Mr. GARAGELAND

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

The Clash - I Fought The Law



Amazing performance full of energy, passion and presence!

Monday, May 29, 2006

Footballs coming home




Verhaltensregeln für Frauen während der WM 2006


Hausordnung in der Zeit vom 09.06. bis 09.07.06

§ 1 In der Zeit vom 09.06 bis 09.07.06 ist der Mann absoluter Herrscher über
TV-Gerät und dazugehörige Fernbedienung.

§ 2 Die Ehefrau/Freundin beschäftigt sich in dieser Zeit stumm mit häuslichen
Arbeiten.

§ 3 Vor jedem Spiel ist dem Mann eine Kiste mit kühlem Bier neben den
Fernsehsessel zu stellen. Wobei die Betonung auf kühl liegt.

§ 4 Während eines Spieles ist der Frau der Aufenthalt im Fernsehzimmer
strengstens untersagt.

§ 5 In der Halbzeitpause besteht für die Frau ein 15-minütiges
Betretungsrecht, um den Aschenbecher zu leeren und leere Getränkeflaschen
durch frisch gekühlte volle Flaschen zu ersetzen. Bei Bedarf können diverse
Knabbereien gereicht werden. Das Rascheln mit Tüten ist zu unterlassen. Der
Gebrauch verbaler Kommunikation ist zu unterlassen.

§ 6 Spätestens 30 Minuten vor Beginn eines Spieles ist dem Mann eine mit
Liebe zubereitete Mahlzeit zu reichen. Um die mentale Spielvorbereitung des
Mannes nicht zu stören, ist auch in dieser Zeit die Schnatterluke geschlossen
zu halten.

§ 7 Während der WM sind jegliche Handlungen, die der Fortpflanzung dienen könnten, zu unterlassen. Ebenso zu unterlassen ist das Tragen von Kleidung,
die beim Mann das Verlagen nach solchen Handlungen auslösen könnte.

§ 8 Sollte der Mann in seinem Großmut der Frau gestatten, die eine oder
andere Minute einen Blick auf das Spiel zu werfen, sind Zwischenrufe sowie
Fragen, die den fußballtechnischen Intellekt der Frau verraten würden (z.B.:
"Was ist Abseits?") unbedingt zu unterlassen. Mit einem körperlichen Verweis
bewehrt sind solche Bemerkungen wie z. B. "Ach, der Beckham sieht aber heute wieder gut aus."

Liebe Frauen, wenn ihr euch an diese minimalen Verhaltensregeln haltet, wird
es euch euer Mann damit danken, dass er versuchen wird
a) kein Bier zu verschütten
b) nicht jeden Quadratzentimeter im Umkreis von 3 Metern um seinen
Trainerstuhl (= Fernsehsessel) vollzubröseln
c) beim Verzehr der unter § 6 genannten Mahlzeiten euch nicht ständig an
die kulinarischen Fähigkeiten seiner Mutter zu erinnern

Lawrence Welk Meets Velvet Underground


In 1968, The Velvet Underground finally found a large, mainstream audience during a performance on the Lawrence Welk Show.
Mo on the snare, and a rare performance by Sterling on banjo!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Day the world turned DAYGLO



X-Ray-Spex

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Living Statues



A Living Statue, taken in Barcelona.
These guys pose for hours in the same position.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

SPARKS



Coolest keyboarder in town

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Jesus Dress Up Fridge Magnets


Dress up Jesus by dragging the items to him with your mouse. They'll snap right into place! Then you can start over again by clicking the RESET button.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Internet Cartoons




Check this: "Very Funny"

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Roxy Music reform with Brian Eno



They're making a new album

Roxy Music are working on their first album of new material with their original line-up for more than 30 years.
The band's last album was 'Avalon' in 1982, but this new effort will be the first to feature Brian Eno since 1973.
All five original members of the group - Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay, Phil Manzanera, Paul Thompson and Eno are involved, reports Ananova.
The band, who rose to fame in the early Seventies glam rock era, have been recording with producers Rhett Davies and Chris Thomas although no release date for the album has yet been set.
Roxy Music first reunited in 2001, and last year got together for a series of concerts including the Isle Of Wight festival. Eno was not present in the line-up at any of those shows.
More concerts are planned for this year in Europe although dates and venues have yet to be confirmed.
Ferry quit the band in 1983 to go solo, while Eno went onto release his own acclaimed solo albums and become one of the world's most in-demand producers working with U2, Talking Heads and James among others.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Museum of Bad Album Covers



An exquisite, handpicked selection of some of the worst Album covers ever.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Hipshakin´n´ dirty....



A show I´m doing at the end of the month

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Classic Python

Arguement Clinic

Cut `N` Paste


Artist, Situationist, druid, activist, Jamie Reid is the man who cut-and-pasted the Punk movement of the late 70's. Responsible for the Sex Pistols legendary 'Never Mind the Bollocks' artwork, Reid is the man that put the safety pin through Her Majesty's lower lip.
Loved and loathed, he visually epitomised the D.I.Y punk ethic with his own form of visual anarchy. Reid's unique re-mixing of 1960's imagery with 1970's Punk ethic creates an unsurpassed anarchistic feel.

The Nation's Favourite Lyric.



MTV is searching for the nation's favourite lyric!
Choose from 100 pre selected selections!

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

AFTER THE GIG



The Wonderful world of Bryce

Another example of what happens when I spend trillions of hours submerged in this awesome software.

Album covers, That rip off other album covers. part II





Dead Boys live at CBGB´s 1977



A tune that still Rocks, check the BIG Badges !!!

Michael Chabon



In the rapturous, panoramic novel by the author of "Wonder Boys," two midcentury comic book writers battle evil and celebrate escape in all its forms.

Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle´s it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope, and a comic-book superhero is born.

Check: Kavalier & Clay

Create next years oscar winning movie!

Beginners Choice - by A. Newcomer

Set in the not-too-distant future, and during a second Holocaust, a mentally handicapped black man with a funny voice (morgan freeman) makes friend's with a young gay, HIV positive, struggling writer falsely accused of paedophilia (jude law). The young gay man is represented by a charismatic female lawyer (emily watson) who is being sexually harrassed by her sleazy and racist boss (hugh grant.) emily watson has cause to concern regarding her daughter Charlie too (maggie gyllenhaal) who is considering a sex change. in a cleverly interwoven plot, using all the skills you have ever been embarrassed to see a director use, these individuals lives are connected through coincidence. Charlie (now charles) has her sex change op. and it is a success. hugh grant is also fired from his job. meanwhile, the case goes to trial, HOWEVER, it seems that the guilt of the young gay man has already been pre-decided in the Trial by Media that follows. They demand the death penalty!Morgan Freeman, through a combination of charm and naivety, manages to track down the real paedophile (played to perfection by Christopher Walken) and understands that the man is really quite confused and sensitive underneath. Ultimately, however, Truth prevails. It ends with Jude Law being acquitted of the paedophilia charges after a riveting jury-deliberation scene (that guy from Sideways playing Head Juror.) it thus seems that alls well that ends well. Jude Law, however, ultimately and tragically contracts fully blown AIDS. It seems that the big nasty pharmaceutical corporations have refused to allow him to try out a new and improved drug to control the HIV because he cannot afford to pay for it. He thus commits suicide just as the Holocaust ends. emily watson, maggie Gyllenhall and Morgan Freeman discover and weep over his decomposing body as frogs fall from the sky and the end credits roll on screen. The soundtrack is composed by Chris martin.
THE MORAL: racism, sexism, the death penalty, greedy pharmaceutical companies and the Holocaust are BAD, paedophiles are people too, and gay people, transsexuals and the mentally ill are GOOD.

Now it's your turn.Yes, I was bored

The Last Gang in Town



Emmmm !! those were the days !!!!

NU - Krautrock



Frankensteins Ballet´s first "offerings" (demo1) (demo2) (demo3)
A project featuring Damo Suzuki´s tour drummer & Guitarist, Embryo´s bass man etc.

Check: http://www.frankensteinsballet.de/

Album covers, That rip off other album covers



And,



"Lazy" or "Cool" ????

Monday, March 06, 2006

BIGFOOT



The only scientific research organization exploring the bigfoot / sasquatch mystery.

BPM



Move your mouse over the heart & "Pump up the Volume"

Kidney Bingo´s



Have you been thinking about putting yourself up for sale lately?
Ever wonder how much money you could get on the open human market? HumanForSale.com will attempt to place a value on your life using a variety of criteria in 4 basic facets of life (physical,mental,lifestyle,personality). This is obviously a very subjective matter and is not intended and does not claim to be scientifically accurate. The more honestly you answer the questions, the more realistic the dollar value returned will be.

EATER



You want punk? Check these boys out..................................................
Real vintage punk. No Seditionaries posing in expensive threads.
Just off the streets, straight outta school, punk rock’n’roll in its rawest form.

Queen bitch .... Mp3

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Art for Artists

The Skycar





Well somebody had to do it someday !!!!!, Check this:

Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen.
You've always known it was just a matter of time before the world demanded some kind of flying machine which would replace the automobile. Of course, this machine would have to be capable of VTOL, be easy to maintain, cost effective and reliable. Well Moller International believe they have come up with the solution.

Something for sleepless nights




You'll play with this strange but cool program for hours if you're not careful.

Weird & Different Recipes



Hours of fun with:
Bert Christensen's Special Collection of Dishes to Tempt Your Palate.

Friday, March 03, 2006

And now for something compleatly different



Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when
your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

You've never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.

Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits
55378008 into a calculator

Kick Out The Jams



MC5 - (Beat Club 1972)

Deep and informative

Now you can explain to your kids what type of music you enjoy.

Adult Alternative
Adult Alternative was born in the mid-1990s, when the Alternative Rock and Grunge styles were the most popular rock styles. New artists appears, influenced by alternative bands, that were targeting the adult audiences with a music that was not too loud, nor threatening.
(Counting crows, Cake, Tori amos, Alanis morisette, Matchbox twenty, Aimee mann).
Alternative Country
Music inspired by traditional Country but with a rock vision and sometimes louder guitars.
(Cowboy junkies, Giant sound, Uncle tupelo).
Alternative Metal
Uses the same conventions that Heavy Metal always has - loud guitars and bludgeoning riffs - but with some post-punk concepts and without the endless guitar solos and hoarse vocals.
(Soundgarden, Marylin manson, Henry rollins, Korn).
Ambient Pop
Combines conventional pop with electronic textures and atmospheres. An extension of Dream Pop that uses more electronic sound including sampling.
(Air, Violet indiana, Stereolab, Laika).
Brit Pop
English pop bands with a "rock" star attitude and image, and most of the time with a Beatles like sound.
(Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Coldplay, Travis, The verve, Supergrass).
Chamber Pop
Carefully orchestrated music with instruments not commonly used in rock music.
(Nick cave, Tindersticks, Rufus wainwright, The divine comedy).
College Rock
Any Alternative bands that are played on the college radios.
Digital Hardcore
Aggressive Hardcore Punk music made digitally.
(Atari teenage riot, Prodigy)
Dream Pop
Atmospheric subgenre of alternative rock that relies on sonic textures as much as melody. It often features breathy vocals and processed, echo-laden guitars and synthesizers.
(Cocteau twins, The sundays, Luna, Echo & the bunnymen).
Electro Industrial
Artists that relies more on the experimental and electronic edge of industrial music than the guitar saturated and gothic image of industrial crossever bands.(Front line assembly, Front 242)
Electronic Punk
Bands that play fast-paced punk music with synthesizers and computers.
(Shampoo, Chicks on speed)
Emo
Extension of Punk Hardcore, a brand of visceral yet complex guitar music driven by pendulum-esque dynamics and often deeply personal lyrics.
(Fugazi, Braid).
Goth
Goth Rock had grand, baroque arrangements performed with gloomy synthesizers and processed guitars. Lyrically, Goth was dark, featuring a lot of cryptic, morbid poetry. Almost as remarkable as its sound was Goth's image: the bands and the fans usually dressed in black
(Cure, Sisters of mercy, Christian death).
Grunge
A hybrid of Heavy Metal (guitars sound) and Punk (lyrics, attitude) made popular by Nirvana.
(Nirvana, Pearl jam, L7, Hole, Stone temple pilots).
Indie Folk
Folk music associated with a more experimental songwriting than the average Folk artist and a more crude sound.
(Cat power, Elliot smith, Beth orton, Ida, Indigo girls).
Indie Garage
Garage Rock (raw form of rock & roll) revival.
(Boss hog, The donnas).
Indie Pop
General term that refers to alternative pop bands that embraces the basic tenets of Pop songwriting but filters them through the warped sensibilities of Indie Rock.
(The high llamas, Ben folds five, Drugstore)
Indie Rock
General term that refers to alternative rock bands that refuses to become mainstream after Nirvana's success, they chose to stay in independent labels. Not all of the music sounds the same, but nearly every indie rock band is based in post-punk guitar rock.
(Pavement, Jesus lizard, Throwing muses).
Industrial Metal
While pure industrial takes its primary cues from experimental music and electronic dance, Industrial Metal makes the distorted noise of electric guitars a crucial part of the music. It's a crossover genre between Heavy Metal and Industrial dance music.
(Ministry, White zombie, Nine inch nails, Marylin manson)
Lo Fi
Lo Fi is recorded on a cheap equipment. The goal is to maintain a rough, immediate sound at the opposite of over-produced recordings.
(Ben lee, Sebadoh, Guided by voices, The folk implosion).
Math Rock
Math Rock is a relation to Post-Rock, a better known indie-rock style that shares similar aesthetics. Where Post-Rock has distinct jazz influences, Math Rock is the opposite side of the same coin: it's dense and complex, filled with difficult time signatures and intertwining phrases.
(Chavez, Polvo)
Neo Glam
A revival of the 70's Glam Rock, it combines 70's Heavy Metal sound with melodic pop music with attitude.
(Placebo, Suede)
New Psychedelia
Inspired by the 60s bands, with the joyful approach to making music, an eschewal of cynicism and irony, and a love for bizarre instruments as common denominator.
(The apples in stereo, Beulah, Dressy bessy, Elf power, Of montreal).
Noise Pop
Pop music wrapped in noisy and distordant guitar, a mix of melodic pop songs and out of control guitars.
(Lush, Jesus & mary chain, Ride)
Noise Rock
Chaotic sounds orchestrated into discordant anti-songs.
(Sonic youth, Yo la tengo, Dinosaur jr).
Post Punk
Early 80's music that have roots in the independent and counterculture spirit of punk but that was interested in exploring new territories. It's the father of 90's Alternative Pop/Rock. This includes different style of music, from New Wave (Cure, Joy Division, U2) to Punk Hardcore.
Post Rock
Experimental form of Rock mixing Noise, Free Jazz and Electronica.
(Tortoise, Mogwai, Aphex twin).
Punk Folk
See Urban Folk.
Punk Hardcore
The most rigid and extreme variation of punk rock. Emerging in the early '80s, it was fast paced with shouted vocals and a crude sound. Most of the bands with time, left the sound of hardcore behind, but not its ideals.
(Beastie boys, Bad religion, Bad brains, Husker Dü, Dead kennedys).
Punk Pop
A post-grunge strand of alternative rock that combines power-pop melodies and chord changes with speedy punk tempos and loud guitars.
( Weezer, Ash, Lemonheads, Pixies).
Punk Revival
Emerging in the 90's Punk Revival bands were all traditionalists, keeping alive the sounds and styles of 77's Punk groups but with a heavier sound (signs of the time).
(Offspring, Green Day, Blink 182).
Queercore
Punk subgenre that differs by its lyrics, which explore openly themes of prejudice, oppression, and same-sex attraction.
(Team dresch, Butchies).
Rap Metal
Fusion of the most aggressive elements of Hip-Hop and Heavy Metal.
(Rage against the machine, Limb bizkit, Kid Rock )
Riot Grrrl
Subgenre of Indie Rock and Punk Rock that is distinguished by its radical feminist lyrics and its raw, willfully amateurish musical attack.
(Bratmobile, Sleater-kinney, Le tigre, Bikini kill).
Sadcore
Primarily an extension of Independent Rock, Sadcore is slow, fragile and gut-wrenching music made by and for the depressed. Themes of heartbreak, loss, and misery dominate the lyrics, and the music itself is resolutely downbeat.
(American music club, Red house painters).
SkatePunk
Not so different musically from Punk Revival, it's difference lies in the cultural background, it's the rock music of skateboarders.
(NoFX, Milencolin, Labwagon).
Slowcore
Soft melodies shrouded in thick, dark atmospheres. Similar to Sadcore, Slowcore's concerns are far more musical than lyrical.
(Low, Galaxie 500)
Space Rock
Hypnotic music defined by washes of heavily reverbed guitar, minimalist drumming, and gentle, languid vocals.
(Spaceman 3, Mogwai, Spiritualized, My bloody valentine, Radiohead).
Trip Hop
Hybrid of Dance-based listening music, Jazz, Funk, and Soul.
(Bjork, Portishead, Massive attack, Tricky, Moby, Fatboy slim, Propellerheads, Cibo matto).
Twee Pop
A Bubblegum Indie Rock: spirit of Punk with a simplicity and innocence not seen since the earliest days of Rock & Roll.
(Belle & sebastian, Shonen knife, The cardigans, The softies).
Urban Folk
A movement of singer/songwriters that grew out of punk rock.They performed solos with an acoustic or electric guitar singing often angry lyrics.
(Ani di franco, Michelle shocked, Vic chesnutt, Billy bragg).

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Free eBooks



There are 17,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Try this: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci.

or this; The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. Written by W.E.B. Du Bois, it was the book of his PhD dissertation; in 1895, Du Bois was the first black American to receive a PhD from Harvard.

and this: THE PRACTICE & SCIENCE OF DRAWING By Harold Speed

Lou Reed to Take a Walk on the Wight Side




Lou Reed is the first act to be announced for Sunday 11th June at the Isle of Wight Festival 2006.

A secret meeting in 1969



A rational explanation for it all?

Your never too old to Rock `N` Roll



A website I´m doing at the moment (an English version will be up and running soon)

Retro 3D "doodlings"



Oh!! The wonderful world of Bryce.
An example of what happens when I spend trillions of hours submerged in this awesome software.

A - Z Punk Bands



"Dedicated to all the small labels, who are (were) in it for the fun and glory - not just the money"
Nice little trip "down memory lane"

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Welcome to the Time Machine


Most families own a box or a scrapbook full of tokens and mementoes of their lives. Every object unlocks an attic in the mind, a storehouse of reminiscence.

Nostalgia Central is a scrapbook providing a trip from the Swinging Sixties, via the Mirror-balled Seventies, to the Day-Glo Eighties.
You can use this website like a travel guide, a library, or (if you want to do yourself some permanent damage) it can be read end-to-end like a long, bizarre story. This truly is your ultimate internet reference guide to the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Happy reminiscing!

Welcome to the world of obscurity



Beyond the Beat Generation
The undiscovered area of 60´s underground.

Audio Stream web-radio, remembering the days when
"Every town had its garageband or psychedelic teenscene."

Welcome


The absolute brilliance of pop music lies in its ability to communicate on a level more expansive than any other cultural medium.
It can speak to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Great pop can unite people in a way literature, cinema, theatre, even television, never can.
Stick The Beatles’ ‘1967-1970’ on your turntable after Sunday dinner, and everyone from gran to little brother will find a moment they share, fused by pop, where age gaps are smeared into insignificance.