Recent Driving Songs

I do a lot of driving for work. Thousands of miles of driving. These are some songs I've been listening to obsessively recently.

The Weakerthans - Relative Surplus Value



I really need to see these guys live. They're Canadian.





Bibio - Lovers' Carvings



Don't really need to see Bibio live, to be honest with you. But still excellent.





Los Campesinos! - This Is a Flag. There Is No Wind.



Another band I badly need to see live. They're Welsh!





Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You



Need to see them live too. They're Scottish.

More Owls

Owls are fucked up, Japan is fucked up, everything is fucked up.

A Tale of Two "Search and Destroys"

Here we have the same song, by two different disgusting attention whores. One version is the original, a legendary song by a man who can rightfully be called the grandfather of punk. The other is awful.





Fuck you Peaches. You are terrible. How dare you disrespect Iggy Pop like that.

That second song is off of War Child: Heroes, an (otherwise) amazing covers compilation. Check it out. Here's a little something from the same to cleanse your palette after that abomination.

Stan Mott is Awesome

Ok guys, Stan Mott is awesome. This picture is the background on my computer even as we speak:



His surreal car art is pretty amazing. A decent intro to his work can be found here, and a more complete but hellish to navigate place to see his work is here. He's best known for the Cyclops (which was actually built!), but my favorite (besides that amazing aircraft carrier), has to be his History of Tanks.

It's all pretty great guys, look at it RIGHT NOW.

Letters of Note, More James Dean

I'm not actually a huge fan of James Dean, he falls into the category for me of people who are revered for being martyrs, not who are martyrs because they were revered. Not that he wasn't revered, but I'm not convinced he was everything we now associate with him. It's hard to be a true great when you only made three movies. Consider this James Dean talk an aberration. Anyway, I thought this was interesting.

That's not actually what I want to talk about though. THIS is what I want to talk about:



From Letters of Note, an exceptionally solid blog, follow the link above for the transcript.

Best memo ever indeed.

Quote Time

"I never thought I'd live to see eighteen. Isn't that dumb? Every day, I look in the mirror and say, 'What? You still here? Man!' Like even today. I woke up this morning, you know? And the sun was shining and everything was nice, and I thought, 'This is gonna be one terrific day, so you better live it up, boy..."

-James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause

Kuri Maori

The Kuri Maori, described by Teddy as a "Fucked up Maori pig-dog."