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Today, we’re dropping a new feature. Well, at least I am because I’ve been dubbed a “hater” here at the office. I tend to not really like a lot of stuff. Most stuff. Very few things hear the words “I like” coming out of my mouth. So, to let my hate out, I’m creating a new feature called “Beef with…” where I will detail a person, thing, place, etc. that I don’t like for some odd reason that only my weirdo self could stew up in the cauldron of my tiny head.
So, without further ado, I got Beef With…
YouTube.
Yes, the popular internet video site. What I hate about this site lies in the fact that some of the videos I posted on this blog have ended up with a “Video no longer available” sign over top of them because of copyright issues. What the fuck? Why would someone have a copyright issue with segments (SEGMENTS, not even full length stuff, I have yet to find a YouTube clip that’s over ten minutes)? Look, YouTube is basically a free advertising site. Shit on there is instant, quick advertising that can get you 3 million hits in a week, wayyy more than a print ad. Look no further than the success of the SNL digital short “Chronicles of Narnia.” It founds it way onto YouTube, got a ton of views, NBC got pissed for some reason, and it was curbed shortly after. Then, NBC pulled their head out of their ass and realized that YouTube is a viable option for getting people to think that SNL is funny again (it’s not, the digital shorts/Andy Samberg stuff is), so they started their own YouTube profile and uploaded a ton of videos. Same goes for music videos that are taken down for copyright issues/they don’t honor the contract your label has with MTV. The record industry sucks right now, and taking down music videos on YouTube is probably the worst thing you can do since it’s allowing people who stopped watching MTV to see a new video from a potential new favorite artist. YouTube is a place of discovery and you’re fucking it up copyright-worriers. So, perhaps my beef isn’t with YouTube, but with people with sticks up their asses.
-dan
Watch out Guitar Hero, the next wave of virtual rocking out has just been released in Australia: the wearable instrument shirt.
“Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Geelong have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer, which interprets them and turns them into musical notes The wearer only has to act out playing the instrument to make sounds. ‘The left arm chooses a note and the right arm plays it,’ said Richard Helmer, a CSIRO chemical engineer who led the project. The arrangement can be reversed for left-handed musicians.”
“You can play with yours hands above your head,” said Dr Helmer. “You can turn around and jump. Whatever you like.”
Now all your air band practices finally have a purpose
Courtesy of t-shirt alert
Check out this dope new viral video from Quicksilver. I think it perfectly executes the surfers desire to do whatever it takes to catch a wave. Peep it here
-slk
Hell’s Yeah Tighten UP, them BASS is banging!
Caught Today 05.25.07
photos by jeff roddy & jay hall,
Another YouTube fight for you-this time with punching!!! Watch Larry Bird and Bill Laimbeer go at it like a couple of awkward tall people. Forget Bird and Johnson, this was a true match-up. I love when Larry Bird throws the ball back at Laimbeer.
This video is hilarious on so many levels. What the fuck is up with Beans? How many times does he say cool? This is too good. Listen to him take a few shots at Kanye and Pharrell. The last ten seconds are priceless. Beans is, and always will be, one of my heroes. (Sidenote: And I don’t mean to brag or nothing, but this dude I know used to have the same P.O. as Beanie)
-mr skinny jeanz
The Hundreds released a lookbook for their Summer 07 collection. I like a lot of the graphics they use and they use and it’s kept pretty simple. But, the one shirt that sticks out to me sits on the far left: the backwards gun shirt. Now when I first saw it, I knew it look familiar. LA record label/former hipster gods Buddyhead released a very similar shirt years ago. Now, that’s not a knock to the Hundreds because their shit’s pretty dope. It could just be a coincidence. After all there’s no such thing as an original idea.
Hells Yeah! Thats what i said when i walking through the streets of NYC this week for NB meeting, and stumbled upon this little piece of love from the OBEY crew. Yup Shep truly is the bank nowadays. Shit not only the bank but also the mint. Dude is straight up bringing the heat with his new promo tactic of leaving money on the streets to further push his OBEY movement. BIg UP’s to swindle mag, shep and my homie zach a lack over there on wilshire . Be sure to check out sheps new show coming to the nyc :
Jonathan LeVine Presents:
Shepard Fairey
Gallery I
Solo Exhibit
Opening Reception – Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 7pm-9pm
Show runs through July 21, 2007
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street
9E New York, NY
10011
212-243-3822
www.jonathanlevinegallery.com
Last night, I caught a little documentary on the history channel that dealt with hippies. Don’t get me wrong, I hate hippies, but I was attracted to this documentary not because of it’s Grateful Dead (or just “the Dead” if you’re so inclined) footage, but because the whole surrounding aura of the LSD movement was wayyy weirder than the people who took the drugs. The government tested it on military personnel and just regular humans, and it was pretty legal for a while, so all the LSD experimentation went down without a hitch. That is until the idea of a “counter-culture” started taking shape beyond just a bunch of dirty teenagers with long hair. Anyway, I started flipping around the channels when they stopped talking about Ken Kesey (tidbit, he took a job as a security officer at a mental institution to have access to LSD. This later turned into the basis for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), but came back every now and again. The most interesting point they made happened in the last five minutes and involved the hippies influence on technology. Yes, technology. It kind of puts away all the bullshit of Mother Earth and other hippie ideals. They just had such a new and different way of seeing things that once their “bad trips” ended and they kind of grew up, they created some of the most technologically advanced products of our time. Case in point: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. You might know them better as the brains behind Apple Computers. These two probably took a ton of LSD, touched a bunch of wires together, and had their minds blown when they “saw electricity” on a screen. Then they probably danced in front of a strobe light and hung-out with the Hells Angels. And you thought all computer people were dorks.
Jobs and Woz being totally tripped out.
Philly’s Ubiq just reopened their Walnut St. location over the weekend. They apparently re-merchandised and added a Vans Concept Shop and Gallery on the second floor. I haven’t been yet, but it’s supposedly pretty killer. They’ve got some new clothing in as well including Stussy stuff. I guess the original experiment of going more women’s failed a tad. They’ve always had a decent sneaker selection and I’m excited that they have more Vans because, recently, I think Vans has been slaying the sneaker game. They’ve been keeping it pretty simple with nothing too outlandish. Frankly, I’m tired of a million materials, a million colors, and some whack ass print on my sneakers. I guess I’m started to like things simple again.
Here’s a couple of book recommendations for you. Each are awesome in their own respect and help to document the rise of indie music over the last thirty years
1.) Rough Trade: Label Unlimited – The record label responsible for thousands of teenage introverts thanks to bands like the Smiths.
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2.) Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album – The record label responsible for thousands of teenage introverts thanks to bands like Joy Division.
I’ve been listening to a lot of solo females or bands with female singers all day. Then I got a free Bjork poster while at lunch. Now, I’m compiling a short list of my favorite female vocalists for all of you. In no particular order.
1.) Rachel Goswell (Slowdive/Mojave 3) – Dreamy, light, and powerful, Rachel’s the reason I really like Slowdive. She also has a strong presence on my 3 favorite Mojave 3 records. She hasn’t been able to tour with Mojave 3 recently because she has vertigo or something. Bummer.
2.) Nico – It’s pretty cool to have a weird, Nordic, sultry voice. It’s stupid to take heroin and get pregnant. But man, was Nico awesome.
3.) Bjork – The epitome of total awkward weirdness, there’s something so right about what Bjork does that it’s too good to hate on her paparazzi attacks or freakish outfits.
4.) P.J. Harvey – It was kind of weird for me to be into Polly Jean at the age of fourteen, you know, being a dude and all, but she can write a song and she can sing her ass off. This is an unpopular opinion, but she got better as she got older.
5.) Hope Sandoval (Opal/Mazzy Star) – It’s nearly impossible not to get a crush on Hope just by listening to her voice. It comes out like honey.
6.) Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) – I can’t understand half the words she says, but she’s got the perfect moody, emotion driven voice.
-Mr. Skinny Jeans
The klip//collective took a giant projector, a cube truck, a 5500W generator, and a laptop around the great city of Philadelphia and did this. What have you been up to recently? That’s right. Nothing this fun/cool.
More Photos Here.
It’s been beautiful here in the Illadelph the last couple of days, so we decided to take the Lomo Colorsplash out during a lunch break. Then we thought, how can we kind of put a damper on the beautiful day, and we shot everyone in yellow, the color of pee. Enjoy!
Strictly Fitteds recently posted up this little nugget. There’s no word yet on a release, but the caps will come in both green and Black and white, and apparently a rainbow one, but there’s picture yet of that. See and read more here.
In their wrap-up of Coachella, Pitchfork does a little rundown of CSS’s set which included their cover of L7’s “Pretend We’re Dead.” Now, that’s all fine and dandy, but they also report that Paris Hilton was there dancing next to the stage. Yes, Paris Hilton danced to an L7 song. How’s that for mindblowing. Granted CSS has a song called “Meeting Paris Hilton,” but I sincerely doubt Paris knows who L7 is or what they stood for. She’d probably think it was “totally gross.” Perhaps she’ll learn a little more when SHE GOES TO JAIL. Also, yes, you can see up Paris’s skirt in this picture. Check out high-res shots here.
Sincerely,
Mr. Skinny Jeans
It’s Dan again. This time I’m writing a musical recommendation that doesn’t have to do with the Jesus and Mary Chain. So, hold back your mouth covers, gasps, spit takes, and various other human actions that show “surprise.”
A while ago, Jarvis Cocker, former frontman of legendary Brit-poppers Pulp, released a single entitled “Still Running the World” in which the chorus repeats the phrase “Cunts are still running the world.” Yeah. If you’ve been a fan of Jarvis for a while, this is kind of expected, but to bestow that title to the lead-off single of your solo career makes a pretty bold statement. But that’s the Jarv attitude (or Jarvitude if you will). Cocky. Cheeky. Condescending. Crude. Rude. etc. And, as expected, it shows on this album. And, it comes off so well that you don’t make a second note of it. It’s actually kind of charming and honest which is rare in music today. So, go buy the album.
Two more Jarvis notes:
1.) He’s curating this year’s Meltdown Festival. Look at the line-up here. Motorhead? Seriously? (and yes, the Jesus and Mary Chain are also a part of it. I guess I couldn’t resist.
2.) The video for Cunts are Still Running the World is equally as great as the song. And while you’re YouTubing it, watch the video for his latest single and peep Jarvis and Ali G doing Help the Aged. Also, watch his live performance of one of my favorite Lou Reed songs, Satellite of Love.
Hi, my name is Dan, and I write about the Jesus and Mary Chain a lot. You might call it an infatuation, you might call me fanatical, but don’t call me at Coachella because I’m wasn’t there. Nor will I ever go to Coachella because I don’t want to spend a few days in the desert with temperatures above 100 to sit through a bunch of pretty crappy bands to see about 5 that I like. Anyway, I kind of take it back because I wanted to go this year. And yes, it’s because of the Jesus and Mary Chain. Not only them, but the fact that Scarlett Johansson was there on stage with them. Now, why she was chosen to sing back up for one song, I can offer a guess, but it’s kind of a stupid reason to have a girl sing back up for a song that was played in a movie she was in. Basically, she has to sing one word (“honey”) and it doesn’t really sound like she can, but who knows’ it’s a YouTube video. Watch it here.
