Sunday, September 26, 2010

Nick, a Bunny, and a Bigass Man Purse

Found HERE by the ever-lovely, ever-great Caroline (thank you!), I give you...Mr. Cave...holding a bunny...and a really big man purse. Sure to make you either go, "awww, how adorable!" or run for the hills. Either way - hurrah!

The site says the bunny's name is Fluffy.

Pics are bloody huge.

Only a true badass rocks a bunny.


No idea why he's shirtless in this one. A part of me
wonders if it was his idea or if the person taking the
photo was like, "eh, Mr. Cave...half naked?" Creepy.


I can't help detecting a faint air of menace behind
that smile.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Happy Birthday! And Grinderman Being Bearded and Crazy

Mr. Cave, you are still talented, amazing, and lovely. CHEERS!


Someone on the nick-cave.com message board shared this:
Grinderman...behind the scenes! Fifteen minute flute solos!


Also, don't forget about Mr. Cave's belated birthday thing HERE. Photoshop in gladiator gear, make gladiator-themed crap, pose with a wolf, etc.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Rock That Piano

If any of you post Cave-related stuff on tumblr, you should link to the blogs you get stuff from. Not just because I see stuff from here there (not that I own copyright on pics, mind you), but because I see stuff over there all the time and I'm like...WHERE did you find that?!

This has nothing to do with Grinderman. Someone just shared this link with me and I hadn't seen this performance. It's fantastic!

(This still is a bit unfortunate...I hate when youtube does that.)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Waiting

GRINDERMAN 2 IS NOW OUT.

I, however, am waiting on mine to ship over from the UK. I got the CD/vinyl/Grinderman print combination. I REFUSE to hear it on anything other than vinyl for the first time. So shhhhhh. I know there are streams online, but again - I refuse! When I put that needle to the groove, I want it to be the first time I hear those words.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Grinderman 2: Track by Track

Let me know if you're interested in THIS.

Pedestrian.tv has a GREAT little track-by-track interview with Grinderman.

"MICKEY MOUSE & THE GOODBYE MAN"
Nick Cave: Mickey Mouse & The Goodbye Man sets up a kind of narrative that is echoed throughout the songs on the record and it became the first song because it’s there for that reason and also because it’s very direct. It’s a rock n roll song in a strange kind of way and I think it drags people into the record pretty effectively.

"WORM TAMER"
NC: Well, Worm Tamer, for me, is one of the most extraordinary songs I’ve ever been involved in all the years of making music. I’ve never heard anything like it in my life. It’s got a wry kind of lyric to it, but sonically it’s really extraordinary and I can’t really describe it, you just have to kind of hear it. There’s something really mental about it, I think.
Warren Ellis: Worm Tamer is a very dense number. It’s one that’s going to be interesting to play live, I think. It’s the one song that really doesn’t sound like anything I’ve ever heard before. I think it’s very unique-sounding that song. I really love it; that one and Kitchenette, I think, are probably my favourite songs on the album.

"HEATHEN CHILD"
Jim Sclavunos: Heathen Child, which is the first single to be taken off Grinderman 2, is very groovy, infectiously groovy, deeply and profoundly groovy. You might say it’s a predatory groove; but you can bump and grind to it (even if you’re not a predator). You can belly dance to it, assuming you have the right physique. You can even do the huckabuck, if you are particularly agile. I believe it also lends itself to long private episodes in the bathtub… if the video is any evidence.

"EVIL"
JS: The song Evil, I believe, will endure to prove that it has a timeless appeal, very much like the appeal of its subject matter.

"KITCHENETTE"
NC: Well, Kitchenette is kind of a down home, dirty, stoner blues. It’s Warren’s favourite song on the record, I think.
WE: Well yeah, I really love Kitchenette ‘cause it just has such a wonderful loose feel to it and I think it actually feels… For me it’s one of the best vocals I’ve heard Nick do. It’s really so relaxed and the phrasing is fantastic and it just feels like you’re really in a moment with it. You feel like you’re listening to it as it unfolds, which is actually what it is. I really love that song. I could listen to that one song over and over.
JS: The track Kitchenette offers a sobering look at the sordid conditions of modern marriage and family life and the various temptations and disillusionment besetting this institution. And all of this has been set to a relentless, sinister and growling groove.

"WHAT I KNOW"
NC: Once again, that was a piece that was a moment we captured, purely improvised, that was within this period, when we originally recorded stuff, and it was just this really beautiful quiet kind of moment that was had and we just chopped it out and kind of pasted it into the record.
JS: What I Know has a very different feel for Grinderman. It spotlights our more introspective side. I would liken it to a delicate, fragile bauble being caressed by a mesmerized Cro-Magnon.

"BELLRINGER BLUES"
JS: Bellringer Blues is a battlefield hallucination set to stoner funk. It was the sleeper track of the
album and I think it’s a perfect album closer, as it draws the curtains on the troubled affairs of the album with an air of triumphant rapture.

From THIS LINK

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Stache Book Part Two?

Remember the Eulogy for a Stache fanbook last year? [LINK]

How many of you would be willing to contribute some Gladiator-themed stuff for an updated version, which I will personally give to Cave (sometime during the end of the show while he's on stage) at the Grinderman show?

I want more guys to contribute, seriously. It's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek fan project, not just OMG! CAVE IS HOT! type thing. Seriously. Eric, it is not just about the 'stache...it is now about flaming farts as well.

Since I scanned last year's book, I can print it out again to be put into an updated SPECIAL EDITION! NOW WITH MORE GLADIATORS! book. I want to make a video of me handing it to Nick, but as I will be beyond terrified that he will look at me strangely or say, "I got the other one" or "oh, so you're that weirdo," I don't know if that will happen, but I will try.

Who would be interested in contributing? If you want a 'stache pic, that's fine, or just words to Nick (keep in mind this will be just a few months after his birthday, so birthday wishes are a go), and Gladiator helmets, etc.

I am buzzed from too fruity beers. What the hell. Let me know!