Enter Shikari may be one of the best and most popular bands that you have never heard of.  These Brits really know how to melt several genres into one amazing style.  

Not a new band, but not necessarily and old band, Enter Shikari has been together making music since 2003.  They blend together metalcore with electronica, and a little dubstep with an alt-rock chaser.

Their new album, A Flash Flood of Colour is 11 tracks of music that gets you moving and keeps is going.  This being Enter Shikari’s third studio release, the band has kept up with their original sound, while cleaning it up to a more mature sound.  I do caution you though, listening to A Flash Flood of Colour may cause seizures if you do suffer from epilepsy.  You have been warned.

Recently finishing up a tour with The Devil Wears Prada, they are embarking on their Headlining tour.  Yes, I included dates at the bottom but I’m not finished talking about this album.  Their dubstep serenade, “Gandhi Mate, Gandhi” was their first single released.  Its a thrilling jolt of heart pumping beats, with a political undertone.  A great song to jam out to if you are just having one of those days.  Yeah, you know the ones…

The song I’m currently rocking though is “Arguing With Thermometers.”  Its heavy, its metal and it has more emotion flowing through it than at Whitney Houston’s funeral.  Getting ready to embark on their headlining tour, they are bringing along fellow rockers letlive and At The Skylines for what I can only assume will be one of the greatest, most energetic tours of 2012.

Apr 1 The Masquerade Atlanta, GA

Apr 3 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA

Apr 4 The Loft Poughkeepsie, NY

Apr 5 Theater of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA

Apr 6 Irving Plaza New York, NY

Apr 7 La Tulipe Montreal, QC

Apr 8 Annex Wreckroom Toronto, ON

Apr 10 Infinity Hall Buffalo, NY

Apr 11 iLounge Pontiac, MI

Apr 12 The Bottom Lounge Chicago, IL

Apr 13 Station 4 St. Paul, MN

Apr 15 WECC Winnepeg, MB

Apr 17 The Den Calgary, AB

Apr 18 The Starlite Room Edmonton, AB

Apr 21 El Corazon Seattle, WA

Apr 22 Branx Portland, OR

Apr 24 Catalyst Atrium Santa Cruz, CA

Apr 25 The Roxy Los Angeles, CA

Apr 27 Soma Sidestage San Diego,CA

Apr 28 The Glass House Pomona, CA

Apr 29 Nile Theatre Mesa, AZ

May 1 The Aruba Las Vegas, NV

May 2 Club Sound Salt Lake City, UT

May 3 The Marquis Theatre Denver, CO

May 5 The Door Dallas, TX

May 6 White Rabbit San Antonio, TX

May 7 The Studio @ Warehouse Live Houston, TX

May 9 State Theatre St. Petersburg, FL

May 10 Rocketown Pompano Beach, FL

May 11 Jack Rabbits Jacksonville, FL

May 12 The Social Orlando, FL

I will be attending their show at the Irving Plaza in NYC.  If you’d like to come please shoot me a line at LilNubi@RoyalFlushMagazine.Com.

The album “A Flash Flood of Colour” by Enter Shikari is OUT NOW!  Get your ass over to iTunes, or Best Buy or wherever you crazy kids are getting your music these days and get it!

Finally, it is here!  The interview everybody has been waiting months for! Literally, it has taken me months to get this up and running.  My fault completely, but none-the-less, it is here!  Feast your eyes on the wonderful world of mr. e!

Why do you go by mr. e?  Are you doing this to avoid any paparazzi your
celebrity status will get you?  Are you ashamed of your books and artwork
and fear that if people really knew who you were they would leave dead
animals and flaming bags of shit on your doorstep?  You just trying to
avoid paying taxes?

“ e is just easier for me to spell than my actual name, and I don’t want the IRS sending me any more flaming animals.”

You humor is witty, but not over the top.  I actually laugh out loud, but
it isn’t a smack in the face with the humor stick.  Do you intentionally
create jokes that are more subtle, or are these just how they generally come
off?

“I really enjoy subtlety.  I think it makes everything funnier.”

After reading “Twenty Tiny Tales” and “Poetic Justice,” would you consider
yourself a modern Shel Silverstein? Your poems are intended for children,
but much like Silverstein’s poems they can be more appreciated by adults.

“I consider myself a fan of Shel’s, I’ve always loved his formula.  I’m also a fan of Gary Larson and Dr. Suess.  I don’t mind being compared to any of the, but modern?!  That’s where I draw the line.”

“Pencil-Necked Greeks” was a wonderful tale about some of our favorite
characters in Greek Mythology.  My favorite part was that I could start and
finish the book in between red lights driving around Jersey.  Are you
interested in writing about other religious deity’s?  Romans, Egyptians
maybe even the Norse Gods?

“I do have a book called ‘Straight From the Norse’s Mouth’ in the works.  It is about a Viking who travels to modern times and becomes lead singer of a European Power Metal band.  Actually that’s a lie.  I just thought it sounded better than ‘no.’”

How many books do you currently have in print that are available to the
masses?

“I’ve done 7 books in small runs, 2 Casual Fur Day collections, “Pencil-Necked Greeks,” “The Absurd World of mr.e: It’s All in His Head”, and the 3 Childish Books, “Almost Twenty Tiny Tales,” “Poetic Justice,” and “Rhyme or Reason.”  Most books are available only at local book stores, however people can visit CasualFurDay.comto keep up, and can e-mail me from there if they want a book.  I’m currently looking for publishers to make my Childish Books available to the masses.”

What’s next for Mr. E?  Another children’s book?  More comics?

“Childish books are the way I want to go.  I’ve done webcomics for about 5 years (updated weekly at www.CasualFurDay.com) and landed a couple of magazine gigs, but it was all leading up to this.  These Childish Books make me feel like I’m nine again.  You know, that age before you have bills and responsibilities and start developing and phobias.”

How would one come in contact with Mr. E? Your books would make great
stocking stuffers for the upcoming holiday season, how would someone
purchase one of your amazing books and triumphant tales?

“Again, hit the site, there are links to E-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  I make time for anyone who contacts me.”

Before you are cemented into the Royal Flush archives on
RoyalFlushMagazine.Com, you have anything left to say?  You have to speak
now because I don’t want to have to update this later…

“I’m always working on something.  I’ve done animated music videos, webcomics, humorous poetry, paintings…you name it.  I’m always anxious to communicate with my audience.  I got an email from a fan a few years back who was interested in collaborating.  That fan was TheAllKnowingHead, a regular contributor to CasualFurDay for years now.  We developed a great friendship.  I’d love to hear from anyone who visits the site.

Publishers, I’ve got several children’s books ready to go, talk to me!”.

Today we have an interview with the man, they myth, the legend Mr. J!  No, not Mr. J from Americas Next Top Model, but the other Mr. J.  Yeah, that’s right…the author of “Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levit: Meet Mr. J”.  I simply call it Meet Mr. J, its easier to remember and a hell of a lot easier to say.  Let the fun begin, shall we?

Who is Mr. J? I mean, does the J stand for something or do you prefer to remain anonymous? I understand if you don’t want your celebrity status to interrupt your daily going-ons.

-Mr.J is either the fake author of a real book or the real author of a fake book.

-Broken down it’s: Three syllable sounds, two lowercase letters, and one witty writer.

-It’s an acronym of “Mostly Ridiculous Jokes”.

-I don’t need a pseudonym to keep me from being a famous face in the writer world, my lack of talent as an author has that covered. I’m so unrecognizable that even my driver’s license photo is just a picture of a superimposed question mark stamped over a faceless silhouette.

Upon reading your book, the only conclusions I can draw are that you are either schizophrenic, or have an identity complex. Which of these terms can you relate to more?

-I don’t have schizophrenia, one of my alter personalities does.

-I have multiple personalities, unfortunately, they’re all boring, dull, or both so it’s hard to chose which to be which has lead to my identity complex. I’m not sure which real me to pretend to be or which fake me I really am.

-It all started when my identity was stolen then the thief realized who I was and returned it immediately along with several others to chose from. Since then, to me, books on ‘self help’ seem identical to books on ‘helping others’.

The book took me twice as long to read than it normally would of, I had to look every third word up in a dictionary. Do you consider yourself to be a wordsmith, and do you talk like this in normal conversation?

-The word choice can be confusing like a colour blind kid trying to solve the Rubik’s Cube, like Stevie Wonder trying to parallel park, or like an Amish elder trying to get a job at Radio Shack.

-Unfortunately I do talk like this: And people just stare at me like I’m a lava lamp, like I owe them money, or like I’m a French Menu.

-I find too many polysyllabic words in a row is boring and causes people to zone out, even my tape recorder gets to a point where it just pretends to listen. Every time: I press record and it yawns. I press rewind and it tries to remember what the last big word I said was. And then finally when I press play, it pretends to run out of batteries.

Would you consider yourself to be an intelligent man? Do you feel you’re smarter than the general public and this is why you have to use such a profound vocabulary?

-Joking aside (which is to the left side of my superior intelligence and to the right side of the general public shame of their own stupidity/envy of someone else’s intelligence and by ‘someone else’ I mean ‘me’, for all you dumb dumbs out there…but joking aside) I don’t think laughter and learning should be segregated like church and state. And amalgamating vaudeville and vernacular acts as the midwife that births brilliantly infested excerpts of ebullient, erudite, & esoteric entertainment.Am I taller all of a sudden? Nope it’s this soap box underneath my feet, sorry to pompously pretentiously and pedantic parade precipitous pontifications in homage of Hamlet’s hebetudinously humorous Pollonius that took longer to get to the point than the earlobes of Spock.

-So yeah, I used to be a narcissistic, megalomaniac, snobbish word-nerd that has been arrogantly self absorbed since I was born, even before that. For example: My sonogram looked like twins but was an illusion because it was a picture of me looking at the genius trapped in my handheld window which the dumber general public still argue was my own reflection in my handheld mirror, either way I’m a winner, an only child and a winner or a twin separated at birth from my identical brother who I assume looks like a winner.

-And according to the dumber general public or the public that’s dumber in general, I’m still self involved these days. Example: Recently I failed Astronomy 101 even though I’m smarter than the general public simply due to the small fact that I thought the world literally revolved around me and my brilliance.

Upon completion of your book, would I be right to assume you got beat up a lot in school? Don’t be bashful, I’ll keep this between us…

-Well, I had home school…So yes. But since I’m an alumnus of Mr.J Academy, I won’t see any of my classmates till my 10 year reunion…aka: Next decade when I look into the mirror and remember how snow days were never canceled and for some reason still held a brief roll call of attendance for the entire student body that consisted of one student, one body, and less than one which if my math is right would be roughly zero or so, when it comes to counting the entire student body’s accumulated total of absences: Since staying home sick meant going to school sick.

There are at least 1.2 million different characters in your stories, are they based on real people or do you make most of them up? Do you take real life experiences and turn them into short stories?

- I can’t say really. I’m not sure if it’s life imitating art imitating or if it’s art imitating life, but I can say that regardless, either way, I’m sure they’re both imitating an sh*tty book…and an imitation of an imitation is an original, sh*tty, but original.

Do you write short stories because you have ADD and can’t focus on one thing for too long? Don’t feel bad, I enjoyed reading all of the stories, and feel if it was just one story I would of been bored out of my mind anyways.

-Yes, I have A.D…Hey what’s that?

-My book is so ADD that the book mark is a set of shiny keys.

-And yeah if it was one long story it would be so exuberantly excruciating for the reader that it should come with a tub & toaster, chair & rope, or razor & note.

I found your book to become somewhat addicting, as much as I wanted to putit down…and trust me I really wanted to put it down I just couldn’t do it. I wanted to get to the next story, and the next story, and so on. Did you expect this type of reaction or am I the only one to have this reaction?

-You’re the only one who’s read it so I’m not sure. I still haven’t read it. It was hard enough to write a novel, to read one too would be too much.

-I assume readers would want to get to the next story in hopes of it being better than the one they’re currently reading, which of course it isn’t. I’m thinking to changing the title to “Screw me out of 12 bucks”.

-People often think I was on drugs writing it, so it makes sense that it’s addicting. I’ve heard (cuz like I said, still haven’t read it myself, but I’ve heard from others who have pretended to read it) that it’s so addicting that rehab clinics have now replaced methadone with abridged audio versions of my book narrated by Dr.Drew Pinksy.

It seems like your book tour will never end, when it finally does come to a conclusion, what is next on your horizon?

-Write an apology letter to everyone who read my book. I’ll be saying the phrase, “I’m sorry” more than Alec Trebek during a game of Celeb Jeopardy featuring Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Glenn Beck. So lemme start that long list now: “Sorry” to EACH, EVERY & ALL…two of you. I assume I have at least two readers all together, yeah probably two (that is-if I round up by three).

Before this is immortalized on RoyalFlushMagazine.Com, you have anything to say? You better speak now or forever hold your peace!

-Yes, subsequently in closing I leave you with 3 things:

1…Buy my book, “Meet Mr.J” written by Mr.J because all precedes go to charity.

2…Since you bought my book, I should be honest and tell ya that yes precedes went to charity but also forgot to mention that I just changed my name from Mr.J to “Charity” and I think it’s ironic that no one gave me my name “Charity”.

3…Finally, now that you’ve bought my book for a “Charity” that just changed it’s name back to “Mr.J”, I’d like to be humble, modest, and meek when I say: You’re welcome!

You can pick up Mr. J’s book “Meet Mr. J” at Amazon.Com and you really should.  Do you want this guy driving your cab, flipping your burgers, or even mowing your lawn?  I didn’t think so.  Go buy the book, alright?

Michael Todd, bassist for the mega band Coheed and Cambria was arrested last night (Sunday, July 10th) in Attleboro, Mass for Armed Robbery prior to opening up for the newly reunited Soundgarden.

Around 1 PM, Sunday afternoon, Todd entered a Walgreens saying he had a bomb and demanded Oxycontin.  He made off with six bottles before entering a cab which drove him to the Comcast Center where he was to perform just a few hours later.  Police arrested him prior to the band going on stage.  The band released these statements:

“Michael Todd was arrested today on what we consider very serious charges and therefore he will not be finishing up the current tour. Wes Styles, longtime member of the Coheed family, will take on bass duties starting tomorrow for the remaining dates. No shows will be canceled.

“We are surprised to say the least and will address the situation with Michael after the tour. For now, we just want to have a great time out here and finish with some killer shows in Boston, Poughkeepsie, Quebec City and Halifax.”

Todd is being held on $10,000 bail.  He was charged with robbery and unlawful possession of prescription drugs.  Personally, I wish he got away with it for a little while longer.  How cool would it of been to see him get arrested on stage, in the middle of a song?  Now that would of been a concert not soon forgotten.

Mini Marilyn Manson aka Nik Sin’s car has been impounded.  Help him free his car by donating right here!  Every dollar helps, and if you donate $20 or more you’ll get an autographed Mini Marilyn Manson photo made out directly to you.  Not everybody can say they have his autograph hanging up on their wall ya know.  Be the talk of the town, while helping him out.  Do it!  DO IT NOW!

Part of the Seaside Summer Concert Series, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will be performing live for FREE!  Not a single dime is needed.  The concert will take place on July, 14th at West 21st Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island.  Come say hi, will ya?

The power to surprise?  Well Kia surely was surprised when their new ad campaign (that they were “unaware” of) started making waves.

Below are two advertisement’s, side by side that pretty much speak for themselves.  Moma, an advertising agency created these ads for Kia.  Kia called the ads “offensive,” and said they had no relationship with Moma, the Sao Paulo advertising agency that created the spots.  On Kia’s Facebook page, they issued this statement:

“The ad is undoubtedly inappropriate, and on behalf of Kia Motors we apologize to those who have been offended by it”

The ads below, representing Kia’s dual-zone air conditioning, and read “A different temperature on each side.” won awards at the Cannes.  Here are the ads…

News Channel Triple Six is covering this travesty!  Rob Zombie’s Bassist, Piggy D’s skull mask has been stolen.  It was last seen on the side of the stage during the Azkena Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

“Dear prick who stole my skull mask from the stage in Spain, I hope you get the black plague, and all your teeth fall out of your head. GFYS (go fuck yourself).” – Piggy D.

If you know the whereabouts of the mask, you are urged to contact Piggy D pronto at http://www.piggy-d.com/.  Piddy D, if you are unable to find your stolen mask, may I suggest checking out Ebay.  Its only ten bucks!

This is Lil’ Nubi signing off!

Sure, Wikipedia can be seen as a cesspool of useless information, misinformed writers and a lack of legitimate sources.  There is now an article in there worth reading.  Please check out The Official Royal Flush Wikipedia Page!  Yes, it is endorsed by me, and the entire Flush crew.

I’m back kiddies.  Alright, I  never really left but I did get lazy and when I heard you wanted more of me…what could I do?  So here I am suckas, for your pleasure and your pleasure alone.  He’re my top links and happenings for the week.

First off, I like to say congratulations to all the ladies and gents of New York.  Finally, a step in the right direction.  Just because you are now allowed to get married, it doesn’t mean its a good idea.  With marriage comes a lot of responsibility.  I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, just do it for the right reasons, ya dig?

Now, with that said I have finally got my own apartment here in new Jersey.  Sure, its in Jersey and isn’t in the best area but it is one step closer to the land of fame and success.  New York City baby!  I’m on my way.  When I finally make the move, I’ll be sure to leave the stench behind.

Looking to kill ten minutes (aside from viewing this site that is)?  Check out Animals Being Dicks.  Its a nice library of .gif in which animals are in fact being dicks.  Who knew?  I appreciate the one with the monkey, but you be your own judge.

I’ll be in the city next weekend.  Might be stopping by Ami’s new tattoo shop in SOHO (as made famous by his TLC show NY INK).  I think its time for some new ink, and I have plenty of ideas.  Not sure which one I’ll go with, I guess it depends on if I can get some friends to draw a couple rough drafts for me.  I’ll keep you updated.  I know you’re dying to find out.

Word in the street is Green Lantern sucked.  Actually, what was said was “Popper’s Penguins had better CGI than the Green Lantern”.  I’m sure that isn’t too far from the truth.  I mean, I love Ryan Reynolds but he should just stick with doing cheesy romcoms; although, his Deadpool was pretty good.  So far, I’m not too excited for any of the early summer flicks right now.  Hopefully something good comes out, and I don’t mean Transformers.  That series is awful.

RIP Ryan Dunn.  You will be missed.  You were indeed one of my favorite Jackass cast members.  Unfortunately though, you thought it was a good idea to do a fair bit of drinking and decided to do 180mph into a tree.  Don’t think that was in your best interest.  Our sympathy goes out to Dunn’s friends and family.

Well my friends, that is it for right now.  I’ll do my best to keep everybody updated with the upcomings of my life, the world, and everything in between.  If you have any comments, questions, concerns, hatemail please send it to LilNubi@RoyalFlushMagazine.Com and remember…it ain’t cool until I say it is.