Scott Boehmer

Category: Art

  • Let’s Face It

    It’s Friday, so time for another song that I like: Let’s Face It by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I’ve been listening to this one since I was in high school.

    Let’s Face It (The Mighty Mighty BossToneS – YouTube)

  • Giant Robot Fight Club

    Last week, a friend invited me to attend Giant Robot Fight Club at Motorco in Durham. It is a show where people dressed in cardboard robot suits battle one another in pro wrestling-style bouts. It was a ton of fun! If you’re in the area and have a chance to go, you should.

    Sold Out Show
    Robot Fight!
    Bot Man
    Automaton Selleck
    Animatronica
    The Masticator
    Seam Ripper vs Table
    Terror Byte

  • Bandcamp Friday

    Bandcamp does a promotion called Bandcamp Friday where they waive their revenue in order to give more to the artists when you buy their music. Today is a Bandcamp Friday, so here are some artists that I think you should check out. I know I’ll be buying songs from a few of them today.

    Sylvan Esso: One of the localish artists that I found thanks to an article about Psychic Hotline. I bought What Now recently and it has been a pretty regular entry in my listening rotation.

    Daughter of Swords: Another artist I found through Psychic Hotline. I picked up their album Alex last month and have really enjoyed listening to it.

    Made in 1985: I went to school with Scott, and he’s a cool guy not just because he shares my name and we chatted in some art classes twenty-some years ago. I’ve bought a bunch of his music over the past few years.

    Rogue Radio: Louise Sugden is a former Games Workshop employee who has a hobby-focused YouTube channel called Rogue Hobbies. She also has made some music.

    neon shudder: neon shudder did soundtrack albums for the Hard Wired Island roleplaying game. That album is one of my daughter’s top picks when her and I are driving somewhere.

    Lofi Girl: This is actually a label with songs from a bunch of different artists. They do a mix of big and small albums. One of my favorite is chill beats for LEGO building, but I also enjoy their seasonal releases like Halloween 2023 and Christmas 2023.

  • HTML Quine

    I saw this page shared on Mastodon, and it is an impressive showcase of some things that HTML and CSS can accomplish.

    Its title also meant that I had to look up what quine means:

    quine: A program that produces its own source code as output

    Wiktionary

    This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine. (secretgeek.github.io)

  • Radio

    Like Daughter of Swords, Sylvan Esso is a group that I learned about by way of an article about Psychic Hotline. I bought their album What Now, and Radio is my favorite song from it.

    Sylvan Esso – Radio (Music Video) (Sylvan Esso – YouTube)

  • The Bitter Southerner

    The other day, I was watching a video from Carolina Forward and liked the shirt that Blair Reeves was wearing. Looking for it led me to the Bitter Southerner General Store. I didn’t end up ordering that shirt, but only because I ended up finding others there that I liked even more. As I mentioned last week, I like biscuits, so this Make More Biscuits one won me over. Then I also got the Product of Public Schools and Wild Places Matter tees for myself and a Libraries are Essential one for Stef.

    Beyond the store, the Bitter Southerner’s main purpose is telling stories about the South and pushing for a Better South. Towards that end, it publishes a magazine, newsletter, podcast, and books. So in addition to a few new shirts, I’m also now subscribed to their newsletter.

  • Biscuits

    I like biscuits. I like this song by Kacey Musgraves called Biscuits too.

    Kacey Musgraves – Biscuits (Official Music Video) (K A C E Y M U S G R A V E S – YouTube)

  • No Kings in the USA

    There are no kings in the USA. It’s kind of the point.

    No Kings In The USA (YouTube)

  • Vacation

    I recently heard about a local artist-run recording company called Psychic Hotline, and I’ve been listening to some of their artists to check them out. I bought Alex by Daughter of Swords, and Vacation from it is one of the songs that I’ve added to my regular rotation.

    Vacation | Daughter of Swords (Bandcamp)

  • Unique

    Time for another song that I like. This one is Unique by Lenka.

    Lenka – Unique (Official Video) (lenkatv – YouTube)