|RADIOBLOG#3|

YOUR DAD DOES IT BETTER

(Just click on the radio icon)

01. Nancy Sinatra - Like A Rolling Stone
02. Etta James - Tell Mama
03. James Brown - Love Don't Love Nobody
04. Tom Waits - Temptation
05. Howlin Wolf - Spoonful
06. Bo Diddley - Another Sugar Daddy
07. Esther Phillips - Double Crossing Blues
08. Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
09. Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together
10. Odetta - Baby, I'm In The Mood For You

|STYLE WARS|

(picture by Martha Cooper)

Graffiti: Style As Defiance

After TAKI 183 got his name in the New York Times in 1971, graffiti took off. "Every new school year was a new graffiti season" says IZ THE WIZ.

To Hugo Martinez, the sociology student and youth gang advocate who in 1972 organized the first graffiti association, United Graffiti Artists, "Graffiti writing is a way of gaining status in a society where to own property is to have identity." Your name was your currency, and you created value by making your mark in the niches or getting into mass production. Here was the logic of reverse colonization, a virus spread by the faceless fellow travelers of roaches and rats. "You started on your street, then you went to the buses. You take over your neighborhood, then you take over your home line, then you take over your division, then you take over all city," says Luke "SPARE ONE" Felisberto.

You wanted fame. To an invisible generation, fame itself was wealth, liability transformed into asset. Maybe you hung yourself off the side of a building or climbed the steel beams supporting an elevating subway station to rock a tag that would make cleaning men scream in frustration and the other writers shake in jealousy. Or you were outrageous enough to hit the biggest, riskiest target you could find, as the pioneering female writer STONEY did in 1972 when she tagged the Statue Of Liberty. You tagged everywhere you went. Inside the cars, you and other writers staked space as if it were a turf to claim with your names. Train riders would treat your tags as invasions of their daily anonymity.

Still only a few tags, like those of the spliff-star saint STAY HIGH 149, could really register much louder than the dull ad placards. The "pieces", on the other hand, were personal pageants of light, line, and color, rolling billboards for the self. And when writers added style to these, it was like they had begun printing million-dollar bills. Soon, hundreds of kids were scaling barbed wire fences, leaping instant death on electrified third rails, and running from police just to piece cars in the train yards and layups in ever bolder detail and wilder style.

Taken from Can't Stop Won't Stop - History Of The Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

|BRING THE NOISE|

MARSATTACKS

Taking MDMA or ecstasy is commonly referred to as:

popping, rolling, pilling, boshing or dropping in the United Kingdom,
pinging in Australia,
murfing in Canada
or thizzing in Northern California.

Some term the rushing feeling of the drug as blowing up or coming up.

|I'VE GOT A FEELIN I DON'T WANT TO KNOW|

Remy Zaugg / Esquisses Perceptives N°60

|MONSTER MALL|

Debt Increasing SWINDLES : Doppelganger Fetish - Spanky Spanky Wankers - Duck SUCKING Fucks - Just Spell It L.O.U.S.Y. - Freaked Out But Grateful MOFOS - X-Ray Eyes & Astray Lungs - Hit & Run - Braindead-Friendly Gift - Microwaves Burns - HAPPY SLAP Dat Yeshyallin' Midget

04.45 AM : Congratulations, you are the winning bidder for "Obsessive Compulsive Action Figure"

(OOPS)

|RADIOBLOG#2|

MY PLAYSTATION IS BIGGER THAN YOUR NINTENDO

(Just click on the radio icon)

01. Peaches - Slippery Dick
02. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Leave Me Alone
03. The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
04. Amanda Blank - Get Um Girl
05. Existereo - Who You're Rockin For
06. Outkast Ft Sleepy Brown & Scar - Morris Brown
07. Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone
08. Mickey Avalon - So Rich So Pretty (Hollywood Version)
09. Uffie - Pop The Glock
10. Brooks - Roxxie (Hot Chip Rmx)

(Picture by Dash Snow)

|PLANNINGTOROCK|

I WANNA BITE YA

|REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS|

| ... ... |

Mon
Coeur
Est
Cassé

|SOMETIMES I DON'T GET YOU|

Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair
Yo La Tengo - I Should Have Know Better
Yo La Tengo - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

[Their new record I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass will be released on Matador on September 12.]

|I TATTOOED MY BRAIN ALL THE WAY|

Lean out your window, golden hair
I heard you singing in the midnight air
My book is closed, I read no more
Watching the fire dance on the floor
I've left my book, I've left my room
For I heard you singing through the gloom
Singing and singing, a merry air

(Lyrics taken from a James Joyce poem sung by Syd Barrett on The Madcap Laughs album)

|AIN'T IT DEPRESSIN?|

You had a voodoo doll and everything, worthless bitch

|IT'S HARD FOR ME BUT I'M TRYING|

Sometimes I want to go home and stay out of sight for a long time

Midlake - Van Occupanther
Midlake - My Young Bride

|BOREDOM PREVAILS|

DANIEL CLOWES

|JUST WANT YA IN MY CADDIE|

"One day, you wake up and you realize that most songs are actually speaking about sex."

SICK SOUNDS FOR MOIST AFTERNOONS

A SIDE

01. Caural - Summer On Cassette
02. Mickey Avalon - My Dick (Ft. Dirt Nasty & Andre Legacy)
03. Spank Rock - Touch Me
04. Peaches - Tent In Your Pants

B SIDE

05. Scream Club - Little Piece Of Sex
06. Dabrye - Pressure (Ft. Waajeed And T'raach)
07. Outkast - Elevators (Me & You)
08. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Hot Chip Rmx)

|I NEVER DUG DISCO|

POST-PUNK IS FOR DEPRESSED DANCERS
(The radio is back)
(Just click on the icon)

01. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
02. As Mercenarias - Ação Na Cidade
03. The Slits - Frequent Mutilation
04. ESG - Dance
05. The Fall - The Classical
06. P.I.L. - Flowers Of Romance
07. Kas Product - Seven
08. The Raincoats - Lola
09. Pere Ubu - Ubu Dance Party
10. Joy Division - She's Lost Control

|C.A.S.I.O.|

Hot Chip/Territoires Automatiques 2006

|POTHEADS & SPEEDFREAKS|

Saturday : Territoires Automatiques

Hot Chip - Colours
Hot Chip - Over & Over

|TWIST FOR ICE CREAM|

[I still have a flame gun for the cute cute cute ones]

Chasin Nathan Detroit Playlist

01. The Fiery Furnaces - Waiting To Know You
02. Cat Power - Nude As The News
03. Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather
04. PJ Harvey - Evol
05. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mr. You're On Fire Mr. (Liars Cover)

|IT'S ALL ILLUSION ANYWAY|

There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high

(All these covers are available on a 1989 Neil Young Tribute, The Bridge)

01. The Pixies - Winterlong

02. Sonic Youth - Computer Age

03. Nick Cave - Helpless

04. The Flaming Lips - After The Gold Rush

05. Dinosaur Jr - Lotta Love