DJ LIONFACE and I are currently getting free tattoos. I'll post images later, I want to blog in the moment, you know, journalistic integrity and that shit.
Anyways don't have much to say. Listening to African Swim cause everything on Gorilla vs Bear has sucked, except that new Tapes & Tapes single, and one of the two Reading Rainbow tracks. I can't take this chillwave much longer.
Oh yeah, also, Where the fuck has Tapes & Tapes been? Last time any of us saw them was on that Human Giant bit where they were out shined by Ted Leo, Devendra Banhart, and Nick Kroll ALL AT ONCE. Anyways, here comes the second wave.
Pics and tracks to come.
-dan
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We're Not in Love, I promise, we just run this blog.
This is DJ LionFace signing in here to bring you guys a new MP3/video/remix/something y'all probably heard about. dj dan thinks that he's on the blogosphere, but I am pretty sure he hasn't even heard of Crystal Castles, or the Cure, since he likes the Smiths, tape decks, and stupid shit like that that can break. Digital MP3's can't break, unless I can't figure out how to embed the video like he did on the post before, I don't really feel like asking him, thus making me look foolish, so whatever.
This is a new mix to a Crystal Castles song, and Robert Smith (totally riding off the "I was a freaky dude then, how freaky do you think I am now?" wave) added vocals, giving us "Not in Love" which after a few listens I can't tell if it is the greatest song of all time, worst song of all time, or if it just sounds like what the Cure wanted to be in the 1980s.
Really digging it the more I listen to it. Sorta feel like this was the song that Robert Smith was trying to write for his entire career.
"We are not in love" gotta love that line, right?
Wonder who he is singing to?
Wonder how much better this sounds to melodramatic high school kids walking home cranking it through their iPods tapping the rewind button each time the track gets close to ending. I know I did that shit with Cure songs.
Are there even still Cure kids around?
Did Robert Smith show Johnny Barrechord the 'wakkawakka' pedal on "How Soon is Now?"
Can Robert Smith even 'play' guitar?
If Pete Wentz <3's the Cure, what cookie cutter emo band <3's the Smiths?
Is Crystal Castles the best band of all time?
Are they going to save us?
Are these recycled lyrics from every Cure song of all time? Like that High School Creative Writing Project where you make a story out of song titles:
"When you coming home?"
"Its cold outside"
"When you coming home?"
"Its hot inside"
"I'm not in love" x a million
(in audible vocals about the temperature)
"We're not in love"
Did English Club DJ's who hung themselves to Smith's songs circa 1990 probably mix music that sounded exactly like this, but since everyone was rolling nobody even knew?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday Memes #2 - This Week's Theme: SCREAM!!!
Hey guys, DJ LIONFACE here again for your second internet trash Monday (done on Sunday nights) post so that we can hype up our radio show that I know you're all listening to!
CLICK THIS TO LISTEN TO OUR SHOW AT 4-6 WHEN WE'RE ON, CLICK LISTEN I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!!
This weeks topic is inspired by a long time listener Jennifer D'Benetto (not D'Benneto, D'Bennetoo, D'Bennetttttooo, and certainly NEVER D'Ben for short) showing me the new Scream 4 trailer.
1.
Do u lyke scarie moovies?
I do!
2.
What about scarie boobies?
3.
Have you ever wanted to scream so loud in a scary movie? I scream like this guy does
My mom gets mad when I do this
4.
With all these cat MEME's out here, I'm glad this guy finally decided to show them whose boss.
FUCKING JUMP!!!
5.
Da Zen of Skreamz 2 Trailer
Now, incase you're all riled up and inspired to scream, you need to make sure you know all the health concerns: Some "screaming" vocalists have had problems with their throats, voices, vocal cords, and have even had major migraines from screaming when doing it incorrectly. Some vocalists of metalcore bands have had to stop screaming, or making music altogether, or even undergo surgery due to screaming in harmful ways that damage the vocal cords.
CLICK THIS TO LISTEN TO OUR SHOW AT 4-6 WHEN WE'RE ON, CLICK LISTEN I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!!
This weeks topic is inspired by a long time listener Jennifer D'Benetto (not D'Benneto, D'Bennetoo, D'Bennetttttooo, and certainly NEVER D'Ben for short) showing me the new Scream 4 trailer.
1.
Do u lyke scarie moovies?
I do!
2.
What about scarie boobies?
Have you ever wanted to scream so loud in a scary movie? I scream like this guy does
My mom gets mad when I do this
4.
With all these cat MEME's out here, I'm glad this guy finally decided to show them whose boss.
FUCKING JUMP!!!
5.
Da Zen of Skreamz 2 Trailer
Now, incase you're all riled up and inspired to scream, you need to make sure you know all the health concerns: Some "screaming" vocalists have had problems with their throats, voices, vocal cords, and have even had major migraines from screaming when doing it incorrectly. Some vocalists of metalcore bands have had to stop screaming, or making music altogether, or even undergo surgery due to screaming in harmful ways that damage the vocal cords.
So, if you're scared of hurting your vocal chords, do not fear! There is a DVD out there to help you, just consider it the Tae Bao of hXc music.
Here is Melissa Cross calling out Dani Filth from the 'band' Cradle of Filth.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
I hate Sundays.
Fuck.
Dude.
Like, whatever.
I'm gonna make your Sunday as depressing as mine.
Obama 2012.
-dan.
Fuck.
Dude.
Like, whatever.
I'm gonna make your Sunday as depressing as mine.
Obama 2012.
-dan.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
American Hero: 10-23-10
American Hero of the Week.
UNH Professor, Accomplished Author, and Bad Ass Mountain Man; Sam Southworth.
This American Crisis faithfuls may have tuned in for a brief interview with Sam on the October 18th show, featuring Sasha Feldman. You know, the guy who talked about the French resistance and all that great stuff.
Sam isn't just a military expert though, as we mentioned. When I was but a wee lad, Sam was a trip leader at the camp I got lost at most summers. For those of you who aren't sure what I mean by trip leader, I mean someone who is crazy enough to venture out into the wilderness with 10 or so 14 year olds in tow, and brave enough to hope he gets them all back alive.
When I was 14, Sam brought me and those 9 other 14 year olds up to a big ol' lake in Maine. After paddling around for several days, Sam could not help himself and decided to go off the beaten trail. We pulled up to the bank of some sort of ranger station, disembarked from our canoes, and set off up a logging trail into the mountains to find a secret lake, that supposedly was where Presidents and other important people would fly in to fish. I still don't think Sam actually knew where it was, just some sort of vague idea.
It took us most of the day but eventually we made it to Lake Parmachini, (or something like that) and I don't think I have ever experienced anything like it to this day. The lake was perfectly still, not even a ripple until we stepped in, and so clean that it was like looking across a sheet of glass. There was no sand on the banks, only rocks carried to this little alcove of the Appalachians by ancient glaciers.
See what I mean,
American Hero.
Sam regrets to inform me that he is blissfully non-present on the internet, but here is my favorite of his books, available for purchase on Amazon,
Great Raids
and a more cohesive bio,
Sam Southworth: The Legend
Keep your eyes peeled for the new Military Espionage book coming out soon, and good hunting.
-dan.
UNH Professor, Accomplished Author, and Bad Ass Mountain Man; Sam Southworth.
This American Crisis faithfuls may have tuned in for a brief interview with Sam on the October 18th show, featuring Sasha Feldman. You know, the guy who talked about the French resistance and all that great stuff.
Sam isn't just a military expert though, as we mentioned. When I was but a wee lad, Sam was a trip leader at the camp I got lost at most summers. For those of you who aren't sure what I mean by trip leader, I mean someone who is crazy enough to venture out into the wilderness with 10 or so 14 year olds in tow, and brave enough to hope he gets them all back alive.
When I was 14, Sam brought me and those 9 other 14 year olds up to a big ol' lake in Maine. After paddling around for several days, Sam could not help himself and decided to go off the beaten trail. We pulled up to the bank of some sort of ranger station, disembarked from our canoes, and set off up a logging trail into the mountains to find a secret lake, that supposedly was where Presidents and other important people would fly in to fish. I still don't think Sam actually knew where it was, just some sort of vague idea.
It took us most of the day but eventually we made it to Lake Parmachini, (or something like that) and I don't think I have ever experienced anything like it to this day. The lake was perfectly still, not even a ripple until we stepped in, and so clean that it was like looking across a sheet of glass. There was no sand on the banks, only rocks carried to this little alcove of the Appalachians by ancient glaciers.
See what I mean,
American Hero.
Sam regrets to inform me that he is blissfully non-present on the internet, but here is my favorite of his books, available for purchase on Amazon,
Great Raids
and a more cohesive bio,
Sam Southworth: The Legend
Keep your eyes peeled for the new Military Espionage book coming out soon, and good hunting.
-dan.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday Memes #1 - This Week's Theme: Being "gay"
So us here at This American Crisis love Internet trash videos, well, mainly just DJ Lion Face, and by "mainly just DJ Lion Face" I mean "only DJ Lion Face" and by that I mean me.
Monday Isn't Boring is going to be a weekly list of five videos or links on the Internet that all dance around a certain theme for your boredom/procrastination to start the week off right!
5
This is a great video. The little kid is now a gay porn star, and is still acting, see if you can spot him in this next video.
4
Did you see him? No? How about in this other one he's in!
3
RUB IT OUT GUYS!
2
Now this, I don't even know what to say about this, but it is people like this, people that spent so much time trying to create that parody of the GaGa song that isn't even EQ'ed right into the video, un listenable and totally off whack. What are these costumes? Mother fucking rejects from a 1950s Godzilla villain monster open cast call? I hope so. And yes, I found this video typing in "gay stuff"
So this just about wraps up our Sunday isn't Boring Meme list. I'm going to send you guys off with a song, because at the end of the day, we're really just a music blog with an ambition to be the best and the greatest evar! Dreaming of getting blow jobs in the back rooms of the old TRL set being VJ's.
All this talk of VJ's makes me think, why are Suchin Pac and Sway, those old 1990s "serious" VJ's gone, same with Kurt Russell. Are they just given jobs where they are forced to look on the internet and not have a tumblr/facebook/social media presence? I digress.
Here is your last video, and even though you might not be gay, we can all get down on some love, so send this list to your favorite bro/gal/heterosexual life-mate/mom&dad and tell them how much you love them!
1
Have a Gay Monday everybody! And don't forget that we don't love you with all our hearts and this is just a plug for our show that is conveniently LATER TODAY FROM 4-6 CST (CHICAGO STRANDED TIME) you can listen at
this link
this link
this link
or
this link
or
this link
or even
this link
And click LISTEN! You can see us on the webcam, ask us to do truth or dare in the chatroom! The chatroom guys! Or call in! Really, we'll be playing Dungeons and Dragons in between songs!
-DJ LIONFACE
Monday Isn't Boring is going to be a weekly list of five videos or links on the Internet that all dance around a certain theme for your boredom/procrastination to start the week off right!
5
This is a great video. The little kid is now a gay porn star, and is still acting, see if you can spot him in this next video.
4
Did you see him? No? How about in this other one he's in!
3
RUB IT OUT GUYS!
2
Now this, I don't even know what to say about this, but it is people like this, people that spent so much time trying to create that parody of the GaGa song that isn't even EQ'ed right into the video, un listenable and totally off whack. What are these costumes? Mother fucking rejects from a 1950s Godzilla villain monster open cast call? I hope so. And yes, I found this video typing in "gay stuff"
So this just about wraps up our Sunday isn't Boring Meme list. I'm going to send you guys off with a song, because at the end of the day, we're really just a music blog with an ambition to be the best and the greatest evar! Dreaming of getting blow jobs in the back rooms of the old TRL set being VJ's.
All this talk of VJ's makes me think, why are Suchin Pac and Sway, those old 1990s "serious" VJ's gone, same with Kurt Russell. Are they just given jobs where they are forced to look on the internet and not have a tumblr/facebook/social media presence? I digress.
Here is your last video, and even though you might not be gay, we can all get down on some love, so send this list to your favorite bro/gal/heterosexual life-mate/mom&dad and tell them how much you love them!
1
Have a Gay Monday everybody! And don't forget that we don't love you with all our hearts and this is just a plug for our show that is conveniently LATER TODAY FROM 4-6 CST (CHICAGO STRANDED TIME) you can listen at
this link
this link
this link
or
this link
or
this link
or even
this link
And click LISTEN! You can see us on the webcam, ask us to do truth or dare in the chatroom! The chatroom guys! Or call in! Really, we'll be playing Dungeons and Dragons in between songs!
-DJ LIONFACE
Check out this kick flip.
Great news guys!
It's 1994 again!
Kurt Cobain is still clinging to life and best of all...
MTV SPORTS IS BACK!
-dan
It's 1994 again!
Kurt Cobain is still clinging to life and best of all...
MTV SPORTS IS BACK!
-dan
A Letter to Avey Tare
Dear Avey Tare,
We get it. You pulled an On Kawara. You are still alive. We know. Is this really an excuse to release your new crocodile songs even before you finished editing the garage band track.
We really get it. Panda Bear just had his huge release. Panda Bear just got the closest anyone from Animal Collective ever will at Pitchfork, and he got to see a mediocre Pavement show for free, if he even stuck around for it. We get it. You just wanted the option to leave early and make a statement about skipping Pavement.
Being humble is still a virtue according to my last supper tv dinner trays.
I'm going to tell you a story. One time my roommate had a really cute girl come over. My other roommate and I totally wanted to get into that shit. He spent the whole night trying to upstage roommate number 1 and look super cool and totally rad, and sooooooo into crocodiles, and just came off as a pretty weird dude. So who do you think slept with her? Yeah that's right, roommate number 1. That's Panda Bear. Which one of them do you think you are? Uhuh. Roommate number 2. And all I did was smoke weed and hunt beavers in Red Dead Redemption. So I guess that makes me Deacon.
-dan.
Lucky 1 from Abby Portner on Vimeo.
We get it. You pulled an On Kawara. You are still alive. We know. Is this really an excuse to release your new crocodile songs even before you finished editing the garage band track.
We really get it. Panda Bear just had his huge release. Panda Bear just got the closest anyone from Animal Collective ever will at Pitchfork, and he got to see a mediocre Pavement show for free, if he even stuck around for it. We get it. You just wanted the option to leave early and make a statement about skipping Pavement.
Being humble is still a virtue according to my last supper tv dinner trays.
I'm going to tell you a story. One time my roommate had a really cute girl come over. My other roommate and I totally wanted to get into that shit. He spent the whole night trying to upstage roommate number 1 and look super cool and totally rad, and sooooooo into crocodiles, and just came off as a pretty weird dude. So who do you think slept with her? Yeah that's right, roommate number 1. That's Panda Bear. Which one of them do you think you are? Uhuh. Roommate number 2. And all I did was smoke weed and hunt beavers in Red Dead Redemption. So I guess that makes me Deacon.
-dan.
Lucky 1 from Abby Portner on Vimeo.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
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