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WWW.KOTORIMAG.COM MAGAZINE WWW.KOTORIMAG.COM MAGAZINE DEERHOOF • THE LOCUST • AS Tall AS LIONS • CLUTCH • DAVID CHOE • RJD2 • BUFF MONSTER • NORma JEAN • POT TM MUSIC/ART/POLITICS/CULTURE #009 MUSIC/ART/POLITICS/CULTURE LA COKA NOSTRA ROWDINESS, BEllIGERENCE AND AGGRESSION ROllING WITH GRINSPOON PT.II “WE’RE GOING TO GET AN INJECTION OF A WHOLE NEW ENERGY...” KIVA INVESTORS SEEKING EMOTIONal RETURNS LOOK NO FURTHER WE ARE THE FURY CattlE DECapItatION SIERRA SWAN CLEAR CHANNEL - AMERICAN SODOMITES? USA $3.99 CANADA $4.99 ISSUE 9 WWW.KOTORIMAG.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS LA COKA NOSTRA I’m not knocking anyone else’s shit but hip hop is in a flossy KIVA place and I don’t feel like it’s reflecting the world we’re Investors seeking emotional returns…look no further. 40 living in right now!” 33 CLUTCH BUFF MONSTER “One day in the middle of a show I turned around and looked “The mass appeal of urban inspired or urban related art is 23 behind me and there were two 30 foot penises behind us.” 27 growing every day.” POWER PELLETS: Kotori tells you wutz up! 04 DEERHOOF 14 Satomi educates America on why Asians are so salty WE ARE THE FURY: A HEAD COLD COUldn’t TRIP UP ROCK-N-ROLL 06 THE LOCUST ASPHALT JUNGLE: swallows up Bob Marley 10 20 swarmin’ with their one-liners!! FASHIONABLY SKATEBOARDING: SICK ASS DECKS! 16 SIERRA SWAN 50 super-sexy sultry ssssss! HOW TO MAKE YOUR MUSIC VIDEO 18 SANDBLOOM: ONE CRAZY WHITE BOY WITH A LOT OF SOUL 30 AS TALL AS LIONS 08 Singer Dan Nigro hiccups his way through animal cruelty & the glockenspiel METERMAIDS: DOG POO AND DEMO RAP COLLIDE! 54 FASHION ADVENTURES: Kotori conquers fashion!!! 55 RJD2 47 Ramble John Krohn carves an exciting ‘pop’ path down a road he’s always taken... THE LOST ANGELES TIMES: get a clue 58 CATTLE DECAPITATION: “Shooting ourselves in the head” 62 CSA 36 The South is gonna rise again! (At least in cinema) MARK MASKY: TELLS YOU WUTZ UP! 66 52 AMERICAN SODOMITES RADIO REBELLION: NORMA JEAN GET ANGRY…ER 68 A new era in American media? T-ROCK: IN HIS OWN WORDS... 71 DAVID CHOE 60 the bad(dest) boy of graffiti 270°: RECORD SHOPPING MADE EASY 73 DR. LESTER GRINSPOON FUN TIME: WHEN LAZY MARKETING MEETS WORTHLESS EMO LYRICS 80 64 takes a stab at the Future of Marijuana CONTRIBUTORS EDITOR’S NOTE This issue is dedicated to CONTRIBUTORS the Lashbrook family. Our Steve Ghil, Marlin SCOTT SHAPIRO DOUBLE OH SEVEN IS WELL George, Christopher prayers, thoughts, and Born into the Flefano Diphtheria UPON US!!!! And let me tell Dabner, Amy Staats, crime syndicate on the east side you, it couldn’t have come service remain at your side. Mike The Poet, Aaron of Chicago, Mr. Shapiro escaped soon enough! Don’t know if you Levant and the Agenda the mob at a young age, venturing remember where we were at EDITOR-IN-CHIEF team, Tom Pharo, into the nearby wilderness to be a year ago this time, with the Wasim Muklashy Joshua Moeller, raised by a migrating family of blessings of the Hopi Indian Violet Fewes, Emerick Tribal Council to use Kotori [email protected] Himalayan aardvarks. His legend Tackett, Matt Thomas, grew, returning to society in after the madness following Matt Reid Cohn (we 2000, having mastered the art of the gathering of the coyote MANAGING EDITOR hope you accept our automobile defecation (inside and vegan cult in the Santa Ynez Micah Lashbrook full apologies for our out), likely taught to him by that mountains, our formal partner- haze-induced slip- [email protected] pederass Hannerhan. (editor note: ship with GetUnderground. up on not including though one of our original writers, com, and the temporary loss you in last issue’s contributing to every issue since of our better half and Manag- ASSOCIATE EDITORS contributor section... #1, he thinks we forgot to include ing Editor (our prayers and Bob Freville we were stupid... him as a contributor in the last thoughts will not leave your [email protected] very very stupid...), issue, but we did it on purpose to give us a good excuse to give him side Micah and the Lashbrook Shana Nys Dambrot, the largest part of this section...i mean...check out that picture! the clan) to recall a few classic Jake McGee jvkm, Dirty J, Carlos man’s a legend...just don’t ask any questions...we’re afraid to...) moments. But as tumultuous [email protected] Herrera, Fiona Ramsey as 006 turned out to be, its Miranda Burch and all at Kiva, Bill quite evident that we’ve come AMY STAATS [email protected] Brofee, Angus from a loooooooooong way in those Youngstown, Cheri Spawned from the frigid grounds of measly 365 days. We have Pohl, Andrea Raskind, Akron, Ohio, Amy Staats is an artistic no one to thank but YOU!!! ART DIRECTOR & Rod Lockett, Angelo samurai: collected yet ferocious on WEBMASTER Peter & all at The Gig, any medium she attacks, be it guitar And here we are not only well Shadi Muklashy Rex More, Morgan or colors. In due time, she’ll be into a new year, but a new era. illustrating for the likes of Marvel [email protected] Tharp, Jamie Enochs, One that we’ve been yearning Chessman Joe, Mike and Manga, and simultaneously and fighting and scratching for Austin and Xsite, touring around the world with her for well over a decade. For the THE MARKETING DIVISION Stephen Lashbrook, band. Until then, she’s honing her first time in 12 years, the Dem- Eddie Donaldson Brandon Lomax skills at the Pittsburgh Art Institute, ocrats control both the House kicking ass proper in the Steel City. [email protected] and the Senate. People have fi- Evan Cerasoli nally woken up and given up on PLEASE SEND ALL MATT REID COHN the system that doesn’t work Carl Stoeber CORRESPONDENCE, first took it global as a member of for anyone outside of those www.themarketingdivison.net SUBMISSIONS, & the L.A. band ‘Berlin’ in the early involved in the arms and pe- QUERIES TO ‘80s. 2006 saw the completion of his troleum industries. Not to say MARKETING/ADVERTISING KOTORI Magazine first feature-length film soundtrack that the Democratic party is 3253 S. Beverly Dr. (“Blood Deep”) and his first solo a cure-all, God knows they’re Justin Smith Los Angeles, CA 90034 photography exhibition as well. not, but hot hell, at least the [email protected] He relishes every opportunity to decrepid disastrous destruc- Annie Montone OR EMAIL capture the essence of L.A. and surrounding areas in his work, and tive ways of the Bush junta [email protected] [email protected] can often be found DJ’ing at the Museum of Neon Art downtown. have been tossed out the door. Google him and punch up portableuniverse.tv for more. It’s kind of sickly satisfying Chavo Gonzalez FOR ADVERTISING now to watch him try to work [email protected] advertise@ with his hands tied. Anyhow, kotorimag.com SHANA NYS DAMBROT the point is, we’ve taken that is an art critic and author based in Los FASHION/MARKETING first step to take our country Angeles. Her fine art & design reviews, Published by back and to re-instill the true Jeff Cheema features and interviews have appeared Kotori, LLC virtues of democracy and pa- [email protected] in more than twenty publications triotism that were so brutally including Modern Painters, Art The views and pulled from underneath us. Review, ARTnews, Artkrush.com, STAFF WRITERS opinions expressed tema celeste, Artweek, Angeleno, within these pages Our time has come people!!! Matt Vogt Art Asia Pacific, Intersection, do not necessarily Let’s seize the moment and Scott Shapiro TimeOut LA, Art Ltd. (formerly Lifescapes), Juxtapoz and Coagula Art reflect those of achieve all that we have Journal. She is currently the LA Managing Editor at Flavorpill.net. Tommy Digital KOTORI Magazine, worked for. Let’s bring some and vica versa. This color and excitement back RESIDENT POET is simply a forum for JVKM into the drab landscape My name is not important nor where Mike The Poet free expression. that ‘they’ have tried to I am from. I’m from New Jersey but paint before us. Let’s cloak All claims and live in Hollywood, California. I live the future with our art, our FUN TIME GURUS statements made for art and science and entertaining music, and our culture. Violet Fewes herin are nothing the idea of time travel. Without Bob Freville but that...statements self-expression I would die... You can count on us to do herein. You can what we can to contribute! interpret them EVENTS & as facts, you can TOM PHARO Double-Oh-Seven y’all!!!! PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR interpret them I like my music like I like my women: Happy Spring! JT Taylor as faction, all we convulsive and spaced out. [email protected] ask is that you Peace, interpret them. RESIDENT ARTIST www.kotorimag.com Jason Mascow © 2006 Kotori, LLC Wasim Muklashy P|O|W|E|R|P|E|L|L|E|T|S with Booker T, Emmylou Harris, Gilberto Gil, Terry Ready to hear GW Bush McBride, David Bryne, Rickie Lee Jones, Joe Boyd; cloudy-side up singing “Imagine” and enough panels to make any striving musician’s head sunny side fuck! “Sunday Bloody explode. And that’s just the music side of things- the CBS plans to advertise Sunday?” What about film festival is filled with all sorts of insanity. www. their shows on eggs.