so last century.

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giant.

he has a posse. and apparently could drink inhuman amounts of booze. i just read such an interesting article on this dude:

horror.

i really enjoy the horrors of it all:

lost art.

in the era of mp3s and ipods, the art of making a mix CD has basically become obsolete. however, i am lucky enough to have an ongoing outlet into this forgotten skill. through my years of bartending at dingo's den, i have become an unofficial jukebox curator. currently, i have 10 mix CDs in their jukebox, and i just got the call yesterday that i love so much... they need more CDs. so i sat in my room last night with a dope chick and a bottle of whiskey and i added 5 more installments to the jukebox.

dingo's den reminds me of something from a quentin tarantino flick. the lighting, the decor and especially the crowd. on any given night it can range from 21 years old to 60 years old. it can range from a pack of burly hell's angels to a bunch of college kids and everything in between. punk rockers, metal heads, bikers, skaters, artists. basically everyone who isn't a guido or some abercrombie douche. and everyone gets along. i've been going there for about 10 years. i worked there full-time for 2 years. i still work there on a fill-in basis. i can count on one hand the number of legitimate fights i've seen in all that time. and that's why it's a great place. people just chill, drink and enjoy the tunes.

so when i put together a mix for the jukebox i try to keep that diverse group of people in mind. in the age of digital jukeboxes, it's very rare to find a really good CD jukebox these days. outside of a few places in the city, dingo's definitely has the best jukebox around.

here's the rundown for the latest additions that i made:

ONE
1. The Weight (Take A Load Off Annie) – The Band
2. I Don’t Care – Black Flag
3. Wasted – Black Flag
4. Fix Me – Black Flag
5. For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
6. Going Up The Country – Canned Heat
7. Hope – Descendents
8. Surf Beat – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
9. Hava Nagila – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
10. Night Rider – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
11. Mr. Eliminator – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
12. Taco Wagon – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
13. Tidal Wave – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
14. Banzai Washout – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
15. Alabama Song – Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
16. Son Of A Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
17. Search And Destroy – Iggy Pop & The Stooges
18. Filler – Minor Threat
19. I Don’t Wanna Hear It – Minor Threat
20. In My Eyes – Minor Threat
21. Die, Die My Darling – The Misfits
22. Children In Heat – The Misfits
23. We Bite – The Misfits
24. Skulls – The Misfits

TWO
1. Regulator – Bad Brains
2. Riot Squad – Bad Brains
3. Destroy Babylon – Bad Brains
4. Big Takeover – Bad Brains
5. Song About Old Roller Coaster – BearVsShark
6. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – The Beatles
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The Beatles
8. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
9. My War – Black Flag
10. Lord Of This World – Black Sabbath
11. A National Acrobat – Black Sabbath
12. Symptoms Of The Universe – Black Sabbath
13. Heart Of Glass – Blondie
14. Runaway – Bon Jovi
15. Orgasm Addict – Buzzcocks
16. Crossbearer – Cave In
17. Wicked Game – Chris Isaak
18. You Fail Me - Converge

THREE
1. Casey Jones – Grateful Dead
2. Friend Of The Devil – Grateful Dead
3. I Know Why – H20
4. Surrounded – H20
5. Family Tree – H20
6. Day-O – Harry Belafonte
7. Jump In The Line – Harry Belafonte
8. Where Eagles Dare – Iron Maiden
9. The Trooper – Iron Maiden
10. Aces High – Iron Maiden
11. 2 Minutes To Midnight – Iron Maiden
12. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice – Jimi Hendrix
13. Ezy Ryder – Jimi Hendrix
14. 1983..(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) – Jimi Hendrix
15. Orange Blossom Special – Johnny Cash
16. I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash
17. Man In Black – Johnny Cash

FOUR
1. Dancing Days – Led Zeppelin
2. Lucille – Little Richard
3. That Smell – Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Trapped Under Ice – Metallica
5. Creeping Death – Metallica
6. Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Nancy Sinatra
7. Southern Man – Neil Young
8. Old Man – Neil Young
9. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) – Neil Young
10. Marigold – Nirvana
11. Curmudgeon – Nirvana
12. Even In His Youth – Nirvana
13. Reborn – Slayer
14. Expendable Youth – Slayer
15. I Hate You – Slayer
16. Fly Like An Eagle – Steve Miller Band
17. The Knife Rises – Superjoint Ritual
18. The Sundering – The Sword
19. Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians – The Sword
20. On The Road Again - Willie Nelson

FIVE
1. Domination – Pantera
2. Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks – Pantera
3. Planet Caravan – Pantera
4. 13 Steps To Nowhere – Pantera
5. I Might Be Wrong – Radiohead
6. The Bends – Radiohead
7. Electioneering – Radiohead
8. Young Turks – Rod Stewart
9. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart
10. 19th Nervous Breakdown – The Rolling Stones
11. Monkey Man – The Rolling Stones
12. Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones
13. Maladjusted – Sick Of It All
14. In The Name Of God – Slayer
15. Point – Slayer
16. Piece By Piece – Slayer
17. 1979 – Smashing Pumpkins

as you can see, it's really all over the place. old and new. heavy and mellow. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond. and that's what makes dingo's such a good spot to chill. not to mention $3 drinks for ladies all day and night, 7 days a week. and you can't beat that with a bat.

sellout.

not that it even needs to be said amongst anyone who knows anything about real music, but green day are a bunch of sellouts. i mean those dudes sold out in the mid-90s when they put out dookie for christ sake. let's get real here. these dude's were playing bars in berkeley in the late 80s. now they are playing madison square garden. i'm sorry, but when you are playing a show to 50,000 people in the middle of manhattan, you are no longer a punk-rock band. you are britney spears. you are fergie or some other pop-culture bullshit.

i mean look at these dudes. this is a picture from the early 90s:


this is green day in 2009, looking like every other emo fag on the planet:


who the fuck are these assholes trying to kid. they are about as punk rock as the bush administration. and now they have all these whiny-sounding ballad songs because that's what is popular with the kids nowadays (record executive horseshit). punk rockers don't have stylists, accountants and publicists. punk rockers piss in gutters and smash beer bottles. punk rockers have throat tattoos and play shows in dive bars. if you think these dudes are "punk", then you are nothing more than one of MTV's little robots and you should kindly throw yourself off the top of a tall building.

you wanna listen to some punk? try buying a black flag album or a (danzig-era) misfits album or a dead kennedys album. or maybe some descendents. how about some old NOFX (who were doing the whole three-cord pop-punk thing way longer and better than green day). the list is endless.

you wanna go see green day and be into green day? fine. they have some catchy songs and that's all good. just don't call them punk rock, because they are anything but.

(ps - the same goes for blink182)

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lobster dinner.

ladies and gentlemen.. may i present to you.. unquestionably the most budget flyer that i have ever done in my entire life:

my man dave from DE hit me up for this yesterday, which he needed on the fly. it's not for print, thank god. i was gonna do it last night, but instead found myself shit drunk and unable to do anything functionable (big surprise). i woke up about an hour before i had to be at work and immediately said "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck". so i jumped onto my laptop and made this embarassing online flyer in about 7 minutes.

now some people might look at this flyer and wonder if that $200 is a typo. and no, it's not a typo. these are a limited-edition release and i've seen them online for $250 in some places. and some people might ask, who the FUCK would pay $200 or $250 for sneakers. and i would answer them, smart people who will never take them out of the box, and then turn around and sell them on ebay in 6 months or a year for double or triple the price. and trust me, that happens. when nike puts out some limited-edition shit like this, kids line up around the block and wait for the skateshop to open just for that reason.

regardless of the crap flyer, if you are a sneaker junkie, you might wanna jump on these quick:

(i hear they are going like hotcakes)

DE also just put out this MJ tribute shirt, which i like because its the cool, black MJ on a skateboard with an afro and not the creepy, white boy-touching MJ in an oxygen tank with a monkey. it comes in blue and white.


don't believe me about the sneakers?
last year, nike released the original lobsters:


look what they are going for on ebay right now:


so if you wanna make yourself a little money and you don't mind a brand new pair of sneakers sitting in a box for a year, take a trip down to the shop:

DIVISION EAST
460 BLOOMFIELD AVE
MONTCLAIR, NJ
973-509-0083

or you could just be a high-roller and walk around in those $200 sneakers like a fucking bad ass. whatever you wanna do.

masking.

mark khaisman makes "paintings" with tape:

recycle.

junior jacquet makes faces from old toilet paper rolls:





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smokes.

they've been around for quite some time now. and they used to look pretty fucking cool:









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grinding.

as most of you know, i do a lot of design work for division east skateshop in montclair. if you aren't familiar, check out the shop sometime - 460 bloomfield ave.

to date, i've done a handful of full-page magazine ads (color and b/w) for focus, the aquarian and others. i've done dozens of flyers which i always post here and on facebook/myspace. i did one sticker (and i have some others in the works). i've done a deck (also more on the way). i did graphics for the old website. i've done flash banners. i've done album artwork and layouts for CDs and DVDs. the only thing i haven't broke into yet is the t-shirt game. but that my friends is about to change. i just sent out the artwork for these on friday:







here are some closeups of the artwork:





not sure what the turnaround will be on these. hopefully we can have them pressed and in the store for back-to-school time. have all the kiddies dipped out in some hot fire. regardless, i have a whole other line already in the works that will hopefully be dropping sometime in the fall/winter. holler if you hear me.

once upon a time.

there was a man named ed hardy. he started off as a tattoo artist in california in the 60s, and was a protege of sailor jerry. hardy's career has spanned over 50 years and includes works like these:






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but low and behold, along comes the 21st century, and ed hardy has the brilliant idea to sell his "name" to none other than christian audigier, the asshole who was responsible for the last onslaught of trendy douchebag gear, von dutch. (remember when every unoriginal toolbox was wearing those stupid trucker hats?) yeah, that guy. so what does he do? he takes the name of a classic american artist, and makes it synonymous with fake-tanning, eyebrow-waxing, fist-pumping scumbags like these dudes:




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congratulations christian audigier, you fucking french fuck. now ed hardy's name will forever be remembered as extra small t-shirts on low-IQ meatheads at the jersey shore. go jerk off with sandpaper you fucking dick.