I’m loving this dance remix of Bill O’Reilly’s F-bomb explosion. It’s pure editing genius:

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Here’s a the original rant/tantrum O’Reilly threw that provided the source material:

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Holy shit…can this kid shred:

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Only 8 years old!

It’s a slow week. My mind is sludgy. I just ate meatloaf and I’m bored.

This is where my mind is at:

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It’s been a at least a few months since I’ve posted some of the photosets of concerts I’ve been to recently. If you know me (really, you don’t), I go to a fair amount of shows here in New York City, mostly metal of the Doom, Black, Stoner, Drone and occasionally, Death varieties. I like Metal; I like getting pasted and snapping a shitload of photos and uploading them to Flickr with minimal editorial discretion.

So, here’s a mess of them for you:

• Mouth Of The Architect / Wetnurse / Total Failure / Psyopus
• Fu Manchu
• Tombs / Plows
• Estuary
• BloodHorse / Disfear
• Howl
• Earth / Kayo Dot / Zaïmph
  

The cool thing is that today, the band Wetnurse emailed me to ask if they could use one or more of the photos I shot of them for the liner of their new CD. Of course, I’m more than happy and honored to oblige.

I see echoes of something Satanic—slightly reminiscent of “Rosemary’s Baby” in this video. Part of me wants to run screaming from my computer, the other part of me is relieved by the realization that perhaps I didn’t take too much acid as a teenager, The Captain & Tennille sure fucking did though. The dancing muskrats make me want to rip my eyeballs out and make a milkshake out of them.

Be warned, people, for I present you, “Muskrat love”:

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Not since R. Kelly has an R&B video cracked me up like this one:

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Awesome!

I’ve been looking for a decent way to convert FLAC files to MP3 under Linux for a while now. I’d been using SoundConverter, but I notice that there’s something not right with it. I’ll set my preference to VBR, highest quality (target rate is ~256), but I end up with files at around 150-192, which is not right.

So, I’ve done a bunch of searching around and have cobbled together this script, taking a little bit from here and a lot from there:

##START SCRIPT##
#!/bin/sh

for a in *.flac
do
OUTF=`echo "$a" | sed s/"\.flac$"/"\.mp3"/g`

ARTIST=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
TITLE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
ALBUM=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`
GENRE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=GENRE | sed s/.*=//g`
TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`
DATE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=DATE | sed s/.*=//g`

flac -c -d "$a" | lame -V 0 - "$OUTF"
id3v2 -t "$TITLE" -T "$TRACKNUMBER" -a "$ARTIST" -A "$ALBUM" -g "$GENRE" -y "$DATE" "$OUTF"
done

mkdir "$ARTIST" && mkdir "$ARTIST"/"$ALBUM"
mv *.mp3 "$ARTIST"/"$ALBUM"/.
## END SCRIPT##

It works beautifully.

if only i could aspire to this dude’s sheer rock:

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The dude takes genius and weird to new levels:

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I often forget the fact that youtube (or the internet in general) has nearly everything that was ever on film or video during my childhood and adolescent years (at the very least a clip of it), archived a click away.

Today I rediscovered, “Entering Texas”, a short film by the Butthole Surfers that occupied my life when I was about 15 or 16. Back in those days, VHS was king, so it was up to the cool kids who ordered the films or at least made a decent copy. I must have watched this shit like 200 or so times, mostly high and hallucinating:

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