Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

Some fun things online I think are fun at first, but the reality is that it’s painful. A 19th Century Fresco ruined by an elderly woman. She ends up painting Jesus Christ into a monkey. The money to restore the fresco was just raised and was about to be used professionally. Ineptness in art handling. Many take the handling of art lightly. We try not to. All this begs the question, how did the elderly woman get this gig? (BBC – Fresco)
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My wife and I had tickets to Touch-and-Go Records’ 25th anniversary celebration in 2006, and I was really amped about seeing the back-in-action Three Mile Pilot–not to mention the reunited Negative Approach and Big Black,  the always amazing Shellac, our friends in Seam, the folks from Enon… And then the magazine schedule ran late and we decided to cancel our trip to Chicago. Man. I still get bummed when I think about it. So when last Friday’s show at The Echo was announced, I was super amped to get to see the progenitor of Black Heart Procession and Pinback once more in a small club.

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