ALBUM OF THE YEAR

SRLSLY GUYS

http://retrospektmusic.com/
Where was pitchfork on this one? Is Rolling Stone's failure to cover it the final nail in their coffin? Spin? NME? Drowned in Sound? Bear Vs Gorilla? Brooklyn Vegans? New York TImes? The New Yorker? The CMT Awards? The BET awards? Grammies? Emmies? Oscar? Roster Impostor? Tony awards? The Heisman? GLAAD awards? Better Homes + Gardens? Blogspotdotcom? tumblrdotcom? blogspotdotcomdottumblrdotcom? Stareiogum? XXL? WHERE'S MY VALIDATION RIP MUSIC BLOGS INTERNET YOU FAILED ME

Sacred City

Also, if you didn't know (you probably didn't) http://blogspotdotcom.tumblr.com/

not really sure about tumblr though.

El Eh

Went to L.A. this weekend to play Alpha MC's birthday. Fun car ride, good (cheap) indian food, etc. The actual show was alright, definitely not our best. The sound was way off and the monitors were turned up way too high, causing pretty gnarly feedback. We also went on at a pretty crazy hour of the night, like 2:30 or something, which is around the time that bakers usually wake up (right?). We got invited back to play Hoodstock though, which is cool. We also finished our first EP and a second is in the works.

Cassette Cover

Split Cassette, if y'all didn't know

The Hengbao Sharpies
^^^^^^^^^
Playing bass with them as of the moment

The Young Mings
^^^^^^^^^

My semi-solo act

EDIT: OH SHIT I SPELLED THE HENGBAO SHARPIES' NAME WRONG ON THE COVER, I"LL FIX THAT

Sup Y'all

Playing this show

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128268727231824

What whaat.

Przn Shl

Nother one. Do the vocals need to be louder? Wish I could be ~mad shredding~ over this but I only have two hands guys. I'll bring it to the band though.

All blog everything

Not really though.

My zine ~Barely Legal Carnage~ is going to be coming out soon.

We will probably have a zine release party. I am expanding the young mings into a full band and we will probably play this party.

These are the things in my life right now that I feel "excited" about.

MP3 CITY

Hope y'all bump this in your car. A real club banger.

Hell is Humaty

This is a post by an excellent British lad named Joe who I had the honor and privilege of meeting in San Francisco. I am mainly sharing it because it is primarily about me.

Ambivalent Armadillo: This post is primarily about Jared Law, a fine man...

New mp3 y'all

Hope you like it.

~Mad Stressin~

Realized that, between now and the day of the show that I am playing at Bike 4th, I will not have a single 24 hour period in which to prep songs. And I really need to prep songs. Gonna have to put the nose to the grindstone.

50 Cent is Polite to the Elderly

also, I guess it is a thing that he is addicted to twitter

more santa cruz

not as happy with this roll as the last one, but there are still some worthwhile pictures

Tomorrow

ANOTHER ONE

THOSE YOUNG MINGS SURE BEEN GETTING BUSY!

Upcoming show!

I've been working with the band Moses Campbell lately, trying to find them a show in Davis. I finally did, with the help of my good friend Clare and the girls at The Brothel. The show is on thursday and, if you are a Davis resident (but I have the sneaking feeling that it is mostly Redding residents, as in William, Katherine (???) and Marissa, who actually ever look at this blog) you should come out! Elisa apparently saw them last night in Olympia and says that they are a load of fun!

Moses Campbell's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mosescampbell

Lions, Bats and Bears' myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lionsbatsandbears

We just added Please Quiet Ourselves: http://www.myspace.com/quietourselves

Facebook event in case you want to broadcast to the world how cool you are for attending this show: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129369983774836

The Young Mings 4 Ever

That's right I said it

I kinda feel like Discovery Channel is ripping me off.
Can I sue their asses?

Also I might have a terrible album ready for your little ears some time soon.

Gonna Re-work it

You know, the blog thing.

DIRTY PRETTY

Marlboro Men

I wrote this for a writing thing that some friends and I are doing, it was very last minute, so it is very short. I will probably post more writings later.




The Christmas lights were up, but they weren't on- it was mid July. Dwayne went to the fridge, took a Budweiser, closed the fridge and then, on second thought, reopened the fridge and removed two slices of slimy lunchmeat. Dwayne was in his late forties and had hair and skin that looked like it was always dusty. He settled into a director's chair with the name “Sandra” across the back in big white letters. There was a matching chair next to it that read “Dwayne”, but that seat was covered with the week's mail. In addition to the two names, the chairs also featured smaller red letters that spelled out “Marlboro”. Dwayne was a Marlboro man, and he and Sandra, or Sandy, as he called her, used to joke that Sandy was a Marlboro man as well. They had gotten the chairs through a promotional offer that Marlboro had done years ago, back when their daughter Faith was young and around the time that they moved into the house on Cedars lane. They had set the chairs up in the garage and, on hot summer days, would both sit out there and smoke, perched in their individual chairs, watching the driveway.

Dwayne had moved the chairs into the house when Sandy took the couch nearly eleven years ago. One of the pieces of mail that rested in Dwayne's chair was from Faith. The handwriting on the address was large and childlike, despite the fact that Faith was already twenty five. Dwayne ate the first piece of lunch meat and draped the other over the wooden arm of the director's chair. He took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked. It was Skoll because the easy mart was out of Marlboros. Dwayne finished his beer, got up from Sandy's chair, put the cigarette in his mouth, and began thumbing through the mail. He picked up Faith's letter, turned it over in his hand, eyed it, and then set it back down, unopened.

Finishing his cigarette, Dwayne went into the backyard. He threw the butt onto the small cement patio, but was carful to make sure that it wasn't lit. The weeds in the backyard had grown high, some even reaching over Dwayne's head.They had dried in the summer sun. Dwayne had not seen his Border Collie, Randi, in a few days and assumed that, as Randi was an old dog, he had probably either died in the backyard or escaped and gotten hit. Randi had actuarially been Sandra's dog but, since he was too big for her apartment, he had been left with Dwayne. Randi was not allowed inside the house. Dwayne walked the perimeter of the fence, searching for either Randi or a hole that he could have escaped through. Finding nothing, he began to work his way into the thick tangle of foxtails and grasses.

Dwayne found Randi's body in a patch of grass that had been shaded from the summer sun by the neighbor's cottonwood tree. He fetched a shovel from the garage and used it to push Randi to the side. He sank the shovel into the dirt where Randi had lain and began digging. He kept digging and digging.

Santa Cruz trip

most of the outdoor pictures got burnt out

Check it

These two have always been awesome at davis open mic night, and now their video is getting pretty big! It's good to see them getting some praise from the mainstream!

Laff Track

Snark week is over

And it was kind of bullshit. I only did two snarks, and they were all easy, but , turns out, I don't like snarking on the internet. Or at least when I don't have to. Anyways, I may start doing a video, called "two minutes hate" on this blog sometimes. Just a picture of Dane Cook with abrasive music.

You know that old barn out behind the cemetery?

If you have visited me or hung out with me, I have probably taken you there. Well, turns out, it is widely considered "haunted" and has a backstory to fit.

http://daviswiki.org/Chiles_Mansion


"This place is haunted, and not just because it is next to the cemetary! We boarded a horse there for many years, and many of the boarders had strange experiences and believed the place to be haunted. When we were there, the little girl's horse was still alive, and perhaps she was near. We experienced sightings of a figure in white, (the type of thing that you see from the corner of your eye, then when you look closely, it is gone), the sound of the heavy metal fence squeaking open when it was secured shut, as well as the generally creepy feeling of the place. One day,in broad daylight, a horse seemed to have moved from one stall to the next, simply appearing in the new stall with no human intervention. When I heard that a subdivision would be built and people would live there, those horror movies came to mind. I wouldn't live there if it were free!" Quoting the silly wiki post.

Quick snark

Startin' snarking with an easy target

I know that this guy is an easy target if there ever was one, but at least he isn't so easy as, say, Carlos Mencia...


...DANE COOK

I mean just look at this guy! I'm just going to start with appearances. He is performing in front of thousands of fans and what is he wearing? A stupidly cut t-shirt and some ill matched jeans. Jesus Christ.

For my next point, you can just skip to about 6:50 in this video, if you don't want to deal with the mind numbing inanity that is Dane Cook's comedy.



Okay, now on to my real qualm. Do you see the way that this man acts as if the word "snarky" is some kind of a novelty. All like "yeah, its a real word," "google that shit" and "google magic, people". Jesus Dane, give your audience some credit, last time I checked, the word "snarky" is not exactly "esoteric." Yeah, "esoteric" people, google that shit, google magic my friends. While you're at it, google "bullshit".

I'm not even going to touch on the actual content of his comedy, plenty of other people have. If you want to know more, just google "Dane Cook sucks". Google magic, my friends. Google magic indeed.

PS: UPDATE, WHY THE HELL DOES HE ACT LIKE "CLUSTERFUCK" IS A BIG DEAL! DANE!!!!

- The Judge

Starting tomorrow...

Everyone's favorite week...

SNARK WEEK.

It's like Shark Week, but instead of Discovery Channel (TM) making big shit out of some sharks, I just get all snarky on everyone's asses. Yes!


-The Judge

Merry Christmas USA

Bummin' me out on the reals

RIPPIN ALL THE WAY

CAN'T UNDERSTAND DEATH RIGHT NOW!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cduC2DZ7Iyw

WHY?!

SORROW ITY

EVER NOTICE???!!!!????

FOOD BLOG TIME

So I like food a lot, but unlike Marissa, I don't really food blog. Probably because I don't have a digital camera and food blogging is boring without pictures. Anyways though, here I am to tell you folks about some recent good food that I have eaten.

When I visited my sister in the city I had some good food! Surprise!

First off, Ramon, Steve, Jon and Arjun came into the city for a visit. We went to a place by my sister's house called Saigon Sandwich (she lives in little Saigon, which has several such sandwich shops, none of which are as good, especially not Lee's, where I had a not so good vegetarian sandwich that was basically bread + twigs) and got delicious sandwiches. I got a tofu one, which was really good because the tofu is cut into interestingly textured strips and fried in a sauce that is pretty delish (and keeps the sandwich from being dry- like Lee's was). Saigon sandwich is heavy with the cilantro and strategically places the chili for some surprisingly spicy bites. The other guys said the meat was good too. It's also pretty cheap! I give saigon sandwich a gold star!

Here is a drawing

Next we ate at this Moroccan place that I like. I don't remember the name, but it is on Polk, up past Post street. It was also way good. Here is a picture of Morocco on a map. In case you didn't know.

Good food!

Later on, the next day, the sis and I had falafel. I like falafel. We also sat on the ground in the restaurant to eat. Very comfortable. Later we ate at kindness kitchen- an Indian place near my sister's house. There was a tour bus of middle-aged-to-old Indian folks there so we had to wait for about an hour, which was crazy. We were eventually seated in the romantic section of the restaurant, which we both got a kick out of. It was pretty nice there though, and- again- we were seated on the ground, this time in a little booth. We got a cocktail called the "Indian Summer" which is a bit of a silly name for a drink, but it was tasty. It contained the following:

Gin

Chilis

Cilantro

Cucumber

and Ginger

Rather than using sweetness to hide the alcohol's taste, it complimented it with spicyness. Good call, Indian Summer, This is what it looked like.

main difference- the actual drink didn't look like shit.

The food was also excellent. The Chana Masala reminded me of a chickpea dish that I make at home. It had more cilantro than Chana Masala usually does.

The next day we went to an Italian Street festival and had THE BEST PIZZA EVER. Or one of the best. Mine was the vegan variety, which is not hard to do with real italian, wood fired pizza, as it is not usually smothered with cheese. I also had some blackberry chardonnay gelato, which had a nice complex/ somewhat olive-y flavor.

FINAL NOTE-

I have been eating a lot at Taqueria Davis lately. They have a vegan burrito that is the most fly. Ever. Try that shit, its got everything thats good. The other night I was feeling a little queasy (don't worry, not related to food poisoning) but I had recently had one of their burritos, so I fought the urge to throw up because a burrito that good needs to stay in your stomach.

A+

- The Judge

R.I.P. Mark Linkous

Hey guys

http://www.myspace.com/theyoungmings


- The Judge

Photos

- The Judge