Ok, this may require some backstory. Jack Thompson (everyone's favourite hysterical video-games-cause-genocide lawyer) issued a challenge to the gaming industry to make a game following his proposed storyline, whereupon he would donate $10 000 to charity. The challenge, described here and entitled A Modest Video Game Proposal (but lacking any hint of Swift's subtlety) involved a parent who's son had been killed by a video-game-induced psychopath. The parent subsequently kills everyone involved in the gaming industry.

In any case, the proposal drew a lot of flak, and included some interesting back-and-forth involving Gabe from Penny Arcade. Mr. Thompson has since withdrawn the challenge. Penny Arcade has responded to his claims that the whole thing (including the charity offer) was a satire by donating $10 000 to charity in the name of Jack Thompson.

So that's the backstory. I'll admit I'm not a fan of this guy (I may have railed on him once or twice in the past.) It turns out that this incident, though, has soured the National Institute on Media and the Family on Mr. Thompson as well. Our hysterical lawyer responded to NIMF's dissociation from Mr. Thompson with a gem of a letter to the head of NIMF (which you can read in that last link.) My favorite part of the whole thing, however, is this paragraph:

Liberals, like you, love to label things and then think that the labeling has accomplished something. If that had been the case, then Churchill's calling Hitler a Nazi would have ended the war. But no, people like me had to get into the trenches and stop the Nazis. And there were always those tut-tutting back home about what a nasty business it is to stop the bad people, and can't we all just "get along."

yeah, I'm definitely gonna try to see Holy Fuck. Especially since I've been so adamant on the idea of getting keyboard-loops happening in the last few weeks. Karlin is going shopping for a new bass amp next week and I'm gonna bring my shitty casio and test out guitar pedals...

It's time to bring the noise.

HOLYFUCK: yeah Eli was telling me about that show when i saw him at MegaTunes - mostly because that was the night he was originally going to slot me in as a guest DJ at SugarBowl, but he figured i wouldn't want to miss this show. the only thing i'm familar with theirs is track 2 from Stars & Suns and Idea of East Sessions - which frankly doesn't seem all that interesting until you realize it's all done with hardware live. then it's like, holy fuck yo

Red Medicine receives rave reviews!!!

Except that they're instrumental.

And nobody likes a band that goes "nutz".

And no french horn.

Red Medicine sucks.

Read it here.

NRMLS.WLCM&THE.UNION.Present

Dependent Recording Artist from T.Dag

HOLY FUCK

w/special guest BOLIDE (live PA)


...Contains no computers, midi, samplers, sequencers or drum machines. The beats and samples are provided by Casio SK's and other garage sale keyboards. The scratches on the CD are done with a 35 mm film synchronizer which is a piece of film editing equipment that to the best of my knowledge has never been used as a musical instrument. All textures, bleeps and pulsing drones are made with guitar effect pedals. It's a wonderful collection of raw, rich sounds. ...Going from scattered guitar pieces to noises and crashes as melody lines with weird beats that sounds like your standing 2 feet away from a construction site on peyote. ...A must for those who like to be captivated, intrigued and blown the fuck away."


yeah, believe the hype. From appearances at Coachella, Bumbershoot, Pop Montreal, SXSW, NXNW...to tours with Beans, among others...to the Victory ministage.

Sunday Nov. 6th @ the Victory Lounge
10030-102 st Downtizzy
Tix on sale next week @ blackbyrd & listen




yes... the name is "Holy Fuck"...

Check out this fuckin rad video of Whitey Houston here. The improvised bits after Lyle breaks a string are particularly sweet.

uh, thanks guys. honestly, I wasn´t that scared, I just wanted to know something in English, so all the fear mongering that evening news is wouldn´t terrify me despite the language divide. it´s difficult being entirely solo here. (seeing as I was too late to get into a real hostel) and spanish television just isn´t cutting it for a comfort... there are only so many reruns of Threes Company (with spanish overdub, of course) that one can watch, and the other alternative seems to be bullfighting. So, without actually stepping foot in a bullring, I have officially watched a fight. woo hoo, don´t need to repeat that.

anywho, I´m now in Barcelona, awaiting the hour to return to the train station and head off to Milan... olive picking here I come! Through some convoluted route to slightly-near-Rome, I hope to magically appear on a farm in the next couple of days. and from there, who knows what´ll happen, but at least it won´t involve bullfights on tv and spanish overdub of american tv reruns...

sh~t... my neighbor just went to the pet-expo with her parakeet, time to break out the SARS mask.

General invitation to all.
View the hockey game on my non-gigantic, but decent 32" TV.

Tonight at 8pm.
Bring refreshments if you so desire.

hey Al, sounds like we're going to an early evening show, if you're interested, give me call!