Go Biscuits!??

A friend just told me about this minor league baseball team. i didn't believe him so i had to check it out. This is no joke, but this is...
(When you read this, every other line glance up at the biscuit mascot on the hat.)

The Biscuit Rap

yo, our team is the truth, yeah we da biscuits.
don't laugh "B" cuz we run dis business.
a witness try to testify against us,
but we gangstuz and da case got dismissed, cuz...

we da muthaf#&%'in biscuits
playaz tryin to end us, but they can't
we da muthaf#&%'in biscuits

yeah! damn right I said, "BISCUIT!"
all dem other playaz are "Triscuits"
all dry be tastin like paper bitses.
chill "B" can i get a witness?

eat sleep walk

So my life up til now has been spent trying to figure out what i can and can't live without, or better stated, "What are the things i want to pursue without getting spread so thin that i don't really do anything?" So I've narrowed my main interest to a few things: making art, backpacking, and watching movies and hopefully making some.
This past weekend I was able to finish the southern portion of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. It was a beautiful stretch of trail and it lacked the rocks the rest of the PA section is notoriously known for.
Hiking is another favorite of mine but it doesn't compare to carrying all necessities on your back and entering into a space that simplifies life into three categories: eat, sleep, walk.
....ahhhhh...simplicity.

CLAP YOUR HANDS AND SAY, GO! TEAM!

The Go! Team

Love Is All

Cause Comotion
Brilliant! ...The GO! Team strikes Philly with a fabulous debut performance. The cheerleader fronted band brought down the roof last night at the starlight. It was amazing to see philly rock like that, all smiles with hands up screaming. By the end of the show everyone was dancing even the chaperoning parents of some of the kid fans. One of my favorite parts of the show was when Ninja divided the crowd and had us help out on the song "Huddle Formation" we was killin it, "Keep bangin on the door, cuz we don't hear a thing! keep shutting down the power cuz we can always sing!"

daddy can i go see Animals Collection?

Nix Noltes-$13

Animal Collective-$13

Sleeping... Playing with cell phone...
In the middle of the show.-Infuriating!

Rubens left out a fourth thing on the list he made entitled "3 things that get the dix ticked".
#4-Kids who, with the help of their enabling parents, buy up all the Animal Collective tickets (so my friends can't go), and then, instead of watching the whatchamacallits, they sleep in booths and play with their expensive cell phones.

The Animal Collective show was the illist. Nix Noltes was the opener, a fun high school marching band sounding crew, that made a few heads bob and a few bobs whistle. I tolerated about three songs before i started plotting of ways to end them without getting tossed out.
Then the Animals came out and the madness began. Starting out with some stuff i hadn't heard before they set out on a brilliant set that included mostly songs from their latest, "Feels", including the song "Banshee Beat" my fav from the album. (sorry Rube no "Leaf House"). They played for about two hours and the show ended approx. midnight.
It was nice to enjoy the show sitting down, a luxury the church doesn't afford, however, most of the real fans where packed in at the front of the stage and I found myself surrounded by wasted space/tickets. I don't normal hate this much on other fans of bands that i like, but on the real, they aren't fans just "urban outfitter" mannequins.

YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE BIG, YOU'RE RIGHT

So over the past few months I've been asked to illustrate some children's books. I was, and still am, excited to help make these books. I was looking at the library and came across this odd book by Albert Cullum, illustrated by a bunch of different artists. The buttfaced mom kills me,... what?

Word to Bird!

What do you call a comedian who can paint? The artist Brandon Bird. About as random as they come but good at what he does (reminds me a bit of the nintendo cover band "The Advantage"). Check his site and laugh inside and most likely out! http://www.brandonbird.com/

Amy Sillman is favorite

I see her paintings as impulsive, child-like, sort-of-abstract, sublime, sharp, honest, exploding with color, atmospheric, rhythmic, complex, violent, unsettling and beautiful.
A balance of disturbance and intrigue is a quality I seek in my own work, and I feel this when I look at her paintings. Also, I like her merging of complex abstraction with childish cartooning.
She did one of the "Ramp Projects" at the ICA back in Dec. 2004. Some of you may have seen it. I didn't. But some photos can be seen here.
http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/sillman.php

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