The following comment was left on the site last night, by someone who attended the Shadow. So… I gotta say, how fucking awesome was that science teacher-looking guy, with the tall socks and white hair, playing that face-melting punk??? I need to see them play again. Shadow was a great time, y’all never disappoint. The […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged acid, Acid Attack, Acid Bath, Andy Claydon, Emmett Brown, grindcore, hardcore, Hitler mustaches, Ian Fulcher, MarkMaynard.com, Minus9, MM.com stuff, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Monarchs |
By Mark | October 29, 2011
On Thursday night, if you watched The Office, you heard the music of the Ann Arbor-based noise band Wolf Eyes. The piece used, entitled The Driller, was released by Sub Pop in 2006. I’ve asked Nate what other sitcoms he’d like to produce music for, but I’ve yet to receive a response. Speaking of Wolf […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Aaron Dilloway, Halloween, John Olson, Mike Connelly, Nate Young, noise, sitcoms, soundtracks, Sub Pop, The Driller, trick-or-treating, Wolf Eyes |
I just made my last trip to the airport. All the guys from the Monkey Power Trio are now gone, and, as is always the case, the anxiety – which I feel during each session – is giving way to depression. It’s great to see everyone, and to spend a day making music, but I […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged anarchy, Anarchy is Stupid, Andrew WK, Andy Claydon, Blank Generation, CBGB, Couch, Flying Bomb, Henry Rollins, huffing, Ivan Kral, Japan, Kneecap Deep, Laughing Hyenas, Leon Bernstein, Monarchs, Patti Smith, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Ramones, Savoy, Tap Room, television, Ultra Fuckers, Ween, Zip Code Rapists |
I don’t know that he’s directly responsible for “rocking” churches and introducing Satanism to the people of Malawi, but I find it interesting that, after my friend Pete had spent a week there, this is the headline that would grace the front page of the nation’s largest paper. Pete, for those of you who don’t […]
By Mark | September 9, 2009
My friend Pete Larson, a brilliant musician who turned his back on rock and roll in order accept his fate and become a scientist, just returned from Japan, where he wrote the following. I thought some of you with mask fetishes might enjoy it. While the 2009 H1N1 flu has been written off by the […]
Posted in Health, Ideas, Other | Also tagged 1918 flu, 25 Suaves, antibacterial, antiseptic filter, bathroom cleaners, bird flu, burqa substitutes, Dorf, ebola, flu, H1N1, herbal aroma, Japan, Japanese products, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, Malawi, mask fetishes, Napoleon, Osaka, Pete Larson, public health, rock opera, school closure, science fiction flavors, swine flu, the oral cavity, throat disinfectants, virus, Washlet |
