Guest Lists: Josh Riggs

    Hi!  i’m josh riggs and most of this stuff was invented, conceived, produced etc before the 09, but in this the year of our lord eco=-crash (and/or) recovery year of 2009 i was clumsy enough in all the right ways to stumble over these(my) annual choice pleasures!

    1.Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty @ New Museum (NYC) – 3 floors of rot, wood, eats, blobs, sheetrock, chains, surreal installations by an artist that is my big time in the 09! Made me feel like peeing on something inanimate.

    http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/417/urs_fischermarguerite_de_ponty

    2.Sun Araw – Horse Steppin’ on YouTube – hazed out sleep junkie surfs up! YouTube has replaced the MTV basshead in all of us…even though it was released in the 08′ – i’m a late bloomer!

    3.Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey – In 7th grade I chugged a bottle of this stuff with some of my degenerate friends. It seemed like a good idea at the time and made my high as a georgia pine until I puked my guts out and vowed never to touch the stuff again. 15ish years later 1 sip changed my direction in adult libations-will be sippin’ for many years to come!

    4.Men With No IQ’s – 80′s BLACK metal 4 realz ya’ll! Insane Mississippi brutal rock afro-oddball scene I wish I was a part of. Obscure-only thing I have found is 2 songs on this Myspace site. Oh Myspace…what happened to you in 2009???????????

    http://www.myspace.com/menwithnoiqs

    5.Hotel Gault/Chez L’Epicier/Zone Orange – 3 choice spots on my annual Montreal tour de force! Made my 2009 trip one of the best ever! Lux!

    http://www.hotelgault.com/
    http://www.chezlepicier.com/
    http://www.galeriezoneorange.com/

    6.Dylan Nyoukis Live @ No Fun Stockholm 2009 – vox art to the fucking maximum voltage! Wish I could have seen it in the flesh…mope…

    7.Richard Kern – I’m not sure why it took me this long to find him considering I am such a huge Terry Richardson fan? In my opinion his work is better and it makes me tingle-ROAR!Patrick Tsai runner up!!!!!(PHOTO DUDES!)

    http://www.richardkern.com/
    http://www.hellopatpat.com/mldd_e.html

    8.Eating sushi for hours alone at Sakura in BVT = Pure Bliss!

    9.The Sinful Dwarf (1973) – Orlof, the creepy dwarf in the skuzz pit slum of London keeps kidnapped girls in the basement nice an high on smack for his mommies pimp rough trade! GRINDHAUS shit with a killer soundtrack and somewhat watchable if yr into that kinda thang!(sorry JOSH i saw it 1st!) I also saw Daisies and that totally blew my noggin”! Sedmikrasky!


    10.Black Beauty – My band w/ amigo Josh! We can clear a room in 1/2 a song! Gives me yet another excuse to drink beer on Thursday night! THIS IS GOING TO BE SUCKS! – a hopeful 2010 release (avail @ Pure Pop!) maybe’zzzzzzz~! shameless self promo’!

    11.Listening to Oneohtrix Point Never, Blood Stereo, Omar Soulyman, Areski & Brigitte Fontaine, Endless Boogie, WaVVes, The JACK Quartet/Iannis Xenakis, The Clash, Brainbombs, Sensational, A&E, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Kito Mizukumi Rouber, Mozart, The Beatles, GAS, Preggy Peggy & the Lonely Babymakers, Borful Tang and of course Justin Bieber! (I prob left out about 70 others but…)