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35 lb. bag of vomit left in parking lot

aaron cohen — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:27:23 +0000

There aren't really any words for this.

He estimated that about 35 pounds of vomit was in the package discovered June 5 and stated that a similar package was left in the same spot the week before.

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Full Ol’ Dirty Bastard documentary on Hulu

aaron cohen — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:59:56 +0000

Dirty: One Word Can Change The World is available for viewing on Hulu. Here's a description from a review:

Dirty effectively straddles the fine line of paying homage to an artist while still examining his negative attributes. Although one of ODB's children, son Barson, makes an apperance, noticeably absent are his other children and their mothers, who would obviously have a different, perhaps more demeaning perspective of him. But this omission is understandable, since the mothers have most likely moved on and probably want to stay away from the public scrutiny that comes from being involved with someone as controversial as the Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Thanks, Seth!

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Investigative Look at Nitrous Mafia

aaron cohen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:27:58 +0000

I was almost certain I'd written about this here before, but I can't seem to find anything. The article of the week has to be this long investigative look at the northeast nitrous scene. I can't recommend the article highly enough.

If you've been to a big concert or festival in the last 10 years or so, specifically a jam band, you've seen the dudes selling nitrous balloons and the crowd around them. The nitrous tanks earn BIG money, and because of that, they're run by folks willing to do anything to protect them. I was a tour manager for a long time (which I'll hopefully write about sometime), and the Philly Gas Mob was always a presence at festivals. I doubt I'd be fascinated by this topic if I hadn't actually seen them around. We used to talk about the Philly Gas Mob as a mythical idea. We knew there was some organization to it, but no one really knew anything about it. It was violent and a problem by the time we stopped touring, and it's just gotten worse now, and more out in the open.

The whole article is hilarious in that, "Wait, this really happens?" kind of way.

Nitrous is called "hippie crack" because of its addictive qualities. Every morning, the festival campgrounds are riddled with balloons, "like bullet shells on a battlefield," says a fan. Unlike traditional drugs, which have long-lasting effects and can carry a fan through a concert, the high from N20 is cheap and quick. After that, it's often back to the end of the tank line for another round. "It's an instant rush of pure euphoria, but it only lasts for 30 seconds or a minute, and then you want it back," says Justin Heller, a fan who owns his own biodiesel company. He no longer does balloons, but remembers the days of buying 15 in a row. "You don't think about your money—you're just like, 'I want that again, I want that again, I want that again.' "

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Cokie The Clown at SXSW

aaron cohen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:43:03 +0000

Fat Mike from NOFX performed at SXSW and... well, read the review. There are a couple ways to get attention. This is one of them.

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Artist Gets Probation for Building Secret Mall Apartment

Hipsters vs Hasidim

aaron cohen — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:44:50 +0000

This is a bit old, but apparently there is a passive aggressive war going on in Brooklyn. Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn got the city to paint over bike lanes in on certain streets in their neighborhoods and hipsters repainted the lines. The Hasidim say it's a safety issue and the bikers ignore pedestrians and traffic laws, the hipsters say the Hasidim don't like seeing women in shorts. Objectively, I think the Hasidim aren't arguing in good faith. The way you get bikers to follow traffic laws is to get the cops to enforce them, not by making the roadways less safe for bikers. Apparently, the hipsters had a naked bike ride planned to further antagonize the situation, but a recent blizzard forced them to bundle up some. Oy.

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One Reason the Giant Garbage Island in the Pacific Sucks

aaron cohen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:40:43 +0000

If you haven't ever seen pictures of dead baby birds with tons of plastic in their stomachs, click through here. These photographs, by Chris Jordan (Running the Numbers), were taken 2K miles from the nearest continent, but close enough to the giant fucking pile of plastic shit that swirls out by Hawaii. Oh and by the way, there's another one off of Japan, too. One problem with a giant fucking pile of plastic shit twice the size of Texas and more than 30 feet deep is adult birds fly over it looking for food. When they see a tasty looking bottle cap, they scoop it up and feed it to their babies. Then the pictures linked to above happen. Take a look.

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The Crooked Vultures – Led Zeppelin + Nirvana + QOTSA

aaron cohen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:11:48 +0000

What do you get when you combine someone from Queens of the Stone Age, someone from Nirvana/ Foo Fighters and someone from Led FREAKING Zeppelin? You get The Crooked Vultures:

In a 2005 interview with Mojo magazine, Grohl confirmed the roles would be the most logical ones: “The next project that I’m trying to initiate involves me on drums, Josh Homme on guitar, and John Paul Jones playing bass. That’s the next album. That wouldn’t suck.” So the only question remaining is who would be singing. Speculation runs rampant, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

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Sick Pug Arrested on Subway

aaron cohen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:55:17 +0000

Woman with pug apparently assaulted by misogynistic cop.

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Konami (Contra) Code on ESPN.com RIGHT NOW.

aaron cohen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:24:08 +0000

Update: And just like that it appears that the happy magic is over. All 30 lives have been extinguished.

If you go to ESPN.com and enter in the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a enter), you'll get unicorns. Lots of them. This is amazing. It felt good to use the Contra Code again, though I think I got less than 30 unicorns.

A couple years ago you could log into ESPN Insiders by using the first name of a 2 name college as the user name and the second name as the pass word, for instance Login: Boston Password: College. I don't know if that was a feature, a bug, or user error, but it doesn't happen anymore.

Via Twitter

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Live Thorns of Life Music Download

aaron cohen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:22:00 +0000

This Thorns of Life live at 924 Gilman Street recording isn't anything to sneeze at, but if you're dying to hear what Blake Schwarzenbach's new band sounds like, these MP3s do the trick. Sounds good to me and I can't wait to hear more. 3 interviews with Blake: here, here, and here. (Thanks again, Seth!)

Edited to add another bonus. 4 tracks from Thorns of Life show at Bar Pink. Again, iffy quality, better than nothing.

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Tracy Morgan Meltdown (Think Christian Bale)

aaron cohen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:59:57 +0000

Obviously, I've listened to this 50 times already. (Thanks, Seth!)

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The Thorns of Life Music Videos – Brooklyn

aaron cohen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:33:09 +0000

I think these are from last night's show, but can't confirm it. It's not much, but below are the first notes of The Thorns of Life music to hit the web. Nice work, lyssarella and thanks to my bro for the links. Can we please get some official news?

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Blake Schwarzenbach’s New Band – The Thorns of Life?

aaron cohen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:35:56 +0000

Ripping through the internet over the last couple days is word that Blake Schwarzenbach debuted a new band on Saturday, November 8th at the Jerk House in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The band features Aaron Cometbus (Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder among others) on drums and Daniela Sea (The L Word) on bass. It's not totally clear if the band has a name, and there doesn't seem to be anyone on the internet yet who actually saw the band perform.

Heavy breathing internet speculation leads the netizens to believe the band is called The Thorns of Life. This because Schwarzenbach's Facebook image says the same and because he is currently defending his masters thesis on Percy Bysshe Shelly whose poem "Ode to the West Wind" features the line (emphasis his) "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"

In an unsubstantiated quotation, Schwarzenbach describes the band as such, "I can say only that it's loud and tender and we're called the Thorns Of Life. whether it's more Jetsesque or Breaker-like I honestly don't know; It sounds like a storehouse of fond hatred from the last few years and in the now."

I'm going to take a cold shower for a week. To say this is exciting is an understatement.

Pic by Brooklyn DIY

(Hat tip to Brooklyn DIY, pop punk bored, Complete Jawbreaker Cigarbox Guitars, and Punknews)

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