oh man! if anyone out there is looking for a really strange kinda jangly garage rock record... check out THE BACH'S - OUT OF THE BACHS. It came to me randomly, this really bad record cover caught my eye... and it has kind of a classic record feel to it. The recording quality is pretty bad due to a recording company that hadn't ever recorded a rock n' roll band... so there is all this strange echoey voice stuff that just really sounds great.

ALSO!!! Benny told me that Vol. 2 of the GUITARS FROM AGADEZ LP series has been released! GROUP BOMBINO! I ordered it today cause I couldn't find at the record stores and there are only 1,500 copies 4 ever. I remember seeing a clip of these dudes on that DVD released last year... and it was amazing. Thanks BEN!

DIRTY DANCING won the Best Dance Movie poll! Not really any surprise here... but I think it is a good reason to watch it again!

A NEW KIND OF PRESIDENT

Ness & I visited the Grass Lake Refuge again last Saturday and ended up going to FUN JUNK as well! Here Ness swings her magic wand:

OWL DUDE... found him at Goodwill for 99 cents... and the elephant was a gift for Ness that Mykey got for her in Kenya.

Ness' small scale design for her ((((vibe)))) dome that she will later build at a life size scale for... good vibrations.

Mykey got me this thumb piano in Kenya!
Notice the pieces of aluminum wrapped around the keys above the first line....they make a super rattling sound that I have never heard on other likembe's.

WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY!
He will do serious damage to your bank account w/ his sweet record ordering skills!

WALTER & MELBA JEAN FIGURINES!!! THANKS BENNY P.!

MYKEY CAME BACK FROM UGANDA AND WE PLAYED MEXICAN TRAIN!

AT THE COOP BUYING PAGE TANGERINES!

FIRST PIZZA CLUB SLICE OF 2009!!!

FORMO TACKLES THAT CHEESEBURGER!

FORMO & TODD SENDING OUT THOSE JEREMY JAY PROMOS!

"FLUFFIEST CAT OF ALL TIME"

Ness & I have been sick for days now... ugh, this has got to stop. I pretty much had the same thing on XMAS when I was in South Deerfield, MA. I have woken up 4 times now in a cold sweat and my dreams have been somewhat psychedelic due to the temperature of my brain. Anyways, Ness and I went to Target yesterday so she could get a dress before it was too late and they were all sold out. Luckily, they were not sold out, and they also had a DVD for sale that was a 2 for 1! FOOTLOOSE & FLASHDANCE! for $7! At any rate, we watched FOOTLOOSE last night and I hadn't seen it since I was probably 7 or 8...and it's a pretty great movie! John Lithgow plays a conservative preacher that initiates ridiculous laws in their small community like NO DANCING! oh shitt!!! Bacon brings it. I also heard from Mykey today that Kevin Bacon's son works at that restaurant on Red Square called the Flaming Eggplant. He must of served me those fritter fratters at some point!



we haven't watched FLASHDANCE yet, but while we (Ness & I) were in Massachusetts, Emma showed us this really bad Jennifer Lopez music video that basically rips off this FLASHDANCE movie scene for scene and then J-LO denied ever seeing the movie at all.

so I got into this French & Japanese Media Studies class and the first movie we're watching is SPIRITED AWAY. I am not pleased. I am especially not pleased to read a 20 page essay on the most successful Japanese box office hit either. I have tried watching it a few times, and I have never finished it... and that's weird cause I have finished a lot of bad movies. Not that this movie is bad, it's just not my thing. In fact I am pretty sure most people disagree with me and think this movie is a masterpiece or something. Anyways, I am really stoked to watch DOUBLE SUICIDE with my class. I love this movie and I am really interested in hearing what Tomoko Ulmer has to say!
DOUBLE SUICIDE


oh yea, has anyone reading this ever seen CRAZED FRUIT? I love this movie and I wish my class was going to watch this. Ness is actually the only other person I know who likes it... but maybe you will too?


oh man, today at the Westside Coop... there was a new cashier who looked like a good old boy football player maybe around age 19... and he was so polite and actually rung up the entire list of items I was buying without making a mistake! WOW! and then this other Coop dude brought him a "Guava Goddess" flavored Kombucha (you know, the pink one) and I was all "Hey man, what do those taste like?" and he say "gooooood" and I was all "but what does it taste like?" and he say "here try it!" and I say "no thanks I sick" and he looks at me for a moment and he say "I DON'T GET SICK" and opens the bottle and hands it to me! this lady in line behind me was shocked and made some remark about bringing him home?? long story short, the pink Kombucha is goooooood.

I am really excited about this artist ROBIN RHODE. Born in South Africa in 1976, is now based out of Berlin. I really hope one of his shows comes to the North West.

(MAKE SURE TO CLICK ON THE IMAGES, SOME OF THEM ARE GETTING CUT OFF HERE)




In other news, James Brown won the "best dancer" poll by 62%! look at him go!



this is just a ridiculous interview I found of James Brown after he was arrested for abusing his wife, and this is what he has to say:

The Clean - Beatnik


The Clean - Anything Could Happen

2 of the best posts of 2008!

Rachael introduced me to a really great video by a Danish artist named Jesper Just. The embedding was disabled, so go here to see NO MAN IS AN ISLAND II

we went sledding today! very nice activity for the first day of 2009. last night, we danced at Clara's house and slowly but surely I was able to get the kitty Caspian to warm up to me...very skiddish felion.

this is what I miss the most about Washington:

Brittany M. took these pics on XMAS day

and this one I just found on Ness' camera:

Ness recorded this man playing the violin accompanied by his musical box:

this is a sweet video of Anita Bryant getting a pie in the face! Oh man, after seeing MILK, it gives me great satisfaction to see this lady get a pie in the face.

We're going to MASS MOCA today in North Adams, Massachusetts to see some of the arts. I am finally starting to feel better. I hope it lasts.

I found this R. Stevie Moore 2 x LP at Sound Fix in Williamsburg!

I wish I could scan in the beautiful fabric that we found at the magical fabric store in Brooklyn that Kendra took us to!

I can't get enough of this scene:

I also really want to see GLEAMING THE CUBE with Christian Slater! There are so many great clips:

OH SHIT! Thanksgiving is tomorrow! it's gonna be at Josh & Taylor's house this year, and it's gonna be delicious. Here is a lovely picture of our hosts:

I wonder what Mykey's Thanksgiving day will be like in Uganda. I hope he doesn't have Malaria after all.

I want this houseboat:

Life preservers for the Polar Bears!

L.E.D. Wallpaper!:

My dream tent:

My dream restaurant!!!:

I got these sneakers in the mail today...so comfortable!

Brian put this song on a tape for me... and it's sooooo good! Roger & The Gypsies "Pass the Hatchet":

I also got this 6 song 12" e.p. that Woodsist put out:

I have been enjoying it.


& here Batman gets slipped some drugs and starts dancing!:

also, Thanksgiving break feels real nice. I am not sure If I will be continuing my program...but I am not sure what else there is to take. ah well.