tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:55:13 +0000Adventures of the low man in the music business.http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)Blogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-8781399234401890415Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:54:00 +00002009-04-06T15:13:07.693-04:00Ok, so this blog has been redesigned because Joey is a gangster and a big sex. It will eventually be repurposed into something larger, but for now its business as usual.Go to the NEW NAMEDROPACID NOW!I will eventually put in a proper redirect, but I will be posting there from now on, ya heard?EDIT: Lets give blogger a proper send-off though. I loved this site, posting here as often as I could http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/04/redirect.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3341094809783101389Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:45:00 +00002009-04-01T13:06:41.957-04:001. Check out this screwed up version of Bob Marley's track "Johnny Was" by my friend Shane. This dude has been doing some amazing shit, screwing up Animal Collective, Beach House, and more with some great results. 2. In other screw music news, this is the most beastly screwed and chopped song I've heard in a long time. I heard about it through 20Jazzfunkgreats, a blog thats fun to read http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/04/obligatory-im-listening-to-this-and-so.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-7630749295041857805Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:22:00 +00002009-03-23T16:32:12.107-04:00From Michelle: "just for kicks, how about you write about NJ wanting to ban Brazilians. I wanna read this one."OK, i got this. The New Jersey State Cosmetology and Hairstyling Board (a real, actual legislative body) recently moved to ban the Brazilian Wax after two women got infections after undergoing the procedure, in which body hair is forcibly removed from a person's pubic area, via hot waxhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/03/brazilian-ban.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3180822701734092560Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:15:00 +00002009-03-17T14:24:43.732-04:00Just a few things:1. Check out the MRI blog if you are bored. We've had a lot of cool stuff go down recently that we're pretty proud of. The photo below is from a live lightpainting booth we set up at Studio B. We're doing the next one on April 3rd, so be durr.2. Also, a friend of a friend of mine, HyLoFi, is a hell of a musician and he just put together his first ever music video. I dig ithttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/03/miscellany.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-4313844481463994336Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:39:00 +00002009-03-10T16:17:59.813-04:00In the dense jungle of the farm, where it rained without warning and was often overcast, an introspective state was not hard to find. For my part, being so jetlagged, stunned and confronted with so many "deep" things to think about, I often found it hard to even form complete sentences on the farm. Preferring to think rather than say.Getting in our rental car and firing up a CD was an instant Ihttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/03/hawaii-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-5659174026638350571Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:53:00 +00002009-03-13T11:18:07.553-04:00I need to get this all down before I'm dragged back into the day-to-day. I just spent 17 days in Hawaii with my girlfriend. The first 8 days, we stayed on an Organic Farm on the Big Island, in Hilo. The other 9 days we spent bumming around the islands, keeping our eyes open and soaking up the madness of a place like Hawaii, more beautiful than you'd think, slightly less warm than expected, andhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/03/im-back-from-hawaii-part-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-8269816949366346323Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:00 +00002009-02-04T17:49:04.864-05:00http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/02/evil-nine-they-live.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-4470925813318747624Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:40:00 +00002009-01-21T16:10:29.858-05:00Ha, it's official. The NPR video just came out and it looks AWESOME. My internet anonymity is shattered but who cares this is sweet.MRI Lightpainting on NPR Science Fridayhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/01/mri-lightpainting-on-npr-science-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-7617083534390338269Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:59:00 +00002009-01-08T14:01:56.191-05:00Found this in the Onion A.V. Club Interview with Jay Reatard and it spoke to me. I am an album-tard, and find myself seeking singles to define my musical tastes. Here, Jay puts this psychosis in a way I never could.AVC: You seem to value immediacy in your music. Does that mean you prefer the singles format to albums?JR: I prefer it in the instant-gratification way, in the same way that smoking http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/01/jay-reatard-sums-up-my-attitudes-toward.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-6507622555191997833Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-01-08T12:02:47.219-05:00Hey Everyone,So I just stumbled across my good friend Joey's new blog. Along with being one of my oldest friends, Joey is a hell of a guy, a brilliant designer, with great taste in movies/music/media (Anathema and Chelsea Lately notwithstanding).Check out his blog here, highly recommended. The Joe Tower Graphic Design BlogEnjoy,Your Momhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/01/joe-tower.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3228477499963873675Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:54:00 +00002009-01-06T16:09:04.277-05:00I'm a black hole where personal music recommendations go to die. Ask anyone. Many times a friend has recommended something revelatory to me. Some piece of music that changed their life in the most profound ways imaginable. Standard procedure for this is to say, "Oh sweet, [produced by Albini/featuring Keak Da Sneak/remixed by Timbo and Venetian Snares]? Nice", listen to it for 40 seconds, http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/01/drew-was-right-about-this-band.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-4010551240634169344Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:51:00 +00002009-01-05T13:56:39.848-05:00HAPPY FRIGGIN NEW YEAR!Lets kick some major ass in the next one.So my K'Naan feature made it to MetroPop a while back and I forgot to post about it. I like the feature, but due to the space constraints of writing for a magazine, I am not entirely happy with the result. The reason - K'Naan doesnt really fit into a one page article - you could seriously write a book on the mans life and the http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year-knaan-mri.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3480871405663577335Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:50:00 +00002008-12-26T15:10:11.685-05:00NO TIME TO WRITE THIS BUT IM GOING TO ANYWAY. IM BOARDING A FLIGHT IN 3 HOURS TO FLY HOME AND IM STILL AT WORK MAD SHIT TO DO BUT IM GOING TO DO THIS ANYWAY BALLS BALLS BALLS. THERE IS NO ORDER, NO LAW, THIS WILL BE HORRIBLY EDITED AND MOST OF IT PROBABLY WONT WORK BUT WHO GIVES A RATS ASS THESE KIND OF THINGS ARE ASININE ANYWAY. 1. Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave (Live at the sweaty-crack Markethttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/12/top-anything-of-anything-08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-114584536395575471Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:43:00 +00002008-12-18T15:22:28.769-05:00Evil Nine (Ft. El-P) - All The Cash (Glitch Mob Remix)Can't stop listening to this. El-P's density is his most attractive asset, and that's not a fat joke. Like most of his tracks, his lyrics are a grower, but the beat here is instantly accessible (a shower? too much). Regardless, the louder the better, and the dense lyrics ricochet off the Glitch Mob's drums like stray bullets.Heard this at http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/12/el-p-glitch-mob-zombies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-5214634441951985148Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:32:00 +00002008-12-12T13:35:46.089-05:00I don't know much about the Rolling Stones, but surely this song must be their finest achievement. To their longtime fans, this song is clearly the one to judge the rest of their output by. This is their "Master of Puppets".http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/12/name-drop-stones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-6802575801775674324Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:00:00 +00002008-12-08T13:04:47.695-05:00Hey there,Apologies for a lack of updates. I'm sure both of you are pissed. Just added a new post at the now-functioning, consistently updated MRI blog. Check 'er out. Also added a new 30 seconds of nothing. Its nothing-tastic.MRI Lightpainting30 Seconds of NothingLove,The Troofhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/12/too-many-damned-blogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-1730312770067347468Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:46:00 +00002008-11-26T18:51:47.908-05:00Happy Thanksgiving folks,Michelle and I were interviewed by WebUrbanist a few days ago. They were interested in our lightpainting and hit us up to do a feature. Apparently, their turnaround is lightning fast because its already up. Check it out at the link below, and send us some bonus internets.MRI Lightpainting on WebUrbanist.comAlso, we just found out that National Public Radio's Science http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/11/check-us-out-on-weburbanistcom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-2228852443987883963Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:00 +00002008-11-21T16:56:59.750-05:00During CMJ my good friend Katie was putting on a week of events at 205, a club on Chrystie street. She hit me up last-minute-style one day and asked me to put together a quick "top 5" type article for a 'zine they were going to give out at the event. I had an idea I had been sitting on with no place to put it, so I fleshed it out and gave it to her. For whatever reason, it didn't run in the 'http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/11/un-google-able-five-songs-with-nothing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3040059258307296349Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:16:00 +00002008-11-12T17:25:36.316-05:00Alright, lets wrap this up people. The final night of CMJ came too quick. Looking back, the amount of good music experienced was staggering even for a New York Transplant who is used to this kind of thing. I'm not sure what happened during the day, but I am guessing it involved me beating the piss out of Ant in Blitz The Leage 2. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was it. After that, we stepped into http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/11/cmj-recap-day-5-transexuals-zombies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-2990298314038680184Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:55:00 +00002008-11-07T18:00:41.097-05:00Hey,Taking a break from this CMJ madness, I just had another Zombie story posted on Tales of World War Z...if you are into that kind of thing. It continues the story of my zombie pimp and my main character maniac. It's extremely graphic and possibly offensive, you have been warned. Untitled Part 4 on Tales of World War Zhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/11/name-drop-zombies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-8078885610305267800Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:11:00 +00002008-11-06T16:00:01.799-05:00Friday, and the week is drawing to a close, by this point I hadn't been home before 1 am in 4 days. My nose ran compulsively, and I sneezed into my hand more times than I washed it. Yet, I was happy, I had seen so much damn good music, and everything had gone off without much of a hitch. I had taken to napping in chairs on the NYU campus, and I think these 45 minute naps saved my life. After http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/11/cmj-recap-day-4-rugby-stabbings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-8858652557978545315Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:59:00 +00002008-11-06T15:52:00.449-05:00Alright, so Thursday I blew off a panel about how fucked the industry is, to go to Piano's to catch part of the all day Brooklyn Vegan showcase. I showed up for the last 45 seconds of The Muslims. They were loud as FUCK. I met up with Ant and watched Japanese Motors, who were OK, and Friendly Fires, who I thought were sweet...again I lean towards the idiotic dance rock. I can't help myself. Ihttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/10/cmj-recap-day-3-vagrancy-salem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-616912440487511054Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-10-28T13:22:36.185-04:00As day two's panels cleared up and the sun set, the city was slammed by a cold snap that I don't think anyone was expecting. I recall last year after the panels, sitting in Washington Square Park in the sun, catching up on work and making phone calls. This year after the panels it was dark, Washington Square Park was cut in two and decimated, and the first day of miserable cold weather blew http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/10/cmj-recap-day-2-shugo-pho-assfreezing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-3161534973347157146Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:05:00 +00002008-10-27T14:37:27.319-04:00Well, I am sick as hell, my hands are stained with strange markings, and when i shower I find strange cuts and abrasions that weren't there before. Also, I'm broke, my wallet is full of strange receipts and my phone has been dead for about 4 days. Must mean I spent all week and weekend at CMJ. Holy god. I will attempt to re-cap all that went down here, as it was an amazing week. I saw so muchhttp://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/10/cmj-recap-day-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31590417.post-6957300593918128010Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:18:00 +00002008-10-10T16:26:13.059-04:00Last weekend was brilliant. It was my birthday and I will never forget it. My girl got me tickets to Hot Chip as a gift, and despite the boners in the audience, it was an amazing show. Especially this...they played a new song, "Alley Cats", and I can't stop listening to it. Its smoother, without the schizophrenia (great as it was) that characterized "Made in the Dark". It's controlled and http://namedropacid.blogspot.com/2008/10/thanks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Clitoris Rex)0