Weekly new band round up

So from now on I’m going to do a nice weekly new band listing section.
‘Bout three – four new acts from around the world that in my opinion you should check out.
Here we go:

On Histories Of Rosenberg
Adding a new member to their line-up in previous band Ceasura, On Histories Of Rosenberg make beautifully thought out post rock. Having already made a name for themselves on the touring circuit.
If you like Explosions In The Sky/Yndi Halda… this is for you.

Arch M
Being a one man band is tough, having all the looping sounds, guitar sections and rhythm to do yourself live is not an easy feet, born in San Francisco but now living in London, Arch M creates sounds that would be fitting for a crazy acid binge whilst lounging on a beech somewhere you’d be boiling your tits off.
If you like Animal Collective… this is for you.

Male Bonding
London based three-piece Male Bonding are one of the bands you’ll find playing some dingy pub in the east end of town every night. DIY punk is the name of the game, and they do it oh so well.
If you like Teeth/Pens…this is for you

Greg Roakes Guide to Hangovers

As I’m sat in my “mock” lazy boy chair from debenhams in my check pajama bottoms with a cup of tea and a slice of dominoes meteor in one hand while laughing at Harold and kumar when only 14 hours ago i was consuming excessive amounts of alcohol to the toll of at least 18+ units of alchol (over half a standard bottle of jack Daniels if your wondering how much 18 units is)

you may ask yourself how i managed to successfully beat the curse of the hangover when most of the people who consumed the same amount as me are currently incapacitated

there are 3 factors into beating a hangover these are as follows

1. preparation

2.hindsight

3.common sense

4.the ability to be in the right mindset ( possibly the most important imo were talk about this later)

OK so lets begin with numro uno! preparation. no not the type your mum does before a trip to the supermarket were talking just thinking logically here if your going to go out and knock back spirits and cider you might want a little something inside that stomach to soak up the alcohol and slowly release it into the blood system this will not only stop you from just being sick in front of that girl you have been trying to impress all night with your lame attempt at being social it will also put you thought all those beautiful stages of drunk so you can enjoy the spectrum of the alcoholic rainbow! so go have a glass of milk and some meat and you shall win make sure you have this a bit before you start drinking don’t just kneck a glass of milk then do a shot of vodka big mistake give it some time to go down before you hit the sauce ok so that about covers the basics of preparation next up is

Hindsight!

if you don’t know what this means google it i can’t be bothered to right now to put it simply realise that actions have consequences such as drinking that pitcher of mindori and rum with floating fag ashes DO NOT ATTEMPT UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO REPEL THE EVIL WITH YOUR OX STOMACH so think about whats going down the throat pace yourself laugh cry run dance all that

next up COMMON SENSE

fuck it your drunk who cares just don’t

///start any fires

///insult any stereotypes that are volatile

///piss off the cab driver

///eat kebab someone dropped

///or decide to call a ex after 10 pints

ok got that written down sorted fuck the rest run home sleep on a bench

and last but not fucking least MINDSET MINDSET MINDSET

this is a hard one to explain to people but there have been times i have been so determined to not be ill due to excess of drugs i have just forced my body to heal by sitting there playing cod downing pints of water yes it sucks yes you want to go back to the bed and moan to people but trust me cod helps because its a distraction to sitting there feeling all the bad pains aches and horrible tummy contractions things that help is eat nothing till at least 12 then eat something greasy and spicy Bombay bad boy pot noodle or bacon sandwich is win drink drink one energy drink during your worst period rest of the time drink ice cold water or tea with little milk or sugar also swallow a aspirin before bed there is a brand (i forget the name) that’s aspirin mixed with caffeine its fucking win then by 12 hopefully if you followed these tips you should be kk spend the rest of the day drinking juice and have a walk somewhere fresh air helps so much

but!

sometimes you cant win we all know this in fact more like 1 out of every 3 is a bound to fail scenario if you know your body well enough fucking get that toothbrush down your throat and accept failure and just piss shit and vomit all the demons out then just down like 2 litres of water and you should actually be ok by mid afternoon (Y)

with that being said this was all a bunch of shit ignore it goodnight cunts x

Almighty Defenders LIVE

Almighty Defenders @ Amsterdam Brewery from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.

films and some music.

500 Days Of Summer Trailer from keith on Vimeo.

Meanwhile at Lounge Doom- Waking Aida from Simonwantstoworkforyou on Vimeo.

So above are two video’s. One of a new film coming out that just looks good… thats all that need’s to be said about that.
The other is of a band called Waking Aida, a new band from Southampton. The video is filmed by Simon, he is wanting to do a la blogotheque esq thing over here with some bands and I think they are coming off well. So check em both out.

The most convincing argument concerning size zero

///ever see a anorexic girl with the body of a 8 year old do porn?
didn’t think so..

///look at the women who make a living out of trying to get you off
exactly
ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of meat on those bones and some tits please stop starving yourself
thinking we find some haggard Ethiopian child’s body sexy
we categorically don’t the end.

Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

I woke up early today – like everyday it start’s with me seeing Charlotte leave for work and I pretty much have the whole entire day to bum around and have the time to think and dream odd and unrealistic things for the rest of that day.

From around 11 o’clock this morning I sat in front of my computer screen as I do nearly every waking minute and watched VBS.tv. VBS is fuckin’ sick. It’s everything I like, news, culture, sport and music. But it was the nostalgic mood I was in that I found myself watching profiles on various skateboarders that I admired and looked up to in my misled youth. Like many others, I had a phase where skateboarding WAS my life – and in many respects still influences who I am.

It’s the profiles on various members of the fuckin’ ridiculously rad crew the Piss Drunx that I went and watched first. Starting off with the Australian psychotic loon that is Dustin Dollin. The bloke is 24/7 fuck you, punk rock. He drinks every breathing moment. Then onto the ex heroine addict that is the Johnny Thunders worshiping bad ass Jimmy Greco. Jim Greco, along with Boulala was one of (if the) first people to do the punk look in skating, with his fucked up straggly hair and tight haggard jeans. He looks like he was taken out of the early 70’s New York glam rock/punk scene and dropped into the late 20th early 21st century.

Looking at my clock I see it was around 2 hours since I started watching these Epicly Later’d profiles of skaters such as Chris Haslam and Jerry Hsu. Followed after by two of the god fathers of fucked up wasters that are Andrew Reynolds and Erik Ellington.

The point of this long piece of arse liking drival is the world these guys live in. They get their clothes for free… they travel the world… for free and they live in these rad fuck off MTV Cribs style houses in the Hollywood hills. Do these guys get paid a shit load? but from where?!?! They own various clothing and apparal companies, have their fingers in many pies and they must be earning a bit if what is seen in these videos are true.

So follow your dream and do what ever the fuck you really want to.

bye

I am downright amazed at what i can destroy with a hammer

one if the words i will use commonly in my mid week topical debates is

//////FUCK//////

“Fuck is an iconic English word. In its canonical transitive verb form, it simply refers to the act of sexual intercourse. By extension it may be used to profanely or negatively characterize anything that can be dismissed, disdained, defiled, or destroyed, and it is due to the convergence of these two weighty concepts (sex and destruction) that the term can carry such overloaded emphasis, although it is frequently used as a mere intensifier.”

//fuck’s a beautiful world when you think about it everyone likes to use it its not as harsh as cunt and is not as common and dirty as shit, no fuck is a middle class swearword sometimes i still get that sense of being a rebel by saying fuck after sentence’s or peoples name’s.

//so as a warning my posts will be
unsophisticated lower-class dribble that’s far below your level of intellect but i know your read it because everyone likes fucked up stuff,porn and weird news so i really don’t give a shit how much your dad owns or what your level of education is this is my time and I’ll spend it talking about things that interest me in this small little blue planet i like to call home so if you think your above reading my words then i think you should fuck off.

//so this is a post that I’m planning to do once a week hopefully mid-weekly my name is Greg Roake i am a 20year old male and well I’m sure your find more about me in these coming weeks to help you get to know my mindset i shall allow a small fact about myself to be posted every week, yeah your interested don’t lie most of us are nosey perverts.

//////without further ado i present to you this weeks post//////

no really…its E.T. PORN i swear on my life this is real do i want the dvd? you ask yourself.

///Well i know i fucking do LOOK AT THAT SHIT fucking look at it its like a nightmare. personally the bottom right screenshot kills me when the perfectly normal (i presume) Spanish family has finished fucking there hideous alien they find they send it on its way waving as if its perfectly normal to fuck something you don’t understand and then once dad’s cum, he’s bored of the alien orgy see ya Miss alien! it was lovely having you for tea and then giving you a facial i mean forget that for one second let us just think about what we are looking at here ok

E.T a kids film about a horrible looking alien who was trying to get home +
porn to help gets one self off and achieve sexual stimulation=?

so this makes me wonder what Mexican thought “hey I’m bored of all these beautiful women and well endowed men going at it like rabbits know what always got me off well there was this kids film i saw in the 80’s and….

///yeah and then the production company was like JESUS! (probably his name) JESUS! this is a brilliant idea we shall be rich every man/woman (i don’t judge i know some girls like porn don’t pretend you don’t) will love seeing a presumably once attractive woman wearing a alien suite that looks like dry dog shit and getting fucked by a family!

brilliant i really don’t have much more to say really I’m still in a state of shock don’t ask me how i found this i really don’t know,needless to say it didn’t do much for my penis but it made my eyes cry with laughter

///I think that sums it up for this week///

here is your fact for the day! omgzzz!1110neone!

I once worked for Hugh grants P.A. for 15 1/4 minutes till he spoke to me for the first time and i ran at him and punched the smug cunt for playing the exact same role in every single film he has ever stared in and milking the goofy British stereotype so all Amerasians think we have mop hairs and wear suites telling frumpy women we love them.

///goodnight Internet///

Oh what a beautiful morning

England is cold and damp for a reason. Us Brits (yes, I’m speaking on behalf of every single one of you in this country) can’t take this weather. We are pale and moan the moment a ray of sunshine above 25 degree’s let’s it’s self known.

BUT, fear not. If like me you can’t stand his muggy humidity, have a listen to Norse Horse.

Whilst doing my weekly check on the brilliant No Pain In Pop website, I find three songs by these California natives.

Think Beach Boy’s surf guitars, looping percussive sound and psychedelic harmonizing vocal and you get something like Norse Horse. At this moment in time the band has no releases, but a CDR/Tape (out on Family Tree) and split 7″ (out on La Station Radar) will be showing their mind bending self very soon.

Head over to either No Pain In Pop or the bands MySpace to have a listen to what is the perfect music for this disgusting weather.

bye

Jack of all trades, Master of every single one

One evening after a long day in the city, my girlfriend – like she always does, was reading her weekly gossip publication. In said publication this week was the ‘100 Sexiest Men Alive’. Featuring it’s normal lot of Hollyoaks heart throbs, up’n’coming soon to be Hollywood A-listers, I was surprised to hear the reaction to one of the men featured. “Who the fuck is that?!?” shout’s Charlotte pointing to a Charles Manson esq. looking picture of Vincent Gallo. Now – why the fuck is Vincent Gallo, a man who doesn’t like publicity (if he does he aint very social) in a British fucking gossip mag?!?!

Gallo is someone who I’d say I aspire to be… the bloke is full a full on bad ass. Don’t give too fucks what he does, as long as it’s something he is passionate about.

Saying that, as I am a obsessive fan, I have pretty much all his films, records, bootlegs of live gigs and read pretty much everything on the internet about him.

He has the leading role in the new feature length by Francis Ford Coppola titled ‘Tetro’. I’ll write something about that later.

Anyway, off to listen to ‘When’…. nighty night

bye

My recent obsession with being distant

Like always, I think and dream too much. It’s one of those things few – or many do, but speak very little of it, do every second of their live’s… everyday I say to Charlotte “you know what I wanna do?…”, the list is endless. But for many years now I have been contemplating writing a screen play, short story of something to do with the film medium or story writing world(s).

Sitting in St James’ park on the day before the hottest day on British weather records, I was with a few friends drinking some rum and cherry coca-cola and listening to them talk. Listening talk about their passion in life, It got me wanting to write. Like I said – I don’t know what it would be, a screenplay or short story. But It got me talking to my mate and asking if he would be up for drawing a story that I’d think up (see his stuff here).

So as we speak, whilst listening to my recently made Michael Jackson playlist (‘Man In The Mirror’ is blasting right now) I’m blueprinting ideas for something. Think High Fidelity, a much better version of that shit film the kid from Super Bad made ‘Nick and Norah’s infinite indie band name dropping 90 minute excuse of what hollywood like to call ‘indie’ film and the greatest of them all Mr. Wes Anderson.

bye