Black Music (w/Blood)

These are some things I've been listening to lately (along with the new Re-Up Gang mixtape and some Lightspeed Champion things:

Black Kids Wizard of Ahhhs

Black Mountain In The Future
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil

Blood on the Wall Liferz (I can't find a picture for some reason, so you get this instead)

no mustache love

So after an experimental phase, I've decided to incorporate the mustache back in to the beard structure that everyone is familiar with. In retrospect maybe it was too soon or people were too small-minded to really appreciate the mustache. I think it's kind of sad that in our culture people do not appreciate a mustache as a thing of beauty. It really is the pinnacle of facial hair - almost any man can grow a passable-if-patchy beard, but to be able to foster a thick, healthy mustache? That's an accomplishment that far fewer may lay claim to. A couple of people understand though. Walking down the street, after getting used to the double-takes of passers-by, I'd become accustomed to meeting the eyes of those few men "in the know" about what the mustache truly means. And I even benefited with material (mainly anyway) gain: while at a screening of Caged Women, during the pre-show trivia contest, I answered the question correctly at the exact same time as a gentleman behind me. However, the prize went to "That guy. The guy with the mustache." Me. The Drunken Master (the host of the evening), he knew. He knows. So while the mustache might not be a facial bachelor anymore, I rest comfortably, knowing that it's always there, getting in my soup and making it hard to drink fancy coffees with foam on the top. Before I go I'd like to list just a couple of men who also knew:
Frank Zappa
Mr. Belvedere
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)
Kurt Vonnegut
Edgar Allan Poe
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rollie Fingers
Salvador Dali
Nikola Tesla
John Oates

mustache rides, 5¢

let's do a couple music videos!!!

Liars: "Plaster Casts of Everything"


Fiery Furnaces: "Duplexes of the Dead"


Liars: "Houseclouds"


Black Lips: "Veni, Vedi, Vici"


Black Kids: "I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance"


Violent Femmes: "Kiss Off (live)"


Ultramagnetic MCs: "Traveling At the Speed of Thought"

Winter shorts!

Don't do it! (unless you're a cute girl at the library or on the bus!)

matches

I went home for Christmas! But I think I'm going to spare you the details.

In other news I discovered that I can do the weird matches-lighting thing that Jason Schwartzman does in The Darjeeling Limited (I had some matches in my pocket and was walking home drunk after class). Here is a picture:

...movies...

also:
Eastern Promises (again)
The Kingdom
Annie Hall
Trainspotting
A Fistful of Dynamite a.k.a. Duck You Sucker
The Merry Widow
No Country for Old Men
Voyage to Italy
...

movies movies movies

Here are some of the movies I've watched lately, in no particular order:

- The Searchers
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
- Yojimbo
- Sanjuro
- Miller's Crossing
- The Warriors
- Vivre Sa Vie
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Design for Living
- Jeffrey
- Sense and Sensibility
- Carravaggio
- Riff Raff
- Michael Clayton
- Eastern Promises
- Rope
- 3:10 to Yuma
- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
- The Hunting Party
- Duck Soup
- Animal Crackers
- Monkey Business
- Ich Bei Tag Und Du Bei Nacht
- Citizen Kane
- Stagecoach
...