Wiener Dog Races

Excitement & Hilarity rolled into one tube like package.

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WFMU is one fun independent station!

I always try and check out this station while I am waiting around. I can stream station on my iPhone, and drain my battery. Anyways, every time I tune into WFMU, it’s always something different and always RAD! This time is was the Three Chord Monte show with Joe Belock, a nice mixture of old garage rock and surf. Where else can you hear the Trashmen for crying out loud. Check out WFMU. Stream live or dig into their archives on your computer, you won’t be disappointed.

red & black jumping spider

Saw this little dude surveying the Heirloom Tomato plant in the backyard. How cool are his dark metallic green fangs? Yeah, you’re right,…… that cool.

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Alaia surfing sticks

I just built these two alaias recently. Inspired by Tom Wegenger. The first one I made was the 5′ out of an old oak and pine laminate desk top a friend had found. The 7′ alaia is made out of marine grade plywood. Both alaias finished with boiled linseed oil.

The 5′ alaia is too small for me to surf, but it’s really fast to ride prone with fins, and is possible to kneeboard too. I can’t wait to take the 7′ one out on a good day with nice peeling waves. It’s been mostly windswell lately, with nasty closeout beachbreaks. I took the 7′ alaia out in a lumpy beachbreak swell and stood up for a few fun short fast rides. I can’t wait to take it out in smoother clean peeling waves! Both boards are 3/4″ thick, with roughly 1/4″ rails. The 5′ is 17″ wide and weighs 8 pounds. The 7′ is 16 1/4″ wide. It probably weighs around 12 – 14 pounds. It weighs 17 pounds! We’re talking old school. Ancient Hawaiian Surfrider Old School.

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Click here to see more images of these boards.

Gonjasufi – can’t get his music out of my head, and that’s OK with me.

Gonjasufi – Kowboyz&Indians

Check out more on Gonjasufi or Buy this album at Warp Records!

Sunny Sunday

A little self promotion never hurt anyone, right. I just signed up to bandcamp.com. Looks like a pretty straight forward website for sharing and selling your own music. Just what I need. The only drawback is you have to upload each track to an album one at a time, but who cares.

Sk8 Street Plants – Better late than never

Gang Starr – on some THX 1138 type steez

OneNightMusic.com

I came across this website last night and thought I should share it. OneNightMusic.com has a lot of great solo musicians and independent bands.

The premise of the website is, a crew of volunteer videographers and audio recorders tape these artists on location, edit, then post the performances on their website. This gives the artists a broad exposure, as well as allows the viewer to sample a broad range of talent.

Check it out, there are many diverse styles of music on this sitee. I really like Honycomb, Treesus and Ricky Rodriguez. I haven’t checked them all out, yet. Enjoy.

Google Explains MP3 Blog Removals

Posted on Pitchfork.com. Click here to read article.

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