Rainy Day Activities Also Include Silent Ball

Starscream let me watch them make their new shirts. Starscream is awesome.

(Other information: This is my film school boredom coming out again. Of course, why would I get a video camera, or a new-fangled camera that shoots video when i can just waste time making gadgets like this? It's not like such cameras are plentiful or anything. Still, I think this is cool. I suck).

I Heard You Missed Us; We're Back

Devin & The Li'l Angels, Don Hill's, 8/18/09

I was going to neaten up two days of band deaths with a band birth in Devin & The Little Angels, a supergroup made up of Earth Defense Force and Jack Ferencz from TMH fronted by Devin Therriault, the howlin'est, swingin'est wolf I've met. Of course, this particular show was missing Jack and, well, they only played three or four shows in this incarnation -- Ian Cory is in Chicago, Jack F. is upstate, Sam is upperstate and Jonathan Betz is [scene missing]. Therefore, Devin needs a new band.

The result is the new incarnation of D&TLA starring Devin and a couple of guys I haven't met yet. They exist on MySpace here and wouldn'tcha know they're playing tomorrow at the Yippie Cafe. I think it's free -- a fair deal for memories that will last you a lifetime.

A quickie note about the picture -- Sam is the best guitar player for a photographer imaginable, and his knowledge of rock histrionics is vast and demonstrated often. Two observations,

1) Sam jumps no more than six times per show. Live your life and time your film count accordingly.

2) Sam has no (0) hang time. You know what they say about drinking slowing reaction time*? Monitor your drinking intake accordingly.

*"They say..."? It's science, bro.

Subsidized Fun for Your Entertainment in Post-bubble America.

Dear friends and well-wishers,

This is short notice and I do not expect for my readership to have much of an impact. In the spirit of your boy Barry's gift to America (le Stimulus), The Mighty Handful (above and below, bellowing) have the following offer on the table,

"alright, here's the deal:

we (the Mighty Handful) found out today (Wed March 11th) that we have a show tomorrow night (Thu March 12th) at Crash Mansion at 11:00 pm
If we bring 20 people we get paid $300
we really want to record, we have no money to do so, this would be a really good kick in the ass

the point is we need YOU to come
it might not be all ages, I don't know, It's 10 dollars, but if you need us to I am willing to pay 5 dollars to you after the show
please baby?"

So there you have it. Your checkbook will be stimulated to the tune of five (5) United States Dollars and your ass will be stimulated to the tunes of The Mighty Handful. You know you want to go. It's tomorrow (Thursday). Thursday has been the new Friday for the better part of twenty years. Go. Drink. You pansy fuckers.

Lookie What We Have Here

Graffiti Monsters ended up on The Gizmodo, a Gawker-brand website I don't read! They also got my website wrong, which is a bummer!

'Tis Better To Be Regionally Famous Than Internet Famous

One of the things I forgot to mention is that the Reading Eagle followed us around and took copious video and photographs of the production crew. In this instance, "production crew" is meant to include the producer (crucial) and cameraman (crucialer). I did manage to squeeze myself in to a printed picture though and I have diagrammed it for you, the reader, below,



This picture is not mine -- obviously -- credit where it is due, but I couldn't find the credit.

As for the video, you can spot me gracefully gracelessly going "over the boards" to escape the rampaging Yuengling wagon and the panicked team of stallions careening down the street.

Own A Piece Of History

In the continuing spirit of plugging my friends' shit in this blog in the name of goodwill and glomming on to people and personalities who are far more socially advanced than mine, I offer the following news you can use.



This is Ted. This picture of Ted is as old as the ones of Bill and Nick and Dana, so please see the comments on those pictures for timeline information. Also, I don't think this particular picture is very good, though it gets both of us in the time we were in.


THE BIG NEWS:

Ted has been featured in Print Magazine this month, the one with this cover,



As one of their 20 Under 30 profile. I personally think 30 Under 30 has a better ring to it, but that's not the point. Can't be diluting the talent pool, can we? The point is that you, while celebrating the careers of a gaggle of young upstarts, can own an image made by me, Richard Gin. Please see the screen capture, below.



That image is, of course, THIS image,



Only cropped to hell, desaturated and therefore inferior to all the other profile pictures which capture artistic rapscallions at their most gloomy/moody/contrasty/artistic. As you can see, Ted was having two (2) milkshakes before they were popular. Ted chose my picture of him because his mom liked it. I think she said it was one where he didn't look too weird. I am paraphrasing.

Also in this issue and also in this article on dashing young men and demure young ladies are profiles of Phil Lubliner, stand up dude and commissioner of my fantasy baseball team, and Gary Fogelson, man about town and stand up dude. I will not post pictures of them because I have none, nor was I involved in their profiles. Gary and Phil are active dudes, and have various and sundry satellite projects and sub-domains that are worth checking out and are awesome.

The magazine itself is available now at your local magazine deployment concern and you should make it the bestest selling issue of Print Magazine, like, ever.

I'm Blogging Blind For No Good Reason.

I'm always staying active in spite of the spate of cool weather. Savonarola is playing at Pete's Candy Store on the 24th! So is 99999999999999999... etc! That's Anthony MacBain and some other people, I think! His touring band perhaps!? I will be there! Will you?

HYPE ALERT: Richard Gin Is Now Featured Over At Venuszine.com

I now have a featured portfolio over at Venuszine.com -- this following what was a sloppy series of communiques with the Venuszine staff. These images aren't anything you haven't seen before (they are all cribbed from the daddy page, richardgin.org), but please visit, and please forward this to your friends and lovers as you see fit.

Also, apologies in advance if I didn't make doubly sure to clear usage of your visage -- they kinda threw the page up without consulting me all the way with regard to the particulars and wherefores. Please don't kill me. More importantly, please don't sue me.

THIS IS THE LINK. THIS LINK IS VERY IMPORTANT.

THE LINK