Monday, August 31, 2009
GOOD NIGHT MONDAY GOOD NIGHT NIRVANA
this was my jam when i was a little man and it still qwerms after all these years
come to the casbah tonight if you are san diego bound gary wilson champion of strangeness is gonna make you shake it
PROFOUND QUOTE FROM JAY Z
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
New Jim O'Rourke album (song) is great. Reminds me of Bad Timing which is my favorite release by him.
Download @ Mediafire.
NIRVANA MONDAYS
CHECK OUT KURT COBAIN'S 50 FAVORITE RECORDS
good stuff but i mean come on kurt...... pj harvey..... rem...... aerosmith......
shit is cakey
swans!
beat! happening!
---------daniel johnston!
gang of four!
sonic youth!
genki, kurt, genki
theres a lil too much wipers on there///////==== Millions of Dead Cops? wtf
kurt cobain was cool because he did stuff like this and probably turned a bunch of potential juggalos into upstanding persons of taste unglue that gasmask bong from your face and start putting some of this rawk up in your interweb nostrils, i would tell you to go out and buy their records but most of these people are dead or doing such crappy things that they dont deserve your money no offense to michael gira and david yow who are still slaying cake across the nation
50. Raping a Slave - Swans
49. Mazzy Star - Mazzy Star
48. Over the Edge - Wipers
47. Youth of America - Wipers
46. Is This Real? - Wipers
45. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
44. Beach Party - Marine Girls
43. Takes a Nation of Millions - Public Enemy
42. Flowers of Romance - Pil
41. The Record - Fear
40. Damaged - Black Flag
39. Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
38. We are those who Ache Amorous Love
37. Meet the Beatles - Beatles
36. Generic Flipper - Flipper
35. Yip Jump Music - Daniel Johnston
34. Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney
33. Last Sessions Vol 1 - Leadbelly
32. Tales of Terror - Tales of Terror
31. Jamboree - Beat Happening
30. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
29. Void/Faith EP - Void/Faith
28. Combat Rock - Clash
27. Typical Girls - Slits
26. Burning Farm Cassette - Shonen Knife
25. Green - R.E.M.
24. What is This? - Punk Comp California
23. Rocks - Aerosmith
22. Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
21. Raincoats LP - Raincoats
20. Anything by: - Kleenex
19. Know Your Product - The Saints
18. Get the Knack - The Knack
17. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
16. Dry - P.J. Harvey
15. It's only Right and Natural - Frogs
14. Nevermind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
13. Entertainment - Gang of Four
12. Rock for Light - Bad Brains
11. My War - Black Flag
10. Pee Pee the Sailor - Butthole Surfers
09. 1st EP - Saccharin Trust
08. 1st EP - Scratch Acid
07. Millions of Dead Cops - M.D.C.
06. Land Shark - Fang
05. Philosophy of the World - Shaggs
04. Pink EP - The Vaselines
03. POD - Breeders
02. Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
01. Raw Power - The Stooges
Sunday, August 30, 2009
WITT SUCKS A DICK
STEVE ALBINI
"It was often assumed that Big Black had a dictator (and that he was me), but having actually been in the band, I can assure anyone who gives a shit that this was not the case. We would get together a few times a month and weed-out each others ideas until only the good ones were left. Nobody ever said, "I've written this song fellas, and it goes like this..."
It seems preposterous now, but at the time, people seemed overly concerned about the literal meaning of our lyrics. I know we never discussed it among ourselves. Lyrics seemed a necessity, so we had them, but the subject matter was an extension of our interests--not part of a political or aesthetic battle plan. Theylyrics were subject to change at whim once the subject had been decided on anyway. Anybody who thinks we overstepped the playground perimeter of lyrical decency (or that the public has any right to demand "social responsibility" from a goddamn punk rock band) is a pure natural dolt, and should step forward and put his tongue up my ass. What we sing about is none of your business anyway.Organizationally we were committed to a few basic principles: Treat everyone with as much respect as he deserves (and no more), Avoid people who appeal to our vanity (they always have an angle), Operate as much as possible apart from the "music scene" (which was never our stomping ground), and Take no shit from anyone in the process.
It meant nothing to us if we were popular or not, or if we sold a million or no records, so we were invulnerable to ploys by music scene weasels to get us to make mistakes in the name of success. To us, every moment we remained unfettered and in control was a success. We never had a manager. We never had a booking agent. We never had a lawyer. We never took an advance from a record company. We booked our own tours, paid our own bills, made our own mistakes and never had anybody shield us from either the truth or the consequences.
The results of that methodology speak for themselves: Nobody ever told us what to do and nobody took any of our money."
-Steve Albini, liner notes from Big Black's Pig Pile
BILLY CORGAN TAKES THE MOTHERFUCKING CAKE
our favorite venue the che cafe in san diego is hosting the billy corgan experience tonight for god knows what insidious purpose. i fully expect the gods of anarcho-veganism to smite him with a bolt of soy. think of how much better music would be if this bald fuck had bitten the curb rather than our holy kurt. ah well. im going to deliver him the biggest cake you've ever seen. see ya there.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
"You must have some ideas"
The interviewer is a complete boob, but this is otherwise a memorable appearance on what I'm sure is an entirely forgettable talk show.
Edit: After watching the interview again, I have to remark that this interviewer is actually out-and-out scum. In fact, he is part of the problem!
CAKE POLICE GLOSSARY PT. 1
POLICE REPORT: Nate to suck WITT's D
New Favorite Female Rock
ANDRE ETHIER
THIS IS ANDRE ETHIER.
THIS IS ANDRE ETHIER.
THIS IS ANDRE ETHIER AND ANDRE ETHIER.
EDIT: i guess the first video is a statement on bohemian grove or somethin. here is my statement on bohemian grove to avoid controversy: looks fun, can i join? no but seriously i fully support world leaders and their roman orgies and mock sacrifices. whatever keeps the water warm.
Friday, August 28, 2009
If yer in nyc this fall...
MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics
October 9, 2009–October 15, 2009
GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE -ISM
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Make a holographic illusion
Make A Cool Hologram Illusion! - The most popular videos are here
Hai Boyz
That is all.
CAKE ALERT
boys club
Kidnapped California girl resurfaces 18 years later
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A woman who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11 turned up at a California police station on Wednesday, authorities said, and a couple accused of abducting her has reportedly been arrested.
Jaycee Dugard had been missing since she was abducted near her home in South Lake Tahoe on June 10, 1991 by two people in a gray sedan.
"It's a pretty spectacular story just to find someone like that. Someone we assumed was dead," said Bill Clark, the chief assistant district attorney for El Dorado County, an area east of Sacramento that stretches into the Sierra Nevada and to South Lake Tahoe.
An El Dorado County Sheriff's spokesman said in a brief written statement that "1991 kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has been located in good health in the greater Bay Area of California."
Few other details were immediately released but the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported on its website that Dugard, now 29, was identified after she walked into a police station with the married couple accused of abducting her.
The paper, citing law enforcement sources, said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 55, came into the Concord station with Dugard to ask a question and were detained after arousing the suspicion of an officer.
Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender with a prior conviction for rape, was being held on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and kidnapping, the Chronicle reported.
Nancy Garrido was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping, the paper said.
Clark in the district attorney's office said it was too early to speculate on possible charges, but the office was busy reconciling current law with that on the books in 1991.
Dugard was walking to a bus stop near her home when the gray sedan pulled up next to her and she was yanked inside.
UPDATE:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California girl abducted at age 11 in 1991 has been found alive, police said on Thursday, adding her kidnapper apparently fathered two children with her and kept all three living in tents and sheds behind his house.
Re- Envisioning
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
White Witt
Words Of Wisdom vol. 1
I'd rather be in the boat
with a drink
on the rocks,
than in the drink
with a boat
on the rocks.
Thoughts?
SLAYER WEDENESDASYAYSY (jk(
on the subject of awesome punk shit, here is a video of a new weatherbox demo i've been working on, make up provided by MAC and REVLON, shirts provided by CUEDORIAN and BADBRAINS the song is called Uncle Touchy's Naked Puzzle Basement
what went wrong?
wh0 did the thing that i said could never be done?
who vanished my maps and stuck me back into time?
who took the love and sucked it out the back of my mind?
who did that?
who took me from the white and put me into the black?
who drowned me when i drifted from the shallowest shore?
who got my bed banging on the back of the board?
who got my bed banging on the back of the board?
who got my bed banging on the back of the board?
i did.
where'd you go?
in fairness, i think i really deserve to be told
you cried into the party 'til everyone was soaked
you turned until all i could see was a cloud of redsmoke
you turned until all i could see was a cloud of redsmoke
you turned until all i could see was a cloud of redsmoke
but i have you back
and my soul isn't black
anymore
Gotta Wepweezent My Fwend!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
"This man does not see America like you and me"
Monday, August 24, 2009
nirvâna mondays
False imagination teaches that such things as light and shade, long and short, black and white are different and are to be discriminated; but they are not independent of each other; they are only different aspects of the same thing, they are terms of relation, not of reality. Conditions of existence are not of a mutually exclusive character; in essence things are not two but one. Even Nirvana and Samsara's world of life and death are aspects of the same thing, for there is no Nirvana except where is Samsara, and no Samsara except where is Nirvana. All duality is falsely imagined. ___DT SUZUKI---
PUT IT ON THE SLYDE REMIX
New Material
I have recorded three cover songs at George's house and they are currently being mixed.
Also, I have decided to write a few originals that will each feature a member of Cake Police. The first song is completed and is awaiting Magical Fuckers to comply. The second is almost done and will feature Jesse's Kranzler. I don't know how many I'm going to write.
(These songs will be available on myspace as soon as they are completed.)
Doughnuts vs. Cake
I was (somewhat) recently turned onto this band from San Francisco called Girls. They are actually boys, although a couple of the dudes have super long hair (irony!). At the time they only had one single out, the Hellhole Ratrace 7”. The eponymous song featured on the 7” is fantastic, and got them a lot of hype (Top 100 Tracks of the year on Pitchfork, yada yada yada, whateverthefuckever). The song sounds kinda like Elvis Costello channeled through a grungy 21st century 22 year old’s aesthetic.
Since then they made a video for the song, to be found below. The casually epic video follows them around a night of partying in San Francisco, doing all the things the singer yearns for in the song. Rock’n’Roll shit. They’ve got an album coming out later this year. Should be good.
One last note, I saw them live last month and they fucking ruled. So if you see them playing in a city near you: don’t be a fool, go to school.
And yes, it’s true, they eat doughnuts in the video. But they definitely ain’t eatin’ no fucking cake.
NIRVANA MONDAYS
CALLIN OUT EDDIE VEDDER AS THE CAKE EATER THAT HE IS, SERVIN IT UP
seriously every monday we will post something nirvana related
thursday is Big Shirt Thursday
Sunday, August 23, 2009
free s-a.m.ples
also if your up between 6:30am and 8:00am on monday tune to kpbs to hear chris and i talk for about two minutes on the aleatoric composition which was inspired by the blah blah blah..
- since nineteen i've carried around a minidisc recorder to collect field samples of all the tours/travels/cities/forests/conversations/et cetera- this piece contains many of those samples, and has become a proposition to find conditioned yet unintentional structure within them.
Class and Commons
It is not enough to remain faithful to the communist hypothesis: one has to locate antagonisms within historical reality which make it a practical urgency. The only true question today is: does global capitalism contain antagonisms strong enough to prevent its indefinite reproduction? Four possible antagonisms present themselves: the looming threat of ecological catastrophe; the inappropriateness of private property for so-called intellectual property; the socio-ethical implications of new techno-scientific developments, especially in biogenetics; and last, but not least, new forms of social apartheid—new walls and slums. We should note that there is a qualitative difference between the last feature, the gap that separates the excluded from the included, and the other three, which designate the domains of what Hardt and Negri call ‘commons’—the shared substance of our social being, whose privatization is a violent act which should be resisted by force, if necessary.
First, there are the commons of culture, the immediately socialized forms of cognitive capital: primarily language, our means of communication and education, but also shared infrastructure such as public transport, electricity, post, etc. If Bill Gates were allowed a monopoly, we would have reached the absurd situation in which a private individual would have owned the software tissue of our basic network of communication. Second, there are the commons of external nature, threatened by pollution and exploitation—from oil to forests and the natural habitat itself—and, third, the commons of internal nature, the biogenetic inheritance of humanity. What all of these struggles share is an awareness of the destructive potential—up to the self-annihilation of humanity itself—in allowing the capitalist logic of enclosing these commons a free run. It is this reference to ‘commons’ which allows the resuscitation of the notion of communism: it enables us to see their progressive enclosure as a process of proletarianization of those who are thereby excluded from their own substance; a process that also points towards exploitation. The task today is to renew the political economy of exploitation—for instance, that of anonymous ‘knowledge workers’ by their companies.
It is, however, only the fourth antagonism, the reference to the excluded, that justifies the term communism. There is nothing more private than a state community which perceives the excluded as a threat and worries how to keep them at a proper distance. In other words, in the series of the four antagonisms, the one between the included and the excluded is the crucial one: without it, all the others lose their subversive edge. Ecology turns into a problem of sustainable development, intellectual property into a complex legal challenge, biogenetics into an ethical issue. One can sincerely fight for the environment, defend a broader notion of intellectual property, oppose the copyrighting of genes, without confronting the antagonism between the included and the excluded. Even more, one can formulate some of these struggles in terms of the included threatened by the polluting excluded. In this way, we get no true universality, only ‘private’ concerns in the Kantian sense. Corporations such as Whole Foods and Starbucks continue to enjoy favour among liberals even though they both engage in anti-union activities; the trick is that they sell products with a progressive spin: coffee made with beans bought at ‘fair-trade’ prices, expensive hybrid vehicles, etc. In short, without the antagonism between the included and the excluded, we may find ourselves in a world in which Bill Gates is the greatest humanitarian, fighting poverty and disease, and Rupert Murdoch the greatest environmentalist, mobilizing hundreds of millions through his media empire.
What one should add here, moving beyond Kant, is that there are social groups which, on account of their lack of a determinate place in the ‘private’ order of social hierarchy, stand directly for universality: they are what Jacques Rancière calls the ‘part of no part’ of the social body. All truly emancipatory politics is generated by the short-circuit between the universality of the public use of reason and the universality of the ‘part of no part’. This was already the communist dream of the young Marx—to bring together the universality of philosophy with the universality of the proletariat. From Ancient Greece, we have a name for the intrusion of the excluded into the socio-political space: democracy.
The predominant liberal notion of democracy also deals with those excluded, but in a radically different mode: it focuses on their inclusion, as minority voices. All positions should be heard, all interests taken into account, the human rights of everyone guaranteed, all ways of life, cultures and practices respected, and so on. The obsession of this democracy is the protection of all kinds of minorities: cultural, religious, sexual, etc. The formula of democracy here consists of patient negotiation and compromise. What gets lost in this is the position of universality embodied in the excluded. The new emancipatory politics will no longer be the act of a particular social agent, but an explosive combination of different agents. What unites us is that, in contrast to the classic image of proletarians who have ‘nothing to lose but their chains’, we are in danger of losing everything. The threat is that we will be reduced to an abstract, empty Cartesian subject dispossessed of all our symbolic content, with our genetic base manipulated, vegetating in an unliveable environment. This triple threat makes us all proletarians, reduced to ‘substanceless subjectivity’, as Marx put it in the Grundrisse. The figure of the ‘part of no part’ confronts us with the truth of our own position; and the ethico-political challenge is to recognize ourselves in this figure. In a way, we are all excluded, from nature as well as from our symbolic substance. Today, we are all potentially homo sacer, and the only way to avoid actually becoming so is to act preventively.
LIKE I GIVE A BULLCRAP
“Is the goal of art to earn money and to fondle the nice bourgeois? Rhymes jingle the same sound as coins, and inflexions slide along the profile of the belly. Every group of artists has finally arrived, astride various comets, at the bank, the door opened to the possibility of wallowing in cushions and rich food.”
Saturday, August 22, 2009
SHHHHHHH IT'S A SECRET...BYE BYE JESSE/LAST WITT SHOW OF SUMMER PT. THE 12TH
KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN RECIPE
Prep: 15 min; Cook: 30 min
Medium Difficulty
Serves 4
IF you are expert at frying, skip to the ingredients.
FOR this Kentucky fried chicken recipe, you can use lard, crisco (shortening), or one of the vegetable oils. You can also add butter, if you choose, skimming off any foam that rises to the top while heating the oil. You can toss in chunks of ham or bacon to add flavor. Crucial are the skillet or pan, and the temperature of the oil. On my first try the oil was too hot; the result was burned, undercooked chicken. Oil that is not hot enough will not deliver crisp chicken.
IDEAL frying temperature is about 365 degrees F (185 C) - ascertained with a frying thermometer or by dropping a 2" square of bread in the hot oil - it should turn golden brown in about 60 seconds.
WHEN you have the right temperature, add the pieces slowly, one by one, and do not crowd them. Be patient and do two or more batches, if you must.
INGREDIENTS:
* 1 good chicken (Kosher or 'natural' chickens are usually best), cut into serving pieces, or use 8 to 10 leg pieces (drumsticks and thighs), trimmed of excess fat.
* AND 1 tablespoon curry powder
* 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
OR
fines herbes mix:
* 1 tsp chopped tarragon
* 1 tsp chopped chervil
* 1 tsp chopped chives
* 1 tsp chopped parsley
* (or any combination of the above, plus whatever else you fancy)
PLUS
* 1 - 2 cloves garlic, minced
* 1 tsp cayenne pepper (more or less to taste)
* 1 egg
* 1 cup flour
* Salt and pepper to taste
* Enough oil or lard to fill skillet to a depth of about 1/2" - lard, lard and butter combined or vegetable: Crisco shortening, corn, canola, peanut. Canola or corn oil imparts the least flavor, lard the most. Crisco shortening seems to result in the 'crispest' chicken. Canola is considered the healthiest.
OO Large heavy skillet or casserole with cover; large mixing bowl; tongs or a big fork for handling chicken pieces, frying thermometer (ideally).
IN a bowl, mix chicken with salt, pepper, spices, garlic, chili, egg and 2 tablespoons water. When thoroughly combined, blend in flour, using your hands. Keep mixing until most of the flour is blended with other ingredients and chicken is coated (add more water or flour if mixture is too thin or too dry; it should be dry but not powdery and not too wet - it has to adhere to the chicken).
ADD enough fat (oil) to your skillet to come to a depth of about 1/2 inch and turn heat to medium. If you are using butter, skim any foam as it rises to the surface.
WHEN oil is hot (see introductory paragraphs) raise heat to high. Slowly add chicken pieces to skillet. Cover skillet, reduce heat to medium (more or less - oil should sizzle but not smoke) and cook for 7 minutes.
UNCOVER skillet, turn chicken and continue to cook, uncovered, for another 7 minutes.
TURN chicken again and cook for about 5 minutes more, turning as necessary to ensure that both sides are golden brown.
REMOVE chicken from skillet and drain on paper towels placed on newspaper (for additional absorption). Serve chicken immediately, or cold.
El Lissitzky
Friday, August 21, 2009
Fro-Sting
ELECTION DAY
Love,
Cake Police