloe Sevigny. The song's kind of, "eh", but the video is TOP NOTCH. Alright Jess!!



"Gamma Ray" Directed by Jess Holzworth


Beck - Gamma Ray




The only way to see it hi quality is thru Myspace for some reason. Must be some exclusive shit. And like I said, I'll post her old fliers she made for me soon!!