Fun With Photoshop At The Science Fair

See more Photoshop manipulations of science fair pictures here.

Last Weekend At Apache Lake, AZ

Ol' Dirty Bastard Moment

Saw This Near Phoenix, AZ Today

Saturday Morning Soul - TOWER OF POWER

Requested by Bill Ross

3 Out Of 5 Historians Agree

3 out of 5 historians agree that George W Bush's Presidency is the worst out of all of the 42 presidents. 109 professional historians were informally surveyed about the president's performance. 61% rate him as the worst president. 

Only 2 out of the 109 historians surveyed classified Bush's presidency as a success. The other 107, like me,  consider Bush a failure. 

Only 270 days left in the worst presidency in US history.

Source article

Coachella

Coachella begins tomorrow. For those who don't know what Coachella is, it is a 3 day music festival just east of Palm Springs, CA in Indio that features over 100 performers. I will not be attending this year but I did go last year and here is a video I made of my experience.

Yesterday At El Mirage Drylake

Learn The Source

PORTISHEAD - Sour Times

uses a sample of:

LALO SCHIFRIN - Danube Incident  (download here)

And Now A Word From Our Sponsor #2

Keanu, Cranberry Juice, and Race Cars

Record Store Day

Today is National Record Store Day. Go out and support your local independent record/cd/music store. This does not mean go to Wal-Mart or Best Buy. Go to a record store independently owned by a person, not a corporation. 

Some of my favorites:

AMOEBA MUSIC - Hollywood, San Francisco, Berkeley

AQUARIUS RECORDS - San Francisco

ROCKAWAY RECORDS - Los Angeles

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS - Raleigh, Chapel Hill,  Athens, GA

RECORD EXCHANGE - Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Greensboro (not sure if this is still around)

My recent purchase at Amoeba Music this week.

Saturday Morning Soul - THE STAPLE SINGERS

This one is dedicated to BCBG.

Cross Country Road Trip

Ride along on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York in this music video by Michel and Oliver Gondry for French pop star Laquer.

Real Men of Genius #3

KOOL KEITH

Kool Keith is an underground hip hop pioneer. No one rhymes like him. No one. His rhymes are complex and bizarre stream-of-consciousness flow that often refer to science, space, and commercial hip hop. He uses many aliases including Dr. Octagon, Black Elvis, Dr. Dooom, and Mr. Nogatco.

Kool Keith started in the NY hip hop group ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S (1987)

as DR. OCTAGON (1996)

as KOOL KEITH (1997)

as BLACK ELVIS (1999)

as DR. OCTAGON (2006)

as DR. OCTAGON (2006)

as MR. NOGATCO (2006)

Urban Art

This is a piece of graffiti in the parking deck of my gym that I have long admired.

Douchebags 101

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Visit the website. Learn about douchebags. Help find a cure.

Pulp Fiction Rumors

Justin Canada told me about this one. There is a rumor that Quentin Tarantino wanted to use the song "My Sharona" during the Gimp torture sequence in the film Pulp Fiction but ended up using a surf song because of licensing issues. Here is the scene with "My Sharona". 

Last Night At The Echo

DIRTY PROJECTORS

Saturday Morning Soul - JAMES BROWN

Random Image Search #3

"41108"

Inside The Pixies

Last night I watched this documentary which follows the Pixies on their 2004 reunion tour. The Pixies broke up in 1992 because of tension between members. This film is about where their lives are 12 years later and how they get along after going their separate ways. It was kind of sad to see a band who was moderately successful but hugely influential struggle to deal with each other and their own demons. The film is a candid look inside a band similar to Metallica's film Some Kind Of Monster but with less drama. 

You can see the film in its entirety until the end of this week online at pitchfork.tv. Click on "One Week Only" and then click on the Loud Quit Loud box.

There Is Something Obscene In Hazleton, PA

Click HERE to go to a Google Map of Hazleton, PA. Zoom all the way in to the football field which is just left of Shaft Road.

This Is How I Learned

Great Chemistry At Work #3

WERNER HERZOG  (director)

KLAUS KINSKI  (actor)

Saturday Morning Soul - ARTHUR CONLEY JR

40 Years Ago Today

MARTIN LUTHER KING KILLED

Elliot Erwitt Speaks His Mind

Library of Congress Photos Released

The Library of Congress is releasing historical photos into public domain through Flickr. So far they have uploaded over 3200 images to Flickr which are available for anyone to download. The total number of images released could reach 14 million. Most images so far are from the early to mid 1900's. It is a fascinating look back at life in America.

Library of Congress Flickr site here.

I Played In A Band Named... #2

IRON & WINE

I played a mean version of "Stairway To Heaven". 

The ladies would go crazy when I sang "Your Body Is A Wonderland".

Sometimes I would call my friends in Calexico and say "Hey, you're going to be my backup band tonight," and send them to the wrong club. They would always fall for that. It was hilarious. 

I even got to sing on tv on Carson Daly's show on NBC.

Download my album "The Shepherds Dog" HERE.