peg leg, sperm whale, jaw bone, what!

MC Lars, the post-punk laptop rapper, has a new book of poetry is out entitled Bukowski in Love. You can hear Lars audio reading of it below.

Bukowski in Love

buy Bukowski in Love here




...and if you don’t like to read, you can always listen to Lars’ masterpiece, The Graduate, which was my 13th favourite album of last year.

Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock [super-wicked-cool song]
Generic Crunk Rap [super-wicked-cool song]
Ahab [super-wicked-cool song]
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buy The Graduate here

get crunk!

I visited Pitchfork this morning and saw a track review on Lil’ Jon’s new song "Snap Yo Fingers". Pitchfork also provided a YouTube link to the video... let me just say, it is probably one of the worst music videos I have even seen! Everything about it is shit... pure shit!! I don't even know how it got 1.5 stars out of 5 on Pitchfork... it's more like negative 1 million stars... anyways, watch that piece of crap below:



It really makes me mad that this kind of shit gets airplay and endless profits while small, talented artists/bands get turn down by major labels and radio stations everyday because they are not "marketable"... fuck!

Make sure you download MC Lars' brilliant song that makes fun of this unless subgenre and the sad state of hip-hop music:

Generic Crunk Rap [wicked-cool song]
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Read my MC Lars post here
buy The Graduate here

iMac, iPod, iGeneration

It is pretty obvious that I am not a huge fan of hip-hop music. There’s only a handful of hip-hop artists/groups I actually enjoy: Madvillain, MF Doom/Viktor Vaughn, Buck 65, Atmosphere, Edan, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, Wu-Tang, and Natalie Portman. Right now, I am totally into MC Lars’ new album The Graduate! I have been a member of Operation Lars since 2004, when The Laptop EP was released. Without a doubt, the highlight of that EP is "Singing Emo", which is also on The Graduate. This hilarious song looks at the lost meaning and authenticity of emo and what mainstream media had made emo to be. "Singing Emo" pokes fun at a fictional major label A&R scout named Marty who is in search for a generic 'emo' band to sell. He ends up signing a band called Hearts that Hate (haha, how 'emo') which features a ridiculously generic chorus. Another standout song is "Generic Crunk Rap": which states the fact that hip-hop music is going down the drain due to simplicity lyrics and pointless product placements. Brilliant track!! "Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock" is another hilarious song about kids spending their parents’ money buying shits from Hot Topic to try to be 'punk rock'. Almost all the tracks are flawless! One most likely needs to understand his references and lyrics in order to enjoy The Graduate. You may need to have a slight knowledge of the punk and emo culture; otherwise, you’d probably think the album is pretty stupid. For instance, if you don’t know the sample in "Download This Song", you may not understand the irony and humour. Likewise, if you are not familiar with Hot Topic, "Topic Is Not Punk Rock" will not make sense to you. MC Lars is smart, funny, and entertaining. Plus, he sent me a Christmas postcard back in 2004, so I am obligated to support him!

Singing Emo
Generic Crunk Rap
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UPDATE I have uploaded "Internet Relationships". The song is way too good to exclude from this post.

Internet Relationships
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buy The Laptop EP here and The Graduate here