C'mon get happy?

I just picked this up on Fark. According to this article, The Partridge Family is returning to TV, with David Cassidy at least. The rest of the family is still considering if they're desperate enough to whore themselves out like this.

GHOST TOWN

A photo journey of a girl riding her motorcycle through the ghost towns around Chernobyl. These places are frozen in late April 1986 when they were evacuated after the meltdown. Family photos and other personal possesions, the city's decorations for the May 1st Labor Day parade, Communist messages, a carnival, a kindergarten classroom full of toys...all abandoned by those escaping the radiation. It will be upwards of 600 years before the area could be habitable again. The pictures are spooky, but being there must be downright frightening.

Happy Easter

We received this Easter Card from Angie's parents this week and this was Angie's interpretation:

"He was the first to see it. The freshly boiled and dyed corpses of the unborn...as the other marched blindly forward."

I love my wife. She's crazy just like me. :)

Factoid about me #2: I designed a t-shirt for my favorite band, the Posies

Surfing on Ebay today I ran across an auction for a Posies t-shirt that I designed back in 1995. It's done in the style of the Archies/Josie and the Pussycats. I'm still quite proud of it. :)

Being a big fan, it was a fantastic experience for me. I took headshots of each of them for reference at the recording studio where they were working on Amazing Disgrace. I took some concert shots at the Velvet Elvis to nail down how they stood, held their instruments, etc. I went backstage at a few shows to talk with them about the project. But the coolest was going to Ken's house one afternoon and spending a couple hours listening to some gems from his record collection.

I got paid about $200 for the design and Jon later thanked me, because the shirt made them a lot of money. A job well done! :)

Another good show bites the dust. Farewell "Wonderfalls"

I'm beginning to think I'm a pop culture assassin like my pal Rich. I get excited and vested in a show and it goes off the air. Dave convinced me to Tivo "Wonderfalls" and check it out, and I was really glad I did. A weird little show populated with fresh faces. I'd tell you more about it, but last week's episode was the last they'll show, leaving 9 of the 13 episodes unaired! How in the world is a show expected to find it's audience in four airings? Auuugh!

Maybe Dave should be glad that I never got around to checking out "24".

All sorts of stuff about the Posies.

About a week ago, I ran across the following Posies CDs that I wasn't really aware of:

• Failure 15th Anniversary
  Houston Party Records brings more Posies love in the form of a reissue of Failure. All the tracks have been remastered and it includes 8 unreleased demos/alternate versions! Ok...I already have copies of 7 of them from my tape trading days, but it's still damn cool. The site has the full track listing...but the whole site is in flash, so you'll have to navigate your way to it.

• Jon Auer - The Birthday Party
  A little live set for someone's birthday. Jon, an acoustic guitar, 4 people, and a microphone. How cool would that be? Nice mix of Posies & solo material, but the downside is that his vocals aren't miked very well. But I frequently listen to Posies material of much worse quality. :P

Then today, I talked with my friend Ken and he gave me a few details I hadn't heard of...like The Posies Join the Ryko Family. A new Posies album tentatively scheduled for summer 2004!

This lead me to another article Posies Re-Teaming With Big Star. While quite cool in itself, it also mentions solo albums coming from both Jon & Ken. While I've known about Jon's "Songs From the Year of Our Demise" (if that's even still the title) for quite some time, this is the first I've heard of Ken's.

I popped over to Yep Rock Records and got the details. Soft Commands has a street date of 7/13! Whoo hoo! The aforementioned Ken said he picked up a Yep Rock sampler with a track from the new album at Silver Platters for 50 cents. It also had a Minus 5 track, so it definately sounds worth the price.

More Super Mario Brothers!

Another gem from Jason. :)

This time, the Super Mario music played on electric guitar...and I must say it's even better than the piano version...at least I think so. And really, that's what it's all about here. :)

Akira! Tetsuo! Akira! Kaneda! Motorbike! Vroom!

Jack just sent me these links:

http://www.motorcycleshow.org/info/akira.html
http://www.neo-fukuoka.com/

Who's up for a ride around Neo-Tokyo?