paco camino: January 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bullshit or Not! January 18, 2011 Album Releases

Every week dozens of strange bands release CDs with strange titles to attract listeners. Guess which five are legit and which five are bullshit:

1. The Damned Things, Ironiclast
2. Inquisition, Ominous Doctrines of Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
3. Freedom Fashionista, You Could Cross The Delaware With a Wig Like That
4. Clueless Dispshits, You’re Standing On My Hair Asshole
5. Daddy Daredevil, Mommy Motorbike
6. Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Some of Us Are In This Together
7. Dying Fetus, Purification Through Violence
8. Trash Talk, Potty Mouthed
9. Dragged Into Sunlight, Hatred For Mankind
10. Celeste Wind & the Blow Me Orchestra, Crop-Dusting the Mall

Legit!
1. The Damned Things, Ironiclast
2. Inquisition, Ominous Doctrines of Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
6. Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Some of Us Are In This Together
7. Dying Fetus, Purification Through Violence
9. Dragged Into Sunlight, Hatred For Mankind
Bullshit!
3. Freedom Fashionista, You Could Cross The Delaware With a Wig Like That
4. Clueless Dispshits, You’re Standing On My Hair Asshole
5. Daddy Daredevil, Mommy Motorbike
8. Trash Talk, Potty Mouthed
10. Celeste Wind & the Blow Me Orchestra, Crop-Dusting the Mall

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Video Flashback: Rush "Subdivisions," 1982

In the high school halls, in the shopping malls
conform or be cast out
In the basement bars, in the backs of cars
be cool or be cast out

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Decadent Smut: Christina’s Nights, 1977

AN EXOTIC VOYAGE FILLED WITH MYRIAD SENSUAL PLEASURES
That celebrated darling of jet-set sensuality, Christina van Bell, sets out to solve
the enigma of the vanishing vixens. The trail leads from New York to Damascus to
Baghdad to Afghanistan and home to the two men who love her most.