Start 'em early

Prepare your child for a job in the fast food industry with this helpful (and - in some cases - disturbingly prophetic) play kit!

Did somebody say lower your self esteem?

Dog Faced Hermans - Keep Your Laws Off My Body

The Cure - carnage visors

This is The Cure that I reeeaaallly love: Cold, dark and eerie. I'm glad they finally lightened up, but damn is this an exercise in PERFECT TONE.

Carnage Visors was hard to come by for most of the 90's. I remember seeing it on the B-side of the Faith cassette at Wind Records in Oak Lawn, IL. I didn't buy it, it disappeared and then when I went to buy Faith on disc it didn't have Carnage Visors. I eventually found it on an Import of B-sides and rarities, but I've still never bought Faith, probably just from the force of habit of waiting to come across a version with CV on it. About time I do that though - I'm largely unfamiliar even with it as an album but I remember at the very least The Drowning Man and The Funeral Party are great.

Flaming Lips - Seven Nation Army ( Live )

The Flaming Lips doing Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes but with the verse lyrics of The Butthole Surfers' Moving to Florida.

"My name... is Florida."

Butthole Surfers @ Doornroosje 1985

I never saw them live but out of everything I've found thus far on youtube this clip comes closest to what I always thought one of their shows would have looked like back in the day. Completely fucking insane. How couldn't it be, the original name of the band was The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole. Why the change guys? Really?

Anyway, while googling the aforementioned original band name I found this excellent page HERE that is an oral history of the Surfers. Wow - such a good read. Should be converted into one of those Brilliant little 3 31/3 books.

Also, in researching my missing copy of Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac I found the cover artist's website. Pretty wicked: http://www.macioce.org/

Assembly Line People Program - Glass Static

One of the best live bands I saw at Chicago's Fireside Bowl back in the late 90's. There's such a rift with a lot of groups from this time (my own from the time - Schlitz Family Robinson included) where they were very time/place and just missed the proliferation of digital/inter-tube age. A LOT of great bands from that era just haven't developed a posthumous presence online and it's a shame but totally understandable. One day maybe...

In the end I like to post this stuff to try and catch the artists' attention even if just for a second to say, "Hey, thank you. This was awesome and I still enjoy it to this day."

sys.exe - liquid sky

I know this guy. I really dig his stuff. He's doing some Christian Fisting remixes for us soon.

I'm excited.