Forrest Armstrong's Blog, page 3

The Deadheart Shelters

Two weeks until takeoff. 

Carlton Mellick III, who was a hero to me when I started getting into writing, already called it "The literary equivalent of an Alejandro Jodorowsky film."

It'll be published by Swallowdown Press, which is operated by Jeremy Robert Johnson (of Angeldust Apocalypse clout). I have him to thank for how slick this project is, every step of the way… he even gave the book its name. I honestly couldn't be more excited. This shit is fresh.

Never fall in love, and never try to...

MmmHmm

You can tell Flying Lotus is a guy who gets bored easily. This video takes you on a liquid trip through weeded-out galaxies that spin like satelites, into a video game world (that's inside the fairy woman's brain?) that's probably what Mario would be if all those mushrooms really were psilocybin, scoots through some 80s looking cyber shit… and then FlyLo blows out smoke underwater! What a high. This is off his Cosmogramma LP. I can't believe that this dude gets talked about in mainstream...

Daft Punk Leaked

Just got word this morning that the upcoming soundtrack Daft Punk made for Tron is no longer under wraps. This shit is dope! It happens to come at a perfect moment for me too, when I'm rediscovering how good Daft Punk really is (especially after dwelling in a few different Boston nightclubs and realizing that 99% of DJs all play the same house music). Listen to them here – and rush, cause these will probably be swept off the net soon.

I'm now hunting for clean mp3s of this track so I can bump ...

Zombies and Shit

Just saw the cover art for Carlton Mellick III's upcoming novel and had to share it. This looks like his funnest shit since Punk Land. In his own words: "Return of the living dead style zombies + punks of the apocalypse in a battle royale style game show. Coming soon."

Two Songs That Make My Life 2x As Good

My brother is probably sick of them, cause anytime we're together in my car I grab his iPod and flip it to these same two songs to start the ride.

First is the Daft Punk club-bumper "Indo Silver Club." I've always loved Daft Punk – when I was living in Brighton we used to have massive dark room dance parties to their album Homework. I recently developed a new appreciation for them, in a different way (probably provoked by my DJing nowadays). Despite this song having only like, three or four...

Bizarro Gets Props from the Guardian?

Read the article here. Some of the nicest praise the Bizarro genre of writing has gotten recently… and from a mouth as official as The Guardian, no less! For the most part, they're discussing my former roommates, Jeff Burk and Cameron Pierce, as well as the Eraserhead Press peoples (who lived down the street from us). If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you especially have to read this.

The Aborted Mixtape

7 Poems, 8 Beats is dead. It died before it was born, kind of – only 28 copies were printed, many of which are already in other people's hands. It's a beautiful-looking thing, with art by Jase Daniels – who I never stop gaining respect for – and the mix is tight, taking the Gas Monk originals out of When You Can't Afford Weed, Smoke This and reblending them with a few new exclusives. But it died, and there's a set of excuses I can give but in the end it was a revelation about the nature of...

Interview in Makinfluence

For all my French peoples – I was interviewed recently in the awesome French artblog, Makinfluence. It is very interesting to see what things I say look like in another language. Probably a lot more elegant than my real talk. Word up to my man Camilla for making this happen! If you speak French, read the interview here. If you are monolingual (?), like me, read the original English interview below:

Why did you decide to create a blog? What does it deal with exactly?
We live in an age where...

jus something beautiful

I love picture blogs when they are done right, and this one is done very right. Awesome Eye, comin straight at you from France - dip in, relax, walk out head-expanded.

Madlib again? (madlib again & again!)

Anybody who understands the above reference gets $5. Lemme know. (You probably won't get any money, but street cred is worth more than dollars and you'll get tons of that).

Just wanted to share this interview with my favorite producer going today, Madlib. He doesn't seem to give interviews a lot but he's always got something inspirational to say – hip hop producers, music lovers and art geeks alike will get down with this.