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March 30, 2006
Another Sighting In Vegas
More news of UrbanHonkers hanging out with the famous! This time it's none other than Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff:
Willow remarked, "He was greasy and he smelled like communism." She then held up her hand up to the nose of Steve Schroeder and said, "Smell my hand! It smells like Yakov!"
Posted by kmikeym at 11:16 AM | Comments (1)
March 29, 2006
Carrot Top: Man Among Men
A new direction for Let's Get Famous, where we bring news of UrbanHonkers hanging out with the likes of... Carrot Top:
Willow remarked, "He was greasy and he smelled like weed." She then held up her hand up to the nose of Steve Schroeder and said, "Smell my hand! It smells like Carrot Top!"
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March 2, 2006
CMJ's Album of the Day: Zome
CMJ.com has White Rainbow's Zome as their Album of the Day!
WHITE RAINBOW: Zome
- Paul Haney
If Zome is the first major White Rainbow release, and it will be followed by a five-disc box-set of older material on Marriage Records. Zome is also said to be "an audio love letter to Honey Owens" (of Jackie-O Motherfucker fame). If Zome is any indication, Adam Forkner's (a.k.a. [[[[VVRSSNN]]]]) White Rainbow venture aims to occupy the more serene and pretty realms of the improv-heavy, post-rock spectrum. The ringing guitar tones that open "Guilded Golden Ladies" give way to four more pieces of gorgeous ambient guitar chiming, skittery beats and sparse accompaniment, all prefacing the 20-minute tranquil buzz of the title track. Forkner avoids cluttering the already dense post-rock field with a compellingly soothing sound, the kind of record to listen to while lying in the sun all afternoon.
Posted by kmikeym at 1:27 PM | Comments (3)
March 1, 2006
Clique Here
Portland's coolest bloggers have no budget, no credentials and no idea how they got so popular.
BY ZACH DUNDAS & MARK BAUMGARTEN
In a battered old warehouse off North Interstate Avenue, three young men sit around a table, plotting the destruction of media as we know it.
OK, not really. The three twentysomething guys hunched over a jumble of Macintosh gear are actually working on an elaborate parody of reality TV, an ironic take on Survivor-style melodrama that will "air" on a website only a tiny fraction of Portland--let alone the world beyond--has ever heard of.
But stick with us. These guys are on to something.
Mike Merrill, Steve Schroeder and Jona Bechtolt run a website with the ungainly name UrbanHonking.com. Even in the jargon-enriched environment of the Internet, it's hard to find a single word that accurately describes Urban Honking. Call it a blog of blogs--an invitation-only family of dozens of different Web diaries, loosely united by a certain aesthetic and the fact that Merrill, Schroeder and Bechtolt, well, are fond of them.
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