These last few years I’ve been reading books by Alain de Botton. He can be best described as a philosopher, though what characterises him most is his constant drive to let philosophy be a tool for understanding ourselves and society so that ultimately we might feel better about ourselves. He has written books on numerous subjects including: traveling, architecture, Proust and a true gem called Status Anxiety. This book about a phenomenon that has been plagueing modern man for more than a century has been made into a beautiful television documentary. Somebody gave the folowing description of this documantary: “De Botton’s search for possible cures to status anxiety takes him to churches on both sides of the Atlantic; the bohemian world of punks, nudists and hippies who live by their own rules; and both ancient and modern philosophers.” wich sums it all up pretty nicely. Enjoy!

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Danko Jones is a rock band pur sang. No complications whatsoever, just sweat and rock. I first saw them at metropolis festival (2001 I think) in Rotterdam and I was meteen verkocht. Later I saw them at smaller venues where they realy come to their right. Gigs are very energetic, sweaty and downright dirty. Although their more recent releases sound a bit polished and might not be to the taste of the more die-hard rock fans the first two mini albums are true gems. If you ever get the chance to see this band in a small zaaltje be sure not to miss it. In the meanwhile if you would like to own some of their music on plastic I would recomend “We Sweat Blood” as the best full length album IMHO.

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since mr Jones seems to be going down so well with the ochcrowd I’ll also present you with this link to The Magic World of Rock. Under the archive button you’ll find all the episodes of this radio show presented by Danko Jones.

Earlier this week tante Betsy expressed her feelings about the new religious zure oprisping that has been going on lately. I wouldn’t want to express myself in the same bold manner but sertain fears about where this revival of dogmatic non-thinking is taking us I do share. Let’s be frank if you prefer to believe some fairy-tales written down thousands of years ago by halfwits I pitty you. If you ‘choose’ to infect your childs vulnerable brain with the same falsehoods I call you a child abuser but alas law forbids me to do very much about it. If you try however to force your misguided lifestyle upon unwilling fellow humans through political means I will oppose you until my days are done. I don’t have beef with religion per se but I think at least all abrahimic faiths are mental disorders that cause a lot more grief than they cure.

If you like podcasts interviews in the form of mp3 files that can be downloaded from the internets and you would like to hear some more critical thoughts on this subject you can visit point of inquiry punt org. Here you will find interviews with lots and lots of very well infomed writers and thinkers that will keep you van de straat for hours.

We all know chemists as a fairly dusty zootje of brainiacs who sometimes do some (moderately) usefull discoveries and sometimes tell us that substances that they have made and that we’ve been using for twenty years now suddenly seem to cause cancer. Nothing much to laugh about there is seems. Well now, some people claim (chemist wepdesing alert!!!!!) that there actualy is humor (no pun intended, realy I kid you not) in the noble profession of chemistry. I for one have this dark brown suspicion it’s mostly to do with bodily fluids. Let’s go and have a look @ what chemists deem to be funny shall we?

Don’t say pro-active in my vicinity or I’ll instantly put you the fire on the shins and ask you to explain the actual difference ‘tween active and pro-active and believe you me knowbody knows. If like me you are allergic to meaningless populaire stopwoordjes (buzzwords) and especialy the ones used in conference environments you’ll love this game. It’s simple and easy to play and will even improve your attentionspan durin meetings. It comes in different languages and can be adepted to every specialist profession.

Dutch
English
and especialy for *–* auf Deutch

As a species we humans are easily recognisable. Barring a few other types of monkeys we’re the only creature on the planet that uses tools. After years of baking shit in plastic pans made of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) I had this one question. How did all my ancestors bake eggs when they clearly didn’t have the power of Teflon®? Did all their eggs stick to the pan? OMFG, how did we manage to survive this ellende?

Continue reading ‘IPM’s egg baking vlog or Why Teflon® is a HOAX!!!!’

Recently the Revolting Cocks put out a nieuw album after a silent period of over 10 years. Be sure to check this out because it bems like hell. Some of you might wonder what an electro/industrial/dance band might sound like when they’re drunk and high and let loose on stage. well this is you’re chance to find out. So laad naar beneden en sla je slag ochblog!

Revco started in 1885 as a collaboration between our aller Al Jourgenson (ministry hoei!) and some Belgian dudes from the EBM scene (Luc Van Acker, Patrick Codenys and Richard 23 (Front 242)). Since then the band has had a total of 31 different members from all different kinds of musicstromingen. In 1988 Revco put out a live record poeticaly called “You Goddamned Son of a Bitch”. It contains one and a quarter hours of electronic joy and foulmouthing. Don’t be discouraged by track 1 just skip it the first time you listen you’ll come to love it later on.

Since it’s impolite to ask (who cares) some people are always trying to raad other peoples’ age. I usualy don’t give a ratten reet and even if people tell me I tend to forget. Consequently I’m totally crap at guessing peoples age and I’ve got the game to prove it After trying about 50 times and not even guessing one correctly I gave up. See if you do better. Also after every photo you’re treated to some nice huis tuin and keuken philosofy.

“Your life molds you into your future self” according to this chick but she turned out to be 16 in stead of 21 (honestly your honor) so what does she know he?

There hasn’t been posted enough electro music on och, not even nearly, so today I’ll treat you all to some nice electro deuntjes.

In 2003 ADULT. played on Lowland$ festival and hiero is recording of that gig. When playing live Nicola Kuperus is quite the vocal animal something you wouldn’t normaly expect from your ordinary electro/synth band.

I think it was a great show with all the vocal energy spettering from the stage so enjoy.

10 years ago to the day Bradley Nowell died of an overdose of heroin. Brad was known best as the singer of Sublime a Californian ska/dub/punk band. Sublime managed to produce three studioalbums. Every summer I get the kriebels to put on these cd’s. I guess it’s because of the raw and honest love of life that spetters from the music. Also how can you not like someone who ends his first cd with a nice dub track thanking everybody who contributed by name in stead of scheping them of with a tenk joe in the cd leaflet (including friends, family, kofferd musicians and his dogs) Bradley made no secret of his susceptibility to addiction, in fact at least the helft of the tunes he wrote touch on the subject of booze or drugs in some way. I guess he enjoyed life so much he died from living it.

Here’s the first cd they made called ‘40 oz. to Freedom’. Bradley sold 60.000 copies from the trunk of his car cause he never lived to see a record deal with a major label. There’s some nice koffertunes on this one and the afore mentioned thanx dub at the end.

A year after he died a remix album was released called ‘Second-hand Smoke’. The tracks on this CD all sound a bit better kwa sound quality. Notice that in the thanx dub on this CD Nowell’s voice has been removed :’[ *snif* Anyway, enjoy the sun, drank, drugs and these bemming CDs today.

If you’re a freak for lyrics like Broekmans here you might want to try this handy dandy programmatje. It searches lyric sites for the lyrics to the song you’re playing. It has some extra functionality (karaoke for example but who cares) and supports all major mediaplayers. Nuf said I guess so enjoy.

So you guys are all out on this queensday eh? let me guess, drinking beer, having fun, listening to music? Well I’ll just enjoy these ultra-bemming pictures by graphic artist Andy Howell all by my lonely then. :p klikkerdew00d!

Some time ago a friend of mine went on a climbing expedition to the Andes. To the area ‘Cordon Granito’ in Chile to be more specific. You may remember this area from the movie Alive. This is where the plane crashed and canibalism was reevaluated as a lifestyle. Anywho, one of the expedition members was a guy called Menno Boermans and he knows how to push the button on a camera (quite well actually). On his blog you’ll find a link to the photo’s he took on this trip.

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From the white house comes an unexpected but very welcome change of ideas. It seems that Sjors finaly saw the light and in this video he’ll tell you all about it. via…

Operation Ivy is one of the lesser known punk bands to come out of San Francico in the late 80’s. The fact that they only existed for two years didn’t help much in that department I guess. Their curious name comes from a series of nuclear tests. (those rare punkers nevertheless) Some of you might recognise guitarist/vocalist Tim Armstrong from a better known band from that same corner. Although very short lived the band is considered legendary by many.

The music can be described as raw and honest punkrock spiked here and there with some nice up tempo ska. Operation Ivy managed to record 27 tunes, not counting bootleg material. I’ve put these track all in one file for your listening convienience. If you’re into well written critical lyrics be sure to tjek dis aut.

American culture disneyland freakshow,
Screen in your living room,
A window for your tomb.

Continue reading ‘Operation Ivy’

One of the most influential bands in reggae and ska has been going strong since the early 60’s. t00ts and the Maytalls left their mark in musical history and have been covered and sampled by a plethora of musicians. (The Clash, The Specials, Sublime and a Tribe Called Quest to name a few) Although I’m not to fond of their gospel songs the rest of their work bems like crazy if combined with the proverbial coffee and spritses on an easy sunday afternoon. Tjek out Pressure Drop (best of). I’ve taken the libberty of removing the worst gospel tunes for your listening convenience.

Since we’re all very much into early 80s punk lately this documentary can’t ontbreak on ochblog. In this docu you’ll see interviews and live footage of the following bands: Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X. Expect to see some pretty fucked up kids having a good time and absolutely no idea what they’re talking about in some cases =D
Decline of Western Civilization (demonoid)

Way back I bought my first Cirle Jerks CD (ok so it wasn’t that long ago) and it was a double album of Group Sex and Wild in the Streets.

Since then I always enjoyed these two albums together so I won’t have them separated on och. enjoy!

w00t! in the Streets
 
 

Ok, so I still owe you guys a funny video since the last one I did was a doublepost. I think there’s quite a few people on Och with a higher than avarage interest in architecture and even a some who work or study in this field. To you I say Featest thy eyes (and ears) upon this MTV spoof Pimp my Model

Met gevaar voor retrologen: filmpje =D

Ik ben een dubbelposter….

All this talk about music videos made me think of a realy nice one by Placebo. I rather doubt anybody has seen this on tv for reasons that will become clear when you down the vid (filefactory alert!). Then I looked up the rules for Ochblog in the welcome email choco sent me and it read:

The rules? No rules, totale anarchie, behalve porno (tenzij in kunstzinnig excuus verpakt, maar dan nog eigenlijk niet).

So against better knowing in here’s the video of the French version of Protect Me which is sure to warm up every frozen ochblogger. Pr0n the way it’s meant to be if you ask me with nice music, low lights and a merry atmosphere.

Protege Moi NSFW dus….

see you next year fapperts :]

Last saturday I was in Rotterdam to take some architectural pictures. In the morning you couldn’t see a hand fore eyes because of a thick fog. Luckily most of it cleared and between 13:00 and 16:00 the low winter light allowed for some beautifull pictures.

I didn’t feel like resizing them so here’s a small selection (26mb) for download. (Filefactory alert!)
 

w00t!
Whoever guesses the locations of all the pics wins a free big print of a picture of his/her choice sent to his/her house by the end of January.
/w00t!
 
 
 
 
 

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A friend of mine once gave me this cd. He wasn’t quite sure if I would like it. Turns out I think it stains like hell. Don’t be decieved by the simple sound of this album we’re actualy dealing with very talented songwriters here (try and follow the lyrics of Steak for Chicken for example). Let these selfproclaimed anti-folk artists (Adam Green & Kimya Dawson) hit you with 19 raw and honest low-fi tracks.

Moldy Peaches 2001

Warning: Some of these songs are not suitable for people who have a male cat this morning.

Continue reading ‘Moldy Peaches on a Sunday Morning’