Masters of the Universe Tribute Show

Really, I already blogged about this on my other blog. Go check it out there.

**All unsold art is available on ningyoushi.com

My client Jonny Negron's piece is a meager $75. He's going to be a legend, folks. Get it while you can.

bad boy racing club

I approve of these people immensely. These people are Bad Boy Racing Club. I know a couple of these people. I like them. You will like their photos. These photos do not fuck around. See some of the photos below. I am very much looking forward to their future. You should buy their photozine while you still can. I have one on my coffee table. It looks awesome.

GO TO THEIR BLOG

Avant-tarde

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- I'm feeling very 'blah.' Can you help me?

- Oh, sure I can - check out this blog here.

- What? There's something new on this blog? Impossible.

- No, really, it's true. It's a new hour-long mix by Reynard Seifert.

- Isn't that the guy who posted mixes on this blog every week for forty weeks until he 'sold out' to American Apparel's Viva Radio and stopped bothering with this blog?

- Totally, that's the guy.

- I hate that guy.

- Me too, but this is a pretty good mix, he made it for Fecal Face but they didn't post it so he's posting it here, maybe you should check it out.

- Are there going to be more soon by other people?

- Yes, soon.

- Really? Soon?

- I swear to Jebus.

- What's been going on with that whole Viva Radio thing?

- You mean California Select?

- That's the one.

- It's been going pretty well. Reynard's sharing the reigns to AA photographer and vintage-maven Mae Kaufman every once in a while, and there are going to be some guest shows coming up.

- What kind of guest shows?

- Well, there's going to be a radical mix by Patrick Healy in a couple weeks.

- Wasn't he one of the Zom Zoms?

- Yeah, and he has a new band called Pataphysics.

- Alright, what else?

- There's going to be a mix by Tao Lin that will include Tao giving shoplifting instructions for like ten minutes.

- Woah, isn't that the famous author whose novella Shoplifting From American Apparel is coming out in September?

- Yeah, it's going to be pretty wild, possibly even 'controversial.'

- Sounds really dumb.

- Fully. Tao already blogged about the playlist.

- Anything else?

- Reynard and his girlfriend are going to start publishing e-zines on haha clever dot com, which is just a tumblr right now, but will eventually be an amazing website, much better than this one. Their first e-zine will be zzzombiezzz, a short story about Reynard's epic battle with a zombie named Amherst who once slept on his chaise lounge.

- I meant, 'Anything else music-wise?'

- Oh, yeah. Reynard's also going to start hosting a new program on Youth Radio that may or may not be called 'Calling All Kids,' which will seek to introduce America's youth to artists that are influencing today's most interesting music makers and also include interviews with some of those people and their music.

- So it will pretty much be the coolest music program for kids (as well as adults) ever made?

- Yup, it's going to be pretty epic.

- This is like, a lot of information and I'm still feeling very 'blah.'

- Have you downloaded Avant-tarde yet?

- Oh, I forgot. Thanks a lot, whoever you are.

- No problem. You can call me 'fuck face.'

Tumblr, New Mixes Coming, Etc.

I thought I would tell whoever might be concerned that I've been doing the tumblr thing lately, since I don't have a job and stuff.

REYNARD.TUMBLR.COM

It just takes less time to put up whatever, because tumblr isn't really blogging. As my friend Ray said, "It isn't really anything."

My friend Jonny Negron is going to start uploading tape mixes to this blog, which will be really cool. He is a really good DJ.

And finally, the Viva Radio show is live now - California Select. There are three playlists up by me. More soon to come, so keep checking back. Hopefully it will become a more regular weekly thing on the schedule and stuff... soon.

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Viva Radio

So, I got offered a gig managing the California Select program for American Apparel's Viva Radio. While this is a really great opportunity that I'm super-duper-uber pumped about, it unfortunately means an untimely end to my 52 week/52 mixes project. Whatevs, 40 is a nice round number and it was fun while it lasted but I have a much larger audience now and I need to concentrate on this shit.

My first playlist hasn't been scheduled yet, but I'll be sure to mention when it does. Until then, give a listen to the shows already posted by other people. They're real good.

This also means I won't be blogging for a little while, since I'm also trying to put together the third issue of my zine.

Therefore, goodbye. For now.

Ugh

In the New Year

I'm not even going to get started on how fucked up recent events in the Gaza strip have gotten, and how we (the U.S.A.) are supplying moral, financial, and military support to the effort. 

Instead I'm just going to link you to this well-written article from the Electronic Intifada and this interview with Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky.

Best of Oh Ate

In case you missed it, Harper's does a year in review thing every year. Always a good read. Gotta love those damned snarky mofos.

People keep asking me if I made a Best of 2008 list, and I keep asking them, Best of What? I am rarely timely with things. Usually I don't know what was really going on until like two years later, like everyone else I suppose.

Instead of putting together an actual list of each media group I encounter in my day-to-day life, I just decided to tell you what I thought was the best of each, so that later on I can look back at what embarrassing choices I made. Whatever, I have put like zero thought into this list.

Best Novel of 2008

Awesome by Jack Pendarvis

Best Film of 2008

Baghead by the Duplass Bros.

Best Album of 2008

Alight of Night by Crystal Stilts

Best Comic of 2008

Boy's Club by Matt Furie

Best Candidate of 2008

Barack Obama by David Axelrod

Pyrite Radio

Happy 2009!

C&C #40: Ugh (YSI)

1. Paul McCartney // Ram On

2. The Walkmen // In the New Year

3. Fugazi // Ex-Spectator

4. Neil Young // Computer Age

5. Amos and Sara // Arab O Habab of Arabia

6. The Monks // Complications

7. Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers // One Track Mind

8. Scratch Acid // Owner's Lament

9. James Gang // Funk #49

10. Blind Willie Johnson // When the War Was On

11. Sudeten Creche // Dance!

12. Mathieu Boogaerts // All I Wannado

13. The Homosexuals // Slow Guns

14. Blondie // Atomic

15. Total Abuse // Easter Thoughts

16. Husky Rescue // Summertime Cowboy

17. Zom Zoms // Zomming in a Coal Mine

18. The Replacements // Bastards of Young

Christogram

Pyrite Radio

Due to the holidays and such, I had no time to write a blog, again.

However, I did have time to put together this mixx of mostly untraditional Christmas musics which I hope you enjoy. Happy times.

C&C #39: Christogram (YSI)

1. 65 Days of Static // I'm Dreaming of a White Noise Christmas

2. Beat Happening // Christmas

3. The Clash // Straight to Hell

4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs // All I Want For Christmas

5. Otis Redding // Merry Christmas Baby

6. Stan Freberg // Green Christmas

7. Esquivel // White Christmas

8. Slade // Merry Xmas Everybody

9. Mr. Onion // Wind Song

10. The Just Measurers // Dinner Party

11. Charlie Brown Christmas // Christmas Time is Here

12. Exhumed // No Presents For Christmas

13. Christmas // Stupid Kids

14. Girls Aloud // I Wish It Could be Christmas Everyday

15. Peggy Lee // The Christmas Spell

16. The Monkees // Riu Chiu

17. Pin Section // Francine's List

18. I'm So Look You // Last Christmas