Xando vs. Hercules III is finally complete! Filmed, edited and broadcast in less than 24 hours, then re-edited a little later with the live footage spliced in.
Apr
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A new generation of medical treatments could be lost forever unless the current rate of biodiversity loss is reversed, conservationists have warned. They say species are being lost before researchers have had the chance to examine and understand their potential health benefits.
Yep, I’m on tour—- four weeks with the ambient assault team ECSTATIC SUNSHINE. It’s been what? 2 years since I touched both coasts? Feels kinda like my first tour ever— I haven’t really kicked it with the post-Tom brave new world of “underground” music, all the new bands are different, and the audiences, too, right? I mean, this might sound melodramatic or insecure or something but it has crossed my mind many times in the last year: is there still a place for me here? “Here” being the world of shows, I guess. You know what I mean.
4/18 = BROOKLYN NY @ MARKET HOTEL w/ HIGH PLACES, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/19 = SUNY PURCHASE @ CULTURE SHOCK w/ HIGH PLACES, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/20 = BARD COLLEGE @ SMOG w/ HIGH PLACES, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/21 = SOMERVILLE MA @ PA’S LOUNGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/22 = BUFFALO NY @ SOUNDLAB w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/23 = DETROIT MI @ SCRUMMAGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, FUTURE ISLANDS 4/25 = APPLETON WI @ LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/26 = CHICAGO IL @ SOUTH UNION ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/27 = MINNEAPOLIS @ TRIPLE ROCK w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/28 = SAINT LOUIS MO @ LEMP ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 4/29 = TBA 4/30 = DENVER CO @ RHINOCEROPOLIS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, PICTURE PLANE, TEMPLES 5/2 = BOISE @ 406 O’FARREL ST w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/3 = PORTLAND OR @ BACKSPACE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/5 = SAN FRANCISCO CA @ ATA w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, WALT DISNEY, NAKED ON THE VAGUE 5/6 = OAKLAND CA @ MAMA BUZZ CAFE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/7 = LOS ANGELES CA @ THE ECHO w/ BARR, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, ABE VIGODA 5/8 = PHOENIX AZ @ MODIFIED ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/9 = ALBUQUERQUE NM @ HIGH MAYHEM w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/10 = LUBBOCK TX @ KTXT w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/11 = AUSTIN TX @ THE MOHAWK w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/12 = DALLAS TX @ KETTLE ART w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/13 = FAYETTEVILLE AR @ KXUA w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/14 = KNOXVILLE TN @ PILOT LIGHT w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/15 = ATHENS GA @ CALEDONIA LOUNGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE 5/16 = TBA 5/17 = WASHINGTON DC @ COMET’S PING PONG w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, TICKELY FEATHER
Haha, so parse that if you wanna come hang out with me. Or like google it up, other sites maybe wrote it more legibly.
I’m planning on playing my cathartic new “Welcome to Camp Echo” set every night, an aural IRFing located at the intersection of Burial, Burzum, and Ba’al timor.
Yes, it is a good show. However, I’m totally confused as to why some people think it was cancelled too soon. There are 52 episodes!!! Typically, a really good British comedy show will have 12 episodes. Sometimes as little as 6 (Darkplace)!! They do this many shows, then they make a new, hilarious show.
Americans, there were enough episodes of Arrested Development made. Please accept this.
But, Arrested Development was on Fox. When a show on Fox is over, it gets replaced by Fox programming. For those of us who only rocked local channels, losing Arrested Development was a huge.
JACKSON:
Now listen up you fuckers! This is the news!
Everyone CHEERS.
JACKSON:
We go now to Ben for this special report we downloaded from the BBC!
BEN:
This next tragedy comes to us from the savage land of Africa! A boat was stolen two months ago from a village colloquially referred to as ‘Kwazulu-Natal.’ Who gives a shit, right? WRONG. That boat used to carry 150 children to school everyday. Now they have to cross crocodile infested waters on floating rubber tires; the nearest safe crossing point is twelve miles away, and there is not a single bus or car. We go now live at Kwazulu-Natal, where one of the local crocodiles has surfaced to speak his mind about the issues.
(Go to CROCODILE interview).
I hope everyone out here tonight remembers this story tomorrow while they’re drinking their Starbucks Mocha Latte Cappuccino Venti Coladas tomorrow morning.
ALADDIN:
Fuck poverty, that’s all I have to say. I think everyone out there agrees with me. Our next story tonight comes to us from ONE MILLION YEARS AGO. The oldest human remains in Western Europe have been discovered once again. This newest, oldest bone found in Atapuerca in Spain is a piece of jaw, which was recently discovered after the release of a coinciding report by the BBC. Jackson, can you tell us a little about that report?
JACKSON:
Well, I didn’t read the report but the headline would suggest that ancient civilizations had societal values just like us, and that may have cared for their elderly, who, according to wildly inaccurate carbon dating reports, may have lived to the ripe old age of 40 years. Since I don’t know anything about this story, let’s talk to some cavemen.
(Run CAVEMEN)
BEN:
Holy shit, how did we even film that?
ALADDIN:
How did we film that indeed? (winks) Next on NewsHammer, the cultural fabric of Japan was torn asunder in a startling display of violence on the streets of Tsuchiura. Although the country experiences very little violent crime apart from the Yakuza gangsters and infrequent visits from Godzilla, a young man armed with a knife started stabbing people for no reason.
JACKSON:
When he was detained by police, he purportedly alleged that he “Just wanted to kill anyone.” Of the eight people stabbed during the rampage, there was one fatality. Ben, can you give us a little insight as to what these figures mean?
(Show some kind of graph on the background? Numbers, something)
BEN:
Well, if we were to assess a score based on the killings, one out of eight, that’s just seventeen percent. No matter where you are in the world, seventeen percent is a failing grade, and in Japan, good grades are a major part of the culture. This could be devastating for young Masahiro Kanagawa, whose parents are probably embarrassed he was ever born.
ALADDIN:
Let’s see what the experts have to say, shall we? NewsHammer interviewed some Stabbing Frenzy enthusiasts who shed a little light on the technique of the matter.
BEN:
And that’s it for the news tonight! Come back next week to see if we do this segment again!
[We won't.]
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That such instances [hauntings] could occur and were of serious concern for people in antiquity is, for instance, evident from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, in which the deceased was given specific instructions not to haunt. It is also apparent from Viking practice, in which if the deceased became a malignant spirit it was the duty of his relatives to break open his grave and ‘kill’ him again - a course which… may well account for some of the intrusions into Viking graves discovered by archaeologists.
— Ian Wilson, “The After Death Experience.” I’m definitely going to write a comedy scene about a group of vikings who must enter a crypt to slay the already dead body inside.
I’m headed to Austin. Do you know a band I should see?
Go see the band Why? They’re one of my favorite groups, and I first heard them when Eric got the cLOUDDEAD album from you like 3, 4 years ago (Why?’s part of the group). I didn’t think the music would translate to a live show, but since everyone plays a variety of instruments, the ambient sounds and heavy beats play out beautifuly. Also, excellent lyrics. Hypem’s got my favorite track from the newest album.
