Tag Archives: Mike Patton

03/24/2023 · 3:24 pm

And All The Joy Within You Dies

Ladies and gentlemen, pals and haters, I have, as they say, good news and bad news. Truthfully, the bad news is that I’m not certain which is which. I’m very au courant in that regard. As such, I will simply report, and allow you to decide. I won’t waste your time here with nebulous designations like “good” and “bad”. Please, read on.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 2020s, corporate crap, despair, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dr. Dre, Jefferson Airplane, Mike Patton, movies, music, rap, sampling, sellouts, Star Wars, whores

06/02/2016 · 2:54 pm

The Jizz

I’m not going to bore you with more boasting about how I can draw better than any contemporary “web comic” artist out there. I’m going to bore you with an explanation why.

From INVISIBLE LEGENDS (unpublished)

I’ve got The Jizz.

You could set out right now to be the greatest cartoonist in the world, spend billions of dollars, and you’d still never top me. You don’t have The Jizz. I do. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Uncategorized

Tagged as Adam Hughes, Alan Moore, Bands I Useta Like, Basil Wolverton, behind the scenes, Berni Wrightson, Bettie Page, comix, Dave Gibbons, Dave Sim, Dave Stevens, Drew Friedman, Harlan Ellison, jail, Jim Blanchard, Kurtis Blow, Laurie Lipton, MAD magazine, MC Ren, Mike Patton, Mike the Pod, Mozart, music, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rakim Allah, rap, Rick Griffin, Rolling Stone, The Rocketeer, Watchmen, Wm. Stout

04/23/2016 · 10:20 am

“Retrovertigo”

In 1999, four years after their previous album, Mr. Bungle released California. My friend George and I were/are slavering fanatics of Mr. Bungle. That shirt that says “There’s a tractor in my balls again”? I had that. I wore it so often I destroyed it, even after it survived a GWAR show in 1997.

This is the same one I had. The big B on the back was once stuck to my skin with GWAR semen and blood. Who amongst you would admit to such a thing?

So let’s just say we were very excited about Bungle’s third album. The band’s website teased this excitement, with minute-long samples of each track on California. This was 1999. I was using my first PC, the one I got from Gateway, which came with a set of Boston Acoustic speakers that I now use with my Xbox 360. Good, long-lasting speakers, my point here would be. Continue reading →