Deerhoof, Spinto Band

Listening to Deerhoof at certain times with certain people in certain places can be completely surreal. I felt like I was in a Dali painting.

The Art Brut/We Are Scientists show this saturday night is going to have the Spinto Band opening for them. Is it strange that I’m beginning to like the opener more than the headliners? Not that I don’t love Art Brut or We Are Scientists, but I just can’t get enough of the Spinto Band. Go out and listen to some of their CD, Nice and Nicely Done, they might just be your new favorite band.

I’ve also come up with a few designs for the LP Club. Check ‘em out.

Style

I love how Tyrone Biggums‘ fashion has gone into style.

Case in point: Urban Outfitters on 3rd Street, downstairs.

Not that I have anything against UO, I just happen to be a bit biased towards the independent companies (American Apparel for shirts, Threadless and Oddica for designs).

Oddica shirts arrive

I received my three Oddica shirts in the mail today: Exploded Boombox (pictured), Octopus Incident, and The Undertaker. All of them are incredibly soft and printed with astounding detail and precision. Each shirt comes with stickers, postcards of the shirt designs, and large pins of the purchased t-shirt designs all in a re-sealing bag with more shirt designs on it.

I am extremely happy with the purchase as these are excellent t-shirts with artistic designs which will stand out among the plethora of t-shirts I own.

More pictures after the jump.

Sneak Peek :: Oddica

Sneak Peek :: Oddica:

Oddica.com has an amazing selection of t-shirt designs by artists getting the recognition and royalties an artist deserves.

Artists will share in 41 percent of Oddica’s Net Profit annually and receive Royalties, in perpetuity.
Artists will receive $500 for each commissioned Design. ($250 up front, and $250 when you finish, unless the Design happens to be pre-existing. Immediate PayPal payments are an option, too. (Oddica will pay the PayPal fee.)
Artists will receive an additional $500 for every Reprint. Three Reprints of a single Design, for example, would result in an additional $1,500.

All in all it’s a very good business model and should be able to compete with Threadless if they keep up the good designs.

There was some server trouble with recognizing credit cards on the night their site went live, however, the whole Oddica team is making leaps and bounds to set wrongs to rights. Never have I seen an independent t-shirt company so dedicated to their cause.

From my experience so far with this company (the lightning fast email responses as well as a personal phone call), they can be sure this customer will be coming back for more.

Humans!

Humans!:

Look out, planet Earth! Looks like you have a nasty case of Humans!! A wonderful animated short.

Makes you think; very awesome.

Holly Williams

An amazing artist and friend of mine just created a new website for her paintings. Check it out.

Comment on headphones

After trying many headphones both inexpensive and expensive, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that the Ultimate Ear super.fi Pro 5 are the best in-ear headphones I’ve ever used. My main problem was the lack of bass in the Etymotic series (specifically the Etymotic ER-6, which I own) which I orginally bought for its astouding clarity, but paid for it later when I missed the clean and clear bass found in even the inexpensive Sony Fontopia series. BUT I warn everyone who either owns the Fontopia series headphones or is considering buying them:

If you own them, be careful of the part of the wire that is supposed to go behind the neck, its breaks EXTREMELY easily and renders the headphones useless. To anyone considering to buy the Fontopia series headphones, be sure to buy the Neck Strap Headphones MDR-NX1 because they are the same headphones internally but have the addition of a neckstrap that won’t wear away to nothing. But be warned of the headphone’s short cable as well, it should be fine if you put your MP3 player in your breast pocket or have a small MP3 player like the mobiBLU Cube that can simply hang from the input jack, but for everyone else, either use an extender or if you own an iPod, consider the Apple iPod Radio Remote.

Hope this helps some poor soul like I once was trying to find the perfect headphones.

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Fender Standard Stratocaster

Fender Standard Stratocaster is what I’m saving up for. See guys? I’m getting my own (finally).

Threadless Tee

I just couldn’t resist buying this Threadless tee. I’ve been waiting for a good long time to use the $15.00 coupon they gave me for shirts going out of stock after I ordered them and I’ve finally found a worthy one.