I own you, Hawthrone dress boot from L.L. Bean!

24kgoldsher:

Another recipe! Fuck rum, this is a recipe for hot buttered pumpkin bourbon:

INGREDIENTS:

Bourbon

Pumpkin Butter (if you get the sweetened kind from Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, you don’t really need sugar. Unless you’re into that stuff; then add sugar).

Butter

Cinnamon sticks

…

“102 minutes of Basement Bangers, Midnight Ramblers, Barabajanglers, Heavy Sounds, Canyon Sunsets, Cherry Bombs, and Good Vibrations.” 

- some Philadelphia guys make the best mix of the year.  

I’d buy it.  I just wouldn’t call it a “vintage puffer.” 

“Singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce wore preppy sailor caps and black blazers and still looks like the most fucked up dude you’ve ever met.” - Via The Fader

I would never even try to pull off an early 80s Slash Records look (X had a pretty badass style that wasn’t that different than Gun Club’s), but I’ve always wished I could. 

By Mr. Thee Billy Childish

There’s a very realistic chance that “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” is the greatest song that should have been written by The Ramones.  It’s a Brill Building anthem doped up on amphetamines and prone to violence.  There’s talk about getting blowjobs, hitting ex-lovers in the head until they die, and dancing to glitter rock. The song has been covered by numerous bands, and has a French version made famous by National Lampoon’s European Vacation. 

Wikipedia explains: 

“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” has the same backing track as the original Plastic Bertrand’s/Lou Deprijck ”Ça Plane Pour Moi”. A few months before “Ca plane pour moi” was recorded, the record firm used the same masters with the same musicians to edit “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”. Alan Ward recorded his adaption in English. Yvan Lacomblez had written the lyrics in French.

I’m not here to decide what the better version of the song is, but I will say that the introduction to this Elton Motello performance is possibly the sweetest thing ever. 

I’m as obsessive about the first three Love albums as the next person, so why am I just now listening to Arthur Lee’s 90s output?  This song, “Somebody’s Watching You,” is nearly perfect. 

Saying I get over a hundred weekly press releases for various things from new music to some signature series announcement, is an understatement.  I once counted, and I got somewhere close to 500 press releases in my inbox in a seven day period.  Below is the best one I received not only this week, but possibly in all of 2011. 

Joseph Hautman, an artist from Plymouth, Minn., is the winner of the 2011 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest.   The announcement was made today by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W. Va., during the annual art competition.

This is Hautman’s fourth Federal Duck Stamp Contest win.  His art previously appeared on the 1992-1993, 2002-2003 and 2008-2009 Federal Duck Stamps.

 Hautman’s acrylic painting of a single wood duck will be made into the 2012-2013 Federal Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2012.  The Service produces the Federal Duck Stamp, which sells for $15 and raises about $25 million each year to provide critical funds for conserving wetlands for the benefit of wildlife and the enjoyment of people.