Faile Art

Poster for “The Ride”

designed by Chris Hutchinson

 

New interviews (with video!) coming shortly.

This week I will be interviewing for WK Radio The Faint and Ladytron. You may remember that Ladytron already performed a WK LunchBox a few years back, so it will be great to catch up with them again and see how they have been.
If you are in any city these two bands are coming through, def go see their show, The Faint put on an amazing light show.
And if all goes well both of these interviews will be featured on my birthday addition of No Cover, No Minimum next Tuesday along with a whole lot of Star Trek; The Movie talk.

The Ride

Premiers May 21st at the Ace Hotel in NYC. It will also be available On Demand for the entire month at the Ace.

You can hear interviews on my site now.

Just go to bangsandblurry and get yourself to the podcast section. Soon we will be adding video and many, many more interviews we do on WK Radio.

I think Star Trek is the most anticipated movie of my life.

Well for me at least.  I will be at the midnight show, I will be getting advance tickets, and I will be dressed up in uniform.  I remember when I first heard JJ Abrahms was taking the helm on this and how excited I was.  That quickly turned to depression when they moved the release date from Dec to May, but we are so freakin’ close now.

If you too are a Star Trek nerd, or just mildly interested in what nerds who love Star Trek sound like, tune into my radio show on May 5th (my birthday!) and listen as I wax poetic with a few other Trekkies about our favorite ST shows, storylines, and what we are hoping for in the movie.  I will be on from 12-1pm, Tuesday May 5th (and every other Tuesday) at WK Radio. There you can also find a podcast of my last show where I learned all about World of Warcraft.

I particularly like this picture below because the show Enterprise isn’t included, and that was by far the WORST Star Trek show of them all. So I am pretending it just never existed.

Chairlift Interview coming soon.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Chairlift on Tuesday as they came through town on tour with Sebastian Tellier.  I’ll make sure to post the link to the podcast when I have finished editing it.  Everyone should pick up their new album when it hits stores on April 21st, I don’t think you’ll be sorry.

 

World of Warcraft podcast

Here is my last radio show where I interviewed Mike Morgan about the ins and outs of the game. I also played some kick ass music from DFA 1979, Bowie, Sweet, and Heartfelt.

Check put the podcast at WK Radio, my show is titled No Cover, No Minimum.

Happy Ides of March!

Read more about it here: Ides of March on Wikipedia

beautiful!

This Week.

Here are a few things worth checking out this week:

TONIGHT:

NASA @ Holocene / 9pm / $8.00

I have a few personal reservations about this show, and everything involved in it, but on the off chance Cool Keith or any of the other artists Sam collaborated with show up, that might make going to this worth it.

 

 

WEDNESDAY:

Creative Industry Night @ East Chinatown Lounge

DJ DEZ  / 8pm / FREE

If you work in the creative/music/ad field this is a nice way to support your peers, meet some new people, and get super cheap drinks!  $1.50 PBR.

 

THURSDAY:

Benefit for Reading Frenzy w/Corin Tucker, Tu Fawning, etc. / 8:30pm / $20.00

Great cause and there will be wonderful music.

FRIDAY: 

Fujiya and Miyagi @ The Doug Fir Lounge / 9pm / $13-15

Skittles steals from Modernista

Well, that’s my opinion at least.
It was just brought to my attention that Skittle’s has a new sort of meta site, which you can check out at Skittles.com. When I first saw it today I thought it looked eerily familiar. I remember seeing Boston’s ad agency Modernista’s site which is pretty much the exact idea and execution, but a year or so prior to Skittle’s. Way to go Agency.com. Though they may not have thought the average person would notice, they couldn’t have been foolish enough to think people who work in the ad industry wouldn’t right?

Did you mini-golf?

If not, here is a little video showing you what you missed at the 4th Annual Mini Golf Invitational. One highlight for me was the hole where is you got a hole in one they made you pancakes! Also, Tender Forever’s show was great, as always.

holocene mini golf freak out from jlowe on Vimeo.

Michel Gondry to direct “Green Hornet” movie.

JLowe and Dr. Awesome are on WK Radio

Right now!  www.wk.com/radio

Tonight: Holocene Mini Golf Tourney

It’s time for the 4th Annual Holocene Miniature Golf Tournament.  If you’ve happen to have never been, it runs today and tomorrow inside Holocene, you get to play miniature golf with each hole designed by different design/creative groups in town, and as always hear some great live music.

To open tonight, my favorite French import, Tender Forever will be headlining.  If you haven’t heard her cover Justin Timberlake yet make sure you get over to Holocene and do.   Also, if you happen to be one of those rare breeds who don’t like mini-golf, it’s still worth going to see some of the insane and brilliant designs that people come up with.

And avoiding the Mardi Gras crowds tonight will be more than worth it as well.

 

Holocene

Feb 24th & 25th

8 Bucks

 

        

I’ve been gone a long time, but now I’m back.

So I don’t know why I stopped posting here a few months ago.  I have been busy on projects and work has pre-occupied me intensely.  But I am making a new commitment to get back to it and restart this blog again.

I have a few great stories, WK Radio, my new book project, and meeting Debbie Harry, from Blondie, last night.  So I am going to get back to it.  Stay tuned.  It’ll be worth it.

In the meantime, I found this picture while typing LAZY into Google Images.  Enjoy.

 

Sebastien Tellier DIVINE Video

declareyourself.com

Backstage with Jamie Lidell and Janelle Monae

After an amazing show at the Wonder Ballroom from these two, we headed back stage to catch up with our pal Jamie Lidell and say hello again to Janelle Monae.  They are playing Seattle tomorrow and continuing on from there, make sure you catch them while you can!

sebastien tellier

New album available at American Apparel stores and record shops.

polaroid.

Le Happy

Has the best crêpes in Portland, OR and a great atmosphere.  I am taking my brother and his lady here for dinner tonight.  I can’t wait.

Le Happy 

1011 NW 16th Ave

5pm-till late

you’d be silly to miss this show.

Two of the best performers I have ever seen live, amazing voices, and killer shows.  Make sure you get yourself out to this show no matter what it takes.

I am hoping this will keep me awake.

Just got an iced latte from Stumptown Coffee in the lobby of the ACE Hotel.  

I am hoping it will help me not fall asleep on my couch as soon as I get home so I can make it to these two events:

My buddy (and ultimate hipster) DJ Bunny Ears, aka Eric Johnson, is moving to the land of moviestars and sun.  So, in true Eric fashion, he is throwing an incredible goodbye party.

Then the work portion of the night where I get to listen to new music and chat with bands.  Hopefully I will have some video of this for tomorrow.

I have barely slept in 5 days.

I have been working like crazy and all the gigs/commitments I have to go to are at night. Tonight with be my fifth night in a row out for one of various reasons. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been fun, informative, and absolutely worth it. My bed just misses me a lot and it doesn’t look like it is slowing down anytime soon.

The last 5 days so far (with some photographic evidence).

Friday (photos to come) I hung out with a couple friends and played wingman for one at an appalling fake country bar.  Then went dancing with the band CSS after their show.  They are super sweet kids and killer dance party DJs!

Saturday at 8am I woke up to help my younger brother move into his dorm room.  It’s small and has no overhead light which is still weirding me out.  BUT, they get free cable TV (and I have none) so now I have a new place to watch TV shows I haven’t seen in years.

With Justin and Jeff (Saturday) at my very first King Black Acid show.

The Doug Fir’s shiny moose head at 1am. 

Sunday was the Jeff Merkley/Barack Obama Fundraiser at Holocene.  Where I DJ-ed and VJ-ed.  Another Cynthia and Bombs Into You (pictured) played as well.

Monday was Tender Forever and Rudy Adler’s birthdays.  So first was a stop to the Clyde Common to watch Rudy drink absinthe, then to Heather and Mel’s for amazing fall foods, a pinata, and a great dance party. Melanie mentioned how she had never been bowling before, so we found the nearest alley and bowled two games.  For a first timer she kicked our butts.

Josh Groban, I am judging you right now.

For doing this….

sunday at powell’s books

Check out, one of my favorite authors, Chuck Klosterman read from his newest work.  7:30 @ the world famous Powell’s Books.

Lights in the Sky

Here are a couple pics from NIN current tour.  They always have the most amazing visuals, but these look spectacular.  You can read all about their process in creating visuals here: http://tinyurl.com/3z2agg  Make sure you watch the video.

 

This is how your weekend should look.

So get to planning now…..

 

Friday @ The Roseland

and

with afterparty to follow.

Saturday @ The Doug Fir

Then, to cap it all off….

Sunday @ Holocene

Obamatat goes national

It’s been picked up for a national radio show. Tune in and listen to JLowe’s Ratatat and Barack Obama mash-up!

 

this is what my desk looks like.

Octicorn earrings.

Thanks to Teigh Bowen and his awesome girlfriend (who I have yet to meet, but can safely assume she kicks ass based on this gift) I now have my very own set of Ocricorn earrings!

Love em!

 

New Zoetrope Issue

With guest designer Jeff Koons.  Pick it up.

OMFG.

Laugh your abs away?  I’m scared, really, really scared.

Thank you Aaron Lee.

The coolest shower/bath ever

Obamatat

Image by HUTCH and check out the mash-up (click through for it) by JLOWE.

Last Wednesday’s Tender Forever Show.

Did some visuals live for Tender Forever last Wednesday. Here are a few pics.

ELO

september 3rd

Check us out for the first time ever doing live visual work with French superstar Tender Forever

 

Banksy in NOLA

Here is some new pieces Banksy (maybe aka Robin Cunningham) has put up in New Orleans to signify the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  They are all commentary on the hurricane and its horrible aftermath, which after 3 years still has not been fully rectified for the people who call New Orleans home.

The Party.

Thanks to Tatum Shaw for pointing this out to me. It’s a great site of vintage photos, but the favorite on there is THE PARTY. Kinda NSFW, depending on where you work.

I don’t care what anyone says, they look like they are having a blast.

Cool advert ideas.

This photo is pretty weird/cool looking.  I read that it is something Samsung made in Bejing where you can put your head in the pods and see what is going on with the Olympics.   The photo can stand alone as pretty cool though, just imagining what else could be going on here.

espresso.

Does it really matter if your coffee sucks if it comes out of a machine that looks like this?

Mr. Rogers

Did you hear that PBS will be pulling Mr. Roger’s from it’s network? He has been on for over 40 years. I remember growing up watching him, learning from him. What is PBS thinking? With the shows aimed at children these days, I think there is still a need for a show like Fred Rogers made. He was kind, respectful, and honest to his millions of viewers everyday.
Here he is defending PBS to the Senate when they wanted to cut their funding.

The Weekend with Tender Forever.

This is just up the street.

At the old Cinemagic Theater.  They were switching the marquee from “Hancock” to “The Dark Knight”.  Incredible.

The Dark Knight was a “motherfucking acting feista”

FROM RADAR ONLINE: Can a perfect movie have grievous errors? I SAY YES, and I get to answer questions like that, in such a fashion, because I am now pretending to be a film critic, something I haven’t done since Rex Reed went on vacation like two years ago and I reviewed Snakes On A Plane, which is a shame really, because wouldn’t you really have preferred Rex review it? “THESE SNAKES! BRING A BARF BAG! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MOVIES TODAY!” Can you see the posters? “REX REED: “GOD SNAKES, NATURE’S WORST ANIMAL!” I fucking love that guy, even though I was really mad at him for a while over his review of Funny Games. Except the 30-minute rant I got from him after that Wachowski Brothers (SIBLINGS?) latest movie was amazing. He kept talking about “Southern salads” and color palates. By which he meant like, the Jello-based salads. Anyway he didn’t review Batman (OH wait, he totally did! “Preposterous, unnecessary”!), even though he was at the screening with me, as were Dan Kois and Dana Stevens, both rather adorable. Dana has mastered the art of summer dressing, which you wouldn’t know if you read her film reviews on whichever thing she writes for. Is it the Slate or the Salon? Who knows! I can’t tell them apart anymore. Salon has all that stuff about Hillary Clinton, that’s how you tell. Hey so Batman, or as he is awesomely called in the movie, The Batman. I think they do that because the populace of Gotham realizes they don’t know Batman. They are just describing the guy who dresses up like a bat. So he is The Batman.

Here are some incredibly awesome things about the awesome movie.

1. No flashbacks to The Batman’s parents getting killed! WE ARE OVER THAT. THANK YOU DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. That shit is asked and answered!

2. Gary Oldman is the exact opposite of the scene-stealing character actor and it is really great. You keep thinking, “Hey, that’s Gary Oldman!” Because you’d have no way of knowing and he is really wonderful and even sort of demure.

2.5 You know Anthony Michael Hall is in this movie, right? YUP.

3. Aaron Eckhart looks just like he does in person, which is to say, really hot. He has the most incredible hair on his forearms. It is really something. When you see him in person, which has happened to me THREE (3!) times this year, you think: Gosh, yes please. You are like a slab of Canadian ice cream. He is good for this movie. There is nothing to complain about with any of the actors really. It is a motherfucking acting fiesta.

3.5 I never really liked the work of that sad, doomed Heath Ledger guy. Never got it. You know what? I saw A Knight’s Tale. It sucked. In this, he is the greatest thing since the invention of cheese.

So here are my two major (only?) complaints, which are:

1. The Batman’s “The Batman” voice, which is crucial apparently to his element of disguise because he is really Bruce Wayne (HA SPOILER), is a little over the top! It is like they looped it all and then ran it through Garageband and then ran it through Logic and then there was some sort of “Crazy Rasp” setting that they turned up to 11. It’s sexy, don’t get me wrong! The Batman is hot. He just talks a little bit like a Vietnam war vet on the corner with a $5-million audio system backing him up.

2. It happens in the first ten minutes of the movie, so it’s not A SPOILER. There’s a really wonderful opening sequence in which that actor appears, whose name I can’t remember, but he was like in some Todd Haynes movie or something and also he was on the T.V. in something? I am looking it up on IMDB. HA, WILLIAM FICHTNER. I love him. He was in Invasion! And Armageddon! He has crazy cheekbones.

So at the end of this sequence of action, which I will not describe or SPOIL IN ANY WAY, a criminal disappears into the streets in a vehicle disguised among a fleet of similar vehicles! The problem is, this vehicle has been parked messily through the wall of a building for the last ten minutes, and then when it is driven out of that building, no one notices, including the people on the street who are walking by and being all “la la la.” See, maybe I’m just a noticer. I notice things in real life (IRL!) like things that are stuck inside other things suddenly leaving. But then I am smarter than the common Gotham resident.

Those are my only two (2) complaints about this freakin’ awesome movie. It is so awesome, I am going again as soon as I am near a movie theater. And you know, I never see stuff in IMAX, cuz the last thing I saw in IMAX was The 300, and you know, I happen to like fully-stuffed leather codpieces and sweaty man thighs and things like that? But NOT THAT BIG. Not THAT CLOSE AND LARGE. I was all “BRING A BARF BAG” a la Rex Reed because IMAX makes me seriously bilious.

Except I will absolutely go see The Batman in the IMAX, because, what’s to say, it is so awesome. I will see it again and again. I will watch it with my children. I will pray that the DVD release has an EVEN LONGER version. Also in case no one has mentioned it yet? The score is wonderful. It is beautifully, beautifully scored. There are at least two 20-something minute sweeping, carefully-constructed, gorgeously-paced sequences tied nicely together by the scoring and I am extremely appreciative of this.

My God was this Batman movie ever good.
By Choire Sicha

Amazing little hard drives.

I found these over at Gizmodo, my favorite tech blog. These hard drives come hidden behind some of your favorite things, or you can create your own. It comes from this nifty little design studio. $400 for a 250GB drive and a lot of style.

NIN The Slip

These guys keep giving it away.  Before Radiohead was selling their album at a choose your own price program, Trent had been posting files on the internet for a while.  He even was doing this with the incredible Saul Williams.  Check out their new album, Trent is a machine.