Kickass show inexplicably organized
Some Lafayette music venue owners seem to be having it rough these days. (Those that are still operating, that is.) Same goes for those kickass bands that were forced into early retirement as a result of the aforementioned or distance or over-saturation or lives or whatever. This is leaving those of us who enjoy leaving the house — yet aren’t fans of Sandstorm remixes, steroids and Jägermeister — with few options.
The occasional silver lining to the squeeze is that a handful of hip, bicycle-riding, Parliament-smoking motherfuckers takes it upon itself to host private (i.e. public when word gets out) events dedicated to youthful rocking and, ultimately, 20-something relationship drama. (Fingers crossed.) This one strikes my fancy: Read more
Troublesome PL8s
I stumbled across this socially relevant AP story on FoxNews’ Web site yesterday while conducting unrelated research on white people, fear-mongering and latent racism in the 21st century. Read more
Plot, puns thicken
Who would you call if Marvel reject Teddy Slane were to leave the bush and suddenly jump into a plush rampage? (And, no — not a rampage in the luxurious, blue-blooded sense.) Duh. Call the Tartar Martyrs, equally dubious but far more capable superheroes who trump Slane for obvious (read: not-so-obvious) reasons. BFF and BDE (best designer ever?) Burton Durand created the characters for the most recent update of The Superest, an online battle of epic proportions. Except by “of epic proportions,” I mean “between sketches by capable, artistic people who clearly own Wacom tablets.”
Person uploads video to Internet
Quality proponent Samuel Miller recently uploaded a few ack to school / Samuel Films productions to Vimeo, a Web site on the Internet. Among them, the premiere episode of ATS Houses. (Episode 1 features Miller’s own Lafla domicile.) This is the best way to view ack to school productions outside of downloading 69-MB Quicktime files.
For more, visit vimeo.com/samuelfilms.