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 JUL 2011 - AUG 2010 |
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T O U R Shows added: Westwego, LA 7/23 (rock); Houma, LA 10/16 (rock) |
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 Friday July 23rd: rock show @ The Bad Monkey in Westwego, LA w/ This Is The Enemy, Misled Saturday October 16th: rock show @ The Boxer & The Barrel in Houma, LA w/ Capt. Hallucinator & The Flashbacks, TBA posted 2010.07.20 6:11pm |
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JAKLOCKE.COM Uptown Siren |
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 This week's featured song is a special exclusive! "Uptown Siren" is available for streaming from the top of this site's front page--prior to and after this week, the only way to hear it is to buy the WTUL compilation disc it's on. Check it out while you can! posted 2010.07.06 4:23pm |
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JAKLOCKE.COM Featured song every week |
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 Beginning today, there will be a new track selected at random every week to be featured for full streaming on the front page of the site. posted 2010.06.30 6:37am |
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W A X "When I Come Around" (Green Day cover from 1999) |
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 Here's a really old one for you, a cover I did of a Green Day song back in 1999. posted 2010.06.30 6:03am |
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F I L M "Good Luck" music video in high quality |
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Until now the only online version of Andy Elliott's 2006 music video for "Good Luck" has been an incredibly blurry pixelated framedrop-fest. Now you can click the still above to see it and not wonder what you're looking at half the time. With this done, all the music videos are now updated to higher quality streams. posted 2010.06.18 4:10am |
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W A X "Something Dead" remixed by N!KON |
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 Local techno artist N!KON recently (as in, the track is less than an hour old as I post this) put together a remix of "Something Dead" from 2008's Post-Apocalyptic Hymnal. Really, everything is new except the vocals--it's a very different take on the song and I dig it a lot. If you dig it too, check out what else N!KON's up to over at http://www.myspace.com/darksidemusictrance. posted 2010.06.17 6:21am |
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F I L M "Thrift Store Reject" music video mkII |
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Over the past couple of days I've been replacing the site-hosted videos with much higher quality cuts and relocating them to YouTube. At some point this changed from simple re-encoding and audio upgrade to full-blown re-editing. As a result of this hopefully temporary madness, there's an improved music video for Thrift Store Reject just waiting to be seen by you; click the picture above and you can see how it looks when it's moving! posted 2010.06.16 6:10am |
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T O U R July 9th at Maison moved to July 10th |
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 The title says it all, again! posted 2010.06.13 8:21pm |
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W A X "Helter Skelter" / "Rain" (Beatles covers from 2004) |
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 In 2004 I recorded a bunch of covers of an extremely obscure band from the UK. Here are two of them: posted 2010.06.12 6:15pm |
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T O U R July 2nd at Maison moved to July 9th |
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The title says it all! posted 2010.06.09 10:21pm |
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W A X "Mood Swing Era" CD available at shows |
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Speaking of releases, starting today I'm putting out a limited CD-only release of various homeless songs I recorded over the past year under the fitting title "Mood Swing Era". You'll be able to get this at shows of any mood. posted 2010.06.09 5:13pm |
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W A X "Icepick" (Tenement cover) |
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 Tenement is a punk band from Wisconsin that we played a show with at Dragon's Den in 2007. I really liked their music so I recorded a cover of my favorite song from their set shortly afterward, and now three years later you can hear it. You can find them at http://www.myspace.com/tenementwi if you like what you hear too. posted 2010.06.07 9:36pm |
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C O D E X Vignettes "Memory, As Sand" and "My Name Is Renard" added |
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 Memory, As Sand My Name Is Renard More stories at jaklocke.com/codexbooks.htm posted 2010.06.06 8:09pm |
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T O U R July tour cancelled |
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 The solo tour with Alex Mark has been cancelled. posted 2010.05.31 4:22pm |
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W A X Charlie Brown Gone Mad extravaganza part 4 of 4 |
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 For those of you just joining us that missed the other three parts, you can find them in the earlier news entries. There's lots of free songs and even more information explaining just what this is all about. We've reached the end of the CBGM extravaganza! For this last part you get the final two tracks from CBGM's 2008 85XXX EP, "Breakpoint" and "All Wrong". If the chorus riff in "Breakpoint" sounds familiar, it's because I liked it so much that I reused it later in "Cyanide" on 2009's Chaos Narcotic. I've also taken the time to find all the early CBGM recordings and oh boy, are they bad. I spent a lot of time making them as obnoxious and awful as possible and it really shows. "Better Off Alone" in particular is literally painful if you listen to it on headphones. If you're masochistic or for whatever reason really want to hear these aural atrocities, they're all linked somewhere on the original CBGM website that you can get to here. There are seven in total there. And that's it. We're done here. You can listen to the whole EP any time you want via the Wax section (lyrics are there too). I hope you've enjoyed the free stuff -- we'll do this again some time soon with something else. posted 2010.05.25 2:28am |
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C O D E X Short stories "Autumn" and "Procedure: Newsgroup" added |
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 Since the Codex page's "Books" section has been woefully neglected for a couple of months now, I put up two short stories I wrote a while back: "Autumn", a story written in dialect about misdirected lethal misanthropy; and "Procedure: Newsgroup", an excruciatingly detailed recounting of a night at work from my time as a janitor. jaklocke.com/codexbooks.htm posted 2010.05.23 7:20pm |
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W A X Charlie Brown Gone Mad extravaganza part 3 of 4 |
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 For those of you just joining us that missed parts 1 and 2, scroll down through the news entries until you find them to hear free songs and read what this is all about. "Whose Fault?" and "Out Of Straws" are this week's featured tracks from CBGM's 2008 EP "85XXX". For anyone who's been wondering, 85XXX references the zip codes of the general area of Arizona where most of CBGM's MySpace fans lived. In 2007 my backing band and I entertained ideas of actually heading to Arizona and playing a show in the Peoria area as CBGM until we plugged a tour route into MapQuest and realized exactly how large the United States really is. And now there's really nothing else left to say about CBGM that hasn't been covered in these weekly posts, so I have no idea what I'm supposed to talk about for next week's fourth part. In addition to the two songs, I added one of the early CBGM recordings "Moving On" to the original CBGM website I linked last week. Rather than make you suffer through seeing that site again, I'll just link the pertinent page directly right here. It's probably the most tolerable of the early recordings by far. Maybe next week I'll put the really bad stuff up. As promised, here are tracks 5 and 6 from the EP. Both of these have some trash mouth in them, so don't listen if you don't like naughty words. Next week: tracks 7 and 8 and the end of the extravaganza! posted 2010.05.18 3:50am |
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F I L M Midnight Rhythm in Oxford, GA |
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This video is from the first tour I took in 2008. To thank my friend for letting us stay at his house in Oxford, GA, me, Scott and Derek got drunk and tried to wake up all his neighbors. Most people would say "it seemed like a good idea at the time" right about now--I know better. I think we did it because we knew it was a bad idea. We can be so selfish sometimes. It's 30-something seconds long and this description probably took longer than that to read, so whatever. It's pictures that move and make noise and it's free, go look and listen. posted 2010.05.17 10:59pm |
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F I L M Sick Like Sinatra live video |
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I put up one of the videos from this Friday's Sick Like Sinatra set after I went crazy with editing on it. Slightly explicit. I've been up for entirely too long so no long description this time, just enjoy it. posted 2010.05.17 7:47am |
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W A X Charlie Brown Gone Mad extravaganza part 2 of 4 |
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 For those of you just joining us that missed part 1, scroll down three news entries to hear free songs and read what this is all about. This week you get tracks three and four from CBGM's EP ("Mike Timm" and "Clock"), as well as the original and awful CBGM band website that hasn't been seen in nearly six years, carefully sculpted to be as bad as possible. If you're a fan of awful things, it's worth a look. Here it is if you think you can stomach the grammar. Mike Timm was one of CBGM's MySpace friends that wasn't a personal friend of mine and therefore wasn't in on the joke. When he took CBGM off his top 8, writing a song about it and naming it after him seemed like the right thing to do. The next day, all his friends had added the page and were going berserk over the band. So with a new (admittedly very small) audience that was paying attention, the new songs I made for it suddenly weren't quite so intentionally awful anymore. As a result, "Mike Timm" is the earliest recorded song on the EP. Pointless trivia: "Hannah" (which is on Chaos Narcotic and is also the song I currently open all my rock shows with) was written for one of Mike's friends who had added the page and wanted a song written about her too. Careful what you ask for. It was originally meant to be a CBGM song. I ended up liking it so much that I put it in my main project. Enough talk, here's this week's songs: Next week: tracks 5 and 6 and some of the atrocious early CBGM recordings I keep mentioning. posted 2010.05.11 12:10am |
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T O U R Jak Locke / Alex Mark July tour |
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 I'm taking a guitar and hitting the road from July 8th til July 17th with fellow New Orleans songwriter Alex Mark to Pittsburgh and back. We're shooting for nine states in ten days and we're going to find the lost colony while we're out there. Here's the preliminary route which by now you know will almost certainly change drastically before it's all over: Mobile, AL -- Augusta, GA -- Greensboro, NC -- Blacksburg, VA -- Pittsburgh, PA -- Columbus, OH -- Lexington, KY -- Nashville, TN -- Memphis, TN -- Jackson, MS You'll know more when I know more. In the meantime, check out Alex's music. posted 2010.05.10 9:41pm |
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C O D E X Vista And Me: A Book For Reading |
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 A few years ago my Windows XP computer died in an extravagant and prolonged week of Stop Errors and blue screens, leading me to buy a new one loaded with the then-new operating system, Windows Vista. I had such a memorable transition between systems that I wrote a children's book about it called "Vista And Me" which I put on my forum. Now three years later you can read it too with brand new color illustrations. Please note, you really shouldn't let your children read this. jaklocke.com/comics/vista01.htm posted 2010.05.06 12:58am |
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F I L M Carnicero del Pelo 2: The Debearding |
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This is part two of 2007's two-part Carnicero del Pelo ("hair butcher") series where razors meet heads and faces, sometimes with extremely bloody results--like in this video, which should hopefully turn the squeamish away. After completely failing to inject any of the intended instructional value into part one (which you can find in the Film section), we pretty much said that education could go stuff itself and this video was the result. Don't ask how an electric razor could make someone bleed so much, we were as surprised as anyone. And yes, it's all real. posted 2010.04.13 10:30pm |
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C O D E X New "Jak & Sick Adventure Comics" flyer |
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 With the four Sick Like Sinatra shows coming up, you had to know there were more ridiculous flyers coming, right? Go see the first, and by "first" I mean May 1st's, since April 17th's already has a flyer. I think we're getting very near the end of the robot series, I think, I think. jaklocke.com/comics/jlsls05.htm posted 2010.04.13 2:04am |
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S W A G New "Bomb" tshirt + older exclusives available online |
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 A few months back I drew up an idea for a t-shirt in glorious MS Paint-ish style (click here to see) and sent it to my friend Scott Fremin to see what he could do with it. Compare my scribble scratch with the far superior result you see above these words, and the best part is that you can wear it too, available exclusively online via Zazzle.com. I've also brought back the two 2008 exclusive online designs "Cityscape" (done by incredible artist Brad Medina) and "Skull Logo" which you can get on shirts as well as stickers and buttons, also through Zazzle. Check it all out in the Swag section. posted 2010.04.11 8:34pm |
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C O D E X New Lock Yourself Inside |
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 "Brawl", the latest installment of Lock Yourself Inside, is now up for reading if you're not allergic to swears. If you've already read "Date", "Brawl" is a prequel to that one. I dig working on these and I've got more in various states of incompletion, though I'm not going to promise any kind of posting regularity since we all know how that typically turns out. Well, I guess I can guarantee that there won't be another 3+ year gap between stories like there was this time. There, that worked. jaklocke.com/codexcomics.htm posted 2010.04.07 4:18pm |
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P R E S S Last night's WTUL interview transcription and audio |
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 Hear as Sick Like Sinatra and I talk about ourselves, each other, butter and space. Someone drops an F-bomb right there on the air too and the DJ loses control of the show as we can't stop cackling like high second graders. Audio right below, transcript + audio in the Press section linked below, fun with my camera above. jaklocke.com/press/r20100325.htm posted 2010.03.26 5:43am |
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P R E S S Jak / SLS on WTUL 91.5FM New Orleans tonight |
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 Tune into WTUL 91.5FM at 8pm tonight to catch me and Sick Like Sinatra on the local show talking about this Saturday's compilation release party, as well as anything else that comes up. If you're in New Orleans, catch it on your radio--otherwise, head over to wtulneworleans.com to stream it from anywhere in the universe. posted 2010.03.25 4:42pm |
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F I L M Carnicero del Pelo: The Mohawking |
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This is part one of 2007's two-part Carnicero del Pelo ("hair butcher") series where razors meet heads and faces, sometimes with extremely bloody results. I guess if you were looking to get a mohawk and didn't know how to go about it, this might be a good place to start--though I'm afraid you'll soon notice that we only barely knew what we were doing. For part two we decided to add a plot and more gore. That's for another update though. posted 2010.03.21 5:34pm |
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C O D E X "Jak and Sick" comics / flyers |
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 Is it still considered a Mary Sue if the character is blatantly and intentionally you? That's something for someone else to ponder, I'm supposed to be explaining this. Every time I have a performance booked on a bill with my good friends Sick Like Sinatra, I draw another page of a ridiculous superhero comic called, quite uncreatively, "Jak and Sick Versus the Gigantic Sexy Robot Menace" which serves as the flyer for that show. As of this post, I'm up to four. If you're looking for action, there's absolutely none to be found in the stories--the action all happens at the shows they're promoting. Giant robots, fatal ambushes, helicopters; see what you miss when you don't come to the shows? jaklocke.com/codexcomics.htm posted 2010.03.16 4:14am |
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C O D E X 27 poems up |
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 The Codex section is now fully functional with the addition of 27 poems from 1998 through 2009. As more are found, more will be posted. Catch-up's finished so from here on, it's all normal updates. jaklocke.com/codexpoems.htm posted 2010.03.14 9:10pm |
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C O D E X All lyrics from releases up |
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All lyrics from releases are up and running now. That's 168 songs, so be happy you didn't have to code it. jaklocke.com/codexsongs.htm posted 2010.03.14 3:16am |
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C O D E X Lock Yourself Inside |
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 Twelve pages have been posted from Lock Yourself Inside, a comic (or "graphic novel" if you can only digest pretention) that I've been developing for about four years now. An absolutely ridiculous volume of in-progress frames, pages, sketches, scripts and concept drawings have been building up while I've been busy with, well, everything else that's featured on this site and far more that isn't. Though it will probably never be at the absolute top of my priority list, I've recently begun real work on Lock Yourself Inside again in my spare time and so after having the aforementioned twelve pages as a FracturedPerspective.com exclusive for January and February, I've put them up here as introduction to the inevitable future content to come with this. Do note that the language tends to be harsh, so it's not for everyone. If that sounds like your kind of stuff, click onward. jaklocke.com/codexcomics.htm posted 2010.03.13 5:40am |
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F I L M Improvising a lead |
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Recently I came across this video in the dustier sections of my hard drive. Born from boredom, it was shot a few years back at an apartment while we were waiting for a pizza and I was killing time making up a lead to some pseudo-Muzak song that was continually playing in the background--this was probably my third or fourth run through it. Nothing special, I just sort of like the song and the laid-back atmosphere. The main draw of the video is the cat, really. Try to ignore the horrid slip at the beginning, even though I know it's impossible to. posted 2010.03.11 5:04am |
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C O D E X Three preview chapters from Frog Dell's Junkyard |
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 For the past ten years or so I've been working on a novella called Frog Dell's Junkyard in the rare spare moment here and there. A few months ago I finally set aside some real time to work on it and was able to get it to a complete second draft. As I work on the final draft (again in dribs and drabs of uncommon unspoken-for time), humorist/artist and long-time collaborator Scott Fremin is hard at work in San Antonio on full-color illustrations that will accompany the complete work when I finish and self-publish it via Lulu.com. In the meantime, three randomly selected chapters are now available for the first time online in the quite incomplete Codex section. I'll link it directly and spare you the necessity of searching for it -- spread the word if you enjoy it. jaklocke.com/codexbooks.htm posted 2010.03.10 4:18am |
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F I L M 27 Hallucinations |
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I shot this at my own birthday party in 2007. Really, I just shot a bunch of random things happening and it kind of developed on its own as the night got later and biochemical reactions started to set in. A few days after, I went insane with editing and this is the result. The description I put on it when I was still using YouTube prompted a storm of entertaining comments which I've thoughtfully linked on its dedicated page in the Film section. posted 2010.03.09 1:44am |
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JAKLOCKE.COM New Website Launched |
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 The all-new JakLocke.com is now live. Temporarily non-functional at the moment are: details from past live shows; standalone lyric songbook; the Swag page; the Codex page. However, there's three times as much content up as before with a lot more than that to come, and it's easier than ever to get to it all now. posted 2010.03.08 7:21pm |
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JUL 2011 - AUG 2010 |
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FILM: videos
music videos, etc.
VIEW: pictures
promo, shoots, drawings
PRESS: coverage
radio / print, interviews
CODEX: words
lyrics, stories, comics
ARCHIVE: old news
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