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Jeremy Recommends : SlowMo Erotic

You know what I love? Good music. You know what I love more? Good music that’s funny as hell.

The piano-drum duo of Slow Mo Erotic are a power force of win and awesome, driven by their nihilistic tongue-in-cheek critique of everyone and everything. For example the fan favorite song, Fuck All Y’all, manages to talk shit on every race and creed out there in line with that ‘I’m not racist, I hate everyone equally’ mentality– reminiscent of Voltaire’s song God Thinks.

Their debut album, The HOLLA!caust, is filled with amazing love songs– from Urge To Purge, a love/lust song of a cannibal, to the desperately abusive Be Here When I Get Back, and just plain desperate Let’s Settle For Each Other– to songs about the people we know, like Cunt, The HOLLA!caust, and surprisingly prudent Heartbroken Homophobe.

Needless to say, I love this band. But don’t just take my word for it, here are a but a few of my friends reactions:

Nathan, from the kitchen: “SLOW MO ROCKS!”

Ashleigh, from the couch: “Just make something up. You already know I think it’s awesome, I don’t know what else you want me to say.”

There’s a whole slew of songs worthy of your dolla dolla’s on this album, and if you have said dolla dolla’s I urge you to get it. The two ‘mo’s in Slow Mo Erotic need it to buy more lube.

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Show Review: Pass The Torch tour, Olympia show

Okay, this is LONG overdue– about two weeks overdue at least– so sorry about that to the cool cats and bands over at Queer Control Records. So here it is, the short of it is that the show was out-fucking-standing. Rather than talk about it– and my three hour/four bus trip to get to the show (or the getting stranded in Olympia at 2 in the morning)– I’ll just show you some pictures! I took a shitload of shots, but sadly I chose the wrong film and only managed to save a few. Here’s the best!

Fruit Punch
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QueerPunks Presents: Podcast 5

 
icon for podpress  QueerPunks Presents Podcast 5 [13:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Special Queer Control Records Edition

Featuring:
8 Inch Betsy - About Control
Fruit Punch - Red Zone / Blue Zone
Pariah Piranha - Short Simple Sweet
Tough Tough Skin - Bumble Cat

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Otto: Or, Up With Dead People

Otto: Or, Up With Dead People
by Bruce LaBruce.
NSFW

A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is trying to finish “Up with Dead People,” the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that there is a wallet in his back pocket that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember a few details, including memories of his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.

I’m not a fan of twink’y boys, but I sure as hell wanna see this.

SKULL & BONES–Nasty gay fetish slasher film

Hey Guys,

I write to talk about my new gay-themed, campy slasher “Skull &
Bones” (USA, 2007, 73 minutes). The tagline “A Tale of Homo-cidal
Mania” sums up my original and darkly humorous take on a traditional
genre: http://www.skullandbonesthemovie.com

Allow me to highlight other key features of the film:

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Show Review: Defiance, Ohio and This Bike Is A Pipebomb

It’s dark, it’s cold, and my friends and I are following a couple of punks on bikes through a warehouse district trying to find this hole-in-the-wall place where two of my favorite bands are playing. It’s the last night of the Defiance, Ohio and This Bike Is A Pipebomb westcoast tour and I am TOTALLY stoked. Having missed the show the night before (which my friends tell me was the best they’d seen yet) I was a bit nervous that we’d never find the show. See, earlier in the day it turns out the place the show was originally going to happen shut down and they had to scramble for another venue. After about fifteen minutes or so of driving around, asking mechanics that spoke only Spanish for directions, and following kids on bikes we wind up outside of a small brick building with a few vans and a fist full of punks standing outside.

Fuck. Yeah.

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Limp Wrist live at The Smell video

I cannot believe I’ve never posted this video before. It came out on their CD discography, and it spread to the internets. Their live shows (well, the one I caught) are insane and .. yeah, just watch this.

Pariah Piranha - R ‘n’ Arg

Make sure to pick up their album Feel My Face Noise! I know I’m going to.

Pariah Piranaha
Queer Control Records

My Brain Hurts comics

Browsing at the Atomic Books website (by doing a search for “queer”), I recently found out about My Brain Hurts, which started as a minicomic by Liz Baillie. The first five issues have now been published in book form by Microcosm Publishing. There are also two further issues available in minicomic form. Microcosm’s webpage describes it by saying “A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren’t flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It’s like they were your actual high school peers - pissing off the administration and taking care of each other when they get beat up by skinheads.” Microcosm also links to a podcast interview with Liz. Check out a preview of My Brain Hurts.

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Club Control - NYQC

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