By Mark | February 17, 2013 I received a cryptic message a few days ago from an anonymous source, telling me that I had to immediately retain an attorney and protect my intellectual property from the evil Korean CEO of Samsung. I wrote it off as the ranting of a delusional reader, as it’s not uncommon for me to receive paranoid [...]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, being ripped the fuck off, CHI&Partners, Fox Sports, Melissa Dettloff, Nathan DeYonker, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, selling out, severed unicorn head superstore, unicorns, WCBN | By Mark | August 18, 2011 It’s being reported that the city of Montreal, though its tourism board, has paid the advertising company Sid Lee $6 million to oversee a multimedia tourist attraction campaign featuring a menagerie of fanciful hybrid creatures such as the “deerus” (half deer, half walrus) and the “squirrog” (half squirrel, half frog). The idea, we’re told, is [...]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged advertising, advertising campaign, deerus, fabulous creatures, fanciful fauna, Huron River, menagerie, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Montreal, Planet of the Apes is Real, Sid Lee, smeet, squirrog, Tourisme Montreal, tridge, urban legends | This guy that I know is putting together a show at the Dreamland Theater next Thursday night, and, as it involves a band that I feel as though I should probably know, I thought that I’d pass it along. The band is M.O.T.O. (Masters Of The Obvious), and, according to what I’m told, they’ve been [...]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Captain Beefheart, crystallized penis, Dreamland Theater, I Hate My Fuckin Job, John Peel, Kill M.O.T.O.!, M.O.T.O., Magic Words, Masters Of The Obvious, Mike Shecket, Monet, New Orleans, No Way Street, Paul Caporino, posts where Mark comes across as an uncool douche, punk, punk rock, punks, Raw Power, schoolyard scatology, sexual juvenilia, Single File, Tokyo No Records | By Mark | November 4, 2009 Not nearly as good as the Monkey Power Trio sauna pants infomercial, but interesting.
By Mark | October 18, 2009 Too bad no paparazzi were around to see it, but I just ran in to Daniel Johnston at the Detroit Metro airport, capping off a great rock and roll weekend…. More later.
