last year jacquie o and i hyped these guys like we have hyped no other band EVER. and later that week, like three people showed up at the delancey downstairs. c'mon guys...do you not trust us? well now you're lucky enough to have another chance to see them on may 13th at the mercury, and may 16th at rothko. braid your hair. put on your tightest, pinkest pants. and come check out the band that started it all. yeah.

ghostland observatory










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I mean, come on. I know Bush jokes are too easy and too frequent, but this is funny.

I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.

It's official, the soundtrack to my summer is going to be Gnarls Barkley. I am in LOVE! The music is so AMAZING. I wish my uploading abilities were working because I would post some songs. Anyways, they're playing Webster Hall and it's SOLD OUT, ugh! If anyone has any connections to Webster Hall or the black community and can get me in I would clean your apartment NAKED! Please help me, make a boy smile!

:: go go gadget gospel! ::
:: crazy ::
:: who cares? ::
:: just a thought ::

(blogger maid wuz here 2006)

What happens when you cross He-Man and the Big Lebowski? Pure GENIUS!The Big Hebowski

help jonathan enjoy his 15 seconds of fame.

"I entered a 15 second film in an online film contest that is a part of
American Express’ "My Life. My Card" campaign. Check it out, if Scorcese and
M. Night Shyamalan like it, I could win a trip to New York City!"

it's so good. watch, then click the stars to vote it for top audience award. or just take him out for an "arnold palmer" (iced tea lemonade) at starbucks. he loves those.

This is not a joke! This commercial is for real and I want to know which one of you concepted, wrote copy, and executed this gem. Oozinator

if you haven't already heard the controversy about jack white "shilling" for a coke commercial in australia, uh, people are pretty pissed.









i think it's a cool spot, even if it totally apes michel gondry. although to be fair, i don't know anything about the director, so maybe he's she's 82... been doing stuff like that for years and gondry ripped him her off. who knows. who cares. i like.

:: WATCH jack white coke commercial [extended] ::

(via the modern age)

also NME wins for best related headline.

and in other red-centric news:
adicolor red directed by roman coppola launched yesterday - watch here.

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except of course when they want to give me free swag and cheap drinks. SIN SIN on 2nd Ave @ 5th street from 6-10... there will be half price drinks that whole time served along side some badass beats... this party is sponsored by AOL and there will free stuff floating around.

X-Cuse me for one moment while I x-tol myself.

Everyone knows I'm a big X-Men freak, borderline nutjob. So you can imagine my x-citement when I got to do a little (a lot) X-Men: The Last Stand (the third X-Men movie) freelance work for their website.

It's a search engine that works from a keyword database. I wrote all the responses. Sounds more technical than it is. Just type in a word, any word, and it'll give you a response. It's intended to enter "Wolverine", "Storm", "Cyclops", and other X-Men related things, but go on. You know you want to enter something vulgar. And there'll be an appropriate response waitin' for ya.

Other non-Nate X-Men news, you can watch the trailer here.

In the second installment of the "Don't you wish you were there?" series, I'm featuring the bitchingist party ever, Matt S's 52nd birthday smash (4/20). Yes, that's us partying on the street. And yes, New York is the best town ever when you're playing rotational ping pong on a hot spring night.

AmEx got Wes and we got Dr.*$#@er. God is Evil.

Music For Robots has Mike Skinner's video commentary of The Streets' The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living.

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

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so last week i was still in kansas. here's a neat sunset...


i'd sooner cut off someone's hands than pay three dollars for a gallon of gas.


matt did it like this. he did it like that. he struck out.


randy was on his best behavior, and for being so good, he got some milk and pickles. his favorite.


that's all. i'll see you guys at the wedding. hurry up and get here.

Labels: my week

Billboard liberator Ron English shows his paintings at Opera gallery in SoHo.





Barnstormer extraordinaire Phil Frost, is having a solo show at the jack shainman gallery in chelsea.

fox has created an advergame that has american dad going against the family guy, ninja style. i'm for the family guy all the way. the biggest problem is they left brian out.

you know you are a top gun graffiti tagger when you hit Air Force One with the slogan "Still Free". Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises gave the US gov. a bit of a shakeup w/ this video. before they could get out the paint buckets it became clear this was all an elaborate hoax. this is what the AP had to say about it.

since we are on the topic of graffiti, the brooklyn museum will be presenting a graffiti exhibition june 30th-sept. 3rd.


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UPDATE - natalie adds:


This is my old boss (well, the ex-worldwide chief CD) at Publicis. Dave Droga, of Droga5, apparently. p.s. Bridget, pls note the director - !

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stroke a cock for a good time. and a good cause.

Happy Friday everyone: Punch Out

a "let's do this" video.



maybe after our prom.
(more prom details to come)

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Fake Breast Doc Busted

Florida man, 76, fingered in door-to-door free screen scheme

APRIL 19--Meet Philip Winikoff. The 76-year-old Florida man was arrested this morning and charged with sexual battery after he posed as a doctor and went door-to-door--black doctor's bag in hand--offering women free breast exams. According to a Broward County Sheriff's Office report, two women--ages 33 and 36--fell for the scam, which Winikoff allegedly ran in Lauderdale Lakes. Charged with several felonies, Winikoff was booked into the sheriff's lockup, where the below mug shot was snapped. Police are now investigating whether other women may have been tricked into impromptu examinations.

Is TBS trying to be gay or something? Hobbit Love, riding the white horse etc....

Adidas has a cool little collection of short films to debut their adicolor line of kicks. 7 colors 7 directors 7 films. Directors include: Neill Blomkamp, Roman Coppola, PSYOP, Saiman Chow, Charlie White, and HAPPY.

peep this one for the color blue, made by PSYOP.

The Royal Schillerbaums
In our attic apartment in Amsterdam – eat your heart out Anne Frank!



This isn’t what you think.



Neither is this.



Silly bitch hit on Tom.



Famous Dutch Masters - bators



Jacque wining again in Mini-Europe.



Tom feels the weight of giant balls.



Our one rub it in picture, the estate we stayed in our final night in Holland.



Happy Breaster from Brussels!

tell treehugger about your city

This is a 50's video shown to Junior High students. It taught them how to avoid homosexuals. And I quote:

What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick. A sickness that wasn't visible like smallpox. But no less dangerous and contagious. A sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual.

For a shorter version, check this one out. I'm not making this shit up.

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(not your freon)


TONIGHT (MON)
elefant @ the annex, midnight

TOMORROW (TUES)
calexico @ virgin megastore union square

WEDNESDAY
cloud cult (acoustic) @ piano's upstairs

THURSDAY
reminder: the walkmen / the duke spirit, did you rsvp?

my week comes to you live from kansas this week. i flew in on tuesday, and boy is my barbara tired.


kansas is a typical middle-america type of town, with the american flag abound, spinning windmills, etc...


and good gravy, the people in kansas love their TEEvee.


HOLY


it's hard to miss new york when i find my friends everywhere. i saw K-rat...


Jacquie -


and look who made a special appearance...


and don't be afraid to call...

Labels: my week

grandma wouldn't believe this, but we are living in the future, kids.

via gizmodo

genius

via boing boing

my bank sent me this for my birthday, 25% off t-shirts and caps bearing their logo.
wow, they really do care.

via my inbox.

I'm obsessed with electronica, Jacquie you need to stop me.

'Test-ICicles-21-Remix

Jools-MF-Mix

Lady-Sov-Jools-Mix

Imogen-Heap---Hide-and-Seek

Nelly-Furtado-Maneater

And the best for lastYelle-shot dick cuizi

to mr. "it all comes back to me" schiller

sammy's called, they wanna know why you're not spending your birthday with them - "what are we, chopped liver?!" (yeah, i did that.) hope you're having a lovely time in the land of tulips and hash.


please disregard all other happy birthday posts,
this is the only one that matters.

grandma
matthew low!
xo


ps. i found your new top 15. (that brennon is gonna be really hot when she grows up.)

I'm looking to start a band inspired by THIS!

Let's do it!

PS Man Man is playing at NYU on Thursday it should be an awesome show, sadly I have to go to see Anti-Flag, don't ask!

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to the most flapjack fryin', booty flashin', arm rasslin'
salty dog i know.
happy 24 eve!

...like a good lets-do-this-er should be, may i recommend some television? there are two documentaries on tonight that i worked on. both are on at 9PM. the history channel, or pbs. thanks for the add.

and scoot your two boots over to the Pioneer Theater, where Quality of Life finally gets some play.

Today - 16th.

Kinda weird that I came to post about Rahim and they're all over this page today. Anyways, Micah just finished the edit on their video 10,000 Horses last night, so enjoy.

10,000 Horses

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GET HYPE!!! We have another hot show lined up! Rahim's record release with Foreign Islands, Other Passengers and El Jezel. Your usual dancing at the end! Info here.

If you can't scheme your way into the show like our boy nick, npr has been nice enough to stream an entire live yeah yeah yeah's show for your listening pleasure.

via brooklyn vegan. listen here.

Labels: music

hi. i love you nyc subway google map hack.

While traveling around downtown im sure you guys have noticed many WALK/DON'T WALK signs have been modified. Some WALK signs have little outfits on the dude. Every time I see one it brightens my day a lil' bit. Now we get to see who is behind it all (kinda).

check it here

it's like asteroids. level 3,248.

dorkbot is on again. get ready for some really smart people who take electricity to a whole nother level. one of the speakers will also bring josh's anti-mice post full circle. can't make it but fill me in during the best ever week in review. (props to theo for uncovering this free monthly jam.)

The Duke Spirit who are such an amazing band who I love and love and love, and Robbie probably hates me cause I've seen them a million times and they are NOT doing a west coast tour, are playing yet again in NY with the Walkmen. So RSVP to this free puppy!

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we start off birthday week with theo's party last tuesday. we went to sea, and she let them eat cake. happy birthday theo!


meanwhile, nate showed us what he learned in amsterdam.


we move on to saturday, where mr. sean labirthday boy had a poker party. it was his party, and he can flip you off if he wants to.


lily commenced the cake cutting ceremony. erin made it, and even though i didn't taste any, i was told it was scrumptious.


i don't think matt had any either, he was in the corner trying to make out with somebody.


i got so drunk, i was seeing upside down double...


...and triple, and good gravy, quadruple?


tom got fed up with it all, and that's it.

Labels: my week

to my favorite crimestoppers and dancin' machines:
andrew & kathleen!

partyparty

Before I leave to tiptoe through the tulips, can't we please go to the Natural History Museum and see Cosmic Collisions?

oh no! just realized we forgot to celebrate yet another important birthday this week - our very own little LET'S DO THIS. she quietly turned two a coupla days back. no noisemakers were blown. no spidey/franz/my week cakes were baked. so instead, in retro-celebration style, let's set the time machine back and take a look at some of our april 3 posts past. (this will probably be a lot more interesting in about 10 years.)

on april 3, 2004 - tom took us on a beautiful colonoscopy voyage

on april 3, 2005 - nate was just frontin'

sean robert "shampu" labounty
everybody get yer collars up...

- - thursday, march 16th, beastie boys @ stubb's

2nd QUARTER

2nd quarter kicks off with a wake up call. and a giant, delicious, texadelphia cheesesteak with extra mustard blend sauce. mmm. and some chips and queso, of course. if jac hasn't made you dip yo chip in the mustard blend, my friend, you are missing out. nick popped in (with sweet shades) after his breakfast of champions: an einstein's bagel, diet mountain dew, brown sugar & cinnamon pop tarts, and peanut m&m's. apparently, he was having trouble catching all the jokes thrown his way, so we asked him a'leve.

and then ANDREW! finally rolled up from san antonio in his pimped out spaceship-mobile. and took down his first texadelphia in 2 minutes flat (putting matt low's previous record to shame.) yahoo. our sxsw posse of '06 was officially a team - and suddenly, we realized our 0 cars of yesterday, had multiplied to 5 cars. not sure how that math works. but the meters are a bitch.

at this point it was mid-afternoon, and we had yet to see any music. so with bellies full and no one needing a sit-down, we walked down the drag to urban outfitters, where foreign born were playing. they were good. the singer has quite a swagger - very britt daniels. and the sound is a little bit spoon, a little bit old U2.

then we bid adieu to todd and dawn who were rockstar troopers, and headed down to diesel to pick up our passes for their party that night that we (whoops) never attended. actually, wait! andrew and robbie did. i think they caught the spinto band and some free drinks. so there ya go. and we got some cool posters. we think. they're all still in jacque's rental car in austin.

i'd say it was all very strategic, to hit everything right there on the (main campus) drag. but ninja please, it was all for the texadelphia. did i mention the mustard sauce?

so we funneled down our cars to two and headed east for the vice kills texas party at my new favorite bar, longbranch inn. after jac and nick embarrased us all in a british tv interview... we managed to get in just in time to catch the end of the islands set. as well as some lone star. some beaver - stuffed and otherwise. and of course, some johnny cash. oh yeah, and we ran into our old friend marshall, of the unbearables, who also just started his own record label... we met marshall last sxsw at the SPIN mag afterparty. so hey marshall - happy 1 year anniversary of knowing us. ha. then on our way out we watched the islands singer nick diamonds inappropriately grope his girlfriend in public.

from there we headed to the mean eyed cat to see the go! team. nick and jac went straight over and managed to snag the last of the free pearl lights. while andrew, jacob and i swung a U-ey to pick up his BFF robbie and piper and richard and rola and naila... and thus began another classic joke (for me) for the weekend. 2 in the front, 5 in the back.

we all stood right up front and watched ninja cheerlead her way through an energetic show. and jac and i planned their next merchandising opportunity - "sweatin to the go! team" aerobic videos. we hung out there for a bit on the patio drinking our $5 pitchers of lone star and munchin' on the hottest wasabi peanuts ever. nick sez: "don't eat two at a time. pain."

the next stop was stubb's (bbq joint). we had heard that there was going to be a surprise sssssshhhhhhhhow at 7, but don't tell anyone. *cough* beastie boys *cough* when we arrived, apparently the secret was out. the line went for blocks, and the only people they were letting in were those with badges. we all looked at each other to see if anyone was wearing a badge. nope. only four sad (but purty) wristbands.

we thought about getting a table out back and sneaking our way to a view that way... but the wait was over 2 hours already. so we ordered some stubb's bbq 2go and went to the downstairs bar to have a tecate and eat our food. while we were down there, we made the best decision of our sxsw06 trip: to go potty.

as we were finishing up our food, the crowd outside roared, and the familiar looped-bassline of "root down" rumbled its way into the bar. that's when the infamous text from jacob came in: USE THE BATHROOM DOOR. done. one at a time, we slipped out through an unguarded door next to the men's room. just in time... to see the beasties run through a greatest hits set that high school dreams are made of. mixmaster mike was off the hook. and the boys look like they've finally settled into their new age bracket. man, we've each seen em a few times over the years and were a little disappointed. but this was incredible.

after beasties, nick ran to go meet up with his brother at the convention center to finally get the keys to eve's cozy abode... while jac, jacob and i headed for beauty bar and caught a bit of the cribs set outside.

then we all met back up for a sit-down rock-out to film school at club deville. ah, old age. the sit-downs have been much more frequent this year. mind you, we were on our feet, either walking or dancing for pretty much the entire day. no stops at the motel to change this year. no naps. no players on the bench.

then back to beauty bar - where nick posed as jacob villanueva to get in. smartly telling the doorman that he had forgotten his ID so as not to give away his secret non-mexican identity. hmmm. when we got outside, annie's hip shake brought all the boys to the yard. but left us with a pretty lame and awkward performance.

andrew, robbie and piper tried to come meet up but at that point it was a madhouse. the free vodka had started flowing and wolfmother was about to hit the stage. I..I the place went from a comfortable buzz to a bucket tip situation. and wolfmother-fucker (as we now call them) did not disappoint.

shortly thereafter we busted out to get a good spot for islands at emo's IV. the set earlier was just a tease. we needed a proper fix. but after a long wait and awkward set up, the islands finally took the stage, drunk as skunks. the singer walked straight off the stage during the first song, falling into the crowd. on purpose. i think. leaving a lonely mic on the floor for the rest of the show. not their best showing. but a rickety, bobbly start settled into some great numbers later on - like nick's new favorite song "where there's a will, there's a whalebone." jac got some great pictures and we befriended our fellow islanders around us, inlcuding some young-ins who'd driven in from texas A&M (?!) and a pretty young thing (male) who had some serious eyes for nick (the one on stage).

from there we headed for the soco. a whooole different kind of southern comfort. this one's short for south congress area where the lovely factory people store, and more importantly afterparty, resides. there, we drank free vodka with various forms of oversweetened and overcaffeinated mixers and gossiped with crackers while andrew and robbie made like patrick swayze and jennifer gray. the only band we caught was shiny toy guns. because as of when we left at around 3:30am to get some grub - the gossip and the presets hadn't even shown signs of setting up... yet. lord.

so jac begrudgingly drove our drunk asses (2 in the front, 5 in the back) down to magnolia cafe. where pancakes were fought over, stingers were thrown (and called out by the singer of the cloud room), credit cards were charged for miniscule amounts, and andrew offered $20 to the first person to get him in bed.

and thus, the 2nd quarter comes to a close around, oh, 5:30am? i believe... good night, and good luck. enjoy the halftime show, aka nap. see you kids in the 3rd! look alive!


(this quarter was co-written aka cobbled together from blurry memory with nick manske)


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to see quasi at northsix on 4/12

1. they are from portland
2. sam coomes was a long time collaborator w/ elliott smith
3. janet plays drums in sleater kinney
4. they rock
5. sam makes his own instruments and can often be found thrashing his body against them
6. they often show up in costume
7. i'm going

tix = $12 in advance, $14 at door.
Northsix
66 North 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
phone 718.599.5103