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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: DEVO HAS ANNOUNCED A 10-DATE HARDCORE TOUR!!!

« on: March 30, 2014, 11:29:50 PM »

I am so fucking there for that Chicago show!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since they're skipping any hometown shows, I'll see you there spud.

for some reason the 'chicago' show is actually in st charles. since there are only going to be 9 other shows in the whole world, that isn't really that big of a deal. the price is probably gonna be shitty though..  but for now i am still planning on trying to get a ticket as soon as they put them out there

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Music Shit / Re: Gwar front man DEAD

« on: March 27, 2014, 11:02:37 PM »

oddly i found out about this thru my mom.

Funny. My mom was actually a fan of them...becuz of the live show.

Friends played Gwar covers in my basement for our graduation party in 90.
I was accosted by Brockie during a Chicago Weekend Of Horrors at a urinal stall.
The whole band was there shopping around the convention, well past their show load-in time.
They seemed way more interested in Fulci bootleg tapes than playing that nite. I believe they had a Christian Life mini-school bus to tour in back then?
The highlight to most of the Seattle Gay Pride parades was watching Gwar argue with Fred Phelp's congregation in the gas station parking lot adjacent to Vertigo.

Total dude. RIP.

i am so fucking bummed, still. will be for a long time. have been to plenty shows, last being about six or eight months ago. on the last tour they came through (milwaukee was always the cheaper more reasonable option) the show was on a weeknight and totally forgot about it. the person i was going to go with also forgot about it. "oh well! they come through twice a year usually. they'll probably be here in spring. we'll just go see them then. and they do the big touring in fall." really wish either of us would have remembered.

anyway. that weekend of horrors wasn't the first time i experienced gwar, but in person it was. my dad would take me to those things (my idea of fun - not his!) at a time when i was really deep into reading fangoria and watching horror movies nonstop. i had seen gwar on the 'gorgon video magazine' when i was 7 or 8 and was blown away, but as there wasn't really any info out there that was obtainable by someone that was 8 years old in a time when the internet wasn't exactly a 'thing' yet, i kind of forgot about them,... briefly.
at that weekend of horrors (was it 90? 91? 92?) not only were they all walking around in full costume (i recall either don as bozo or hunter as techno standing in line in front of me in the food court area) but they sold me the first gwar comic that day. i was blown the fuck away! a few months later i picked up Hell-O! at best buy, and eventually they became the first band i loved in a more than passive or even regular way.

dave's got 58 chapters of his life story up on RVA or richmond virginia news or something similar, mostly dealing with death piggy and gwar. by the 58th and final chapter, he was only covering the 'death tour 89'.. he stopped writing them a while back for unknown reasons. i really wish he would have done some more - at least up to the mid/late 90s, but i doubt anything exists on paper or on his computer otherwise there wouldn't have been such a massive gap from then until now. sad that his recollections of his life had to be cut short.

really hope bob gorman gets that dim times documentary + coffee table book finished eventually.

also: dave worked like a motherfucker. can't think of any years when there wasn't at least one huge tour, usually with a smaller one the following spring with the same set, but also all of the work that went into it - including boiling inside of those full body suits nightly - and there really was no end in sight until this happened. yeah. i'm not doing too well with this unfortunate news.

edit   here - http://rvanews.com/tag/me-and-the-onrushing-grip-of-death

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Non-Music Shit / Re: andy kaufman fans

« on: November 17, 2013, 07:44:00 PM »

I don't believe a fucking word of it, of course, but the fact that the joke's obviously been lovingly perpetuated by his friends & family for nearly 30 years gives me more faith in humanity than Nelson Mandela, spandex and the Choke At Doak put together. No tears.

i think it's really cool that his brother is keeping the 'andy is alive!' thing going (if nothing else, and really there is nothing else, it's probably something they talked about when andy was terminal and on his way out?) for so long. but after watching the 'daughter', he really could have picked a different aspiring actress. her delivery was fucking awful.

also anyone see the tony movie that zmuda put out maybe a decade ago or so ? it is pretty entertaining. only copy i've seen was a low res version that probably originated when it was briefly on youtube. lynne margulies sold dvds of it for a while but it doesn't appear that she has any intention of bringing back any of her andy stuff anytime soon

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: November 17, 2013, 07:40:02 PM »

that last one is fascinating but i don't understand. lungs? is it real? is that in reverse?  i've got so many questions!!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Eastbound and Down

« on: November 17, 2013, 07:38:09 PM »

the ending was pretty good. still kind of think the season wasn't necessary and while it was heavy on laughs it really didn't seem to add too much to the three part story arc that was the first three seasons, but i watched them all and that's more than i can say for most of the other shows on television these days.

so then. i liked it.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Eastbound and Down

« on: October 29, 2013, 09:07:17 PM »

i hope it's all just a coma dream like that first half of the last seasons of sopranos or however many episodes that was

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Comix / Graphic Novels / Etc.

« on: October 23, 2013, 09:35:38 PM »

also someone asked if the eightball stuff was easily available, it kinda is, but fantagraphics is doing a 'complete eightball' which doesn't actually collect the whole span (minus the last one or two or three issues?) but the rest of it, yeah
i don't think it was priced at cheap
two hardcover volumes

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Comix / Graphic Novels / Etc.

« on: October 23, 2013, 09:29:44 PM »

i finally got the doofus omnibus when fantagraphics had a huge sale in may and HOLY SHIT i was missing out for a long long time
always thought rick drew too good and doofus was a little too detailed, too ugly, but i guess that is part of the point.
i wish it was longer. so much longer

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Eastbound and Down

« on: October 01, 2013, 06:11:43 PM »

i liked it but hopefully he actually dies at the end of this season

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Breaking Bad

« on: September 23, 2013, 11:26:36 AM »

also just glad it will be back to denny's next week - wondering if it will be mid-episode of if that actually is going to come in the last 5-10 minutes of the show.

still glad it's over and still 'a fan' i think they did stretched 5 (technically 6?) seasons out of a story that would have generally gone bad after two seasons if not sooner, and i was always worried it would, and unlike a lot of people here i still think it's good. after last weeks episode i really wasn't expecting any action in last night's ep, thought it would be almost exactly what it was - stretched out, waiting. small amount of really important events took place. one hour to go!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Breaking Bad

« on: September 23, 2013, 11:23:27 AM »

dad's been undergoing chemo since February for Myeloma and there's been no hairloss. Chemo ain't radiation

sorry about your dad and i hope he recovers but thanks for the answer. I really didn't know, and have always been under the impression that it caused hair loss - worked with a lady who had it over a decade ago that lost her hair, and the two people I knew who had cancer with chemotherapy also had radiation I guess because it definitely shed them of all of their hair. i guess that would have been the high dose with radiation. I also took that into consideration that it was a  possibility as he was just getting an IV drip in the cabin and nothing else

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Breaking Bad

« on: September 22, 2013, 11:27:24 PM »

did saul really not know? i thought he was just surprised to find out he was still there....   i do have a question though. with walt growing his hair out AND having saul's guy show up/administer chemotherapy multiple times when it is presumed the hair was growing out... are there certain chemo treatments that don't involve hair loss? or did i miss the part where the beard and hair were just pasted on to disguise his identity?  i am genuinely curious and i figure it would have been one of the first things writers would have addressed, so maybe it is possible to be in treatment and not lose the hair? again, i just have no idea about that...

but yeah, too many breaks this week. my only real complaint. of course amc is going to milk the most likely close to superbowl-rate ad space. despite it's continued success they also seem to be shitting their pants over the shows end - remember how that awful low winter sun or whatever the fuck it is called was FORCED onto viewing audiencences for the first couple weeks in the "preview for next week's BB at the first commercial break in our brand new shitty show - we're gonna wait it out for a half hour before we do that though."

saul's presumed exit from the show was good i thought. even though better call saul is being presented as a 'prequel', i kind of expected him to survive because it would be weird to have a show a year later or however long until it happens where the character was killed off - i guess there's still next week, but it definitely seemed like he got a clean break and is no longer going to be a part of anything that is happening. (side note - caught the bob & david and posehn live show in chicago on friday - fucking great!)

anyway i liked the episode, have liked this season and all season, can't wait for it to be over in less than a week. it's been entertaining.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: GTA V

« on: September 21, 2013, 11:43:47 PM »

i DO NOT play video games, but was over at someone's house last night before we were going out to do something. when he paused the game to get ready, i asked if i could play.... i have no desire to fulfill missions or any of that shit, but it's really fun to fuck around. looks fantastic. was fun to crash into other cars, attempt to jump over bodies of water (almost cleared it), got out of a car and punched a lady in the face, stole someone's car who was listening to the reggae station and eventually ran them over while they were trying to get me out of their car? got out of the car on the freeway and got hit by one car, head run over by another and still stood up to steal another car... also when my friend was playing the missions, i watched that dog get distracted and fuck another dog who was in the alley

it was a good 45 minutes of dicking around. i guess that's one of the cool things about gta games. if you don't play games regularly you can still have a lot of fun

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Cops on facebook, friending local DIY/punk scenes.

« on: June 13, 2013, 09:44:11 PM »

why they gotta bring THE JERK into alla this

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: May 20, 2013, 11:31:02 AM »

Schitzo 2 was, to me, the absolute apex/nadir of self-hate, regardless of artistic delivery method. I never even grabbed #4, I still like Ivan quite a bit but that material shouldn't have "Schitzo" as its title.

the cover on schizo 2 is the best one! the letters section from the other comic book artists was pretty great


and yeah. i still like him too! i don't think the kind of person who published those first three issues would have survived much longer, so it's good that he got his shit evened out. he's the 'assistant professor in graphic design' at columbia college in chicago, has been for a while. other than that i don't know much of what he is up to.

the first three issues of schizo are in a  hardcover called 'misery loves comedy' - full color covers, extra material not from schizo, blah blah blah...