Monday, March 23, 2009

stuff from the fridge

I found this picture at the site of the new Logan Square skate park about a week ago. What kind of  a shit head draws something like this? Amateur graffiti artists, pubescent mutants, and go-tards of all ages seem to be the locals, so I'm putting my money on the pimple faced teens. The park isn't done yet, but I've gone to check out its progress twice now and something had already been destroyed on both occasions. Good work kids. From what I can tell the park is going to suck anyway, so fuck it.
Now this is what I'm talking about! I moved in with my friend Ryan at the beginning of the month and we both started tacking up crappy little drawings all over the fridge. This was one of the first things he put up. We can all pretty much agree that 99% of pigs suck, so what's better than seeing two of them off each other IN THE FACE! It kind of reminds me of a Rob Syers drawing with how loose and delightful it is.
Yet another great sketch from Ryan. I sure hope he doesn't mind me posting all these tidbits on the blog. I can't remember if I asked him if it was cool or not. If it's not, sorry dude. It won't happen again. Anyway, it's definitely Jimi Hendrix's head on what appears to be Mickey Mouse's body. Lately Ryan has been incorporating a lot of weed imagery into his stuff, which I'm fully backing, especially because he thinks weed is kind of lame. Side note: We've always heard that drugs are a lot more potent today than they were 30 years ago or whatever, so I've always wondered if I smoked the same grass as Jimi if it would even get me high or if I'd think he was kind of a pussy for having shitty grass. Further more, if you gave him a bag of the finest now do you think it'd totally blow his mind? Who knows. It's just another mystery of the universe we'll never know.
I drew this last night cause I hadn't eaten any bacon in a while and it sounded pretty good at the time. It looks pretty crummy and half assed because it is.
So lastly, I found this old Playboy Special Editions that my former roommate left behind, which he probably didn't even realized he owned. It's called Bathing Beauties (1992) and it's really dated. It's one of the only things I leave out for guests to flip through not only for the pictures, but the mind numbing captions. Here's an example: A spectacular smile and big bright eyes are irresistible of Amber. Signs of a recent sunbathing session are unmistakable. Then the picture features a woman bent over a chair, her bikini top pulled to the side exposing a glance of side boob, while her bottoms are completely MIA revealing a thong tan line. It's pretty unbelievable that this was considered sexy enough to schmead it to. I started tracing one of the women, but at the last minute decided to give her a really jacked up face. I wonder what she's doing now, almost 20 years later? Hopefully nothing.

REVIEW!

This was supposed to be a review of the VEE DEE record release show. But I missed THE KRUNCHIES all together and honestly wasn't watching bands for the most part anyway so instead I'll review the movie I watched on demand last night.

Zach & Miri Make A Porno

This movie is fucking terrible.

1st things first

I'm glad Nick finally got around to posting something, even if it was just a receipt from reckless.

Also, You can check out KAMIKAZE EYES live set from the same show Luca posted those videos from on the same site:


kamikaze eyes at ronnys (chicago) march 6th, 2009 from acid marshmallow on Vimeo.

Also, the band PUKING PEARLS who I like, but I gotta admit I wasn't watching. They were apparently pretty upset because they were "awful". I doubt it, but let's find out.


puking pearls at ronnys (chicago) march 6th, 2009 from acid marshmallow on Vimeo.

In other news, this is something I have been thinking about quite a bit recently. I am currently a guy in a band who also does cartoons. I am currently 27 years old. If you're in a band. That is the year that you die. That is why I have decided to become a cartoonist who is also in a band. Because I would rather not die this year and cartoonists live for fucking ever.

Hot Food music contest

AWESOME PUNK ROCK VIDEO.

Shameless self-promotion here, but you, faithful readers should check out this AWESOME video of me and Mike's AWESOME band playing an AWESOME show at Ronny's a couple of weeks ago:


the catburglars at ronnys (chicago) march 6th, 2009 from acid marshmallow on Vimeo.

Also, I find the need to include a video of a band we played with that night, THE POINTS from Washington D.C.


the points at ronnys (chicago) march 6th, 2009 from acid marshmallow on Vimeo.

As you can see, they were phenomenal. Good guys too. They went to high school with Danny McBride (that "Eastbound and Down" dude) which is really cool. Their singer looks a lot like Buddy Bradley and I love Travis' four on the floor stop through every song. Check them out at THEIR MYSPACE PAGE.

Enjoy, you savages.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Couch Drawings

In the first issue of HOT FOOD, I included some pags of Matt Bremer and Chris Wilson's artwork that they drew in 2006(?) while we sat on our couch eating junk food, watching T.V., and dropping out of life. I also have some drawings from this time and I'm going to upload them here.


yep, there ya go.



the chicago hardcore messageboard is pretty boring.



a guy with Matt Bremer's bong for a head, crazy I know! I like how his voice bubble is smoke. Of course a bong and a wizard are friends. Cool Leather jacket too, for a guy with a pipe head.



I thought it was understood that a lot of times when you go to the beach drunk people will build sand castle dicks and boobs and stuff late at night, but nobody knew what I was talking about! Maybe you guys were just going to the wrong beaches. But when my family wanted to get up all early to go out and see all the sand dollars that washed up on the shore, I was instead looking for naughty sandcastles.

-Mike Popinski

Thursday, March 19, 2009

MORE FLEYRS

So sometimes people are like "Dude that's a good flyer!" and I'm like "Thanks!" so even though I didn't draw these ones I figured I'd post 'em anyway, since that also means that I can put off scanning more for a little bit.

click to see 'em up close!



With retard-level photoshopping skills like this... I am wondering why so many people tell me that they like the flyers that I make. This isn't the laziest flyer I've ever made but it's in the top 5.



More sleazy boobage. Nigel hates this flyer cuz it's got a jock on it I bet.



Another lazy flyer, whoopdie doo, 3 for 3! No boobs on this one but it's okay. I think it took me a long time to spell our band name out in the CRIME letters. Looks pretty shitty!



An army guy getting mauled by a ton of hot and bothered chicks, now THIS is a flyer! I wanted to make a "logo" for the catburglars and put it everywhere and everyone would be like "i know what that is!" but then it was only on this flyer and our 2nd e.p. I wanted it to be cool like Rocket From The Crypt or something. I forgot to make it look cool though, oh well... c'est la vie! This flyer looks really good and I made it in like 3 seconds.



This was the first show I ever set up! My friend Liz's band, LIBYANS came from Boston, man did this show SUCK. I felt so bad for them and a little embarassed that I did such a shitty job! Oh well, that's punk for ya I guess. Actually, this show was really fun.



Nigel Rowdy Jackson directed me to make this flyer. He wanted one with Hitler on it and the caption at the bottom. I ripped his body, the record player, and the musical notes from google image search and literally every other part of the flyer from an issue of CRAPHOUND.



SHOOT IT UP didn't shit on anybody or anything wacky at this show, but a guy pulled his dick out and put it in my face while we were playing.



I love PISSED JEANS, man! I sure spent a lot of time on this flyer. I ripped off most of those chicks and some of that food from a painter named MEL RAMOS. You can see all of them and more HERE.




This flyer is pretty good! Great lineup for a show too, even though HOMOSTUPIDS were a bit underwhelming. Gotta catch 'em on the right day I guess. I don't feel slighted though, that band rules.


A great day at Lucky Gator Loft! I wanna say that was the 2nd to last BUSY SIGNALS show in the states. CHEAP TIME were good, WAX MUSEUMS were great, we were... there.

adios!

Mike Popinski

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