i’m about to turn 30. it’s a sad fact that i’m trying to come to terms with. in an effort to document this personal milestone i’ve decided to make useless lists of all my favorite stuff from the last 30 years. up next my favorite movies from 1978-2008

Top 30 Movies Of the Last 30 Years

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raising Arizona
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. This Is Spinal Tap
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
7. Blade Runner
8. Animal House
9. Die Hard
10. The Royal Tenebaums
11. Boogie Nights
12. Trainspotting
13. Goodfellas
14. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
15. Children Of Men
16. Dazed And Confused
17. Alien
18. Rushmore
19. Fight Club
20. Apocalypse Now
21. The Goonies
22. Heathers
23. Unforgiven
24. The Big Lebowski
25. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
26. City Of God
27. Ed Wood
28. Edward Scissorhands
29. Stand By Me
30. Lost In Translation

Posted by justin on 30 Jun 2008 at 08:04 am

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i’m turning 30 this year…actually in just a few months. it’s a sad fact that i must come to terms with soon. to honor the things i loved and loathed and that shaped me as a person i am beginning a series of lists of things from the last 30 years.

My Top 30 Favorite Albums Of the Last 30 Years (78-08)

1. Nirvana- In Utero
2. Sonic Youth- Day Dream Nation
3. Pixies- Doolittle
4. Radiohead- OK Computer
5. The Replacements- Let It Be
6. Black Flag- Damaged
7. Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
8. Gang of Four- Entertainment!
9. The Jesus And Mary Chain- Psychocandy
10. The Clash- London Calling
11. The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead
12. Nirvana- Nevermind
13. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
14. Beastie Boys- Paul’s Boutique
15. Fugazi- Repeater
16. Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
17. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
18. Radiohead- The Bends
19. N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton
20. Sonic Youth- Sister
21. Elliott Smith- Either/Or
22. The Strokes- Is This It
23. Slayer- Reign In Blood
24. Nation Of Ulysses- Plays Pretty For Baby
25. The Stone Roses- Stone Roses
26. Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
27. Pixies- Surfer Rosa
28. Refused- The Shape Of Punk To Come
29. White Stripes- Elephant
30. Michael Jackson- Thriller

Posted by justin on 28 Jun 2008 at 10:59 am

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the internets might be the single greatest invention for bored people and perverts ever. in the beginning it was just dial up porn… but then came other things to do inbetween masturbating. the following are 6 websites that i had slight obsessions with and then suddenly had no interest in at all and the moments that made that so.

1. rotten.com- when i was in highschool at just the point when people started the get the Internet and all that was out there was porn and chatrooms. but where could a twisted 17 year old kid could go look at clips of people being hit by trains, photos of shark attacks, and the autopsy reports of dead celebrities? luckily rotten.com had all of that in one convenient spot.

moment i realized i was over it: i’m not actually sure when i quit looking at gross shit on this site, but after September 11th there really wasn’t any sort of horror that was ever gonna top what i watched all day on the news.

2. the onion- the original fake news. i spent countless hours scrolling through article after article on this site. emailing links to my friends. printing out all my favorite ones and compiling them in a notebook to read again and basically just laughing my ass off.

moment i was over it: when i started to notice that the Onion was recycling old articles pretty regularly for new issues and then also when i realized that the headlines themselves were usually way funnier than any of the articles inside.

3. Art Of the Mix- a website completely dedicated to one of my all time favorite obsessions, the making of mix tapes (and later cds). my love affair with this site lasted for years. you can go back and look at mixes i’ve posted from all the way back to 1999. it was great, you could post your own mixes. comment on other people’s mixes. get voted mix of the week (two times for me). and meet people who you could trade mixes with.

moment i was over it: this was a slow process as i regularly posted mixes on a weekly or daily basis until about 2005, then it began to trail off a bit. i only posted 3 mixes in the entire year of 2006 and then it picked up a bit again last year but for the most part my love was over. besides, i have an ipod. i don’t need mix cds or tapes anymore.

4. buddyhead.com- the perfect website for a jaded, snarky fan of underground rock. buddyhead was a website based out of LA run by these two kids who just posted gossip about bands, made fun of everyone and everything, and talked about cool music that i usually liked. it was pretty awesome, especially because it was at the height of illegal downloading sites, so any new band they’d mention i could usually go find some of their songs and download. plus Buddyhead regularly harassed Uber-Douche Fred Durst and would post his phone number on the site so that people could call and harass him. it was all wonderful and juvenile.

moment i said fuck this shit: when Buddyhead just turned into the Sour Grapes website and they would diss bands that they’d championed for whatever petty reason. also they spent more time promoting their record label and their bands and less time posting hilarious gossip posts or record reviews. getting too big for your britches is always a bad thing for a website. i think whenever it was that they started to think they were actually important then they became the thing they were always making fun of.

5. Deadspin- the anti ESPN blog for people who were fed up with Yankees/Redsox 24 7 and Chris Berman’s stupid nicknames. Deadspin was funny and snarky and pretty much a sports version of Buddyhead. i loved it, even if it was was really just a bunch of links to other people’s blogs. it was still a perfect place to go read hilarious rips on ESPN and how the world wide leader had lost their way. hell it even inspired me to start writing my own damn sports blog.

moment it was dead to me: deadspin moderator/creator/main contributor till he got a real job working for a magazine, Will Leitch constantly wrote about his lover affair with former Cardinals pitcher Rick Ankiel who made an amazing comeback as an outfielder last year, highlighted by him hitting a homerun in his second game back int the majors…blah blah blah. after about the 10th straight post on the subject i posted a comment that said, “who cares besides you?” and then got banned from commenting on the site ever again. really? so being a voice of descent against ESPN is ok because their big an evil, but daring to make fun of a deadspin post about Will’s boyfriend is totally unacceptable. that my friends is called being lame.

6. myspace- it really started with friendster, but then myspace came along and took all the things about friendster that were good and then combined those things with blogs, music pages, the ability to personalized your own site, and iming thereby making friendster look like beta max being compared to DVD. all in all myspace’s real charm lay in the fact it was a good place to meet sluts. and no value can be put on that.

moment i was over it: when i realized i wasn’t obsessively checking it every 20 minutes and wasn’t even writing people that i was friends with. then i just went back to email.

Posted by justin on 27 Jun 2008 at 10:05 am

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three quick reviews of three albums i’ve gotten recently

Spiritualized- Songs in A&E
Jason Pierce makes a record about death that sounds like the sequel to his masterpiece Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating Through Space. if you dig Spiritualized then you’ll dig this record. it’s a depressing and uplifting. songs about god, love, and drugs…aka all the usual suspects. it’s good music to listen to while you lay in bed and look at the ceiling.

No Age- Nouns
call them My Punky Valentine. this is what the kids are listening to right now. best new band i’ve heard in a good while. although it’s just a duo, they manage to sound like My Bloody Valentine doing Germs tunes. best album of the year so far.

The Virgins- The Virgins
call it most disappointing release of 08. i really dug their EP from last year. it was like a dancy version of the Strokes. their debut album just takes all the songs from last year’s EP and records them making them sound slick and overproduced and the rest of the album is filler. this is why it’s always a bad idea to give bands time and money. whatever, fuck these guys.

Posted by justin on 25 Jun 2008 at 02:00 pm

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this picture was taken outside of Sam’s in Athens (which is about as liberal as a town can actually be in the South and still be considered Southern). now at first i was hoping that the NOBAMA was an anti-Crimson Tide statement, but i’m leaning a little more towards anti-Obama with this one. one would assume that this guy thinks that a vote for Barrack is a vote for Terrorists or something like that.

damn terrorist fist pumps!

but seriously…do you really think this is honoring the troops or the people who died in 9/11?

Posted by justin on 24 Jun 2008 at 01:13 pm

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Come see Kindercore’s newest groop The Young Sinclairs drop their psyche rock pscience at the Caledonia this Thursday along with SUNKING!, The New Sound of Numbers and Houseguest.

Download Engineer Man to get a glimpse of what to expect - engineer-man.mp3

Check the boys out on MySpace and make friends HERE.

Posted by ryan on 24 Jun 2008 at 12:38 pm

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So, I totally made this as a response to Ryans post but didn’t get a chance to post it because of the great kindercore.com pwnage of 08 (thanks hacker jerks! you guys are buttheads!) and because uh… I’m lazy. So, old joke, I know, but here it is now:

Also: apparently there’s this site out there that gives away free indie games? Right now, they’ve got a pretty great, bombastic, totally metal, old-school shmup called Jets n Guns. The website claims that developers get paid for featuring their game on the site, though I have to wonder how good the deal is for them. I guess it must be, though, because I don’t know why devs would take part in it otherwise. Where does this giveawayoftheday.com get their revenue I wonder? There’s only a couple ads on the page, so it seems unlikely it’s entirely from that. Maybe I’m being too cynical about this and should just enjoy it, but it just seems kinda too good to be true.  Indie game studios are totally rad, and I would hate to see someone taking advantage of their unique and potentially unstable place in the industry.

One independant dev studio that has a nearly rock solid place in the industry these days, however, is also giving away giving away one of it’s biggest games, albeit temporarily: Team Fortress 2 is free again this weekend, in honor of the new Pyro update. Seriously, dudes, if you are even sort of into online games, try TF2, it’s so freaking awesome it’s not even funny. Well, it is actually pretty funny, but it’s level of awesomeness is serious business.

Posted by nick on 21 Jun 2008 at 04:11 pm

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Check out the brand new video directed by Taylor Coggin:

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 03:55 pm

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Greetings People!

Anyone who visited the site yesterday may have noticed that things were amiss. We were indeed hijacked by the old robot porn pirates but thanks to our crack web enforcer Bob at TehCompany.com things are back to normal now so feel free to wander around the site and if the urge strikes why not visit the SHOP and pick up new stuff from The Buddy System or a comic while you wait for the upcoming release of Ruby Isle’s full-length “Night Shot.”

Thanks to everyone who let us know about the problem, here’s to hoping we can dodge the roboporn uprising next time!

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 01:44 pm

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Ruby Isle and The Buddy System will be representing Kindercore at this year’s Athens Popfest. Check out the just announced line-up!

Full Festival Schedule
www.Athenspopfest.com

CINE 8.12.08
8:00 - Fish Schticks
8:35 - Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars
9:10 - Allison Weiss
9:45 - Titans of Filth

LITTLE KINGS 8.13.08
2:00 - Boy Genius
2:35 - the Hotwalls
3:15 - Amo Joy!
4:00 - Afternoon Naps
4:45 - Nervous Systems (not confirmed yet)
5:30 - Oh Sanders
(Break time!)
8:00 - Supercluster
8:35 - Blondie-Grunt
9:10 - Nana Grizol
9:45 - Hot Pants Romance
10:20 - the Coathangers
11:00 - Whistling School for Boys
11:30 - Judi Chicago
12:00 - Spring Tigers
12:35 - the Selmanaires
1:15 - We Versus the Shark

LITTLE KINGS 8.14.08
2:00 - That’s My Daughter
2:40 - Little Birds
3:20 - A Faulty Chromosome
4:00 - Panda Riot
4:45 - Averkiou

FLICKER 8.14.08
6:00 - Night Driving in Small Towns
6:45 - Good Graces
7:30 - Mary O Harrison

CALEDONIA 8.14.08
8:30 - the Ocelots
9:30 - the Besties
10:30 - Twin Tigers
11:30 - Dead Confederate

40 WATT CLUB 8.14.08
8:00 - Patience Please
8:30 - Velcro Stars
9:00 - Bunnygrunt
9:30 - Cars Can Be Blue
10:15 - Great Lakes
11:00 - the Love Letter Band
11:45 - Dark Meat
12:30 - Roky Erickson & the Explosives

LITTLE KINGS 8.15.08
2:00 - Railcars
2:40 - Tendaberry
3:20 - One Happy Island
4:00 - Hat Company
4:30 - Fat Planet

FLICKER 8.15.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Noisycrane
7:30 - Gospel Gossip

CALEDONIA 8.15.08
8:30 - Laminated Cat
9:30 - Ham 1
10:30 - My Teenage Stride
11:30 - Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies

40 WATT 8.15.08
8:00 - Cryptacize
8:30 - Secret History
9:00 - the Faintest Ideas
9:30 - Ruby Isle
10:00 - the Buddy System
10:30 - the Lolligags
11:00 - Fishboy
11:30 - the Apes
12:15 - Boyracer
1:00 - TBA

LITTLE KINGS 8.16.08
2:00 - Lognhalsmottagningen
2:15 - Bad Animal
3:00 - the Young Untold
3:30 - Bright Lights
4:15 - American Cheeseburger

FLICKER 8.16.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Marc with a C
7:30 - Hot Lava

CALEDONIA 8.16.08
8:30 - Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
9:30 - Thrushes
10:30 - the Sterns
11:30 - Man Factory

40 WATT 8.16.08
8:00 - the Smittens
8:30 - Big Fresh
9:00 - Thee American Revolution
9:30 - Pipes You See Pipes You Don’t
10:00 - Andy from Denver
10:30 - Casper & the Cookies
11:00 - Circulatory System
12:00 - Elf Power
1:00 - the Music Tapes

Tickets available HERE.

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 01:20 pm

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