Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

What did you get for Christmas!
C'mon, whad ya get?
I got a DVD player for one, and a brand new fryin pan too!

Merry Christmas dear Studio Eighters, despite this cracked up world, Merry Christmas!

Smooches,
Hest

I got a Ansel Adams calender,a shower curtain,two wooden spoons for cooking purposes,a towel bar and a couple of rugby shirts. WHEEEEE!!!!
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Mercedes Benz O370

merry christmas da girl.....look what I got... http://www.weldingmart.com/Qstore/p000014.htm for my outdoor sculpture explorations......but the greatest gift of all was the music and the feast carole jean and I had with the lonely boys,
we sure did have a good time........mark

A hangover. Why?

Two cd's (Green Day and Flogging Molly), socks, and some gummi worms.

you know you're getting old when you hear yourself on christmas morning saying excitedly
'All right! I got SOCKS!'

I got socks.
I also got a beautiful book shelf.
And tom waits' latest album.

that latest Tom Waits is an ass-kicker

I got the latest Modest Mouse, and the hat & scarf I'm wearin' in my new pic, and some other clothes, and some chocolate, and a new pair of gloves

Hey I got that Tom Waits album as well!!!!
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banks on watch list

You guys get EVERYTHING!

I used my new frying pan today......hit a bill collector over the head with it! It works great!
el Kabong!
boing
boing
boing
gone!

heh heh

'Hoist That Rag' is his best song since The Black Rider album. The missus mentioned to me as we listened to the new one on christmas morning that Tom's the only artist that's still experimenting. I disagreed, but was hard pressed to come up with many examples to the contrary. Patton was the first to come to mind. not many others though. Claypool...

My favourite on that album is "Shake It," but "Hoist That Rag" is definitely awexome. Marc Ribot's guitar on that one is just excellent

Contemporary artists that experiment...
Well, I can think of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Modest Mouse at the moment, but there's gotta be more.

(well, there's always the Dream & Shadow Huntsman Group...)

i mean REALLY experiment. The yeahyeahyeahs, though i love them, are just rehashing pop rock. Early Elvis Costello wretling with early P.J. Harvey with an occasional disco beat. Like I said, I love it, but it's not terribly experimental. Mike Patton was doing it well for a while. Again, Les Claypool has always got something odd going on, though he also sticks to variations on the standards. Matmos are another that come to mind. Godspeed!You Black Emperor is another. Do Make Say Think also.
I have to give these modest mice a listen.

experimental ain't always the ultimate goal, mark...according to me, anyway...sometimes i just want to take others' songs and make them my own...kind of presumptuous, i suppose

for festivus i got chocolates, socks, sweaters, jeans, a shitty crichton book (State of Fear - it sucks), cedar planks for grilling salmon, and chicken haddies

Chicken haddies???? What are those???? Listening to Tom Waits and loving it!!!! Boxing day was good for you!!!!










"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

- Tom Waits
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grapefruit strain

If you are looking for experimentation, you should look into The Flaming Lips.