New Jealous Girlfriends Video

Radio Bronado: Episode 3

Sat down with DJ Buttafucco tonight for the third installment of Radio Bronado, take a listen here.

The Great Schlep

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Do it. You know you want to.

Slacker Uprising

You can download Slackeruprising from the website here.

The Golden Age

Back in Los Angeles, scored an advance of this album recently and can honestly say it's one of my favorite albums of 2008... Just effing awesome.

Muthafunka Radio: Episode 3

Wednesday night we sat down in Meg's Greenpoint love nest to record episode 3 of Muthafunka Radio. This time around we go over Lindsay Lohan's blog, where Samantha Ronson is really from. Valerie Faris and Jonathon Dayton vs. Lizzy Gardner and Tim Chappel, Holly sings for us, I get ready to go back to LA and you know... Music stuff. Listen here.

Wormwood. Meet Your Match.

[via National Geographic]

Just like what Esteban made Nancy drink on Weeds...

A Plan!

As one of the 600,000 American's who has been out of work since January it's kind of my duty to re-post this here:



Excuse me while I go read that plan.

Big Girls Don't Cry

Awesome!

[via Wooster Collective]

La Blogotheque gets Department of Eagles

#71.2 - Department of Eagles - Part 2
by lablogotheque

Upper State

[Via Megan Ghiroli Flickr]

Soundtrack courtesy of Passion Pit and Department of Eagles.

Muthafunka Radio: Episode 2

Ok, I'm back from all my little road trips and in Brooklyn for a few days before heading back to El Lay. This past weekend a bunch of us trekked up to the Borscht Belt to visit Holly Miranda at her new hideaway, late last night we sat down and recorded another installment of Muthafunka Radio. Hope you like Episode 2.

Dean's Opening @ Like The Spice Gallery

Here are some photo's from Dean's opening the other night...

Shock Me Like an Electric Eel

[Thanks Caleb!]

R.I.P Dino's Astroland Park

Big Dave and I went out to Coney Island today to pay our respects for Dino's Astroland Park, which closes its doors after 46 years of operation.
















We both grew up here, and on weekends Big Dave would take me and lil'bro up to Steeplechase Pier to go crabbing. Times.







It ain't never gonna to look like this again.

Dean Goelz: Migrations

I met Dean Goelz in Mr. Maritato's 9th Grade Earth Science class. We were bad... like really bad, if I retold some of the stupid shit we pulled in that poor mans class you'd rethink my prodigal child status... I have been waiting 15 years for this to happen!

Like the Spice is pleased to present Dean Goelz: Migrations featuring the artist's socially astute drawings and sculptures. The works depict the slightly odd ways we interact with each other and our environment and the tenuous grip society and culture have on our gentle animal natures. Using a kind of reverse anthropomorphism, the characters depicted in the show evoke to protective instincts usually reserved for cute animals and babies while being all too human.

Lifelike, the sculptures of humanoid and human-hybrid forms embody the awkward everyman, They form herds, do their best to get along and end up as slightly creepy, slightly funny, complex characters that evoke our sympathy and compassion. Cosmic underdogs and nerds, Goelz's human/duck hybrids in particular are both disturbing and familiar, reminding us of the razor's edge distinctions between instinct, personality, and society. Other sculptures in the exhibition include a self-portrait bust frosted like a birthday cake wearing a crown of unlit candles and cut away at the shoulders to reveal the layers inside and a large man in a monster costume with his face coming protruding from the monster's mouth.

Goelz's sensitive, lyrical and detailed drawings also evoke human desires, struggles and foibles. Composed of innumerable precise and minute marks, Goelz's drawings bring attention to the infinite microcosm within each individual. Depicting a single figure or couple against a stark white background, each drawing depicts a moment of decision, reflection, or anxiety. In one self-portrait, the artist offers his liver to a cardinal, a willing modern day Prometheus. Sometimes standing on a tiny patch of grass, the figures in each drawing seem to be simultaneously alienated form their environment and on the brink of being devoured by it.

Dean Goelz graduated from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 where he earned his Bachelor in Fine Arts degree. He works as a freelance artist doing design work and commissioned sculptures while operating a successful mural and faux finishing business. His work has shown nationally and internationally and is included in private collections in the US, France, and the Czech Republic. He lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A veteran of several group shows, this will be Dean Goelz's first solo show at Like the Spice.

224 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-388-5388
info@likethespice.com
Mon, Wed - Sat 12-8:00, Sun 12-7:00

The reception at Like The Spice gallery is September 12th from 6 till 10, the show runs until October 5th.

GO TEAM!

Three faces of Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin


Josh Brolin


Josh Brolin

This Neighborhood is Killing You

This week The New York Press delves back into territory we've discussed here. Sarah Clyne Sundberg writes,

..the water table in North Brooklyn is polluted to the point where it would be difficult to pin it on any one business.

You do not need to ingest contaminated soil or water to be affected by it. If you build a residential building above it without taking proper precautions, vapors from the hazardous waste could make their way up and be a danger to the people living there.

Again, if you haven't watched Toxic Brooklyn on VBS.tv please do so... it's not just the American Spirits that are giving you the heavy chest and morning cough. Where are my hipster wheat pasters with the "This Neighborhood is Killing You" campaigns? Social graffiti people let's get on it.

[Rene Gagnon via The Wooster Collective]

The Moth Grandslam: Crossing The Line

The tickets for the NYC MOTH Grandslam are on sale now, they sell out fast so if you wanted to come see me kick boy ass I would mosey over to the Smartix website and grab yourself a ticket, they're 18 sheckles. I know, I know we're in a depression... I'm about this close to story busking in the Union Square subway station, but then I'd just sound like a deranged lunatic... so yeah, instead of coming to visit me at the Bellevue psych ward come down to Comix on September 10th.