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Archive for October, 2009

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Lamour Supreme Art Show @ Super7 Recap

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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Last night was Lamour Supreme’s opening at Super7 and Kaiju Chronicle has the scoop on the evening’s recap. That’s Lamour Supreme (sometimes known as L’amour Supreme… he says either/or, it doesn’t matter) in what looks like a mexican wrestling mask. But it’s actuality a Shocker costume from the 70′s japanese kid’s series, Kamen Rider. We brought this costume back for Lamour from Japan per special request. Think of a Shocker as the evil spawn of Nazis and Luche Libre.

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Here’s a custom painted glow-in-the-dark Bootleg Kaiju that Lamour did for the show! One of two custom Bootlegs. I think he may have also done a few custom Boogie Men, but I’m not finding any images.

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Besides custom painted Kaiju, Lamour also had drawings and paintings up at the show. Is this a future Мишка graphic? I honestly have no clue. Lamour likes to draw Simon a lot and slip in our name… he also likes to laminate every single thing he draws for some odd reason. I think he’s single-handedly keeping Kinko’s lamination business alive on long Island.

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Here is Greg and Super7 mastermind Brian Flynn. I see a camera around Greg’s neck so maybe they’ll be another recap?

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Here’s a ridiculously sick custom painted RealxHead Fortune Cat. I think this is the first time I’ve seen a Fortune Cat I had to have.

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And finally here’s the man of the hour unmasked in front of some of his work. Lamour is rocking the special tee we did with Lamour & Super7 for the event. The design was loosely based off of a graphic from San Fran Punk legends, Crime.

Head over to Kaiju Chronicle’s Flickr for more photos!

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Jasmine Solano Lookin’ Good in Мишка Leggings!

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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Ever since I caught her at The Future is Frank CMJ showcase I’ve been on a kick to find out more about  Jasmine Solano. In my hunt I came across Jasmine actually rockin’ the Keep Watch leggings. Good Looking Women + Talent + Spandex = HOLLA!

These photos were actually taken awhile back in July, at the Budweiser Battle for the Crown competition. An event hosted by Ed Lover and Vashtire at the well-known Santos Party house on Lafayette St in Manhattan.

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The competition consisted of 10 of NYC’s best-unsigned talent, live, for a spot at this years Rock the Bells event in Manhattan. Jasmine Solano, went up against 9 dudes… Each artist performed one track. She tied with 2 dudes for the final round. The finalists had to then perform a freestyle for the audience to decide the winner. And what do you know? Jasmine won off the freestyle and got a spot opening up for Nas, The Roots, Damian Marley & Common.

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Keep Watch for Jasmine Solano in the next year doin’ BIG things!

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Bloglin Weekly Round-Up!

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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• The release party for the Mishka 2010 Calendar was a success! A big thank you to Ellen Stagg and all of the models! You can check out photos and recaps here, or if you prefer a creepier recap, check out Toilet Cobra’s reflections on the party. There are also photos from the event up at DrivenByBoredom and Nicky Digital. And head over to Time Out New York to check out some outtakes from the calendar. Boing!

• The Star Wars Trench Run app for the iPhone looks fresh and had us reminiscing about the classic Star Wars Arcade Game. Aim for the AT’s neck!

• The Spike Jonze video for Kanye’s “We Were Once a Fairytale” has a puppet demon thing and that’s good enough for me.

• Crook posted the above video which is now officially my favorite drunk guy in a convenient store video of all time.

• Cobra also posted a grip of photos and a video from the Ninjasonik show at Don Pedro’s.

• Twerps! and Crook are back from Japan! Check out some photos here and hit up the Flickr page for tons more! Exclamation point!

• Aaand here are the highest scoring reviews from the week: Logos from Atlas Sound, From the Womb to the Tomb from Maim, Fleurs from Former Ghosts, Breathing the Fire from Skeleton Witch, and Declaration of Dependence from Kings of Convenience.

• We can’t close out the week without taking another look at the feel god picture of the year. F’yer health!

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Digging For Fire Vol. 58: Swirlies – Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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4 Boston elementary (or was it kindergarten?) teachers started their musical careers as a Go-Go’s cover band before eventually transforming into shoegazers, the Swirlies. These guys are one of my favorite bands from the 90s who are unfortunately all but forgotten whenever the discussion turns to Shoegaze and/or Dream-Pop… while most fo the big acts were taking a stab at commercial success by that point in the 90s, Swirlies to me were truly the last and best band to wave Gazer flag proudly.

Early in their career teh Swirlies pretty much wore their influences on their sleeves releasing a few singles (eventually collected on  the EP, What to Do About Them) that had a heavy My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Slowdive & Sonic Youth influences. By the time they released their debut album in 1993, Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, While still openly influenced by those bands, The Swirlies were very much starting to craft their own particular style of shoegaze. They didn’t shy away from experimental side of things and loved parring long and abrasive spells noise against sweet and delicate dream-pop melodies. They started incorporated tape-loops and all sorts of keyboards along with one of the best guitar sounds of the 90s (The guitars are always just slightly untuned) in carving out what would become a pretty signature sound. As their career went on, the synth and various electronic elements would take a more prominent role for the band. This is best exhibited on their terrific follow-up, They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days…

Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, still stands as one of my favorite albums of that era. A snapshot of the collison between 90s stalwarts, Shoegaze, Indie Rock and even a little of burgeoning impact of electronica. This is a criminally overlooked and under-appreciated band, especially right now!

Swirlies – Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

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Jerkoffapalooza: The Day the Mishka Creepatorium Got Creepy-Crawled!

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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Other people have already blogged about this celebration of naked bitch-ography but their reports were all kind of chaste considering that everyone was standing around staring at nude photos. I wanted to fuck every woman at that place, especially Mikhail Bortnik and Mike Jones’s girlfriends. I even wanted to pork Shark a little bit. He smells like a woman and I bet he’s got a vadge. I just bet. Basically there were like fifteen to twenty women and a whole lot of horny, sweaty disgusting dudes. As you can see in the photo above I was so excited to meet the naked ladies that I was gnawing the fucking table apart.

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This is Miguel. He was also excited about the nakedity. I’ve never dated a girl with a complicated vagina like this. They all had pretty simple anime girl vaginas. Is this kind of vagina something that only porn ladies have? I don’t know. Maybe it’s cause I don’t date girls over a certain age. It’s nineteen. Women above the age of nineteen have complicated expectations of me and complicated vaginal wrinkles. A younger woman won’t object to my Star Wars collections or lack of interest in her thoughts and feelings.

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These dudes were all horny too. One of them tried to jerk off to my calendar while I was holding it. There was a lot of heavy testicles at 350 Broadway that evening. Those testicles were heavy with sperm.

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This is Justine Joli. How cute is this woman? And how cute am I? Probably of equal cuteness. She’s got a smile like a cartoon cat. I would like to bone her a whole bunch and so would everybody else. Did you see her page in the calendar? Good lord, she’s like a sexy cartoon bunny come to life. I looked at her website and it first tells you that she’s the world’s hottest geek, which is a lie. That title belongs to Seth Green. Next this video starts where she’s a sexy ghost and says in this scary whisper “Do you want me?” like she’s about to eat your soul. You should check out her site but be prepared to be set upon by sexy apparitions.

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This is Carrie. If you go to a Mishka event she will most likely be dressed like this giving out beers like this. She kinda looks like Dita Von Teese. If you run into her tell her I said hello and ask her to give you a little tiny beer.

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Who should show up but Jahjah and Gavin. These guys are everywhere you want to be like Visa. Them and C-Los. How do those guys go to everything there is to do, every time, everywhere? I never not see them when I leave the house. Here they are giving the salute.

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Oh wait, did I say Seth Green is the World’s sexiest geek? It might actually be Mike Jones, whose tummy his belongs to.

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Here’s Ease Demon with me and Jessie Lee, one of the naked calendar ladies. Why wasn’t she naked in this photo? It seems like she would have been. Still, good stance. Nice legs.

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Look at how packed the store is. Look at Gill’s goofy face. She’s a funny lady. I like her but she won’t give me the time of day. Maybe she’ll notice me after I ask her to be my wife right now in this blog post. “Gill will you marry me?”

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This is Nicole with Igor.

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This is me with Nicole. All face holes filled.

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This is Arka and her friend. They are pretty cute. I want to bone them both.

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Ellen Stagg is really tall. She looks like one of the elven women from Lord of the Rings when you meet her in real life.

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Look at how happy I am! Ellen might be one of the prettiest white women I have ever met.

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Until next time, Mishkateers.

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San Francisco Sample Sale is a Go!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

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Its day 2 of the Free Gold Watch, Rebel 8, Mishka Sample Sale here in San Francisco. If you haven’t made your way over just yet then get your ass over here immediately… Tons-O-Deals! This is one of the most organized Mishka sample sales that we have ever done, Its almost like a store within a store. The other guys have great deals as well. And while a lot got ravaged on day one, there is still plenty of goodies still left, like…

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…Are those Holiday 09 flannel shirts that I spy?

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For all of those asking… Yes, we did bring some Keep Watch cushions.

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We also brought some of our 2010 Calenders shot by Ellen Stagg!

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If you don’t get here quick this guy said he is going to tickle me to death! So hurry!

Free Gold Watch

1767 Waller St. (behind Amoeba records on Haight)
Saturday 12 – 7
Sunday 12 – 6
415-876-4444

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Dollhouse Re-Up: Belonging

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

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Dollhouse does all of the viewers this week a solid and let’s know what cannot be wiped away with your mind when you’re placed in that crazy-ass chair: Love. Yes, love. Just when despair has reached the average Dollhouse viewer and dragged us down to her dungeon, things actually get worse.

This is the back story of a character you don’t care about: Sierra was a totally amazing painter, or something. But then she meets Crazy Rapist With Tenuous Ties to the Rossum Corporation. Crazy Rapist commissions her to draw a shitty painting so he can make the intercourse with her. She doesn’t accept his advances, so he somehow poisons her brain, resulting in her going to some sort of insane asylum. The Dollhouse picks her up there to “save her”, which then allows Crazy Rapist to rent her out every week.

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At some crazy point, Frank Lundy from Dexter stops by. He must be investigating some serious shit in Los Angeles. Dollhouse goes down as the worst show with the best guest stars ever.

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Somehow, and without me really understanding why, the pre-Dollhouse Sierra is restored, and gets to Crazy Rapist’s house. She then stabs him a zillion times and he’s all dead and shit. Boyd rolls up, and he makes a phone call to “The Goose” to get the still-bleeding corpse disappeared. It was a painful homage to The Wolf from Pulp Fiction.

Eventually Sierra decides to get put back into the Dollhouse, but she’s reassured that her love for Victor is totally real. That’s because during the episode they run around holding hands as Dolls, and she remembers him once she’s restored, despite having never known him! So even though she’s going to be some old greasy dude’s random slam-thing, it’s cool, because she has some righteous bond with some guy she doesn’t know. Love guys, it’s fucking legit.

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Serious Saturdays #13

Saturday, October 24th, 2009


Afrojack – Music Is Magic (Magic Mix)


Crookers + Congorock – Sbomberz


Koan Sound – Mafia (Trillbass Remix)


Doctor P – Sweet Shop


Bat For Lashes – Daniel (Duke Dumont Remix)

Bonus:
The XX – Fact Mix 70

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CMJ Round 3: Chronic Youth Presents Bane!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

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YES! Bane are still together! Thanks to Chronic Youth (crew) I can relive the better days of Posi-Hardcore. Bane now definitely in their 30s, still brings the same outlook and heavy riffs after 4 albums. Not much to say but put your hoods up high, make sure you stretch and… SEE YA IN THE PIT!

Chronic Youth + Deathwish CMJ Showcase Featuring:
• Bane
• Blacklisted
• Cold World
• Foundation,
• Maximum Penalty
• The Banner
• Incendiary

Saturday, October 24th 2pm
Santo’s Party House
96 Lafayette St
New York, NY
$17 at the Door
All Ages

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International Party Bombs!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

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Paris: Booty Call

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UK: Deadly Rhythm

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Japan: Numbers

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Canada: Faktory

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