In The Garage: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

when i say whole wheat y'all say bread

5 reasons to try whole wheat bread:
1. healthier
2. dirty south punk rock!
3. flogging molly meets mxpx.
4. they do a practically flawless "bulls on parade" cover
5. they don't give a fuck

so i've seen them a total of 3 times, each time with a different bassist. the original, nick largen; currently in jail. the temp; he was awesome. permanent replacement: will frazier; he's goood.

Nov 18 2008 @ Karma-Victorville, California
Nov 19 2008 @ Cane’s-San Diego, California
Nov 20 2008 @ El Rey-Theatre Los Angeles, California

the new cd "hearts and hoodlums" was set to come out on october 7th and i have no idea what happened, but add them on myspace, maybe they'll tell you...or you could try calling them.

support your local skate shop!

a new pharmacy board shop has opened in palmdale, ca this month.
we get half of all the pharmacys in the whole world.
by "we" i mean the antelope valley.
we get baker & emerica demos all the time.
it's one of the few things to be proud of (shout out to marquis preston, am i right?! palmdale local to emerica team)
s.y.l.s.s.
support your local skate shop

everybody hates michael cera

cera fans 4 life!
to quote mikey himself, he is in fact,

"2cool4schoolor4you"

from arrested development
to superbad
to clark & michael
to juno
to nick & norah's infinite playlist
and all the random stuff in between.

i thought since n&n was about well...a playlist, that it would have an awesome soundtrack and while it does (devendra banhart, vampire weekend, band of horses...) it will never beat out the juno soundtrack. superbad comes in 3rd, soundtrack-wise. but n&n gets extra points for actually having devendra IN the movie.

over a year later and confirmation from clarkbar himself, i will accept the fact that there won't be a 2nd season of clark & michael.

sellout, with me aw yeah

i've been keeping track of all of my favorite bands that i have randomly heard on tv, usually in commercials. i'm sure there's way, way more that i've never noticed, not to mention all of the bands that have become big from apple commercials.

"space oddity" d. bowie by cat power - car or cell phone or neither, i don't remember
"summer day" coconut records - dentyne gum
"burnt jamb" weezer - mervyns commercial
"you're a wolf" sea wolf - car commercial
"the yeah yeah yeah song" the flaming lips -salad dressing dammit
"i turn my camera on" spoon - the simpsons
"hardest button to button" the white stripes - the simpsons
"do what you want" okgo - target
"have love will travel" the black keys - car commercial
"go" the apples in stereo - target

also, in a spanish commercial for radio shack, there was a total "island in the sun" rip-off. when the commercial came on, i froze for a minute to listen and realized it wasn't the real song.

in utero

a few other people noticed the matches song "clouds crash" sounds very wizard of oz-ish. i also just noticed, "clouds crash on the hillsides..." sounds a little bit like, "chestnuts roasting on an open fire".

I have a page in one of my notebooks that's filled with connections i've made between the matches' sister albums.

i thought that was lame of me but i still do it anyway. until i was reading the last weezer article in spin mag. where it tells that rivers has a nirvana notebook where he has analyzed all of their songs.

"he's particularly proud of his Nirvana notebook, in which he dissects their songs into patterns and formulas"

on a side note, if i've never mentioned how annoying i think it is when all weezer articles turn into rivers articles (which is every weezer interview) then i have said it now, it's very annoying.

how many is TOO many?

just a few of the concerts i wanted to go to this last month or are yet to come in the next 2 months.

1. i am the avalanche
2. streetlight manifesto
3. suburban legends/mc lars
4. the matches
5. rise against/alkaline trio
6. chase long beach
7. steel train
8. of montreal
9. the briggs
10. tapes n tapes
11. flogging molly/anti-flag/the briggs
12. weezer
13. mickey avalon
14. against me!
15. tom gabel solo show
16. saves the day

17. punchline
18. weezer

19. foo fighters

20. no use for a name
21. the guilty parties
22. coke vs bills
23. love you moon
24. jacks mannequin
25. julieta venegas
26. whole wheat bread

27. technology

sometimes you just can't afford 25 or more concerts in 2 months.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

zine time!

little maggots, issue 1; out winter 2009

satanic panic in the attic

i'm sitting in class.

i could totally fall asleep RIGHT now.

awkward-est day.

bianca, congrats on the new blog.

marisa, you rule.

i fixed every last broken link in this whole blog, but now the pictures are huge and they are so huge that they are stretched and cut off. if you want to see the whole picture clearly, just click on it. meanwhile, i will try to fix them all.

i apologize for that boring personal info. above. i really try to keep it as pure as music, tv, movies, art, funny, music, food, awesome.

i try.

i also apologize for broken picture links.

potato judge

Sunday, October 12, 2008

support your local hardware store.

i'm going to build a screen press and document the process with photos.
sometimes my alignment is off with my prints and it's because i have nothing to hold my screen down with. my mom used to hold i

t down for me but i don't have her anymore.

i'm starting this project at the beginning of december.
and i will do so while listening to the decemberists and drinking coco and watching elf every single day until christmas.

battle of the farmer's markets

charlie brown farms vs casa de fruta...are these even comparable?
i believe they are...but which is better?
they each have their unique qualities, but i choose casa de fruta because i would rather be in northern california any day.
if you were to compare and contrast: casa de fruta has more...fruit...obviously. charlie browns leans on the pointless souvenirs side. they are similar because they are both popular tourist locations, characterized by the foods they sell. casa de fruta has tons of samples which is awesome. charlie browns has a restaurant, also awesome.
for the 3 other environmentalists in the antelope valley, charlie brown farms now has an "organic/vegan" section. the gardenburger in their restaurant is amazing and the garlic fries can be ordered vegan. in conclusion, support farmer's markets, think locally, blah blah blah, the end.

5, 6, 7, now.

guess who has been listening to too much mickey avalon?
gross.

i was expecting 2 bags of chips

karl koch re: weezer's current troublemaker tour
"The Troublemaker Train arrived in the land of Charles Schulz ready to lay down the kind of show ol' Charlie probably wouldnt have liked too much, i.e. loud, wild, sweaty... all the essential ingredients of rocking out the way the Twin Cities do. The Xcel Energy Center has surely hosted some Snoopy On Ice-capades in the past. Snoopy On Ice is possibly the total opposite of a weezer show, although both surely stoke their audiences. Well, Snoopy is awesome, but I'm pretty sure he never had the nonstop crowdsurfing going on that Weezer had tonight!

Hey by the way, I didnt mean to imply Chicago wasnt all that and a bag of chips, because it was. Somehow I guess I was expecting two bags of chips, like at Subway when you get the extra value meal and run out of chips before you've finished your sub. Well, it happens to me sometimes anyway. "

he's funny. weezer this tuesday @ the forum. now i know i'm expecting lots of crowdsurfing. well i couldve guessed that. oh well though.

unrelated: i found out my art teacher, was one of those old OLD skool skateboarders from the 60's in san diego. back during the times before the silicone wheel, you know: clay wheels and nasty wipeouts. secondly, my math teacher looks like old Rose from the movie Titanic and last week she informed us that if you mix tequila and wine, you apparently get margaritas.

the end.