John’s Crawlspace

Remember Michael Bower, aka “Donkey Lips” from Nickelodeon’s Salute Your Shorts? Did you know that he’s a rapper? Check out some of his hot tracks here. I wish he had more than 2 songs… Because both are absolutely amazing.

According to his Wikipedia entry, he’s led quite an interesting life so far. At one point, he was a scientologist. He has a passion for saving llamas. He’s an Eagle scout… And in 2009, he entered rehab for PCP addiction.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. I’ve been spreading myself pretty thin lately. The past 2 weekends in a row I’ve had friends visiting from out of town, and this coming weekend I’ll be flying back east for a fishing trip with some friends from college. This is the 3rd year in a row that we’re doing this… Fishing in Wachapreague, VA. The town has 1 bar, zero grocery stores, very spotty cell phone service… Exactly what I need.

It’s Tuesday… So you know what that means, right? Cowboy Monkey Rodeo Night! Whoooo! I’m pretty sure I can’t top that video, so I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead.

A collaboration between guitarists Omar R. Lopez (The Mars Volta) and John Frusciante (now ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers) recorded in ’04-’05 has finally been released. You can stream/download it for free here. They are accepting donations, all of which will benefit “Keep Music In Schools” programs.

The Coachella music festival is quickly approaching. This is my first year going to this particular festival, but I’ve been to more than my share of music festivals in the past… Enough to know that I won’t end up seeing even half of the bands that I wanna see.

Why? It just isn’t possible. Half the fun of a music festival is partying in the camping area, and pregaming for the big acts. That being said, here are the bands I’d like to see each day. I’ve got a few schedule conflicts in there, nothing too crazy though.

Friday: Baroness, Deer Tick (?), Avett Brothers, Yeasayer, Aeroplane, Dillinger Escape Plan, Them Crooked Vultures (?), Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem, Fever Ray, Deadmau5 (or Jay-Z)

Saturday: Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Beach House, the XX (or Coheed & Cambria), Faith No More, MGMT (?), Muse, Flying Lotus (or Les Claypool, or The Dead Weather… Crap), Die Antwoord, Tiesto (?)

Sunday: Rusko, De La Soul (or The Glitch Mob, or Jonsi), Spoon (or Phoenix, or Miike Snow, or Infected Mushroom… Crap), Orbital (or Pavement), Thom Yorke (or Plastikman), Gorillaz

If you’re bored, take a look at the lineup and let me know if you think I’m missing out on any must-see acts, as there are quite a few on there that I’ve never heard before.

This is the first festival that I’ve attended where camping passes were sold separately from the festival passes. I slacked on buying one, and they sold out. Within hours, people were selling the camping passes on eBay for $700-800. I lucked out and found someone on Twitter who sold me hers for $50… So hopefully that isn’t fake. She seemed nice enough. I suppose I’ll find out in 2 days…

The people running Wikileaks have some serious balls. This morning, they leaked a classified US military video of 12 civilians being murdered in New Baghdad – 2 of whom were Reuters journalists.

Obviously, the video isn’t for the faint of heart. You can see it here, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t online for very longer.

This is important stuff, and I think it’s great that it is all very well documented, so that when the guys running Wikileaks disappear, we’ll know why.

Yesterdays post about Brokencyde was a weak attempt on my part as an April Fool’s joke. That band is awful.

I do find it kind of funny that I react so negatively to that music, when in actuality it’s no worse than all of the other mass produced pop garbage out there. Some kids took the “crunk”/hip-hop sound an added a “screamo” twist to it, which in its own way is unique. It still blows, though, and watching their music videos makes me want to rip my own eyes out. Not really sure what I’m getting at here… I promise I don’t have any Brokencyde posters in my room. Crap.

Anyway, I hope none of you actually downloaded their album If you did, I’d like to make up for it.

The latest Deftones album, “Diamond Eyes”, made its way onto the web. It actually leaked about a week ago.

I’m pretty impressed with it… I like it a lot more than their last album, ““Saturday Night Wrist”. My favorite tracks so far are “Royal”, Beauty School”, “Sextape”, and “Risk”.

Check it out if you haven’t already. Also: Mirror #1, Mirror #2. Happy Friday!