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16: Twinkeyz // Alpha-Jerk
Alpha-Jerk
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The Twinkeyz were a late ‘70s Sacramento garage rock band orbiting guitarist/singer/songwriter Donnie Jupiter. They cut a couple of singles in '77 and '78 and the Alpha-Jerk full-length in '79. The LP apparently suffered from mixing and mastering issues, and it disappeared virtually without a trace, taking the band with it. Jupiter would spend some time in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s playing bass in the even more obscure act Lizards, while also building a career in comics under his birthname Don Marquez. The Twinkeyz’ faint legend lingered though; their debut single “Aliens in Our Midst” is a regular on gay punk compilations, and they’re occasionally cited as a forerunner of queercore acts like Pansy Division.
The Twinkeyz were a B-movie Velvet Underground, laconic, witty rock and roll sweatered in primitive synth warbles and (to quote Scott Miller of Game Theory) “enough guitar effects to stun an elephant.” The lead guitarist (presumably Jupiter) is often the only one who seems more than minimally competent, and (although the songs on Alpha-Jerk were drawn from different sessions) the mix uniformly sounds like it’s thudding from a blown speaker. If the choice to self-produce robs Alpha-Jerk of a professional sheen, they also get to do a lot of stuff most producers wouldn’t allow. Nearly every track is studded with odd noises and found sounds, giving it a hand-made texture that suits the peculiarity of the music.
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As with Suicide’s Alan Vega, the thing that makes Jupiter’s blunt songwriting distinctive is that it feels like an indoor kid’s idea of cool teenage music. “Strange Feeling” approximates then-current new wave pop, but the flatness of its affect seems to imply having feelings at all is the strange part; “Sweet Nothing” pulls the archetypally dumb garage move of ripping off the title (and nearly the melody) of a more well-known song, like they were trying to recreate “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” from memory after dad broke their copy of Loaded over his knee. The lyrics about love, UFOs, psychic powers, and cartoons are obviously cute, but sometimes a sick sense of humour peeps through. Referring to weird psych as “bad drug” music in a well-worn cliché, but it’s the right description of “Alpha-Jerk,” a discordant dirge that could be about a kaiju or the Book of Revelations. The noises in the mix resemble the work of a crow leaving shiny bits and bobs on a tombstone.
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It's all very good stuff for anyone with a taste for wimpy garage rock, but “Aliens in Our Midst” stands hips and knees over anything else here. The lyric cleverly mixes yarns about literal aliens with uncharacteristically direct anecdotes about queers and weirdos who “turn out okay” despite shitty circumstances, creating an anthem that is sentimental, bleakly funny, and ultimately hopeful in the exact ratio I adore. The campy call and response vocals in the chorus, Plan 9-ass guitar tone, subtly counterintuitive riff… it’s the stuff abductions are made of.
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Sidebar: Cartuneland.com, the bizarre website of Donnie Jupiter (AKA Don Marquez)
As noted, Jupiter/Marquez mostly switched to illustration after the collapse of the Twinkeyz, and he's still selling his art on eBay. His own site, Cartuneland.com, is bewildering and uncanny in the way webpages end up when a brand outsources its content management to an overseas SEO firm. Samples of his fantasy paperback-style art are interspersed with bland stock photography, and the structure of the site is clearly based on a corporate template—only Marquez isn’t advertising himself as a freelancer, and the site isn't connected to his eBay page. The contact and social links are variously empty or broken, and the links to his past comics direct to Wayback Machine-captures from an Angelfire-era version of the site the artist probably built himself.
Strangest of all is the blog which, shockingly, has two posts this month alone—both of them about the Bodhran, an Irish hand drum. Of the six total posts on the blog as of this writing, two of them are interviews with Marquez. The others are ChatGPT-quality posts about general topics in music (e.g. “Connecting literature to art”; “What is a tin whistle?”) and a peculiar first-person story about learning to play the flute, all credited to someone named Rachel George. The idea was probably to pad out the blog with keyword-laden content to help the site become more visible to search engines, but to what end? Is Marquez really all that bent on becoming the most visible hit on “Don Marquez music” or “Bodhran for beginners”? You wouldn’t be able to tell from the interviews, which feature terse answers from the former Twinkey, such as:
Q: Many of your creations are based on classic horror and sci-fi films from the 1950s.
DM: I wasn’t trying to be retro.
Q: What’s missing from the current cinema that makes old films so memorable?
DM: Horror is a broad genre. Horror is a vast genre.
What we’re looking at here is most likely a Fiver contractor’s unfinished attempt to turn Jupiter’s website into a place to sell his original art, but as it stands it’s an oddly perfect web presence for a 73-year-old garage micro-legend and purveyor of swords ‘n’ tits fantasy. If anybody finds Question Mark’s Livejournal, please drop a link in the comments. And Donnie, if you're reading this, get in touch and I will fix your website for cheap!
#music review#vinyl#the twinkeyz#donnie jupiter#don marquez#sacramento music#garage rock#psych rock#punk#aliens in our midst#queer punk#'70s music#'70s punk
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Transistor Sister #163 April 16, 2023
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This week I’m joined by Dana K of Don’t Back the Front for a membership drive show. Drive time is always fun times at WPRB and if you enjoy the show, now’s the time to show us you mean it with a weekly or monthly gift, or even just a share of our pledge link!
Mini theme is taxes and financial instruments!
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Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon - Transistor Sister
The Fall - Pay Your Rates
DJs speak over Orchester Frank Pleyer - Sunday Love Affair
Wipers - Whoop Megamix
Wipers - Nothing to Prove (live)
Yalla Miku - Asmazate
Twinkeyz - Aliens In Our Midst
Black Heat - No Time to Burn
Proletariat - Options
Jasper - Football Match
Pinch Points - Woomera
Display Homes - Nitty Picky
The Undertones Family Entertainment
Tuxedomoon - No Tears
Benzin - Zieh Dir Was Rein (live)
Heavenly - Cut Off
AUSMUTEANTS - Fed Through a Tube
The Louvin Brothers - Insured Beyond the Grave
Plastix - Die Deutsche Bank
Cameo - Inflation
The Hollies - Pay You Back with Interest
The Members - Offshore Banking Business
Ramones - High Risk Insurance
Chumbawamba - Bankrobber
Progressive Labor Party - Smash the Banks of Marble
Aus-Rotten - The World Bank
Eater - Michael's Monetary System
Russ Carlson & His High Steppers - Banking on the Weather
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?
Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazi Died
#radio#community radio#broadcast radio#wprb#taxes#finance#transistor sister#punk#goth#mixtape#mix#playlist#funk#pop punk#crust punk#anarcho punk#soul#egg punk#indie pop
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Laurice - Pissed Off
This new Laurice album is a treasure and seriously better than any solo album made by any classic rock icon in the last 30 years. It’s like The Twinkeyz or Jem Targal crossed with Def Leopard and musical theater, I love it.
Cop the vinyl: https://www.almostreadyrecords.com/mmm.htm
And here’s a video for a song from 2016′s “Balladeer“ CD, filmed and released this past December for World AIDS Day:
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#2019#2016#Music Videos#Kelowna#British Columbia#Canada#Lo Fi#Pop Rock#Glam#Almost Ready Records#Mighty Mouth Music#Laurice#tbh i never listened to the final Bowie album so my grand statement about this album might have been hyperbole who could ever know
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與美同步最潮美食的幕後推手！老爹餐飲集團引進最HOT飲食風潮超狂6種辣度+ 8種獨創沾醬「HOTTIES辣炸雞」客製化你的最愛
致力推動美式飲食文化的Daddy’s Dining Group老爹餐飲集團，旗下目前有四大餐飲品牌，分別為美式手抓海鮮Shrimp Daddy蝦老爹、墨西哥料理Twinkeyz Tacos塔可老爹和Twinkeyz Dos，以及HOTTIES美式辣炸雞。創辦人施振邦Parkson與毛加恩James，兩人從年輕對餐飲就有種莫名的堅持，一步步實現夢想，更擴張到一個完整的團隊，現在旗下品牌皆已然成為台北區指標性餐廳，這其中注入滿腔熱忱與汗水，只因為他們想為台灣帶來一種新的飲食方式。
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TASTY MEXICAN TACOS: Twinkeyz Tacos 塔可老爹 (大安)
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Rare authentic Mexican tacos right in Taipei city!
Twinkeyz Tacos 塔可老爹
http://twinkeyztacos.com
Location: No. 7-1, Lane 131, Yanji Street, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106
Hours:
Mon-Fri 11:30AM-2PM, 5:30PM-10:00PM
Sat-Sun 11:30AM-10:00PM
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TWO new Heathen Discos for you -> LISTEN
Last two shows:
Episode 237, December 13th 2020
Chic – Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowzah, Yowzah, Yowzah) (single / Buddah, 1977)
Theo Parrish – Smile (single / Music Is…, 1997)
Velocette – Bound in a Nutshell (Discotheque Saudades / A Colourful Storm, 2020)
M. Geddes Gengras – Lapidus (Time Makes Nothing Happen / Hausu Mountain, 2020)
The Cool Greenhouse – Alexa! (single / Melodic, 2020)
Eugenius – Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Queen of Scots / August, 1994)
Stark Naked – Sins (Stark Naked / RCA, 1971)
Fly Ashtray – Mulligan (We Buy Everything You Own / Old Gold, 2018)
Richard Lloyd – Alchemy (Alchemy / Elektra, 1979)
Cabaret Voltaire – What's Going On? (Shadow of Fear / Mute, 2020)
Lync – Silver Spoon Glasses (These Are Not Fall Colors / K, 1994)
Van Duren – Grow Yourself Up (Are You Serious? / Big Sound, 1978)
Little Gold – Living Under Books (Wake Up and Die Right / Sophomore Lounge, 2020)
Tony Joe White – I Want Love (Tween You and Me) (Homemade Ice Cream / Warner Bros., 1972)
David Blue – Oooh, Baby (Com’n Back for More / Asylum, 1975)
Pool Holograph – Asleep in Spain (Love Touched Time and Time Began to Sweat / Sunroom, 2020)
Game Theory – Metal and Glass Exact (Pointed Accounts of People You Know / Rational, 1983)
The Velvet Underground – New Age (Loaded / Cotillion, 1970)
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas – Martin 5000 (III / Smalltown Supersound, 2020)
Nightshift – Make Kin (Zoe / Trouble in Mind, 2021)
Kendra Smith – Stars Are in Your Eyes (Kendra Smith Presents the Guild of Temporal Adventures / Fiasco, 1992)
Reg King – Merry-Go-Round (Missing in Action / Circle, 2006)
Brett Smiley – Mood in Deco (Sunset Tower / What’s Your Rupture?, 2019)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – You Make Me Feel Brand New (Force Majeure / International Anthem, 2020)
A Foot in Coldwater – (Isn't Love Unkind) In My Life (Or All Around Us / Elektra, 1974)
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra – Dimensional Stardust (Parable 33) (Dimensional Stardust / International Anthem/Nonesuch, 2020)
Comet Gain – The Weekend Dreams (single version) (split 7” with Hello Cuca / Doble Vida, 2010)
Urge Overkill – Wichita Lineman (single / Touch & Go, 1987)
Laurie Styvers – Imagine That the Lights Have Gone Out (Spilt Milk / Warner Bros., 1973)
Scritti Politti – A Slow Soul (Songs to Remember / Rough Trade, 1982)
The Tubs – I Don't Know How it Works (single / Prefect, 2020)
Anthony Moore – Catch a Falling Star (OUT / Drag City, 1976/2020)
Tappi Tíkarrass – Íþróttir (Miranda / Gramm, 1983)
Astute Palate – No Queen (Astute Palate / Petty Bunco, 2020)
Resavoir – Ill Wind (live) (Wild Violet compilation benefitting Chicago Community Jail Support)
Beau Wanzer – Busted and Bamboozled (Busted and Bamboozled / Ophism, 2020)
The Klinik – Braindamage (Melting Close + Sabotage / Antler, 1987)
Twinkeyz – E.S.P. (single / Grok, 1978)
Lead – Romance Tomorrow (excerpt) (Lead 2 / Radical Documents, 2020)
Dana Gillespie – Andy Warhol (Peephole in My Brain comp / Grapefruit, 1971/2020)
Rupert Hine – Kerosene (Pick Up a Bone / Purple/Capitol, 1971)
Leila – Melodicore (Like Weather / Modern Love, 1998/2020)
Episode 236, December 6th 2020
Chris Brokaw – Puritan (Puritan / 12XU, 2021)
Vladislav Delay/Sly Dunbar/Robbie Shakespeare – 521 (500-Push-Up / Sub Rosa, 2020)
Liars – Rose and Licorice (Atheists, Reconsider EP / Version City, 2004)
Milk Music – Beyond Living (Beyond Living / self-released, 2010)
Sylvie Marks – Baby Take Me a Little Bit Higher (single / Bpitch Control, 2001)
Adulkt Life – Room Context (Book of Curses / What’s Your Rupture?, 2020)
Savoy Motel – Crossword Puzzle (Love Your Face / Official Memorabilia, 2020)
Deep Purple – Blood Sucker (In Rock / Warner Bros., 1970)
Prisonshake – 2 Sisters (single / Scat, 1993)
Cherokee – Girl I’ve Got News for You (single / ABC, 1971)
The Toms – Til the End of the Day (The 1979 Sessions / Feel It, 2020)
The Presidents – 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love) (single / Sussex, 1970)
Subway Sect – Different Story (single / Rough Trade, 1978)
Rockin’ Horse – Don’t You Ever Think I Cry (Yes it Is / Philips, 1971 – Sing Sing 2013 re)
The PeeChees – Grease (Cup of Glory EP / Kill Rock Stars, 1994)
John Foxx – A New Kind of Man (Metamatic / Metal Beat, 1980)
Factory Floor – A Wooden Box (Untitled / Blast First Petite, 2010)
Identified Patient – The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (single / Common Thread, 2016)
The Van Pelt – The Speeding Train (single / Art Monk Construction, 1997)
Guardian Singles – Never Gonna See the Rain Again (Guardian Singles / Moral Support, 2020)
The Mob – Witch Hunt (JD Twitch Re-Edit) (Ten Inches of Fear / RVNG INTL, 2008)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Rollercoaster (single / Blanco y Negro, 1992)
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas – Knock on Wood (King & Queen / Stax, 1967)
Charles Earland – One for Scotty (Soul Story / Prestige, 1972)
The Main Ingredient – Work to Do (Afrodisiac / RCA, 1973)
Theo Parrish – Hennyweed Buckdance (Wuddaji / Sound Signature, 2020)
Désaccord Majeur – M.O.E.R. (Sunquake EP / A Colourful Storm, 2020)
Pigeons – Buoy (single / Soft Abuse, 2015)
Small World Experience – Leave (Shelf-Life / Siltbreeze, 1994/2016)
Vital Idles – My Sentiments (single / Not Unloved, 2016)
Teenage Fanclub – Every Picture I Paint (A Catholic Education / Matador, 1990)
Ruth – Mescalito (single / Poutre Apparante, 2007)
Speed – Speed (single / Real, 1995)
The Rolling Stones – Child of the Moon (single / London, 1968)
Comet Gain – I Was More of a Mess Then (single / Tapete, 2018)
Karen Dalton – In the Evening (It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best / Capitol, 1969)
Dick Diver – Waste the Alphabet (Melbourne, Florida / Trouble in Mind, 2015)
Polvo – Vibracobra (Cor-Crane Secret / Merge, 1992)
Tar – Goethe (Jackson / Amphetamine Reptile, 1991)
Big Black – Kerosene (Atomizer / Homestead, 1986)
Karp – I’d Rather Be Clogging (single / Punk in My Vitamins, 1994)
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- ♡美食小分享♡ 來跟大家分享美食了😍 我自己超喜歡吃異國料理的！今天就要分享墨西哥料理給大家🇲🇽❤️這家我之前就很愛吃了，他們現在多開了一家分店在天母～新店的環境超棒！很乾淨很明亮，而且還有超可愛的網美牆給大家拍照哈哈哈哈你看我跟 @ccross00tw 拍的多開心😂 - 這次他們重新設計了菜單，多了很多新的食物，像我們這次點了藜麥雞肉沙拉跟他們必點的Taco跟Burrito🌮真的是好好吃哈哈哈哈，每次來都吃很爽🤤如果沒有很餓的話很推薦大家可以點他們的Taco來吃！每一種口味都很厲害，我的最愛是蝦老爹跟卡滋牛哈哈哈，還有如果很餓想要有飽足感的話，就一定要點Burrito!!吃完一個就超飽了，因為他們裡面的料超足，有飯有肉、黑豆、莎莎醬、酪梨醬，真的很豐盛！他們的新口味還有加mac and cheese!!!我的天，直接瘋掉哈哈哈 愛墨西哥食物的一定來試試看🌯不會後悔的！#FoodLover#MaxicanFood#yum#lunch#withbestie (at Twinkeyz Tacos 塔可老爹) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buc7XrkHkTq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ldd06b2hzghq
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Wussy – Aliens In Our Midst (The Twinkeyz Cover)
Cincinnati çıkışlı indie rock grubu, 18 Mayısta yedinci uzunçalar albümü What Heaven Is Like’ı piyasaya sürecek. Bu albümden, orijinali 70’li yıllarda aktif olan garage rock grubu The Twinkeyz’e ait olan Aliens In Our Midst kaydının Wussy yorumu duyuruldu.
#wussy#aliens in our midst#what heaven is like#the twinkeys#new song#new music#cover#music#musica#müzik#müzik haberi#musik
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A massive burrito with delicious steak. One of very few places where you can get good Mexican food here. #taipei #taiwan #mexican #food #burrito #taco #beef #steak #guacamole #homemade #quality #foodporn (at Twinkeyz Tacos 塔可老爹)
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Their veggie taco still contains gravy so #notvegan 😢 #whatevereatintaipei （在 Twinkeyz Tacos）
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100th RADIO SHOW UP NOW
My 9/3/2017 show on CHIRP is available here: https://www.mixcloud.com/mosurock/chirp-radio-doug-mosurock-show-100-03-september-2017/
Tracklist below:
Blood Pool by Technicolor Teeth
Unwritten Law by The Sound
Psycho Lives by Terminals
Wolf Tix by Terry and the Cops
Dreaming in the Non-Dream by Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band
Release by Sister Ray
VMD by Anxiety
His Presence Lingers Long After He's Gone by Slices
Paranoid Video by Total Control
Warsaw by Swing Kids
Cântico Brasileiro Nº3 (Kamaiurá) by Maria Rita
Behind Orion by Woolen Men
Mountains by Jukka Tolonen
Today's the Day by America
Hier Kommt der Schwartze Mond by Valium Aggelein
Kid Kreative by Melkbelly
Paper Bag by Circuit des Yeux
Dust Glow by Orior
The Citizen by Rake Kash
Hard to Say Goodbye (Lone Remix) by Washed Out
Cymbaline by Pink Floyd
Hare Krishna/Willie the Pimp by Alex Harvey
Moona Ina Joona by Th' Faith Healers
Big Exit by PJ Harvey
Who Do You Think You Are by Jigsaw
The Creeper by Mark Fosson
When It All Comes Down by Unrest
E.S.P. by Twinkeyz
Tops by The Rolling Stones
Good Time Coming by Bitch
Sorry by The Greg Kihn Band
Filled with Hate by The Lovebirds
Track 11 by SW.
Hiding by Tiger Trap
I Wanna Be Your Dog by Titmachine
Don't Cry No Tears by Southern Comfort
Sarah Sitting by Swirlies
King is King by Swob
Cut the Music (I'm the Nightstalker) by Unholy Two
Surveillance by Surveillance
Longhair by Monster Magnet
Black Holes by Suspirians
Hey Nineteen/Aja by Steely Dan
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終於找到一家超好吃的墨西哥餐廳🇲🇽!!吃的超過癮🌯🌮#maxicanfood#lovenachos (at Twinkeyz Tacos)
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