We are pleased to present our 26th installment of Sound Advice featuring Jim Houser.  Jim is a Philadelphia-based Artist and Musician who is currently focused on the release of an untitled recording of instrumental music which usually accompanies his art installations. It will be distributed by freenewsprojects in philadelphia . feel free to write to them and bother them about a release date.

Sound Advice 26  -  Jim Houser

01 Gar Forgets His Insulin  -  Hot Snakes
02 Dolls  -  Crystal Castles
03 The Saturday Boy  -  Billy Bragg
04 Suitland High School Theme Song  -  The Most Secret Method
05 Hot Magic, Red Planet  -  Orange Goblin
06 Jewel  -  Blonde Redhead
07 Messidor  -  The Durutti Column
08 It Ain’t Me Babe  -  Johnny Cash
09 Seed Toss  -  Superchunk
10 Velvet Waltz  -  Built to Spill
11 Condor Ave.  -  Elliot Smith
12 Tales of Lolita  -  Floor
13 Full Disclosure  -  Fugazi
14 Red  -  King Crimson
15 Bill  -  Seaweed
16 Behind This Wall  -  Turning Point
17 Animal Wild  -  Shudder to Think
18 Famous Blue Raincoat  -  Leonard Cohen
19 Pluto  -  Les Savy Fav
20 Try Something  -  American Sneakers
21 Birthday  -  The Sugarcubes
22 Nine Things Everybody Knows  -  Q and not U
23 New Town  -  Life Without Buildings
24 Tittiepop  -  Need New Body
25 Last Days Here (1974)  -  Pentagram
26 Raging Embers  -  Saviours
27 Underground  -  Samiam
28 Crash Landing  -  Seduce
29 Your Star is Killing Me  -  Chisel
30 bathysphere  -  Smog

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Morrissey, Suedehead

In this feature, two of our favorite people, Neil Anblomi and Anita Goodman, ask each other important questions

This week, Anita asks Neil…

Anita: “I can’t seem to un-see that chimp mauling victim’s face. Upon seeing it, my roommate immediately said “man I would be so mad I didn’t die.” What about  you? Would you want to live while being insanely disfigured? If so, what would you use to camouflage your deformaties?

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Blahzay Blahzay, Danger, 1996

I’m really feeling this Art Print/Skate Graphic/iPod-iPhone-Laptop skin by Hollis Brown Thornton for Infectious.  The good old days of VHS, I personally liked Beta more but, what can you do?  The Porn industry chose that technology for us.  You should check out the Infectious site, lots of great things to customize your life.

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Plants & Air, makes sense.

More here

This is the visual definition of obsession. Who would build a Lego Yamato battleship in what looks to be a kitchen?

Check out more photos of the ship and one giant Lego Cat in the background

Great video from No-Mas and James Blagden.  It actually reminded me of this amazing Eric White drawing I wanted to buy when I was low on cheddar, I wish I had bought it…

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He Already Knows How To Work It

I see Danzig taught him well.

These on-location pictures are from the twitter account of MJ Day, a Senior Associate Editor at Sports Illustrated.  I’m sold.

After the taxidermist, Australia’s National Gallery.

Okay

Battleship the movie? According to The Movie Blog, it has the greenlight and scheduled for release in 2011. There is no clear storyline yet except for aliens.

Read more about Battleship the movie here.

Rad

(Thanks Kiji!)

Our girl Alix makes these really cool stitch pieces.  So cool in fact, she has opened an Etsy store to sell some of them.

Adorn your walls with some craftiness

Rick Howard in Questionable

Thomas Ruff

Opening in like 30 minutes is Slater Bradley’s 6th solo exhibition at Team Gallery, if we were immortal.

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Just when you thought auto-tune was finally dead, it shows up with baseball Hall-of-Famer George Brett dishing on an excellent meal.

Via HolyLoly