Post Titled:All-American Christmas Oddities such as: the COLOR-CHANGE USB-POWERED L.E.D. SNOWMAN!
my sister got this for xmas...

AND (filmed by Laura Bean) a Merry Christmas from Kentucky!
Christmas Country line dancing at the Elizabethtown Mall:

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Post Titled: THe Queen's Christmas address
2008, Ye Olde Wingless Gremlin spoke... and I was captivated by the veneer of feeble sincerity with which she gently spoke down to her minions and subjects, while also being amazed that her thin skin was able to restrain the bloodpudding beast rumbling within... the tiniest pinprick of a hole would surely let forth the hissing red vapor, a preview of the world to come...

Post Titled: VOTE FOR JULIETTE
Take a break from Christmas hectic-ness to vote for Whitehot's Juliette Frette for Playboy Playmate of the year 2008 HERE: http://www.playboy.com/playmates/features/playmate-review-2008/
(Playboy Miss June Juliette Fretté naked)

Post Titled: the Cowboy Killers' video on SPIN earth launch
so, Buck and I make this video for SPIN magazine's new site SPIN earth, I know I posted it a month or so ago but here is the official embeddable end product which they re-named "Cowboy Killers Charge into Modern Folk Rock.
the cowboy killers charlie booth mike ellison salsburger morland berlin kreuzberg
berlin tar art rat "post-google" tarartrat post google 2008

Spin Earth - Europe

Post Titled: karmanoia pottkasten podcasts- radioshow ... seriously weird shit to rock your zweisprachige world. CLICK HERE FOR THE podcast
wer hätte denn das gewusst? thanks ms. messica.
berlin tar art rat "post-google" tarartrat post google 2008

Post TItled: communism + capitalism =

DJ PEOPLE's CHAMPION CORY ANDREEN 7. Januar JANuary 7. Torstr. 136

Post Titled: Mole tROUBLE!!!
You've heard it all in the news, the financial crisis, the environmental crisis, the ... the crisis crisis... Well, I have too, and I am a bit burnt out... So clearly there iss room for an about-face here in ye olde blogosphere, cleaaaarrly switching gears here at Post Google to think about the... well, some of life'
s burning issues wouldn't hurt anyone (especially/hopefully not a small burrowing creature with poor eyesight)... (aka: the tireless mole who has moved into the backyard.) yea yea yea: "hello UK!" Welcome to the Mole Crisis, live video blogging from the backyard (how do we deal with this ethically? I have so precious little time to figure that out before the neck-snapping trap comes out!:
tar art rat tarartrat

Post titled: non-fiction Dec. 20, 2008, 7-8am
me: yo yo yo
Jerome: what's up?
me: not much, man
quiet life in the cuntr
y
country
damn freudian slips.
Jerome: haha. you're in England right now, right?
me: yea, reading and writing and steadily stuffing the entire local library onto myiPod...
already have the complte works of nelly furtado...
Jerome: woohoo
starting with the classics, I see
me: I just grab whatever
but honesly, I do really like nelly furtado's first 2 albums. once she started workig with timberland she lost me
-too madonna wannabe, and who wants to be madonna these days?
Jerome: exactly
me: sorry, I just woke up, this is al l I can muster.

Post Titled: STEAMPOTVILLE by Steve Ouch
a kid's book, and probably one of the cooler things you can do with photoshop.

BOOK TITLED: "The Upset: Young Contemporary Art" -full of great stuff that has had me cursing the gods for the past 10 years

Q: TAR ART RAT is technically 100% freelance now -so shouldn't this blog be way more interesting and just bursting with content???

A: Yes! But also NO! I just spent three days with a gnarly and dehabilitating feverish sickness AND I am way way behind on stuff that I am actually getting paid for- so thanks for checking-in and being patient!

Post Titled: headphones saves lives

a pair of original (and pretty-much untouched) untouched GAME BOY headphones found at my parents' house. wow.

Post Titled: BUY BRANTS!
a break from this heavy winter weather... thanks paul diddy!

That's Brants! from Karey Dornetto on Vimeo.
and I was sick for 2 days so I just found out about the shoes thrown at President Bush
(it almost makes you feel sorry for him)...(almost)

Post Titled: NOTE: TAR TAR TAR
HERE in the Martha Cooper interview on fecalface.com
thanks bubba! that whole fecal face site is great... sh*t.-

TAR
ART
RAT

Post Titled: kid art.
the bag that is currently being used to hold our firewood has some brilliant decorations on it:

the trees, the cigarette burning from the filter-side, the colored blobs floating in the ocean...

Post Tiled: Yacht Rock... boiling in my early childhood memories...

Post Titled: dedicated to Ford, Chrysler, GM... the Big Three
"The big three killed my baby" by the white stripes

Laura Bean and Susanna Berivan, originally uploaded by TAR-ART-RAT.

show Friday at Mano's Café kreuzberg, berlin music musicians musik musikerin

Post Titled: Absolutely no comment here...
thanks cory.
James brown interview

Post Titled: peculiarly American loneliness

"I'm guessing that for the young educated adults of the 60s and 70s,
for whom the ultimate horror was the hypocritical conformity and
repression of their own parents' generation, Mr. Updike's evocation of
the libidinous self appeared redemptive and even heroic. But the young
educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the
same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so
beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and
self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and
anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have
different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a
peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once
having loved something more than yourself."

from "John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?" by David Foster Wallace

The New York Observer
October 13, 1997

Post Titled: 2 more reasons why human beings are awesome.


had a quiet Sunday, read David Foster Wallace and listened to This American Life podcasts until I ran out of This American Life podcasts to listen to then I danced all over my apt. to gnarls barkley. I hope the neighbors were watching.

Post Titled: Sunday evening internet cafè video roundup
thanks bubba, Laura Bean and Cory for gmail chatting most of these:
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches

hide and seek... kind of on 12seconds.tv

Post Titled: Noam Chomsky on what next after the election of Barack Obama
talk called "What's next? The Elections, the Economy and the world"



Noam Chomsky Chompsky Chomski

PREAMBLE(ABOVE: karmanoia, Dec.4, 2008- stoll/scroll down for more)
Post Titled:
National Goober and Weirdo Gallery
Post Subtitled: Koons and Klee at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
AKA: Non-Fiction, Dec. 4, 2008
So it is freezing cold, I get out of the u-bahn at potsdamer platz and wander towards the river where the Neue Nationalgalerie. Really cold.
Reasons for going: it is opened late on THursdays, is is supposedly free, and I love Jeff Koons' sh*t.
Realities: The museum is free only in that the permanent exhibit is free on Thursdays. There was no permanent exhibit on display, therefore: nothing was free. To see the entire show (Jeff Koons and Paul Klee) it would cost 18€ (sorry, unfortunately I had to cancel that sellmyblackmarket kidney appointment this morning.)
So, we loitered, wandered, watched the flatscreens w/ German tv interviews with Koons and spent a long time in the book shop sucking up a mini art education. (I woke up this morning with the (just hardly faintly barely legible) word Franz Gertsch written on my hand. NOTE: By the way, that's what happens when you leave the house without a permanent marker.) (and I#m still not convinced that that is the right name) his postcard was sold out so all their was left was a neon green photocopy of the postcard pt there as a placemarker. Not expecting that i think I commented "this one looks like it fell out of a zine."

Flipped through BANKSY's WALL AND PIECE book which is just jam-packed with masterpieces of street art, and laughed. out loud. a lot. on the back cover:

“There’s no way you’re going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”
-Metropolitan Police Spokesperson

(However I am still a bit disappointed that the book is copyrighted.)

Upon leaving the museum we were asked for out tickets TO EXIT, I guess the gallery is so effing expensive that this is a preventative measure to prevent those who prevent the gallery from making the most they can on ticket sales.
"Uhm, wir haben keine karten."
The security door guy is looking at me with a semi-blank don'tbullshitme stare, especially since we'd been wandering around for well over an hour.
"Aber ihr wart unten" he lobs the evidence of guilt.
"Ya, aber wir haben nür die Gift Shop besucht und die filme angeguckt, -wir sind eigentlich hirhergekommen weil wir dachten das es heute aben kostenlos war, und haben kein Geld mitgebracht- also- deswegen haben wir eigentlich keine karten gekauft, wir sind einfach herumgelaufen..."
This is clearly beyond his range of understanding, four people show up to the National Gallery, abuse the complimentary coat check by holding the Koons flyer as if they'd bought a ticket (at least I did) and then spent over an hour standing on the main floor (where you can actually see the entire Koons sculpture exhibit, but if you want to be 20-30-40 feet closer then it costs 8€, and then loitering downstairs the +200 Klee (ok, props to Buck who slipped past the docent when he was distracted by a large group who had just arrived and actually saw the Klee show. Meanwhile, Jessica, Joe and I just goofed off in the gift shop, -which is actually just as interesting and playful than the Koons show itself.
"Aber... ihr..."
"Nee, wir haben uberhaupt keine eintrittskarten"
Well, if wir haben keine katen then wir haben keine karten and there's nothing to scan, issue resolved- we go out into the COLD, hit up the Weinachtsmarkt with its über-kitschy Christmas music which would put Mr. Jeff Koons to shame, he'd wet his pants in shock and awe at the German Christmas Market beast. (well, not really, but it'd make for a great short film.)

Went home, dropped off sh*t, went to Karmanoia briefly:








... returned home, slept well. Sometimes (more often than not) I really love my life...

p.s. hey Berlin/Xberg- look familiar??! click:

Seeed - Dickes B
(spotted Dresdner str. by Gorgonzola Club / babylon!

Les Haferflocken Swingers (have a show and are looking for a drummer)
Saturday Dec 6th 2008, 22:00 @ Vollmond

Blue Mooooooooooon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own.. Watch us go sentimental over the fact that this is indeed one of the last shows with our beloved drumress!!
yes
... we are looking for an awesome drummer who can Swing it and Rock it! Above all, someone with an outstanding character. Must be available to play shows weekly.
If you are interested leave your description, background, questions etc. at:
booking@haferflocken.net " too bad because the drummer is awesome...

Post Titled: wow, adbusters, you read my mind (for, like, the past 5 years) with the cover story this time: "Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization"
Excerpt: "Gavin McInnes, one of the founders of Vice, who recently left the magazine, is considered to be one of hipsterdom’s primary architects. But, in contrast to the majority of concerned media-types, McInnes, whose “Dos and Don’ts” commentary defined the rules of hipster fashion for over a decade, is more critical of those doing the criticizing.

“I’ve always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it’s always used by chubby bloggers who aren’t getting laid anymore and are bored, and they’re just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,” he says. “I’m dubious of these hypotheses because they always smell of an agenda.”..."

Post Titled:
i (heart) arianna

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Arianna Huffington

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

huffington

Post Titled: Dr. Logarhythm wasn't fooling when he said: "Incidentally, you might enjoy this:
http://webecoist.com/2008/12/02/strange-and-bizarre-endangered-animal-species/"

Post Titled: björk - nattura
nattura.info

bjoerk bjork song featuring thom yorke

Post Titled: wow, the EU actually did something cool

via EUTUBE
chemical party

tar art rat studio

P1010274, originally uploaded by TAR ART RAT.

I almost forgot that I was once an artist WITH a studio downtown in a big american city... ahh, old flickr fotos...

Post Titled: Rem Koolhaas Lecture in Berlin on Feb 1, 2009
hot sh*t!:
Sun 01-02 | 11:30
Rem Koolhaas
Architect
Venue: Renaissance-Theater
€8
I've missed his lectures several times now over the years, but currently it seems too early to even buy tickets.
RIPPED FROM THEIR SITE:
"The Architecture of Difference
The Hermitage 2014 Project, St. Petersburg
A lecture by the architect
In English with simultaneous German interpreting
Introduction: Joachim Sartorius

Rem Koolhaas – architect, urban planner, theorist and Harvard Graduate School of Design professor – is one of the most important and successful architects in the international arena. His work includes important contemporary buildings as well as major contributions to theory. He works internationally as an advisor and urban planner. According to Koolhaas: “The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.” This is the starting point for his conceptual work. He set up his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975, and began to translate social issues into architecture tailored to a changing world.

What defines our cities today? Is there an essential connection between people and the places where they live? In Delirious New York and S, M, L, XL Koolhaas – who was born in 1944 in Rotterdam – highlights images of the city disintegrating in the face of “bigness”. Many of his own projects aim for size: in 2008 he designed the spectacular 230 metre-high China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing, with an area of some 400,000 square metres. At present he is revamping the way the St. Petersburg Hermitage museum displays its three million works of art in 2,000 rooms – a project due to be completed in 2014 and amounting to nothing less than a complete redefinition of the museum. It is not Koolhaas’s intention, however, to provide a city with some kind of spectacular signature architecture à la Bilbao. Rather the idea is to redefine the relationship between a building and its urban context."

Post Titled: trailer of the second part of Battlestar Galactica Season 4! found at a blog called Battlestar Galactica Season 4

Post TItled: on unprofessionalism and blogs.
"I would like to use this occasion and "non event" to point out a dangerous phenomenon in our society; we're living in times where everyone is allowed to publish on blogs, when they please and without any form of responsibility.." (Dixit Pieter De Crem, Belgian Minister of Defense on the blog of Nathalie Libbe-Bakker)
found in Philippe Borremans's Conversationblog

Post Titled: my
tired eyes saw something funny here...