September 3rd, 2010

Ripped from the headlines

• Portland folks: Please support Alexis Gideon’s premiere tonite—Former Monday Night resident debuts rad new Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong at DISJECTA

• “Every single thing you see is future trash. Everything.”—A must-read interview with NYC’s pre-eminent garbage anthropologist

• Whoa! I really dig this—Why doesn’t someone do this with L.A. music history?

• Gorgeous—The iPad Orchestra

• “Totally independent”—Donald Fagen on his remarkable career & his initial hatred of singing

• WRUW-FM’s Cuzin Dave has passed—Dave was so gentle & nice…very sad about this news

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September 2nd, 2010

I just nominated NASA Space Universe for the last space shuttle flight

These are the graphics you get with a taxpayer-funded space program

I just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has read and shared “Ripped from the headlines.” This feature appears every weekday at 3am EST on SEANCARNAGE.COM. I put a lot of work into those links. My rule is: no bullshit. If you have anything you think I should link to, email me.

One recent “Ripped” link that I kept thinking about was NASA’s search for the final “wakeup song” for the space shuttle. It seems that every day in space begins with a special pump-up jam. So NASA is having a contest to see who gets the last play on the space shuttle’s cassette deck (the shuttle dates from the early ’80s, so I assume they use cassettes).

Who better to provide the soundtrack for this very historic last shuttle flight than this coming Monday Night’s headliners NASA Space Universe?

So what the heck…I nominated them.

Hear the song & see NASA Space Universe this Monday….

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September 2nd, 2010

Ripped from the headlines

• 5 L.A. groups make the “Best New Bands of 2010″ list—Cool to see recent Monday performer Baths on there

• Spain breaks up massive male sex-slave ring—Victims were given “the club drug known as poppers”

• Bowie’s last night as Ziggy, Marianne Faithful as a sequined nun—High quality video of “I Got You Babe” is scandeliciously fun

• T.I. arrested in Weho last night for a “controlled substance”—The ad right under the story—”LSD Rehab”—cracks me up

• Have you ever gotten wasted & lost a $1.35mil art masterpiece?—Neither have I. Yet.

• “Maybe Ketamine would help”—Turns out K reverses depression & some types of brain damage

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September 1st, 2010

A once fearsome genre keeps getting cuter

Muppet metal? Black Metal inspired by “Kittens Inspired by Kittens”?

I’ll admit it up front: this is a bit of filler so I can work on a new documentary today (seems everyone really likes the one about Nicole Kidman/Jon Barba so I’m forging ahead with several new projects).

I recently saw these two adorable videos (here and here) on The Stranger‘s site (thanks, dudes). So I thought I would put them together.

These are movies that headbangers and their toddlers (and everyone else) can burn in hell for. Togetherness. Aww.

Watch the videos…

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September 1st, 2010

Ripped form the headlines

• Farewell to an icon—Rush is finished, kaput

• Oyes—Lady Gaga, Vincent Gallo, Carrie Fisher, more to join Plastic Ono Band for two special  L.A. shows

• Must read: Sam McPheeters’ “Is rock over?”—A story of trend gone bust, & the current scene’s similarity to the vaudeville era

• The art of Jesse Hlebo—Former L.A.-area “Swill Children” label boss impresses with latest pix

• The true life tale of Superman’s birthplace—An incredible story about giving credit where it’s due

• Strange but true—The story behind Daryl Hall’s infamous solo LP with Robert Fripp

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