No No Zero interview on AUX TV!

Well, the interview I did last September with Sam Sutherland for AUX's online show "Exclaim TV Presents Garageland" is now up. See me talk some nonsense behind the Silver Dollar, in addition to some nice footage of the band playing a couple of songs there too ("Eurosleaze" and "Colossal Penetrations" for the record).

Get hooked and come see us tomorrow night!

Thanks to Sam Sutherland, Ashley Carter, and Justin Taylor.

Swamp Terrorists - Grow Speed Injection!

I had a friend ask me to upload this one today so I figured, what the hey, I might as well share it with whoever is looking at this blog too.

Swamp Terrorists were, I daresay, sort of like a Swiss take on KMFDM, what with the metal riffs, hip hop beats, movie samples, and "industrial" style vocals; "Grow Speed Injection" is the band's sophomore record, considered by many their best.

In 1991, when this was released, I was volunteering at CKCU, a university radio station in Ottawa. I was doing a lot of acid at the time, and found this a hilarious record to listen to on the stuff. That's about all I can offer in the way of a recommendation, good or bad.

"Green Blood", "Braintrash" and "Rawhead" are clear highlights for me, along with "S.S.M.". This is really cheesey, make no mistake -- but, if you like that sort of thing, you're in for a treat.

Swamp Terrorists - Grow Speed Injection

No No Zero practise pics!

For your edification, some great photographs taken by Alyssa Katherine Faoro at a recent band practise.

No No Zero here is Zak Hanna on guitar, Chris Thief on guitar, Pius Priapus on vocals, and Gideon Steinberg on drums. Siânteuse sent her regrets.

No No Zero Dropping Science!

As to the promised details of the next No No Zero show - with Toronto's own fantastic fuzzy sweet leaf legends Grasshopper, as well as the dynamically devastating Deutsche Banks - they are as follows:

SATURDAY MARCH 19TH
@ THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
225 STERLING ROAD UNIT 19

west of Lansdowne, south of Bloor on Ruttan Road
or north of Dundas on Sterling Road past the Nestle factory

GRASSHOPPER - 2am

NO NO ZERO - 1am

DEUTSCHE BANKS - 12am

LA CASA MUERTE - 11pm

and...THE PEOPLE OF CANADA - 10pm

DOORS: 9PM
COVER: 5 BUCKS

BYOB
(drinks also available at the academy)

Hope to see you there. This is likely to be the last appearance of the band as a five-piece, at least for awhile. Someone said six players was a sextet and I thought that sounded pretty good.

Ladies with Skulls!

It turns out this is my 300th post here. For the occasion, I figured I'd post something just because I felt like it - something special I've been filing away for awhile - and that special something turned out to be pictures of women with skulls.

As ever, it seems someone else with a blog had the same inclination (and not too long ago either, just a fortnight!) so I'll share their fine collection of images as well - I think we've just the one duplication between us.

Sandra Torralba!

I've been seeing some photos from the "Estranged Sex" series showing up here and there on tumblr and chan sites - and I found them quite remarkable - but just discovered today the identity of the artist: Spanish photographer Sandra Torralba.



Here is a Spanish language making of video concerning one of the more controversial images from the series; that of the 'rape fantasy'. For contrast, the amusing short 'Las Tetas' film. Her flickr photostream, featuring stills from the making of Estranged Sex IXX.


A few interviews with the artist here, here, here, here, and here.


One of Torralba's images is a very matter-of-fact teabagging. I enjoyed her comments on this piece:

"Ever since someone told me about the tea bagging endeavour, I was intrigued by it. It repulsed me of course, it was one of these things that automatically make you feel angry and disgusted. Maybe even so more if you are a woman. Yet there was something very funny about it, especially if could envisage yourself in the place of the owner of the tea bagging testicles.

One of the main purposes of this series is not only to challenge people's ideas and feelings about various aspects of sexual life, but primarily to challenge [my own]. If there is something I feel I don't understand and I feel disgust towards, now that is interesting and shall be explored.

When you face the things that maybe frighten or repulse you, it's somehow liberating. I find that understanding, humour and honesty do help me live a freer life where I am not trapped in my own taboos. Don't get me wrong, if someone ever tea bags me and I wake up and likely quick [kick?] their balls with my forehead. Understanding does NOT mean accepting, does NOT mean you have to like it, it just means you are no longer stuck in your disgust, fear, or anger.

Also we live our lives with much drama, and to be fair, we have a point. Life is full of misery and pain all the way round, yet there is something very ridiculous and enjoyable about life too, which I aim to rescue within this series."