BLACK LIPS MP3

[KATRINA]
From 'Good Bad Not Evil'

MONEY FOR NOTHIN'

Dan Tague’s prints of folded cash first look like crumpled up money, but when the viewer takes a moment to read the message created by carefully folding the bill just so, all is revealed.

NIFTY ART

Hand Painted Ceramic Busts
Brian Morris
[ooo000ooo]

KINDA LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN

After disregarding my personal well being for a while and basically fueling myself on booze and cigarettes...I decided I should move into a more normal like human state.

I made an eye appointment for this Friday, after being out of contacts for six months or so...and only wearing my glasses with a six or so year old prescription.

I went to the grocery store last night...since I've literally had no food in my place other than oatmeal for easily over a month now. Trader Joe's is fucking awesome.

And this morning I got up early to get my oil changed in my car...I don't really drive much, but when I had been there was a consistent yellow light telling me my shits low.

Kinda feels good.

BEATS, COUNTRY, HIP HOP

Nope, I didn't mess up on those genres up there. Rench is a Brooklyn-based producer who mixes old bluegrass and country samples with a standup band that includes slide guitar and fiddle, and he pulls it all together with hip hop beats and splits vocals between country guys and gals and underground emcees from around the way. If your head's about to explode, join the club...

It doesn't all work, but when Rench hits it, which is done particularly deftly on "Street Soldier" and "I Am The Man - New Blood," you can truly imagine Gangstagrass blasting from Escalades on Flatbush and F-150's in the Appalachians.

[DOWNLOAD ALL GANSTAGRASS MIX]

I'm hooked.

THOMAS FUNCTION MP3s

Fair warning...you won't be able to stop. And if for whatever reason your feeble little fingers can only click one of the two to download, make it 'Can't Say No.' Enjoy.

[CONSPIRACY OF PRAISE]

[CAN'T SAY NO]

SUPER FUN FANTASTIC TIME TO BE HAD BY ALL BEST KICKBALL EXTRAVAGANZA EVER BIANNUAL PT 3

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND...
Come one...come all...just don't not come.

GOOGLE'S ZURICH OFFICE

Now...after you're done with your self pretentious hissy fit, I'm gonna need you to pretend you're too busy to go get a massage downstairs and do some super cool stuff I don't even know about...

[SEE THE OFFICE]

RAMBLE ON

Last night's Full Moon Fiasco offered up a good time to all. Despite me managing to strip the threads on my front axle (thanks for letting my borrow a wheel Mr. T) we made it to Turtle Park with plenty of time to soak in the full moon's glow.

This morning I decided to ride my low rider to work, which I haven't been on since who knows when. The tiny pedals, and the break neck speeds made me feel a bit retarded after staying away from it all winter...but definitely a fun retarded nonetheless.

Over the course of the weekend I wrapped up my own personal black and white film festival with Freaks, The Mist and The Night of the Hunter. All good watches Freaks may have been my favorite, but The Mist is a close second with dare I say the best movie ending ever...yep I do.

Also, I know I've said it before, but this time I mean it....Kickball...I've decided on Saturday May, 10. I'll post a flyer in the next couple of days, but mark your calendars bitches.

TONIGHT

[FULL MOON FIASCO 37]
Ride your bike.

I'D LIKE TO HELP OUT, BUT (INSERT REASON TO KEEP WALKING)

I'm not sure, but I may have just avoided being mugged. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but this was a little too creepy...

So...I'm walking to work this morning to wrap up a few things I need to have done for Monday morning, when this guy comes around the corner of a supposed to be gated lot in-between two somewhat dilapidated buildings asking me for a favor...so I hear him out. It boils down to this...he wants me to go back to the far end corner of this lot where his car is parked with the hood open sitting next to a shitty van...get inside of his car, sit in his car and turn his key while he tries to jump it.

Many things are wrong here. First off, I'm not a fan of shitty vans with no windows, especially when they're sitting in an abandoned lot. Secondly, who the fuck needs someone to turn a key while jumper cables are being hooked up. And fucking lastly, where did this other guy go with this other car he's going to hook the cables up to?

Not to get on a slippery slope, but [THIS] just happened a few blocks away, a few days ago...sorry my good sir but I need to keep walking right now.

[NEWS VIDEO]

ART YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

Tonight, come with me to enjoy art and booze...
Pre-drinks at my place...holler if interested.

Few posts down you'll find any info you need...Rusty Spring 2 Show.

DEAD TO THE WORLD

Apparently STL experienced an earthquake last night (this morning)... It was news to me this morning when guys from work came in talking about it...I thought they were just fucking with me since I don't have tv, let alone news. Then my mom called to make sure my building didn't collapse.

But yeah, slept right through the fucker. Anyone know anything? And who is this elusive Mr. Richter?

PLEA

Plea
30" x 40"
Mixed Media & Acrylic on Canvas

My piece for the Rusty Spring 2 show...enjoy...or don't.

And since my photography skills are poo poo, you should see it Friday night in person...I swear it looks better.

RUSTY SPRING 2

I was recently asked to do a piece for this show. And since I had nothing but time and an overflow of paint...I actually finished yesterday...if I remember to take my camera home tonight, I'll shoot it and post it tomorrow for yall kid. Nonetheless, now you've got something to do on Friday.

ArtDimensions’ 3rd Floor Gallery presents Rusty Spring 2 - an exhibit of art with a rough, edgy, outsider or non-traditional feel that relates to the mechanical and/or the seasonal or comes from a disheveled physical or mental place. The visual art in the exhibit will be juried from work submitted by St. Louis area artists. In addition, several artists from around the United States have been invited by the exhibit director, Justin Tolentino, to exhibit select works which he feels reflect the theme of the exhibit. The opening reception will feature musicians, performing artists, spoken word artists and culinary delights provided by Joanie’s Pizzeria, Everest Café, PBR & more.

Opening Reception
This Friday, April 18, 2008
7:00pm-11:00pm
1214 Washington Ave. (enter through Mossa Contemporary Furniture Store and go to the 3rd floor)
Exhibit continues through May 31.

NEED TO BUY A GIFT FOR SOMEONE

DUMB? NOT ANY MORE...

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour. The life expectancy of a modern toilet is 50 years. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury. The Three smartest breads of dog are: 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced . More educated people are more likely to drink alcohol (university students then.....) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. A chip of silicon a 6mm square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a whole city block. There are actually registered organisations around the world called: "The institute of totally useless skills", "The international association of sand castle builders", "National society for prevention of cruelty to mushrooms", "Cookie cutter collectors club" and the "International correspondence of corkscrew addicts." Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." The longest word in any normal dictionary is floccinaucinihilipilification...the measure of something as being worthless. Did you know it would take 2700 times the age of the universe to drive to the next galaxy in a bus travelling at 50KPH! A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds. Did you know that it would take 44,000 years to write out a googolplex? That is: 1 x 10 ^ (‘to the power of’)10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th. Butterflies taste with their feet 25% of women think money makes a man sexier. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?" The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.The most common name in the world is Mohammed. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

HOLY SMOKED MEAT

Lunch today was a delicious first time trip to Pappy's Smokehouse.

[BBQ]

I highly recommend yall kiddos check it out. Super friendly staff...even met and shook Pappy's (well his brother, Pappy is actually deceased) hand.

CASH WILL SOON BE OBSOLETE

Because cell phones aren't already annoying enough...now they do everything (or at least they will once the technology hits the US). In the meantime, go on...be a trend setter...throw away your wallet.

JAY REATARD MP3

See Saw b/w Screaming Hand 7"

[SEESAW]

SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Friday I decided to save some money as opposed to handing it all over to a bar wench, so a few of us just sat around my place guzzling down Stag and wine. Both classy and delightful. To add to the atmospheric class, I watched a guy pull over his Cadillac to piss in the middle of the street...and a busy street at that. I'm all for pissing in an alley and what not, but this is a heavy traffic area...not to mention I was maybe 15 ft away with my dog when he decided to whip out his wang. I decided against telling him how dumb he is, and gave him the ol' are you fucking kidding me shoulder arms out shrug and moved on in fear of getting piss on my Chucks.

Saturday was stupendously awesome out, so I rode my bike down to Soulard to sit on a patio with some chaps waiting to go to the Blues game...though they never did make it to the game. On my way home I got a flat. As I sat on the curb fixing it, I managed to puncture my spare tube by not cleaning out the tire. With no way home, I called for reinforcements and we headed to the Tin Can after dropping of my bike.

Sunday was awesomeO weather again so some riding was in order, and that we did. Had to drive to a buddy's house to borrow a tube in South City. From South City we rode over to the CWE, up to the Loop to [BIGSHARK] to stock up on spare tubes and Blueberry for brews, back to Lindenwood past the pretzel guys for a sit in the park and a luke warm Stag and finally back to the start to play with Spider Man...

Good times.

RUNNING THE NUMBERS

"...Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society..."

Chris Jordan
[AN AMERICAN SELF-PORTRAIT]

APPARENTLY KEYBOARDS HATE MICE

I don't generally get excited about people making art out of trash...but that's because it's not generally this awesome. My one question is...why do the mice seem to be running toward the snake..I guess that's one for the artist Choi Jung Hyun to explain.

EGG OF KNOWLEDGE

Bottled water is either the largest hoax every pulled off on mankind, or a marvelous example of exactly how lazy we, as a species, really are. The world spends $100 billion on bottled water every year.

SATURDAY

Ride a bike.