Despite was failblog says...

Yes it's a real product, you can order them here: http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/

There is a pretty nice write up in City Pages about CONvergence (thank you theseamster for the heads up)


This is also the third event I've DJ'd this year that has been written up (YAY) (Rubber Ball and Goth Prom being the two others)

Tonight ended up much better than I expected. I thought the long weekend and CON would have totally killed the night, but not so much. It wasn't the busiest night ever, but I have a pretty good dance floor for most of the night. Tons of requests played, which is expected due to the slower night

DJ noise threw his back out at CON so I ended up doing the night solo.

Hard Monday 7-6-09

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Whew, what a weekend. CON was great as usual. Thursday was a lot of fun, I even DJ'ed a bit very late night. Friday I had to skip a day, I worked the club that night, it was SUPER dead, we even closed a bit early. blueyeddevil came and spun with me, so that part was fun.

Saturday back at CON for a full day and night of fun. I saw so many great people, had many fantastic conversations, to many to list. I also got to see a co-worker of mine on the Mega Panel which was neat. The night time dance was crazy, we had over 600 people in the room. My set started a bit shaky but ended totally kick ass. I don't think we shut down the room until 6:30 or 7:00 am.

Yesterday was pretty laid back, but I am still really sleep deprived. Now for another full work week, it's going to be a long one.

It's about time for CON, so I will be gone for the next four days.

With the exception of Friday, Ground Zero will still be open and we have open decks.

Come join us if you are bored.

I put this on a burger tonight





SO FUCKING GOOD

... also why I don't have kids.

This kid's mom canceled his World of Warcraft account, watch the aftermath

Really? This isn't even subtle



rskm1 fixed it to what is should say:

This is how you start a dance party

johnnym77 just wrote a great piece on the Obama administration and their lack of gay rights support.

Everyone should go over a read it.

I swear it was Friday afternoon an hour ago....

Friday night was the Midnight Muse Review show. It was fantastic, boatloads of people came (many of them tourists who looked like they had never been to GZ before - thank you City Pages) The show itself was great, there were over 25 total acts! (I was even in one) Next month is their one year anniversary, that should be a really fun time.

Saturday I got a number of errands done during the day, then that night I got a call around 10:15 asking me to grab my music and get down to GZ as fast as I could. So unexpectedly I ended up DJing Saturday night with DV8. We had a total blast and holy packed dancefloor all night - yay.

Yesterday was spent grocery shopping, cooking and playing a little MtG.

Now it's a new week, that will fly way too fast I'm sure. Tonight is Hard Monday, tomorrow I'm off to Philly for a few days, then I'm back in time for Friday nights big show (Angels on Acid and Souless affection - flyer below)... whew.. Before I can blink it's going to be September and I'll wonder what happened to summer.

Ground Zero and The Next Element present:






It was also A-Listed

Check out this little stop motion film made of post-it notes

Tim Noble and Sue Webster create shadow art from old junk. Take a look at these pictures

Real Life is Rubbish, 2002



Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998

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Harder Monday 6 - 08 - 09
dv8, Nitrogen, noise

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I am not a huge fan of McDonald's (except their fries, Mmmmmmm) and usually I really hate their advertising (the whole "I'm lovin it" campaign drives me nuts.)

But this interactive outdoor ad in London is very clever. They are getting their logo into pictures and videos all over the web. (I found 127 flickr pics and 27 YouTube videos tagged with mcdonalds, piccadilly and circus.)

Stolen from t0rs0

If this can do what this ad says it can do I may have to buy and X-Box

We are proud to bring in Zed and Jobot

Jobot plays hard Electro and Zed plays hard Breaks





18+
Ground Zero
2-4-1's 10-11

I don't remember ads from the 80's being this racy



I can't figure out what else she could be saying....

I love all these new sites that are showing up. Sites that are just a string of funny and/or weird pictures, like Look at this fucking hipster.com and awkward family photos.com/

I just ran across a new one: Happiest People Ever.com

Check it out: runpee.com it tells you were there are places in a movie when it's safe to run to the bathroom

I am in the process of switching from CD to computer. The very difficult and extremely time consuming part of this is ripping all my CD's on my computer.

What programs are the best, and fastest, for ripping?

Goth Prom VI 2009



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Also

City Pages has pictures up

Here is another flickr set

bohemianrapsody's flickr set

WOW, what an incredible turnout! Thank you to everyone who came out, and a huge thank you to the Prom Committee; you all did a fantastic job!

I will try to post pics later

I just got spammed on LJ

I'm totally used to it on myspace, twitter and a little on facebook but it's never happened on LJ.


But look at tmamato, this fuck just friended me and his only posts are about some dumb ass "go do this and you will make tons of money, bla bla bla" shit.

So if he friends you don't friend him back. (although if we all rag on him in his comments it might be fun)

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

This can't be real can it?   Unless it's a Sy Fy movie (BTW, that is really how the network will spell their name starting this summer)

I work in the advertising business, and I hear a lot of crazy ideas that are kicked around for ad concepts.

But nothing that would ever come close to the crazyness of these Japanese ads for high blood pressure, RubberDuckZilla and I Have a Bad Case of Diarrhea

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Next Month DJ DV8 joins me as the other resident DJ for Harder Mondays

Harder Monday tonight - It's still in soft open mode this month, look for much more next month.

But we will have Jean Bardot performing and Harder Music throughout the night.

One week from tonight is Goth Prom!!

This year we will also have DJ's in the back "Fire" room

So far we have DJ noise and Bonnie Rotten (Of the roller girls, kit cat club and a gig at a previous Goth Prom) one more may be added.

What do you do

I’m back in the real world. NC was wonderful, the weather was warm but it did rain a few days. On those days I just laid around and read which was great since I was staying in the woods on a mountain. My sister was there for the weekend which was fantastic since I rarely see her and miss her. Overall it was a very relaxing vacation which I really needed. I did learn something on the trip though.

On Sunday we all went to a ramp festival. Ramps are a wild onion that grows in the mountains of NC. It tastes like a cross between onion and garlic, only much stronger. Since I love both onions and garlic I thought this was going to be great: Like a taste of MN only everything will have ramps in it. Sadly it wasn’t like that at all, it was being put on by the local VFW and the food was powdered eggs with ramps, canned potatoes with ramps, and some very questionable meatloaf with ramps; it all tasted terrible (although through the bad food I could taste the ramps which did taste interesting). They were selling ramps at the festival so I bought a bunch thinking I would take them home and try cooking with them.

I put them in a plastic bag inside a zip lock bag and held them in the fridge until I packed yesterday, then I put them in another zip lock bag and put them in my carry on backpack and off I went to head home. Woe is thee who underestimates the power of the ramp.

About half way to Detroit, which is where I had to switch planes, I start smelling them. They smell like they taste: a combination of onion and garlic that has been put on steroids. I figure one of my zip locks has come loose a bit, I bit the bullet, it wasn’t a sold out flight and I wasn’t surrounded by people and figure I’ll fix it in Detroit. I get to Detroit open up my back pack and re-zip everything (after having to step back a few feet from the smell) The next flight is sold out, it’s a big plane and of course I am in a middle seat. This time I start smelling them about 10 minutes into the flight – uh oh, this is going to be a long plane ride. About half way into the fight everyone around me is looking around trying to figure out what the smell was. What could I do at this point, so I just looked around like everyone with a puzzled look on my face. I felt really bad for the guy sitting in front of me who had my back pack right underneath him. I had brief flashing of the entire plane rising up and grabbing my backpack, or me (or both) and flinging us off the plane at 30 thousand feet.

Eventually I did make it home and they didn’t kick me out of the plane for smelling so bad. Now I have to cook something great with these things to make the whole ordeal worth it.

I'm off to NC for five days


Whoo hoo

In other news, here is a really fun site for you all: TextsFromLastNight.com

"Remember that text you shouldn't have sent last night? ... We do"

Here is a video of a reporter who undergoes waterboarding to see what the experience is like. He bets his camera man that he can last longer than 15 seconds...

Rubberball 2009 is *this* Saturday (April 25th) at Ground Zero. Jean Bardot will be Mistress of Ceremonies (along with Holly Zigfield and Violet) and giving us lots of surprises.

Other fun things:
-Latex fashions by Vex Clothing
-Mistress Sharina Nicole
-Charger Pony giving pony rides
-Rubber Dolls
-DJ's DV8, Noise, Nitrogen and Panic

Here are a couple of pretty good Molson ads, I don't know if they would be able to air here.

It's called Flame, you know you like it.

It smells familiar, what is it?

That's the smell of a flame broiled burger baby.....


American fast food chain Burger King is marketing a men's fragrance with the scent of meat

Flame is the meat giants' custom line of body spray, which has just launched at selected stores as well as online. Combining what the company calls "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat"

They even have a special web site for it: firemeetsdesire.com/

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We have guest DJ's:

Monstergot
Big Kev
blueyeddevil

Check out the The Different Strokes opening sequence with alternate music

It actually is pretty creepy.

Check out this cool film, very well done.

You know, who doesn't like to teabag someone every now and again?

Well the conservative movement is taking teabagging to a new level. How about giant teabagging parties all across the country... simultaneously

Next Wednesday will be a day for the history books




Thanks to johnnym77 for finding this gem, *edit* he also found another bit of teabagging (or Teabagg'n) goodness

I have a number of veg/vegan people on my friends list so they probably read it as it was intended: I love tofu

Everyone else probably reads it the same way as the state of Colorado did when they banned the plate.

Last Wednesday everyone's favorite internets guru Trent Reznor announced the release of a new album produced by Timberland called Strobe Light



Check out these awesome tracks and all the guest appearances:

1. intro skit
2. everybody's doing it (featuring chris martin, jay-z AND bono)
3. black t-shirt
4. pussygrinder (featuring sheryl crow)
5. coffin on the dancefloor
6. this rhythm is infected
7. slide to the dark side
8. even closer (featuring justin timberlake and maynard james keenan)
9. on the list (she's not)
10. clap trap crack slap
11. laid, paid and played (featuring fergie of the black eyed peas and al jourgensen)
12. feel like being dead again
13. still hurts (featuring alicia keys)

Of course last Wednesday was April fools, Trent would never release this shit. But what is even funnier is he did it to make fun of Chris Cornell who recently did announce a record that will be produced by Timberland.  Trent started making fun of Chris back on March 11th on his Twitter account where he said this: "You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell's record? Jesus."