So, in my quest to catch up on stuff around the house I decided I was going to take a new self portrait. Problem was, due to all of the sugar and drinks I had when I got home today, I couldn’t sit still. I snapped way too many random photos and came up with this:

I’m awesome.

Just sayin’

Nikko

Listen to The End Unplugged On Demand Here

6a
Bush – Little Things
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts
Presidents of the USA – Some Postman
Secret Machines – Lightning Blue Eyes
Foo Fighters – Best of You
Alice in Chains – Got Me Wrong
Kate Nash – Foundations
Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger
Bad Religion – Won’t Somebody
The White Stripes – Conquest
Pearl Jam – Gone
Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
Vitamin String Quartet – Just Like Heaven

7a
Blind Melon – No Rain
The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?
Does It Offend You, Yeah?  – Dawn of the Dead
Meat Puppets – Backwater
Live – Lightning Crashes
Modest Mouse – Float On (Bluegrass style)
Weezer – Island in the Sun
Placebo – Meds
Gary Jules – Mad World
No Doubt – Excuse Me Mr
Coldplay – Lovers in Japan
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Radiohead – Knives Out
R.E.M. – The One I Love
Stabbing Westward – What Do I Have to Do?
Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
Killers – Smile Like You Mean It

Mr Poe had creeped me out by writing about birds in The Raven and now it’s been escalated to the next level. Saw this video while perusing The Stranger:

Is that bird really talking?
What would you teach it to say?
Ever eaten a raven?

:E GregR

Damn it! 2009 – YOU SUCK!

Stop killing celebrities with your odd-number-ness. According to TMZ DJ AM, also know as Adam Goldstein, was found dead in NYC this morning. TMZ

His final tweet from Twitter:
“New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems.”

Spoooooooky

In the first four guitar hero games Seattle grunge icon Kurt Cobain has never made an appearence – seriously?

Does Courtney make money from using the likeness of Kurt? How much money does it cost to license his image? It’s not like he was known for wearing designer t shirts or $300 jeans – he wore flannel and sweaters with holes and designed his own shirts with markers – so that shouldn’t stand in the way.

Finally, Kurt has been pixelated and is one of the playable characters in Guitar Hero 5. His mouth looks huge!

Doesn’t his mouth look huge?
How big is your mouth?
Can you fit your fist in there?
Can I fit my fist in there?

:E GregR

Right now you can enter to win a chance to see a small acoustic performance from a new LA band we’ve been playing called The After Midnight Project.

PLUS, if you bring a guitar, the guys will give you a quick lesson

We’re calling it alterna school.

If you want to enter to win, sign up here

(we’re doing our best to get everyone in, so your chances are good

It seems as if some major IKEA backlash has begun due to the company changing the font of their logo.  Yes, this is a real thing

It’s previous typeface, a customized version of Futura, has been with the company for quite some time. However, with its 2010 catalogue, the worlds largest user of particleboard, has switched to the racy and controversial: Verdana.

Naturally, it has provoked an instantaneous global backlash, the kind that is reserved for nerds with to much time on their hands via the Internet.

From Twitter (and Time.com)

“Ikea, stop the Verdana madness!”
- Tokyo’s Oliver Reichenstein

“Words can’t describe my disgust,”
- Ben Cristensen of Melbourne.

“Horrific,” says Christian Hughes in Dublin.

An online forum called Typophile says, “It’s a sad day.”

It was only a matter of time before an online petition started to get Ikea to change its mind and in one final blow to humanity, Verdana was a top trending topic on Twitter, drawing more tweets than Ted Kennedy.

I quit

If The End wanted me to do something like this

I would say no.

(also, is it just me, or does their sign have terrible grammar?)

The Foo Fighters have “officially” announced that they will release a ‘Best Of’ album this year.

They kept the title simple: ‘Greatest Hits’, will come out on November 2 and will feature 2 new songs

The first new track ‘Wheels’ was premiered at President Obama’s July 4 barbecue at the White House, while ‘Word Forward’ was also recorded especially for the compilation.

Other songs include: ‘The Pretender’, ‘All My Life’, ‘Learn To Fly’, ‘Best Of You’, ‘Times Like These’, ‘My Hero’ and ‘Everlong’ among others, with the full tracklisting set to be confirmed soon.

If the Velvet Underground is one of those bands whose name you have heard, whose artwork you recognize, but whose music you don’t really know. Do yourself a favor & take the time to investigate and buy a record.  They are one of the best.

You might also want to check this out:

A new book about The Velvet Underground is coming out September 15th.

It’s called The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side and using words and photos, retraces the history of the group in its 192-pages.

The book will help mark the band’s 45th anniversary.