art, design, business, economics, international cuisine, international relations, freestyle BMX, history, skateboarding, libertarian politics, market anarchism, modern living spaces, open-source software, coffee, anthropology, wine, Sudbury schools, New Urbanism
Music
independent / underground / experimental hip-hop, drum & bass, house, jazz, turntablism, dub, EBM/industrial, ambient, goa/psytrance, downtempo, new wave, IDM, punk/hardcore, funk, go-go, post rock, metal, 60's psychedelia, gospel, drums, bluegrass, more
Movies
Fantastic Planet, Top Secret!, Rock & Roll High School, Star Wars, Brazil, Ghost World, Repo Man, Memento, A Beautiful Mind, Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Run Lola Run, Fight Club, Bowling for Columbine, Willy Wonka & the CF, Spirited Away, Secretary, The City of Lost Children, Me and You and Everyone We Know, THX 1138
Television
The Simpsons.
Books
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Wealth of Nations, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Out of America, When Rabbit Howled, The Corner, How to Make Love to a Woman
Heroes
Anyone with the guts to speak up against conventional wisdom when it is obviously flat wrong. It's lonely being the first person to speak up, and in fact many in history have been executed for such. However, once that first person speaks, the second and third are able to chime in "me too" and before you know it a hundred thousand have spoken in agreement, and all of a sudden conventional wisdom isn't so conventional anymore, and the world has changed for the better. So yeah, my heroes are the people who get that process rolling. (Although, it's always amusing to watch those who rail against conventional wisdom when it's right.) Also, Kraftwerk.
Art Whino joins forces with Tagür Footwear to present Inked Souls, an exhibition featuring customized sneakers and fine art by 35 local, national and international leaders in the Pop Surrealism/Urban Contemporary art movement. Each featured artist will customize one pair of AKA Blank Tagür sneakers along with one painting on canvas.
Black Cats Resident DJ Lil'e will be spinning the night away.
(Please read this in a Monster Truck Announcer voice) SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! No holds barred Swampabilly action at the Frederick Sportsplex! Watch as hillbilly heart throbs TRAILER PARK PEEPSHOW bring their high octane rockabilly groove to the arena! Be amazed as members of THE MASON DIXON ROLLER VIXENS and THE HARRISBURG AREA ROLLER DERBY team up with THE CHARM CITY ROLLER GIRLS for an intra league SHOWDOWN sure to leave you breathless! Roller Derby and Rockabilly together again, just like Bo and Luke Duke! It's FREE starting at 4PM on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY MAY the 18th! BE THERE!
Come check out the swampabilly antics of Frederick's finest roots, old time country and rockabilly revival band! April 26th at Guido's Speakeasy, 543 N Market St Frederick, MD. Starting at 10:00. 21 and over only. FREE! NO COVER! Trailer Park Peep Show is the only band in the area delivering this high octane, nitro fueled, pomade and switchblade blend! Space age Spaghetti Western twang deep fried in the King's basement, you can't miss it! Jerry Lee Lewis was and still is the devil!
As the first release for 2008, I Records & Kevin Yost deliver the 3rd issue in the “The Jazz Influence” series. This highly successful concept has become a calling card for Yost and has featured some the label’s most sophisticated music in the past years. The tracking listing here features the long awaited Guy Monk single “More of You” and new Yost material including “Jazz Is” & “Intervention of One”. In addition new artists have been enlisted to give this release a distinctly more experimental vibe than the previous two.
.. SchlossTegal "The Myth of Meat" CD NEW Tegal Records : Clear Jewel Case
Completely new for 2008 exclusively on Schloss Tegal's own Tegal Records. This is Schloss Tegal's most intense work to date. An allegory of meat slaughter and death machines. Contains bone saw. mallet, hand saw, bone chopping and animal death chambers expressing such subjects as modern cannibalism, interrogative torture. This is hyperrealistic psychpchogenic industrail electronics definately not for the squeemishin the same Grand Guignol tradition.
Track Listiong
Death Car Display Cannibal Communion Urban Funk Campaign Panic Man Custom Slaughtering The Long Pig Meshaf i Resh Butchermaster's Meal Bind Torture Kill (BTK)