Thoughts

Obvious statement is obvious: Lots of little things going wrong is still not as bad as one really bad thing.

My new art piece in the Laluzapalooza Annual Group Show

My latest art piece will be on display along with the works of over 100 different artists at the annual La Luz de Jesus group show. It opening reception is this Friday and it should be quite the shindig.

Karaoke Wish List 2012

Broken up by genre

GOTH/DEATH ROCK:
• ALIEN SEX FIEND - I Walk The Line (NOT the Johnny Cash song)
• BAUHAUS - Spirit, Double Dare, In The Flat Field, Dark Entries, Spy In The Cab, Crowds, Three Shadows Pt. 2, Terror Couple Kills Colonel
• COCTEAU TWINS - Iceblink Luck, Heaven or Las Vegas, From The Flagstones, Aikea Guinea
• CHRISTIAN DEATH - Cavity: First Communion, Romeo's Distress, Ashes, Between Youth, Spiritual Cramp, Deathwish, Luxury Of Tears, Church of No Return
• DANIELLE DAX - Big Hollow Man
• DEAD CAN DANCE - Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove, Cantara
• NICK CAVE - Dig! Lazarus Dig!, I Let Love In, Stagger Lee, Curse of Millhaven, Nature Boy, Muddy Water, Poppa Won't Leave You Henry
• SEX GANG CHILDREN - Dieche
• SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Dazzle, Spellbound, Happy House, Christine
• SPECIMEN - Beauty of Poison

INDUSTRIAL:
• FAD GADGET - Collapsing New People
• LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - I Watched You In Your Tragic Beauty, Blacklist, Plasma Twins, Disturbance
• MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan
• NEGATIVLAND - Christianity Is Stupid
• PSYCHIC TV - The Orchids, Love War Riot, United
• THROBBING GRISTLE - Hamburger Lady, Discipline, Hot On The Heels Of Love
• VNV NATION - Perpetual

NEW WAVE
• AFRIKKA BAMBAATAA & JOHNNY LYDON - World Destruction
• BLANCMANGE - Blind Vision, Love That It Is
• B-MOVIE - Nowhere Girl
• DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR - My Love Explodes, Vanishing Girl
• DURAN DURAN - Secret Oktober
• GANG OF FOUR - I Found That Essence Rare, At Home He's A Tourist, Damaged Goods, Anthrax
• KILLING JOKE - Eighties
• LOVE & ROCKETS - All In My Mind, Kundalini Express, Haunted When The Minutes Drag, A Private Future, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven, Motorcycle, Dog End Of The Day Gone By
• OINGO BOINGO - Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me
• THOMPSON TWINS - Don't Mess With Dr. Dream, The Gap, In The Name of Love
• WE'VE GOT A FUZZBOX & WE'RE GONNA USE IT - Love Is The Slug
• XTC - Earn Enough For Us
• YAZ - Goodbye 20th Century, Good Time

PUNK
• ANGRY SAMOANS - Ballad of Jerry Curlin
• AVENGERS - Cheap Tragedies
• BAD BRAINS - I Against I, You
• BAD RELIGION - Do What You Want, Suffer
• BLACK FLAG - Six Pack, Revenge
• CIRCLE JERKS - Wild In The Streets, World Up My Ass
• CRAMPS - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?, Bikini Girls With Machine Guns, What's Inside A Girl? Goo Goo Muck
• CRASS - Bata Motel
• DEAD KENNEDYS - Kill The Poor, Chemical Warfare, Nazi Punks Fuck Off
• DESCENDENTS - Pervert, Wendy
• DI - Richard Hung Himself
• EXPLOITED - Sex and Violence
• FUGAZI - Bad Mouth
• GERMS - Communist Eyes, Lexicon Devil
• GG ALLIN - Anal C--t
• JAWBREAKER - Want
• MDC - John Wayne Was A Nazi
• MINOR THREAT - Filler, Stepping Stone
• MISFITS - Angel F--k, 20 Eyes, I Turned Into A Martian
• NO MEANS NO - Dad, Rags and Bones
• SUBHUMANS - Fade Away
• SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - I Want More
• TSOL - Code Blue
• VANDALS - Anarchy Burger, Ladykiller
• X - Fourth Of July, Johnny Hit and Run Pauline

SKA
• FISHBONE - Lyin' Ass Bitch
• OPERATION IVY - Artificial Life

ALTERNATIVE
• BRIAN ENO - King's Lead Hat, Third Uncle, Burning Airlines
• BROADCAST - Black Cat
• CAT POWER - No Sense
• JONATHAN RICE - We're All Stuck Out In The Desert and We're Gonna Die
• KING MISSILE - Jesus Was Way Cool, Open
• KRAFTWERK - Radioactivity
• LADYTRON - Blue Jeans, Ace of Hrtz
• LEONARD COHEN - The Future, Waiting For The Miracle, Anthem, Tower Of Song
• LYKKE LI - Get Some
• MARY'S DANISH - Don't Crash The Car Tonight
• MORPHINE - Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave, French Fries and Pepper, Early To Bed, Honey White, Like Swimming
• NEW ORDER - Temptation, Procession, Shellshock, Subculture, This Time of Night
• SONIC YOUTH - 100%, Starpower
• SOUL COUGHING - Screenwriter's Blues
• SPIRITUALIZED - I Think I'm In Love
• TOM WAITS - Earth Died Screaming, Innocent When You Dream, Blue Valentine, Chocolate Jesus
• WEEN - Buenos Tardes Amigos, Marble Tulip Juicy Tree, Spinal Meningitis

CLASSIC ROCK
• BEATLES - Revolution #9, Blue Jay Way
• BOB DYLAN - Man In Me
• DAVID BOWIE - Memory of A Free Festival Part 1 (NOT the version on the Space Oddity album out on karaoke already with the accordion), Cracked Actor
• DOORS - Soft Parade, Wild Child, Universal Mind
• GRATEFUL DEAD - St. Stephen, Dark Star, Bertha
• JIMI HENDRIX - Room Full Of Mirrors, Bold As Love
• KING CRIMSON - Court of The Crimson King
• PINK FLOYD - Fearless, Astronomy Domine, Matilda Mother, Jugband Blues, Empty Spaces (The Wall version - complete)
• ROLLING STONES - In Another Land
• SYD BARRETT - Terrapin, Love You, Gigolo Aunt, Baby Lemonade
• T-REX - Ballrooms of Mars
• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - American Metaphysical Circus
• VELVET UNDERGROUND - Heroin, Sister Ray, White Light White Heat, Lady Godiva's Operation, New Age

RAP
• DE LA SOUL - The Magic Number
• PUBLIC ENEMY - Rebel Without A Pause, You're Gonna Get Yours, Too Much Posse

MOVIE SONGS
• REFLECTION - You're My Rose (From "The Room")

INTERNET SONGS
• BAD LIP SYNC - Everybody Poops (Unless They're An Android)

Thoughts

21st century babies will be driving in 4 years.

Disney Dr. Strange

This PVC figure is the first piece of Marvel / Disney merchandise featuring Doctor Strange. It's part of an exclusive Disney Store figure set featuring the New Avengers.

Thoughts

There are very few places left in or around Los Angeles where you can get a drink in a skull mug that's been set on fire.

Angry Birds Total Destruction

All levels of Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, & Angry Birds Seasons passed with 3 stars. All golden eggs & golden fruit acquired. Total destruction with the dragon on all levels. That's why the ladies love me.

Sing For Your Health!

I made a Webquest for my EDSP 430 course at Cal State Los Angeles (Information and Technologies In The Classroom). It gives a 5th grade class with access to the internet the task of creating their own karaoke songs to educate their classmates on important health issues. CLICK HERE or the image below to see how it's done!

Japanese cover to Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

I ordered this one before last Christmas and it finally arrived yesterday. Is this the first video game to feature Dr. Strange on the FRONT cover*? Answer: Yes it is.

He's on the back cover too!

* See comments for this post provided by Ptor of Sanctum Sanctorum Comix for earlier video game BACK COVER appearances of Dr. Strange.

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is the 7th Valentine's I've spent with my wife Jessica Blair. I love you baby!

Dr. Strange Production Art from the Animated Movie

A nice piece of production art from the 2007 Lion's Gate feature-length cartoon I got recently on eBay that features Baron Mordo, Strange, Wong, and The Ancient One. You can see it in color here!

Into The Zone: The Cacophony Society Movie - PREMIERE

This past Saturday I went down to Santa Ana (about an hour South of Los Angeles) to the Yost Theater for the benefit preview of Jon Alloway's documentary on the Cacophony Society, "Into The Zone".

The movie took about 15 years to make, and it's a fantastic labor of love. An incredibly inspiring and fascinating look at the chaos created by The Cacophony Society, the group who not only inspired Fight Club's Project Mayhem, but were the instigators behind SantaCon, Burning Man, Punk Rock Circuses, and Bike Rodeos. This movie will perpetuate that insanity for a whole new generation.

I'm in the film in a few scenes. You can see me at the Cacophony event we had for the Hale Bopp suicide ufo cult and briefly during Potty Con performing the "Caca Cabana".

There's also video of the clown orgy, which up until this weekend I only thought was a myth. (I wasn't there for that one.)

Here's some pix I originally took in 3D at the event, so most people in the photos are trying to "do something 3Dish"...

LA Cacophony Society leader Reverend Al Ridenour

Art exhibits feature relics from past Cacophony events

My friend Mike Dunn with a giant crocodile person.

Cyclecide founder (and my old roomate) Jarico Reese

Jon Alloway (who spent 15 years making this movie) and his friend Spork.

Inside the karaoke motor home that gives away free beer and lets people sing.

Artist Kari French making her famous "pussy-prints".

My friends (from left to right) Amber, Mike, Mike, Rebecca, and Mike.

Cacophony madman Rich Polysorbate and friend.

BACK!

A big thanks this Superbowl Sunday to my new web hosting service, WINWINHOST.COM. They have kicked some ass getting my site up and running again. A big commercial plug on this site for them today!

More website traffic woes

I'm working hard to get things up and running on the website by the end of the weekend to deal with the greatly increased site traffic. Thanks to everyone for visiting and if some pages don't load for you this weekend, try again on Monday.

My entire website is being bombarded with traffic today

Most pages get a 503 error or are only partially loading.

Can someone please tell me where all these people are coming from?

ADDENDUM: This You Tube posting seems to be the culprit!