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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | 11:46 pm
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I am in San Francisco...
If you want to say hello, I'll be at the Fluff Girl / Farticus / Cretatious / Skitzo show at Belazo on Friday night after 8:30. I might try to get a drink at the Eagle in the late afternoon too, but we'll see. | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | 10:47 am
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| | Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | 12:16 am
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Oh, and if any of you Prop 8 supporters didn't realize...
I'm a total asshole when I don't get what I want. Here's what i've been posting on all the NM message boards of relevance: "Prop 8 and Blake's Lotaburger's financial influx... Blake's Lotaburger started in Albuquerque in 1952. In 2008, Blake's Lotaburger executive Brian Rule donated $10,000 to discriminate against the marriage rights of gays and lesbians in California's a measure designed to go against Proposition 8, a measure designed to eliminate a previous law enabling Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered peoples to legally receive equal rights in "marriage" as straight people." I'm getting all sorts of positive responses so far... But am really waiting for the naysayers... | | Friday, October 24th, 2008 | 11:26 pm
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Playlist for my DJ gig tonight!
1st Legit DJ gig in about 12 years went awesome! Got there early and I think I *should* have just gone on right then, but there was this awesome countrified version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" called "Rebuild the Wall" playing and i sort of got lost in that and getting people to show up really (No real structure to this show, let alone promotion). I opened the evening for a thrash metal band and then DJ Ginger went on and did her DJ thing, and then a Rockabilly band called "Shit Outa Luck" played. Here's what I played: Flipper - Ha Ha Ha (off the Let Them Eat jellybeans Comp) Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes - Unicorn Song (Off Witch's Dagger) El Dopa - Ed (Off the Shit Gets Smashed Comp) Joe Pop-O-Pies - I Am the Walrus (Off Joe's Third Album) The Phantom Limbs - Topanga Canyon Torture (off Random Hymns) Christ on Parade - America The Myth (off Sounds of Nature) Fleshies - Fat cop (off Kill the Dreamer's Dream) The Epoxies - Synthesized (off Stop the Future) Butthole surfers - Suicide (off Brown Reason to Live, 2nd printing... My 1st printing got smashed by Sherrie Frost and Chip way back when I lived at the Cave in Arcata, CA in 1995) Stikky - Quality vs. Quantity, and The Song about Annihilating Poseurs... More great shit here, Everyone should own this record) The Triggers - Let's Mutate (off Shoot Your Mouth Off) Mighty Sphincter - Impetigo (off the Ghost Walking Double EP... Because the headlining band is based in Arizona) Vox Pop - Become a Pagan (More awesome stuff here featuring Don Bolles and Dinah Cancer before the Germs and 45 Grave) Christian Lunch - Neighborhood Watch (off the Unreliable Sources EP, which spells Sorses on the spine, I just realized) Spermbirds - Another Dead Friendship (off Nothing is Easy) Dystopia - Word of wisdom (off the Misanthropic LP) Aus Rotten - Xenophobia (off the ...And Now Back to our Programming LP) and finally, just to lead into the metal band that was setting up for the last two songs I played Contropotere - Varagan, and U.S.P. (off Il Seme Della Devianza LP... Some brilliant Italian Doom/Crust Punk music that nobody except die-hard obscure metal fans seem to be aware of...) 7 of the bands I played, I've seen live. Two of those have played in my living room! I brought enough records to play a six-hour set. This set lasted about 50 minutes. Funny, I guess I shouldn't be shocked that people think that all this music is "OLD SCHOOL", because I don't really think of it that way, but then again I don't listen to much popular music that is referred to as "punk" because it just isn't. All the music played came from vinyl records! Shocker!, But the CD player wasn't working and all the industrial and synthpunk music I brought on CD probably wouldn't have been apropriate for the crowd. | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 6:37 pm
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Up Next...
Those of you who read my personal LJ already know that I've been uploading never-seen-before video footage of the Centimeters, Phantom Limbs, Black Ice, The Sixteens, and Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes recently. http://www.youtube.com/user/atakraComing up: Wolf Eyes Crack: We Are Rock Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater The Epoxies Swann Danger Numbers The Vanishing (1st Lineup) These do take time, I can usually upload between 2 to 4 a day time willing. So subscribe to my channel if you dare! | | Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | 12:57 am
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| | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 9:42 pm
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Bonus.
Just managed to locate all my VIDEO footage of the Phantom Limbs, The Subtonix, and Akimbo AND found a friend who is willing to sit through it all to post the best songs on Youtube. We went through three hours tonight and I'm going to attempt to post at least one show. All the footage is from THE YEAR 2000! | | Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | 11:24 pm
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Just a reminder...
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday. Support your local shop and get FREE COMICS! FREE COMICS ARE FOR LOVERS! And for those of you in the bigger cities, feel free to use that as a come on line in your local public restroom. | | Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | 10:27 am
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And in Atakra Records news...
...Over to your local newstand (more likely Borders or one of the other glossy-mag chains) and pick up the latest issue of Deathrock Magazine. There's a 3-page interview with Skot, Stevenson, and Mistress Kel from Black Ice as well as two MASSIVE articles/interviews with Alien Sex Fiend and Specimen! | | Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | 9:28 pm
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| | Saturday, January 19th, 2008 | 6:56 pm
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Cretacious & Psychology of Genocide - Annie's Social Club, 1/18/2008
I got to the show a few hours early and hung out with Lynn the bartender, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kaus_kelly and Peregrin for a bit. I was only drinking beer all night, but made the stupendous blunder of leaving my Canon camera's sole battery at Catlin's, so no pictures. Right around 8:30 the bands started rolling in and of course the entire old Phantom Limbs crowd showed up. It was great to see so many people show up for Cretacious' first show... especially since I've been hearing about them since they started playing in private TWO YEARS AGO! So only a few people had ever seen them because (as Mike Klosoff told me), "We just got a PA system." I think that may have been a joke. Cretacious is funny... Damn funny. And with members from the Phantom Limbs and The Hideous, it is easy to see why. It's unpretentious screamo metal at times with outstanding drumming and guitar riffs (or whatever they were), and a smoke machine to beat. Songs that I remember were "Megasomething Dawn of the Dead" about an undead zombie shark, and some song called "Meateor" (sp?) about a huge comet comprised entirely of meat cooked to a fine perfection in earth's atmosphere. Much dancing was had by all except the nerds in the "Joke-EO-Kee" room in the back who were acting out tired episodes of Seinfeld with fake hasidic beards and yamakas... Huh? Second up was Psychology of Genocide; a veritable whose who of San Francisco punk bands featuring members of Cookie Mongoloid among other bands that i have frankly forgotten the names of. It was fun seeing Jake and James dressed up like freaks, but I think the comedy wore thin after a while. The music was also fun, but again, I think that following the powerhouse that was Cretatious (and perhaps a few two many beers) caused their performance to suffer a bit. I'd give them a B for effort, and an A- for comedy. All in all it wasn't too shabby an evening. I skipped the final band, which was (I think) Pawns, who had TONS of merch, but I had no idea who they were although at least one person in the band's van was recognizable from SOMEWHERE. I think You Die and Worship of Silence cancelled, but don't hold me to that because I was too tired to do anything more than walk across town to the crash pad, blissfully ignorant of all the crack and heroin dealers wandering about my general vicinity. | | Monday, November 19th, 2007 | 10:54 pm
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If you see ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR...
Go see The Mist... strictly for the gore and creepy extra-dimensional monsters. Oh and the ending was entertaining and you could see it coming a mile away, even if you don't read Stephen King books (I stopped that nonsense decades ago). ( SPOILERS ) | | Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | 4:41 pm
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| | Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 | 10:49 am
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My great night in Chicago
I had a most wonderful evening in Chicago on Sunday night, when I went out with my nephew, Paul, to see what Loto-Ball has done with his gallery in town here. After my sister-in law's memorial service on Saturday, which was lovely, by the way, we were back at my brother's house and sitting around shootin' the shit, and I looked up Reversible Eye Gallery to see if we could go over there sometime. There was a phone number listed and I called it and Loto-Ball picked it right up! I said, drunkenly, hey! I'm in town, and he said you're coming to the show tomorrow, right? I said what show? He said it's sold out but you're coming and then gave me his cell number. Wooo-hoo! Little did I know that it was this: Quintron and Miss Pussycat and I tellya, it was a blast. I arrived carrying a big vase full of flowers because after the service, we had them all over the house, so I brought one of them. I was standing in line behind a few people so Elena, who was working the door, didn't see me until the guy in front of me moved and then she was shocked and happy. She yelled What are you doing here? and I put the flowers right next to her at the front. The gallery itself is pretty spacious and has a good sized stage and with a huge back yard where people were milling about talking. We immediately met some cool folks who we bummed cigs offa, and I talked with Greg who is in The Loto-Ball Show, and he said the Man was upstairs, so I slide up these stairs that go all the way up and walk into the kitchen and there he is ! cooking dinner. We chat for a while and then he says time to start the movie, so we go down and what begins is a delightful movie done with puppets called Trixie and the Tree Trunks about a rock band getting started and it was hilarious. Then the music played, and I ended up in one of the best pits in years. I didn't get to speak with them afterwards because Paul wanted to go; he had lost his cell phone and wanted to go back to the spot we were at before to look for it, and I was feeling a little woozy from the combo of champagne, whiskey and beer plus that 1/2 a Perc thrown in, but suffice it to say it was a very successful evening and I recommmend ANYONE in the Chicago area, or even a state over, to make the effort to see shows at this venue. Current Mood:  happyCurrent Music: Lord of the Yum Yum | | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 8:48 pm
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Red Voice Choir...
The CD is in my hot little hands and it is AWESOME! I should have a way for any of you Black Ice. Holy Kiss, and Red Voice Choir fans to buy it online by this weekend (Paypal and snail mail). This includes any UK friends also. | | Friday, July 6th, 2007 | 9:21 pm
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| | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | 10:56 pm
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Open Letter...
... To HotJobs, Monster, CareerBuilder, etc... FUCK YOU. I spent the last five fucking years floating my resumes through your systems and what did I get... A bunch of go-no-where shit labor jobs mined by the likes of the wireless sales community, job offers from penal correctional institutes, hundreds of hours of SPAM, Headhunters with their heads up their asses, Offers to attend on-line college classes, offers to join the fucking military and support the war in Iraq, countless offers to sell insurance like a dead stale husk, and additions into "personal groups" like "Horny Bikers want Buddies" or weird offers to stuff envelopes like some shit worker in India or Cambodia (with no hate meant toward my brown brothers in the Customer Service industry)... Fuck all you websites that drew web hits off of my resume. Fuck all you headhunters who would send me an email, and not pick up my calls. Fuck all the soul-less corporations who work on some sort of survey-generated "trustworthiness" algorithm. And most of all... Fuck me. Fuck me for giving in to the hype. I always knew it was a crap shoot. i really did. But when it comes down to it, I can only hope that all the dollars generated by your resource managers, traffic generated by the endless search advertising, and ridiculous banner ads will end up with all you fuckers going downhill. Feel free to post this message anywhere where it will get attention. Link it to yourself. Use the keyword metatag "motherfucker" if you want, for more search-ability. | | Thursday, June 21st, 2007 | 2:33 pm
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"All Grown Up" Movie Contest...
This is for the people on this list who can say that punk rock changed their life... From: http://www.myspace.com/allgrownupthemovieWin the All Grown Up contest!! Find out how... CONTEST INFORMATION 6-17-2007 Submit: Your story of "growing up" and what you have done with yourself; from the earliest time you were involved in punk till now. Tell everyone what punk has done for you and how its affected your life. Any submissions must be at least 2 pages or 2500 words typed in word format (not in size 72 font! hehe). Three, count 'em 3 winners will be picked out of the submissions and their stories will be posted on our official website at http://www.allgrownupthemovie.com! In addition to that, the winners will recieve a real non digital rare fine art photo of punk bands by a known photographer (and one of the people interviewed in the movie). No restrictions apply - fuck censorship! Contest ends on July 15 - You have a month so get your asses in gear :). Send your submissions to: allgrownupthemovie@yahoo.com Also, if you are not picked, it doesn't in any way mean that somebody is better than you - so please don't be offended! Good luck everybody! | | Friday, June 8th, 2007 | 10:59 pm
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| | Saturday, May 5th, 2007 | 12:39 am
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TODAY IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
TODAY IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! EVERY *GOOD* COMIC BOOK STORE IN YOUR REGION WILL BE PASSING OUT FREE COMIC BOOKS TO ANYONE WHO SHOWS UP AT THEIR SHOP TODAY. SOME INCREDIBLE STORES WILL EVEN BE OFFERING FREE FOOD, POSTERS, AND (in some cases, hint hint, nudge nudge) BEER TO THEIR CUSTOMERS! Rumor has it that you might even be able to find free T-Shirts, pins, action figures, and swag too... But don't tell anyone I said this! |
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