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Die Antwoord is blowing up. First Boing Boing, then Vice Magazine, now The New Yorker?!

If you don’t know about Die Antwoord, your inner zef is in need of some serious refreshing. Waddy Jones (a.k.a Ninja) and Yo-landi Vi$$er (the pixie crack-baby with the space mullet pictured below) can take care of that in a heart beat-boy.

Oh, and they just landed in LA. Enter the Ninja!

Soaked from the rain, and ears still ringing — awesome night! Got to see Nosaj Thing for the first time. Wow. Last time I heard sounds like that, Mike and I were at Womb in Shibuya.

Nosaj followed a great set by Jogger (who have an equally great shirt designed by kozyndan), and the evening was capped off by the always impressive Daedelus (who still has my copy of the Oblivion strategy guide).

kozyndan also illustrated the Magical Properties Tour poster. Way too cool.

It’s worse than I could have possibly imagined.

I think the comments say it all:

I just died a little when Kurt Cobain said “YEAH BOYYYYY”

Courtney I’d expect… but Dave? Dave I used to like you… how could you sign off on this?

i’m pretty sure Kurt, in a freebase-induced dream state, saw into the future and watched this video. then he wrote his suicide note.

What is so upsetting is that while Harmonix was “terrified” with getting the Beatles right, it appears Activison couldn’t give a flying fuck.  Imagine Paul McCartney in the clip above, then imagine the shit storm he would rain down with his legal team.

But I guess that’s what happens when your estate is left in such competent and capable hands.  At least the executors of my estate know I am to be represented digitally as a female wood elf druid upon my passing.

Actually, he wasn’t.  Wesley Willis only said that because it rhymed.  He also said suck a male camel’s dick with Hoisen sauce.  And he headbutted me.  Mike was there, and can confirm this is 100% true.  But I’m getting off topic.

Kurt Cobain is in Guitar Hero 5.  Think about that for a second.  Here’s a guy who had trouble buying himself a “fancy” new car  (it was a Lexus if you’re wondering, and he returned it two days later when his friends made fun of it) after he became rich, and now he’s fronting Activision’s 5th installment of their dying cash cow they milked one too many times.

If Kurt knew he’d be polygonally immortalized wearing a cardigan and a shirt drawn by Daniel Johnston,  I’m pretty sure he would have never touched either ever in his life.  Maybe it would have been something a little less ESRB friendly.

So who’s really behind this commercial betrayal of everything Kurt?  Frances Bean?  I doubt it.  I’m looking at you, Courtney.

Sony must be shitting their pants right about now.  That Microsoft conference was amazing.  Seriously, how do you follow that?  Bringing out Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney to endorse the new ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ was quite a move.  And its impact wasn’t mitigated even in the slightest by the presence of Yoko Ono!

The game looks spectacular.  It’s like the love-child of ‘Rock Band’ and Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles-themed show ‘Love‘.  On a side note, if you haven’t seen ‘Love’, you are really missing something.  It was one of the best Las Vegas shows I’ve ever seen in my life (and I have seen about 3)!  ‘Love’ was like the love-child of the Beatles and ‘Pink Floyd’s: The Wall’.   So when it comes down to it, ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ is actually the love-child of ‘Rock Band’ and the love-children of the Beatles and ‘Pink Floyd’s: The Wall’.  You may be thoroughly confused, but nevertheless, it is a beautiful thing.

The game chronicles the various stages of the Beatles’ career, and replicates it all in stilted, poorly animated, low-resolution polygonal models.  No, wait, it’s much better then you imagine.

If you don’t believe me, check out this GameTrailers clip.

So, which member of the Beatles do you identify with the most?  I fancy myself as more of a George Harrison than the other three.  Soon I will get to test that notion from the comfort and privacy of my living room.

That is how you throw a grand opening celebration.  With a DJ mix that sounded like it was straight out of WOMB, we knew ROYAL/T pulled all the stops to kick things off right.  Even details like maids servicing the people lining up outside were not over looked.  Once inside, I do not think I was once without a cocktail, ranging from espresso martinis to some innocent looking fresh-squeezed watermelon concoctions that proved to be anything but innocent.

The art collection was straight out of the pages of Superflat, and will probably be easier to appreciate when ROYAL/T isn’t at max capacity like it was last night.  I can imagine this space (for lack of a better term) will be quite delightful when afternoon tea is being formally served by its attentive and doting staff.  But when they aren’t concerned about waking the neighbors, they can make you think you just stumbled out of a club in Roppongi Hills.