Archive for December, 2009
conquest for death, vitamin x, everybody’s enemy, dammit honey, yuuyake no oka, hardcore fanclub
friday november 6 @ nakano moon step
aaah shit! The Conquest for Death tour rolls on. This time with ANOTHER 9-band marathon show.
This time, though, it was mostly younger bands, bands without a lot of "clout" or "juice" within the main Tokyo scene.
Usually these bands have to "pay dues" for like 9 years before they can get [...]
top 10 non-fiction books I read in 2009
in no particular order:
1) NIXONLAND – Rick Perlstein - at first I was skeptical – what more could be written about Nixon? Who cares in 2009? But by the end I was like, "give this book to your children because it explains how the world really works."
2) MCMAFIA – Misha Glenny – how organized crime profits [...]
GENRE LIFE-CYCLES
You can apply this to rock-n-roll, hippy music, punks, rave music, metal, rap. . . not so much country, for some reason.
1) someone has a new idea. (oh, that’s why it doesn’t work for country)
2) a community of rivals develops around the first bands. The bands are competing to out-do each other but the competition [...]
conquest for death, Pisschrist, crow, kriegshog, framtid @ earthdom
This show was INSANE. 6 hours of nonstop hardcore, in a venue where there was not room to move.
In between bands, the staff had to get a mop and bucket and mop the sweat off the stage. This was not band-sweat. This was the same sweat that coated the audience in a 3mm layer. The [...]
2009 fall design festa
This happened on October 16th, 2009 at big sight.
I’ve been going to these festas for 8 years, just over half the entire life-span of the event. You’d think that – being a jaded old man – I’d be bored of it by now, but nope. Every time there’s new shit and more new shit.
As always, [...]
SHIT THAT MAKES ME PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN
A lot of stuff was invented in the USA,
and a lot of stuff makes me proud to be American,
But I can only think of 10 things that fit BOTH categories:
1) the Simpsons
2) Rap
3) Punk
4) Comic books
5) Stand-up comedy
6) Mad magazine – which ITSELF invented post-modernism, 30 effing years before any egghead academic ever thought about [...]