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DIETRICH performs “Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy” (originally by Devo) live at the Beauty Bar in San Diego, Saturday May 1 2010. Contact DIETRICH at dietrichsandiego@gmail.com

This final video excerpt from DIETRICH’s performance at the Kensington Club in San Diego Friday April 16 2010 includes two cover songs: Fang’s “The Money Will Roll Right In” and “Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo” by Supercharger (also covered by the Mummies).

Watch “Naivete” from the same night here, “Sleeper” here, and San Diego-area residents please note DIETRICH will be playing tonight, Saturday May 1st at the Beauty Bar San Diego.

Double-click on the video to watch in HD on Youtube.

Contact DIETRICH at dietrichsandiego@gmail.com.

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Second selection from DIETRICH’s performance at the Kensington Club in San Diego Friday April 16 2010. Watch “Naivete” from the same night here, and don’t forget DIETRICH will be playing Saturday night May 1st at the Beauty Bar San Diego.

Double-click on the video to watch in HD on Youtube.

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DIETRICH performs “Naivete” live at the Kensington Club in San Diego, Friday April 16 2010. Contact DIETRICH at dietrichsandiego@gmail.com.

Double-click on the video to watch in HD on Youtube. (Caution: language.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8aehk57kvk

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Awhile ago I wrote about the Skullcandy earbuds I got free basically for having a not-insignificant Diet Coke habit along with the time to sit typing the MyCokeRewards codes from the insides of their boxes and bottle tops into their website.  Well, it’s been a year and half or so since then and while the program continues, my impression is that it seems to have scaled back a bit: there are fewer high-value prizes available, and redemption value for others seems to have risen.  However, I still save and type in the codes religiously because hey, free stuff, right?  Right?

So I’d never owned a messenger bag, but because the nylon ‘American DJ’ bag I found sitting on a stack of identical bags on top of a trash can at my old apartment building was getting a little overstuffed as a gig bag and doesn’t close at the top I figured I’d try the Deluxe Recycled Owl Messenger Bag depicted below:

I assume Owl is the name of the manufacturer and the bag is not made of actual recycled owls.  I can tell you that whatever it is made of feels cheap and flimsy; the first time I took it out of the shipping box I wondered if it would rip instantly.  The pictured shoulder strap broke off literally the second time I used it, but other than that it’s held up fairly well as a container for various batteries, cables, lyric sheets, adapters and so forth.  Unfortunately its capacity didn’t quite live up to my hopes and now whenever I play I haul around both this and the aforementioned ‘American DJ’ bag like some sort of vagabond sponsored by tacky corporations.  I keep saying I ought to organize them and concentrate just the stuff I really need down to one bag, but, well, you know.

Recently my MyCokeRewards points again built up to the level where one can actually get something nonshitty — up to a point it’s all hideously overvalued Coke hats and Coke t-shirts, and damned if I’m going to use that many of my hard-earned points just to advertise their product on my body.  So this time I opted for the Grab-n-Go Laptop Desk Caddy:

This too gave the immediate impression of cheapness and flimsiness upon withdrawal from its shipping container, but considering it’s basically just a plastic pillow with a platform on it to situate between your lap and your laptop I guess it doesn’t need to be precision-engineered or anything.  Still, the seams don’t quite look right, the gray top surface is just a large decal that has a good number of air bubbles due to uneven application, and if I were hosting a classy dinner party at my house I’d definitely hide it out of sight just due to overall lack of classiness.  Also, I just realized I was lying down in bed reading (comics) off my laptop for like three hours last night and not once did it occur to me “Hey I should grab that laptop desk caddy thing from the other room, it’d totally be better than this wooden clipboard.”  I have used it a couple times on the couch — next to which seems to be the caddy’s natural habitat — and it was definitely less awkward than putting my laptop/wireless keyboard on the coffee table and hunching over it like a vulture, so it may yet find a useful role to play in my life.  The jury’s still out on that.

So overall a mixed bag — can’t really complain, but only because the merchandise was free so that’s hardly a sterling recommendation. Kind of wonder if I would enjoy the use of a proper messenger bag, to be honest.  Still rockin’ the Skullcandy earbuds in any case — great for short plane trips and noisy fast-food restaurants when I just want to be left alone to listen to Ricky Gervais podcasts in peace.

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I can’t decide whether this one’s genius or awful or somehow both.  It’s certainly unforgettable, but also questionable how well it conveys the Beatley-Badfingerish-10ccesque vibe of the music, even to a 1970 audience.

Evidently the bass player from Octopus, Nigel Grigg, went on to join Split Enz, so that’s…something.

Actually I could see someone doing this costume for Comicon.  I guess all you’d really need would be the boots, the string thong, a load of green bodypaint.  Oh, and of course the hyper-disturbing tentacle arms, but then again I’m sure there are people into that sort of thing, in fact I’m sure I know a couple.

 

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Okay, it’s no secret I listen to a lot of music.  I’ve listened to tons of stuff, across all genres, and I’ll pretty much give anything a shot. However, I have to say I’ve absolutely never seen cover art as truly heinous as this in my entire life:

I mean, clearly the budget was tight here, but OH MY GOD.  D&D first edition art looks like Carvaggio in comparison.

Found at http://cgragain.blogspot.com/2010/03/kopperfield-tales-untold-rare-hardrock.html

If you want to hear what the music actually sounds like:

 

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Monday night, February 8th, I’ll be performing with Paul Szewczyk and Ryan Tully-Doyle at the Ruby Room in Hillcrest (http://www.myspace.com/therubyroomsd, http://www.yelp.com/biz/ruby-room-san-diego). I’ve never been there before myself, but the yelp reviews seem particularly positive. It’s a free show; we will be the third of four bands playing (the others are The Touchies, Starcrossed, and Fractophone), and I’m told we go on around 10:30.

Below, you can listen to a track from our recent Skybox show; you can safely assume what we play at the Ruby Room will not be too dissimilar.

Also: Paul, Ryan, and I have finally managed to settle on a band name we can all live with: Dietrich.  I hope we can live up to it.

So I guess we need a myspace or something now?  Do people still do that?

 

 Dietrich - Spray Vandalism (2010.01.13 Skybox) [3:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Awhile ago on one of the forums I frequent, someone posted an offer for one of the many custom printing websites.  Not too surprising as there are a million such services and have been ever since the internet’s inception, but this offer was notable in that one could design one’s own custom bumper sticker, upload the image, and in return for giving them your contact information they’d print one up and send it out to you, free of charge.  Typically these “free custom printing” offers require some ridiculous postage and handling fee and a credit card number, but this one seemed clear of such hitches, so I thought for about two minutes, came up with an idea, whipped it together in  another two minutes using Google Image Search and Irfanview (no fancy image editin’ software for me, no sirree), uploaded the design, and promptly forgot all about it.

Months later, someone bumped that thread containing the original offer, asking whether anyone had received their stickers.  No one had, and I assumed it was yet another example of the internet adage, “If it sounds too good to be true, it is,” cursed them for swindling my precious email address out of me with the promise of free printed goods, and forgot all about it again.  (Hey, it’s the internet, a picture of a cat can make you forget what you were doing five seconds ago.)

But then miraculously a few weeks later, people started posting saying “I got my sticker!”  Still, an equal number of people posted saying their designs had been rejected due to profanity or similar concerns, so I didn’t get my hopes up, as while profanity didn’t apply in my case I could think of at least three good reasons off the top of my head why a company might not want to print and mail out my design.  (So, yes, I forgot about it again).

Then, last week, an envelope in my mailbox.  Recognizing the company name in the return address, I eagerly tore it open to find within a surprisingly well-made, sharply printed vinyl sticker:

Awesome.

Now I just have to figure out where to put it.  Kitchen fridge, maybe?

Edit: Clueless, go here.  Also note this post’s meta keywords were specially SEO’ed.

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This is their official promotional photo. I just know I’m going to wake up screaming tonight.

It’s like someone freeze-dried N’Sync. Terrifying.

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