Draw your favorite animal ....

Draw your favorite animal day at E3a class. Thanks, you morbid and crazy kids.

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Headache

Special thanks to Alex, e4a for the drawing and acting prowess.

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Do you know (how to use photoshop?)

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October

Yeah, it's 11 days into November, who cares?

N.W.O.K.H.M.!!!!!

Meet Method and despite their hilariously cheesy cover art, these ghoulish Seoul progenitors of the 'New Wave of Korean Heavy Metal' scene deliver some of the most epic and amazing Death Metal I've heard in a looonng time. Pelvis obliterating solos, brutal vocals, and mindocaustingly destructive energy along the likes of At the Gates, they've got it all any D.M. fan would want, and then some. Check out their 2006 debut and get ready to get your K.H.M. on!

RPKDM!

-P.S. Bonus live studio cover of "Slaughter of the Soul."

Halloween

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Perspective (is weird.)

Today is the day, one year ago I started my ultimately abortive job prospects at CityLife, which promptly ended nearly three-months to the day I started them. If you would have asked me where I thought I'd be a year from now, it would be hard for me to say that I'd be in Korea teaching English and trying on a daily basis not to die in literally the most accident prone country on Earth. I had everything, yet nothing; and now, I have nothing, yet everything. It's a total mindfuck. Ok. now that the emo-air is clear, here's about the two coolest pictures I've taken since I got here, five months ago to the day.

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A bunch of photos from a bunch of stuff that is unrelated in Seoul and Deagu, but also because I didn't organize anything at all this month.

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10 (AGAIN)

I'm reposting this because, let's face it, 10 rules. 10 is the project of a Japanese guy and a Korean girl who make some wickedly infectiously groovy avant pop. If that's not enough, think what would happen if Ikue Mori and Yoko Ono both had a had a love child with Merzbow. A must have for any avant rock and/or noise fans.

Here

Update: They are touring the East Coast U.S. this month. Check em' out, you won't be sorry.

www.myspace.com/weare10


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Henna Dress

Henna Dress is a little awesome Japanese woman who plays some of the coolest lo-fi minimal Nintendo noise you will ever hear. Her hypnotic songs punctuated with everything from low, low, low bass lines to tinny and pretty blips and bloops is so infectiously beautiful, it's jaw dropping. I had a chance to see her in Daegu in Seoul last weekend and Henna said it would be cool if I put her 2009 release "MySpace Diary Excerpts, 2007-2009" up here on the DeadScow, so check this out and be amazed at what I like to call the soundtrack of modern Asia.

Here

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I am dissapearer - OR - 3 PICTURES SUMMING UP WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO BE AN INSOMNIAC IN DAEGU

Johngun's Wild Ride Part 2 - The Boat

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Johngun's Wild Ride

Meet John Gun. With streaks of psychotic eccentricity matched with an equally as crazy disposable income, this man is both the living incarnation of the Mad Hatter, and subsequently, the coolest guy you'll ever meet in Korea. His love for machine guns, photos, fishing, extreme sports, jimjibangs, fireworks fights on the beach and regular sports puts this guy above the pack when it comes to cool people I've met in Korea. If I had tons of money made from 'government robot and a.i. design' work, as he said, I'm pretty sure I'd be this guy. Meet my new hero and look at some pictures when we wailed on some milk cartons with his $2,000 M4 replica Airsoft b.b. gun on the streets of Sachon.





More photos soon. That being, when I'm done making them all pretty.

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Foreign Lives

It was 2003. I was fresh out of High School and had just moved into my dorm room at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. It was my first time away from all the things that I knew, and to sum it up, it left me in a dark and brooding state of confused ecstasy, misery and joy. Before I left, I had already started my band Meat Over Moscow in 2002 up as a one-man homage to hatred, perversion, misanthropy and noise. My first tracks were nothing more than horrendous noise created by PC microphones, broken karaoke amps, tapes of my first, and ultimately unsuccessful punk band Cold War Crisis and some other terrible Vegas bands whose CD's I ripped and destroyed. I made some 6th Grade-level covers for the CD's I burned in my house on my old Compaq and randomly put them in magazines at Tower Records, on a shelf at Cafe Roma or under the windshield wipers of cars at my High School.

Anyways, in 2003 I found myself isolated from the world I knew, having little friends I liked and felt totally cut off from the rest of the world as I knew it, I put together this little monster as a reaction to my dissolution. This could be why in 2009, I return to my second album (first real one) "Foreign Lives" with a new perspective on isolation. "Lives," an homage to "Alien" soundtrack composer Jerry Goldsmith, is a 51-minute drone-cum-noise exploration of alien worlds, that, more than six years after I made it, still reigns as one of my favorite things I've ever recorded and made. Check this thing out and use it to remember why you are, or always were, alone.

Here

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Korean Psych Music Vol. 2. - Run Way

Run Way is an exploitativly romantic group of late-70s psych rockers who sound like the demon seed of early Deep Purple with a fine helping of Italio and Franco thrown into the mix. Add the melodramatic nature of Hangul, the Korean language, and spice it up with some of the most hauntingly eerie faux-Hammond organs, and you have an absolutely beautiful homage to Korean Psych rock this side of Pyongyang.

Here.


Also:



A cool preview from good friend and fellow Noise fucker Lil' Ron Reirson sort-of chronicling and remixing parts of the 2005 noise scene that sort of blew up in Vegas thanks to the help of guys like Ron, Chad Martinez, who now runs an awesome electronic music show, Friday nights at KUNV and of course, perpetual best friend Ian McKenzie. Look hard for cameos by almost all of these people and maybe I'm in there, somewhere.

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