More analysis graphs by Andrew Kuo.
10/31/07
10/30/07
The Raveonettes
The Raveonettes new album is supposed to drop in March 2008. Here's a taste...
The Raveonettes - Blitzed (mp3)
Dallas launches ads opposing saggy pants
(via adfreak)
adfreak: Dallas launches ads opposing saggy pants: "It’s not just old people complaining about those damn kids and their baggy pants anymore. Now it’s Official Politics. Having solved all of its other problems, the city of Dallas has begun a new ad campaign “aimed at getting residents to pull their pants up.” The campaign so far features three billboards with anti-sagging messages written in secret hipster-kid language (an example of which is, seriously, “That’s Not Hip-Hop, That’s Flip Flop”). There’s also a Web site. Maybe in a few years they’ll get around to denouncing Black Sabbath records, too. Is there really no other issue on their docket? What non-aesthetic harm does pants-sagging cause citizens of Dallas? Whatever the problem is, slogans this lame won’t fix it. In fact, they pretty much guarantee that no teenager will pay any attention, and it’s hard to argue that they should. "
great,
now i'm going to have this little ditty stuck in my head all day.
presumably this is from some kinda of anti-AIDS campaign in India? and it just goes on and on...
presumably this is from some kinda of anti-AIDS campaign in India? and it just goes on and on...
Most Awesomest: Episode 1
Our buddy Savanteous Q Malmsteen loves us sooo much...he sent us a podcast. Be sure to check out his review of the fried foods served up at this years state fair.
"Love is Alive" - Gary Wright
"The Beat That My Heart Skipped" - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
"Midnight Cowboy" - Buddy Merrill
"Ambiguity Song" - Camper Van Beethoven
"Through the Walls" - RJD2 & Ric Ocasek
"Tomboy" - Paul F Thompkins
"Academy Fight Song" - Misson to Burma
"Made You Look" - Nas
"Werewolves of London" - Magnolia Electric Co.
"Political Statement" - Barnes & Barnes
"So Rare" - Chet Atkins
"Arulpragasam" - MC Chris
"The Gold We're Digging" - Parts and Labor
"They Don't Know" - Tracey Ullman
Download mp3
10/29/07
[ingenting] - punkdrommar
"[ingenting] is Swedish for [nothing] and the band was formed late 2003 in Stockholm by Mattias, Tobias, Andreas, Sebastian and John who've been friends since forever...
Despite the fact that Labrador only release Swedish artists, this is actually the very first band which actually sings in Swedish! It's not that we don't like our own language, it's just that this is the first band singing in Swedish that's been amazing enough to be released on Labrador."
[ingenting] page on Labrador Records
[ingenting] - Punkdrommar (mp3)
10/28/07
fotophonic/4100 Main Halloween Party
the fotophonic/4100 Main Halloween party kicked ass. thanks to M, Tober Omi, The Happy Bullets, The White Drugs, and The TahDahs for rocking out, and thanks to everyone who showed up, you rock too...except whoever stole our toothpaste. you don't rock, you just confuse us.
pix by Jordan Lawrence.
and now back to our regularly scheduled hangover.
pix by Jordan Lawrence.
and now back to our regularly scheduled hangover.
10/27/07
A Weird Age
What Made You Weird? - Coilhouse
From one of my new favorite blogs comes the interesting question of what made you weird? Well, for me it was the number of random and sometimes intense books that I read combined with a clash of morals sometime in my early twenties. I can't pinpoint an exact thing but perhaps some of you out the know exactly when you became anormal, something other than the standard or otherwise outside the mainstream.
From one of my new favorite blogs comes the interesting question of what made you weird? Well, for me it was the number of random and sometimes intense books that I read combined with a clash of morals sometime in my early twenties. I can't pinpoint an exact thing but perhaps some of you out the know exactly when you became anormal, something other than the standard or otherwise outside the mainstream.
10/26/07
10/25/07
The Price-Fixed Text
Book Price Fixing, Good, Bad or Just Weird - Cory Doctorow
You might not think it but the way books are priced and distributed has an incredible impact on a nation's cultural mindset. Books that have certain price quotes that are maintained across both the new bookstore purchase and the resale market restrain some texts from reaching a wider audience. Due to that, certain texts that might have a greater impact on a nation's culture is curtailed. It takes longer for such texts to infect the nation's cultural thinking and by that time the cultural viewpoint might have changed. Essentially, price-fixing fucks with the idea of free and open debate occurring in real time, something the Internet abhors. A small group of people touting a text that might not be available either by price or distribution will have less of an impact that one immediately available at a price most people can afford. The new media of blog and internet debate requires immediate access to information, whether contained in a website, a pamphlet or even a full text. Limiting this limits the impact of the text and thus what people can do with the text, how another culture can incorporate that text into their cultural perspective. Most importantly, a important text might not reach the audience it needs to reach due to publisher demands. Thus the idea of price-fixing goes directly against the needs of web culture. This, I think, is something worthwhile fighting against.
fun friday facts - Halloween
HALLOWEEN!
The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day", also which is now known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. The modern holiday of Halloween has its origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain (pronounced /ˈsˠaunʲ/ from the Old Irish samain). The Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is erroneously regarded as 'The Celtic New Year'. Halloween did not become a holiday in the United States until the 19th century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted even the observance of Christmas prior to the 1800s. (from wikipedia.org)
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looks of the day - Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN
This guy compared real comic panels to Roy Lichtenstein's paintings and found the original inspirations and some dead knockoffs. Cool.
Sugarshock!
If your a fan of the Buffy series or the Firefly series or just a Joss Whedon fan in general, you'll be happy to know his new project is a comic book. Sugarshock is a band trying to save the world. With robots, aliens, groupies it has it all. The best part about it..it's free! Yep, it's all online here.
sounds of today - The Bosch
"Greasy twang, driving rhythms, a sense of melody and brevity contribute to a sound that draws on influences from the entirety of rock and roll’s storied history. This is The Bosch, a New York City quartet who sounds something like what might happen ;if Brian Wilson, Dick Dale, and Joey Ramone stayed up all night taking speed pills and Ritalin.'"
The Bosch - Brooklyn Cars (mp3)
The Bosch - Brooklyn Cars (mp3)
10/24/07
Over at Nitrocorpz you can check out mixtapes put together by your favorite designers along with their signature mixtape cover designs. There's alot of lofi Brazilian crap but, a few gems here and there. All in all the mixes range from the horribly bad to pretty freaking awesome. Makes me wonder, would you think twice about buying someones art if you knew what they listened to for inspiration?
sounds of today - The Forms
The Forms are back in form with their eponymous sophmore album, released yesterday.
The Forms - Black Metal (mp3)
10/23/07
sounds of today - Tiny Masters of Today
"Tiny Masters Of Today are aptly named; two tiny kids with an average age of twelve and weighing in at a combined total of 120 pounds. Many would be quick to write them off as some kind of carnivalesque novelty act, but don't be fooled, these kids are cranking out some solid tunes.
Hailing from Brooklyn has it's perks of music relationships, but playing the NYC city scene before you can operate a vehicle can be intimidating. Thanks to some solid praise from Newsweek and finger-on-the-pulse David Bowie, Tiny Masters quickly put together their first LP titled Bang Bang Boom Cake. They've opened up for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Man Man, and Patrick Wolf; subsequently impressing each audience they take by storm." (i guess i'm floating)
[MP3] Tiny Masters Of Today - Hologram World (feat. Karen O & Nick Zinner)
Hailing from Brooklyn has it's perks of music relationships, but playing the NYC city scene before you can operate a vehicle can be intimidating. Thanks to some solid praise from Newsweek and finger-on-the-pulse David Bowie, Tiny Masters quickly put together their first LP titled Bang Bang Boom Cake. They've opened up for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Man Man, and Patrick Wolf; subsequently impressing each audience they take by storm." (i guess i'm floating)
[MP3] Tiny Masters Of Today - Hologram World (feat. Karen O & Nick Zinner)
The Art of CD Cover Design
I like what they are doing at Hard Format, basically archiving cd cover art in a minimalist format that lets the art speak for itself.
from the site:
"It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like "
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sounds of today - The Moot
"The Moot are a two piece female band from the UK who play an original blend of reggae, funk/ Pop and jamming. The line up is Clare (electric guitar and vocals) and Eryl (Drums & backing Vocals) The band have a unique live sound that has often been compared to that of a full band. They like to keep things simple and have a clean and uncluttered sound."
10/22/07
Horse Races, Caribou, the Tah Dahs
Went to Lone Star Park this weekend to watch some of the horse races. Of course I lost money, didn't even make back the cost of admission and beer. Still, it was a hell of a lot of fun, particularly to see such a cross-section of DFW residents, some fakers, but several honest, authentic horsemen. Well worth the money. Afterwards, Miss Info and Chadwick (aka, Gizmo the Gizminator) hauled me over the the Loft for the Caribou set. Phenomenal is one of the few words almost reaching the level of awesomeness they brought to my ears. The crowd was interesting too. Some hipsters, some out and out hippies. A few friends that I was surprised to see and some people who just wanted to talk to me for no damn good reason. But aside from the sonic brilliance of the performance the best fun of the night came at the Tah Dahs show. Half-costume party, half-scenester, the people there seemed to show some genuine enjoyment of the entertainment between the catty comments about each other. There was some tasty beer in the keg but that didn't last long. Also, I have a few excellent photos that survived right before my nemesis scissor-kicked my camera to the ground. Nothing but blur now, and not the good Damon Albarn type. Also had a chance to promote the coming fotophonic Halloween party (of which, I will kill a kitten for each of you who don't show up. I've got a whole sack full in my closet just waiting for the hammer to come down so get your asses over there on Saturday). All in all, it seemed like the fickle local scene was showing some signs of life Saturday night. Do that again and I might start to believe in you people again. Come on, you know you want to make the scene more than it is. Get out there and do it, or else I'm back to killing kittens.
Louder Than Bombs
A Place To Bury Strangers Shut Down By Cops - Pitchfork.com
Now this is the kind of band we need in Dallas. Someone convince John Congleton to buy more amps for the next time Paperchase plays. If my ears aren't bleeding by the end of their next show, I'm asking for my money back.
Now this is the kind of band we need in Dallas. Someone convince John Congleton to buy more amps for the next time Paperchase plays. If my ears aren't bleeding by the end of their next show, I'm asking for my money back.
10/19/07
friday fun facts - marriage
okay, maybe i have weddings on the brain, but here are some facts about the history of marriage.
One nearly universal tradition is that of the engagement ring. This custom can be dated back to the ancient Romans. It is believed that the roundness of the ring represents eternity. Therefore, the wearing of wedding rings symbolizes a union that is to last forever. It was once thought that a vein or nerve ran directly from the "ring" finger of the left hand to the heart. (about.com) In Europe during the Middle Ages, marriage was enacted by the couple promising verbally to each other that they would be married to each other; the presence of a priest or other witnesses was not required. This promise was known as the "verbum". If made in the present tense (e.g. "I marry you"), it was unquestionably binding; if made in the future tense ("I will marry you"), it would constitute a betrothal, but if the couple proceeded to have sexual relations, the union was a marriage. (wikipedia.org).
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"heavy metal is my lifestyle."
The Local - Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction
"A Swedish heavy metal fan has had his musical preferences officially classified as a disability. The results of a psychological analysis enable the metal lover to supplement his income with state benefits...The manager at his new workplace allows him to go to concerts as long as he makes up for lost time at a later point. He is also allowed to dress as he likes and listen to heavy metal while working"
psst....
the word on the street (okay, just in our kitchen) is that the fotophonic house (4100 Main) is throwing an awesome Halloween party and show, Saturday the 27th. $3 for 3 bands and 3 kegs. you can't beat that with a bag full of candy...
a lineup and proper flyer, coming soon.
Friday Fun Facts - A History of Panties: Or How I Learned to Stop Going Commando and Love the Thong
We here at fotophonic.com always enjoy scholarly discourse on the topic of panties, so we thought we would share some facts with you.2000 BC The Corset can be traced back to about 2000 BC. It was open at the front to the waist, leaving the breasts uncovered. Small strips of leather round the waist were used to curve round the outline of the breasts.
17th Century AD Whilst men had worn washable underwear since ancient times, it was not until the 17th century that drawers were worn by women in France and Italy but it was the early 1800's before they arrived in England "drawers" comes from a lower body undergarment that could be "drawn on".
1850s US patents registered for first known bra-like devices.
1912 The term "brassiere" first appears in the Oxford English Dictionary.
History of the Bra
10/8/07
10/4/07
fun friday facts - The Texas State Fair
The Texas State Fair
The Dallas State Fair & Exposition, to which the present State Fair of Texas traces its origin, was chartered as a private corporation on Jan. 30, 1886, by a group of Dallas businessmen. After a series of mishaps and financial failures, the Texas State Fair spurned offers from developers and sold its property to the City of Dallas in 1904 under an agreement that set aside a period each fall to hold the annual exposition. The reorganized State Fair of Texas prospered immediately, establishing new records for receipts and attendance as 300,000 people streamed through the gates in 1905. President William Howard Taft visited the Fair in 1909, and Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech in 1911.
Big Tex made his debut at the 1952 State Fair of Texas. Wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, Tex towered 52' above wide-eyed visitors. The Texas Star Ferris Wheel is North America's largest ferris wheel.
The Dallas State Fair & Exposition, to which the present State Fair of Texas traces its origin, was chartered as a private corporation on Jan. 30, 1886, by a group of Dallas businessmen. After a series of mishaps and financial failures, the Texas State Fair spurned offers from developers and sold its property to the City of Dallas in 1904 under an agreement that set aside a period each fall to hold the annual exposition. The reorganized State Fair of Texas prospered immediately, establishing new records for receipts and attendance as 300,000 people streamed through the gates in 1905. President William Howard Taft visited the Fair in 1909, and Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech in 1911.
Big Tex made his debut at the 1952 State Fair of Texas. Wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, Tex towered 52' above wide-eyed visitors. The Texas Star Ferris Wheel is North America's largest ferris wheel.
Parts and Labor - The Gold We're Digging
some sweet eye candy to get you through the day before Friday.
10/2/07
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon is going to be doing his thing over at the Ghostbar tonight....wait where? Ah Crap!
Update: We won't be bringing you any pics from this show. After trekking down to the Ghostbar we were told we are neither Rich or Pretty by the door people because we were not on the guest list. They did give us the option of buying a VIP pass to get in for a mere $50.....we declined.
10/1/07
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