I was waiting for Kayne to say something like: "And your little dog too" in the Wicked Witch's voice from Wizard of Oz. Why does this guy bug me soo much? His outfit for the dog owner was worse than Angela's! It takes a special kind of bad taste to RUIN Missoni print fabrics. GAWD. Anyway, Laura, Uli and Michael continue to make me adore them. Laura's disdain for yappy little dogs only solidified my opinion that she is a total dream. In the bonus video from the episode she talks about how people that dress their pets are weird (they are) and that she wouldn't have a dog because it would be bad for the dog :-) Kayne gets all whiney about the dressing pets comment because, of course, Kayne dresses his dogs...
Ummm... too much free time on his hands I guess. His dress was extreme fug. It looked like a bag ottoman from Spencer's Gifts circa 1981. Gross.
Anyway- they forced the hobbit to go back to the Shire. Thanks Ivanka. And Uli won cuz she's innovative with mixed patterns and colors. Because she has an EYE. Allison was pouting cuz she didnt win. Chin up.
Thursday 27 July 2006
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Tuesday 25 July 2006
Milk and Calendars
My two favorite Cocteau Twins albums (sacrilege to some I am sure, my selections) Milk and Kisses and Four Calendar Cafe have been reissued with an amazing remaster by Robin Guthrie. Rich, full and fuming... yum...
Saturday 22 July 2006
ipod set to shuffle re-discovers...
...these two totally underrated albums: DJ Rap's Learning Curve- totally insane debut from the noted drum 'n bass dj that plays like a heat seeking missile aimed at your heart and head (and your feet) I love this album. Totally different from the stuff she plays in her sets...Also- the final cd from Deee-lite, Dewdrops in the Garden. I honestly think this is their best album, cuz World Clique was great, but totally Bootsy-driven, while Towa Tei
totally overwhelmed the production on Infinity Within. Here, Kier and Dimitri totally let go (Towa is barely in the credits and spent more time at the photoshoots for this one)and the result is a nooks and cranny dance record that is basically the best magic mushroom trip set to music ever. Love it. Music Selector is the Soul Reflector is just pure joy. I can still remember Parker Posey running up to us on the shoot for Frisk, totally excited that it was going to be on the soundtrack to Party Girl... awwww memories!
Thursday 20 July 2006
Project Runway Episode 302
Yes! It's fashion fascism time again!
My favorites so far:
Laura, Uli and Michael
Icky Icky already by Challenge 2:
Katherine - proof that hipsters are just the sniffly girls from the grammar school playgrounds all grown up.
Angela - proof that bubble skirts and combat boots were never a good idea- EVER.
Keith - sketchy, very sketchy
Playing to their demographs:
Jeffrey - jumping on the bed
Kayne - wire hanger phobia
I'd like to see an all female final three- since we know a villain always makes it to the final three that would seem to be Angela at this point- she's a granola Wendy Pepper and then serene Laura and cool color maven Uli...
who knows? Malan was robbed though.
Aerobicidal at Television Without Pity sums it up
"Uli was robbed.
I’m convinced that Bradley has been stealing Vincent’s meds for recreational use.
Since Jeffrey and Allison were barely in the episode, I knew they wouldn’t win or lose. Still, I was hoping for a punk-rock subversion/political commentary on beauty pageants in the Society of the Integrated Spectacle, perhaps a straightjacket doubling as a projection screen for gory clips from child beauty pageants in the South. Maybe next week.
A highlight of this episode was when Angela coined a phrase that works as a brilliant pick-up line and could become the show’s, if not Bravo’s, new motto: “You’re going to need someone to pull you out of your hole.” I was surprised that failed to seduce Kayne, but perhaps he mistook it for something other than literalism (more on that in a moment).
As much as I was hoping for Malan to stay in over Angela, she certainly provides enough unintentional humor to justify her existence.
Last week we learned that Angela lives off the grid, in the middle of “nowhere,” an interesting place apparently quite unlike the proverbial “middle of nowhere.” I can only imagine what it’s like to live, literally (as Sandra Lee would slur) in the middle of a purely figurative place. Is it like living in a feeling? An aura? Does she float out of a bedlike spirit sphere in the morning and have her wardrobe and makeup applied with a Jetsons-esque machine?
A less interesting alternative—that she simply lives off the grammar grid as well as the literal (???) one—is, at least, not mutually exclusive. Surely there could feasibly be a place in rural America where roomfuls of women in “umpire waist” bubble skirts randomly create exact replicates the latest YSL’s collection while telepathically communicating in bestial grunts. If such a place exists, doubtlessly it is only a matter of time before it is co-opted by film genius M. Night Shyamalan.
On a lighter note, a note that might resemble one from the Thunderpuss 2000 remix of Britney’s latest single, Bravo fulfilled its quota of non-threatening flaming fun in this episode. In a TV world with neither Will nor Grace not Frasier, Kayne and Robert were a two-man force of undeniable sass, hair products, and that endlessly hilarious and endearing world, “girl.” The thought of the countless Mommie Dearest quotes left on the cutting room floor makes me want to cry, but instead I will put on my Mariah Christmas album, slip into my International Male Bahama Nights Pant Outfit, and dance away the pain.
On a final and vaguely related note, unless my conception of PR’s viewing demographic is way off—which is completely possible—the ads for John Tucker Must Die seem somewhat less than strategic. Then again, it’s men! Wearing thongs! Now that is hilarity at its most knee-slapping."
Monday 17 July 2006
Flat7 : "Lost In Blue"
Just bought it from PlayAsia.
Mitsuo Tate and Miki Berenyi remixed by Robin Guthrie? What is not to love???
Sunday 16 July 2006
Friday 14 July 2006
Wednesday 12 July 2006
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