"And If You Go"

Laser Pants pal Cindy Rehm (ex-Baltimore, now Santa Monica) made this for the song "And If You Go" by the band GIRLS! It's for a contest/project on Perpetual Art Machine.

Endless Setlist Two Night

So, this happened. Highlights from the event, kindly hosted by Rachel and grudgingly tolerated by Benn at Atomic Books:

Mike - everyone is concerned about the calibration. We are re-calibrating again and again.
about 13 hours ago from web

Mink said, "Will you touch my star power?"
about 13 hours ago from web

One of our singers, Angela, has quit the band and gone back to her hotel room.
about 12 hours ago from web

Our drummer Kevin had to run out in the middle of the set to grab food. When you drink beer, there's no such thing as low blood sugar.
about 12 hours ago from web

Sounds like someone is throwing up in the bathroom. We're too early in the set for that to be happening.
about 11 hours ago from web

Curt - American Woman: 393,154 ( 4 stars) - Sung by Goff as the Monarch - impressive
about 11 hours ago from web

Late Nite Taco Doritos are disarmingly curious. A chip should not taste like beef.
about 11 hours ago from web

Goff's controller got disconnected. So much for the Bladder of Steel Achievement. Endless set list marches on.
about 11 hours ago from web

Rachel sez, "'Rock'n Me' is a song for the times!"
about 10 hours ago from web

Mike - Bad Reputation: 461,961 (5 stars) - Rachel can play any instrument. I think she's using the Konami code.
about 9 hours ago from web

Mike - The wireless bass was just dropped and the batteries were ejected causing the controller to be disconnected. Goff is off the hook!
about 9 hours ago from web

Mike - The Trees: 213,119 (3 starfruits) - Goff could sing this without looking at the lyrics.
about 9 hours ago from web

Rachel - uh on, now I'm drinking Resurrrrrrections.
about 9 hours ago from web

Ace of Spades: 189,864 (3 stars) *editors note ... uhg
about 8 hours ago from web

Mike - Bodhisattva: 485,718 (4 milky way bars) - "This is the most ridiculous tambourine ever!" - Rachel
about 8 hours ago from web

Mike - Uh oh! Bridge B / Event Failed / Visions / 35% complete (Retry / Abandon Gig) - Drums are hard!
about 7 hours ago from web

Mike - last song - Painkiller: 467,257 (4 dancin' with the stars) - Done! Achievement Unlocked!
about 7 hours ago from web

Mike - "Your status has been upgraded"
about 7 hours ago from web

The Battle For Primacy

Someone's In The Cupboard

Someone put the flame to Barker Ranch, home base of singer/songwriter/race war inciter Charles Manson. From the L.A. Times:

In the late 1960s, the Manson gang roamed the barren Death Valley landscape in dune buggies and prepared for "Helter Skelter," a race war that Manson was trying to spark. The phrase was taken from a Beatles song, which Manson believed was encoded with predictions that the conflict would destroy modern civilization. Manson and his followers planned to survive by living in a tunnel, then emerge as leaders of a new world order.

Manson eventually was arrested in the cabin, hiding in one of the cupboards, after a 1969 murder rampage in Southern California that involved the killing of actress Sharon Tate, three friends and a teenager at the pregnant actress' Benedict Canyon home, as well as the slaying of a couple in Los Feliz.

"The most beautiful bathrooms in all of Japanese baseball.”

From Thee New York Times this Sunday, all the Japanese baseball stadium bathroom upgrade news that's fit to print (shown left: the Toto Washlet; the website is wonderful and informative):

"With the $51,111,111.11 posting fee the [Seibu] Lions earned from the Red Sox in the [Daisuke Matsuzaka] deal, they renovated the drab, outdated Seibu Dome, constructing concession stands and seating, resurfacing the playing field, installing an enormous video scoreboard and, most notably, building magnificent bathrooms with electronically warmed toilet seats.

'If the bathrooms are nice and convenient, then you do not hesitate to buy another cup of beer,' [Masanori Takahashi, the senior director of business operations for the Lions] said."

"It's very common to see a goat tied up."

My pal Meg went to Greece (Ikaria) with the AARP Longevity Quest to learn why people there live for so many darn years (answer: hard work, local food, and weekday drinking). Here, she shows us some sheep and goats.

Fuck Yeah, "Fuck Yeah Puppies"

It's been too long, so to get back on the horse in full effect, I am all about doing it WELL with the PUPPIES. Check out FUCK YEAH PUPPIES. It is greatness.

Cover Stars

Some ridiculously great work by NeoGAF folks in which they create Criterion Collection-like covers for video game classics.

(seen at Joystiq)

Press Start

In April's Johns Hopkins Magazine, "Gamer Theory," a tale of why fencing is a gateway drug to video game industry success. Name check: holla at Big Huge Games, good luck you nutty kids.

Alas, real life intruded on the awesome outro I had written on this, and I blame the sad financials at THQ and the economy and the Freemasons.



Photo by Will Kirk; thankfully the controllers are right!