HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIAS

Go tell him so yourself.


Sious Broke a Rib from Grudge City Activities on Vimeo.

BEST EARLY BOSTON BAND? DYS

The results are in and DYS barely nudged out SSD for the top spot as your favorite Early Boston Hardcore Band by just one vote: 34 to 33.

Negative FX took third with 13 votes but I think it's safe to say that if Slapshot had been included the results would look very different.

The Results
DYS - 34 (38%)
SSD - 33 (37%)
Negative FX - 13 (14%)
Gang Green - 5 (5%)
Jerry's Kids - 2 (2%)
The Freeze - 1 (1%)
The F.U.s - 1 (1%)

WAX ON, WAX ON: GOU MIYAGI

CHRISTOFFERSON HITS GALLERY STROLL

DAN CHRISTOFFERSON & TRENT CALL
April 17 - May 12, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, April 17, 6-9pm

Trent Call's new series of paintings explore themes of experimentation and spontaneity. Trent challenged himself to keep the works quiet and minimal by using an indirect and open process—approaching each piece from the edge, he worked toward the center, building and destroying layers and allowing odd, abstract shapes and figures to form in the center. In addition, Trent will unveil a cityscape that he has been working on for the past seven months.

In contrast, Dan Christofferson planned his new works out completely—from color schemes to the number of pieces and their framing and placement—while working on smoothing the gap between hand-rendered, physical mark-making and digital illustration. Dan's pieces decode an intricate story of his heritage. Using animals, Mormon symbolism, hands and cryptic heraldry, he tells a story of the thrift and industry of ancestral laborers and worksmiths, linking generations of men in his family who have worked hard to impact the lives of their families. His slow, intricate process starts with sketches and progresses through a series of scans, digital manipulation, printing, redrawing and painting.

MAN TAKES A BITE OUT OF CRIME

NBCNewYork.com: A convicted sex offender from Brooklyn took a bite out of crime and a bite out of himself too, police said.

Damiene Iriarte was found naked and bleeding behind a building in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn after having bitten the tip off his own penis, police told a local newspaper.

It goes without saying that he was subsequently hospitalized.

"How he did it? Limber, I guess. Not the work of a sane mind," a police official told The Daily News.

You think?

Iriarte, 26, pleaded guilty in Suffolk County in 2004 to two misdemeanors after being accused the previous year of raping a 13-year-old girl, according to the News.

It's not clear why Iriarte bit his own penis, but investigators might be just as confused -- or impressed -- that he did it at all.

He's recovering at Brooklyn Hospital Center, representatives of which have not returned calls seeking comment.

Article written by John P. Wise