Former Jawbreaker/Jets To Brazil frontman and inventor of modern emo Blake Schwartzenbach is back with a new outfit called Thorns of Life, which he says “sounds like a storehouse of fond hatred from the last few years and in the now.” EMOVEMBER IS OFFICIALLY HERE. Anyways, there is some video of the band playing a Brooklyn house show last week floating around on YouTube, one of which is posted above.

On July 4th, if you are in the movie theaters and you neglect to see the Hunter Thompson documentary, you are definitely BLOWING IT. The following trailer gives the impression that Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson is right on. The closest I’ve seen to a biopic on Gonzo is Where the Buffalo Roam, starring Bill Murray as Hunter. Nice performance, but I’m ready for the real McCoy. Anyone else?

From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life—his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.

It is my firm belief that every person on the planet should take Lysergic acid diethylamide, (or LSD, aka acid) one time in their life. Not so sure if most people should continue to use the stuff, because man, oh man, that’s a powerful drug. It will make you see things more clearly than you’ve ever seen them, and at the same time more opaquely than ever before. Then laugh like a hyena for hours.

The scientist who first discovered LSD in 1938, and then accidentally spilled some on himself, marking the first use of acid, has passed away. Swiss-born chemist Albert Hoffman died from a heart Attack at his home on Tuesday. He was 102 years old.

From Radio Netherlands:

Albert Hofmann discovered the drug by accident while he was researching medicinal plants. A bit of the synthetic fluid spilled on his hands during a laboratory experiment in 1943, leading to an unintended first hand experience with the new hallucinogenic drug.

The chemist later referred to LSD as his ‘problem child’, he never expected LSD to become a popular drug among the Hippy community in the 1960s. Mr Hofmann continued to defend the medicinal qualities of LSD long after the drug was banned in the 1960s.

Tune in, drop out man…..

But seriously Leo, not a day over 530…

Born April 15th, 1452 in theregion of Florence, Italy, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or Leo as his close friends called him, grew from the illegitimate son of a notary and a peasant into a legitimate baller. Apart from his famous paintings, he was the epitome of the Renaissance Man: inventor, engineer, sculptor, military architect, code-breaker, buggerer of boys, philosopher, master of topographical anatomy and internationally recognized genius. I could make a list of his radical inventions and plans, notes and journals that are still used today, but that’s why we have wikipedia.

And by the way, happy Pesach er’rybody.