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Interview: Earl Sweatshirt

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:42:10 +1000

I wrote the story on the cover of Brisbane’s Scene Magazine this week, which is an interview with Earl Sweatshirt. He’s heading around Australia for an EarlWolf tour and this story’s touring as well, running in street press in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. I get paid four times, but four times street press money still isn’t much.

“There was no, like, joining processes,” Earl says of becoming part of Odd Future. “We did songs and then that’s how that happened. We just started doing music together. We did ‘Couch’ and ‘Asthma’ first out of anything and then it just happened naturally. It wasn’t like, ‘All right, man. Fucking jump through this hoop and beat this wizard and you can be down with me and my homies.’”

quainthaven: constantine house Always reblog Thief...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:58:37 +1000

quainthaven:

constantine house

Always reblog Thief screenshots.

"jingle wallet"

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:22:30 +1000

Via Scarfolk.

If you were upset that the bit with the giant in Eurovision only went for a few seconds last night,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:57:00 +1000

If you were upset that the bit with the giant in Eurovision only went for a few seconds last night, watch this gif until you’ve got your money’s worth.

Something for the weekend, 18/05

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:22:27 +1000

New music and words about it here. Stuff from CSS, Seja, Har Mar Superstart, Nocando, Andrew Tuttle and Scout Niblett.

Scout Niblett wants revenge. Whoever wronged her is about to get badly messed up by her and her gun, and her guitar, and her drums. This bundle of grungy menace is accompanied by a video that’s as twee as anything, with Niblett dressing as Snow White to hang out at the fair, have her photo taken and play with bubbles. I expect your essays on juxtaposition on my desk by Monday afternoon, class.

zpxlng: The Wraith - animated! Some years ago, Rebecca Clements...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:31:19 +1000

zpxlng:

The Wraith - animated!

Some years ago, Rebecca Clements made this amazing animated version of an old Raymondo Person strip. Somehow, it still has only a few hundred views on YouTube! What the heck??

So I’m posting it here in hopes of many hearts and reblogs.

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:01:41 +1000

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!:

thehawkeyeinitiative:

I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done; they perfectly took the concept of The Hawkeye Initiative one…

I am totally serious about LEGO The Lord of the Rings, by the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:06:24 +1000

I am totally serious about LEGO The Lord of the Rings, by the way. It’s a game that will let you be LEGO Legolas happily riding a pig through Hobbiton, but you also get to be Theoden at Helm’s Deep, riding out FOR WRATH, FOR RUIN, AND THE RED DAWN. Which is amazing.

For some reason I don’t understand LEGO The Lord of the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:03:00 +1000

For some reason I don’t understand LEGO The Lord of the Rings didn’t win every award there is. Tiny Sauron smashes things!

Live Review: Tenacious D

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:33:18 +1000

I saw Tenacious D last night. Then I wrote a thing about that.

There’s a contradiction to what Tenacious D do. They’re strutting, posing rock egomaniacs while also being unfit, schlubby ordinary guys, and that’s the heart of their whole shtick. But go one layer deeper and they’re actually great musicians who deserve respect pretending to be ordinary guys pretending to be rock stars. Jack Black can hit every ridiculous high note and Kyle Gass performs guitar wizardry, then takes a break for a flute solo (or maybe it was a recorder, I was too busy being impressed to notice).

grimelords: a heaving mound of film critics clamouring over each other’s sweaty bodies to be the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:18:03 +1000

grimelords:

a heaving mound of film critics clamouring over each other’s sweaty bodies to be the first to write THE OKAY GATSBY in an email to their editor

A stalwart tower of editors preparing to reply, “Our house style is to use ‘OK’.”

theremina: jennimiller: synecdoche: goth summer 2k13 Might...

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:58:33 +1000

theremina:

jennimiller:

synecdoche:

goth summer 2k13

Might have to buy this.

Reblogged because the model has an American Steel tattoo. SOOOOO much <3.

I went to a Matt & Kim concert last night and all that energetic happiness made me desperate for something mopey, made me want to go home and watch Requiem For A Dream. So yeah.

Interview: Tim Steward of We All Want To

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:55:00 +1000

I have an interview with Brisbane band We All Want To in the latest issue of Melbourne magazine Beat.

I have this image in my head of Tim Steward as a bit of a cranky, curmudgeonly guy. Maybe not back in his Screamfeeder days, but certainly in his more recent acts, both The Whats – who have a gleefully misanthropic song called Ants where Steward imitates other people’s boring conversations by singing “Blah blah blah, misery!” – and We All Want To.

In the case of We All Want To it’s because they kicked off last year’s great album Come Up Invisible with a song where Steward rants about all the things he thinks you should stop doing, like “Stop writing letters to yourself, you’re never gonna read ’em” and “Stop caressing your phone!” Predictably, in person he turns out to be totally pleasant even when being interviewed at 10 in the morning, happy to answer questions from someone who uses a phone to take photos at gigs.

mckelvie: kierongillen: idontlikemyhairneat: marlo-noni: kate...

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:44:04 +1000

mckelvie:

kierongillen:

idontlikemyhairneat:

marlo-noni:

kateoplis:

Jarmusch’s vampire film (!), Only Lovers Left Alive, added to Cannes’ competition lineup.

Well, this is a hell of a thing.

WHAT

I KNOW!?!

hang on is this a real thing that exists in reality for real

This movie is going to be very gif-able, isn’t it?

bargainbinblasphemy: The Great Deceiver. As if the existence...

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:34:04 +1000

bargainbinblasphemy:

The Great Deceiver.

As if the existence of an album of Christian exercise music called Firm Believer wasn’t amazing enough.

There is a hidden object game based on the TV show Castle and even though the game is called Castle:...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:32:05 +1000

There is a hidden object game based on the TV show Castle and even though the game is called Castle: Never Judge A Book By Its Cover I kind of am.

I played all the way through a hidden object game based (loosely) on H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Cats Of Ulthar once and that was enough for me and not even Nathan Fillion’s winning smile can convince me otherwise.

Something for the weekend, 04/05

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:11:59 +1000

Another week, another batch of new songs recommended over at FasterLouder. This time: Tricky, Bloods, Tame Impala (yeah, it’s the OutKast cover), Chance the Rapper, and Maria Mena.

Norwegian singer Maria Mena has the same reaction to people being jerks on the internet as everyone and she’s not the first person to write a song about it, but the peculiar way her accent and singing style turn “fuck you” into a twisting multi-branched thing mean that I am going to enjoy launching into this chorus the next time someone on the internet gives me a good reason to. Which will probably be every five minutes from now until the day they turn it off.

Twitter doesn’t exist and neither do phones and you’re in an asylum in 1742 staring at...

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:53:23 +1000

Twitter doesn’t exist and neither do phones and you’re in an asylum in 1742 staring at your hand saying “One Direction are trending again.”.
— Robert Florence (@robertflorence) April 16, 2013

Although I suppose there have been other moments on Twitter that are pretty OK.

I’m sorry Ms. Jackson (Oooooo)/ I am four eels/ Never meant to make your daughter cry/ I am...

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:44:16 +1000

I’m sorry Ms. Jackson (Oooooo)/ I am four eels/ Never meant to make your daughter cry/ I am several fish and not a guy
— Josh Nalven (@JNalv) February 20, 2013

Can’t believe we’re still bothering with Twitter months after it was perfected. Never gonna beat that.

skatebush: Backside Air

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:50:08 +1000

skatebush:

Backside Air