from :

http://reason.com/blog/show/126451.html

The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band who could not afford a camera crew for their video, 'performed' in front of a load of CCTV cameras, requested the footage from the camera operators under the Data Protection Act and then stitched the results together for their music video.

Still got the asthma cough thing. The Inhaler the doctor gave me seems useless. Anyone who has had bad coughing fits, probably a lot of people, know what it's like. Going on jags of coughing to the point where I feel like I'm going to puke and my brain has been rattled against all sides of my skull. It's been weeks of this,

ok good news:

I'm in a book that's up on Amazon!!

Bad-Ass Faeries 2

I had alot of fun writing this with Jason. Collaborating on prose worked much smoother and was much more fun than I expected. I think, though as a writer it's hard to tell, that it's pretty hard to tell where one of us left off and the other began. In many of the sections I can't remember who did what on.

I look forward to doing it agian some time when ever the schedules line up to do so.

Also:

Gremlins

Which is mixed news. Nice for me to see, but bittersweet.

See, my wife can't stand Gremlins. The only thing I can think of that really scares her movie wise. She's completely freaked by them and can't even watch the second (an underrated and fun film in my opinion, Dante using it as an excuse to play loony toons). She's banned the movies from the house.

I find all this out about three years into the marriage, and after much soul searching, I did decide to stick with the marriage and to leave Gremlins behind.

Except today, she's out of town.

I watch Gremlins.

I've had very little internet time lately.

Worse yet, I've had a nagging cough which my doctor is now telling me is some form of asthma. awesome.

Since I've had the cough, I haven't been able to do a podcast, because it'd consist of me coughing once for every ten words I get out.

So in the meantime, here's some fun with youtube involving one of the worst, crassest, most mercenary bands sense Bon Jovi.

There's no limit to how much I hate this band, especially since I do not control the radio at work and have to hear them at least three times a day.

If you like their music, your stupid. I'm sorry. I'm sure your a nice person and maybe smart in some areas, but your stupid. Nickleback is taking advantage of you. They don't care about anything they sing about and probably haven't for many years. You need to get out and do some leg work and find good music.

Anyway, here:

These are two Nickleback songs mixed on top of each other, notice any similarities?



You can download the mp3 of this mix here, where the songs have been separated into right and left channels, making the shamelessness even more apparent. The bad part is then you have an mp3 on your computer with Nickelback's name in it. The good part is you don't have to look at the band. There is also an interview with the guy who made the mp3.

Here Portugal demonstrates the appropriate response to Nickleback:


A quick youtube search will bring up a string of Nickleback sucks related videos. It's no news that Nickleback sucks and they are a pretty easy and big target I had written off awhile ago. But having to hear them everyday on the radio, even people calling in to request them.... well, it just renews my hatred for them on a daily basis.

it's not much, but it's fun to listen to on headphones

http://remix.nin.com/play/mix?id=7984

I'm selling some things on Ebay, trying to get my toy collection down to a handful of items. So if you want a Zartan and you want to help me cut down on some credit card bills, here's how:

Zartan 25th Anniversary Edition

ZARTAN: HUMAN AMONG GODS!!!

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Let’s get this straight, Zartan doesn't care about you. He's gonna use you and loose you before you even realize what's happening. You'll be left wondering, "who was that blonde haired, blue eyed man wearing an outfit suspiciously similar to Zartan's?"

Understand this, Zartan is a rebel. He can't be tied down to anything. He's not even going to take sides in the Cobra vs. Joes struggle. He's much happier acting a s a freelance agent to anyone willing to hire him (namely, Cobra.)

And yet despite, or maybe because, of all this, you want Zartan. You know you do.

And is it any surprise? The dude rocks. Like a young and ripped Ozzy Osbourne, but with the ability to disguise himself as any Death Metal band member he chooses.

 

To buy it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150239130508

EPISODE 01 - April 2008

In this episode we discuss Bauhaus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Songs about Bukowski and
Ticketmaster. Among other things.

RSS: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss18198.xml
Direct Link: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-18198/TS-109980.mp3

Song list:

Bauhaus- Too much 21st Century/ Black Stone Heart
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig/ Today's Lesson/ We Call Upon The Author
Modest Mouse - Bukowski
U2 - Dirty Day

(intro, Outro, some background music - me with drum and glock samples from NIN)

Let me know what you think. Also, input on the audio levels and how they sound to you guys is much appreciated. I promise, it will get better.

Let me know what you think. Also, input on the audio levels and how they sound to you guys is much appreciated. I promise, it will get better.

email me feedback via text or mp3 at sevenredblurs@gmail.com

Just wanted to say hi to everyone. I've had little internet access over the past couple of weeks. So I've neglected livejournal and I'm over 50 emails behind on getting back to people.

Here's a couple of things I need to plug.

a couple weeks ago I was a guest of THE VOICE OF THE REPUBLIC the best Star Wars podcast around. Why? Because it's funny. Very Funny.



Click here to learn how to podcast it or do a search on your favorite podcast downloader.

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Also, My good friend, and talented author, Jason Franks and I have co-written a story in a new anthology. The anthology is called BAD-ASS FAIRIES 2

	Marietta Publishing    Fantasy/Faerie Anthology    Publication Date: May 2008    Edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail,    L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee Hillman, and Jeff Lyman    Cover Art: Christina Yoder    Cover Design: Danielle McPhail    Trade Paperback: 1892669463           $15.00US/$19.00CAN, 5.5 x 8.5, 280 pages    eBook: 1892669471           $6.00US    See below for a list of authors and artists,    Plus our accountings of past Bad-Ass Faerie Events.
Back Cover Copy
Do you like to Dance with Danger? Well now's your chance! Don't worry about things that go bump in the night; count yourself lucky if these fae give you that much warning. In the finest tradition of the original Bad-Ass Faeries, the twenty tales in this collection delve into the darkest corners, exploring every tough and terrifying aspect the legends of faeries ever claimed...and then some. Lose yourself in twisted tales of homicidal faerie clowns, one man's gladiatorial stand against Earth's overlords, and a desperate mother's confrontation with the fiercest pirates above the Seven Seas...not to mention dry land. Read on in fascinated horror as a faerwolf is born, and unwise parties-of-the-second-part come to rue deals made with a different kind of devil. Here is where you discover just how many faerie tales never even get a glimpse of Happily Ever After... Forget about misunderstood; these faeries are Just Plain Bad!

That's all for now, hope everyone is doing well!

Easter Sunday, the first floor of my apartment flooded. It could have been worse. Money wise, the worst was loosing some guitar equipment. Mentally it was having Nathan's art damaged and warped.

It could have been worse. A lot worse, we got off ok.

But we rushed everything upstairs in such a hurry, that now that the floor is dry, we have to sort through all our stuff. It's a major pain in the ass.

oh well.

This, is awesome. I found it in a post by rstevens

http://www.supertouchblog.com/2008/03/20/lastreet-lifeskullphone-hijacks-las-digital-billboards/

Hacking Billboards

 

THE FUTURE IS AWESOME!!!! Even if we're not on the moon!!!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13312

didn't even know he was sick.

What is Jerry Stanford doing on the set of The Dark Knight?

It's starts off in the distance. A strange sound that could almost be a brass instrument, but feels like something else. It seems like a sound we've heard a thousand times before at the start of a movie or watching a foreign sunrise. But it's a sound we can't pinpoint, familiar but untraceable.

Then something starts moving towards us. Piano, bass and something else, all in a syncopation. Like water trickling or the feet of a millipede struggling up a pebble hill.

Then the piano hits a large muffled chord and your traveler has arrived.

"Brown Eyes and I were tired
We had walked and we had scrambled
Through the moors and through the briars
Through the endless blue meanders"

He sounds tired and disconnected. His voice is zen-like, like a wise man talking to you in a dream.

We hear things clicking and chirping in the grasslands around us.

http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/diglazarusdig/index.html

This is only going to be of interest to Central Floridians, but what the hell is going on with 105.9 fm.

It flipped formats last week from slightly average "alternative" rock, to oldies.

Since then they've been playing, "The History of Rock n Roll" radio program. Local music radio is a horrible wasteland and "The History of Rock n Roll" has to be the best radio broadcast locally that I've heard since I was a teenager. Snippets of trivia and interviews frame a terrific selection of songs, covering a lot of music that gets overlooked by Classic Rock and Oldies stations. (I swear to god, the local classic rock station only plays songs featured on Guitar Hero now.)

They've been featuring everything from early Stevie Wonder, to overlooked The Who classics. Selections that just don't seem to have a place on local classic radio formats.

So if your local to Central Florida, you need to check it out.

the question is, how long is "The History of Rock N Roll" program going to last?

What selection will be available after that?

Why, oh why does their website have a "Smooth" Jazz banner featuring Kenny G? Are they just taunting us with good music until they flip over to smooth jazz? (If they do, I will never, ever stop complaining to everyone I know about it.)

Most importantly, where can I get a copy of "The History of Rock N Roll'?

I was looking into converting an old joke quiz Nathan and I had made for a mini comic into an online quiz. I decided to take a look around at various quizes online to see what works and what doesn't.

Two glasses of wine and an hour later, I present this waste of time. Results range from dumb to wierd, to a couple that were oddly dead on. all of it stupid. the upshot of all this: I will not be making a quiz anytime soon

This Man is at SPX right now, I am not. 

He does not have a table but, if you are nice to him you might get mini-comics.

 

Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"

Nice.

Interesting article about this by the sometimes wrong, but mostly right Bob Lefsetz

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/09/19/935/

A segment from it:

"I’m not going to say the old system has no impact. As evidence, we’ve got the 957,000 albums Kanye moved this week. But I’m more interested in the new system. Where the AUDIENCE picks the stars. And hypes them based on criteria that the performer may not even be aware of. Do you think Mr. Reznor was ranting for the cameras? This was no press conference, this was a GIG! Watching, amidst the crowd response, is a more powerful experience than what happened at the Palms ten days ago. And if you total up the number of people who’ve seen the various clips, who’ve read about what Trent said, it doesn’t compare to the number of exposures Kanye got. But so many of those impacted by the Kanye hype had no interest in the man and his music. So many were turned off. So many want to see him fail. Whereas those passing the Trent speech fervently on the Web are long-time fans, or newly-minted fans struck by his honesty.

His record company did try to rip off fans in Australia. He spoke out and now its employees hate him. But he’s got power too. He’s going directly TO THE SAME TARGET AUDIENCE! Who’s gonna win? An artist with a fifteen year career or the same people who brought you P2P lawsuits? Trent’s enhancing his credibility, he’s increasing the longevity of his career, by being what an artist should be, a beacon of truth."

Read the rest too http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/09/19/935/

Lefsetz has fairly crappy taste in music, imo.However, he's dead on about the Industry and he's one of the few people honestly documenting the music industry's demise. He's also one of the few people seeing it with any sort of clarity and more importantly hope.

 

I found a Concept Chewie




If anyone needs this figure, reply to the post with your email or something. I'll give it to you for the cost of the figure and the cost of shipping (I'll let you know how much shipping is before I send it out.)

I picked it up in case someone I knew in town needed one, but it looks like everyone is stocked up.

-steve