.dave mckean, small book of black & white lies

this book is where i first saw the font Disturbance, which has become one of my favorite fonts.

.current playlist

Dave Spoon - Bad Girl (At Night) Beat Vandals remix
Sasha vs Mike Koglin - Enjoy The Gravy (James Zabiela’s Totally Turntabled mix)
Future Prophecies ft. MC Dynamite - The Roof Is On Fire
Mephisto Odyssey - Some Kinda Freak
Axiom, Chris SU & Optiv - Soulcube

in a very dubby mood (futuredub, dubstep, etc):
Brother Culture - Turn It Around
Brother Culture & Kanka - Echo Dub
RUF - Raw Love / Rudebwoy Riddim
60 Channels ft. Karen Grant & Navigator - Riddim Superstar
60 Channels ft. Michiru Monday - Moving Shadows
Wolf Man - Eyes of The Demon
Sofa Surfers - Passin ‘Tru / Long Bone
Grey Area - Sadness Dub
Vaccine - Breathless
Obeah - Noise for OHOI!

.recycling old artwork

this was originally a 22″x28″ collage which i ended up chopping into separate sections. from 1998? i think. it’s been falling apart since i chopped it up. i should come up with a flash project to incorporate it in as backgrounds.

collage, acrylics and oil pastels

.fay ray, obscure 80’s new wave band

saw their video “Heatwave” originally on vh1 classics. i was going to post the youtube video but it has since been taken down by Viacom. you could tell how obscure the band is when there is no cd available of their work (and nary an mp3 on P2Ps when i searched years ago). but, there’s always ebay:

LEFT (front cover): a still shrinkwrapped, mint copy of their album…well, no longer mint since i needed to digitize it
RIGHT (back cover): promo version of the album which i won on ebay for 1 cent, shipping was 6 bucks. i got the promo version a year after i got the regular album.

differences between the two:
audio quality is lower on the promo
the promo is marked “not for resale” on the back
the promo came with this 8×10.25 in. glossy photo (taken by Adrian Boot, 1982)

L to R: Jeff Taylor, Owen Hughes, Sheila Macartney, Tony Travis, John Lovering

i love Sheila Macartney’s vocals. i would describe it as “quivering”, similar to Siouxsie Sioux (which is the band Fay Ray is often compared to). it’s used to great effect on the track “Modern Lovers”, an anthemic postpunk pop tune. in the pre-chorus and chorus her voice builds up to where it sounds like she’s at the point of breaking down and crying.

i’ve just placed an order for a fan-made cd (not sure if it really is still available since it’s listed as only 1 in stock) here’s the description:

Fay Ray - Contact You - CD - 9.99 USD
Usa This is a wonderful fan made CD, (not a silver CD), containing Fay Ray`s brilliant album `Contact You`, with the addition of 6 rare bonus tracks. The sound has been brilliantly restored. Comes with high quality inserts and label. different morning, heatwave, love is strange, modern lovers, contact you, family affairs, cold as steel, consequences, clean lines, wargames, bonus tracks: didn`t have to say that, i wish, do what you want to do (live), dreams of heat (live), modern lovers (live), family affairs (original single mix)

.naked lunch, criterion collection

David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. originally saw this back in 1991 or 92 and did not understand a single thing about it. i bought this dvd a few years ago after reading some of Burroughs’ works (Queer, Junkie…and only half of Naked Lunch). The film adaptation made more sense now, even though both film and book are still not that easy to comprehend.

.real life emoticon

longing for the emblem that was taken away from you

.my early illustration from 1987

quite significant in that it’s a 20 year old “drawring”. even more significant is that i don’t have any artwork older than this (it’s the oldest one i’ve managed to keep). it would have been nice to have tracked the progress of my doodling up to that point in time, which as i recall was rather awful 3-4 years prior.

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Black Manta from Super Friends and the uniform from Airwolf influenced the look, but the main source of inspiration was from the Kirk Douglas movie Saturn 3. i dont remember anything about the movie other than it had Kirk Douglas, it had Saturn in the title, and how cool the bad guy’s spacesuit looked (played by Harvey Keitel):

if i drew it nowadays it would look like this:

.removed some images from the slideshow

had to cut down some of the stuff in the PORTFOLIO section. i’ll need to streamline it some more eventually.

these were some of the removed images (resized for the blog):

.current playlist

Math Head - Parasites / Drop It / Do Damage
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin / Blazin Riddim
The Black Ghosts - Face (Philipe De Boyar Remix)
The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream remix)
King Soly - Tamil Dub
Matty G - Bitter Love
Modeselektor ft. Paul St. Hilaire - Let Your Love Grow
Audiofly X - Don’t Panic Till I Said So
Bunny Lake - Bunny Lake (Christopher Just’s Disco Demons Vocal mix)
Diplo ft. Sandra Melody - Diplo Rhythm
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Moby remix)
Signal Drivers - Sticky Date Rerub
Tom Middleton - Shinkansen
Bigg Jus - King Spitter
Majesticons - Fader Party
Roots Manuva - Movements
Filo & Peri ft. Eric Lumiere - Anthem (Nic Chagall mix)
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes…really catchy britpop

Burial - Untrue…hauntingly beautiful album
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Underworld remix)
Underworld - Live Radio Broadcast from Essex 11.13.07

.wtf is up with those flowers…

…underneath the categories in my sidebar? frick, need to edit the damn CSS again

edit: fixed.