Happy Spanksgiving.

Ahh, Clifton's for the holidays. For info on Clifton's click here.

Wow! To see more vintage ads like this click here.

Circuit bending marching band.

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Click here for the complete EMA3 biography.

This is a picture I took of the Santa Monica Pier 2006.

I took this picture of D.J. Bonebrake playing the xylophone at Pike's in Long Beach at the beginning of 2006.

Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen.

Who knew K.K.K.ramer was related to the soup nazi.

You talking to me Elmo?

Now I know what I want for Christmas.
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So, I am up early on this beautiful Sunday morning Novemeber 19, 2006 and I was just thinking of Lady Sovereign and thought I might post one of her videos. To find out more about Lady Sovereign click here.

If you are a fan of Reno 911 like I am then get ready for their big screen debut coming 02/23/07.
To see the trailer click here.

The Slits are an all female punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up (Arianna Forster) and Palmolive (Paloma Romera) (who later left to join The Raincoats), with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members Kate Korus and Suzi Gutsy. Palmolive was replaced by male drummer Budgie (aka Pete Clarke), formerly of The Spitfire Boys and later to join Siouxsie and the Banshees. (From Wikipedia).

Mika Miko (click here for more info)

Part X-Ray Spex, Part B-52’s, part New York Dolls, the five members of Mika Miko pogo onstage in their friends’ underwear while the two lead singers, 18-year-old Jenna Thornhill and 20-year-old Jennifer “Victor” Clavin, sing into microphones that have been rigged into a phone receiver by tech-head Clavin, who also plays guitar and keyboards.

Clavin shares a Highland Park apartment with Thornhill, who sometimes plays saxophone or keyboards. The others, including Clavin’s 17-year-old bass-playing little sister, Jessie, and her 18-year-old drummer/boyfriend, Jerik Edrosa, still live at home. Guitarist Michelle Suarez, 19, has a job at a juice bar in the Northridge mall, helps build airplane parts for her dad’s business, and wants to go to “hair school in Alhambra” after she comes back from a family trip to Argentina this summer.

The girls first saw Edrosa on a Silver Lake bus. “He had a nice, clean-combed Mohawk,” they explain almost in unison. “He looked superpunk.”

Later that night, they approached him at Headline Records on Melrose, and soon he was in the band.

Their songs “are about the dumbest things,” explains Suarez. Like “Tighty Liberace,” which she wrote for her pet chinchilla of the same name.

They have played more than 30 shows, usually with their friends’ bands like Hello Astronaut, Goodbye Television or Wives.

Mika Miko credits its success in large part to Dean Spunt, the 22-year-old singer and bass player of the L.A. band Wives. Spunt, who, along with all of the members of Mika Miko, volunteers at the Smell, was the first person to introduce the band to the all-ages club and its owner, Jim Smith.

It’s also Spunt’s indie label, Post Present Medium — which he funds by working both as a bike messenger and at Vegan Express on Ventura Boulevard — that will release Mika Miko’s first 7-inch this summer.

Mika Miko once saw a band at the Smell eat its “own shit and piss.”

Well, they’re not sure if it was real, “but it looked real,” says Clavin.

Thornhill, who took her high school proficiencies and is studying sociology at community college, reads David Sedaris, Kafka and Dorothy Parker, and sees a shrink.

“My shrink’s husband directed Full House,” she says. “Oh yeah, Full House.”

They all love Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, the Slits, Johnny Thunders, Television, MC5, the New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, Free Kitten, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Band, Blondie and Richard Hell. And they all like riding bikes.

Thornhill says their target audience members are “anyone who dances,” but they love it if there are “a bunch of 12-year-olds and 16-year-old Goth chicks” at their shows.

Their best show was when they got kicked out of Spaceland because they asked for virgin piña coladas. Being underage, “We were not allowed to go anywhere but the stage and the back room,” explains Thornhill, who during the day says she “sleeps a lot” and “looks for jobs.”

“We were saying in the microphone what we wanted, and the [Spaceland] lady got really annoyed with us. She was like, ‘Those little fuckin’ pre-teen bitches.’ I’m sure she meant it in a really nice way . . .”

Their name means “storytelling in Japanese and a lot of other things in different languages,” explains Suarez, after playing an energetic set in a friend’s bedroom at an East L.A. house party. Like, “Vagina, Vagina in some South American language,” which they discovered on Google. Mostly, though, they “just like the words, a little poem,” says Thornhill, who, like her bandmates, is rather drunk.

“No one can ever say it correctly,” interjects Clavin. “They always go ‘Miko Miko’ or ‘Mika Mika.’”

“We don’t give a shit,” says Thornhill. “It’s cool if they wanna say Miko Miko.” (Review by Seven Mcdonald from the LA Weekly.)

Both these bands will be playing together on
November, 17 2006 at The Troubadour
Los Angeles, CA 90001.

Upon first glance Ryden’s work seems to mirror the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious and collective memories. However, Ryden transcends the initial Surrealists’ strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation. His dewy vixens, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religious emblems, primordial landscapes and slabs of meat challenge his audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing cultural familiarity into unsettling circumstances. (From Mark Ryden's Bio.) For more info Click here.

Fur is one of the most aesthetically beautiful movies I have ever seen. It's sort of like watching a Mark Ryden painting come to life. (Click here for more info)

Is a burrito a sandwich? Judge says no. Click here to read this amazing story.

For D.J. Jazzy Jess and T. Count how many times you see the letter 'G' in this video.

POLYSICS are
HAYASHI Guitar, Voice, Programing
KAYO Synthesizer, Vocoder, Voice
FUMI Bass, Synthesizer, Voice
YANO Drums


In 1997, Hayashi, still then in high school,
and great admirer of DEVO forms POLYSICS.
The band experiences various members changes
but their very orginal "look"-the sunglasses and uniforms,
origianl live performance, the blasting guitar sound,
synthesizers and vocoders attracted many.
Plus their fusion with computer music made them sound
very orginal and astonishing. Prease to check out most honorable Polysics click here

"In the 1980s, Los Angeles was energized by many alternative locations for self expression. From 1980 to 1984, I used black and white photography to document the Bad Influence series of Rock (punk) bands from East L.A. along with other bands of the time. Music, art, and performance was and is a natural combination. Between 1980 and 1987, I was a member of ASCO, a conceptual multi-media performance art group. I served as consultant, stylist, and referee." Diane Gamboa
To see a cool slide show of some of her pictures along with a commentary on the East L.A. punk rock scene click here.