STARFUCKER

This post is not to promote another indie band. I am posting it mostly because I wish more shows like this one from Portland Oregon happened. It is much more fun than going to any stadium or large concert hall. Just hanging out with some friends outside dancing to music. Perfect.

MINESWEEPER

I post this half because I know everyone still plays minesweeper. Half because of this mans lovely demeanor for explaining it. I also find it sad that this came up in the recommended videos for me on youtube.

EXPLODING DOG

For those of you familiar with the artist Sam Brown he needs no introduction. If you are not you need to be on the exploding dog website right now. Essentially what Exploding Dog is is the artist Sam Brown taking internet submissions of one sentence or sentence fragment ideas. He takes these submissions and draws whatever he feels fit to the statement in a very primitive, stick figure fashion. He has a very distinct style of drawing, with recurring characters such as robot, exploding dog and his standard stick figure.

So onto how it affected me. Sam came to Real Art Ways a couple weeks ago and was taking these suggestions in person and drawing pictures for you to take with you for free! Naturally me and my friends jumped in line. I think my favorite picture I saw him draw was my friend Greg's His Statement was, " What is the most impressive thing about my beard?" On which Sam drew a man with a large beard with small men climbing it, with the man saying "It's probably not the mountain climbers..."

So when it came my turn I asked him to draw the title of one of my bands songs called "How to Draw a Walrus" and this is the picture I got...



The hilarious thing is when I asked him to draw it he looked up at the ceiling and said, "Shit, How do you draw a walrus?" After which I guided him through the various features of a walrus.

Exploding Dog
My Band Exit Ghost

NO SHAVE NOVEMBER

The month of November in which you don't shave any hair of your body but instead you grow more bestial, brutish, and manly.

The months of December, January, February, and so on follow and may also be included in this celebration of masculinity.

December = ("Don't Shave December")
January = ("Just Don't Shave January")
February = ("Forget to Shave February")
March = ("Masculine March")
April = ("Atrocious April")
May = ("Manly May")

AND YOU THOUGHT JOHN CAGE WAS OUT THERE.

Conlon Nancarrow. Very contemporary composer who started writing pieces so complicated, no performer could play them. So naturally he went to Mexico and bought many player pianos, modified them and composed songs solely for the purpose of these multiple pianos to play them together. Check it out.

ANDY KEHOE

I stumbled across this painter a few weeks ago after searching "humanity" in Google images. I can't get his characters or scenery out of my head lately.

All of his paintings are up on his website. I suggest you look at every single one http://www.andykehoe.net/