Fish heads, fish heads…by Barnes & Barnes

Eat them up, yum.

Well, this is a weird one. People always look at me funny when I talk about avant garde art in LA, but I tell ya, there are a lot of former art and fine art grads out there with soul killing nine-to-fivers, money to toss at their dreams, and memberships at Beyond Baroque. They’ve got to do something with their spare time.

Say hello to Barnes & Barnes. You get a sense of just how far out these guys really are when you realize that Dr Demento plays the straight man.

How are my darling little Spazchow heads? Fine? That’s swell! It’s 2007. Time is passing us by quickly. We’re getting older. One day we’ll all die and go to heaven. Or perhaps hell. You never can be too sure…Ya know, the internet is a wondrous thing. It makes me wanna say TOOMP!…

Man, is it ever a great time to be a B & B fan, or what?! And be nice to Billy Mumy, he’s really not a bad fellow. I mean it was touch and go there for awhile, but he got through it and now he’s just fine! Make sure to shout out a Down Hetta Hetta to him every once in awhile. Be sure to eat your vegetables and change your socks. Wash your hands after using the toilet and don’t leave the seat up. And fellows, when you drip, clean the rim, will ya?

Thanks and be sure to stay in touch and try to patronize Mr. Mumy and buy his music. He needs cash real bad.

Your extra special pal,
the ever reclusive Artie Barnes….

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look here!

television

and now for some words from our sponsors:

Henry Rollins

and

Todd Alcott

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WWTJD? What would Tom Jones do?

Well, it’s a question. When I was little I used to ask myself what Anne Murray would do…then it became Kate Jackson. Yeah, that’s how old I am!

In any case, men can do a lot worse than to ask themselves: What Would Tom Jones Do? Think about it: rudderless milquetoasts everywhere suddenly become assertive, seductive, sweaty, ice-cool, red hot, and Welsh-American-accented!

From CulturePulp, by Mike Russell

What Would Tom Jones Do?

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Marcia, my Marcia

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha

“It is not enough to succeed. One’s friends must also fail.”

Oscar Wilde
who really knew what he was talking about.

 

 

All the Love in the World
Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails

Watching all the insects march along
Seem to know just right where they belong
Smears of face reflecting in the crawl
Hiding in the crowd, I’m all alone

No one’s heard a single word I’ve said
They don’t sound as good outside my head
It looks as though the past is here to stay
I’ve become a million miles away

Why do you get all the love in the world? (x2)

All the jagged edges disappear
Colors all look brighter when you’re near
The stars are all afire in the sky
Sometimes I get so lonely I could…

Why do you get all the love in the world? (x4)
Why do you get all the love in the world? (x4)
Why do you get all the love in the world?
(repeated many times, as if you could ever repeat it enough)

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label abuse

tshirt label

Voulez-vous parlez en Francais, ce soir?

Mostly we at the ol’ raincoaster blog decry labels as the sinister tools of a bigoted and hierarchical bourgeois hegemony, but every now and again we see one which is not only like, totally right on, it is the veritable shizznit itself.

And so it is with this label, which we obtained from the astronomy blog of Molly Peeples, via the political blog of Frontier Former Editor. And I have no doubts one should not wash in cold water, dry scrunched up, use bleach, dry in the dryer, or iron.

And yea, I am inordinately proud that I didn’t need the translation (although I do need the keyboard accent hints, it seems).

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