the mailbox project

The Mailbox Project is an artblog where people leave strange anonymous messages in random mailboxes.

There's not much posted yet cause the blog just started.
You can change that!

I think I'll participate. - I'll let you know.

examples:

choose

[Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?...]

nothing to add this time...
(find it out for yourself)

a lot of umm... static?

two vids of one of my current favourite bands:
A Place To Bury Strangers

[A Place to Bury Strangers has been affectionately lauded as New York City's "loudest band" by various indie reviewers and bloggers throughout the course of their live music career, as well as "the most ear-shatteringly loud garage/shoegaze band you'll ever hear" by The Washington Post. The New York Times applauded their revival of "the ominous, feedback-drenched drones of the 1980s"]
Wikipedia entry

"the most ear-shatteringly loud garage/shoegaze band you'll ever hear" - That was saying something!


moreover: The band's live studio session on Daytrotter.com

typost 1

Andrey's (shch_andrey) Flickr photostream

linked with the SHCH Graphics Group

alive and kicking

Dinosaur Jr. - blowing amps since 1984:


Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You To Know mp3
from the forthcoming album: "Farm"
(right click and save as)


extra:


The Bavarian Druglords - Goldsoul mp3
(right click and save as)

world-o-meter

World statistics updated in real time.

- World Population
- Government & Economics
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The counters that display the real-time numbers are based on Worldometers’ algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its estimated progression to compute the current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock.

Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world.

urgency out of kilter

Love Of Diagrams - The Pyramid mp3
(right click and save as)

"Love Of Diagrams share a love for both the experimentation of No Wave and the immediacy and off-kilter tunefulness of classic UK post-punk. Their stripped-down guitar-bass-drums racket and call-and-response vocals emit a wonderfully controlled urgency."

visit Matador Records

the seven-legged spider

An email conversation that Adelaide man David Thorne claims he had with a utility company chasing payment of an overdue bill.

"...

From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David.

..."

will there be an eighth leg ? and what about travelling through time ?

the complete conversation
and
it's result on eBay

The IRRBN

Report: Only 7 Band Names Remaining

NEW YORK—According to data released Monday by the International Registry of Rock Band Names, only seven of the estimated 518 million potential names for musical acts remain available.

"Following the selection of 'The Stripped Amygdaloids,' 'A Purple Spray Of Cloth Violets,' and 'Guestowel' this past weekend, it is essential that new bands pick a name as soon as possible," read a statement on the organization's website. "Bands that wish to form after all names have been taken will be have to wait until a name becomes available, which could take anywhere from 10 minutes to 30 years."

While a MySpace page was created late Monday under the title Whiteboard Ether, one of the few band names left, the IRRBN has not yet confirmed whether the group has actually played any gigs.

more pac-man

French prankster Remi Gaillard creates havoc with a real-life version of Pac-Man.

secret post

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project in which the public mails secrets anonymously on handmade postcards.

examples:

thrilling

42 bucks on the Robot Gangster

why?
antennas AND the spiky belt

deep

flOw

visually and conceptually stunning flash game

offline version available: zip

color challenge

Drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order.

The first and last color chips are fixed.

link

kinski (the band - not klaus)

oh well - Sub Pop Records again



Kinski - Rhode Island Freakout mp3
off the Sub Pop 2003 release "Airs Above Your Station"
(right click and save as)



Kinski - The Wives Of Artie Shaw mp3
off the Sub Pop 2005 release "Alpine Static"
(right click and save as)

pac-man 'n' pi-rates

...you do the math.

Heisler, Morley, Big Kahuna

A fictional brand
is a non-existing brand used in artistic or entertainment productions - paintings, books, comics, movies, TV serials, etc.

My favourites:
- Morley Cigarettes
- Heisler Beer

• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional medicines and drugs
• List of fictional stores
• List of fictional vehicles

moreover: the quick 10 from mental floss

I could really use some MED-X and a hit of JET right now...
...and some MENTATS as well - just to make sure.