zapping the southwest

I must drop my taser for a moment, as this guy has one pointed directly at my brain.

Brooklyn based artist, sound-maker Brad Kahlhamer has been/is be combining almost everything I ever hoped to see in the push and pull where Native American influence meets expressionistic impulse in action.

All of it, the drawings, paintings, and especially sculptural work, strum my strings.

No more words from me. There are plenty out there online already. However, I suggest just going direct to the source: http://www.bradkahlhamer.net/

...and that's how jazz works.

gonna start refreshing this...like more than once a year.
thought i'd light it up w/ this giga-heavy heave of taserness:
paul flaherty/chris corsano/john olson in an ann arbor basement in 2004.

heard many words about this one, happy to finally see it.

a show i def wanted to witness...if only via video, it kills.

?!this is like that TM thing right?!

.taser factory.

mailbag dayz...

yep, mail is extremely taser!
recent inbox finds at table-blue...

sources...
black cumin honey, cloth, gum, salt and peppa shakers (anne, doha), rough house melty men (goatmother, philly), fabio - the book (yeppi, bloomington).

pals populate my place with plenty of proper pleasantries... get postal with yr pals, mail ricochets!

Fabio - The Book

The phenomenon, the man, the message...
That's right, it's the fucking fabio-so Fabio book (first edition!).

Thanks again to the forever taser Leah Yeppi, and her un-fuck-with-able ability to search out such gems... and send them to me!

With this, the Iron Eagle Original Soundtrack Book, and all the stuff inbetween, she is helping to slowly turn my studio into a Little Brown Mushroom-type repository of crazy-ass printed rarities.

Fabio. I read it. He seems like a decent dude.
I try never to be a hater of wild bulky weirdos...especially after somebody told me Dolph Lundgren was a total sweetheart and all around cool guy. That benefit of the doubt thing, or whatev's.

blue cut dynamite - one in a hundred

oakland based artist j. shelley harrison is one in a million, and blue cut dynamite is but one in her efforts to create one hundred thematic tumblr blogs.

while her growing list consists largely of personal and inter-personal conversations built on title driven concepts that flow free from birth, blue cut dynamite stands apart as it documents a continuing collection of tasered-up tangible artwork.

way well noted as one of my favorite print-makers (and collaborators), this ongoing collage work totes kills. she puts the e's in eye, and the t's in talent for titling...titling, which is stated as her goal in this series of one hundred.

fullness here: blue cut dynamite

selfiecity - the science of selfies

my favorite type of research... over the top data collection, analysis, and theoretic perspectives on a subject that seemed so whatev's and trivial like a blink ago.

encompassing locale, age, gender, smiling, and even head tilting. this goes above and beyond. #taserfactory for f'ing sure.

check it in full: selfiecity.net

coast-to-coast(er)

A few nights ago, a friend and I did a test drink of these new printed coasters from the Goatmother himself --- Mr. Mark Rice.

They performed brilliantly, and include some of my all time favorite terms to shout out when things are taser! 
Translation available upon request.

iron eagle - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK sheet music guidebook!!!

Total taser classic! Louis Gossett Jr. at his finest (and Jason Gedrick too, probably, I don't know if was in other films.) If you haven't witnessed this shit, jam it immediately.
Thanks to the terrific digging talents of Ms. Leah Yeppi, I am now the terrified owner of the Original Soundtrack sheet music book!

 The line up features wicked jams by such artists as: Dio, King Kobra, George Clinton, Adrenalin, The Jon Butcher Axis, and other notable _____'s.
The cover also reads "PIANO/VOCAL/CHORDS CONTAINS PROFESSIONAL FAKE PAGE ARRANGEMENTS". I have no clue what that means. Fortunately, I also don't know how to read music. Win/win.

Here's a taste:

And yeah, there's a term for jackasses who race dirtbikes against airplanes. It may simply be 'Jackasses'.

where's my bloody luncheon?!

yes, i am blogging about a blog.

 a rad collab between j. shelley harrison and i. 
she of all people knows best about my strange lunch (or lack of) habits. photos and dialogue ensue on a nearly daily basis, in realtime, at lunchtime.

still images | still life | still lunch...
http://takealunchbreak.tumblr.com/

I'm no popcorn expert

from the always sensible Doug Aamoth (@daamoth):

Pop Secret Addresses the Challenges of Popcorn-Making with a Free Helper App

Let's face it: Making popcorn isn't for the weak, the stupid or the faint of heart. It's a complicated process that draws on more than one of your senses.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2013/06/07/pop-secret-addresses-challenges-of-popcorn-making-with-free-helper-app/#ixzz2XevWLsVI

puppy vs. dyslexia- against all todds

recorded in 2005, with final tracks added and mixed in 2011, and now finally released in 2013 thanks to magnetic south!

good times...deck your tape.

from magnetic south:

artist: Puppy vs. Dyslexia
title: Against All Todds
format: C66 [TYPE I - pro-dubbed]
released: 05/23/13

Magnetic South is pleased to present the (mostly) first time packaging of inscrutable Kentuckianian rare birds' 2005 studio work. Puppy inhabited it's own relentlessly google-eyed un-naturalist universe haunted by nude, Lisa Frank-headed contortionists where ritualistic sensibilities blurred the boundaries of sexual horror and adorable fluffs. The sound of depraved children blasted by speedy acid, boredom, and Boredoms that escaped to develop a unique lexicon of manic trance and transformational shamanic hootenanny.

Glossy full color double-sided insert & pro-dubbed clear cassette with white imprint inside clear hardshell case.