Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
ODDS AND SODS!
HERE IS SOME OLD (AND A LITTLE BIT OF NEW) CRAP I DUG UP.
ANOTHER CLASSIC OLD FLYER FROM THE GRUNGE YEARS.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE WITH ERIC FROM PITTSBURGH AND HANK.
BACK WHEN I PAINTED: THE MAEL BROTHERS OF SPARKS.
THE MIGHTY WOODY WEATHERMEN IN 1984.
I LOVE A GOOD PARADE.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE..GOOD PIC I THINK.
ANOTHER OLD CARTOON..NICE TO SEE I HAVE IMPROVED.
I WONDER IF I COULD EVER LOOK REMOTELY LIKE THIS AGAIN?
HA HA..I RIPPED OFF GEORGE PEREZ AND PUT TOM WAITS, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND NICK CAVE IN IT..WHATEVER DUDE.
THE "MY COMICBOOK" COVER, ALSO DONE BY DANIEL GALLANT.
PHIL, ERICA AND SCOTT OF THE LATE RALEIGH BAND DADDY.
A COUPLE OF OLD CARTOONS.
SOME PAINTING I DID BASED ON THE MOVIE CARRIE.
ONE OF THE WOULD BE MANCHILD COVERS, DONE BY DANIEL GALLANT.
ANOTHER CLASSIC OLD FLYER FROM THE GRUNGE YEARS.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE WITH ERIC FROM PITTSBURGH AND HANK.
BACK WHEN I PAINTED: THE MAEL BROTHERS OF SPARKS.
THE MIGHTY WOODY WEATHERMEN IN 1984.
I LOVE A GOOD PARADE.
DOUBLE NEGATIVE..GOOD PIC I THINK.
ANOTHER OLD CARTOON..NICE TO SEE I HAVE IMPROVED.
I WONDER IF I COULD EVER LOOK REMOTELY LIKE THIS AGAIN?
HA HA..I RIPPED OFF GEORGE PEREZ AND PUT TOM WAITS, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND NICK CAVE IN IT..WHATEVER DUDE.
THE "MY COMICBOOK" COVER, ALSO DONE BY DANIEL GALLANT.
PHIL, ERICA AND SCOTT OF THE LATE RALEIGH BAND DADDY.
A COUPLE OF OLD CARTOONS.
SOME PAINTING I DID BASED ON THE MOVIE CARRIE.
ONE OF THE WOULD BE MANCHILD COVERS, DONE BY DANIEL GALLANT.
Friday, September 12, 2008
MORE TOURING NOTES.
HERE IS SOME MORE WRITTEN STUFF THAT WILL END UP IN THE FOURTH MANCHILD BOOK. THERE WILL BE MORE, BUT THIS IS ALL THAT I AM GOING TO POST.
PERFORMANCE ART WITH A STEAK.
Amarillo Texas boasts a restaurant where you can sign up and attempt to eat a seventy two ounce steak. You have an hour to do it, and if you can do it, you get it for free and thus you are propelled into the "steak eating hall of fame" or something. This decadent American grossness somehow appeals to all kinds of people. Certainly it appealed to both Jared and Toshi, who both signed up for this bit of performance art. We all watched. They had to sign papers. I don't know what for. Soon it was done, and they were both propped onto an elevated table in the middle of this huge rustic looking steak restaurant with lights shining on them from above and a timer behind them waiting to be utilized.
Then eventually the two steaks came out, along with some sides - salad, vegetables..they have to be eaten as well - and I could tell right away that there was no fucking way either of those two were going to be able to eat it. They looked like huge opened bibles of steak sitting on a plate. It was absurd. But the timer went off and off they were to the races.
Jared is quite a team player. He got into costume for this event. He had on mirror shades, a Amercian flag bib and even shaved part of his head into that of a balding man. A lot of people were gawking at him, he was quite a sight! Soon people came up to the table and took photos and gawked like it was some circus side show at these two. Elderly couples kept walking back and forth to offer their comments like, "that sure is a big looking steak!" and other things that were plainly obvious. And the clock ticked on and on.
Well, of course they were never even close to finishing those meat bibles. But Jared still stole the moment when he first took the huge steak and put it under his plate. Then he arranged his napkin and other objects around the plate to disguise the steak underneath. He started to yell out, "I did it! I did it! I won!". Then a waitress went by and said, "you did not! It is underneath your plate!!". Jared responded, "no I didn't. I won! I won!". Then as the final seconds of the clock ticked off he suddenly took the steak from underneath the plate and put it on his head! He stood up and started to yell. "I WON!! I WON!! I DID IT!! USA!! USA!! USA!!" over and over. It was really something!
One of the waiters said to Buzz, "I have never seen anyone wear a steak before!"
A JOKE SO GOOD IT COULDN'T BE PASSED UP.
I felt bad just hearing about it, and I wasn't even there! If I was, I would have been freaking out.
So a day or so before we go into Texas, Buzz tells me that he has a friend there that is a state trooper named Justin. He met him through his friend Adam, who incidentally plays guitar in this band Tool. Maybe you have heard of them or something. Anyways Buzz informs me that Justin had just called him and thought it would be funny to have him play a joke on someone on tour while he was "on the job". This meant that between the two of them, the joke would be that Justin would pull the silver vehicle that carried most of the people on tour and plant drugs on one of them, throw him in his police car, and eventually confess that the whole thing was a joke. Pretty funny, huh?
But a "insider" was needed, someone in the other vehicle that knew what was going to be happening, so Buzz told Jared about it the day before it was supposed to happen..this was in New Orleans. And two mornings later we were off into Texas..Buzz and I were in the van that had all of the gear. Everyone else was in the other vehicle an hour behind us. Boy oh boy...suddenly Justin calls Buzz and tells him to get off of the highway at a certain exit so he can show him what he plans to plant Dale Crover with. Yes, it was decided that Dale would be the lucky fellow. So we pull off and meet this rather large young looking man who happens to be a highway patrol person. Introductions were made and soon he pulled out a small travel bag that had:
two giant bags of fake cocaine.
a small scale to weigh..
a real bag of marijuana. "I just got this off of a kid a few days ago!"
BUZZ AND JUSTIN BEFORE THE HIJINKS BEGAN.
Justin said that he was going to pull the van, search the back of the vehicle, obviously plant this bag, call out Dale and arrest him and throw him in the back of his car. As we said goodbye and he got ready to do the deed, I wondered what everyone would be thinking. I was so glad I wasn't in the other vehicle.
So sure enough, they all fell for it. Wouldn't you? I guessed that even though everyone might be really mad afterwards, just the idea that I wasn't going to be in big trouble or going to jail for ten years would be such a relief that I probably wouldn't be too upset.
They are going to get Buzz back, though. Somehow. "What could possibly top that?" Buzz asked.
Oh, I don't know..they'll think of something I am sure.
DALE CROVER GETTING BUSTED BY THE COPS!! THIS WAS SIGNED BY THE BAND AND GIVEN TO JUSTIN WHEN HE SHOWED UP FOR THAT NIGHT'S SHOW..NO HARM DONE!!
MY HOMEMADE POSTERS.
It was kind of ironic to note that even though I had brought original artwork on the road to sell along with the rest of the regular stuff, almost no one bought any of that and instead really went for whatever it was that I could draw on a poster board with Crayola markers for twenty bucks a pop. It was just like the last tour, but after a little while I saw what was going on and worked very hard in my spare time to do as much of these as I could. After awhile I tried to think up some newer and better things to draw, since it was getting sort of old drawing Kurt Kobain in heaven for the fiftieth time, or drawing the Melvins as grimy street punk losers. These were all very popular, though. Can I really complain about any of this? It was supply and demand! Other really popular ones were the ones about Mike Patton and the one of Buzz (and later Dale) in the now classic "I killed Kurt Kobain" idea. I drew both of these at least twenty times..no shit!
By the time the tour reached Denver, I started to get input from Buzz as far as trying to really go the extra mile, and to at least offend someone. No one has to this day, batted an eye about anything I have drawn, which was surprising. So Buzz and me thought up this one in Denver. We we sure that there would finally FINALLY be some heat. Or that someone would be uncomfortable:
It was the very first one that was sold that night. The fellow that bought it commented, "that's rad!". Hmmm.
I did manage to come up with a small handful of really good parodies:
The "Abbey Road" one was also real good, too!
PERFORMANCE ART WITH A STEAK.
Amarillo Texas boasts a restaurant where you can sign up and attempt to eat a seventy two ounce steak. You have an hour to do it, and if you can do it, you get it for free and thus you are propelled into the "steak eating hall of fame" or something. This decadent American grossness somehow appeals to all kinds of people. Certainly it appealed to both Jared and Toshi, who both signed up for this bit of performance art. We all watched. They had to sign papers. I don't know what for. Soon it was done, and they were both propped onto an elevated table in the middle of this huge rustic looking steak restaurant with lights shining on them from above and a timer behind them waiting to be utilized.
Then eventually the two steaks came out, along with some sides - salad, vegetables..they have to be eaten as well - and I could tell right away that there was no fucking way either of those two were going to be able to eat it. They looked like huge opened bibles of steak sitting on a plate. It was absurd. But the timer went off and off they were to the races.
Jared is quite a team player. He got into costume for this event. He had on mirror shades, a Amercian flag bib and even shaved part of his head into that of a balding man. A lot of people were gawking at him, he was quite a sight! Soon people came up to the table and took photos and gawked like it was some circus side show at these two. Elderly couples kept walking back and forth to offer their comments like, "that sure is a big looking steak!" and other things that were plainly obvious. And the clock ticked on and on.
Well, of course they were never even close to finishing those meat bibles. But Jared still stole the moment when he first took the huge steak and put it under his plate. Then he arranged his napkin and other objects around the plate to disguise the steak underneath. He started to yell out, "I did it! I did it! I won!". Then a waitress went by and said, "you did not! It is underneath your plate!!". Jared responded, "no I didn't. I won! I won!". Then as the final seconds of the clock ticked off he suddenly took the steak from underneath the plate and put it on his head! He stood up and started to yell. "I WON!! I WON!! I DID IT!! USA!! USA!! USA!!" over and over. It was really something!
One of the waiters said to Buzz, "I have never seen anyone wear a steak before!"
A JOKE SO GOOD IT COULDN'T BE PASSED UP.
I felt bad just hearing about it, and I wasn't even there! If I was, I would have been freaking out.
So a day or so before we go into Texas, Buzz tells me that he has a friend there that is a state trooper named Justin. He met him through his friend Adam, who incidentally plays guitar in this band Tool. Maybe you have heard of them or something. Anyways Buzz informs me that Justin had just called him and thought it would be funny to have him play a joke on someone on tour while he was "on the job". This meant that between the two of them, the joke would be that Justin would pull the silver vehicle that carried most of the people on tour and plant drugs on one of them, throw him in his police car, and eventually confess that the whole thing was a joke. Pretty funny, huh?
But a "insider" was needed, someone in the other vehicle that knew what was going to be happening, so Buzz told Jared about it the day before it was supposed to happen..this was in New Orleans. And two mornings later we were off into Texas..Buzz and I were in the van that had all of the gear. Everyone else was in the other vehicle an hour behind us. Boy oh boy...suddenly Justin calls Buzz and tells him to get off of the highway at a certain exit so he can show him what he plans to plant Dale Crover with. Yes, it was decided that Dale would be the lucky fellow. So we pull off and meet this rather large young looking man who happens to be a highway patrol person. Introductions were made and soon he pulled out a small travel bag that had:
two giant bags of fake cocaine.
a small scale to weigh..
a real bag of marijuana. "I just got this off of a kid a few days ago!"
BUZZ AND JUSTIN BEFORE THE HIJINKS BEGAN.
Justin said that he was going to pull the van, search the back of the vehicle, obviously plant this bag, call out Dale and arrest him and throw him in the back of his car. As we said goodbye and he got ready to do the deed, I wondered what everyone would be thinking. I was so glad I wasn't in the other vehicle.
So sure enough, they all fell for it. Wouldn't you? I guessed that even though everyone might be really mad afterwards, just the idea that I wasn't going to be in big trouble or going to jail for ten years would be such a relief that I probably wouldn't be too upset.
They are going to get Buzz back, though. Somehow. "What could possibly top that?" Buzz asked.
Oh, I don't know..they'll think of something I am sure.
DALE CROVER GETTING BUSTED BY THE COPS!! THIS WAS SIGNED BY THE BAND AND GIVEN TO JUSTIN WHEN HE SHOWED UP FOR THAT NIGHT'S SHOW..NO HARM DONE!!
MY HOMEMADE POSTERS.
It was kind of ironic to note that even though I had brought original artwork on the road to sell along with the rest of the regular stuff, almost no one bought any of that and instead really went for whatever it was that I could draw on a poster board with Crayola markers for twenty bucks a pop. It was just like the last tour, but after a little while I saw what was going on and worked very hard in my spare time to do as much of these as I could. After awhile I tried to think up some newer and better things to draw, since it was getting sort of old drawing Kurt Kobain in heaven for the fiftieth time, or drawing the Melvins as grimy street punk losers. These were all very popular, though. Can I really complain about any of this? It was supply and demand! Other really popular ones were the ones about Mike Patton and the one of Buzz (and later Dale) in the now classic "I killed Kurt Kobain" idea. I drew both of these at least twenty times..no shit!
By the time the tour reached Denver, I started to get input from Buzz as far as trying to really go the extra mile, and to at least offend someone. No one has to this day, batted an eye about anything I have drawn, which was surprising. So Buzz and me thought up this one in Denver. We we sure that there would finally FINALLY be some heat. Or that someone would be uncomfortable:
It was the very first one that was sold that night. The fellow that bought it commented, "that's rad!". Hmmm.
I did manage to come up with a small handful of really good parodies:
The "Abbey Road" one was also real good, too!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
SUPERHERO ARTWORK IS HARD TO DO.
THIS IS GOING TO BE THE COVER OF THE MELVINS 2008 TOUR DIARY I WILL BE RUNNING IN MANCHILD FOUR. IT IS EVERYONE THAT WAS ON THE TOUR..ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR A NEW MUTANTS PARODY.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
PATTY DUKE SYNDROME - "SUPER SONG"
another video put on You Tube..I wonder where the rest of the show is?
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
COC archives for hardcore re-release!
"Woody..just wait twenty years, okay?"
I talked to Mike Dean after I read this and he said that there are definite plans to do this. These guys need help to make this a reality, though. Read on and it will explain.
Post subject: Wanted: Your COC archives for hardcore re-release!Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:36 am
COC is currently talking with Metal Blade Records about a re-release of the band's hardcore-era recordings: Eye for an Eye, Animosity, Technocracy and Six Songs With Mike Singing.
Preliminary plans are for a package with two CDs (including previously unreleased tracks); a DVD with interviews and concert footage; and a booklet with more interviews, stories, art, and photographs.
The band already has some awesome archival material from its own and friends' collections. But to make this package as kick-ass as possible, COC needs the help of hardcore fans everywhere.
Do you have hardcore-era COC stuff you can share with the band?
COC is interested in just about anything and everything from the 1980s: live recordings or videos, concert posters, photos, zines, artwork, etc. It's also looking for photographs of fans' spiked-skull tattoos for a related art project.
If you have something you'd like to share, please e-mail cocarchive@gmail.com with details, and we'll figure out how to proceed from there.
Please help us spread the word! Thank you!
PATTY DUKE SYNDROME - "MAYBE I"
SO LOOK WHAT HAS ENDED UP ON YOU TUBE. WATCHING THIS MAKES ME A LITTLE BIT SAD FOR A SMALL HANDFUL OF REASONS.
MANCHILD FOUR!!!!
YOURS TRULY. PHOTO BY TIM MOSS.
After another power meeting held today, the affable Charles Cardello has given the greenlight on MANCHILD FOUR. We are at the start of this whole thing and ad rates haven't been decided yet, but if anyone wants to advertise in it, please drop a line and we'll pencil you in, and of course we will let you know what the ad rates will be in due time. It is never too early to drum up interest, right? Right.
MACNHILD FOUR will also boast another cd that will be slipped inside. It will be some sort of dual release consisting of some recent live MELVINS music as well as something from DOUBLE NEGATIVE. Again, details are slim at best for right now but this is what we are aiming for. All of the artwork that will be included so far is ninety percent new with a few surprises.
Anyways, just trying to spread the word. Thanks to all - Brian
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