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A little before Thanksgiving, Dave, the current owner of George Kaye's, gave me a folder of old photos from the place to scan. Here they are.

According to my Last.fm profile, I am officially over new music. In the past year, my most listened to bands were (in order):

Coloured Balls
Pink Fairies
Rolling Stones
Flamin Groovies
Stooges
Eddie & the Hot Rods
Count Bishops
Black Flag
Might Caesars
Thin Lizzy
Milkshakes
feedtime
Sonic's Rendezvous Band

It doesn't hit an active band (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) until #19. And in my top 100 listened to bands there are a total of 4 bands who still play regularly. FOUR. That kinda blows my mind. And I am constantly listening to my iPod, and update Last.fm regularly.

Sure, there's the Little Killers, Lost Sounds, Henry Fiat's Open Sore and a few other bands who were at least around in the past 10 years on that list...but even those bands are getting old at this point.

I'm still into new music in principle, but not much of it does anything for me. Old.

I was supposed to shoot this band Gogol Bordello for Mother Jones last night at the Fox Theater in Oakland. When I went to the box office to pick up my photo pass, the guy hands me a photo release to sign. Instead of just signing the fucking thing, I read it over (guy: "Um, if you're going to read it, can you step aside?"). I get to this part:



and hand it back to the guy.

"I can't sign this."
"Um, okay. You can still have your ticket to get in. But you can't take in your cameras."

I tried to give away my ticket, but no one seemed to want it, or they thought I was huslting them or something.

I've heard to this sort of thing, but usually in regards to people like Springsteen, McCartney, Lady Gaga. The arena bands. Pretty insane.

Lucky for me my boss was glad I didn't sign it. We can pick up stock photos.

Mission: Accomplished

A longtime want, crossed off the list.

One of the best albums, ever.

Interview with my boss, Mother Jones creative director Tim Luddy, on the SPD site.

Currently on HIGH Rotation:

AC/DC, Agony Bag, Alice Cooper, Angel Witch, Bishops, Black Axe, Black Sabbath, Blackfoot Sue, Blitzkrieg, Blue Öyster Cult, Bonnie St. Claire, Brownsville Station, Buffalo, Cheap Trick, Coloured Balls, Count Bishops, Crushed Butler, Dictators, Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Flamin Groovies, Gorillas, Hammersmith Gorillas, Hawkwind, Heavy Metal Kids, Hector, Hurriganes, Left Hand Drive, Little Bob Story, MC5 Mick Flinn, Motörhead, Mud, Pink Fairies, Propeller, Ricky Wilde, Rolling Stones, Silverhead, Sir Lord Baltimore, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, Stooges, Suzi Quatro, Thin Lizzy, Third World War, UFO.

Hard Rock. Pub Rock. 70s Rock. Boogie. Glam. Pre-Punk. Proto Punk. NWoBHM. Metal. Prog. Space Rock. ROCK & ROLL.

So much. Too much and never enough. Plenty to add to that list.


(xposted w/TUMBLR)

Remember back when I lived in Champaign and I talked about working on some kind of photo project about...well, about the mundanity of Illinois? This is pretty much what I had in mind.

Started a Tumblr account a few months back, put one photo on it and forgot I had it. I think I'm gonna start posting more on it. Photos I've taken, music I'm listening to. That sorta thing.

Probably making the rounds on the Interweb in a big way, but in case you haven't seen this yet:



Seriously. WHITE PEOPLE.

The Wired.com piece on the MRR photo issue! Hey Jason, you've got a photo in the gallery.



(thanks Erik for the heads up on the homepage placement!)


Moved in, but not even close to unpacked. No internet at home. Work is fucking hectic.