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Tailoring the Wax

Nov 2009 22 – Filed under design

As I tweeted ages ago, even though we are the age of the mp3 there is no reason for bands to produce subpar album art. Case in point, the cover art to Wax Tailor’s latest album “In the Mood for Life” looks like they gave a 6th grader a bunch of random images and fonts and set him in front of a bondi blue iMac with Photoshop 6.

Original cover art for Wax Tailor's In the Mood for Life which is a mess of bad photoshop and wanton thoughtless typography

Really as much as I love the album—and it is a damned good album—I couldn’t let this abomination of fonts and filters be seen in my iTunes coverflow. Thus, I went and made my own alternative cover art as I promised in the previously mentioned tweet. I didn’t have to do much work since Wax Tailor already had a much better recent illustration out there to work from. All I did was pick a font—a single font—to used for the band/album name.

Wax Tailor - in the mood for life (alt cover)
I highly encourage everyone to buy the album but use the above cover art instead so as not to dirty their iTunes coverflow with bad photoshop.
All art is © Wax Tailor and has been modified without permission as a fan who likes his music but just hates the latest cover art.

MP3 clip provided by Amazon. If you buy the album by clicking on the link in the widget, I get a small referral bonus.

Musical “That Makes Me Think Of”

Oct 2009 28 – Filed under art

Thanks to the internet (namely YouTube) and our household varied massive music libraries, myself and @maledictive were able to play an impromptu game of musical “That Makes Me Think Of” while engaged in a NifNaks felting extravaganza In order of play and marked by who played which song (myself|maledictive) here’s our evening’s set list.

Prior to the impromptu start of our game, maledictive was on an 80’s Jock Rock kick (I don’t know ask her) which led to the first song of our game…

  1. Cypress Hill “Insane in the Membrane”
  2. Cypress Hill feat. Fugees “Boom Biddy Bye Bye”
  3. Cypress Hill “Illusions (remix)”
  4. Dr Dre
  5. Outkast – “Atliens”
  6. Dr Octagon “Halfsharkalligatorhalfman”
  7. Lord of the Rhymes
  8. The Gothsicles “Hey I Got That Font”
  9. Screamin Jay Hawkins “I Put a Spell On You”
  10. Screamin Jay Hawkins “Constipation Blues”
  11. Nick Cave “Mack The Knife”
  12. Cab Calloway “Minnie the Muncher”
  13. Oingo Boingo “Minnie the Muncher” (from the Forbidden Zone)
  14. Max Reebe “Sex Bomb”
  15. Max Reebe “Mambo No. 5″
  16. Max Reebe “Tainted Love”
  17. Coil “Tainted Love”
  18. Coil “Who By Fire”

Hope you enjoy the odd set that resulted. Anyway, it’s a fun game which I highly recommend.

More freaky beats from Cape Town, South Africa

Jul 2009 14 – Filed under art

Those Cape Town, South Africa, electronic musicians are freak’n weird I tell ya‚Äîweird in an awesome way but still weird. If you don’t believe me watch the above video for “Fred is Dead” by the Tone Deaf Junkies.

I haven’t really heard of the Tone Deaf Junkies until recently. The Cape Town music scene itself is pretty amazing: from Sibot to Watkin Tudor Jones to Markus Wormstorm, a lot of awesome music comes out of Cape Town and much of it is on heavy rotation on my ipod. The Tone Deaf Junky track “Fred is Dead is interesting because it’s a track used as in the soundtrack for a scifi novel set in Cape Town called Moxyland. That’s right I said a soundtrack for a book. If you buy it in ebook format the soundtrack (featuring all Cape Town musicians) is embedded which is pretty awesome if you ask me. I haven’t gotten the book myself yet but it’s on my wishlist. You can also get the Moxyland soundtrack separately if that’s your thing.

Posted via web from CatCubed’s Random Snippets

I ain’t gonna work on Dubya’s Farm no more

Jun 2008 06 – Filed under politics

I was raised on Bob Dylan by my parents. Oh my parent’s played other music and I had my share of childhood albums: 6th Grade, Quiet Riot! “Bang Your Head!“; Freshmen Highschool, Rush! “Todays tom sawyer
Mean mean pride.

However, Dylan’s music was a common theme in our household and his lyrics still keep coming back and haunting my brain time and time again. Even during my rivethead punk as fuck “Thieves, thieves and liars, murderers. Hypocrites and bastards!“years I still admitted to liking Bob Dylan and listened to him. Thus, the news today that Bob Dylan endorses Barack Obama made me smile.

It’s all the more interesting since while I’ve been an Barack Obama supporter for most this primary season, my parents and sister have stood with Hillary Clinton. Unlike the rest of the electorate, this never lead to any squabbles, but it certainly exhibited itself as a microcosm of the larger divide in the Democratic party: that gray female liberal voting block, you know the ones who struggled all their lives against glass ceilings and being ignored by the old boys club? Well that’s pretty much my Mom. And that college educated liberal generation X voting block, you know the ones with San Francisco values who are really hoping that one day the Green Party will be more then a sideshow? Well that’s pretty much me.

So now that I got all that exposition* out of the way, I thought I’d share the results of a back and forth Bob Dylan lyric exchange I had with my Parents today.

Dubya’s Farm

I ain’t gonna pay for Bush’s war no more
No, I aint gonna pay for Bush’s war no more
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a bucket full of bills
That are drivin’ me insane
The only job left is to scrub Wal-Mart’s floor
I ain’t gonna pay for Bush’s war no more.

I ain’t gonna fall for Bush’s bullshit no more.
No, I ain’t gonna fall for Bush’s bullshit no more.
Well, he hands you a nickel,
He hands you a dime,
He asks you with a grin
If you’re havin’ a good time,
Then he takes all your cash to fund the war.
I ain’t gonna fall for Bush’s bullshit no more.

I ain’t gonna deal with Cheney’s lies no more.
No, I ain’t gonna deal with Cheney’s lies no more.
Well, he puts his shotgun
Out in your face just for kicks.
His bunker window
It is made out of bricks.
And Blackwater Ops stand around his door.
Ah, I ain’t gonna deal with Cheney’s lies no more.

I ain’t gonna believe McCain’s talk no more.
No, I ain’t gonna believe McCain’s talk no more.
Well, he talks to all the people
About his straight talk express.
Everybody says
He’s not like Mr Bush.
But his policies are the same on every score.
I ain’t gonna believe McCain’s talk no more.

I ain’t gonna work on Dubya’s Farm no more.
No, I ain’t gonna work on Dubya’s Farm no more.
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am,
But everybody wants you
To be just like them.
They sing while you slave and I just get bored.
I ain’t gonna work on Dubya’s Farm no more.

*I know that was quite a bit of exposition, but now you get an inkling of why I might cherish this little song cover collaboration.

I’ve been away for a bit…

Jul 2007 18 – Filed under life

With vacations in Hawaii and campouts on the playa, I’ve gotten outta the habit of blogging lately. Looking to get back into the groove though.

As a warning, my next post is gonna be about this lovely bit of future I now own called the iphone. For those of you sick of iphone discussion, watch this awesome music view and ignore the next post.

Hot Chip ~ “Over and Over”
Over and over and over and over like a monkey with a miniature cymbal…