Have you been to celebtags.com yet? It seems like a social experiment of sorts where you type in the first thing that comes to your head when you see a celebrities photo and it puts the answers into a TAG CLOUD where the most common phrases get LARGER. The largest word for Anjelina Jolie is HOT of course. The largest for Johnny Depp is COOL…naturally. But can you guess what the most common for Michael Jackson is? I said Lady but you can go figure it out for yourself…

via the now famous pixeloo.blogspot.com:

Stewie Griffin Detooned looks like a very young Mackulay Culkin.

Wootie woo! Its time for another AvantTrash contest! This time we have teamed up with Filter Magazine to bring you into the world of The Republic Tigers! Hailing from Kansas City, the Tigers emerged from the ashes of Golden Republic and have been adding steam to their buzz train with a performance last Thursday on Letterman and an upcoming tour with Nada Surf! AliUptown herself of this very blog will be catching them June 8th at Ribfest in Chicago we suggest you do the same should they meander into your areas*.

Here is your chance to pick up their lovely new album Keep Color** as well as an awesome DAKINE Messenger Bag. This isn’t Target stuff, this is fancy bag you want to throw your iPods, Obama Buttons and Moleskine SketchBooks in and strap to your bagless vegan/indie/hipster butt.

There will be 2 winners for this contest:
- First Prize gets and autographed copy of the CD Keep Color along with a Republic Tigers T-Shirt.
- Grand Prize takes a copy of Keep Color as well as the DAKINE Medic Street Series over-the-shoulder travel bag, a favorite of The Republic Tigers. It retails for $60 if that makes you want to win it even more.

So get ready to roll up your right pant leg and ride your fixie down to the Pure Luck cause here comes the CONTEST!

The last contest was easy, this contest is an education! We want you to be smart enough to put some books into your brand new bag. The Republic Tigers hail from Kansas City, close to our old neck of the woods. And knowing what Midwest pride is all about I have decided to show you 4 pieces of Kansas City Paraphernalia (spellcheck, are you sure thats how thats supposed to look?) and all YOU have to do is NAME WHAT IS PICTURED (click to enlarge) and you’ll be entered to win! Send your answers to contest@avanttrash.com and 2 winners will be drawn and quartered at random after the contests’ end at 11:59pm PST on Sunday, June 1st. Here we go:

1. SUBJECT: ARTS & HUMANITIES

2. SUBJECT: SPORTS

3. SUBJECT: CURRENT EVENTS

4. SUBJECT: HISTORY

BONUS: THE FUTURE

Good Luck and stay tuned for reviews and photos from a long Memorial Day weekend!

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*Your geographic areas, not your other areas.
Republic Tigers Tour Dates:
MAY
28 Mt. Pleasant, SC – Village Tavern
29 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 w/The Helio Sequence
30 Athens, GA – Center Stage Theatre #
31 Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits #
JUNE
1 Orlando, FL – The Social #
2 Miami, FL – Studio A #
3 St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre #
5 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge #
6 Memphis, TN – TBA #
7 St. Louis, MO – Bluebird #
8 Chicago, IL – Ribfest Chicago #
9 Indianapolis, IN – The Music Mill #
10 Columbus, OH – The Basement #
11 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern #
# w/ Nada Surf

**As heard on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl and wherever modern alternative rock radio knows whats good for them.

It sits on the charging dock all night, then dies on my way to work when I put it on shuffle. Or it just plain freezes until it’s connected to a power source again. What an asshole. I’ve had it for a few years, so I’m not exactly surprised that it’s nearing its end. The idea of not having one terrifies me in ways even I don’t understand. It’s like a security blanket, and it’s a great excuse to ignore people, plus I really enjoy having a soundtrack to my life. But cripes, I’m not sure if I have an extra few hundred to shell out for a new one. intr0vert says I should wait until the next generation iPhone comes out.

But the thought of my iPod completely giving up before then is enough to give me nightmares.

I just sold my Zune mp3 player. For practically nothing. Granted, my mom won it in a drawing, so I shouldn’t complain. I’d even consider using it if I still had a PC. I don’t quite understand the negative stigma attached to the Zune-I know it’s no iPod, but I didn’t mind it when I still used it.

This is definitely not high up on my concerns/priorities list, survival being at the top of course. But it certainly is the icing on the shitcake that is my life these days. Wah, right? If my life soundtrack was on, it’d be playing Travis’ “Why does it always rain on me?”.

Ouch, that’s emo.

A few months back I predicted the winners of 2008. Now LAist is drinking my Kool-Aid with a story about Hotel Cafe records’ first release Jim Bianco. You can go read whatever they wrote or just take my word for it 2 months ago. BTW the record jacket is sub-par and you can call me when you want some pro-class work done.

They mention jumbo’s clown room in the interview which AliUptown and I recently visited and its really not much to boast about. But we’ll forgive a couple of girls because we are pretty sure they are preschool teachers during the daytime.

I haven’t done a food post in a while. So after seeing Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s in the far away land of Echo Park tonight (Thanks for the ride back Shawn, Ollie and Brad) I made it back to Hollywood to catch a rare acoustic performance by The Used. And after a drinking a couple PBR’s at a nearby party to forget that last event I stopped by a hotdog purveyor just north of cherokee (or some shit) to be sure to try every shitty hot dog vendor in Hollywood. I tried arab Jay’s Hot Dog tonight and they don’t even come close to the little latino ladies’ wieners. And it took forever! So now you know. Or just go to Pink’s. At 3am its not that long of a line as the bar rush will have died down.

Or just drink a glass of water and go the fuck to bed like you probably should.

3 Reviews, Photos and a Contest coming in the next couple days.

Geez yo, I haven’t posted here in forev! Not since intr0vert’s/my joint postings (and by joint I mean me throwing in my two cents while napping on the couch as he typed) during my visit to Hollywood. Speaking of, I thought maybe some of yous (anyone?) would be interested to know about my goings on in the city of angels and dirtbags.

intr0vert was an excellent tour guide and host, my experience wouldn’t have been half as enriched if he hadn’t been my guide. I must admit, when he made the trip to Chicago for my birthday, I probably wasn’t the best tour guide-I’d only been there 7 months and didn’t have my tour guide/public transportation chops up to par yet. (I’ll do better next time, I promise!)

Let me share with you a few misguided misconceptions I had about L.A.:

-You can’t smoke anywhere in L.A.

Mostly I got this idea from Sex & the City, when Carrie goes to L.A. to meet with a production company , and is prevented from smoking wherever she goes, even on the outside deck of her hotel room. (“I have an addiction sir!”) I guess I also had this impression because of the whole Hollywood health/physical appearance obsession that I read about in the news on Perez all the time. I was surprised that a few places we went to had smoking rooms, some were not even open air. Chicago is not down with that shit. You can’t even smoke in outdoor seating areas here. Anywho-doesn’t really affect me, just an observation.

-Nobody walks in L.A.

Again, another thing I’ve heard through the grapevine of pop culture media. I was assuming that since everyone drives in L.A., that nobody walks. Not so, my friends. Oh, we drove almost everywhere…but then we parked 10 blocks away. Parking in L.A. is just as bad as most parts of Chicago. Any parking you find here is either permit parking only or will cost you $50. Not a big deal, I don’t ever wanna be the girl that bitches about how far away the car is, but it did limit my cute shoe options. You see, its a delicate ratio. Typically as the cuteness of the shoe goes up, its comfort level goes down.

On a side note: I also thought that there was no worthwhile public transportation there. I met an actual human being that took a bus to work everyday. Even intr0vert was considering trying the train out as a daily commute. And my experiences on the subway were fairly pleasant. Although, I’m not sure the idea of an underground train on a fault line sits well with me. I’m just sayin.

-Everyone in L.A. is beautiful and glamorous (thanks to Fergie, I can spell that word now).

Oh, there were plenty of beautiful people there. But there were a lot of really unspecial people there, too. The air in Hollywood was thick with ego, which didn’t surprise me so much. What surprised me was that I was expecting the clothes to make the man a little more. Actually, the woman. The chicks there seemed to fall into two categories: The strapless tube dress complete with hooker shoes (do hookers call them ‘work shoes’?) and makeup applied with a paintball gun, or cutesy, hipster chicks. I’m typically the type of girl that prefers to be overdressed, rather than under dressed. And don’t get me wrong, I wear a lot of makeup. A drag queenish amount. On a daily basis.

So…famous people. I was promised by intr0vert at least three sightings. The first was only half a sighting, as it was just Jael from America’s Next Top Model a couple seasons ago. She was a hot tranny mess on Hollywood, trashy outfit, crazy pink furry hat, and I’m sure was operating on one or more psychiatric drugs. We also saw Janeane Garafalo walking in Studio City and Vincent Kartheiser (from Angel-I’m a vampire nerd, remember?) at the Magic Castle. Some others too, I can’t remember. Some dude from a teen movie bummed me a smoke. Good shit, huh?

I will have to make this a to-be-continued post. Even though it was like two weeks ago. Lots happened, and I’m sure people are riveted by my recounts of my vacation. Long story short (too late!), Hollywood did not disappoint. More soon, I promise.

Victory goes to the kids. I think with more people in the world, the competition will cause the rate of evolution to speed up to make stronger, smarter kids. Which is good! The world is fucked and someone has to fix it. It’s a good thing these 1st graders are smarter than whomever birthed these proverbs. I think they work better now and we should probably replace the old ones. Take that deep thinkers of the past!

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A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.

Better to be safe than………………..Punch a 5th grader
Strike while the …………………….Bug is close
It’s always darkest before…………… Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of……….Termites
You can lead a horse to water but……..how?
Don’t bite the hand that…………….. looks dirty
No news is…………………………..impossible
A miss is as good as a……………….Mr.
You can’t teach an old dog new…………math
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll………stink in the morning
Love all, trust……………………..me
The pen is mightier than the…………..pigs
An idle mind is……………………..The best way to relax
Where there’s smoke there’s……………pollution
Happy the bride who…………………..gets all the presents
A penny saved is……………………..not much
Two’s company, three’s………………..the Musketeers
Don’t put off till tomorrow what……….you put on to go to bed
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and…….you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as………………….Stevie Wonder
Children should be seen and not………..spanked or grounded
If at first you don’t succeed………….get new batteries
You get out of something what you………see pictured on the box
When the blind leadeth the blind……….get out of the way

And the favorite:

Better late than…………………….pregnant.

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via Monoscope via Boulder Therapist
Don’t let your mom see this or she’ll be forwarding it to everyone in her address book. That’s how spam gets spread ya know.

2 winners have been drawn from the 27 correct entries for the Elvis Costello Momofuku contest!

The grand prize winner of the Elvis Costello Vinyl LP is Jim Schaefer of Kannapolis, NC who says, “Wooooo…hooooooo.Thanks so much intr0vert! Avanttrash always rocks, always did, and always will! Thanks again.”
The winner of the Elvis Costello CD is Brenda Helgeson from Cotton Grove, OR who was drawn first but opted for the CD. She says, “omg! i love this win, i’m such a huge fan. thank you very much.”

Thanks to everyone who entered!
The Answers were: 1. Costello, 2. Costello, 3. Presley, 4. Costello.
The Answers to the Bonus Dealbreaker Questions were: Elvis Costello interrupted “Less Than Zero” on SNL to play “Radio, Radio” and went on to Interrupt the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” to play “Radio, Radio” with the boys as his backing band. Both winners got this right!

A couple people were kinda clueless and didn’t recognize #1 and 4 as Mr. Costello. I was looking for this seriously haggard photo of him playing in a gold bedazzled baseball cap, visibly overweight and bearded in the late-80s/early-90s from SNL or Letterman.

We will have another contest starting up this week so keep checking back and keep the comments coming! I’m super jealous to everyone who has tickets to the Police/Elvis Costello show at the Hollywood Bowl just a couple blocks away next week. If you have an extra let me know and I’ll let you park in my space!

I think Ellen should have punched that geriatric fuckhead in his puckered ferret face when she had the chance. Maybe she could have at least verbally reduced him to the sniveling, pathetic dinosaur turd that he is.

Ellen had Senator John McLiverspot on her show and the discussion of Gay Marriage inevitably came up and McDouchebag actually had the shriveled balls to maintain anything but eye contact and “respectfully disagree” with her in saying that MARRIAGE is only a contractual agreement and not real unless it is between a man and a woman. Marriage must be totally sacred for a divorced cocksucker like McCain?

This asshole makes me want to puke. You lose your war veteran sympathy when you are a prick like that. He’s the asshole who has said he wants to stay in the war for 100 years if thats what it takes. Pretty fucking pathetic when you consider that it’s been revealed that the catalyst for Vietnam was also false. This means that his friends were killed and he was tortured for NOTHING just like all of the dead soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting for this IMAGINARY “War on Terror”. I hope his bus crashes into a ditch full of AIDS.

Hillary can ride shotgun. Get a clue, bitch, we’re just not that into you.

Dear Joan Jett and Prince,

Not many people can pull off purple but you both do so beautifully, Congratulations.  I would like to know, Is bisexuality the fountain of youth? I think that if you two had a baby it would live to be 150 years old and would die looking 60 at the most. And if it held a guitar it would simultaneously give boners and moistness to everyone that laid eyes upon it without playing a note. Better yet, you should have a hot set of wonder twins. And tell them it’s ok to make out cause we will want to see that anyway.

Sincerely,
intr0vert

I was watching something really stupid on YouTube and in the video cue there was Joan Jett’s version of “Do You Wanna Touch Me” from 1982 so I had to watch it and she really doesn’t look that much different even though it’s been 26 years since that came out. Of course i had to Wiki her age because my internal calculations were telling me that she had to be a teenager when she was with the Runaways in the late 70’s and still doesnt look nearly 40 but logically had to be at least 45 and I found out that she was born in 1958! She will be 50 years old in September!

And It made me think of equally ageless Mr. Purple. AliUptown and I have had the pleasure of seeing both immortals live in the last few years and they of course have barely lost a step or forged a wrinkle. Prince Rogers Nelson, for the record will be 50 on June 7th. Were they dumping fluoride in the great lakes in 1958? Or has nobody reminded them that human beings typically age.

Sorry there was no insight to this post, just an observation.

The Elvis Costello “Momofuku” contest ends Wednesday (tonight) at 11:59pm.

Go Here and Enter!

And to clarify (and i totally shouldn’t have to.) There are 4 pictures of either Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley. You tell me which of the Elvi (Elvae?) it is and you are entered to win Elvis Costello’s new album “Momofuku” on CD or Big 12″ 33RPM Vinyl Analog LP.

Thanks to Filter Magazine for their support!
MORE CONTESTS COMING SOON!

Filter and MTV have set up 5 summer movies next week for advanced screenings in the L.A. Area.

So iffa yous interested in seeing: You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,  The Foot Fist Way,  The Rocker, Kung Fu Panda or The Pineapple Express then click on: http://www.mtvsneakpeekweek.com/ and RSVP.

The bonus of all of this is that stars from each of the movies will be there and doing Q & A’s: Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, James Franco, Rainn Wilson, you get the picture.

I only watch TV one night of the week. I dont really have to watch it at all anymore thanks to Hulu. But if I’m at home, and its Sunday night then I’m watching The Simpsons, Family Guy, et all. So the worst ending to the week comes on after American Dad in the form of Los Angeles’ nightly news. In the meager 8 minutes i let FOX LA stay on in the background there were 4 violent stories, mostly involving the police and their incompetence. The best/worst one involving the Long Beach Police tasering and shooting a 125 lb. terminally ill lung cancer patient with mental illness. Of course the eyewitness testimony was completely different than the police spokesperson. It seems that the cop accidentally popped the guy tasered on the ground and the police made up a bullshit story that they guy had retard strength and withstood batons and tasers to grab a policeman’s nightstick and they had to take him down. In what fucking fantasy world are tasers ineffective? If you have muscles and nerves then they are going to fuck you up because thats what electricity does to you. Are they hiring out-of-work screenwriters as police spokesmen now?

Have you ever seen the 1988 John Carpenter classic They Live starring Rowdy Roddy Piper? It’s amazing! In the story Roddy finds these glasses that filter out what the media is telling you to its base element. For example, a Mcdonalds billboard would just say EAT or CONSUME and politicians are just telling you to OBEY. (Yes that’s where Sheperd Fairy’s mark came from…and they also see aliens in their true form). So what I see for that short period of time before I shut the tv off in disgust is that:

Your police are violent and will fucking shoot you and get paid leave and are never wrong so do what they say. Also, don’t leave the house, here are some car and food commercials. You’ll be safe if you have this car and won’t have to be a responsible driver. This fast food will make you a closer, more happy family; no home prepared meal can. Go into debt to afford things that are newer because that makes them better and that will make you a better person. Here are some tips to save a nickel or a dime off of a 3 dollar purchase as long as you don’t pay attention to how much of your income your many loan payments are. *click*

There are upwards of 17 million people in the Los Angeles-Riverside-Long Beach area. Of course crazy shit is going to happen but should I be watching a completely unbalanced “report” of it? There is no community catharsis or instructions on what you can do about having terrible public servants. There is no advice on how you can make your own community stronger. They are telling you that the viewing public doesn’t want to see that anyway. They’d show that stuff but they’d lose raitings and they’d lose sponsors. It’s bullshit and I’m not going to watch a second of it anymore, ever. I don’t see who it helps for that to be out in front of anybody if it doesn’t accomplish anything. The citizens of the Long Beach community should have beaten those officers critically with their own clubs and tasers and the anchors should have been the people to give them the order. “I don’t know about you Suzi but if some fucking redneck asshole cops killed my unarmed dying family member, I would beat the shit out of them and park their squad car on their throats.”

On top of that its been hot as fuck here. It’s summer, there are going to be a lot of crazy things happening and I know the news will only be painting a more desperate story. I know I sound like a hippie here but where is the Peace and Love, man? I though weed was legal in this motherfucker? And we can marry whomever the fuck we want! Lets fire the cops and fucking celebrate! Gah, its hot… I need a shower.

Don’t take any guff from these fucking swine.

If you can say anything about Ladytron its that their style has always been constant. There will always be great vintage synth sounds, good beats, and some hot Bulgarian-Glaswegian tag team vocals. 604 and Light & Magic are unquestionably hipster masterworks good enough to make anyone dress in black and go to indie fashion shows. It’s certainly what kept me up at 3am sculpture and ceramics labs in art college. But in the last few years I as a fan have been questioning the potentcy of their trademark style. When Witching Hour came out I started noticing less and less scortchers like “Seventeen” and “Flicking Your Switch” leading me to think that Ladytron might be losing their cool. This is more apparent on Velocifero, which seems to work really well as background working music and not the dancefloor ragers of just a few years ago. Maybe one of the differences is that the songs have gotten so much longer. The music that used to seem like a glimmer for dj’s to build off of is now a drone to be swallowed by white noise. Velocifero is not unlistenable, just hard to praise. It comes out June 9th but if possible catch them on tour this summer with Norway’s Datarock. The highlight of the album may be their current single “Ghosts” now available on iTunes with a bevy of upscale remixes. I’ll say this about the simplicity of Ladytrons music, it lends itself very well to remixes. Sometimes, you can hardly tell which was the original.

Ladytron may just be what they’ve always been, an amazing band to shop to.

Ladytron’s Velocifero (Nettwerk) gets a 4/10 with hopes that the next album brings a bit of an overhaul to their sound (like more guitar).

Some albums get better over time. When an album comes out and you really like it you listen to the shit out of it and then you let it go for a while, and then if it’s really good you can come back to it and its just as great as it was. Sometimes those albums reach that “personal favorite” status by some magical form of musical inflation (even in a recession). Elvis Costello does that a lot (King of America, My Aim Is True). And sometimes I forget how good he is because he’s been making amazing music for so long. And I don’t think I’m being premature here but I’ve given his new record Momofuku (on Lost Highway) a few listens now and it’s pretty fucking good. You will hear a lot of that Attractions sound thanks to the keyboard work of Steve Nieve (see Vox Continental Organ in “American Gangster Time”) and the new addition that you’ll really like is the subtle backing vocals from the queen of Silverlake, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis. (Perhaps most audible on “No Hiding Place” and the final track “Go Away”) When I’d heard they were working together I thought it would be like a duet album but really she is just a backing vocalist like it says in the liner notes. I guess they really couldn’t have called it just an Elvis album if she was any more prominent.

Momofuku has the right mix of moderate rocking in tracks like “Stella Hurt” and mellowness in the latin rhythmed “Harry Worth” and is super solid overall. Because of this, Momofuku has been added to my Saturday afternoon being-lazy-and-pretending-to-clean-my-apartment music. I never notice the lyrics in a piece of music first, I hear them and sometimes I note lines that stick out but I follow the melodies and let the music build in my head until after a few listens I hear the album overall as it is. This makes Elvis’ music last a bit longer to me because after you peel away all the layers of this bloomin’ onion of great musicianship and perfect songwriting there are some AMAZING lyrics waiting to find you. And the great thing about it is that when you get done with it, you can let it go for a while, come back, and it might be even better than now.

So I’m gonna give Momofuku an 8/10.

“…to the bridge”

And now the CONTEST! AvantTrash and Filter Magazine have teamed up again to give away Elvis Costello’s new album Momofuku on CD and VINYL to one lucky reader. Actually though, i think i’ll break this up and give the VINYL to the first place and the CD to the 2nd place winner.

So I’m gonna make this game easy. I’ll show you 4 Elvis’ and you just have to tell me whether its Elvis Presley or Elvis Costello:

1)

2)

3)

4)

Bonus dealbreaker question: What song did Elvis Costello interrupt on SNL to play “Radio, Radio” and with whom did he perform “Radio, Radio” years later on SNL?

Send your ANSWERS ONLY to: contest@avanttrash.com. I will ask for your info if you are a winner. Winners will be selected at random from the CORRECT entries. Dealbreaker is simply for my amusement.

This contest ends WEDNESDAY, MAY 21st at 11:59pm PST.

The Winner of the T-Rex Contest is Elinor Artsy of Somerville, Massachusetts. She was the first person to email me and her name was drawn at random from the 13 correct answers. There were 30-40 some entrants mostly disqualified because some d-bags just emailed their personal info and nothing else. Did they expect free stuff for NOTHIN’? Pa Shaw!

Elinor says,

“Thank you so much for the Wallpaper. goods and the colored disco ball (new dance party backdrop)! I rarely win online contests, so it’s an even bigger thrill to win something I want.

I <3 Avanttrash.com. Definitely in my favorites list.”

Thanks Elinor! And if you didn’t win then FRET NOT because we have 2 contests coming up in the next couple weeks. The next is coming tomorrow and involves some vinyl and and the bespectacled King of America… from England.

Stay tuned…

I must live in the most laid-back State ever. It used to be I could just legally get high*, now i can marry whomever-the-fuck I want.**!

via the New York Times:

The California Supreme Court, striking down two state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman, ruled Thursday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.

The court’s 4-to-3 decision, drawing on a ruling six decades ago that struck down the state’s ban on interracial marriage, would make California only the second state, after Massachusetts, to allow same-sex marriages.

So girly dudes and manly chicks, get to hitchin’ before religious assholes in the suburbs try to ban it again.

* With the proper medical malady to do so… which is pretty much anything. And i’m going to say stress.

** Not that I would it’s just a total bonus that I can. It’s just good to know its there, like the knife I keep under the seat in my car.

Because I live where I live, sometimes I randomly catch some awesome events. Tonight for example at the Chinese Theatre I saw a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark done over 7 years in the mid-80’s by a couple of kids in Mississippi (max age 17ish). Presented by Eli Roth (as in, he was there and talking at length about this film’s journey) Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation was kitsch gold. I wished that all of the Dead Lantern/Grand Horror crew was there to see this DIY masterpiece. It probably won’t ever make it to DVD because of the obvious copyright restrictions but it has been making the indie-theatre circuit for 5 years with the blessing of Mr. Roth who hooked the filmmakers up with a renewed career in film and even a meeting with Stephen Speilberg himself.

Spinning from this amazing backstory is a Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) screenplay and Paramount project in the works based on the kids who made it (now in their late 30s).

When I get to catch things like this, it’s pretty fucking rad to live here.

We’ve had quite a few entries for the T-Rex contest. We’ve also had quite a few CONFUSED people who have just sent their address and info (down to their birthdates).

So to clear up the confusion:
Here is a link to THE WALLPAPER T-REX CONTEST, in order to enter it you must answer the 4 T-Rex questions and send your answers to contest@avanttrash.com. M’Kay? Simple.

You have until 11:59 tonight, good luck.

My Birthday was great yesterday, thank you!