oh Poison Ivy, if only you were real. this world needs to suffer. The Presets ARE AMAZING by the way. this is their song called Pretty Little Eyes with a touching video tribute from editor Allure75, whom has a bunch of other goofy sci-fi/nerd video/porn tributes on his YouTube channel here. i’m a particular fan of his My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult’s Daisy Chain For Satan video remix with scenes of teens doing drugs cut together from 21 Jump Street. Too. UTTERLY. Amazing.
Faith No More!!! fuck yes fuck yes fuck yes!!! they’re going to have trouble selling Saturday, but otherwise, hellz to the yeah, Coachella! break out the drugs, party people. jesus satan will see you in April. tickets go on sale Friday, Jan 22nd at 10am via Ticketmaster and the Coachella site.
talk about a bad trip! TONIGHT Grindhouse presents the cult classic An American Hippie In Israel at the Steve Allen Theater. the cheeseball psychedelic masterpiece of terrible is screening after thirty-one years of obscurity. seems like it will probably be full of antidisestablishmentarianism. and also drugs. lots of drugs. i have no idea why but The Ettes are also bringing their Nashville lo-fi garage rock to the night. this seems like a whole lot of amazing for only $10, and movies actually sell out at the Steve Allen a lot so get your tickets in advance here. (The Ettes are also playing tomorrow night at the Echo - tickets here for only $8.) “shut your ass!” (*update: there are cheaper tickets available through Goldstar here. get them fast, it stops a few hours before the show.)
talk about a bad trip! Tuesday, January 19th the cheeseball psychedelia of An American Hippie In Israel is screening after thirty-one years of obscurity at the Steve Allen Theater. seems like it will be full of antidisestablishmentarianism. and also drugs. lots of drugs. i have no idea why but The Ettes are also bringing their Nashville lo-fi garage rock to the night. this seems like a whole lot of amazing for only $10, and movies actually sell out at the Steve Allen a lot so get your tickets in advance here. (The Ettes are also playing at the Echo the next night on the 20th - tickets here for only $8.) “shut your ass!” (*update: there are now cheaper tickets available through Goldstar here.)
tonight Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are playing the Mayan in Los Angeles. here are a couple of nonsensical videos (or, if you really think about it (i.e. do drugs) are they sensical??? nahhhhh……) from their eponymous debut, Up From Below. also, the chanting guy in the beginning of Desert Song is real footage of Sharpe’s father getting his om on with little baby Edward in his arms, which kind of gives you a sense of where the singer is coming from… literally.
just in case you couldn’t figure out the plot (likely), here’s the full synopsis for the second video from ESATMZ’s Myspace post: Part 2: Kisses Over Babylon is the second installment of SALVO!, a 12-part feature-length music video series from Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. Kisses picks up in the same desert wasteland world, ravaged by drought. Edward is arrested by two Minors (police from Ursa Minor) for the murder of his own father, and taken to a water-labor prison. There he reunites with Brother, his long-ago friend, and rallies the prisoners to a frenzied prison break. Edward and Brother escape, followed closely by the the mysteriously recalcitrant prison guard Croc…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have released a new video for Kisses Over Babylon. it’s the second release in a scheduled twelve part opus where Edward is wandering through the desert of his own ego or something incredibly pretentious and self-involved like that. don’t get me wrong, i’m really digging on the Edward Sharpe et al, and i’m totally looking forward to their upcoming show on December 14th at the Mayan. (tickets are still available here. last show sold out if i recall correctly, so pick them up fast.) Kisses Over Babylon also totally has an Ennio Morricone sound to it, which is awesome and makes it hardly surprising as to how much the video looks like it was directed by Sergio Leone.
we’ve posted the first video for Desert Song previously, but you (kind of) need to watch them in order to follow the narrative (?), so here are both. i’d like to reiterate that the chanting guy in the beginning of Desert Song is real footage of Sharpe’s father getting his om on with little baby Edward in his arms. kind of gives you a sense of where the singer is coming from… literally. (the video for Kisses Over Babylon is after the jump)
so, it turns out that hugging the normal way is sinful you dirty birdys. shame on you! shame on you for christ! i have no idea who these painfully white children are, the E G Cummings or something (wouldn’t that be ironic!) and i don’t actually care. although you should be on the lookout because they’re probably playing a high school assembly near you.
finally, L.A. has a festival worthy of Pitchfork status. the F Yeah Festival (previously the Fuck Yeah Fest) has gone even more wuss and titled themselves the FYF Fest this year, but what they are lacking in balls they have more than made up for with a crazy gigantor lineup of indie superstars, and yes, ‘indie superstars’ is totally a contradiction in terms…
tomorrow is the day, and the show is being headlined by The Black Lips, Tim & Eric, and Lightning Bolt, plus a ton of other WTTD favs like No Age, The Thermals, Glass Candy, Mika Miko, Crystal Antlers, Telepathe, Peanut Butter Wolf, Har Mar Superstar, and (TINT fav) Wavves, who is, hilariously, WAYYYYY down on the list. there are a ton of other acts, too. you can see the posted lineup, set times, etc., at the FYF site.
and all this for a whopping twenty bucks? FUCK YEAH! oh, i mean FY! they’re also saying that it’s a “Save Our State Parks Festival”, and i’m not sure exactly if money is supposed to go to the state parks or whatever because the site says they’re just raising ‘awareness’, which is a little sketchy. there is a whole dollar being added for charity, though. so i guess they’re doing more than i am. well fuck that. no one outclasses jesus satan, FYF Fest! here. now i’m raising awareness.
Far East Movement is whatev, kind of like a lame version of LMFAO, but this flyer is absolutely fucking sick and Control at Avalon is usually fun and a good place to score drugs, plus there is a fashion show and you just know how much jesus satan loves fashion. so if you’ve got nothing else going on (likely), head on down.
Pee-Wee’s entry here is only number twenty, and it just gets better from there, including videos from Star Wars warning against the dangers of polio, Thundercat hoes commanding you not to drink alcohol and, i shit you not, a PSA from David Lynch on littering. more or less, a plethora of shills most likely doing public service as part of their parole for drug busts. excellent post, Topless Robot, well played.
(this one below was always my favorite as a kid. i must have seen it a thousand times, often high, and guess what you Nancy Reagan-era-Just-Say-No-wasting-our-tax-dollar-do-gooder-morons… i’ve done so many drugs you wouldn’t believe. epic fail. EPIC FAIL.)
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