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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
five little paintings by james kochalka
11:27 PM

five little paintings by james kochalka, originally uploaded by dj_empirical.

my favorite comic book artist cum rick star, James Kochalka (a.k.a. James Kochalka Superstar), offers little 2" by 2" paintings for sale. i thought they'd make a great gift, so i bought a few of them. combined with the swell frames i found, these turned out to be even better than i'd imagined. email him if you'd like one (or one of him many excellent cds).

thanks james!

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
ruin that beat
5:12 PM
toothpaste for dinner
toothpastefordinner.com

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the knife
5:01 PM
The Knife is growing on me.

that's all for now.

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Sunday, December 24, 2006
the ricky gervais show
2:20 AM
as you can tell by my last.fm charts, i have been completely enamored with the Ricky Gervais Show, his radio show from london's XFM radio station (not the satellite radio XM, by the way).

thanks to one of my blogger friends (jima? man, i can't remember...) blogging about it, i checked out the podcast and loved it. (wait, the new one's there! awesome.)

i went to thepiratebay.org and found each series in a torrent, and i've been slowly wending my way through them. i've actually just noticed a master torrent here, which may save you a lot of work, if you're interested.

ANYWAY, the reason i'm writing all this is that i've just been laughing out loud at a particular segment from one of the shows, and i am including it here:

the ricky gervais show, 2003-06-21, part 09

so, yeah. good times. in case you're curious, Karl is NOT a character; this stuff is real. that's why it's funny.

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Thursday, December 21, 2006
1) cut a hole in a box...
6:54 PM


it's not as good (i think) as "lazy sunday", but it's great. i'm digging timberlake's new record anyway, so it's nice to see him take the piss out of r&b.

nice one guys.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
random song: manimal
4:52 PM
so, here's a Manimal track from a couple years ago:

Manimal: "Uh Oh! (main mix)"

Manimal is Cinci local faves and US DMC group champ dj's The Animal Crackers, along with whomever they get to be along. In this case, amongst all the local rappers, MC Paul Barman makes an appearance.

Oh, and the way i'm doing these links is a bit convoluted, so let me know if it's working. i.e., leave a comment if you can download the track...

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
random song: 43zla
4:37 PM
Here's a track that just caught my fancy:

43zla: Medeni Mesec

Those who know me know I have a bit of a penchant for Serbian hip-hop. Or rather, a penchant for "Balkan" hip-hop, as I have little knowledge of whether a given artist is from the Beograd (Serbia) scene, from the Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina) scene, from the Zagreb (Croatia) scene, or from the Podgorica (Montenegro) scene. They all share similar languages (Serbian/Croatian), having formerly been the same country, so unless i look them up, I don't really know.

So, yeah... 43zla is a Serbian group, and this is one of my favorite tracks from their album "Sve Same Barabe". One of the members is Ajs Nigrutin, whom I also like, and this track has a guest appearance from Skabo, another of my favorite rappers from the area. "Medeni Mesec" has samples from American porn, which are (to my ears) quite bizarre in the middle of the non-English speaking track. Weird.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
the best rod stewart cover i can think of...
1:31 AM


da ya think i'm sexy

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
nerdcore for life
11:38 PM
a trailer for a nerdcore rap documentary:

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