March 24, 2009
you tube explosion
How did life even exist before you tube? I mean really, how did we live without the ability to instantly conjure up images and sound of literally anything you can think of? Lately I've been getting caught up in watching rarely heard instruments played by lovingly-obsessed social outcasts. Case in point: This weird Japanese guy who makes his own ocarinas out of various fruits and vegetables. Someone get him in a Wes Anderson movie!
Also, I have watched pretty much every video that contains a theremin performance in it. I don't know, there's just something about playing an instrument that requires you to wave your hand in front of it like a palsied freak that just makes me want to run out and buy one.
Perhaps the most exciting of my recent you tube discoveries, the next videos focus on the lovable (or depending on your disposition, horrifying) animatronic animal band "The Rock-afire Explosion." These guys should be familiar to you if you ever visited a Show Time Pizza or Chuck-e-Cheese sometime in the late eighties/early nineties. Someone has made a documentary about what happened to these guys and it looks absolutely amazing:
The guy from the trailer, Chris Thrash, has his own Rocka-fire Explosion and you can bid on the chance to have him program any song you want for the band. That it how amazing/creepy/incomprehensible videos like this exist:
I like the Arcade Fire one, but this Fergie-Ferg one really seems more "raw" and "real" and "in your face" to me. That Mitzi Mozzarella has talent!
Side note: The name "Rock-afire Explosion" has a certain ring to it that I love. I'm now planning on naming my first born child "Rock-afire Explosion McMurdie Thompson."
Also, I have watched pretty much every video that contains a theremin performance in it. I don't know, there's just something about playing an instrument that requires you to wave your hand in front of it like a palsied freak that just makes me want to run out and buy one.
Perhaps the most exciting of my recent you tube discoveries, the next videos focus on the lovable (or depending on your disposition, horrifying) animatronic animal band "The Rock-afire Explosion." These guys should be familiar to you if you ever visited a Show Time Pizza or Chuck-e-Cheese sometime in the late eighties/early nineties. Someone has made a documentary about what happened to these guys and it looks absolutely amazing:
The guy from the trailer, Chris Thrash, has his own Rocka-fire Explosion and you can bid on the chance to have him program any song you want for the band. That it how amazing/creepy/incomprehensible videos like this exist:
I like the Arcade Fire one, but this Fergie-Ferg one really seems more "raw" and "real" and "in your face" to me. That Mitzi Mozzarella has talent!
Side note: The name "Rock-afire Explosion" has a certain ring to it that I love. I'm now planning on naming my first born child "Rock-afire Explosion McMurdie Thompson."
Labels: you tube
March 18, 2009
get off my lawn
I have recently noticed a sign that I might be getting older and possibly out of touch. I at least think that I'm still au courant but I could be wrong. Anyway, the main sign of my impending oldness seems to be that I cannot stand anything to do with teenage culture. I hate teenagers. Especially their clothes.
Seriously, this kind of thing makes my head hurt. If I were still teen-aged I wouldn't appreciate looking like the lone survivor of a modern art museum explosion.
Ditto to the whole American Apparel/retarded retroism that the youngish hipsters favor. Check out these lensless glasses! I'm full of style! I was literally not alive in the 80's but I still think it's hilarious to dress like I'm on the set of Bill and Ted's excellent adventure! I don't remember where I read this but someone described these kids that wear a lot of American Apparel as dressing like 9-year-olds at gymnastics sleepaway camp circa 1987. LOL.
I know what you're thinking, and yes I have perpetrated many fashion misdeeds in my time (let's just say that I owned and frequently made use of a puka shell necklace) so clearly, I'm not above scrutiny. Even my own personal brand of style, something I call the "homeless cowboy™" isn't that cool. Doesn't mean I still can't hate on others though, right?
Seriously, this kind of thing makes my head hurt. If I were still teen-aged I wouldn't appreciate looking like the lone survivor of a modern art museum explosion.
Ditto to the whole American Apparel/retarded retroism that the youngish hipsters favor. Check out these lensless glasses! I'm full of style! I was literally not alive in the 80's but I still think it's hilarious to dress like I'm on the set of Bill and Ted's excellent adventure! I don't remember where I read this but someone described these kids that wear a lot of American Apparel as dressing like 9-year-olds at gymnastics sleepaway camp circa 1987. LOL.
I know what you're thinking, and yes I have perpetrated many fashion misdeeds in my time (let's just say that I owned and frequently made use of a puka shell necklace) so clearly, I'm not above scrutiny. Even my own personal brand of style, something I call the "homeless cowboy™" isn't that cool. Doesn't mean I still can't hate on others though, right?
Labels: Chase the misanthrope
March 17, 2009
wha happen?
The other day in my "capstone" class (the last major course you have to take) we were told to create profiles on pretty much every social networking site available in order to aid in the job search. I did this, but I doubt I'll use them very much. The one site that seemed interesting to me was twitter, even though on the surface it seems like a huge waste of effort. I had heard of twitter before, but since I rarely even use the status feature on Facebook I never joined.
So far my favorite part is following the tweets(?) of semi-famous people like Wil Wheaton from Star Trek: The Next Generation (he's a huge nerd!) and John Hodgman. Also, Shaq seems completely insane the more I see what he writes.
Anyone here use it? Want to be my twitter friend? If not you can still see my meaningless blather here on the sidebar.
http://twitter.com/ChaseMcMurdog
So far my favorite part is following the tweets(?) of semi-famous people like Wil Wheaton from Star Trek: The Next Generation (he's a huge nerd!) and John Hodgman. Also, Shaq seems completely insane the more I see what he writes.
Anyone here use it? Want to be my twitter friend? If not you can still see my meaningless blather here on the sidebar.
http://twitter.com/ChaseMcMurdog
Labels: twitter
March 12, 2009
it's that time again
Bandolier is playing another show at Why Sound, but this time we are headlining so we will have time to do more than five songs. Come see us again or for the first time. Rumor has it that we may even have some type of drum for percussion purposes!
March 6, 2009
What about the purple nurple?
What I should be doing: Working on the myriad of final portfolio projects I need to complete, looking for job leads, brushing my teeth.
What I am doing: Drawing a fictional commemorative set of US postal stamps. The theme is "Tools of childhood bullies."
What I am doing: Drawing a fictional commemorative set of US postal stamps. The theme is "Tools of childhood bullies."
Labels: drawings
March 2, 2009
photo mania
Bandolier had a "photo shoot" a few weeks ago (I don't know why I put that in quotations because that was exactly what it was). Our old friend Jessica Smith took the photos and I think that they came out mighty fine. I was going to put some pictures on here of the recent concert, but I don't have any. Sorry.
Labels: bandolier
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