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Shabooty Interviews
- Henry Hill (GoodFellas)
- Alex Pardee (Cardboard City)
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TMZ Contributor Shows Love To Head Automatica
I was watching TMZ (the syndicated tv show) and one of the contributors was wearing a Head Automatica t-shirt.
Thought I’d share. They’re my fav band, so I had to quickly take a pic of this. I passed this up the ladder to Daryl, hopefully he’ll get a kick out of it.
If you haven’t seen the TMZ tv show, it’s a bunch of contributors, setting up paparazzi clips for Harvey Levine, the head geh in charge.
This was cool to see, but almost as cool as news like this.
ECLECTIC: Extremely Callous Lacking Energy Citing Things Interwebs Crave (Aka Odds & Ends)
Gold Star Recipient Of The Day Goes To: Scott The Engineer (of “The Howard Stern Show”)
- Yazmany, the artist behind The Assassination Of Art, posts this funny anecdote about well, literally carrying a giant penis around downtown Manhattan. In the name of art, folks. Truly hilarious - I’d do it, long as I wasn’t in charge of carrying the balls around. That’s not hot.
- And in Shia LaBeouf news…
- Random Thoughts Of The Day, by yours truly. . .
- Someone needs to create: Stuffwhitepeoplewhoadoptblackbabieshate.com
- I wish I had a cool middle name like ‘Fucking‘ –like how Jesus Christ has.
- Mp3 Of The Day: Nas - I’m On Ft. DJ Khaled [via sdsu]
- Viral Video Of The Day: Vista (Sucks!) Ad
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The Most Uncreative Chick In The World Award Goes To Wendy Baccus
Fuck You Wendy Baccus. You’re not fun, and you’re not funny.
*throws to my homeboy Daryl Palumbo*
Head Automatica - I Shot William H. Macy (Rock Am Ring 2007 @ Germany)
I’m drinkin hot tea, bitch. Feel me.
(sorry about the cryptic-ness of this post… I’ll leave it at that).
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DefJux - Catching Up With Cage Before He Departs From Me
The DJX site has been redesigned and now has daily content. They posted a quick interview with Cage on what the f- that man’s up to these days. The thing I love about Cage is that all of his fans are fucking crazy fucksticks. (Yes I am a Cage fan, but that’s besides the point).
Excerpt:
DJX: First and foremost, how far along are you on ‘Depart From Me’ and do you know when it’s supposed to come out?
Cage: I have about ten songs but i keep writing new ones so I guess when i feel like I have the record I have the record. I would love to see it come out this year.
DJX: What is the album about for the most part?
Cage: Hell’s Winter was about growth and learning how to identify Satan. Depart From Me is about casting him out and having a good time doing it.
DJX: What is the progress of the movie [For those who don't know; Cage's good friend and promising film actor, Shia Labouef is working on a feature length biopic of Cage's life] and will it coincide somehow with the release of Depart From Me?
Cage: Shia is doing Indie 4 [Indiana Jones 4] press and I am making a record.I suspect I will have cool news soon.
DJX:What do you while you are home working on an album when you AREN’T recording?
Cage: Lately I have been running about 2-4 miles a day.The writing and recording is all the time.No time off. Work for fun.The best is jumping out of the shower to write shit down. I have every game system and they are covered in dust and thats a good thing.
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Cage fans are crazier than Real World MTV fans when they realize they’ve added a fake Joey (real world hollywood) profile on facebook -rofl:
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Video Of Shia LaBeouf Calling a Friend Faggot, Getting Slapped In Face
“The videotape that is currently being circulated is several years old and captures Shia playing a game among friends in which he uses a derogatory word toward a friend. He regrets having used the word in any capacity and is very embarrassed that this footage is being seen by anyone.”
It is Shia LaBeouf’s birthday today…so it’s sort of messed up this is circulating the rounds.
I guess you can chalk it up to a birthday hit. O well, happy 22nd!
Don’t blame me btw, blame da gehs: according to gaywired.com:
Posted early this morning, the video has already been reposted several times and has been viewed by more than 10,000 people, largely on the strength of being circulated by angry blogs including Perez Hilton and DListed.
You know Perez Hilton is all over this like shit on his dickslit.
Shia’s the man…every1 get off his nuts!
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Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn (Aesop Rock Remix) + Poll Results
Sketch Theatre Artist Nate Frizzell creates a sketch video for The Mountain Goats/Aesop Rock remix of “Lovecraft in Brooklyn”.
RESULTS OF LAST WEEK’S POLL:
I guess we’re all Cage Kennylz fans here… as that was indeed my vote as well, though I love all the WeatherMen.
A New Poll will be up shortly!
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Shabooty Interview Series: Alex Pardee
Photo by Jon Dragonette
My childhood friend growing up -reminds me of Alex Pardee. Sure he looked like him but, he was a genius, he oozed creativity, he was two years younger than me –yet he was the one teaching me shit.
My childhood bestfriends have a truely weird way of popping in and out of my life. My other childhood friend who went into the airforce, randomly stopped by my parents house years a few ago and we caught up that evening. He told me about his life in the AF, various STDs he got, and sadly that’s all I remember, the STDs. We lost right back out of touch after that encounter.
And sadly, the last place I saw my friend that reminded me of Alex Pardee, was in a lame mall parking lot. He had grown a full beard, and still had the razor-sharp sense of humor. Since then, I think he is lost somewhere in Canada, taking countless greyhound bus-rides going after one form or another of Canadian poontang.
So, what do you get if you took Canadian poontang, a Paul Bunyan beard, a few STDs, a genius, a canvas, and threw all of that fantastical shit together in the form of artwork? You get some really wicked Alex Pardee -ishh…and by STD I mean SuperfragilisTicexpialiDopeshit!
For Alex’ wikibio go here. He’s illustrated The Used’s album art, he’s working on the forthcoming Cage full length album’s art, has an animated project with WarnerBros, and represents a couple artist collectives Cardboard City, and Zero friends.
“Alex Pardee’s unique style is one conceived through watching years of horror movies, writing graffiti, and listening to gangster rap. His work best represents that of a circus sideshow cemetery. Final pieces are often brought to life by translating random shapes and colors into signs of torment and absurdity. By juxtaposing these two conflicting moods, Alex makes his works more personal to his viewers, forcing them to project their own feelings and emotions onto each character in his twisted universe.”-Wikipedia.
Alex Pardee, folks.
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Shabooty: What was being on the set of Transformers like?
Alex Pardee: Probably exactly how you can imagine it. Fucking amazing. There were miles of fences around this large airplane hangar (that I later found out was used by Howard Hughes) and as soon as we walked in my head was just cocked back and I was staring up the entire time at this ridiculously detailed set. We were in the Hoover dam set and Shia [Laboeuf] like basically made us close our eyes as we walked into the middle of the floor and then when we opened our eyes we saw these 50 foot tall robotic legs covered in ice. It was fucking Megatron and it was insane. Cage, my friend Jeph and I were geeking out so much it was stupid. We got to see all of the cars and play around in the library that they just blew up, it was retarded. I doubt I’ll do something that cool ever again. Shia’s the man.
What’s the most $ an original piece of yours has sold for?
I sold this six foot deformed woman mannequin sculpture with a trapezoid head that I made for 7 grand, which was crazy, but I’m usually pretty affordable.
Do you have a single favorite piece that you’re the most proud of?
Escaped Convict(ion) is my favorite of my recent work I think. I came up with the concept when I was working with a band, and they loved the concept, but when I finished the art, they changed their mind and wanted to tone down the violence and start over with a different concept, which is was kinda bummed about at first, but the final art turned out cool, and I ended up using the Escaped Convict(ion) piece for my own shit and got prints made and sold out of all 200 prints. So it worked out better for me in the long run and everyone was happy.
[Hypothetical] If you woke up tomorrow morning with no arms, would you begin trying to paint with your feet?
Maybe, but only after I figured out how to jack off with my feet first.
What’s the status on the cover of Cage’s next album Depart From Me? Tell us as much as you’re allowed to about the concept.
Now that gays can get married, Cage and I ran out and got married, and now if I tell you anything he’ll probably divorce me and get half of my 40 bucks. Fucker.
We’ve worked on a few different concepts, but the album itself keeps taking on a new life while he’s tracking it and writing, so we are going to keep fleshing out the visuals until its right. I would like this album to be the dopest shit I’ve ever done. I’ve been a Cage fan and friend for years so now to finally get a chance to do one of his full-lengths is exciting as shit.
Even when you were in kindergarten, were you the bomb-ass doodler?
I don’t really remember, I drew all the time, but I don’t think I was ever considered good at anything when I was younger.
Are you good at the etch-a-sketch?
Nope. I suck.
Are those portrait / caricatures that you see people doing at mall kiosks -at all your forte?
Nope. They suck.
Have you met Jeremy Fish? What you think of his artwork?
Nope. He sucks. Nah, just kidding, Jeremy is fucking rad. I have met him a bunch of times and he is one of the most generous, amazing characters in the art world. And his work is perfect. I admire anyone that can create a universe that represents their mind, and I think Jeremy has done that tenfold. We are working on a collab for a skateboard right now for his Superfishal line.
Who are your favorite musicians?
Cage, Aes, Yak, El, and all of the CCWM fam. The Gurp City guys like TOPR, Z-Man, Luke Sick and Conceit are amazing. That new Portishead album is pretty dope. I don’t know, my fav groups of all time are probably Wu Tang and At the Drive In.
Shia Labeouf Throws Up The CC On SNL 2008
The hardest working member of Cardboard City throws up the CC on SNL again.
Gotta love Shia still puttin’ in his work… when he don’t need to.
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Shabooty Interview Series: Todd Westphal
MURS at Paid Dues - Photography By Todd Westphal.
Without the Todd Westphal’s of the world, Tila Tequila would just be the cute Vietnamese girl that works at the local pho restaurant in Houston, Texas, USA Today would be in black and white, and MURS wouldn’t look so cool in a goddamn CITGO jumper. If Todd Westphal released a viewmaster reel set of his works, you would see a collection of your favorite music stars (Chuck D, KRS-1, Cage, Murs, Glassjaw, Slick Rick, GZA, Aes Rizzle, etc), a few brides (that would turn even me into the Uma Thurman stalker), and every other cool fucking thing you could think of (outside of defecating in your neighbor’s front lawn and taking a picture, but then again, who can ever get the lighting right on a shiny turd). Todd Shoots Rappers, and gets away with it. Todd Shoots America…and foreign models. Todd shot the shit with me (in the neighbor’s front lawn). Here’s what came of it. . .
Shabooty: Hey Todd!
Todd Westphal: Bootles
What camera do you use?
I shoot canon 5-d’s and a Mamiya rz when I’m feeling like a workout.
Are you the official photographer for “Cardboard City/Weathermen (CCWM)”/ Def Jux (djx)?
The nomenclature doesn’t stick - I would say I love a bunch of those guys, from Ameach to Palko [Cage] to Yak [Ballz] and on it goes, I’ve had a great chance to ‘do work’ so to say, and have my stuff be used in albums and in places like myspace and the net. I like my stuff getting out there. I want people to see it. I want people to look at a pic I took of them for the rest of their life and think, you know, that pic there caught me as what I really was at that moment in my life. That’s where the love of this whole thing lies for me. RE: the whole CCWM thing. I am an artist. This isn’t high school. I’m happy to have my friends and family. I’m happy to be in the club. Happy to share time with real artists - whatever click they roll with. Good energy is good energy.
What do you say to peeps who would say ‘good photography is just a matter of luck: being at the right place at the right time’?
I don’t really like peeps because they are this oddly bright artificial yellow color and really aren’t they just marshmallows anyway? I’ve never really liked marshmallows or other gooey things. No flan for me, Mr. Cosby.
Where’d your relationship with the “jukies” (Def Jux artists) start?
I was hustling myself out in a few directions back in 2003 and stepped to Amaechi as a kid who wanted to do some work and connect up in the music game and take pics. Really, it was my meeting with Amaechi that made me excited to be a part of what [Def] Jux had going on. He stepped to me a half year later to shoot Walz’s Year of the Beast and some other promo work and I’ve been doing random projects with them for a few years now. I feel like family, but its probably more like I’m ‘uncle Todd’ that shows up at Xmas dinner and isn’t really blood but seems to always be around. I like a bunch of those gals and cats like fam though for sure. Lot’s of Love up in this MF right here.
Any relation to Paul Westphal (basketball fame)?
He is my long lost 2nd grade teacher’s bastard mother’s child’s dog sitter I think - at least I think that’s what the book says. No, but for real though, Paul Westphal is the reason people spelled my name right in the 80’s.
Do you laugh at people with only a 1GB SD card?
Not so much as towards them - kidding. I like to help people take better pictures. Seriously, I can geek out on talking about photography all day. I should get paid for it. What kind of piece of plastic you shoot with?
[Editor's Note (EN): I copped a PowerShot SD450 Canon a few years back, as a defense mechanism to impending relationship doom --I knew I needed a camera to line up those Myspace Mirror Pic Jumpoffs that the chickas love!]
In a closed setting indoor photoshoot, do you set the mood with music? Or do you let the subject pick the music?
Music is important but I like to think I dont need any specific thing to pull off any shoot. So if the artist or subject wants to listen to something, I’m in, but I can get so focused (pardon pun) on shooting that I can even miss little details like that. Plus a model shoot doesn’t necessarily mix with Ice Cube’s Death Certificate when it pops up randomly on my ipod. - sometimes though it does.
