who even listens to this stuff?

My girlfriend likes to tell people that I (in sarcastic voice) Drop hot techno beats.
In reality, very little of the music I deal with is formal "techno". I couldn't tell her that because she thinks it's dumb on some levels. I'm inclined to agree with her. Who really cares? As long as it's relevant, fun and engaging why sweat taxonomy?

I do have to say that the verbal pigeonholing of dance music subsubgenres becomes a valuable tool when I need to find a certain needle sound in the internet haystack of available music. Thats why I have to insist that this is not techno, but dubstep. It would be possible to further describe the following mix, but it would just be convoluted and extraneous. Simply listen for those LFO wobbles and hammerfall percussion lines and you'll know what's what. seriously. And get a SOUNDCLOUD account. It's radstical.


Torqux n Twist - SkrewFace Mix by Torqux

this is a real show

The Knife Show comes on once a week, is 6 hours long and predominantly hosted by a guy who is pretty much Hank Hill. Michela and I both saw them misspell tortoise as TOURTOUS and TORTIOSES a minute ago.











Don't watch high or your eyeball might fall out of your face and onto the floor.

milking the chihuahua

He didn't know.

Family Fun and Fellowship on blogger.

If my family had a blog when I was growing up it would have been called "I'm going to kill him this time, I swear to god."

elija in concert

front row and I'm tripping balls.

I know you know

but this video is the shit.

way to be, Lee.

Lee Walton Spent some time at elsewhere filming for a project. There were cameras everywhere aimed at people doing very mundane things. I have no idea what the final product is going to be (maybe that was it) but either way I'm stoked to have been a part of it.

Lee is clever. What's more, he's inspiring. He gave a presentation of his work over the years and I was tearing up with laughter. One project of particular hilarity was "F'book", video reenactments of status updates.


Here is a video i found today called "pulling strings" that's pretty charming.




look out for this guy... he's a real winner and go-getter.
Check out his website for more radicality.


be sure to check out "making changes"

Fake is Gr8- Mark Jenkins in winston salem

Mark Jenkins is a social practice artist. That basically means that the physical products of his work are tools for establishing a particular interaction. These are not sculptures but props for a performance that takes place every time they are looked at by the viewer. As Stephen Maticjio (Curator, SECCA) quotes him:


And while these agents can be considered in the tradition of sculpture, Jenkins sees them less as art, and more as “questions.” More
specifically, he places these objects into the environment with no intention of reclaiming
them – allowing these questions/agents to “live” in public space without
restrictions, labels, or expectations.

(the rest of the essay available here)

I saw him speak at SECCA in winston-salem with some other folks from Elsewhere Artist Collective, since we do some of the ole' social practice art ourselves and I was pretty underwhelmed by the guy. He's not a terribly great speaker and his artwork lost a good deal of it's punch when I heard him describe it's more shocking aspects with a blithe and affected tone of boredom.

This was especially annoying when he dealt with the moment at which these mock humans could be described as a mean practical joke on the viewer. This piece got a police report, since it looks like a corpse:

There was a guy standing next to me at the lecture was absolutely livid at this. I was embarrassed because the man was turning red with anger, getting shriller and shriller as he repeated the phrase "Isn't it just advertising for you when this happens? People get scared! you profit from fear" and he kept saying "well, that's just, like, your opinion"...

I still like the guy's work, but don't look for anything more profound than the "wow, neat." moment.

here's some neat stuff from winston.













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wow. Lee Walton is way cooler anyway.

on your grave

so wrong i had to post it twice...


thanks candied paint/;.