Release the Kraken!

First-ever photos of live giant squid

I'll be the first to say it: The Architeuthis was so much cooler when it was undiscovered. It was like, you had to seek it out, and only the coolest knew to even look. You know, us indie-ichthyology hipsters. It wasn't being spoon-fed to us by some wannabe hack phylogeny 'zine. Coelacanth? That thing was a big old sellout. Giant squid was the underground! Now it's just a big old media whore like all the rest. It'll probably be dating some anorexic supermodel anyday now.

I miss when it was all about the marine biology, man.

More Shameless Pimping

Newest performance clips of my brother Seth are now up here. He and his fellow guitar students performed at Cue in Concord last Friday. His performance was much better than my exhausted-after-9 hour-workday camerawork on "Under the Bridge", but my mom made up for my shakycam by shooting his screaming guitar on "Losfer Words". So right-click-save away!

Losfer Words.

Incidentally, I saw Arcade Fire at the Warfield last night. A. Maz. Ing. If they come through your town, do your patriotic chore and beg, borrow or steal tickets. If you've gotta trade sexual favors to get in, do it with a smile on your face, because you will be trading your ass for possibly the best concert ever seen. They've got guys beating on helmets on their heads for percussion, guys annoying other people in the band by dangling cloths on their faces, they jump down in the crowd and play, and they also happen to completely rock. Las Vegas with your pants off isn't this much fun.

EDIT: I have temporarily taken down "Under the Bridge" due to some playback issues. Hopefully I will have this ironed out in a few days.