call me 01/02/10
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DEATHBOOK 01/01/10
Loving these pagan pictures by our friend Miranda. Featuring our other super talented friend Kendra Malia of the most excellent band White Ring. I want a White Ring mixtape for Actual Pain!
Check out the Deathbook blog, it just started but looks very, very promising. Good work Dimitri and Miranda! Deathbook.
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So long 2009! 12/31/09
My top ten albums of 2009 was just posted on Metal Buzz.
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DEATHFACE TEE 12/30/09
I just wrapped up this sick tee shirt design for our friend DEATHFACE.
Check him out and bang your head to the techno cult.
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old Ihsahn interview 12/28/09
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All of them W.I.T.C.H.E.S. 12/26/09
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Merry Black Xmas 12/24/09
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THEY'RE HERE... 12/18/09
JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLI-DAZE, THE CREEP MASK IS HERE! LIMITED TO 35 AND TOTALLY AWESOME! THIS IS A PLASTISOL PRINT ON A SOFT, THICK, WARM BALACLAVA. THESE THINGS ARE AWESOME FOR ALL THAT LATE NIGHT CREEPING THAT YOU DO. WORK ALL DAY, CREEP ALL NIGHT!
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Mannheim Steamroller 12/16/09
I was at this teriyaki restaurant the other day and this Mannheim Steamroller song came on. Damn this band is good! What is a Mannheim Steamroller? It’s gotta be something you some weed with.
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Probably the greatest movie of all time. 12/16/09
Probably the greatest movie of all time is sleepaway camp and I’ll tell you why. All the way up to the very end, SWC has some most worst acting of all time, and at best laughable death scenes, then out of nowhere the final scene brutalizes your mind. It rivals the scariest moment in any David Lynch film times a million. In fact David Lynch can learn a thing or two from SWC. We all can.
For some reason the actor who plays the sheriff shaves his mustache off before he is done with all his scenes and the people who made the movie decided instead of just explaining that the sheriff shaved or getting a fake mustache, they simply use a piece of black electrical tape on his upper lip. Why on earth would they do that?
To disarm you, to catch you off guard for the final most horrifying scene of all time!
And not to mention everyone swears like a drunk sailor.
Ricky:“No problem Chino, this guy blows dead dogs, just lay it in there.”
Bill: "Eat Shit and die Ricky!
Ricky: “Eat shit and live bill.”
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Coming Soon: Actual Pain Balaclavas! 12/15/09
Coming this Friday to the webstore and Winner’s Circle Seattle only!
Actual Pain Balaclavas! Time to commit some winter crimes! Check back at the shop Friday morning for the scoop on these limited hats that double as brutal masks, 35 in total!
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IGGY X GNARLITUDE 12/15/09
Our satanic sister Jen just finished up an interview with the other King of “Pop” Iggy himself! Holy shit that’s huge! Go here to read it!
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New King Dude Video 12/09/09
For our song “my Beloved Ghost” shot by my wife Emily Denton.
Thanks to Meg, the best intern ever, shannon, marielle, Gabi, and Pagan (the dog) for starring in it.
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Tomorrow... 12/03/09
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the epiphone et 270 11/30/09
I have one of these guitars that Kurdt plays in this video, I think it’s time I start shredding it seriously.
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ACTUAL PAIN PRESENTS: DREAM AWHILE. SCHEME AWHILE. A SOUL TAPE BY TRASH TALK 11/25/09
JUST GOT THIS TAPE IN THE MAIL FROM GARRETT AND THE REST OF TRASH TALK CHECK IT OUT, IT’S BLOWING OUR MINDS…
PS: WE WERE DUMB AND FORGOT TO ASK FOR A TRACK LISTING SO HOPEFULLY GARRETT YOU’LL READ THIS AND SEND IT TO US, AND DON’T BE DUMB AND ASK US BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW IT YET. TRACK LISTING (THANKS GARRETT!):
Tramp- Lowell Fulson
California Soul- Marlena Shaw
One night affair – The Stylistics
Let Me Prove My Love to You – The Main Ingredient
Watcha See Is Whatcha Get- The Dramatics
Ecstasy – Ohio Players
Searching – Roy Ayers
I know you got soul – Bobby Byrd
90% of Me is you – Gwen McCrae
Morning Sunrise – Weldon Irvine
Intimate Friends – Eddie Kendricks
Black Frost – Grover Washington
Who in their right mind hasn’t heard of TRASH TALK? Rekindling the true spirit of hardcore punk, specifically west coast hardcore punk, TRASH TALK is probably one of the best and most talked about independent bands of our day and age. Their live show is insane and their touring schedule is awe inspiring to say the least. I asked them to compile a mixtape of whatever music they wanted and low and behold, they love soul music! It should come as no surprise as I can’t imagine a group of dudes with more soul than TRASH TALK. Enjoy!
TRASH TALK LIVE AT SOUND AND FURY 09
If you can’t tell what’s going on, trash talk decided to instead of playing inside the club at sound and fury this year, rent a uhaul truck and play inside that driving hundreds of kids outside to watch them. and yes that kid jumps of the top of that truck into the pit in the beginning of the video.
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awesome. 11/20/09
apparently in the 70s you could still just throw your garbage out the window of your car while your driving. of course you might make some indian’s cry along the way but…
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nico all day long 11/16/09
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the most normal people on earth 11/11/09
I’m so stoked, I’ve missed Sleepytime Gorilla Museum the last two times they’ve played in Seattle (both times I was in NY weird) and they play Neumos this Thursday. Seriously one of the best live shows I’ve seen since Neurosis. If you live here you have to go.
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Un|steady San Diego 11/10/09
Un|Steady is the spot for actual pain in San Diego. And they just moved! Check out the new spot they have a lot of the tees we are sold out of and they will treat you a lot nicer than if you came over to my house to get a shirt. Like for example they probably wear pants and would not be on tons of drugs.
Un|Steady Boutique, 744 G Street Suite 106A, San Diego CA 92101
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king dude talk normal and other things 11/06/09
I added a new King Dude song today, and shipped out a bunch of shirts. Thanks everyone for buying stuff and making me work.
Also we are playing this show with Talk Normal from new york. If you live in Seattle I’d like to see you there!
Talk Normal
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Sweater restocks 11/04/09
There going fast!
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AMORT 10/30/09
Amort is a one man band from Seattle, fronted on all sides by Tobias Burch. He also plays in the Loathsome Couple. I met him awhile ago at The Winner’s Circle but had no idea that he was the same dude that did Amort. Small world! Tobias stopped by the Actual Pain headquarters the other day to drop off his new record titled “winter tales” out now on Kreation Records. Here’s what he had to say:
ACTUAL PAIN: After only releasing tapes for so long, is weird to put out something on vinyl?
TOBIAS BURCH: It feels great. I released tapes because that’s what I could afford, but I feel very grateful that someone would take the time and money to do an LP of my music.
I really like your artwork on all your releases. Where do you find the source images?
Most of the images are from old books. Both front and back of the LP are old anatomy illustrations.
Visually, and musically, I’m inspired by the time just before the industrial revolution. Right as we were unwrapping the gift that was to be our doom. A time when it took years to travel across the country. So I try to use images that evoke that era.
You seem like a jolly fellow. Would you describe your self as a happy person? Or does all this doom ever just bring you down?
I’m very jolly. I’m not sure I would say happy though. I love to have a good time, but the reality is the world is a very negative place. Here in the NW we live comfortably, but our comfort is constantly teetering on the brink. That dosen’t bother me though, I accept it.
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ACTUAL PAIN X RAISED BY WOLVES 10/27/09
WE DID A LITTLE COLLAB WITH OUR FRIENDS OVER AT RAISED BY WOLVES. WE HAVE THE TEE IN STOCK BUT IT’S VERY VERY LIMITED! CHECK IT OUT HERE.
ALSO CHECK OUT THE RAISED BY WOLVES WEBSITE FOR TONS OF OTHER GREAT STUFF.
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KING DUDE BLOOD SHIRTS 10/24/09
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Left bank 10/22/09
I hate movies with characters who have a prolonged, greying illnesses, normally it’s not fun to watch. Linkeroever (Left Bank) does it right. Along the lines of Rosemary’s Baby Left bank has a funny, gross, and horrific style of portraying a Pagan Cult at it’s worse. Maybe because it’s Belgian, it’s a whole lot scarier than most movies that try and pull off the same thing. To top off the great perfomance by Eline Kuppens as Marie the vomiting, hairy legged athelete (you’ll see, it’s awesome and gross), Director Pieter Van Hees does his best David Lynch impersonation, without directly ripping off any of his movies.
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BLACKNUSS FOR SALE ON UNOTRE 10/21/09
“Blacknuss is an independent editorial project by Giorgio Di Salvo which aims at bringing together a limited but well-chosen number of artists who are drawn to the book’s unifying theme: darkness. In other words: abjection, sadness, gloom, despair, horrifying pain, depression, anger, rage. Basically: all that is dark in the world.
The authors involved for the first part of this project are Erik Brunetti of FUCT, Marco Klefisch from milanese design firm Marte, Le Messie of False, italian illustrator Scarful, TJ Cowgill of Actual Pain, Luca Barcellona, Pane from italian art collective Why Style, and Giorgio Di Salvo from VNGRD.
Blacknuss is published in a very small run (100 numbered copies) and is completely hand made in Italy. Every copy comes packaged in a custom sleeve with an additional booklet.”
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KINKSI, STANTON IN PARIS TEXAS 10/20/09
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KING DUDE 10/19/09
So I have this little satanic folk band called king dude and we are playing a show this Friday night at the comet tavern. Please come, it would be great to see our friends there.
This will be one of our first shows in almost a year, but we are also playing another show in december at Spencer’s shop, the Anne Bonney.
Also we are working on a couple different recording projects and hopefully will have them all released by early 2010. They include two seven inches and a tape put out by Tiny Vipers on her own tape label.
We will have T-shirts at the Comet show, dyed with real blood. I look forward to seeing you all there!
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public castration is a good idea 10/17/09
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Satanism explained by satanists. 10/14/09
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THIS JUST IN 10/08/09
LIMITED SUPPLIES AVAILABLE!
WHITE NO CLASS NO VALUE TEES
AND BLACK THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER TEES
GET EM NOW THEY’RE GOING FAST!!!
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BLACKNUSS is out now 10/07/09
BEAN
BRUNETTI
DISALVO
KLEFISCH
MESSIE
PANE
SCARFUL
TJ
This book came out really nice. I really can’t wait to get my hands on one!
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RETURN OF THE RAT 10/05/09
The wipers inspired me to play music when i was a kid, now they’ve inspired me to design clothes. Seriously one of the greatest bands of all time.
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Darklands 10/02/09
Several weeks ago I was in a record store in San Diego on tour with my band and my friend Nick who works there was playing this amazing old sounding goth band, who as it turns out was not old but new and actually from San Diego called Blessure Grave. I picked up one of their LPs and got a copy of their newest demo to listen to on the rest of our trip. Randomly a few weeks later, I contacted them about this mixtape I’ve wanted to do for a while now, and they literally had it done that evening. That’s not to say that the mix lacks substance (it’s an hour and twenty minutes) or quality, I think it says that these guys are very serious about the art, and is about to leave a legacy that spreads faster than the plague.
1. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Sin in My Heart” Check out this Blessure Grave video directed by Mishka blog writer Adam Grabarnick. Blessure Grave // Open Or Shut Music Video from adam grabarnick on Vimeo.
2. Play Dead – “Pleasureland”
3. Agrimensor K – “Principio Y Fin”
4. Sol Invictus – “Raven Chorus”
5. Theatre of Hate – “The Hop”
6. Spizz Energi – “Mega City 3”
7. Fur Bible – “Headbolt”
8. Above the Ruins – “Song of the Wolf”
9. Wire – “On Returning”
10. UK Decay – “Mayday Malady”
11. Paralisis Permanente – “Quiero Ser Santa”
12. Death in June – “To Drown A Rose”
13. Brave New World – “Barriers”
14. Artery – “Afterwards”
15. Crisis – “Afraid”
16. The Cultural Decay – “Brave New World”
17. The Gun Club – “The Stranger in our Town”
18. Six Minute War – “Weatherman”
19. Christian Death – “Electra Descending”
20. No More – “Suicide Commando”
21. Screamers – “Need A Head-On”
22. Ministry – “I’m Falling” (Alternate Mix)
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CITY LIFE 09/28/09
Here it is, the FW lookbook. We gotta say thanks to our models Ricky and Meg, and BIG thanks to Jordan for shooting the whole thing in adverse outdoor conditions. You guys rule.
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BLACKNUSS 09/25/09
Awhile back I was lucky enought to be asked to illustrate some of the pages for Giorgio’s (of VNGRD ) new magazine titled simply blacknuss. After much anticipation, they are presenting it at Kaleidoscope HQ in Milan Italy on October 1st @7pm.
Sadly, my first art being showed in Milan and I am too busy to go!
Blacknuss is an independent editorial project by Giorgio Di Salvo which aims at bringing together a limited but well-chosen number of artists who are drawn to the book’s unifying theme: darkness. In other words: abjection, sadness, gloom, despair, horrifying pain, depression, anger, rage.
Basically: all that is dark in the world.
The authors involved for the first part of this project are Erik Brunetti of FUCT, Marco Klefisch from milanese design firm Marte, Le Messie of False, italian illustrator Scarful, TJ Cowgill of Actual Pain, Luca Barcellona, Pane from italian art collective Why Style, and Giorgio Di Salvo from VNGRD.
Blacknuss is published in a very small run (100 numbered copies) and is completely hand made in Italy.
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AND TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER 09/21/09
THE NEW LINE IS SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE. WE ARE STILL PRINTING ONE FINAL DESIGN AND BAGGING UP THE TEES AT THE WAREHOUSE, SO MOST LIKELY STORES WILL SEE THEM SHIP OUT TOMORROW AND WE’LL HAVE THEM ONLINE HERE BY TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. HERE ARE SOME SHOTS I TOOK DOWN AT THE ICE CAVE TODAY.
DEAR SHIRTS, I’LL SEE YOU ALL TOMORROW MORNING.
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FRENCH VOGUE IS BETTER THAN OUR VOGUE... 09/18/09
…and tHIS prooveS it. these great pics were inspiration to our upcoming FW line, “AND TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER”. WHICH WILL BE SHIPPING AND ONLINE MONDAY MORNING!
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Om, Scout Niblett, and Lichens Sept 17th @ Neumos 09/11/09
Om is a two piece (the other half of a little band called SLEEP) and continue in the heavy, mantra based singing style that was the bands calling card on Dopesmoker. I was at this show before and I will be there again, not stoned, but I already feel the contact high.
Scout Niblett (Drag City) is opening and I’m equally as stoked. Anyone that looks like they are having that much fun making depressed weirdo songs wins in my book. And she hangs out with the legendary Bonnie Prince Billy (see video below). Get ready to have your pants charmed off.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, LICHENS (KRANKY). These guys (guy) win the WTF music catagory every time. I’m gonna be the guy at this show selling liquid acid in the bathroom.
Without pants.
OM PART ONE
OM PART TWO
SCOUT NIBLETT
LICHENS
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Good dog. 09/05/09
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SALE! 09/01/09
