#palookaville

[balu8]

Palooka-Ville #4: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken

by Seth

Drawn and Quarterly

#drawn and quarterly #palookaville #seth #comic book

[smashpages]

Coming in the spring of 2023 from Drawn & Quarterly, look for the 24th issue of Seth’s Palookaville, which “offers readers an invitation into the world and varied artistic practice of the iconic cartoonist.” Read more

#drawn & quarterly #palookaville #seth #graphic novels

[mitjalovse]

Some musicians probably retired without telling us that. True, Fatboy Slim might be a bad case for this, because he returned as a recording entity. However, his comeback singles didn't result into another solo album, Palokaville remains his last. While I would prefer to see the next LP by him, one must take the following into account – his style remains heavily tied to a certain era and anything in the vein of his brand would've felt retro at this point. Palokaville already seemed like a retreat into his usual self with the songs he did afterwards pointing towards the possibility he considers Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars as a noble experiment that failed. He became a musician everyone wishes to see live, but few of these want his next album.

#Youtube #fatboy slim #palookaville #long way from home #norman cook #jonny quality #sean moody #00's music #electronic music

[ryansbedroom]

Recreating Fatboy Slim's 'The Joker' Kid Carpet Remix on the Casio SA1!

#youtube #fatboy slim #the joker #palookaville #kid carpet #remix #recreation #remake #cover #casio #sa1 #toy #keyboard #instrument

[ironsaguaro]

Palookaville 24 - Comic, Graphic Novel, Experiment, Puppets! It's SETH!

#cartoonist kayfabe #Ed Piskor #JIm Rugg #Tom Scioli #palookaville #Seth

[tornbluefoamcouch]

Artista: Fatboy Slim Álbum: Palookaville Ano: 2004 Faixas/Tempo: 12/51min Estilo: Electronica/Big Beat Data de Execução: 10/07/2023 Nota: 7,0 Melhor Música: Wonderful Night

#fatboy slim #palookaville #2004 #electronica #big beat #wonderful night #Youtube

[exsqueezememacaroni]

Ok yeah....in a lot of live performances of Retrovertigo, Mike does this loud grunty 'UNGH' right before the last 'now I'm finding truth is a ruin...' and lordy, if that doesn't make everyone wet, I don't know what would....

#mike patton #mr bungle #Retrovertigo #its definitely in the Astoria show #and the one im listening to now uhhhh... 8/27/99 palookaville ca #and others - it gets me every time

[mystacoceti]

the biggest perspectival whiplash I ever got re: europe was looking up a specific city and seeing the population first, thinking "why it doesn't even have half the population of Bakersfield, it must be palookaville", only to read on and find out it was one of the most famous and historically significant cities in the country

#every time man. I'm so used to california numbers #remembered that assumption as I was looking up Chartres today

[estradasphere]

while looking at Estradasphere's show archive i noticed a lot of bands they've allegedly played with / had open for them that i can't find literally any info about online (local bands probably?), posting this in the hopes that someone out there recognizes one of these names

SUBSET (Esphere opened for them March 31 2000, Palookaville @ Santa Cruz CA)

Chuck (July 23 2001, Rotunda @ Philadelphia PA, part of summer 2001 tour with Tub Ring and Esphere

Chico's Groove (Aug 7 2001, Saratoga Winners @ Latham NY, summer '01 tour)

Spagga (Aug 9 2001, The Green Room @ Providence RI, summer '01 tour)

Apparatus (Aug 10 2001, Sussex County Sonic Circus @ Sussex NJ, summer '01 tour)

Opa Que Tones (same as above)

Sub Committee (same as above)

Reductio (April 14 2002, Asheville Music Zone @ Asheville NC, allegedly - wasn't on the show archive, this one is from a youtube clip + comment)

Exegesis (opened for Esphere June 20 2003, Veterans Memorial Building @ Santa Cruz CA)

they may be misspelled (the show archive does that a few times... "daquari" instead of "daiquiri", "rosencoven" instead of "rosin coven", etc) which makes finding them harder lol

#estradaposting

[eucanthos]

Martin Vaughn-James   (UK, 1943 - 2009)

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The Cage, a Visual-Novel, 1975

The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian comics master and Lemony Snicket collaborator Seth (Palookaville; It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken).

Cryptic and disturbing, like Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) illustrating a film by Ozu, The Cage spurns narrative for atmosphere, guiding us through a series of disarrayed rooms and desolate landscapes, tracking a stuttering and circling time and a sequence of objects: headphones, inky stains, bedsheets. It's not about where we're going but how - if - we get there. - SOCKS studio, July 12, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cage-revised-martin-vaughn-james/10031933

https://socks-studio.com/2020/07/12/the-cage-a-visual-novel-by-martin-vaughn-james-1975/ 

#Martin Vaughn-James #drawings #book #visual communication #odd #Illustration #desert #room #pioneer #cage #blogs

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Chris Britt, Florida Politics

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But really, this all goes back to 2008, when the Republicans lost to a ni-i-i-, Barack Obama, which was just so Not The Way Things Work For Us that the party that had first attracted the Old Confederacy to the candidacy of Barry Goldwater; followed by a formal invitation to the unreconstructed Southern inbreds made by Richard Nixon; confirmed by “amiable dunce” Ronald Reagan who was smart enough to announce his candidacy as the proponent of “states’ rights” in Philadelphia, Mississippi, a dog whistle heard by every Southernist from coast to coast; followed up by “respectable” G.H.W. Bush and the “Willie Horton ad;” followed by the incendiary speakership of Newt Gingrich, who proved that the graduate of a Pennsylvania trailer park could be as good a Confederate as any Georgia peckerwood. The result of the loss to That Guy in 2008 was the party going full CuckooBird Crazy - the knuckle-draggers who attended Palin rallies carrying “monkey dolls” turned into the Tea Party, which was institutionalized in 2014 with the creation of the House Freedom Caucus..

From the swearing-in of the Tea Party-dominated 113th Congress in January 2011, the Republicans who actually believed in governing were in the minority and on the way out, whether they knew it or not. The “Establishment” that had previously laughed at the “kooks” who were now newly-sworn-in congress critters, realized that the part of the Republican base that had sent “those guys” was part of their support too.

From that point onward, the two factions of the party were in an unspoken alliance.

The Serious People who knew that the embarrassing grandstanding and performative nonsense the “crazies” were engaged in were sure that the crazies and “learned their lesson” with their failure in the 2013 government shut down that led to the credit rating of the country being lowered, with all the blame focused on the “crazies.” The Serious People just needed to be sure the “crazies” were kept in check.

The “frontman” in the House might have been John Boehner, but the Freedom Caucus that couldn’t govern openly could prevent him accomplishing anything they didn’t agree with. And when he didn’t say “How High” on the way up when they said “Jump!” he found himself obn the slow train to Palookaville.

All Donald Trump ever did was come along and toss a lit match into the fireworks factory.

All the white supremacy that had gown in the Party of Lincoln since 1964 - quietly, of course, the way such racial order is maintained privately in most of American history - finally achieved critical mass and the crock pot boiled over when Trump turned up the heat.

It wasn’t just that Trump didn’t know anyone in Washington to bring into government that the top people in his administration were all Freedom Caucus alumni. They recognized him for what he was: the guy with the key to them running the party openly

As Josh Marshall pointed out, “It’s not the case that every Republican member of Congress is the same as Jim Jordan or Matt Gaetz. But virtually all of them rely on a coalition of voters that wants to support Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz. That’s really all that matters. The GOP is a balkanized party made up of elected officials who either are Jim Jordan or aren’t willing to cross Jim Jordan.” Or as Will Saletan put it, “The GOP is a failed state and Donald Trump is its warlord.”

In fact, the “Republican Establishment” has been dead since January 6, 2021 when - mere hourse after a violent mob had assaulted the Capitol, 137 Republican members of Congress voted in favor of the mob.

What is going on this week is not a fight between the extremists and the establishment.

It’s between two camps of extremists.

McCarthy and the rest of the “establishment” were among those who refused to certify Biden’s Electoral College victory. McCarthy, would-be “replacement” Steve Scalis, and all the others have faithfully repeated the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen; they all pushed for an end to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate during the budget negotiations last month; they all gave money to Harriet Hageman to assure the defeat Liz Cheney in the Wyoming primary last summer; they all see Marjorie Taylor Greene as being worthy of major committee assignments; they’re all ready to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the first thing they did yesterday morning was to remove the magnetometers at the entrance to the House floor. They all failed to condemn the attack on Paul Pelosi; they were silent when Trump dined with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes; they support removing Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar, as “payback” for Democrats removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees. Even the ones who “support” Ukraine say there can be no “blank check. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan are among McCarthy’s strongest supporters now.

How has McCarthy and any of the “responsible Republicans” been different from the 20 House Freedom Caucus members?

Well, so far, neither McCarthy nor any of the “responsible Republicans” have taken positions like those of 20-19-2022 HFC leader Andy Biggs, who refused to wear a mask even at the height of the pandemic, sought a presidential pardon for participation in the fake elector conspiracy, voted against recognizing the Capitol police who defended him on January 6, opposed aid to Ukraine while the border with Mexico is unsecured, and opposed admitting Sweden and Finland to NATO.

None of them voted with Scott Perry, who opposed a House resolution condemning Qanon and recommended Jeffrey Clark be installed as Attorney General, and also requested a presidential pardon for his activities.

These views place the Freedom Caucus outside the realm of reason, but that didn’t stop McCarthy from announcing surrender to their demands. There is no price McCarthy would not pay, but there is no way for McCarthy to negotiate with people whose only aim is to be seen as opposing him.

This is the predictable end of a political party that descended into mindless demonization of Democrats, the “deep state, immigrants, the medical profession, the “woke” military, the FBI - because it was what its Foxified base demanded.

.And their would-be warlord has discovered he has no control over his minions, because the minions don’t see themselves as such.

Yesterday, people were asking, “Where is Trump in McCarthy’s hour of need?” It’s reported today that he was working the phones for McCarthy all day, but his pleas had no impact. There’s a story that those who received his calls responded to his request they support Kevin with suggestions that Trump should become their Speaker. Naturally, such obvious flattery is Trump’s ultimate aphrodisac; it put him off his demands for loyalty. But this evening, Lauren Boebert got up in the House and publicly told “my favorite president” that he should “knock off telling us to vote for Kevin McCarthy and start telling everyone else to stop (voting for McCarthy).”

Yes, the Purveyors of Conventional Wisdom say that the opposition to McCarthy comes from the fact the 20 rebels can’t trust him, despite his demonstration that he will give in to literally every t demand. But that isn’t enough because they want to break things. Breaking things is now their only goal. Right now, that thing top be broken is Kevin McCarthy.

But all this shows that they cannot be trusted with power. McCarthy and the House Republican caucus are now defined as unfit and weakened by their behavior these past two days.

They can probably kiss their tiny four-seat majority goodbye sooner than 2024, starting with the special election to replace George-Anthony Santos-Devlolder, or whatever his name really is.

They are the Breaking Things Party. That’s it.  

[That’s Another Fine Mess]

#TCinLA #That's Another Fine Mess #US House of Representatives #Chris Britt

[adamwitt]

tim sale 1: challengers of the unknown must die (1991)

Mainstream comics were a bit of a wasteland in 1991. Howard Mackie was resurrecting Ghost Rider and starting his path of destruction at Marvel Comics; a period that would later cause them much disrepair. Over in Amazing Spider-Man, Carnage, Venom’s more homicidal and of-the-times counterpart would debut, setting the stage for a bunch of stories no one ever needed to read anyway. On the opposite side of failure, the biggest comic of all time (if you buy into that sort of declaration, or read the sales charts) shipped: X-Men #1, by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee, establishing the tone and tempo that readers would see rehashed, reheated, and overcooked through the next thirty years. The previous paragraph may seem like it’s picking on Marvel. It is, to an extent, but DC wasn’t even publishing anything worth a note here. Do you need to know about the first appearance of Abbatoir? If you do, Bing it. How about Armageddon 2001? There’s probably an out-of-print omnibus you can find on eBay. On the independents, the tide was changing, and cartooning was having its day again. The debuts of Frank, Palookaville, Rubber Blanket, and Bone (Jim Woodring, Seth, David Mazzucchelli, and Jeff Smith, respectively) were coins in the wishing well of comics: “Let’s throw these in, see what happens...” Those coins would later become invaluable to the fabric of comics. One little wave in the well was Challengers of the Unknown Must Die. In 1991, the volume of comics, in the literal and figurative, was too loud and too expansive to sell a book like Challengers (hereafter referred to as CotU). The Direct Market is designed to sell Batman, the X-Men, and just about nothing else. CotU landed with little fanfare, selling on the strength of a Brian Bolland cover on the debut, and force of pure nostalgia. This is not to sell CotU as a high benchmark for comics. There are a ton of truly amazing things happening within the pages. The majority of these are executed by Tim Sale, who made his mainstream debut, and set his first collaboration with Jeph Loeb into motion. Reading CotU in 2022 is an interesting exercise. Does it hold up? Fantastically. Does it present any new ideas? Not necessarily. It finds itself firmly in the tropes of 1980s - 1990s superhero deconstruction, spurred on by the likes of, most importantly, Watchmen. Characters die in the first issue, characters debut in the first issue, and most importantly, Tim Sale does things on the page that would, today, win him incredible numbers of awards and admiration. It is a crying shame that Tim Sale’s work on CotU is overlooked in favor of his Marvel work or the Batman issues. Is it lesser from a script perspective? That could be argued. On Sale’s end, this is a stunningly mature, learned work that executes a lot of ideas in small space; it reads like a good Grant Morrison comic, in a period where Grant Morrison tended a bit darker. The upward moments, the moments of optimism, are understated in Loeb’s script, but delivered in full swing by Sale. As with any comic: this is an artist’s medium; Tim Sale does things on the page in CotU, in the first issue alone, that you will not see replicated in any superhero comic, and will leave you breathless. He executes truly stunning violence with moments of pathos; he balances, deftly, Loeb’s wordy script, with a master’s hand at how much space to leave on the page, where (and most importantly, how) to show off, and when to state business at quiet. The big moments soar, the violence lands like an axe, and we haven’t even gotten to the page layouts. If you publish CotU in 2022, it wins awards for its page layouts alone. In the first issue, we see some of the pencil-and-ink acrobatics Tim Sale would later be a comics-household name for. Pages flip without our hands on them; layouts literally shatter on the page; grids bleed with personality and shine. This is a case where, like American Flagg!, if it had a more robust print run, everyone would’ve been put under its influence. Flagg!, in its time, had the critics. CotU did not. As such, it dies a death to the ravages of age, but remains timeless on a re-read. Sale’s choice to let blood drip down panels into the bottom of the page borders, making sustained images absolutely defy the idiotic arguments that these “shots” are “lazy” (and mind you, this is 1991), and casually chipping parts off of pages, or twisting images into the likes of the aforementioned wishing well waves. CotU is a dazzling and overlooked work of comics genius. It’s easy to call that a 50/50 effort on the parts of Mssrs. Loeb and Sale, but the sharp readers know this: it’s an artist’s medium. Always has been, always will be.

Even in 1991.

#tim sale #comics

[mitjalovse]

Some probable retirement albums are not really in such a final vein, they more or less represent a long break. Look, Fatboy Slim still works, he even released many singles, but I am surprised he hasn't made any LPs since Palookaville. Then again, the disc found him searching for his old self after he tried to dismantle the latter on his Halfway Between The Gutter and The Stars. To be honest, he merely followed the paths of his big beat peers that have struggled to find themselves outside the mainstream.  However, The Chemical Brothers, to give you an example, moved on, whereas Fatboy Slim became more nostalgic than one assume he would later on, because his 90's foretold a different future for him and the latter included more long plays.

#fatboy slim #palookaville #song for chesh #norman cook #00's music #electronica

[fishingcatz]

anybody ever been to Palookaville

[bradleythomasenfield]

PENNY - (The Lonely Clown) - Welcome To Uptown Palookaville _ Home Of T...

#youtube

[bradleyenfield]

PENNY - (The Lonely Clown) - Welcome To Uptown Palookaville _ Home Of T...

#youtube