It began as a mistake.....

I've been reading a lot of Bukowski recently so I thought I'd post up an incredible documentary on the man himself. Charles Bukowski's work is raw and brutally honest. As in comedy the best jokes are reality based, his story's are so fucking good because they scream sincerity, an attribute bukowski learned at a young age from his father who beat him every single day up until the age of 12. He often stated that his "horror show" childhood made him a very blunt honest man, this allowed him to write without worrying about how his poetry should look or what other writers were writing. As he put it "as the spirit wanes, the form appears" meaning poets with no soul would resort to form to mask their lack of spirit. The same applies to all art forms especially music, too many bands/musicians are concerned with sticking to a specific genre and worrying about what their target audience would like to hear instead of just fucking putting their heart into it and writing songs that have some fucking emotion to them.......fuck I'm starting to sound preachy. Anyway I think this poem of his sums it up pretty nicely //

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI - BORN INTO THIS {edit } It's fucking been taken down! I'll upload it and post it in a bit.


First, pop punk legends, the get up kids reform and announce a fucking UK tour and now sunny day real estate announce their comeback with a string of us tour dates! Surely it's not asking too much for an at the drive in reunion? please?



Koen demuynck is one AD man that even bill hicks would have to agree is truly amazing or as he would probably put it, worthy of being alive! Belgian born koen creatively blends beautiful surrealistic imagery into his design work making him unique and extremely sought after in the advertisement world.

What an idiot.

"Kimberly Vlaeminck, 18, made headlines when she claimed last week to have woken up from a tattoo session with 56 stars on her face. She said she had asked for just three small ones. Turns out though, Vlaeminck was lying. From the Sydney Morning Herald:

"I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and that the tattooist had made a mistake," Ms Vlaeminck told Dutch TV.

(Tattoo artist Rouslan) Toumaniantz - who is covered in tattoos and piercings - had insisted Vlaeminck wanted 56 stars tattooed on her face.

But he had said he would pay for half of the laser treatment to remove the tattoos, The Telegraph said.

"Kimberley is unhappy and it is not my wish to have an unsatisfied client," Mr Toumaniantz said.

But after Ms Vlaeminck's confession he had withdrawn the offer, The Telegraph said.





On the Might of Princes were a highly underrated post-hardcore/proto-screamo act from Long Island. In their short lived time together they released 3 full-lengths including a release with revelation records. Seriously if you like early hopesfall or hot cross or any bands in the early screamo vein YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS RECORD!! I'm not even kidding! This is their first record and it's absolutely mind fucking whore blowing good.

On the might of princes - where you are and where you want to be

Faces of wank

New york based video artist Robbie Cooper first made a name for himself back in 2004 with a project called alter ego. The former photojournalist's project was basically photos of online gamers next to pictures of their virtual reality characters and explanations as to why they chose their characters, in an attempt to find out if peoples real lives, echoed their virtual reality lives. He has now started a new project entitled immersion, in which cooper plans to film hundreds of people as they immerse themselves in different types of media (films, video games, tv programs). The first set of pictures in the series, released in November, was of kids as they played different video games, those pictures can be found here. More interestingly though his most recent film in the series is of 3 girls and 3 guys discussing their relationship with porn and capturing some truly weird video/stills of humans at their most vulnerable of times.............in case you missed that this guy filmed these people's facial expressions whilst they fucked themselves in HD aaaaand.......put it on the Internet! You brave brave people.






Cursive have a new video for their song I couldn't love you check it out!

GOOD FRIENDS WITH BAD HABITS

good friends with bad habits,
what am I to do?
they're literary romantics,
they fuck like Wilde,
and indulge like Hemingway.

I've good friends with bad habits
and a tendency towards negligence.
just petty thieves and addicts,
that don't hurt anyone
but they'll burn anyway.

well sometimes,
like every time
a train passes,
i get jealous of the long nights,
and blurred lights,
the red eyes,
the bar fights.
where in the hell am i?
and how did i get here?
and which way to the nearest train?

well sometimes,
like every time she breathes,
i embrace my routine.

I've good friends with bad habits.
what am i to do?
they're literary romantics,
they'll fuck like Wilde,
and die like Hemingway.

This is beginning to become a kinsella worship blog........They are modern day geniuses though!


OWEN - GOOD FRIENDS WITH BAD HABITS




Eugene mirman funny funny guy!





Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who takes surreal stepford wives esq photos of American homes and neighbourhoods. Crewdson, who as a teenager was a member of the new york punk band the speedies, has been taking photos since the 80's and has taught photography at many U.S. universities. His pictures appeals to me a lot because of the dark surrealistic nature of his scenes, you can definitely see his influence in my previously featured artists alex prager and fellow New Yorker lyndon wades work.

boy problems

Uh-oh someone tipped a whole load of emo into philadelphias reservoir and the natives have been churning out some sweet sweet music. Check out all these bands below! Most have split up already and most of the bands are the same guys in different bands but still check them out!

boy problems myspace

boy problems - I swallowed a bug

street smart cyclist myspace

Street smart cyclist - hoods up!

snowing myspace

snowing - methuselah rookie card


algernon cadwallader myspace

I know I blogged about these guys last post but I seriously cannot stress how much these guys fucking own!

algernon cadwallader - casual discussion in a dome between two temples

Subpop are giving away a free digital sampler featuring handsome furs, iron and wine, pissed jeans and flight of the conchords! Get it here.

Please please please pray to santa, god, the easter bunny, moses, allah and all the other fictional characters you can think of for this to happen. It will make my existence!

I GOT PAID BITCHES

And that is basically the reason why I haven't posted for such a long time. Expect my posts to fluctuate in accordance to how much money is in my bank account, because lets face it, getting drunk on sailor Jerrys and staring at girls in a bar or a club, is waaay better than getting drunk on aftershave and staring at girls at home on the Internet and that is a scientific fact, from science. So yeah..... this website is funny see if you can spot Morgan freeman!

Lars von trier, the son of nudist communist parents, was always going to turn out a leftist. His approach to avant-garde film making spawned the birth of the danish film movement dogme 95. Dogme 95 is basically a refusal by certain film makers to use special effects, Hollywood budgets, cheap gimmicks and post production modifications, the idea being to focus on the actual storylines and the actors performances. His new film antichrist, starring Willem dafoe, is about a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin ‘Eden’ in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. This film caused a massive stir at Cannes this year as it seems to suggest that women are evil and medieval witch burning was justified..............yeah and???? Whatever the interpretations of this film it made 4 people faint during it's showing at cannes so you just know it's going to be a fucking awesome surreal fest of avant-garde cinema that can't be missed. No uk release date as of yet I'll keep you posted though.

Lars von Trier's Antichrist - Official Trailer from Zentropa on Vimeo.

It sucks when a band you love break up. Especially after just one album, because you can only listen to one album (even if it is 34 songs long) so many times before you get bored and although the many other bands that they go on to form fill the void a little, you're still hoping and praying for something new. In case you haven't guessed I'm talking about cap'n jazz, who broke up in 1995. Although I was only 9 at the time, I'm sure being a young musical Jedi I must have sensed something had disappeared from the world and probably cried or shat myself or both because for about a year afterwards I felt an ultimate sadness........ completely void of emotion.... empty....an emptiness I choose to fill with alcohol and drugs..........bad times, Age 9-10 was a dark period in my life. Here are some of my favourite "kinsella worship" bands that are still together, do not feature any members of cap'n jazz and stop me from reverting back to my pre-teen drug binges.


If cap'n jazz were a person and had a slightly eccentric twin Algernon cadwallader would be that twin. The band sounds almost exactly like cap'n jazz but different enough for it to have it's own personality, the vocals especially are uncanny! You can buy the AC album here and also a limited press of their 7" which shall be mine as soon as it's back in print!

ALGERNON CADWALLADER - KATIES CONCIOUS

ALGERNON CADWALLADER - SOME KIND OF CADWALLADER

PASSWORD : MEM

This town needs guns from oxford have definitely got the kinsella/von Bohlen guitar style down which they infuse with technical drums, softly sung melodies and witty lyrics. If you live in the UK you can catch them at several festivals this summer including truck and fringe festival.

THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS - WANT TO COME BACK TO MY PLACE AND LISTEN....

This town needs guns:
Hippy Jam Fest (The Likes of Which Has Never Been Seen)

I've already shown love for this band in my first post but I can't make this list without them! Native are a lot more technical than cap'n jazz ever were however you can still hear the connection in their music. Their E.p. is now out in the UK on big scary monsters please buy it and show some UK support for this band.

native - ride the tide

native - we delete; erase

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