It is no secret that I love trade shows. Doesn’t matter whether I am actually particularly working in a specific industry, I just enjoy the sense of productivity and expertise and people trying to do whatever they do well. I like tools a lot. (Tools as in instruments to accomplish things, not guys who order [...]
Back before the internet, I assumed that, when I got to the point where I needed a large number of regular artistic collaborators, I would need a big office. I personally tend to keep a somewhat nocturnal, but mostly pretty varied schedule. And so do most creative people I know. And the internet facilitates easy [...]
I love the way Placebo’s artistry extends across multiple media. The band has a remarkable number of videos for their songs, far more than is music industry standard. Some seem like the sort of thing a record label would commission. Others, like this one for Nancy Boy, strike me as growing out of a different [...]
Innovative firearms manufacturer Kel-Tec unveiled their exciting first entry into the shotgun market this past January, just in time for Las Vegas’ SHOT show. The new KSG shotgun features dual tube magazines allowing a capacity of up to 7 rounds each (12 gage 2-3/4″) plus one in the chamber for a total maximum of 15 [...]
I know the heyday of Hanoi Rocks was a bit before the time of the video star, but they would have been so perfect in that medium. I can’t even find any videos from Michael Monroe’s solo work. I want someone to make a music video, with use of a time machine, for Dead by [...]
Brett Simon, of Assassination of a High School President fame, directed this cannibalistic video for the QOTSA song Sick, Sick, Sick. I think I vaguely thought the song was about living life to the fullest in a risk-taking and sexually-fulfilling way. I love the way it rhymes Problem and Hoodlum. Once I saw this video, [...]
Industrial legend and all around trouble maker Al Jourgensen is scheduled to appear on an hour long live broadcast of Alex Jones’ Infowars this coming Friday, July 29th at noon central standard time. Whether you love or hate the provocative and often inflammatory politics, it certainly is likely to be an entertaining festival of tinfoil [...]
Shortly before the Nine Inch Nails video for Closer came out, a girl I knew was showing around a photo of Trent Reznor in the black with the ball gag, supposedly as proof that he was her boyfriend. Because Los Angeles is a surreal place, a girl who served me grilled cheese with bacon at [...]
Ah, the “Satanic girls gone wild”. Pop quiz: Which rock star has dated more of the lovely beauties of Gothic Sluts than Marilyn Manson? Last time I checked, there is only one. Music video by Marilyn Manson performing Arma-goddamn-motherf**kin-geddon. Interscope Records Lyrics Death to ladies first, then the gentlemen Forcery, taxes, facelifts, abortion, nervous breakdance [...]
Danny Stygion has photographed Dana Dark for Blue Blood and Dana Dark has made music with Psychonaut 75. It seems only fitting that Danny Stygion should direct a video for the band’s Dominator song. I could personally do without the stupid hate iconography, but it is still nice to see folks being creative. The goth [...]