the body is a great doom metal band from providence (originally from little rock). they are the loudest band i’ve ever seen, and one of the slowest as well, and additionally they are total teddybears. they came to the store last week to check it out and drop some stuff off, then me and ML went back to rhode island with them to watch left behind (the kirk cameron movie about the rapture) and eat pancakes with fake, vegan bacon (which looked like huge strips of chewing gum printed with a bacon design on a food printer). it was great, it was like two weird futures that are also both the unmistakable present. lee is the drummer and he’s also the DJ in lorna doom, which is a rap act named after a punk bassist named after a cookie. chip is the guitar player and he’s also in the solo drone act “siege engine” and the yet-to-be-realized “timothy leary” rap persona (screaming in a li’l jon way, but more hoarse, and with no rhymes). in addition to the above items, lee (”dj glorious monster”) left us with some of his mix cds- one that’s all miami bass, one of african funk.
in addition to liking weird religious cult shit, they also really like pogs, and were really excited to see that all the talk about pogs finally sublimated into actual physical pogs.
lee, we need some of those jim jones “this world is not my home” t-shirts!
lorna doom slipmats for your turntable - $5
the body cds - $8
hear mp3s on their myspaces:
the body
lorna doom
inter-nerds buy both bands’ records direct from corleone records
my neighbor esther is a nice lady, a weird dresser with bright hair, and i don’t need to tell you that i very nearly spit when i learned that she grew up on the carnival. yes, the carnival– shilling shitty trinkets to accommodating parents of garden-variety brats (”baby cry, mommy buy”), riding the egg scrambler for free, elephant ears for breakfast, corn dogs for lunch, knowing the angles, shouting “hey rube!”, etc.. so how is it possible, with all that and funny hair and tiny zoobomber bikes, skinned knees and dumpster diving, i ask you how is it possible that she did not know the bikini kill song “carnival”? i mean, we still like her- she’s great- but this new knowledge casts everything in a weird light, right?
anyway our stalwart pal kasey henniman’s got her priorities straight and made these BK-inspired mirrors, one of which we have here, for the winner of a particularly difficultsimple carnival-style game.
“i’ll win that motley crue mirror if it fucking kills me!”
motley crue mirror- 1 life of trying
bikini kill - carnival (mp3)
zoobomb on wikipedia
full disclosure- i put this tape out. this tall grey dude with rose-colored glasses and black fingernails started coming in the store and buying only halloween shit, and we started talking about only horror movies. one day he’s holding this cdr, and i’m like hey buddy what’s that? oh, i’m supposed to give this to you. two words on the disc- “SNOW GHOST”. cut to now and he comes to the store every wednesday first thing (even though i’m *always* late) and i give him a little envelope with money from all the tapes sold in the previous week. and just before halloween he put out a book of halloween jokes, which is downloadable here.
snow ghost “on top of a silver mountain” cassette $3
full mp3s of this tape, plus an extra cut!
artwork on the tape cover by penny leslie
also, snow ghost was our employee of the month for last october! you go ghoul!
my friend mike bell smith used to be in this band that sounded (to me) like jumpy fugazi, then they all got keyboards and mike, the singer, got timbales and a school whistle. they played in nick’s basement, it was great. mike’s a weird dude because his day job is making animated gifs and selling them for thousands of dollars. true story (kind of). an insound reviewer descirbed the band as “happy hardcore”, but i think that’s only because they didn’t know about actual happy hardcore. as is the case with just about every good band i see that tours through worcester’s basements, i bought a few copies of the cd for the store.
professor murder homepage
mp3– professor murder “champion”
cd $6
