Mark Weaver

Artistaday.com is always refreshing. Im gonna need a gallery in my house when i get one. Here's the mini bio and jump to his site:

Mark is an Atlanta based designer and illustrator. His MSCED (Make something cool everyday) portfolio is an eclectic mix of retro references and modern collage. His clients include Wired Magazine, Paste Magazine, American Airlines, Stereogum and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

http://cargocollective.com/markweaver

Dun.PSCED.

Are You Laughing Yet?

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu ... If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham 's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina )... Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem ( Dr. Spock 's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.



My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

Dun.Stein.

Corey Taylor

I love being from a generation with no genre boundaries because i have the opportunity to say that Slipknot is one of my most favorite bands of all time. Here are to interviews with the lead singer and all around cool cat. I shouldve posted the vid last month but sue somebody if you're mad. The interview below i stole up from ArtistDirect.com where in my opinion Corey breaks the seal on what popular artists should and should have BEEN doing through their music. Enjoy

Interview: Corey Taylor of Slipknot & Stone Sour

Corey Taylor is the voice of a generation—whether or not most critics will admit it about the Slipknot and Stone Sour mouthpiece.

However, that fact has become even more undeniable with the genesis of the multi-platinum Grammy Award winner's latest project—The Junk Beer Kidnap Band. Alongside TJBKB, Corey pens powerful rock n' roll anthems that'll no doubt completely change the game again.

With Slipknot, he's also bridging more boundaries than ever before, infiltrating every countercultural crevice that he can. The 'Knot is set to headline both Cypress Hill'sSmokeout (Saturday October 24 in San Bernardino, CA) and Fangoria's "Trinity of Terrors" (Saturday October 31 in Las Vegas, NV). Corey can do it all, because he remains metal's smartest and sharpest Renaissance man…

Corey spent some time hanging out with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor authorRick Florino on a sunny day in the San Fernando Valley. They talked about everything from the "Trinity of Terrors" and the Smokeout to the positive power ofmusic, Corey's favorite horror flicks and why he should star in a big screen adaptation of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan….

It was a lot of fun to see you on stage with The Junk Beer Kidnap Band with Steel Panther. There was a real freedom to the set, and it felt like you were at home playing these songs. At the same time, the lyrics for "Kansas" are very personal. Do you feel like you've gotten more introspective with your writing?"

A little bit! A lot of people don't realize that I write a ton of that stuff anyways. I've been writing songs like "Kansas" since I was 12-years-old. It's getting to the point that I'vegot to get these songs out there. If I choke myself off, I'm not going to be able to live and breathe this. I can't just be the angry guy in Slipknot or the dark guy in Stone Sour. People have to hear the other music as well because it's a big part of the story. As far as the lyrics go, it's simply one of those standard, upbeat love songs. If people can't handle that, then they don't get me to begin with. I don't really worry about it. I think the lyrics are exactly what they need to be for the song. If I was playing in the same key and I was singing, "I'm dark, and I've gotta be bummed," it wouldn't come off as real [Laughs].

As you get older, does it become easier to sift through the darkness?

Oh yeah, absolutely! You can compartmentalize a little better. You don't just hone in on one thing and feel like that defines you. I know a lot of guys who get very one-dimensional because they just exist in that plane. Whereas the older you get, the more you feel like you understand yourself—you know your limits, you know your boundaries and you know how far you can take it. The darkness comes when you realize there are so many lines you can cross. That's really what it comes down to. The more you know yourself, the more you can go there. I think that's why it's gotten easier for me to do that.

With the Junk Beer Kidnap Band, people get more of you in the music. They have the opportunity to experience every facet of you—the father, the loner, the artist, the musician and everything else. Is that what you want people to take away?

Definitely…nobody is only one side. Everybody is multi-faceted and multi-dimensional. I don't want to be that cardboard cutout rock star. I never have, and I never will. I want to be the guy who wants to have it all. I want to be David Bowie. I want to be Trent Reznor. Those are the things I aspire to be. At the end of the day, I merely want to be a great songwriter who has no fear when it comes to that stuff. The older I've gotten, the better my writing's gotten—the more I take risks and say more than I've ever said in the past.

I got to grow up with you guys. I was 14 when the first record came out…

Oh my God, you're killing me [Laughs].

It was always easy to feel something in every song that you wrote. Your music inspired me, and that's one reason why I have my own books out now. Is it really gratifying to see fans inspired to create because of your music?

Absolutely! I may be one of the few guys in the business that has tried to encourage the fans to be themselves and to achieve whatever they can. I know a lot of guys just want to tow the party line and say, "Yes, I'm so bummed, life sucks and buy my album." Man, screw you! You've got the audience. You've got the podium. Say something real. It would be nothing for me to go in front of a bunch of kids in a high school auditorium and say, "You can be whatever the hell you want!" I've been saying that since day one. It's positive reinforcement; it's pragmatic reinforcement. If you apply yourself, you can do anything. You're a perfect example. You applied yourself, and I'm sitting here with a copy of your book, and I couldn't be more stoked for you! You know?!

Thank you! Your message with Slipknot is extremely powerful, and kids can get something positive from everything you say and do on stage. When you can leave something behind that people can take and make their own, that's the mark of a true artist.

Well, it's the honesty. I know a lot of guys who get too hip-hip-hooray, and it comes off as real fake. My message has always been, you can be what you want, but it takes work. A man is only as strong as the failures that it's taken to get him to where he's at. For me, a failure is just a misdirected triumph. You have to learn from everything, so a failure is not a failure. You only fail if it stops you or if it stunts your growth. If you keep going, then you didn't lose anything.

That's the mentality that kids need these days. We're a generation of divorce, drug problems, alcoholism and single parents…

And unavailable parents…

Kids need something to believe in, and you've given them that with every song.

I hope, man. I just remember really wanting that when I was younger. We didn't really get a lot of that. Too many bands were too impressed with themselves, and they really wanted to make a point of saying, "Hey, this lifestyle's amazing, and I get to live in it!" Or it was the opposite end of the spectrum, and they'd say, "Oh, this lifestyle's terrible. It's so god awful. It's just bad!"

You were either David Lee Roth or Kurt Cobain.

Exactly! So I'm looking at both sides of this going, "There's got to be a middle!" Luckily, I've found it. Right out of the gate, I wasn't afraid to just say whatever. Even when people would be like, "You can't talk like that," I said, "Why not?" Nobody talks like that. Just because nobody talks like that it means I can't say it? Screw that! There's a first time for everything. For me, it's really been about trying to encourage everyone to be whatever they want to be. It's like you said—in this day and age, when "normal" parents can be as abnormal as it gets, where are you going to get that from? You're certainly not going to get it from the teachers. They clock in and clock out at will. You're not going to get it from your peers because they're just as fucked up as you are. You're not going to get it from your parents, and if you do, God bless you, but a lot of people don't. Why not be that guy? Why not come out and say, "You have the potential to be whatever!" These days, hope is just as easily lost as money. Why not just put it in there?

With your Fangoria "Trinity of Terrors" show on Halloween, you're intertwining so many different strands of culture—horror movies, heavy metal and dark art. How exciting is that?

I'm stoked! You know me. I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. When I saw the list of the people that Fangoria was able to get for this, I was stoked out of my mind! We've got everybody from Richard Christy from Death to Tom Savini. We've got Fairuza Balk and Malcolm McDowell! I am in geek heaven right now! There are some really great films that are going to be shown. I've been talking aboutThe Fourth Kind for about a month and a half now. That movie looks amazing! House of the Devil is going to be really cool. Dead Air looks amazing. It's something really special, and it's something that's never been done in Vegas. It's hopefully going to be one of the biggest things that Fangoria's ever done and we've ever done. We get to play on Halloween. It's win-win all across the board.

"Trinity of Terrors" allows fans to immerse themselves in multiple facets of this culture. It shows that you can be a part of the entertainment industry in so many ways.

You can be whatever you want. I'm living proof. Just the fact that I have a career should tell you that anything is possible.

What were some of your favorite horror movies growing up?

All of the classics like Halloween and the original Night of the Living Dead…I wasn't a big fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, but I went because they were cool. I love everything from the classics to the moments in certain movies that scared the crap out of me. There's a moment in The Exorcist III that seriously scared me so bad that I had to leave my friend's house.

Really?

I had to go home! I couldn't deal with it. I just flipped out. I could not hang. It was one of those things! I wasn't expecting it, so when it did happen, I seized up and left. I bailed and walked home—could not hang [Laughs]. I've always thought that horror and metal were a match made in Heaven. I could remember being at Josh Rand's house [Stone Sour guitarist]. We've known each other since we were little dudes. I was crashing on his floor because I'd gotten kicked out. He got the vinyl for Slayer'sHell Awaits. We're listening to it, and he goes, "Check this out!" You know the beginning of Hell Awaits where it's got the backwards message? We played it backwards, and it starts going, "Join us, Join us, Join us, Join us…" I'm just going, "Oh, my God." The hair on my arm just stood up thinking about it. I had to walk to the store to get cigarettes at two in the morning, and all I'm hearing is, "Join us, Join us, Join us, Join us…" I was creeped out of my brain, man! Moments like that are married to movies like, goofy or not, Trick Or Treat. I love that movie! It was such a great film. From Dusk Till Dawn is probably one of my all-time favorite movies. That's top five all across the genres! "Do they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires! Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them! I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!" [Laughs] Some of the best one-liners on the planet are in that movie.

The opening sequence at the gas station is incredible too!

Genius, man! Tom Savini is "Sex Machine." I loved it!

And Tom's going to be at "Trinity of Terrors" watching Slipknot!

I'm stoked! I can't wait. Hopefully, I get to meet him. There are so many great people that are going to be there. Chris Jericho from WWE is going to be there on Friday. I'm geektastic across the board about this. Every night I go to sleep with a little smile on my face. I can't wait!

Tell me about Cypress Hill's Smokeout, which is just the weekend prior to "Trinity of Terrors"…

The last time somebody other than Cypress did it, it was Snoop Dogg. This is kind of a new deal for us. We got the offer, and it's something different. You might not necessarily envision Slipknot at The Smokeout. We don't really have a weed-minded fan base [Laughs]. We don't scream, "Dope!" But I think it's awesome. I think it's going to bring a lot of great people together. Plus Cypress is the shit.

It's a real counter-culture event—similar to festivals in the '60s. The Smokeoutand "Trinity of Terrors" aren't that different.

Exactly! I've know B Real and Sen Dog for a long time. Deftones are going to be there too, and they're going to be on that whole run with us. I'm super stoked about that! It just feels really good. It's coming back around. This is our last three weeks until next time, so we'll see what happens.

If you're life were a movie, what would it be?

[Laughs] Gummo! That's what my movie would be—at least the first fifteen years of my life would be Gummo. I can't watch that movie. I watched it for a month straight when we were making the first Slipknot album because it had just come out, and I can't watch it again. It haunts me. You don't understand how mirror-like that is from the way I fucking grew up in Waterloo, Iowa—brutal. So I can't watch it. I never shot a comatose chick in the foot with a BB gun or anything like that, but every one of those people in that movie—I know people like that or I knew people like that. Most of them are dead. It's hard for me to watch. My life now…I couldn't tell you what movie it's like. Hopefully my movie ends up like The Dark Knight, well no, not The Dark Knight[Laughs]. What's something crazy fucking awesome?

Gigli!

Okay, we'll back that! I'll be Ben Affleck, are you going to be J. Lo?

Sure

Rick…

They've got to put you in the Preacher movie!

Oh yeah, right?! Trust me that would be it! I would love to play Cassidy—either that or shave my head and I'll be Herr Starr. I would love to be the villain because then I could have that crazy fucking glass eye. Obviously, I could wear the hats. That would be the shit! I'd love to be that dude. I could have my .357 and go, "Doom cock, doom cock!" You've got to read the comics, kids! Preacher, best comic ever!

Ever!

Besides Transmetropolitan! If they ever make a Transmet movie, I want to play Spider Jerusalem [Laughs]!

—Words: Rick Florino

Photos: Corey Soria

09.30.09

DUN.(SIC).

NOveMBer 27th

'Nuff Said

Dun.Day.

NA NA NA-NA NAAAAA!!!!

Team Red Hulk gets another win and I'd just like to say......

......8-0 Suckkaz!!!

Indy.Dun. (go bears)

Levels (Live)

If you know and love this guys music like I do then we're probably thinking the same thing......When the FUCK is Bilal dropping a new album!?! Well, the wait is almost over. Word on the pavement is his new album drops early 2010 via Plug Research. Here's some amazing footage of him performing the piece 'Levels' (hooked up by Vtech) that may, or may not be included on said project. Enjoy.

VIEW LARGER

The Sounds of VTech / Bilal: LEVELS

Slept on this but figured maybe you'd want the podcast too since it includes Bilal, Exile, Blu, Pharoahe Monch, Large Professor and J Rocc >>>LINKAGE<<<

Dun.Leveled.

HELL fuggin YEAH!!!!

fyasko - men's rooster thermal

im king - men's chomper tee

grn apple tree - men's melt fitted tee

n4e1 - men's injection hoodie

Rocket hunting caps

grn apple tree - men's rope hoody

Vans Vault Switchback LX

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Blak Roc

Thought id post some visuals since im maaaaaddddd excited about this project. And the videos themselves show why im chasing the dream of studio owner/engineer.

Black friday is the day that an amazing project will be unleashed upon the music world. Put together by Dame Dash and The Black Keys, it will feature a host of amazing artists. The videos showing bits of the process of this glorious complation's creation speak for themselves. Damn i love music! The Black Keys studio looks like it just pumps music and creativity into the air. Wish i had one of my own....

Dun.Blakout.

Life Under the Scope

Spitta! Yeeerruh!

New visuals from the Jet Set!!! Apparently this video was shot at DD172, Creative Control headquarters, and Directed by Mr. Michael Eaton. Word on the pavement is that DD172 is a complex that Dame Dash created that includes a studio, art gallery, AND TV studio! How the hell did this lil bald fucker dream my dream and make it come true already!?! DAMN!!!! Be on the look out for the project dropping in the future from a group that includes Jay Electronic, Spitta, and MOS DEF!!! (WOW, WTF, HOLY SHYT!!!) The group is gonna be called Center Edge Territory and they're reportedly already six songs deep. I ain't the biggest fan of Jay Elec but if he lives up to the hype he's garnered then this will be a amazing moment in musical history. I can't wait. Also flippin my lid for the Blak Roc project dropping on Black Friday.

DUN.CD1984!

Alexxx Castaneda

Thought these were pretty dope. Stole up from Artistaday.com

"Alexxx is a CG illustrator and a fine artist based in Lima Peru. In addition to some stunning canvas paintings he is also well know for his nudes on skateboard decks."

I'm all the way diggin his site too. http://www.iamalexxx.com/

Dun.Artsy.

(N)SFW

Everybody needs funny sites to visit and waste hours of company time while they're supposed to be working. Here's a few of the good ones.

peopleofwalmart.com

Fmylife.com

Textsfromlastnight.com

Dun.DotCom.

Reading is fundamental.

Finally got my book back from a friend the other day so i figured this is a good of a time as any to give my favorite author some free pub. Colin Harrison has been an immediate favorite from the time i picked up his novel Manhattan Noturne. You can find all his shyts on amazon, but you oughta just hit up your local borders and drop that 8-10 bucks on the soft covers so i can keep reading. Here's his Wiki bio:

Colin Harrison (born 1960 in New York City) is an American author and editor.

Harrison is the author of seven novels, Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004, The Finder (2008), and Risk (2009). Four were selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. All are atmospheric novels of violence and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York.^[1]

His short nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Salon, Worth, and other publications. He lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine from 1989 until 2001 and since then has been an editor at Scribner.

At Scribner, Harrison edits both fiction and non-fiction. Among the writers he has worked with are Anthony Swofford, Ted Fishman, Craig Unger, Robert Ferrigno, and Chuck Hogan.^{[citation needed]}

Harrison attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA, 1986), Haverford College (BA, 1982), and Westtown School (1978), a coeducational Quaker boarding school, where his father, Earl Harrison, was headmaster.^{[citation needed]}

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