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Check out this really neat website. It definately brings out our inner Jackson Pollock. Have fun with it and let the splatter consume you.

Did you know…

“It is what his imitators could never do, and why there are no successful Pollock forgeries: they always end up looking like…spaghetti, whereas Pollock–in his best work–had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous; he would often retouch the drip with a brush.”

No. 5, 1948

I’m so hyped! It is not only because SHOUT OUT OUT OUT (SO4) will be coming to town, but I’ve been waiting to see 120 Days from Norway ever since they hit North America by storm, after signing with Vice Records. If you’re in the mood to dance, and “barf everywhere fuckin’ party man!” check out this show at Lee’s Palace, Toronto, March 3, 2007

SHOUT OUT OUT OUT @ 12:00, myspace.com/shoutoutoutoutout
120 Days @ 11:00 myspace.com/120days
2 Koreas @ 10:00 myspace.com/thetwokoreas

A short preview of what’s in store…

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, November 10th, 2006

A trend I’ve noticed during my travels through Europe is, Installation Art is probably the hottest genre (or movement?) at the moment judging from waves of exhibitions at modern art museums such as Centre Pompidou, MUMOK, Stedelijk, etc.

Installation art incorporates almost any media to create a visceral and/or conceptual experience in a particular environment. Materials used in contemporary installation art range from everyday and natural materials to new media such as video, sound, performance, computers and the internet. Some installations are site-specific in that they are designed to only exist in the space for which they were created.

Completely surreal. Dim the lights, turn up the volume, take a deep breath as you take a journey into Valstar Barbie, 2003, Claude Levêque’s latest installation at Le Mouvement des Images exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Simply amazing.

In the lines of Ghost in the Shell, Neuromancer, and countless others. Things that make you go hmm.

Young Love’s newest single “Discotech”.
myspace.com/younglove

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Live in NYC

What’s that?

Erase Errata are a band from San Francisco, California. Their music draws inspiration from experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart, The Fall, and disco-influenced post-punk. Since forming in 1999, the band has released several albums as well as a number split singles with various other bands including Black Dice, The Need, Numbers and Sonic Youth. 4

The band consists of Bianca Sparta (drums), Ellie Erickson (bass), and Jenny Hoyston (guitar, trumpet, vocals). Sara Jaffe left the band prior to the recording of current album ‘Nightlife’.

Erase Errata - “Tax Dollar” (MP3)

January 31, 2007: Boston was nearly shut down and flooded with police, homeland security, and bomb squads because they thought Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon network ads were explosives. This is the sort of paranoia America faces in a post 9-11 era.

This is a video from the ad’s creator’s website, www.zebbler.com, showing him and his colleagues placing the devices.

Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, were held on $2,500 cash bond each after they pleaded not guilty to placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct for a device found at a Boston subway station on 2-1-07.

At a news conference after the hearing, Stevens and Berdovsky stepped to the microphones and said they were taking questions only about 1970s hairstyles.

When a reporter accused them of not taking the situation seriously, Stevens responded, “We’re taking it very seriously.” Asked another question about the case, Stevens reiterated they were answering questions only about hair and accused the reporter of not taking him and Berdovsky seriously.

Reporters did not relent and as they continued, Berdovsky disregarded their queries, saying, “That’s not a hair question. I’m sorry.” (Watch suspects avoid answering reporters’ questions Video)

Their attorney said the two were putting on a “performance,” and noted that he had told them not to discuss the case.