Art & Music

Jack of Spades

Two classic music videos from the band 2029.  These are great examples of mid-to-late 90’s Cascadian-Noir Metal that was popularized among the disenfranchised youth of the Oregon coast.  Places like Newport, South Beach, and Beverly Beach were havens for this music revolution.  2029, along with the coast-rat punk band, Soldiers of Misfortune, helped change the face of music in the Pacific Northwest’s post grunge era.

These videos were produced by the multimedia artist, and visionary, DJ Danimal Styles.

Space Pawditty

♫♫♫ Ground Control to Major Tomcat Ground Control to Major Tomcat Take your flea pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tomcat Commencing countdown, purring on Check ignition and may Cod’s love be with you [spoken] Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff This is Ground Control to Major Tomcat You’ve really made…

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Minus Tide – Under Jolly Roger!

Gulls get grilled.

This past summer, Goon, Dan, Amber (Dan’s gf), Verity, and myself decided to go back to our old 3-A apartment. We wanted to see inside and re-live the glory days but the new 3-A tenants weren’t having none of that. So we knocked on other doors and went to different floors of the Goose Hollow Tower but no one wanted…

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Comic 7Note the “Binocular Sale” in the background. That was painted on the windows of Bitler Bros. sports shop in Newport for over 20 years. It’s gone now, but it lives on in this comic.

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