shawn avery

THE CLEVER GREETING! this is my favorite day of the year because it is probably the only one we have left with which we can express ourselves properly and project the insane culture we've managed to conjure up in this country since WWII. i figured i'd share some weirdness... it is long, so if you aren't able or willing to read it... then watch the youtube clip. if you wanna read further, you'll surely get something from it. DR. PAUL BEARER! this post is about dr. paul bearer. for a few decades he hosted the " creature feature " on channel 44 which broadcast primarily in central florida. i met him at a halloween event at the winter haven mall 23 years ago today. he died at some point in the mid 90's and i really hope they buried him with his make-up. he has a special place in my hall of heroes. here's the wiki link . and here is a memoir written by a fan of the doctor. THE YOUTUBE CLIP! here's the guy in action - SOMEONE FINALLY POSTED A CLIP ...

here's 19 for 29. all pertinent specifically to this very afternoon. 1. today is ten29. for people know me well, that's some heavy shit. but it doesn't mean anything, so it can never be "profound" shit. just heavy shit. like black hash. 2. jody nelson shaved his beard, and he dressed up as the RKO dog on saturday. he is my fucking hero. the nelson-slamen-halloween conglomerate was in full effect. halloween village? are you kidding me? brilliant. they went so far as to replace their exterior flood lights with black flood lights. 3. [scene missing] 4. the spots played 2 shows on friday. almost 3 hours at the museum and almost 2 hours at speakeasy. that means we invented, (not counting the stuff we usually play) at least 3 1/2 hours of new stuff. try it sometime. 5. my magazine should be here today. 6. the synth bassline in the song " everything she want s" by wham... when combined with george michael's "ah huh uh do do do ba da da da da......

some of it could be speculation, but i know enough about key industrial age figures to know that the pieces of the puzzle all make sense.

NIN. i wish a lot of other top selling veteran artists would be this forthcoming and direct. and i mean DIRECT . in this post, trent releases details about his new remix album - he basically gives you the options at hand, one of which is the entire record in multi-track format, allowing anyone on earth who is able - to remix the whole damn thing. instead of whining about mp3 file sharing, he is actually trying to progress the form. and radiohead thought they were clever. even if you loathe nin , read this... it is another example of how artists are responding to the ever dematerializing state of the record industry, - not to be confused with the music business. this album is a collection of remixes of year zero , the convoluted concept record-alternate reality game-viral marketing breakthrough - which came out in april. trent is going so far as to include a fan remix as one of the tracks. not only is there an innovative dvd-rom release, the vinyl collection of 3 discs only has 5 side...

the sucking sound should start at any moment. the baby boomers are starting to retire . it starts officially today. the boom generation spans from 1946 to 1964. a rather protracted length of time if you ask me. someone who was 5 years old during woodstock seems more generation X, of which i am a member. i prefer the term "thirteener." here's how my generation is defined, in contrast to the boomers, apparently we jumped the shark after grunge peaked: In the book Generations , William Strauss and Neil Howe called this generation the "13th Generation" because it's the 13th to know the flag of the United States (counting back to the peers of Benjamin Franklin ). Strauss and Howe defined the birth years of the 13th Generation as 1961 to 1981 based on examining peaks and troughs in cultural trends rather than simply looking at birth rates. [5] Howe and Strauss speak of six influences that they believe have shaped Generation 13. Generation X is generally marke...

basquiat, '81.

here's a link to fox6 . the spots were the musical guests this morning. once again, they were super nice, very pleasant and the mix was crap . we did get a 2 camera thing going on though. looked nice. i look super geeky. we are playing tonight at mcwane center. also, and this is funny - the monsters of rock tour. this was my first big rock concert experience. 06.05.88. tampa stadium. very hot. something like 55,000 people there. massive. here's the promo video for the tour via an mtv contest... nice.

October 8th, 2007 / From: http://www.thestar.com/ Ben Rayner - Pop Music Critic Skip the turkey, get a little ham -- it all evens out . Actually, make that a lot of ham: Any of the 20,000 or so concertgoers who might have skipped Thanksgiving dinner to catch David Lee Roth's reunion with long-estranged bandmates Eddie and Alex Van Halen at the Air Canada Centre last night were instead fed incontrovertible truth: that the one place the unrepentantly showboating Roth truly belongs is onstage with Van Halen. Not on the radio, not circling the casino circuit on his iffy solo catalogue, not tending to sucking chest wounds as a paramedic, but onstage fronting the band whose status as one of American hard rock's defining standard bearers has noticeably dwindled in the 22 years since his departure. This appears obvious to all involved in the reunion endeavour, since there was no evidence of the legendary bad blood between Eddie and Roth displayed in the wide grins an...

one of my closest friends from my days in the netherworld that is phoenix, az. has recently fathered his first child. audrey jace fischer . matt and his lady kimberly have done an excellent job with their first attempt at human manufacturing... there's nothing synthetic about it. so cute. BIG PROPS.

sorry jesus. its too late. there's nothing you can do to save me now.

a friend of mine... er... a younger friend of mine said they had heard the song dance the night away , but didn't know it was van halen. this has probably happened before. people born too late. also, dance the night away has a soaring 70's chorus and no guitar solo. its enough to throw anyone off. so anyway... here's this first clip of van halen, live in fresno, 1979. some hardcore believers have expressed that fresno... (a large california suburb, where van halen first took root beyond pasadena/anahiem and LA) ... was one of the best places to see them play... and in 1979 , on the cusp of greatness, but still hungry for silly pop stardom... heck this may have been one of their high points. and the second clip is from the opening night of the current reunion tour with david lee roth. when the eagles reunited, they said " hell freezes over ." well, david lee roth is touring with van halen, and eddie's 16 year old son is playing bass as good as michael antho...

the original van halen , sans michael anthony , but adding ANOTHER van halen , has started their reunion tour, 23 years in the waiting... i'm posting a review , videos and photos. the photos are from the first official night of the tour in charlotte (and a few from the early days). for the first link, here's some background on what led up to the tour so far this year. here's about half of the concert from opening night. they had played the forum prep show earlier in the week... but this was the real debut . there's almost 15 full songs of clips on that link. youtube is better than sliced bread. i could actually live happily without sliced bread. here are several video slips from their 3rd show , in philly . the audio is decent and the video is great. everyone is playing well, but i can't help but feel the collective weirdness of a) eddie looking and playing great, but dressing like a retarded redneck, b) dave's normal hair and stiff / proper posture, an...