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Rocky Horror: Lotta Virgins last night…

Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Rocky Horror Virgins -- the biggest group Ive ever seen

Rocky Horror Virgins -- the biggest group I've ever seen

Last night the lovely, brilliant, and all-around awesome FaerieJ treated me to my first Rocky Horror Picture Show since 1988.  It was the first time I’ve seen it performed with a full cast and it was a grand experience.  The cast was fun and the crowd was a howl.  It was also my first time at the Crossroads Screenland Theater in Kansas City, which is a great venue.  Every theater should have a bar in the lobby.

There were a surprising number of Virgins last night — almost half the audience.  I narrowly avoided The Mark.  Before the show the castmember playing Riff Raff was distributing complimentary candy and condoms on a silver salver, a tube of red lipstick semi-concealed in his other hand.  His timing was a little suspicious, since Faerie’s group was debating whether two decades without seeing the film qualified one as a born-again Virgin, and I had had the longest hiatus of anyone present at twenty-two years.  If she hadn’t leaped to my defense I would have had a big, red lipsticked “V” on my forehead.

The Virgins were called to the stage just before the movie started.  The under-18’s were dismissed, while the rest were forced to feign orgasms.  The castmembers selected their favorite eight, which then competed by fellating suckers.  Four finalists were selected by the audience to compete in the final event, simulating their favorite sexual position.  The winners, “Sloppy-Cock” and “Double-Fist” (nicknamed by the MC and castemember playing Brad, the latter for simultaneously deepthroating the sucker and a beer bottle) won the opportunity to play the newly-married couple after “Double-Fist” (female) pseudo-pegged “Sloppy-Cock” (male) over a conference table.

Had FaerieJ not rescued me earlier, I could easily have been on the receiving end of Double-Fist’s enthusiastic faux-assault.  Like I said, Faerie’s awesome.

The only hinky part of the evening was Duster-Boy, some frat-rat cosplay maybe-rapist in a black duster with white contact lenses.  He methodically stalked every female present, Faerie included, with comments like “You’re spunky.  I’d like to throw you in my trunk and take you home.”  Little did he know Faerie’d snap his spine like a highway flare, toss him over her shoulder, then walk away whistling.

Geel luv. Dont hate.

Geek luv. Don't hate.

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Coined a term: Thread + meme = “Threme”

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

All hail me, unless someone beat me to it — which is a long way of saying “First!”

Special credit goes to Cory (KSJW) for his prodigious Twitter output and relative lack of filters.

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Analog pitch correction via the Crumpter…

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Wow, I really want one of these. This is the Crumpter, a physical predecessor of Auto-Tune.  It’s a handmade matrix of metal mesh and tuning rods.  When placed over a microphone, it corrects pitch and creates a chorus effect.  I wonder how it would sound with cigar box instruments?  I hope someone publishes the specs so I can make my own.

And just look at it.  It’s a genuine objet d’art.  Yet another find from Core 77.

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Awesome, mind-blowingly uberawesome holographic performance

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

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Weird Al’s grammar lesson

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Via the Consumerist:

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New Mike Anderson project about to launch

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Auteur, radio personality, accordionist, and friend of ERIWA Mike Anderson just sent me a link to the trailer for a documentary he’s co-produced. It’s a documentary about the band Vulgar Boatmen, scheduled for release this spring. He’s also working on another top-secret project for a Big Name Production Company whose identity I cannot divulge, but it’s exciting.

Here’s the trailer for Drive: The Story of the Vulgar Boatmen.

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Black Moth Super Rainbow

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Here’s another post about new music that doesn’t suck.  I’m ashamed to admit it, but I like Black Moth Super Rainbow.  See my previous post on The xx for why I’ve been staying away from new music for a big chunk of my adult life and why I’m surprised to find myself genuinely liking some of the new stuff now.  Again, the key appeal is originality.  In the case of BMSR, though, I suspect the vocoder would eventually become pretty tedious and gimmicky.  And don’t forget, this could be considered hipster music (shudder).

“Tooth Decay”

“Sun Lips”

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The xx

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Here’s some new music I quite like, which is more than a little surprising.  I’ve become extremely cynical about music over the past 1.5 decades or so, but it seems as though there may (at last) be some new stuff worth listening to.  My biggest complaint about most recent music is that it’s so completely derivative of previous bands’ work that it’s really just a poor reproduction.  Right now the trend is towards mining the bands of my adolescence and teen years, which I find particularly galling.

The xx deserve credit for creating a sound which seems genuinely inspired by their predecessors, rather than being just a simplistic rip-off.  The following two songs show strong New Order/Joy Division and Jesus and Mary Chain influences, but don’t feel like talentless, hack-job reproductions.  Very much the opposite.

“Islands” (studio version)

“VCR”

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Update: Turkey City Lexicon Concept Album — Simon’s in!

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I’m happy to announce that Simon of Still Lost Bird Music will be contributing to the TCLCA!  Simon has elected to create songs for “Squid on the Mantlepiece” and “Space Western”.  More info on the project is available at the following links:

I hadn’t really considered it before, but I’m happy I didn’t try to take on “Space Western”.  When I think about it all I can hear is a mashup of Primus’ “Space Farm” and “Spaghetti Western”.  I know I’d feel compelled to create some sort of Claypool-esque bass line as an homage, which would almost certainly end in tears.

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Love will tear us apart, again

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

This is hardly the last time this song will appear on the blog:  Joy Division and the Swans.

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