no time for waste

This just in from MSNBC.

This guys is crazier than one of my co-workers.



Man chugs liter of vodka in airport security line
New liquid quantity rules prompt man's decision to drink entire bottle

BERLIN - A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.

The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt.

New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked as cargo.
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Instead, he chugged the bottle down — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.

A doctor called to the scene determined he had possibly life-threatening alcohol poisoning, and he was sent to a Nuremberg clinic for treatment.

The man, whose name was not released, is expected to be able to complete his journey home in a few days.

Now that's gangsta.

New BSP video

I myself consider myself a great British Sea Power fan. I think they were the last band that i actually got into right as they were beginning to come out. I remember seeing advertisements for their first few singles and i even had a postcard for the carrion single. I'd never heard their music, but had heard a song or two and decided to order the vinyl at my work.

my earliest memories recall me at said "hip hop" record store, taping the vinyl edition of 'the decline of...british sea power onto cassette so i could listen to the album in my car.

years later i've seen them twice (just days apart between coachella and the casbah respectively), colelcted many of their b-sides and now am heavily awaiting their third full length album simply titled 'Do You Like Rock Music?'

Below i share with you, a live video of one of their newer songs not available on their Krakenhaus EP (out now on itunes and domestically/physically on Nov 20th). It's currently being called 'No lucifer.' Enjoy!

Radiohead sees Rainbows

As if the year wasn't good enough with a new (albeit pre-release unmixed) album from Brian Jonestown Massacre (see below), Radiohead have truly dropped the ball on the music industry by making their new album, In Rainbows, available in 10 DAYS!!!!

On October 10th,listeners and fans alike will be able to download their new album (for a price of their own determination) from In Rainbows.com.

You also have the choice of ordering the 'Discobox' version which not only comes with the CD and double vinyl of the album, but also comes with a bonus enhanced disc of 8 additional songs, as well as digital photos! It also includes lyrics and artwork and comes housed in a nifty disco box......this special edition rounds out at about $81 US currency, including shipping. Hefty price but people like me fancy the idea of a box set!

Anyway, the download-only and discobox version of the album is available for pre-order now...at inrainbows.com..make note that the discobox version does include the download, as the set does not ship til about december 3rd...so in the meantime you'll be happy with the digital version...radiohead make music with the fans in tow...

New BJM: My Bloody Underground

It's been a long two year wait for some new material from Anton & co..after releasing the short but sweet mini-album 'We are the Radio' fans (including myself) were eager to hear more.

Recorded in Iceland August 2007, the result is a culmination of bjm old and new. Some uptempo songs, some feedback-drenched psychocandy-esque explosions, even some minimalistic bliss.

Keep in mind that these are all rough mixes, but so far the songs sound great.

Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground.

Post your comments to Anton here

hold the afterthought

it seems as i get older the more i seem to forget simple things that should have been cemented in childhood. while preparing my turkey burger tonight, i stood at odds with the question of does mayonnaise mix well with mustard?

as commonplace and mundane as it seems, i contemplated this for about a minute and a half. another thing i've noticed as i get older is my tendency to hold tight to "sure thing" choices and always cast the unknown into the dark where it lies, baited, waiting to attack my steadfast sensibility.


i thought back to when fuddruckers was a weekly family outing, and i hovered over the nacho-esque cheese bowl waiting to overcompensate my burger with hot melty goodness, secretly masking the taste of mustard and any other assorted condiments virtually tasteless.

thinking back even further, sadly, my only real association with mustard to this day comes in the form of a statement that my childhood friend's father said to us one day while eating burgers: eat mustard, it makes your d__k grow. while i never believed that to begin with back then, to this day i can't help but crack a smile every time i think of a grown man weaving that phrase into gold.

though i wish his pops had been a tad more insightful, as to explain to us which foods went best with said choice or more importantly how his statement actually made any significantly proof worthy sense. i could imagine him now, forming his thesis, making his arguments, closing with that same line of magical aspirations.

so then, with the choice in place sight, in my own unbelievably boorish way, i chose to take the plunge off the cliff and try something i hadn't tried in quite a long time: i gently spread mayo on one side of my double toasted country potato bun, and mustard on the other.

add to that mild cheddar and some leftover mushrooms and onions.

and let me tell you, it was fantastic.

Live Earth: new band to watch, Nunatak

Not sure how many of you watched the Live Earth concert on saturday (put on by Al Gore). It's the first concert he's thrown to promote awareness about the environment. All in all, the performers he brought in (Smashing pumpkins, The Police, Kanye West, Keith Urban featuring Alicia Keys?) to perform were okay, but one band stood out, so much so, that i was driven to look them up just because of their performance. It turns out that they're part of a group of scientists doing research in Antartica, and moonlight as the house band! Now i'm not saying they are the greatest new and big band buzzing around town, but i think they are decent enough to be mentioned! Anyway enjoy the video! No website or m-space page at the moment, but let's hope for either in the near future.



From Wikipedia:

British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station’s house band. The five person indie rock band is part of a science team investigating climate change and evolutionary biology on the Antarctic Peninsula[1]. On 7 July 2007 as part of Live Earth, Nunatak will play to a sell out crowd of 17 (the entire population of the BAS research station Rothera[2]) and will make up the Seventh Continent contingent of the Live Earth concert.

Lead singer Matt Balmer, 22, said of the event that the band "expected to spend our Antarctic winter here at Rothera quietly getting on with our work and maybe performing at the occasional Saturday night party. We could never have imagined taking part in a global concert." [3]

The band's name is derived from the Greenlandic word for a mountain top protruding from a glacier. Originally the band had named itself after a disease previously common to Punta Arenas roughly translated to "Ratchet Death" but felt that the pronunciation of that name was less than politically correct.

wherever the night takes you

i read about this earlier today on Pitchfork. by the few sounds of the songs on myspace i'd have to agree that this might indeed be the return of richard d james aka aphex twin. but who knows.

i'm often bored when left to my own recognisance, so i usually do one of two things. mill about on the television switching from a set number of channels, wandering back and forth from vh1 to food network to usa to mtv to lifetime (yes lifetime) to bravo to bet to comedy network and then the cycle begins again, sometimes varying it only by order of appearance.

i do the same thing online. i don't know if it's my semi-o.c.d. at work or just my complete and utter boredom for the current moment that makes me compulsively switch from email to imdb to peerflix to myspace all in a matter of a minute. and i go back to each as if anything significant will change within a minute's time. the sad thing is most of these never do. it then becomes apparent i am just doing this to waste time.

after hours of this i then contemplate how much time i've wasted and then think of something construcitve i could have been doing. yet at the moment when i had this opportunity, i was too tired or lazy to do anything about it.

the death of ambition.



i've been listening to the new arcade fire album almost consistently each day, if not just for the song 'No Cars Go.' It might just be the most emotionally driven song for me this year right beside 'Mapped by What Surrounded Them' from The Twilight Sad's album.



Go get these albums NOW!

Ban the Man!

So the other night i had nothing to do and my sister jaime and the illustrious raymend were in tow to go out and get a drink and a bite. they invited me to join them for as much and i plainly accepted the invitation.


we decided to go to acapulco for their margarita mondays bit, as it was in the $$ range and well, it's just damn good.

i hadn't been there for about a month or so and to our suprise there was a new catch to the monday festivities: a sign politely indicating their inquisitely odd new guidelines for attending said affair...including the exlcusion of sportswear (see: jerseys), sandles and hats.

what is this...a nightclub? a 5 star restaurant? no, it's f*cking acapulco!

we went in to confirm this as we stood in disbelief to these newly delivered rules. the girl at the front counter was pleasant enough and offered to confirm that we weren't indeed being fooled. 30 seconds later she suggested that 'we could try' to get in, but we opted out.

now i love margarita mondays, but the truth of it all was i seemed to always have a problem with the douche bag checking IDs there, so this was a welcome blow to persuade our permanant withdrawal from the place altogether. i hate going to a place where people look at your IDs for so long you feel like you've aged another year just standing there.

moral of the story: just say no to Acapulco's in San Marcos, CA. I'm officially banning it.