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2011-06-10T10:47:00.002-04:00

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Ice Cream Man is Plumbing. (NSFW)

2011-05-11T12:31:00.005-04:00

Everyone in Southern California (well, Los Angeles) are two months away from seeing the Heather Gabel x Steak Mtn. : SUPERNATURAL? PERHAPS show @ POVevolving. The opening is Saturday, July 9th from 6pm to 10pm. As the pitch swells and soaks the internet....I will be previewing a finger or two from the shuffle of Steak work. If you have seen the flyer, then you have seen the flyer, but the image over there is newish to the internet. It ain't got no name yet, but I am sure it will be something snappy, ironic and/or extending a cryptactical enough approach that keeps the public from talking to the Steak inbox about "what I mean", "where is that from", "will you do artwork for my band", etc. You would think it would work inversely,but I have been lucky penny as fuck these past few years. Maybe it's all the shit I talk about "street art". So, on top of the everything you are looking at today on the layer cake, here are two things that may or may not get you ready to look at more come the month of July. Seymour here : http://steakmtn.com/#1436468/-SUPERNATURAL-PERHAPS

Alt to the Alt : April 9th, 7pm.

2011-04-05T00:55:00.006-04:00

HOODS UP, FLATS OUT :
I am going to play this post straight and narrow; no histrionics, no chatter, no pike-pulling esophagus slapping. Well, apparently a little, but I aim to ingratiate the setting with a little slippery ease, looking to set a record for writing one of these things in a final-throw phase and not get so complicated. Commercials for things shouldn't be complicated, shouldn't be a riddle to figure out I am trying to sell you something or set an idea as a good one in your head with a litany long in the tooth. And so with that, I am on-this to on-you with some helpful "What am I going to do in Los Angeles on April 9th?" information....which do to some bug in the blogness gets really small and you should get out the magnifying eye Sherlock because remember, I am trying to keep this short in type and upkeep so I can't get all "under the hood" and try to bring up the font size. Ramble.

HERE IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING via the Art Debauchery Organization site :

ART DEBAUCHERY ORGANIZATION presents
// ALT to the ALT
// an xxx-themed art event

SHOW CAVE
3501 Eagle Rock Blvd
Los Angeles 90065

OPENING:
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
7pm

"ALT to the ALT" is an XXX-themed art event showcasing some of the well-respected movers and pornographers within the alt porn industry through their photography and art.

"ALT" is "Alternative". True to the saying, there is an Alternative to everything. The "alt" in adult cinema is an aesthetic difference that showcase the work of these pornographers as artists, rather than playing to the general public's stereotype of the adult industry. By pushing the boundaries of the artform, these artists bring forth the true ALT to the Alt.

Now, I am in this show, as you can see on the Steak designed flyer. The four pieces I have in the show are three original works (one being the one below) and one Risograph print of a photo manipulation I did (of a still from the absolute creepfest PAIN MANIA) for Landfill/Manymono called TENDER LEATHER. Minus me, because we should always minus me, Rae Threat (who is a wicked shutterbug; check her site for some NSFW type darkness) has wrangled, snapped and slopped some fucking awesome artists (who fit the carnal criteria) into Showcave's space : Eon Mckai, Kimberly Kane, Carlos Batts, Courtney Trouble & Bob Coulter. All of these links, may I mention for all your teens reading this blog or day workers stealing time from the "man"....are pornographic in the absolute prurient settle, tone and touch of the word Pornography. So, they are 18+ as fuck and NSFW as hands grab ankles. Beware and all that. But more importantly, COME TO THE SHOW.

Here is a list of important links :

Facebook RSVP for the show.

Curator, Rae Threat's online portfolio.

Rae's Art Debauchery Organization site.

Blood Steak, Part One.

2011-03-14T10:33:00.016-04:00

The Graveyard Bell : Here is What You Know - Spring is coming and Summer is creeping in it's freshly minted shadow. This stretch of "Nature" has it's spine centered & driving a familiar, natural course, naturally & it usually leads civilians & creatives to the hope that there's hope for some sort of a personal, maybe professional, possibly supernatural rebirth rubbed from Winter's rumbling, counterintuitive minstrelsy. For the % of us that like the cold because it co-pilots the hiding of our plush figures with 80% laundry and/or we just don't like to sweat and/or we are enemies of the sun, it is founded information that we might not be fans of the molting of North America's frostbitten cycle to a microwaved one. Me? Well, yeah, I fucking hate the Summer/sweating/shorts as men's fashion/sunlight, and that, if you know me or are a good enough judge of lite-read posturing, is not that tough of a call I guess...but awkwardly for me & maybe ironically to those readers, it does facilitate THE optimum atmosphere to see many of the t-shirts I have drawn/designed/fumbled my way through. And so, here we are, it's Summer-Coming-Fire time and I have some new non-band branded shirts spilling out in 2x double seasonal doses via Los Angeles' textile empire, Blood Is The New Black.

The first two that are up now are up now for order......the next two should be up at some point soon and are equally, obviously Steakish in their handling of bum-outs, dark art, gallows humor, side-saddling, moral twilight, etc. And once they are all four fingers in the air, I will write up an emotional journal of a journey's intention and how my sincere pencil is mapping the night sky with every single feeling I have about about fun, dancing, relationships, romance & tanning one's supple skin under God's great architecture......but until then, feast your holes on the first two up for sale over at BITNB.

"Supernatural? Perhaps." : Eggs Laid.

2011-03-13T17:43:00.004-04:00

I wish it was spelled Layed. Anyway, Here is the flyer for Heather Gabel and I's upcoming show in Los Angeles at POVevolving. The opening is July 9th, 7pm to probably 10pm. We are doing something different this time around, where we will be showing new artwork in the front room & then in POV's project room, Heather and I will be covering the walls in all the bits and pieces, discarded xeroxes, original drawings, nausea that we have used in both of our ten plus years of illustrating and designing records, shirts, ephemera for punk, hardcore and rock bands.

Click the image for a larger look.

I Probably Hate You : 2010

2010-12-20T11:36:00.010-05:00

If light, dark & the oreo in between ever mattered as an evolving grace of personality, derring-do and/or artistic chops, 2010 would be the mail-order bride to my far flung Frankenstein. But, since time's are in fact and painfully, obviously modern (or modernity via energy or modern maternity via science) and we are all cogging and clogging up the information highway bit by bit, wet on wet and with no longevity past self importance and ego-has-landedness, it really doesn't matter much what I did this year except that when I tell you that it was quite a year, you won't think homeboy is bluffing and you will just believe that I did some stuff via the sample sale lineage of a decade starter below. Get that? It's getting worse, trust me, I know, I mean I am the one writing this crap. And with all the further ado I can mustard onto your toast, here is the Steak Mtn. Year In Review in spades, aces and clubs.....sorry, bullet points, in no order of importance or timeline, just dropped into the shoot and skipped over by you.

• Against Me! White Crosses - My Heaven's Gate, the flagship, a body cast of sorts for the Steak year was this project (you can read the nonsense I wrote about it here.). The art and design went from skyscraper to shack so quickly, so sobering-ly, so....well, stupidly that collectively we should have seen it as a witch telling you that you are going to die but your ghost will haunt a mall for three years post. But...no one knows future math, there are no psychics anywhere and here we are : the record looks as solid as it could be under the constraints of a tumbling industry in a tailspin of smash & grab, the band has been "let go" from the corporate infrastructure and well, that's all I know right now.

• Fake Problems Real Ghosts Caught on Tape - The other undulating sparkle in the greater gullet of this year's portfolio was this shining step into a style that pitted my....darker (?) (transgressive? abject? boring? repetitive?) sensibilities with a re-papering of Nothing Feels Good-era record designs (for you young kids out there, I am referring to "early" emo record designs, more directly referring to The Promise Ring's only passably terrible record Nothing Feels Good.). I wrote extensively & ghostly about it all here & the portfolio page can be viewed here. Exciting.

• Guiltmaker The Emerald Coast - Dude, just go download the fucking record already, man. Here is the art, here is the blog post.

• Light Yourself on Fire Sea Legs - Here is the shatter spot from my original March post. It all still applies to your current reality, even in the light fast drip of our time, down here : Light Yourself on Fire's new digital EP is official, on the ramp, finalized in it's triplicate malaise and ready to purchase. Click on this THIS and it will take you to where you need to go and shake some dollars for it. As is my personal and professional history with LYOF, Steak Mtn. has supplied the face for it's digital life. It's funny that we are at this place in time that I design xeroxed veneered images for records that will never really be printed for the rub & handle.

• The Weight Nowhere Now - I don't know if this record is actually out yet, as I haven't seen it, but regardless, the design I did dead-on hit a light nostalgia in a dead-on way that I have never hit any nostalgia mark prior, so I am happy with it and am always happy to at least mention the boys and Bryce in a post because, well, I don't hate them at all at all and like to pass traffic in their directions.

• Weirdly enough, I forget that I am an artist...Artist, I mean and to lead with that thought of announcing, two art shows happened in 2010 and one met with the sting of professional abortion/bad luck. Here the write up for the one that Heather Gabel & I did in the Minneapolis. And here is the group show that Alexis Anne Mackenzie put together in Los Angeles that is still up and can be viewed by the living & vacationing of LA. The failed example was a group show called PLAIN AIR put together by Brain from Apenest for Cinders in Brooklyn......my part failed because of the post office eating my art piece. The show looked rad though, great job Brian.

• I am pretty sure I only gave one interview this year & it was for Bomb Magazine's blog via whizzkid Peter Moysaenko. There is not much to say about it other then what I would normally say, but in my defense I don't talk about being a mercenary once in the whole interview.

• Today! In Adult Film is the final thing on this year's list, closing credits and all. It's not so much Steak Mtn. related as it is Christopher Norris related and for those that know what I do during the day (or saw what Hanley wrote at Urban Outfitters and/or how McSwain tipped off Vice to post something), already know about the empty, PG-13 pictures I take on set semi-daily for TODAY!. For those that do not but have a tapped or untapped interest in the scenery of pornography over the splashy bits and slushy flesh of porn, should bookmark TODAY! IN ADULT FILM and be ready to look at empty rooms with furniture in them. You might enjoy it but I don't think you can fiddle your beef parts at it. Unless you have a wild imagination and you colorform your own scenes onto the supplied images, because you are preoccupied with the carnal side of humanity. That's legit. Try working that magic on the posted example at the roof of this post.

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Things I Know Are Happening in 2011

• Four Steak designs & two Steak/Derek Albeck collaborations for Blood Is The New Black are in the pipeline for Summertime releases. Can't show you pictures yet, but trust me, they look like t-shirts with Steak Mtn. artwork on them.

• Solo show in Los Angeles, in June-ish, at POVevolving. It will be called "Supernatural? Perhaps. Baloney? Perhaps not." Which word to the geeks out there, is yes, a Ulmer/Lugosi/Karloff/Monkees reference in absolute pretentiousness.

And that's it. I don't have a good sign off this year, sorry.

"DISSONANCE" Group Show, Curated by Alexis Anne Mackenzie.

2010-12-06T21:16:00.009-05:00

Dear Art Lovers of Los Angeles,

To your browsing left is the web-flyer for a group show, curated by Alexis Anne Mackenzie and opening at POVevolving on Saturday December 11th. If you have ever been to an "art" opening anywhere in America or......Berlin, then you are familiar enough to know that these things start at 7pm. I can promise this is also the case with DISSONANCE's opening.

And if the web-flyer is read correctly, you will see the show features five artists and someone named "Christopher Norris", which also if read correctly or fuck, with adverse affect to this writer, will reveal that I am showing not under the idiotic Steak Mtn. name but the original one taped to my back in year 000.1. This was at the request of Alexis, who didn't want to have to have her fingers snap & crackle S-T-E-A-K-M-T-N-. into/onto anything involving DISSONANCE. I agree with her and thus this post is twofold announcement and pronouncement, which be so no confusion gets confused if you are looking for that stupid, staunch or sticky Steak Mtn. artwork in your Southern California gallery crawl this Saturday night.

Just so you know the kinks of the story and why you should be at the opening or at least give the space a poke when you are in the Chinatown area of greater Los Angeles this 2010 December, Alexis has constructed a serious denouement for her main event. Here goes the show's lifesblood in direct English :
In music, “dissonance” is a term used to describe elements such as chords, harmonies, and intervals, which have a clashing quality. It is often, by definition, a harsh sound, but one which contributes greatly on many levels to the beauty and expressiveness of music.
Dissonance is intended to explore the similar overlapping/clashing qualities of visual artworks which are neither figurative nor abstract; or both at once. I'm hoping to highlight a certain grey area within which artwork can exist by either definition; wherein abstract sensibilities heavily inform figurative renderings, and vice versa, so that the two become indistinguishable, and can be simultaneously appreciated.

That sounds like you need to be there to me, so see you there!

Mirror Horses

2010-11-24T11:12:00.007-05:00

VS.

Ghost; Problems & Pop Music. Density and Avarice.

2010-09-21T20:37:00.016-04:00

Bands. I work with them. And you are reading this, probably, because I work with some rock and roll act (that could or could not be a product of "the law of diminishing returns" via Rock and Roll's basic curse of repetition and boring-you-out) that you absolutely love....this week or at least love until they disappoint with a marketing decision you think ill advised or they sarcastically reply to your "tweet", leaving you the rubbed red lover scorned ......which could be easily explained away with the notion that you may or may not understand sarcasm because you are possibly in an age group who has spent your formals hugging the internet more than base human communication. Which I mean, no judgment, I don't like talking to people either and I am way stoked that the internet exists so I can at least project a personality that makes onlookers feel the warmth of labyrinthine jerk moves designed to catch flies over fans. If you have read more than one of these stupid things, your inner parent is wishing that you would actually just not do it again., ever. I get that.

Regardless, I work with music groups who usually are the earnest, linear type with a fetish for pop music in structure and/or touch. You know the deal because you like them. And after a complete cavern year (2009), 2010 has been a 38" muffin stuffing itself into a 24" velvet box, which for those bad at trig : overflowing with a number of few things that make me feel busy and wanted. You probably like to be wanted, you are normal and reading this and know that : Everyone wants to be wanted. Obviously, I am not here to talk to you about the human experience, I am here to shill like a slow Saturday night on the other side of off season, if you dig my meaning.

So, here we go, Round Three:
FAKE PROBLEMS - REAL GHOSTS CAUGHT ON TAPE
came out last week. I am a little slow these days with the updated and timely blog postings (see the post before this for a little riddle of steel as to why), but, whatever, I showed to the party with a bag of cats and some yoke, so screw. I should have whited that out, probably. Anyway, regardless, segueway, the record - Well, for me, the record plays like a band that has officially shadowed past whatever shadow critics keep pouring their intent into (Short hand : Americana fused with the youth musical movement known as punk rock. Shorter hand : bands that sound like Against Me!) and while I never really thought that Fake Problems were ever a punk band, more a solid pop band that shakes hands with punk bands while they boat shoe the faces of punk band show audiences, I get the laziness of music critics punching in the hotline for byline. Fuck, I do it as well, hell, we all cheat sometimes right? And sometimes it's just lunch time and you need to get your thoughts internet wide, cheap and dirty. And next you will read me typing, GHOSTS is a pop record, through and through, from the beach to the blanket it surfaces and soothes in a mature complexity that reads with a granular touch (pretentious : auteurs in hand & product) that is so hard to breach in most currents of popular (or unpopular) music. It's a comfortable (but not dead) listen that is drawn, scribbled out and redrawn from hard work and the pouring of personality into their music making career's muscle memory. Meaning, GHOSTS doesn't skip on any frayed moment or thought to deliver to the farthest edges of it's intent and that, in my opinion, is hard as fuck for even the most talented singer songwriter band types. So, to me, the record is a success. It's also the sort of record I don't normally search out but am always happy to find & when the opportunity unearthed to work Problems through the Steak grinder once again, I was well into the lather of hand wringing the different directions we could go with the design. And, as ideas and outset intent tend to be transient lovers of disappointment and Frankenstein's monster, the project's design started as a thick, dark mood piece and transformed into an (early) Jade Tree VHS tape dipped of water damage, memory & road trips. Or something. And I am happy with it, I think Steak Mtn. did a nice job. There is more attention to design over imagery (as the flip is usually, well, the flip of that as far as what Steak viewers view or casually comprehend, map, etc.) and it was an interesting experiment of my ego and collaboration to take Casey Lee's rummaged ruminations and retrofit them into a constructed memento of a band in the next phase of their creative careers.

The End.

To take a look at a lean presentation of the record, you can check the Steak site. If my baroque idiocy has formed an interest in Fake Problems you never knew was there, well here, here, and here is where you meet the business end of their craft. And if you get really adventurous, check out three chord futurists (now there is a riddle of steel that stretches to a "reaching" and VERY "obtuse" rhythm), The Gaslight Anthem infuse an empty belly on a key track from GHOSTS, "Songs For Teenagers".

Here's Your Warning : TERROR EYES.

2010-08-28T11:59:00.003-04:00

"Feast of the Mau Mau" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
The Steak web presence has peaked and splattered. "Being sincere" is a walk when vibrating in person, but the joy of masking is for the Internet, so, fuck it. I promise everyone is in on the same joke with this "Artwork" stuff. Let's get sunny & talk about Minneapolis.

"Oogum Boogum" by Brenton Wood
Crowning & careening past your notice while doing double duty as Living In the Legend for one personable, awesome artist & another that is well, hell, you know the deal, I am here to just fuck around with your attention span if you are willing and my "career" if I am Steak immolating....is the fantastique appearance of new (or new-esque depending on geography) work by my friend Heather Gabel & Steak Mtn., which, Me......but saying me without mentioning Steak Mtn. first makes it seem like we are friends and we are totally not friends Reader, unless in real life, we are & right now you are wishing we were completely not friends in real life because you have to pretend you don't really pay attention to these idiotic blogposts so that you can take me semi-seriously when I say anything at all to you. Don't worry, with the run-on sentence noted, I pretend I don't write these idiotic blogposts most of the time anyway, which means we still have something in common and can continue to be friends. Regardless, because I say regardless a lot to move something past the point of shoddy commercial writing, TERROR EYES is the name of the show and man, it's opening in Minneapolis on Saturday August 28th (8PM tonight of the day I am writing this) at Cult Status Gallery.

THE FACTS :
1. Heather is hitting you hard with her self-squeezed bevy of buxotic, Frankensteinly fashioned, sew and splatter images that always sharpen to the belfry and beyond.
2. I am trying out some new stuff. Test marketing, taste testing and titularly tightening a stronghold on American Punk Rock's resilience to see everything you do minus the intent and it's strings.

"Voodoo Voodoo" by Laverne Baker
I don't have images of the Steak pieces, as they are mammothy in size & really I just couldn't do it before they had to travel to the Great White North. As far as Heather's work is concerned, I have it on good authority that her work is wooly to my mammothy (see modified -made up- word in first sentence), although she may have some pictures....hit her site up HERE for a checker or more importantly, if you are unfamiliar with her art styling and images. I do however, have the web flyer that features a Heather and some Steak typography. Check it & dude, check all the links in this post, because : TEST. Although I will hit you with all the answers after the fact, so you know, you can cheat and shit.

Birthing Tips : FAKE/GUILT

2010-08-21T19:34:00.003-04:00

#1.
Index finger, middle finger & a lot of right hand wagging to get them to snap together. Shit is crazy hard, but once it's mastered, man, you look like a fucking REAL idiot.

Here is the bubble, pop it carefully :
FAKE PROBLEMS "REAL GHOSTS CAUGHT ON TAPE" ARTWORK HERE!
I will be going over this more around 9/21 when the record rears & drags about, but if you are occasionally wondering about the art, get summer at the link.

GUILTMAKER "THE EMERALD COAST" DIGITAL EP IS AVAILABLE HERE!
It's always exciting to hear what a band creates when song craft reflects their interests rather then feeding the collective ability obese with fickle fans and/or an omniscient marketing department. "The Emerald Coast" runs alongside a band attuned to the end-and-over sounds that are possible in the confined space of a basic rock-n-roll set up. An awesome example of which can be found in the final track, "Looming", 4 minutes and 35 seconds of slow boil, sonic tension that triggers an understated finale of rumbled noise & dotted harmony, sending you out in the comfortable hum of them powering down, closing the door, folding their day clothes, etc., you get my point : they nailed this fucker to the wall for sure (with the help of producer Jeremy Griffith). Tough call, I am onboard for the art, viewable at the link a few words back and as is the case in popular music these days, physical product is 99 and 44/100% dead so this is a straight laced, self released DIGITAL EP so go the distance (THIS SPOT) & download the record.

New Steak Interview up at the BOMB Magazine Blog.

2010-06-26T12:30:00.003-04:00

I DON'T TALK ABOUT MONEY or WHAT I HATE ABOUT MAKING ART ONCE! I am turning over a new leaf! I do however still say completely idiotic and unfounded things about all kinds of other things. But fuck it, read me talking to Peter Moysaenko over burritos anyhow!

Steak Mtn. talks Against Me! "White Crosses" : Almost Essay, Mostly Commercial, Total Nonsense.

2010-06-13T00:42:00.012-04:00

Welcome back.

As one may have guessed by now, or at least one of the ones that grip attentively to the happenings of Steak Mtn. or more specifically the Steak Mtn. who works for the band Against Me!, or even more more more in the swarm of scaring off your eyes by my endless typing, which is to say I am fully about to be getting out of control with the asides here and should rally the point proper for the reader reading.....Against Me!'s "White Crosses" got viral a few months back but officially bent about to make room for itself in the clutter of the digital music market and/or (for the sum that still enjoy the texture of a physical purchase) gathered into the ten fingers (or less...or more, handicap or mutant, probably more...fucking mutants) of the eager-to-hold-it, earlier this week, Tuesday to be perfect. I would have shuffled this post much much sooner, but I was out of the office all week vacationing minus a computer. And I say all the last detail as if you needed to know/care about that piece of information. Waiting with the baited breath (or is it bat'd breath? I am sure not many vampires read the Steak blog and I might be positive most of the '10's vampiric Grave Wavers prefer the sound of maybe something other then the Against Me! music. Now, I am often wrong and you never know really, they could in fact glean the darkness from WC. Fuck, I see it there and I am stoked, but I am also not a goddamn vampire.) that loves to wallow the depths of this infrequent and fragmented blog. Blog. Still a stupid name for these self indulgent things. The cliche writers were wrong, time does not heal all wounds.

So, yeah, it's out. What does that mean for you? I don't want to speculate but (even if speculating and then judging out of hand is one of the favorite hobbies I get in trouble for) maybe you bought it already because you are a Steak Mtn. fan but not an AM! listener. You got it because you like a brother and I thank you for that blind faith & curiosity, truly. No lies. But more really, you are a fan of the band (and likely have ambivalent lightning in the Steak spot) and you have the record in one of the capacity's I riddled on about above. You have it and you are publicly complaining that it's a pop record and want the scrappy punk sound back and won't take no for an answer even though you could actually just drop it, grow some foresight and move on because no one really cares about how you are glued to hindsight or pragmatically leveling it as the logical evolution of the band or are loving it because fuck it, you love it...which is super-brave past the issue of the subject of this post...I mean, who the fuck loves loves anything anymore? Or moreover, who has the strong swing to publicly love anything anymore? Don't answer that, I actually don't care what you have to say. And regardless and boringly (and back onto the vast chatter about the record), that's basically how human preference, personal opinion and the free will of pop culture works : who cares, you do what you want. You know that, you're a smart kid or at least a cool, informed parent.

And really, no typed enthusiasm about how this is my favorite record cover I have done or how my creative relationship with this band is at one of my favorite spots ever in Steak history or that the cover of "White Crosses" is personally cool to me because it angles against the sonic fiber/pop structure of the record and that is something that I rarely get to do with bands, especially ones the size of AM! or how I really do know it's invalid to be "excited" that a rock act with a "commercial" path got away with a truly "subversive" piece of smeary smut art inside of a giant corporation, as in, I know at this point everyone knows the common case that often no one is actually paying attention to a record cover because the majority of consumers are not consuming a physical product anymore (but a possibly heisted version or at best, really tiny-on-an-MP3-player-screen version of any record are in their ownership) and that's why we might have got away with such an abject image on the cover because it's almost like it doesn't exist.....will or would (and welcome back to the point I was making at the beginning of the run-on.....man, if I was reading right now I would not be reading anymore. Not to insult your attention or nothing, I'm just saying...again, thanks, truly.) boil or cool your want or diswant to purchase (hope, hope) "White Crosses". Really, I am just writing to write, since I don't do it as much Steak commercial campaigning as I use to and this is one of those "big" events in my commercial career that I would like to at least mark with anything that could confuse, anger or shame the older me....when I am the older me, which could be tomorrow. And then I might delete this. Possibly. I think it's a good thing that I keep potential commenters from being able to comment on these posts, it gives it that dessert island flare that I always appreciate in others posts across the internet. I mean, we all know that I am never saying anything of substance in these things usually, it's just a stack of alliteration, tiresome self deprecation and the occasional use of the word "moist" (and if that doesn't fit, "oozing", "dripping", "squeezed" or "sprayed".)

If you have made it this far and are interested in seeing some of the unused art that got dramatically discharged from the construction of "White Crosses", go to this link. It's all in line with the rest of the record, there are no great surprises at all, it's just all stuff that ended up getting run over or discarded or in the rare case, argued over in some capacity....you know who you are, jerk. And if you forgot to buy the record, check Against Me!'s webstore here : HERE, there are a few cool things to purchase, including a "White Crosses" Bundle that includes a tote bag with the front and back cover images, sans fonts. Which I think is cool, because I am a fan of myself in the context of this record's art.
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IMAGE GUIDE :
Picture 1.) A stack of all the pieces of paper used to turn "White Crosses" into "White Crosses". It's like Frankenstein. Does that make Against Me! my Igor?
Picture 2.) Two other pictures of two other vantage points of the same stack of paper. I know, impressive. No big deal. I screen grabbed this when they was iChatting.
Picture 3.) The World Famous Contortionist, Jay Leno, holding up a vinyl copy of "White Crosses". It had an obtuse and ark-like effect on his face. Exciting.

"My Friends Are Getting Famous".

2010-05-06T21:38:00.001-04:00

Against Me! "I Was A Teenage Anarchist" video - Here. Slow motion youth, lunchy fuzz & ferocious cracks and wallops. After almost a year of working on the art and design for this record, "White Crosses" comes out June 8th.

Alexis Mackenzie "Dreaming Is Easy"

2010-03-10T17:22:00.017-05:00

The Easy Reader :
Alexis Mackenzie's "Dreaming Is Easy" opens March 13th at POVevolving in Los Angeles. The opening is at 7pm. Click HERE to preview the work!

The Hard Rider :
If you, dear reader, are in the Los Angeles area this weekend (Saturday March 13th to shackle the real sharpness of the calender) and want to get your sockets saddled and frayed.....then come on down to Chinatown where Alexis Mackenzie is filling the walls of POVevolving with her new show "Dreaming Is Easy".

Last year's "Never Be Sad" showcased Alexis stepping up her uncanny aesthetic by taking breezy, positive phrases and dressing them in a delicate, anarchic swerve of nature's shrapnel. Flash us to moments away from this post, where "Dreaming Is Easy" finds her riding that installed killing spree by plummeting us viewers into a fresh, florally seared set of sliced and diced human menageries. This new work is a true spectacle of her phantasmagoric touch, disparately hinging on an energy that the description "collage" cannot contain & is best viewed up close and personal.

As I mentioned above, the show opens this Saturday, March 13th at POVevolving in Los Angeles and runs for three solid weeks. Check here for gallery hours if you are LA but cannot make it to the opening.

Here is a list of important links :

Alexis Mackenzie Portfolio Site.

"Dreaming Is Easy" Show Site.

A new interview with her on Way of the Women.

Pre-order "On Wonderland and Waste" a book of short stories by Sandy Florian that Alexis illustrated.

Ancient Lite, Weekly.

2010-03-07T16:17:00.005-05:00

Spacial :
I have a new site. It's exciting in a particular tarotorial sort of way, plus the injection of pure goof proofing has made it leg-up for any looker to peel the piecemeal visual history of Steak Mtn. Right. If you misread the link at the outset, or I got too wily opponent with that last sentence, what I mean to tell you is you can see the new site HERE.

Negative :
Light Yourself on Fire's new digital EP is official, on the ramp, finalized in it's triplicate malaise and ready to purchase. Click on this THIS and it will take you to where you need to go and shake some dollars for it. As is my personal and professional history with LYOF, Steak Mtn. has supplied the face for it's digital life. It's funny that we are at this spot in time that I design xeroxed veneered images for records that will never really be printed for the rub & handle.

Nightmares :
Against Me! are currently out in the Canadian tundra with Billy Talent. If you are going to that event in your North North American town, you will see some of the new stage show I have designed : 24x24 stage banner of the White Crosses cover, some grill covers featuring the "signs" that a purchaser will eventually see in the Deluxe version of WC and a new kickdrum head for George that has another melting lady on it. If you are in fact not a show going civilian, can't stomach the boys touring mates or are just waiting for them to return for a US trip, then I will direct you to this youtube vérité shaker which has some bits and pieces of the items. The banner looks like a terror.

Daytime :
I will write more on this this during the week, but Alexis Anne Mackenzie has a new show opening on March 13th at POVevolving in Los Angeles. It's called DREAMING IS EASY & the work for the show can be viewed HERE. So set your body clocks for the March 13th opening Los Angeles, you will want to magnify your night in her phantasmagoric caress.

Against Me! "White Crosses".

2010-02-18T12:29:00.005-05:00

So, here we are.

Gabel posted this yesterday on his blog and I have lot more to say about the cover : impetus, ideas, details, etc. but I am on vacation this week and do not really have the means or time to go into the normal garbage-mouth, self-important Steak Mtn. commercial campaigning about it. This post is basically to let you all know : this the cover for the new Against Me! record, "White Crosses". The release date for the record is early June, but the guys are doing extensive touring until then (here for dates). And if you are interested in Tom's original post about the work hit here. And furthermore, if you are interested in reading a few blistering teenagers Vajda-ing me, then read the comments on Punk News here.

HAUSU.

2010-01-15T10:58:00.013-05:00

Ladies and Gentlemen,

One of my favorite movies ever is starting it's traveling engagement across America today in NY at the IFC Film Center. If you are in NY : GO. I promise it is unlike any movie you may see or have seen. It's got an uncanny detachment that sinks you directly into it's rhythm, almost immediately. Look here at the Janus site, it has all kinds of informational info and there is a link for playdates so you can plan accordingly in your non-NY city.

Below is a small thing I wrote about the film 2 and half years ago. It's a little awkward as most of my write-before-think work can be, but whatever.

HAUSU - An Appreciation (June/7/07)

The idea of a creaky old Victorian, ripe with the ectoplasmic spurts of hateful ghouls pulsing around it's wood grain and gables is a theme that stretches my mind into an excited lather........and with that being said, in theory, the haunted house movie should be my favorite slice of the horror genre. But, I am very rarely excited about the films that the genre has in it's full wardrobe. Sure there are the cold standards like POLTERGEIST or THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (and more "obscure" gems like HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY or in a fantastic stretch of the idea : CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING), but those are hardly the ones I want to cite when I am foaming about the joys of a spectrely swimming home caught on film. So, to me, THE greatest haunted house film is Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 opus of color coded females, people chomping pianos & cat paintings vomiting blood : HAUSU (or HOUSE..........not to be confused with the 80's Miner/Katt film...blah).
I first heard about HAUSU in Tom Weisser's (reportedly)(terribly researched?) Japanese Cinema: The Essential Handbook in the mid 90's. At that point in my youngish life, I was going goofy for any transgressively slanted, odd or outer spaced take on the "horror" film I could find. I found that Europe had it in fingers and toes, but Japan's rich cinematic history seemed to have it in 360 points of articulation, and HAUSU sounded like my CITIZEN KANE. And then it became our MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS due to an ominous availability on the grey market, mixed with it not having English subtitles on any dupey copy I tried to find. A few years ago, I ran into one of those infamous 8th generation tapes of HAUSU for rent at MONDO KIM's, and the excitement swelled heavily in the jeans of my mind.

And like waiting for marriage : finally having it, watching it and rewatching it, melted my mind in every possible way I had imagined it would ten years earlier. It excited me even more, because it was the film I had always been wishing to see : one that deftly mixed plutonian horror, stagey spectacle & rainbow lit meltdowns in the same way I had/have been trying to tackle those fluorescent themes with Steak Mtn. It was amazing. I must have re-rented a billion times before I found a fan-subbed bootleg of the Toho DVD (and now, it is playing the country and probably getting a DVD release very soon.)

Below is a clip someone put on Youtube. If my verbal buttering wasn't good enough, then feast your eyes on this totally bananas trailer for the film.

LOOK AT THIS STILL!!!!!

Widow Open : 2009.

2009-12-23T13:54:00.018-05:00

2009 Back Peddle :

I began the year lathering the ears of others with a plan to move myself and the Steak Mtn. operations to Berlin. And like a lot of loudmouth legwork, the plan ended up failing and getting dusted by the twilight of a foaming economic downturn. Which is fine enough and understandable and legit, as the mirror of that artistic cliche worked out well : I have an Adult job and I hate almost everything about the city I ended up moving to, San Francisco...........and that has basically been my year in, out and lightly running my finger along the arch above the exit sign. Art things did get done though or at least finally hatched and with that statement goes my limp list of achievements for the year. Here you go :

• Rome Snowboard Line : A few boards in various sizes, with designs modeled after the key characters of horror : there is a Dracula board, a Frankenstein board, a werewolf board, blah blah blah. You get the point.

• Guiltmaker "Dilemmas" LP/CD : Here is what I wrote about the record a month or so : "resonating, thoughtful and epically staged." That's still how I feel about it.

• Cult Ritual "S/T" LP : I did one of three different record covers for this. Click Here and see what I wrote about this when it came out and what the cover I designed looks like.

• Against Me! "The Original Cowboy" LP/CD : The attic clearing of their sonic ephemera starts with this. If you are a fan or a fan of this era of the band, "Original" is a really rad behind the curtain listen for sure. I tried to make it look like a G.I.S.M. bootleg or a demo pressed on vinyl, I feel like I succeeded. I might also be so arrogant as to say this is the most punk looking thing Fat Wreck Chords ever put out.....not that I am paying any attention to the labels output at all, but still.

• Fake Problems "It's Great To Be Alive" LP/CD : From my perch, it looks like it's been the kind of year they wanted more or less, with a final tally telling me that things will be pointing North for these young men and their rock n' roll careers in 2010 ad nauseam.

• "Wearing Them For A Cannibal Night In Fear" A3 sized, two color Risograph Print for LANDFILL/MANYMONO : Rub your eyes on my melted Tina Aumont stylings HERE <<<<>

• "It's The Total Doomride!" totebag : Man, were you one of the few lucky ones to see or purchase the fully limited, Jamaican colored "Reichsteady" version? If not, the normal white on black one is still up for sale at my Exorcise! Storefront.

Bored?

2010 Criswell'd :

Right now, I am in the middle of designing the new Against Me! record "White Crosses" and future proofing almost everything revolving around the art side of it's release. Also, in the next few months, I will be finalizing the last Combatwoundedveteran discography, "Farewell Gaylords" which will have the "Duck Down for the Torso" 10", our half of the ROM split that came out Schematics and a few recently uncovered, untitled, totally throw away tracks that came from the Scrotum Grinder sessions...for completists, naturally. Plus, keep 'em peeled on the Exorcise storefront for some new items, hopefully up and ready to be sold in February......and that's all I have for this past year and the first little bit of 2010. I am sure when there is something important I'll brush it into your mane.

Oh! and if there is any reason to follow my punchlines on Twitter, here is the address :

https://twitter.com/steakmtn

Steak Inside LANDFILL/MANYMONO

2009-12-12T12:11:00.004-05:00

COMMERCIAL :

LANDFILL/MANYMONO
is a new UK-rooted designing, printing, creatively retentive hub of fright like malevolence. I have lent a horrible hand in their fundraising machinations via designing a two color Risograph print called "Wearing Them for a Cannibal Night in Fear.", well me and a nice number of other design types. That's right I did write Risograph, that antiquated producer of undead printing quality, making all your recent memories of inkjet one offs and mashed pdf four color drabness take a time machine vacation to the 80s and before. And let me say once more I did write fundraiser, meaning the mentioned myself and a small group of line placers and markers are helping the Landfill/Manymono lot make some extra bank account to purchase pieces of a rainbow for the Risograph printer, which will runoff the option of offering their future clients multiple options of printing colors. Oh....I forgot to mention, that the MANYMONO slice of LF/MM are open for business and willing to take your money to print your zine, poster, pamphlet, terrible drawing, Christmas in Summer card, etc.

SO! RECAP! I have made a new Steakcentric, non band piece of "Artwork", a first in a minute it seems and a new direction of photo manipulation started with last years Cult Ritual record and probably ending when I want to do something different a few months from now. Click all the links, links and links, understand the Europe to US sizing (A3) and hit the kids up for the nice nice from me or if you think I am terrible, then from the likes of the other styles and manipulators that LF/MM have group hugged into the basement of their new empire.

Here is my Martino sliced and spurted piece in it's pre-printed computer form. The final can be viewed here and man, did them kids do a nice job on quality control.

Creamy Satellites

2009-11-01T12:05:00.005-05:00

Push the Colon : A new city walled with the discontent for it's atmosphere, clientele and lack of cinematic saturation, a new dayjob slimed in the latex wanderings of former children with pain excitement and a new professional frontier nicked and marred with details that would have excited Steak Mtn ten years prior but right now just seems like a great way to dump life into my money pit. Moving can cause a creative corrosion; a slither, slicked cut into your ambitions. But things are leveling off and it's all becoming the thing you want "new" to become : functional and representative of the effort you put into making it happen. So, onto the update and the clear speak.

Pull the Sock : 2009 has been a dry time for me creatively. It has been nice to play the year pretty low, forgetting that I was so busy for like five years plus. But, the honeymoon is over and I am back to making the soft parts dribble drips into whole pieces. Currently I am sweat shopping two very big things : one obvious and in line with what you expect and one logical but totally not on the wild with making the punk kids swoon. Updates all around after that dick Jesus' birthday, but until that becomes an ash in the calender's camp here are two very awesome things I was apart of during the past year plus that you should check out if you think you want to check it out.

• Rome Snowboards. Stan, Minino and myself were all tapped to get extreme in early 2008, by Rome Snowboards. Now on the cusp of Winter 2010, they are reaching the kids who like to hit the white powder with outstretched arms and balanced bodies. If you have any interest in sweating in the cold, spilling your joint juice all through your body machine....and want to do it on some alright looking classic monster modeled Steak designs, then you should travel on this link and see the vamped undead frankenstein'd were-wrapped fish hydes they have for sale.

• Interview in ROCKSOUND. As usual with these things I run my mouth about commerce over art, meathead tactics across a drawing board and the comforting feeling of nihilism over PMA. But hey, Haley and the Boys are jumping at you on the front, so fuck it, life is exciting in color......apparently.

• GUILTMAKER "Dilemmas" is out now, available on all playable formats here, here. It was recorded a minute ago and is reaching out to bumble your listening life into split ends and blankets. It's a complex, labored record with an energy that seems transmitted from the future. It feels like advanced sonics and something out of the realm of what is happening in biped rock music these days : resonating, thoughtful and epically staged. I really wish everyone could hear it and be excited and to help ancient friends, I designed its elements front to back. Calling past what is normally expected of me and trying something that moves me past the kid who draws monsters for four chorded knights in training. So, I am stoked. The cover is attached below this paragraph. Hit those links linked above to spend the money on something that doesn't sound like it was fakebooked with hope of cool kid advancement.

Go West, Flesh.

2009-07-22T16:11:00.005-04:00

For those in the bleachers that do not know yet : I am leaving New York and moving to San Francisco. I am doing this.....geez.....in a matter of days, with a estimated docking of around August 3rd. The decision comes at a good time personally, but a goofy time adultly, meaning I am moving without a job fully secured, some leads, but nothing set into direct deposit. SO, this is me casting my net wide to any and all of you faithful friends and readers who may hear/know of something lucrative, exciting, fine enough or at least rent supplementing. Drop me a line (eat(at)steakmtn.com) if you got something (really....I am down for anything, obviously I would love "interesting" but I will take "bank account lathering" just as easily) and I can pass you my VERY professional resume.

See you on the West Coast.

Never Be Sad with Alexis Mackenzie

2009-06-24T21:06:00.006-04:00

THE BOVIOUS : Fear not reader, tomorrow night (and a month of days posthaste) your face has an opportunity to view Alexis Mackenzie's new solo show, "Never Be Sad" at Parklife in San Francisco. For the familiar (and from the example attached), there is a clear movement from the fantastique one-acts of melded menagerie that have become the signature of her aesthetic. But, this is not a molting to worry over as her phantasmagoric touch is not lost it has just risen, sprouted, mutated....you get the idea. She is doing the thing that all artists hope for but often miss in their narrative arches : actual growth. And in "Never Be Sad", Alexis has deftly lined her bastion with a cryptic libretto of multiple movements, all expertly tightened across her collection of spectral pulp and pages. It's exciting, energetic work and you would best be served by seeing it in person if you can.

TOTALLY EERIOUS : A piece of the the press release from Parklife, verbatim, just in case my above was a little over the realm - Alexis Mackenzie’s dreamlike collages intertwine the style of early 1900’s Dadaist Max Ernst with a strong botanical element to create strangely powerful scenarios. Benign elements such as flowers, human and animal figures, and other assorted Victoriana graft together symbiotically in tableaux which seem to deal simultaneously with both evolution and entropy. The resulting images pay homage to the Surrealist importance of the subconscious, where the meaning is left deliberately ambiguous.

WORMS : And so, the heavy handed boyfriend acts like an adjective acquaintance, dually writing double barreled, demanding you buckle to the truth and suckle from it's run-off. The opening is from 7 to 10 and Parklife is at 220 Clement Street in the shrouded city of San Francisco.

Get Ready, Jungle Heat.

2009-06-18T11:01:00.014-04:00

INDULGENCE : The most rote lesson of my 30s is that the triplicate lengths of land splitting memory, coincidence and time is.........off putting. Or maybe it's exciting. Or maybe it just infects the most uncanny spot of a brain that overanalyzes the world-feed to fit a teeming comfort suit, fleshed with all of the fiction I model myself into and after. (Which cryptic or not, makes little sense. But I will keep it in because.....the internet). I know the revelation of "growing older" is a boring stop for those who have or always daywalk civilian and responsibility, but I am usually horrified by how lives can end up falling all over themselves if you keep your neck out long enough. And with that half thought here is what I am really writing about......

THE NIGHT CORRIDOR : Please link, read and worship in front of Jen Hanley's blog, Sleep Deprivation & Stories of My Bullshit Youth (or if you are needing the url : www.gnarlitude.com). When we were brats sweating in Florida, Jen was a crust punk and I was a loud mouth creep. Now that age is cresting through wrinkles, Jen is a specific and seasoned enthusiast for every peak/valley inside fashion (& whatever else inks her tank). And.......I am still a loud mouth creep. Whatever. But from that early bond we recently reconnected and found that we haven't moved much past our youthful interests, just filled them in with the essential bells and whistles for Adult Years.

GRISTLES : After the reconnect, Jen asked if I would redesign the SD&SOMBY header to match her aesthetic excitement (which, again, can be seen when you finger fumble this link). Other than our shared history, I liked the idea of matching my design with her stapled in sincerity. But my main motivation was I connected with her version of where things belong, the similar notes that mash about unrelated counter cultures and the lathering that goes along with every beat of it. She can really get you primed for items in and out of your own preference or personal style and I think that's cool. So, look at her blog and check the sidebars for other places she contributes her writings and observations.

Cult Ritual.

2009-06-16T16:11:00.012-04:00

A PUCKERED NAPE : Below is one of the three front faces of the first Cult Ritual LP out now on Youth Attack. This, of course, is the one I designed.

THE STAIN TRAIL : I can't tell if any well proportioned listeners of punk music will take to Cult Ritual's leveling use of the form as a prison for flayed ideas & quartered mangles of nihilism, anger, manipulation........but I would like to think it's at least possible. For me, 30 some odd years after....let's say....Black Flag angsted about the West Coast, a hardcore band should be less about how well you beat your instruments up and more about how horrible you sand the genre's primal elements across any listener's tuned appreciation. It's about making sure it feels like everything is about to break into pieces, blow the seams, boil the body. It's about about gutting and slicing the lively parts & wearing them for a cannibal night in fear. It's about muddled mastery and enthusiasm for atmosphere over etched regurgitation. Or maybe, I am projecting to wide a net for something so rooted in being a mannered, musical troglodyte. Regardless, I am obviously about to say that I feel Cult Ritual is occupying a ferocious spot in all of that well-trodden land, giving credence to my "yes" of designing a record cover for them.

POST ENNUI : Cult Ritual are currently out abusing the gap between performer/patron and by checking this list you will opportune a moment to wet clothes over their slick bodies in this summer suntime. Plus, in hopes of satiating the eager lives of play money, the band travels with a Wagnerian lot of in (and out of) bloodline ephemera, so get cash ready and help them move their bolted van along the decks of America's basements and youth spots.

DOOMRIDE Bags from EXORCISE! Finally Available. Finally.

2009-06-08T11:19:00.004-04:00

So, here's the complaint : when the fresh cracking June sun starts heating deep your nervous system, moving moisture from the inside meat to the outside shell......it's terrible. Actually, nature is a terrible idea. Especially for those of us who are steady, corny and pretentious in black, the summer is a chateau of suffering and not the ironic kind that our posturing desperately tries to relate to the world. And not unlike most things served in this jerk lunch, there's little anyone can do about it, except be as solar effacing as possible with the commentary shedding some comfort to the subconscious.

Anyway.....
I would like to think I can make that personal account of heat hate feed right into the fact that I am writing up this commercial for the new IT'S THE TOTAL DOOMRIDE! tote bag, but....well, I can't. So, let me just say in plain words again : the IT'S THE TOTAL DOOMRIDE tote bag is finalized, finished and ready for your whatever dollars. This is the first item in my new EXORCISE! product line and basic English would have me tell you that it's mainly inspired by my love of old WW2 exploitation films (or Men On A Mission films as Tarantino would say) like Salt in the Wound, The Dirty Dozen (not really exploitation but.....), Castellari's Inglorious Bastards, etc. etc. etc. with a little dose of G.I.S.M. enthusiasm sprinkled in. You may remember me sprouting this image as a graphite drawing last year when it started travelling with the DRAW! Travelling Art Show, which the original piece is still mixed up with.

This "Endless Bummer" version is available in white ink on black tote for as long as the small quantity I had made exists. There may be more made after in numerous colorways, depending on if I think I am as popular with the kids as I would hope to be.

CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE STORE FRONT.

HALLOW by Mark McCoy : Friday the 13th!

2009-03-13T12:29:00.006-04:00

HALLOW by Mark McCoy
Opening Party Friday March 13 from 7pm to 10pm
Hope Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles

I always say this, all the time to anyone who will listen : Mark McCoy is one of my favorite artists, ever. He's a polymathic and confidently driven artist, successfully upturning multiple means of communication to project what his bio states as an exploration of "identity formation, socialized sexuality, and psychological ramifications of developmental behavioral patterns." Heavy for sure, but just shows that he is conscious of what he is doing, from low to high and is a great example of what I feel has become the newish lore of our generation : smart kids who like dumb stuff. Sure it's dark, sure it's occasionally loud, sure it hits you on a base level with it's design, violence and/or titillation....but if given the chance the work can be busted open to reveal an intellect and excitement unplaced in normal interpretations of these types of images.

To get the non-punk kids up to speed, McCoy's most recognizable work is the graphic design done for the numerous bands he has fronted and/or the records he has scattered out through his label, Youth Attack Records. A few years ago on a quest to fully realize what he was doing past the monochrome that populated parts of sweaty hardcore kid's record collections, I asked him to see what he had, was working on, etc., etc. We went through a lot of his work as he was in the process of trying to get a portfolio of his extended abilities online. I was not fully ready for what he showed me : transgressive collage work, phantasmagoric polaroids and these carefully rendered ink drawings of melded nudity and mashed architecture. At the time, I am sure I embarrassed both of us with my enthusiasm, but it felt like I was seeing something that needed to be represented publicly.

There was a Myspace page for them, they ended up in some group shows and now, flash forward to this moment : he has a show opening tonight, March 13th (Hope Gallery in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles) called HALLOW that features 9 brand new, large, intense drawings (and a 2xLP of music that corresponds with the art) that I KNOW he has been laboring over for quite some time now. In order to not a miss a beat or get something wrong, here is Hope Gallery's press release :

Hope Gallery is excited to present an exhibition of new work by the New York City-based artist Mark McCoy. Entitled HALLOW, the exhibition runs from Friday March 13th through April 11th 2009. Hope Gallery is located at 1547 Echo Park Ave in Los Angeles.

HALLOW is a collection of ink drawings on paper depiciting a sprawling ethereal dimension of decaying corpses, architectural disassembly and alchemical transmutation. With a delicate handling of coarse subject matter, McCoy investigates man's profound desire for self-destruction and champions the concept of Death as a vital developmental process in reaching a higher understanding of the Self.

To accompany HALLOW's visuals, McCoy has created an audio soundtrack 2 x LP for the exhibition. Each musical composition corresponds to a drawing featured in the show, the side of each disc showcasing a consistent breakdown of structure mirrored by an intensifying sense of isolation and reverie.

This is McCoy at a new level, so if you have a moment tonight (or over the next month and are in L.A.), I urge you to stop in and see his show. It's a full production of doom and despair filtered through a controlled and knowing hand.

Here is a few links :

Mark McCoy

Youth Attack Records

Hope Gallery

Two Happenings, One Terraformed Continent.

2009-03-05T10:51:00.003-05:00

Thursday March 5th, 6pm to 9pm

Long Live the Ephemeral curated by Ryan Jacob Smith

Fontanelle Gallery. Portland, Oregon.

Ryan Jacob Smith bubbles up and brings together a disparate, mangled menagerie of artists who have made minor and major strides in making artwork for many rock bands and their consumer/consumable parts. A daunting task, but Ryan has really pulled tight a nice survey of some of us. There is me, Mark McCoy, Sam McPheeters, Seripop, Brian Roettinger and a mishmash of other quality "image" makers. It's up all month at the gallery, with an opening party of Thursday March 5th from 6 to 9.

Here is a link to the show's press release!

Friday March 6th, 7pm to 9pm

Hereafter by Alexis Mackenzie

Threadless Gallery, Chicago.

Alexis Mackenzie will be exhibiting a full and frankenstein'd battalion of her freshest work at the Threadless Gallery in Chicago. Her phantasmagorical constructs will be bustling their ambience all of March, but if you breathe the wood paneling of Chicago then you ought to crawl your self to the opening on Friday, March 6th and project your enthusiasm for monumental, nonfinite artwork.

Here are some links for Alexis :

Work

Interview

Moist, Mammal Movements Arriving.

2009-01-26T16:52:00.004-05:00

A pre-warning if you will, settling my soft hammer nicely into the queue of your late March thoughts : the Steak Mtn. / Horsebites art extravaganza MOIST. MAMMAL. DOOM. is rapidly approaching the greater Amish Americas sooner than maybe Dick and I want to really be ready for. The show slips from our siamese birth canal on April 3rd and then runs our reputations to a fine powder for 27 days at The Metropolis Gallery in beautiful Lancaster, PA. I can't say what Minino will be bringing to the table, but prepared to see some familiar (read : old) work and some slight, experimental failures (read : disappointing for anyone expecting to see Against Me! styled art) from my half of the marriage. Once I figure out how to get images of the new stuff, I will begin putting some of it here and there so you can either get juiced or bummed. Closer to it's nudity, I am sure both our self serving publicity machines will make sure you sarcastically know where, when and why it is happening.

Also, for those that are sort of interested (read : my relatives who need to have what I do validated by hearing "Steak Mountain" said on a major cable network), Gabel was interviewed on Steven's Untitled Rock Show, where he gives the mysterious Steak identity a much appreciated shove into traffic. WATCH IT HERE!

Exorcising Funeral Moons.

2009-01-01T16:32:00.004-05:00

I'm back. It's a fresh fleshed greeting from the gutter grave of a terrible year. Alright, it's boring to say that last year was terrible, because really, all the negative kids say that and from me I am sure it is just rout snore fest. So, the year was actually fine, like all humans it had ups, downs, bigger bummers, a few blood boils and the general growth that any jerk with a brain can count on. So, who cares. Let's get down to business.

.......yes, thank you, you're right, it's factual, no kidding, sincerely, indeed there is a new Steak Mtn. webstore that has been created, brought to life, revived from a dead idea, etc. and it is called EXORCISE! Eventually it will be filled to the gills with un-band related Steak gear of many genres and races : shirts, tote bags, original drawings, printed matters....you get the idea...it's not high concept, it's commerce so all the usual buying stuff suspects will be accounted for. Right now as a test run, Nathan and the Merchline squad have created the site and I slipped them some of the limited prints from two years agos collab squeezefest : The '64 Death Pack. I realize the prices are steep, but realize that you might want to get in on the ground level with some of these prints cause Gabel, Bowen and Horsebites are only getting more popular and exciting to the kids with money to burn and having these will be a collectors something at some point. Look out soon for a limited edition shirt of my ADULTS ONLY! drawing and rocksteady colored totebag of IT'S THE TOTAL DOOMRIDE. I am sure I will be sending out a commercial for you to read about when they are available for you's to buy. BUT REMEMBER : EXORCISE!

Also, please note I have done a new Steak signature shirt for SHIRTKILLER. If you remember correctly, as you should, I ran freely into a overprinted frenzy with them for the Octoskull design a year or so back. I have returned to their fold with a shirt of my FUNERAL MOON drawing. They are taking pre-orders now and should begin printing and sending things off in the next few weeks, follow the link to get yourself outfitted with all the black metal breakfast table irony.

Here is an image of it :

Fake Problems "It's Great To Be Alive" : Return to the Youth S(m)ell.

2008-12-11T13:08:00.009-05:00

Men, Kids & Womens :

This is the recently committed (02/17/09!!!), totally OK'd for public consumption design for Fake Problem's upcoming LP, "It's Great To Be Alive".

I will sinfully mention that I am particularly proud of this one. I will also mention to this speckled room of spectators that I distinctly wanted to design something that frankenstein'd two of P. Saville's woefully fantastic covers for New Order : Power, Lies & Corruption and Technique. Unbeknowst to most scientists, scholars and this Steak Mtn., all you get when you try that out is a Depeche Mode record cover......but who cares. I like it, they like it and considering this potentially will be viewed alongside Flogging Molly coasters...er, I mean record covers.....magically turns this into the fucking Mona Lisa.

"It's Great To Be Alive" will be seen as the walkabout of their career, so keep your eyes pegged on their Myspace page for touring updates, blog posts & comments made by perniciously teen'd youth who want to touch Derek Perry's undercarriage.

Mark McCoy's WOUND Show opens in Philadelphia. GO!

2008-12-04T10:44:00.006-05:00

I have not been able to fully write about my love for McCoy's recent volume of transgressive collages, aptly titled WOUND. It is expressive, uncomfortable & brimmed with abject tension. Mark's art is so multifaceted & amazing. He is one of my main inspirations, work ethic and applied aesthetic : you can't tell what he will do next or what style he will be carrying on with, but it is always fresh, mind melting & energetic. I am not sure if the book can still be purchased from Heart Worm, but I recommend you get on it before it costs a million kid dollars on ebay.

But, what I am really writing this post about is that he has a show opening tomorrow night, in Philadelphia, at a place called Juanita and Juan's featuring work from the WOUND book. All the show information is on the above jpg. If you are in Philadelphia, PLEASE go out and support Mark & then go home and take a shower....because you might feel sort of Port Authority men's room grimy after looking at the guignolistic, moreauvian images he has to offer.

Pettigrew On Steak Mtn.

2008-11-12T10:22:00.003-05:00

There is a new interview with me....or rather Steak Mtn., which I suppose is me....alright : me. An interview with ME, Christopher Norris, Steak Mtn. over at the Alternative Press website. The address on the direct spot it is at is : CLICK HERE. Due to my respect & enjoyment of the man asking the questions (Jason Pettigrew, long time supporter of Steak stuff), I have given pretty right on, truthful answers......in some cases too truthful or at least too truthfully laced with dimmed malice.

So, once again, move on : if you are a familiar with this blog, then I understand if you want to skip the read, as it seems in the past year I have doled out the self important spurters every few months or so. BUT, at least give Pettigrew's personal accounts of music and pop culture a tap, he has a fluid and well plied writing style that needs more eyes scanning it.

Light Yourself On Fire "Intimacy" : Buy Metal.

2008-10-30T10:17:00.006-04:00

Gimped in the visionary gear of tactile thunder, Light Yourself on Fire's newest EP "Intimacy" peppers your soft parts with an electric pummeling played endlessly through an audible and fisted fast forward button. Lipped in literary personality, smashed forward by concrete hands, LYOF have served numerous years in "underground" bands like Reversal of Man, Scrog, and Omega Man. They produce the sort of metal blitzkreig that leaves all vacuumed until it's final thud and garble shuttles forth your bodies juices and ooze.

And in a familiar turn of movement but not aesthetics, I did the design for the whole record. A sort departure from my recent rash of hand drawn goofs, I looked well into my enthusiasm for vintage movie admats to make a slice and diced behemoth of primary synchronicity (see image). The vinyl, CD and download have been available for about a month from Chicago's Seventh Rule. Do your delicate nature a favor by rubbing it raw with the ripped expressions of instruments that fear nothing.

Tom Gabel "Heart Burns" Cover Art

2008-09-15T15:18:00.004-04:00

Somewhere nestled deep in the leaflets of daily sonics, city-sized traveling duties & the forever folding forth of his band's creative future, Tom Gabel has found enough time to write/record a small army of songs for his first solo record, "Heart Burns".

I just finalized the cover art for it, Sire is slathering all seven songs deep into record collections October 28th & Gabel is playing a spiced number of lo fi shows in the Fall to promote it.

Here is the cover :

Juiced Policy, Buttering Moments & New Threading.

2008-08-09T10:20:00.001-04:00

After the chilling ice age came hulking rainbow'd towers livened with a life that both the boring & fanatically hateful would run from. What could be found in the black afterbirth of these massive movers of terror was lapsed time, ennui and transferred toil.

But I have been busy on some Steak Mtn. stuff, just not internet excited enough to follow through with putting it out there for anyone to see.

Here are some links to things that have been worked on recently :

1.) This Against Me! poster.

2.) A few pages in the new Faesthetic!

3.) A poster that comes with the new Apenest! But if you buy direct from Cody you will also have a chance to get the "YAY! GOD!" screenprint.

4.) A year or so ago I drew a small comic strip to be included in Danny Hellman's totally rad TYPHON anthology. Search it out. Exciting work in there.

5.) Orlando, August 16th. Me, Tes One, Bask and some other kid are having a small art show. My work is old as fuck, circa April and the Threadless show, but if you have never seen it in person and want to waste time in Orlando, you should go.

6.) Soon you will see the release of Light Yourself on Fire's EP "Intimacy". I designed the whole thing and it is coming out on Seventh Rule. I will fill in the blanks more on this one once it is out.

7.) A few months back I goofed my way through a group show entitled "the Second Coming" at Pale Horse Gallery in St. PEtersburg, Florida. They made a book of everyones work, and if you click this link, you can purchase it. A few great artists and a stack of total junkers, but worth the price tag for sure.

In April 09, me and Dick Horsebites are having a show in lovely Lancaster, PA. It should be called MOIST, MAMMAL, DOOM. But we may change it before that, who knows. Also, next year will bring Horsebites, CSDIV and my snowboard designs for Rome. I am sure all three of us will be spreading our thin words on these massive boards when they are available for purchase.

That's all for now.

FECAL FACE INTERVIEW IS UP NOW!

2008-04-22T16:03:00.002-04:00

FECAL FACE INTERVIEW!!! MANY QUESTIONS! JUST AS MANY WORDY, SMART ASS ANSWERS! If you are not super familiar with the FF site, take a moment & help your inner highways breathe deeply of it's saccharine scent.

Again : FECAL FACE INTERVIEW! SUPER EXCITING! PROBING QUESTIONS! SQUISHY ANSWERS!

DECAPITATED DOOMSDAY! (Threadless Select!)

2008-04-07T16:40:00.002-04:00

Act fast, swift, prolong not the future of your shirted veneer...because my SUPER limited Threadless Select shirt is online now at THREADLESS.COM! Costly for sure, silly at best, this dauntlessly dipped abomination will only be available for a really limited moment or two.....check the site for the dwindling size numbers & see not only my deshackled freedom from lying, but the images of what true off color cosmetic textile meltdown actually looks like. Every shirt is unique in it’s neo-died-in-the-wool rubdown, complete with dual sided skull head reflectors for you summertime night bike dreamboats out there in kid land!

Here is a banner ad link!
Tell a friend!

THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

2008-03-29T13:10:00.004-04:00

Hello!

THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!, a solo exhibition of new drawings by Steak Mtn., opens at The Threadless Gallery in Chicago from April 4th to April 29th, with an opening party on the 4th from 7pm to 9pm.

For THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!, Steak Mtn. is hanging three different phases of his work. The first section will be dedicated to showcasing the hundreds of xeroxed voodoo, doodles on tracing paper and full scale ink illustrations that have been utilized for some of the punk & noise records he has designed and illustrated over the past ten years. The second section will be images from a small series of color studies that rely on text and inky illustration to create disparate & seamy narratives. The third section will be the debut of his very recent pencil drawings, a series structured on transgressive statements, haunted house imagery & thick seeming minimalism.

Steak Mtn. will be on hand for the opening with a limited three color screenprint made for especially for EXPLOSIVE, plus that night their will be the premiere of a (long in the works) top secret Steak project. If you can't make the anytime in April, all of the work (minus the Scrapbook Wall of Death) is online at http://www.steakmtn.com/explosive.

Thanks!
Steak Mtn.
http://www.steakmtn.com
http://www.steakmtn.com/explosive

Bio :
Steak Mtn. (or Christopher Norris) is a vaguely successful graphic artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Since 1996, he has been illustrating/designing records, merchandise and ephemera for bands & record labels with clients including Against Me!, Atom and his Package, Panthers, Sire/Warner Bros., Vice/Atlantic & Earache Records. Recently, he has been branching out from the music industry by bringing his graphic gallows humor to snowboards (Rome), branding (MTV, Esther Creative Group) & clothing companies (Threadless Select, Shirtkiller, Art in the Age).

April 4th brings THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!!!

2008-03-28T18:16:00.004-04:00

Next week on APRIL 4TH, my first solo show is happening in Chicago at the THREADLESS GALLERY (THREADLESS RETAIL STORE). I will post more about it this monumental evhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifen next week, but in the meantime look at the BONGOUT SHIRT I DID recently and a really frank & LOUDMOUTH INTERVIEW I did a few months ago that I forgot all about. Sometimes you design things you wished you didn't forget, sometimes you say things publicly you wish you could forget forever.

Here is the poster for next weeks triumphant THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR!!!!

The Second Coming of Golf

2008-03-14T17:43:00.001-04:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

PALE HORSE (FORMERLY BLACKOUT CREATIONS) PRESENTS "THE SECOND COMING" GRAND RE-OPENING ART SHOW STARTING SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH.

30+ local, national and international artists will be showcasing Four-Horseman themed artwork.
St. Petersburg, FL, March 1st, 2008 – With Blackout Creations no more, graphic designer, Chris Parks is carrying on with the new name, Pale Horse Graphic Design and Art Gallery. To celebrate this new beginning, a new art exhibit entitled "The Second Coming" will be on display starting Saturday, March 15th through Saturday, March 29th, 2008.

This exhibit includes new works by Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Rob Schwager, Hydro 74, Bask, Red Labor, Jarrod Eastman, Steak Mountain, Horsebites, Dan Mumford Josh Taylor and many more. You may have seen artwork by these artists in magazines like Juxtapoz and Computer Arts, as the cover art for your favorite CD, on the t-shirt you are wearing right now or at other galleries across the globe. Well-known, Tampa Bay area artist, Brandon Dunlap, is also co-curating the show.

The opening reception is Saturday, March 15th from 8:00 - 11:00 pm at 19 MLK Jr. St. S., St. Petersburg, FL.

There is no cover, all ages are welcome and free drinks with proper ID.

Music provided by DJ Muggles. Sponsored by Scion and Red Bull.

Also for more info and directions to Pale Horse, please visit.
Pale Horse Link

So......here is the image I gave them. I mean, Nicklaus......"Old Nick"....right? Evil? Anyway.....

RADAR EYES curated by Seripop in Chicago!

2008-03-06T19:57:00.003-05:00

On top of DRAW in London, I am also in the RADAR EYES that opens in Chicago tomorrow, Friday March 7th. It is curated by the trusted wackos of Montreal, Seripop, who are pretty much the absolute final word on screenprinting alchemy these days. My piece in the show is YAY GOD :
Which you have seen floating around these parts for a bit. If you can't make it to Chicago to purchase this, then go over here or here and order a copy of Apenest from Cody. He is including a very small run of YAY GOD screenprints as a small incentive of buying issue 2 from him directly.

Here is the press release for RADAR EYES.

FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2008 7pm - 1am
The Co-prosperity Sphere presents:

RADAR EYES: A SURVEY OF HALLUCINOGENIC PRINTMAKING
curated by Reuben Kincaid and Seripop

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
773-837-0145

Canadian Print duo Seripop (http://www.seripop.com) and Reuben Kincaid ( http://www.reubenkincaid.blogspot.com/ ) are hosting a large group show representing the works of over 40 different experimental printmakers on March 7, 2008. The exhibition contains work sharing a similar aesthetic highlighting the talents of artists and designers making hand drawn, ephemeral work. Many of the prints depict distortions of perception, altered states of awareness and geometric, sometimes hallucinogenic subject matter or compositions.

For a quick look at a few of the hundred or so works on display please visit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/versionfest/sets/72057594136155224/

Show opens at 7pm

At 9pm we will ask for a $5 donation for the hot entertainment

Live music By the Chandeliers and Fought
Beer by Grolsch
Cookies Courtesy: Aron Kincaid

For more information go to:
CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW OF THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!! This show inaugurates a new era for the Co-Prosperity Sphere. We made some upgrades and improvements to the space and hope you like it as much as we do !!!!

If you really really dig prints and want a special preview of the work before it is all sold please join us between 6-9pm on Thursday, March 6 for a preview at the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

DRAW!

2008-03-04T16:13:00.003-05:00

People of the United Kingdom! I am in a group show that opens this Friday, March 7th (and closes March 23rd) at http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif called DRAW. Curated by Erik Foss & Curse Mackey, and featuring rad people like (my trusted friend) Mark McCoy, Chris Johanson, Kerry King (yes....that KK), Maya Hayuk, Clive Barker, Kat Von D & about a bajillion other quality pencil and pen movers. Click here and here to see my two pieces if in fact you are not a London Dungeoner. Below is the show flyer! Awesome!

What They Do Is Secret. Fact.

2008-02-27T19:12:00.000-05:00

Enlarged Icicle Horrors From The Hungry Hanger.

2008-02-18T17:06:00.006-05:00

In a spectacular coup (& with the help of Thalia), I have been let in the back door of the very exciting group show DRAW. Curated by Erik Foss & Curse Mackey, it opens on March 7th at the StolenSpace Gallery in London, leaves there on March 30th and then apparently goes to Tokyo, Moscow and Beijing. Crazy. Other totally rad people in this show are (my trusted friend) Mark McCoy, Chris Johanson, Kerry King (yes....that KK), Maya Hayuk, Clive Barker, Kat Von D & about a bajillion other quality pencil and pen movers. Pretty Rad. Click on the image below to see both of my images in the show.

On a not so triumphant note, you can see the three rejected Green Day Shirt designs by clicking on the image that says GRED ENYA below. I know....I thought it would have been funny as well.

Officially Ordering THE NEW WAVE COLLECTION!

2008-02-17T19:17:00.001-05:00

Do not be afraid! Click it and you can buy stuff!

THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR : Preview

2008-02-07T08:19:00.000-05:00

Mark your internal clocks : THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR is my solo show coming up at the freshly opened Threadless Gallery in Chicago. The show will coincide with the retail premier of my official Threadless textile mansion, DECAPITATED DOOMSDAY : a hand dipped, double sided, 6 color screened glittering behemoth of a shirt. Due to the confines of contract, I can't release the image of that yet, but know this....you, the reader, may want to might wear it.

THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PICTURE OF THE YEAR will open on April 4th and should contain about 50 new & sort of newish drawings. I don't really have any of the stuff scanned yet, but I did snap three lo fi progress shots of a current drawing I have been slaving over. Pun totally intended.

STEAK MTN. INTERVIEW AT NO PAIN IN POP

2008-01-09T15:22:00.000-05:00

Last month I did an interview with Tobias at NO PAIN IN POP, a completely rad UK record label that also just happens to throw parties as well. From the looks of their FLICKR page, it is all tidal waves of sweaty youths and neon, which in the context of people on people fun, is great for naked and clothed good times. Click this link here for my interview with Tobias of NO PAIN IN POP, it is actually one of the more no bullshit, truth telling interviews I have given.

As a side note, Tobias is an absolutely amazing artist in his own right, and remains one of my favorite picture drawers on that side of the world......for proof ask him how much fan mail it took me for him to write me back. Lots. Like....a whole lot.

AGAINST ME! : THE NEW WAVE COLLECTION

2007-12-23T23:02:00.000-05:00

CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE FIRST FIVE DESIGNS!!!!!!!

CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE LAST FIVE DESIGNS!!!!!!!

AND HERE IS A LITTLE TASTE OF WHAT YOU WILL SEE!!!!!

The Tartaric Beacon of Miami Beach....

2007-12-20T10:21:00.000-05:00

....is perched 10 feet above the excitingly glutted commerce of Lincoln Road. It is clearly a tombstone for the artistic & wasted demon Miami Beach might have been. That is more than likely projection. The truth more than likely is : they couldn't afford a super duper professional sign so they got the cousin in the family who was an "artist" to paint a cheap piece of sign plastic and they stuck it up there. Who cares really.....the thing was an absolute visual triumph of our trip to Miami Beach.

DUSTBIN DRUG USE : 1930'S

2007-12-19T07:33:00.000-05:00

It's not your father's angel dust, but it might be your great grandmother's titular druglord freakout.

Even In Miami, Throbbing Members Can't Shake Neckface.

2007-12-18T07:52:00.000-05:00

There has to be upwards of 7 million toilets in Miami. Combined with the excreting community of it's sister city Ft. Lauderdale, I am sure it reaches the double digits of millions. That's a lot of porcelain for all to tower over & let loose the liquid and lunch that has been rumbling in their traffic zone(s). So why on earth did I have to walk into the one Urine Kingdom that Mexican demon scribbler NECKFACE tagged?
Even in Miami, I can't seem to shake the kuroneko that is New York City.

TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE.

2007-12-14T10:10:00.000-05:00

It is not far fetched from any grandiose fact that I am overtly & painfully juiced, flayed & populated by movies. All kinds. Now, giving you rude examples of how wide my valley is cinema stumping masturbation, would just be projection and distillation of an ever growing list of time wasted in front of a flat screen. Basically, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Instead and very occasionally I will be flashing some serious filmic gang signs on STOMACH! : hog stepping, dog earring and detailing minor moments in the bulging cinematic road that I find are a conscious influence on Steak Mtn. and the work I do on top, within & underneath that heavy platform.

Below is the trailer for Mario Bava's TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (or Bay of Blood). The movie is great. No lie. But the trailer is an absolute design triumph, basically giving you nothing of plot, but plenty in color & eruptious violent glamour. I saw this about about 10 years ago and it really bled out what I wanted to do with Steak Mtn. commercially and visually. Watch this, and then find the movie.

YAY! GOD! : The Rapture

2007-12-07T06:18:00.000-05:00

Fear not youth, fear not old age, fear not the Fear of God bootleg that you got from some obtuse & encrusted distro. The limited edition print for Apenest is coming soon, maybe not for Jesus' birthday, but around that time. In addition to a wall hanging man, you can also own the shirt, which is getting piped out of the trumpet of No Idea. All will be told, unfolded and read back to you in tri when the corner for this dueling artwork has been wedged.

Welcome To The New, Remember The Old!

2007-12-06T09:27:00.000-05:00

I moved the blog from the old Stomach! to what you are looking at, which is triumphantly the new Stomach! But, with all this flurry of change, water powering down into the fresh canals of your mind, don't forget to reference the old Stomach! for all the ancient 2007 and way back Steak data you need.

ALSO!!!!! Look no further than this link here for freshly baked blog called The Liquorice containing almost all un-Steak related postings about other artists, movies loved, stupid images collected and other wastes of your and mines time.