Top Lists of 2010, F**k Yous

After looking at Pitchfork’s Top 50 Tracks of 2010 all I can say is the staff has gone Air Supply on us. Ten of their picks actually have some sort of urgency behind them. The rest of the list is expected. For one, choosing “Rill Rill” off “Treats,” an album filled with aural assault galore, is like a coma patient phoning it in. Are you guys kidding? Ha. I bet. I’m not a music critic. So not I’m not going to sweat a paragraph of carefully chosen words out but I offer you this, a purist’s vision.


50. Cults “Go Outside”

A fuck you to boring people.

48. Best Coast “When I’m With You”

A fuck you to heartbreak, sung by a voice that can melt cake frosting.

42. Japandroids “Younger Us”

A sexually charged, fuck you to death.

41. Deerhunter “Helicopter”

A moody, fuck you to diminishing returns on the effects of drugs.

39. No Age “Fever Dreaming”

A raucous, life affirming fuck you to quitters.

33. Zola Jesus “Night”

Hey daylight! Fuck you.

31. Girls “Carolina”

A fuck you to letting go.

25. The Walkmen “Angela Surf City”

Work and school, fuck you.

15. Crystal Castles “Not In Love” featuring Robert Smith

A fuck you to doubting.

14. Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill”

Fuck you Marimba ringtone and the same to you orthodontic haters.

"could you pray for us"

What Makes You Feel Alive, KAWS, Art Basel

Wigs and thee pistol

Yes Age

You've seen the Vegan

You've Seen The Butcher

Deftones | Myspace Music Videos

GIRLS Girls girls

Yer smile is ruling me

WHITE RING WHYTE RYNG

Cure collides into CC

Drawings

John Hillcoat via Gummo VO

LBF t-shirts are being spun out of gold

Hillcoat's Grinderman

Grinderman 'Heathen Child' from Trim Editing on Vimeo.

Another good one

FANG ISLAND - CAREFUL CROSSERS from ZF FILMS on Vimeo.

ZF Films--great light design

Deftones | Sextape from ZF FILMS on Vimeo.

Cassel

notre jour viendra - feature film trailer from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

No Island Is A Man

B & B

I BREAK HORSES

Funny as all get out!

"this is a song I wrote about salads when I was going through a really tough time in my life"

W.E.

And Anouk Aimee

The Sun Was High (And So Was I)-Best Coast will make you want to live in Cali if ever a band has since the Beach Boys

Via slamxhype

Name: Erik Brunetti

Location: Los Angeles

What are you reading? A script re-write- and many emails.

What are you listening to? At this exact moment, I am hearing the sounds of my cell phone vibrating against my wood desk.

Favourite artist? My daughters drawings on the walls in our loft are my current favorites.

Favourite movie? It’s hard to name a favorite. Currently I have been re-watching Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy”

I am influenced by…. My environment.

Do you parents understand what your job is? I never asked them if they understand how I make a living. It’s not important.

I spent last night… at Taylor’s steak house eating diner with my wife and two friends.

What do you eat for breakfast? Cantaloupe with prosciutto, coffee and a glass of water.

Favourite thing to do in your city? Walk

Whats something people might not know about you? As a youngster ( roughly age 5 to 13) I lived in the Allegheny mountains and we had horses- My brothers and I had to break (halter) all the colts in the morning before going to school.

What are you working on this week? Editing (post production) the 2nd Doctrine clip. Scoring the music, sound etc.

Balloons!

The definition of productivity. This guy gets stuff done.

Hide with your bicycle, make Blade Runner

Peyton Place

Oakland Museum of California Art

Immune to context or fashion

Via cure.com on remastered vinyl:

Comments Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai: “Disintegration by The Cure is one of the greatest records of all time. It has the feel that only a tiny amount of albums have, that it exists completely in its own universe, immune to context or fashion. I literally cannot imagine the band members in a room playing these songs for the first time, its as if they've always been there. From stunning opener “Plainsong” through to “Untitled”, it is unrelentingly beautiful and achingly sad. Disintegration is a simply wonderful record.”

What happened to streaking?

Mogwai, I'm Jim Morrison, please don't refer to me as the Lizard King -from "Burning"

My love is bigger than your love!!!!!! Sing it!

Hair

Maybe you have to loose all your hair to reach creative gold




Or not

Adult

Teenage Wastebasket by Beck Hansen


She is a teenage wastebasket
Paddling up the river in a casket
Try and experience everything at least once
And life is a commercial for being fucked up

I know she's not saying much
She's got class, she's got a crush
Socks don't matter
Teeth are turning green
Opinions are forming

Ah ooh wa ooh

Her mother is proud to be dead
Her dad is breakdancing underneath the bed
She's got lipstick scrawled across her forehead
Saying "PLEASE DESTROY ME"

Ah ooh wa ooh

I'll Try Anything, Once

Ten decisions shape your life,
you'll be aware of 5 about,
7 ways to go through school,
either you're noticed or left out,
7 ways to get ahead,
7 reasons to drop out,
when i said ' I can see me in your eyes',
you said 'I can see you in my bed',
that's not just friendship that's romance too,
you like music we can dance to,

Sit me down,
Shut me up,
i'll calm down,
and i'll get along with you,

There is a time when we all fail,
some people take it pretty well,
some take it all out on themselves,
some they just take it out on friends,
oh everybody plays the game,
and if you don't you're called insane,

Don't don't don't don't it's not safe no more,
i've got to see you one more time,
soon you were born,
in 1984,

Sit me down,
shut me up,
i'll calm down,
and i'll get along with you,

Everybody was well dressed,
and everybody was a mess,
6 things without fail you must do,
so that your woman loves just you,
oh all the girls played mental games,
and all the guys were dressed the same,

Why not try it all,
if you only remember it once,
oooh ooooooh,

Sit me down,
shut me up,
i'll calm down,
and i'll get along with you,

She's back

Hessian Hobbies

The Overachievers -Liars

I bought a house with you
We settled down with cats
There wasn't much to do,
so we just sat and watched the TV
and smoked weed

We drove a bio-car
cuz we all love the earth
It didn't get us far
and always sounded like a walrus
With ulcers

LA!
LA!

We snuffed out Malibu
so we could see the stars
and when the sun fell off
we drove back slowly listening to Japanther
The Cactus!

LA!
LA!

Then once we had enough
we gave up on our jobs
And bought back all our time
To spend it walking in the forest
The Forest

LA!
LA!

I bought a house with you
We settled down with cats
There wasn't much to do,
so we just sat and watched the TV

Get stoned...

Hopper does Kipling, transcendent

New Summer Look

Zola Jesus...

"you know that I'm tired
you know that I'm ill
But it don't matter cause
I know that you will

run me out again...

(What is this girl talkin' bout!)

No, maybe, yes!

This makes me so happy and inversely mad. I sold all my Yes on vinyl last year. So stupid. Kick self in face. Tomorrow.

(Saw this on Marissa Nadler's blog. You should really listen to her music.)

The Voice

Bar Results IN

Ok so Ingrid guessed right, the first Name that Bar answer is 151 on Rivington.

Jerimiah got the second, Subway Inn.

Now you can both buy me a drink at the respective bars because your name was mentioned on LBF.

Ok already. Here's Name That Bar-again

"It's dark, dirty, scuzzy, cheap, stale-smelling and utterly lacking in charm. Which is, of course, it's charm."

Let's Play Name That Bar!

"This place is sh t. Its full of pillow biters and the floor is sticky. Plus there's a girl lurking in there (Allison..?) who pesters you for favours in exchange for cr@ck."

Beauty is in the eye of the holder

I fetishize a lot of things. Cars. Women. I look at them with a sense of awe and reverence, telling whomever’s in earshot of their magical potency. Something else that causes a habitual erotic response in me is a camera. And this goes way beyond their ability to steal people’s souls.

When I got a T4 I ran my fingers all over the aluminum shell and then just stared for a long, long time, and not through the viewfinder.



The Polaroid SLR 680, sadly gained at the zenith of Polaroid’s film production, flirted with me over a two year period. By the time I possessed one via eBay it had lost it’s practical use, but the object remains. It’s geometry, symmetry, and curvy billows can entertain for hours.



My Pentax K1000 with it’s nipply and steel shell, custom wide-angle zoom lens, will always be my first unhealthy obsession. The only one I’ve been in a darkroom with. Digis like it with the lights on. Something truly has been lost when you loose the red lit room and glow in the dark arrows that lead you to the exit.



This will not end well. The Ricoh GX R, Leica R8 SLR, and the Canon s90 have taken up hours of my time and burned their features into my retinas. I’m scarred.

The dreamiest VO to ever glide over your eardrums

Ghosts

indulging in guilty pleasures

SG may be back, but they'll never be like this again.

Perfect

Part 2

Fuck yeah, still

Spooky

Then & Now

bogus vs. kosher

When I was growing up in the Sunshine State my skater/surfer/rat pack judged by the rule of stoner and jew. When I uttered "kosher" I had no idea of its origins. Thankfully we used it in the right context. Fake vs. Genuine. Something tells me "kosher" is stronger even than "authentic." Like, you know, the real thing.

Wells Tower!

Been reading Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Astounding. Great great great.

Rick the ruler

Whyte Ring/Tearist tonight, Glasslands

Tearist Tears It Up

Finger banging

Whoa, whoa, whoa...this is a door knocker!

Some evenings, I wish my room looked like this

Ozzy's hair at its peak. I think I see Stanley Tucci there in the background.

Best Use of Stock Footage in a Video Mid-March Twenty Ten

RIP

It sucks that the one thing I'm writing about since someone's passing is another, Mark Linkous, whimped out early.
But Spring is tip toeing around and brighter days be close.
A Virginian songwriter who penned haunting songs. Luckily I saw them twice.

RIP Ken Ober, 52, Comedian

Back in the early 90s, I was like 12 or something, my older sister took me to see MTV's Remote Control game show done live, on tour, at Trinity College in Hartford, or was it Saint Joseph, or I think it was University of Hartford. Anyway, it was one of my favorite tv shows back then, and I saw them all in person, Adam, Ken, Leary ( I can't remember if he was around) and of course Kari Wuh, wuh wuh, Wuhrer. She always made me get a case of the stutters. Then I heard about the host dying, today, exactly three months after his death. Strange that.

Starting in 1987, Ober hosted five seasons of "Remote Control," which, along with "Club MTV" and "The Week In Rock," was MTV's first foray into series television. A quiz show that tested contestants' pop-culture knowledge, the set bore a strong resemblance to a suburban home's basement. Standing behind a makeshift lectern and next to a giant television screen that helped guide the show, Ober would ask questions about celebrities, movies, TV shows and music videos. Participants sat on colorful La-Z-Boy chairs with food and drinks on trays in front of them as they tried to answer the questions and avoid elimination. The show helped launch the careers of Adam Sandler, Denis Leary and Colin Quinn, who made various appearances on the show, acting out sketches that functioned as quiz questions.

"Ken Ober was one of the sharpest, quickest, sweetest guys I ever met," Sandler said in a statement to MTV News. "He was always a great friend and I will miss him very much."

Leary said in a statement: "Kenny Ober was and always will be the quickest wit in the room. He was fall-down funny from the moment he was born — a smart, fast and hilarious human being who made many of us, including myself, laugh until we cried. As the star and host of 'Remote Control,' he was a welcoming ringmaster who helped to kickstart the careers of numerous talents, including Adam Sandler, Colin Quinn and myself. He will be remembered always by each of his friends not only for his massive talent but for his true, deep and enduring friendship."

MTV Networks President Van Toffler said on Monday (November 16): "Ken was a great guy. His personality really brought 'Remote Control' to life, as well as a new style of programming for MTV. We were really flying by the seat of of our pants then, and Ken was the reason it worked."

below a couple clips

Paradox

How can one have memories of tomorrow? Well Mike Muir did. On the quintessential punk/crossover album of the 80s, Suicidal Tendencies found its way into preppy and punk ears alike. What happened? Was it the gang look, bandanas, plaid, and skateboarding or the hilarity that Pepsi could actually drive you insane. Note to self, only drink Coke products.

Vocal Minx

SUCKS

You'll Know It When You See It

Found this piece while viewing another thing. An image within an image is what I found, no seriously. Sea for yourself.

Small Black: Despicable Dogs from Yoonha Park on Vimeo.

Study: Wives Increasingly Wearing The Pants In The Family

Yesterday upon awaking my head was in a vice of beer withdrawal, which is why this headline might have seemed funny to me then. But, today it still seems funny. I don't know if it's saying this was a "study," or Study! hard in school to be the breadwinner in your household. Whichever, I'm actually fine with marrying a woman who makes some bread. I'm always hungry. Being a stay at home man would allow me to write, eat and snack, and build stuff, not to mention learn new hobbies and share all my crazy life stories with an audience of impressionable children. The one disconcerting problem for me with this scenario is my wife wearing pants. The person I end up sharing a vast wealth of capital assets with is going to have some nice gams, and I don't want them covered up by elongated tubes of fabric.






I hope that women don't take this trend literally. No one is going to be chasing pants. Believe me.

If you dream, keep it to yourself. No one cares.

I had this dream that I met Jose (Pepe) Gonzalez, the illustrator 1939-2009. It was great because he didn't make me speak Spanish and the dream was in English. And in color. Anyway, we were hanging around this moldy, cavernous castle on an asteroid (the atmosphere in this particular part of space was oxygenated) but I didn't really care if I could breathe or not since there were women everywhere. Thin, yet curvy specimens with black hair and porcelain skin. They were sitting on giant mushrooms that you could eat.

Is Winter Over Yet?

Where do I RSVP for this life?

Freak The World!

A Summer's Day-Newport Jazz Fest when Jazz was rad

Horns

via chunklet.com, Hails!

Record Label Of The Decade: Southern Lord. Even though plenty of their roster just ain’t my bag. I’m speaking from an operational POV. (love me some Boris, Earth, *Sunn & Weedeater tho!) Starting in late ’98-99, the folks there consistently release the best polyvinyl product one could lay eyes on. And they do so with great care, attention to detail, and all for a very, very, reasonable price. They “get it”. From Greg, Stephen, Eddie and the whole crew – these people W-O-R-K their asses off. An indie label grew & grew for an entire decade, all while producing very non-commercial music. There's the proof for your pudding right there. Hydra Head can blow me. (It’s a limited edition of only 29 copies, in 14 different colors, pre-order now! Even though they’re “all gone”. Riiiiiight.) But you'll get a download card for 56 Coalesce B-sides!
*The closing song on SUNN’s “Monoliths & Dimensions” entitled “Alice” was the most astonishing piece of music I heard in 2009.