http://toestubber.com Music That Makes You Go "Ouch" Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:56:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’re back after a five-month hiatus. No explanations will be forthcoming. Let’s get right to it. This blog (if you can still call it that after five months) is no stranger to Japanese TV and movie themes, and, well, I did promise, oh, let’s see… five goddamn months ago… to post ... http://toestubber.com/archives/102 The week since my return from Tokyo has been flavored with the worst jet lag I’ve ever experienced. Eleven-hour sleeping jags punctuated with ridiculous insomniac episodes. As Yoshi says, in his most disdainful voice, “Of course.” Anyway, the city was awesome, as predicted. I love this place. When I was younger, ... http://toestubber.com/archives/101 Bye bye for the next couple of weeks… I’ll be over in Tokyo, getting showered with cherry blossoms, attending noise-rock shows and sleeping in the finest of capsule hotels. Not like I would have updated much anyway, but hell, if you’re still reading this blog I suppose you’re owed an ... http://toestubber.com/archives/100 From Rotten.com via Boing Boing, here’s a collection of horrible skin diseases from The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic, a New York-published 1911 atlas of 3-D medical photos - rendered as 32 hypnotically vibrating, creepy-crawly GIFs. If, after that, you need to cleanse your mental palate (and who could blame you?), simply click ... http://toestubber.com/archives/99 In the audio-trading underground, there’s a tinier subculture of folks who are tickled by the artfully phoned prank. Yes, we collect tapes and CDs of anonymous pricks fucking with unsuspecting victims over the phone. Okay… it’s kind of an infantile concept, I’ll admit. Socially conscious, mature adults should be above ... http://toestubber.com/archives/98 Did anyone notice I was away, studying Japanese, trading CDs and wallowing in my own wastes? I hope so; a fella likes to feel noticed, even when he’s hiding in a dark apartment. Welcome to my world! Let’s see… Whoa. Six weeks since my last post of any literary substance! S’pose ... http://toestubber.com/archives/97 This YouTube video in this post has been removed per the request of the artist. (@10-7-2007) http://toestubber.com/archives/96 My friend Miles who introduced me to the Welsh band Budgie always had a theory that they missed out on the sales and success of Black Sabbath (who sometimes had a similar sound - tight but sludgy guitars, falsetto singer - and who shared with Budgie the services of legendary ... http://toestubber.com/archives/95