M.M. Plumm's Foxy Billionaire Yacht Party
HOSTED BY WILLIAM CHILDRESS, A FUNNY SOUTHERN MAN.
I AM WRITING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM AUTHORITATIVE. I’M TALKING AT YOU WITH TOTAL AUTHORITY. YOU WILL COME TO OPEN MIC. TOTAL AUTHORITY. OBEY ME. AUTHORITY.
(Plus there’s 1/2 price drinks all night. Seriously it’s like 20 RMB for a cocktail.)
8:30 at Bloc, 139-19 Changle Lu near Ruijin Yi Lu
Today we’ve got another illustration from M.M. Plumm that’s a little ripper (side note - that’s Aussie slang meaning great for those not in the know.)
Before we say goodbye to Hellhounds and RDC, let us pay tribute to the people who will be bringing some visual media to the mayhem.
Here’s…
At the show, I’ll be selling coloring books with all of these images for 10 RMB, and so you can figure out who I am, Abby’s agreed to slap some words up on me like the naughty human billboard I am. Here’s hoping against hope that they don’t sweat off within 30 seconds.
FOUR MORE DAYS TO GO.
I’m sure you’ve heard that Rainbow Danger Club are losing their guitarist and singer, Mr. Munson and that Adam ‘Flacco’ Gaensler is taking that tiny guitar he always takes on picnics to Jakarta. So they be throwing down a mad block party and having a heap of bands come shake their dicks on the…
Oh please, please, please say that you’ve at least heard that I’ve been doing this zeppelin of an art/promotion project thing to promote the show. I consider myself a baby indie promoter, but if Slink Rat’s not heard about this then just what the hell do I think I’m doing here???
Anyway, yes. So, so many drawings of EVERYONE performing at the show. There will be coloring books, oh yes, there will be coloring books, and they will be 10 RMB. I will have Abby’s art on me. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Tell your hand masseuse (especially your hand masseuse).
Here’s a third M.M. Plumm Countdown illustration for today, aren’t you lucky!
The Violent Phlegms are a Violent Femmes (punny!) cover band that opened for YACHT back in 2009.
THIS IS WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT MY BRAIN MAKES ME DO.
Sorry, Internet.
We’ve been a bit late posting the last few Countdown pics so you’re getting TWO of M.M. Plumm’s illustrations today! Rejoice!
Here it’s rock band Stegosaurus?, they of the ubiquitous question mark, getting all done up in fine art on the wall. And see that velvet VIP rope? - you’re in the presence of greatness, don’t cross it!
More links here-
http://stegosaurus.bandcamp.com/
http://wiki.rockinchina.com/w/Stegosaurus%3F
https://www.facebook.com/stegostegostego/info
Heads up, everyone, because it’s that time of the year again – Shanghai Pride is upon us!
Pride Week 2013 is gearing up to be the biggest and best in its short history, and it’s got an extra special flavor to it now because the city will be celebrating a most meaningful fifth anniversary of Pride week.
This “Pride5” anniversary is a big deal when you think back to Shanghai Pride’s humble beginnings five years ago, for those of you who were here to see it. Several small performances were held and parties were hosted by a few brave individuals, with the first Opening Party drawing a crowd of around 150 people. A movie screening was shut down for “licensing reasons” that prompted a pattern among the organizing team to hold out on releasing venue details until immediately before events.
Fast forward five years and we’ve got a full menu of diverse activities, a solid, growing band of enthusiastic volunteers, and sponsorship from gay bars and companies like American Apparel and dating website Manhunt. The big parties have been growing by almost 200 people every year, with projections for this year’s Opening Party at an impressive 1000 party-goers ready to take on the night. For a non-profit grassroots organization run entirely on the hearts and souls of volunteers – and in a country not exactly known for its social progressiveness – this is kind of amazing. Something to be proud of indeed.
Kanye West (because who else?!), in a new interview with Jon Caramanica published in the New York Times.
Oh Kanye.
(via split-works)
What a coincidence! Just like 2 weeks ago I wrote these exact words down over and over again for hundreds of pages like Jack Nicholson from The Shining.
The onslaught of pictures just does not stop! Continuing the charge is this beautifully beweaponed bovine behemoth that we like to call… BATTLE CATTLE!
Looking/listening/learning links:
http://battlecattle.bandcamp.com/album/kennys-not-dead
http://site.douban.com/battlecattle/
http://www.shanghai247.net/music/features/battle-cattle-interview
http://www.kungfuology.com/andybest/2011/12/battle-cattle-are-on-the-go.html
See the whole lot so far from M.M. Plumm here!
Who wants to be greeted by some wonderfully grisly faces staring you down this fine morning? You do? Good, that’s what we thought.
So the main organizer of Rainbow Danger Club’s Goodbye Show is Dennis Ming Nichols, and it’s his turn today to be featured by M.M. Plumm as half of death pop…
The countdown to Rainbow Danger Club’s Goodbye Show marches on for M.M. Plumm with amazingly-named post-pop band yourboyfriendsucks (seriously, how perfect is that name?!)
I’d just about expect a group with that name to describe their music like this - “We want to make sounds that warm people’s hearts and then leaves them lonely.” Aw. Sad.
More here-
https://soundcloud.com/urbfsux
http://site.douban.com/ybs/
And check out this pretty hilarious interview they gave us!
A big, important part of doing the Countdown to Goodbye has been spending time getting to know a bit about the bands for whom I’m illustrating by reading their interviews and press releases and visiting their websites and listening to their music. As such, I’m discovering a lot of very compelling music makers with some top-shelf, Grade-A Cool Shit going on.
It’s not like I was completely unaware good things were happening here; I’ve been a long-time friendly acquaintance of the Shanghai independent music scene, but mostly it was because nearly everyone I know is in a band. But even though I had been to MANY a gig before, it’s only been in these past couple of months that I started to really love music. (And that, my friends, is an entirely different bag of Oreos and shall be saved for another time.)
Now that I find myself in the position of “fan,” like—real fan—I’m delighted to report that hey, holy shit, China has a pretty rich and dynamic indie music scene you guys. And of the bands I’ve drawn so far and didn’t know about before, yourboyfriendsucks is the one I’m most excited to check out on the 22nd (followed closely by Himdong).
They only have a few tracks on their Soundcloud, but the two most impressive are live recordings that demonstrate the kind of tightness that bands only seem to get after being together for a long time. Also, their sound is melty and warmly heartbreaking (exactly like they said!) and reminds me of the Flaming Lips. One thing, though: I’d like to hear an instrumental version of “The Capital of Poland is Shanghai” featuring a liberal sprinkling of harmonica and a generous pinch of accordion. (I’m looking at you, The Horde.)
Today in M.M. Plumm’s series of Shanghai band illustrations we’ve got Threshold of Forest. Threshold of Forest is the solo project of Todd St Amand, recently adopted perma-member of Rainbow Danger Club, frequent collaborator/performer with Girls Like Mystery, and, in M.M. Plumm’s words, “The only person I’m ever talking about if you see me at a gig yelling “ROCK CELLOOOO!!!”
See all six drawings so far HERE.
I love Shanghai 24/7 for understanding how I feel about my drawings (“They are your babies!”) and for being more vigilant about posting my work to Tumblr than I am.
If you need to find me Friday or Saturday, I’ll be drawing.
In an effort to be taken seriously, here are the first ever Slink Rat awards. They could be annual, or weekly, or whenever I can be bothered, but let us all welcome and celebrate them and put them on our bios and continue living the dream.
No panel of judges, no careful deliberation, no…
I would go to this event. I would make posters for this event.
Here’s drawing #3 in M.M. Plumm’s series of illustrations inspired by Shanghai band names! Stay tuned for a new one every day till Rainbow Danger Club’s Goodbye Show in late June.
Next up is garage-rock band Naohai:
http://naohai.bandcamp.com/
http://site.douban.com/naohai/
http://www.shanghai247.net/music/features/xiao-zhong-chats-naohai-about-their-first-ep-launch
Rainbow Danger Club’s Goodbye Show will feature twenty local bands. Yup, twenty. Local artist M.M. Plumm will be posting an original illustration for each band on Facebook every day in the run up to the show. Keep checking back to see who’s next and which band inspired which drawing! We’ll…
The number keeps shifting between 18 and 20, but you’ll be getting a new illustration from now until the 22nd because I love drawing, music, literal interpretations, and you.
All through development, the arcade classic “Pac-Man” was intended to be a video-game tie-in to the popular children’s novel “The Missing Piece”. However, at the last minute Shel Silverstein, author of “The Missing Piece”, rescinded the rights, because intellectual copyright law works like…
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