Happy New Year

here's a song about something I have intimate knowledge about
:-0

Non-Stop To Brazil

Silver Jet
Take me
I'm all set...

Keep the Kraken in Krakenmass

Giant Squid filmed for first time

Red Light - Siouxsie

INLAND EMPIRE'S motion loca...

I loved it. I've been a fan forever so it's not an unbiased opinion but now that Lynch is using DV you can't even think of him going back to film. All those people whining about how beautiful his prior films were are totally missing the point. It's like comparing a Bosch to a Pollock. The way he shot INLAND EMPIRE is probably where his career was leading to. Laura Dern is fantastic. She plays about 5 different characters in this film. And even so, Grace Zabriskie steals her scene in the initial moments of the movie. The ending, a kind of whirligig tribute to both Nikki/Sue's and Lynch's subconscious is truly beautiful. See how many shoutouts David has placed in this scene to familiar Lynchian icons.


The movie has been getting mixed reviews. Most unfavorable ones comment on the 'cheap' look of the video. (Warning: the link prior is to a reviewer who reviews as a hobby, but it's representative of a lot of bad writing about film these days.) This argument is probably the most ridiculous thing I hear about DV-shot films. Filmmakers who understand digital video can use cheap cameras to create atmospheres that are impossible with 35mm. We have been conditioned by TV and even the frame-rate of video to see reality in a certain way. 35mm cannot do that- especially for a film about the actual film world in all its ugly hegemony and banality, (Hollywood, duh.) The medium totally serves the story. The scenes with the almost Nativity Star-like transitions (which push the video camera's chip into some sort of whacked-out digital burn) are gorgeous. The whole film has a weird, "old" Hollywood feel- Lynch likens it to old 35mm technology that inadequately represented colors. If you cannot 'get' the tawdry, yellowed digital look and why it makes the film feel MORE real than the fantasy looks of films like Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. then I dont know how to help you. If anything, this film ruthlessly exposes the lack of true film criticism in this country. American film critics just don't seem to have the tools to approach a film like INLAND EMPIRE. Oh well... as always, we can just ignore them and enjoy the cinema! ;-)

We've been saying that for ten years!

David Lynch on digital video:

“Everybody says, ‘But the quality, David, it’s not so good,’ and that’s true,” Mr. Lynch said. “But it’s a different quality. It reminds me of early 35-millimeter film. You see different things. It talks to you differently.”

Cavafy

Half an Hour
I never had you, nor I suppose
will I ever have you. A few words, an approach,
as in the bar the other day—nothing more.
It’s sad, I admit. But we who serve Art,
sometimes with the mind’s intensity,
can create—but of course only for a short time—
pleasure that seems almost physical.
That’s how in the bar the other day—
mercifully helped by alcohol—
I had half an hour that was totally erotic.
And I think you understood this
and stayed slightly longer on purpose.
That was very necessary. Because
with all the imagination, with all the magic alcohol,
I needed to see your lips as well,
needed your body near me.

-Cavafy

23.23.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

-Walt Whitman

Amazing Pomegranate Incense from Japan

Click to check it out.

Double O Surreal

Ame Strong "Guette L'aube"

Extreme 90's French Dance Pop. I love them.

Flickr

I got me a flickr page.

Good Lovin'

ISSEY spring summer 2007

Issey Miyake...

[SK|N]

Skin, a woman that unfortunately does need an introduction because she was never properly appreciated in the USA. Skin's gorgeous rocking new album is FAKE CHEMICAL STATE. She sang a song called "Hedonism" with old band Skunk Anansie which made me cry. Love her.

Kylie's Forest of Neon Tubes

Here's Kylie doing her best Hazel O'Connor for the new look kylie.com. First Qwen doing Carra and now a totally New Wave Kylie? Cooool... Her new song "White Diamond" is really propulsive too. The live version has leaked to the internet.

Recent work: Notations 1 & 2

These are watercolor and acrylic pieces that I photograph, digitally alter and print large format.

Gwen rocks the Carra look

Gwen's got taste. The new single's crappy though...

Faithless : "Bombs"

Even Madge and David Banda can't stop the deadly wave! Faithless' new video is for the single 'Bombs' and it is full-on- Click here for quicktime viewing!

"The Rhythm is gonna get ya..."

The Candy You Don't Want

Talk about unstable and unbalanced! I had never paid much attention to Candy Crowley on CNN but after last night I have to say- she's yucky. And seemingly a shill.

It's Good to Be Alive

Drum n' bass diva DJ Rap releases her new CD, "Up All Night" today. Listen to it on your personal stereo music device as you vote today :-)

Siobhan writing for Kylie

http://www.siobhanfahey.com/content/news.php

because we have the technology...

Mommy, my war is broken.

Great article

Fey is the Mexican Kylie Minogue

Fey kicks butt. She's feisty. I love her new cd, Faltan Lunas. She's working that Ray of Light/Light Years/Neon Nights thing here on her cd cover. The album is all trancey lightspeed pop about guys and missing lunar landscapes, so she fits right in with the whole scifi Kylie/Madge new age voyager stuff. I added Kylie so you could compare.

Musgrave has a ZERO rating from Disabled Vets

Momento do Bebel!

Bebel's new album will be titled Momento and is currently scheduled for an early 2007 release date!!!

Mixy Wixy

When I was in high school I used to make mixtapes for my friends, I numbered them and I think they went up to about 30 or so in volumes. If anyone reading this happened to receive one of these tapes and still has it- (fat chance I know) could you email me the song listing? I'd love to see what kind of mixes I was doing back then...

Cuz she's all that and a box of triscuits (baked)

"A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it—well, she did this and then she did that, and then she did that—there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute."
- Helen Frankenthaler

remember that stacking toy you had as a toddler?

here's mine when I was little, it's Missoni.

Why burn a book when you can shoot it?

OKLAHOMA CITY --A candidate for state superintendent of schools said Thursday he wants thick used textbooks placed under every student's desk so they can use them for self-defense during school shootings.

"People might think it's kind of weird, crazy," said Republican Bill Crozier of Union City, a teacher and former Air Force security officer. "It is a practical thing; it's something you can do. It might be a way to deflect those bullets until police go there."

Crozier and a group of aides produced a 10-minute video Tuesday in which they shoot math, language and telephone books with a variety of weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm pistol. The rifle bullet penetrated two books, including a calculus textbook, but the pistol bullet was stopped by a single book.

Maybe the GOP can hand out magic bracelets too, so young schoolgirls can deflect the hale of gunfire and protect their fellow classmates? Better yet, send those books and bracelets to Iraq...
more about this lunatic here at Daily Kos

Fears for Tears?

Wow and with Asia no less... let's hope it's as good as Deep Red!

Argento toplines 'Mother of Tears'

Pic is last in helmer's horror trilogy
By NICK VIVARELLIROME — Asia Argento will topline her father Dario Argento's English-language horror pic "The Mother of Tears," billed as the third installment in the cult helmer's "Three Mothers" trilogy.
Asia Argento, whose credits include "Marie Antoinette" and "XXX," will play an American art student who unwittingly unleashes a plague of witches in Rome by opening an ancient urn.

Pic, which is being co-produced by Italy's Medusa with Myriad Pictures, is being touted as Dario Argento's return to the slasher-style filmmaking that won him a following.

Shooting is set to start Oct. 30 in Rome, with plans to move after one week to Turin, where the Piedmont Film Commission is providing location and accommodation incentives.

Rounding out the cast are Udo Kier ("Dogville"), Massimo Sarchielli ("Under the Tuscan Sun"), and Philippe Leroy ("The Bible").

Screenplay is co-penned by U.S. scribe duo Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch ("Toolbox Murders") with Argento.

Previous pics in Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy are "Suspiria" and " Inferno."

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117952237.html

Fear

"Come to the edge, he said,
They said: We are afraid
Come to the edge, he said.
They came,
He pushed them,
and they flew."
Guillaume Apollinaire

INFJ

INFJ - "Author". Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.

Free Myers-Briggs/MBTI Test

I've been meaning to tell you about this...

Kelly Polar
Imagine some 70's disco melting into the Carpenters and some shoegazer twelve inch at the event horizon of some huge black hole. YUM

Tonight is the final episode of the season for PR

And if Jeffrey wins, well- that would just stink... Go Uli!!!

edited: Wow what a bummer, retro fake punk poseur trash wins over beach chill life class... oh well... Uli will still make it work

Miranda!

OK I know I am posting way too much YouTube but I love Miranda. They're from Argentina...

Might I direct your attention to this?

Angel : Gavin Friday

Reel.com interview from a while back...

Old interview with Todd and I on reel.com (click here)... The pic is me getting smashed in Locarno watching Philly prance about with Geretta Geretta at the Grand Hotel. Decadent art types! Mon dieu!

1000 words...

Tout est Pisces

My quest for fire has been rewarded! Thank you Boris!

Don't forget where you are from

Raffaella! Batti Cuore!

I can't stop watching these crazy Italian promos. I love how the cameramen are just asleep. The compositions are sooo weird.

AME Strong

I am currently obsessed with this French cd from 1996 by a group called AME Strong. They just released a new single Un Tout Petit Bout De Nuit but the lead singer also just died! I can't seem to find any info on them anywhere (even in France) so if someone knows anything could you email me? Here's a link to a clip of Un Tout Petit Bout De Nuit

Jehro "Everything"

Project Runway Episode 311 : Elegantly Vasted

You can say Uli designs the same thing over and over again but that's ok. You'd be wrong anyway. I love anyone who can work color and print like that. Don't you want to see what her apartment looks like? One of the only people that has ever made tie-dye look sophisticated. Yum...

Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.

Anais Nin

Gunn (not) Shy

Tim Gunn: "Ohhhhh... I hate crocs. May they please go away."

Washington Post

RAFAELLA!!!

I only have a few words for you today

Noah's Arc, Season 2

nine eleven

Mars regrets...

Matinee Club (formerly the Modern UK)

Finally- Matinee Club will release Discotheque Francaise in the UK in October on Planet Clique records. It's one of my favorite songs right now. Sounds like Gary Numan playing behind Terri Nunn. Mmmmm... (Thank God because I was getting sick of listening to the tiny clip on their Myspace site over and over again...)

Project Runway Episode 309

No. No. No. That is a girl in a yellow tartan parachute cut down from the big tree she was caught in. Jeffrey's dress was derivative and the color was terrible.

Project Runway Episode 308

I love Laura Bennett.

Swallow

This band was on 4AD a million years ago but if you ever get a chance to pick up their only album "Blow," do so! It's great. Like a stoned Cocteau Twins freakout.

Epitafios (a little late but)

I am watching it now on DVD. It's a bit like a porteno Dario Argento pelicula... I really like it.

Ive

Angie, Angie, when will those clouds all disappear?

Ridiculous

Blogs like A Socialite's Life are now adding a little 'written by' credit after each post! As if making fun of Sienna Miller's dog's collar is 'writing.' Talk about a bunch of fame-ho's! It ain't journalism, ladies... (and if you're going to take credit for it, at least make it interesting and SPELL the stuff right!)

Project Runway Episode 307

There is only one thing to quote from that episode:

''Five, six, seven — it doesn't make that big of a difference. I'll just throw it on the pile with the other ones.'' Laura B.

Finally!

The most excellent Samia Farah has a website (under construction, grrrr...) with a gallery up now!

Pedro

http://www.sonyclassics.com/vivapedro/

Smithereens

Project Runway Episode 306

Only one thing to say about this episode.

Kayne- if you are going to talk about Laura behind her back with Robert on camera and be a total two-face, then how can you get upset when Laura talks to you to your face on camera? I cannot wait for him to be auf'd. His self-righteous 'let's all hug Alison and not argue' thing at the end was soooo annoying.

“Fame Had Its Way With Us!”

Duran Duran

Clearing away the negativity today...

Back to our regularly scheduled programs...

"I do need to see that."

When I look at this I can hear her voice and it makes me wanna choke someone

If this doesn't turn your stomach...

"But Bush's Republicans hoped the raid would yield political gains.

"I'd rather be talking about this than all of the other things that Congress hasn't done well," one Republican congressional aide told AFP on condition of anonymity because of possible reprisals.

"Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named, adding that some Democratic candidates won't "look as appealing" under the circumstances."

AFP

Dregs alert

It's crap.

Project Runway Episode 305

Kayne. Jeffrey.

Who do I dislike more? Kayne's Monroe dress was right out of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas meets Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. I cannot stand Kayne. He looks like he is made out of botox and chewing gum.

Jeffrey's Madonna dress was like sofa upholstery glued onto a woman. Terrible. With all his bluster about how good he is?? He sucks. I wish Laura had simply choked him along his neck tattoo.


Final five predictions so far? Laura, Michael, Uli, Angela, Jeffrey (there is always an ass in there somewhere.)

I don't like Robert or Allison's designs. Vincent is just totally insane.

"An update on Villain Watch: Jeffrey is the new Keith. He argued and yelled at Angela for (supposedly) breaking a machine and subsequently not fixing it. According to Jeffrey, it was making his sewing more difficult. PUHLEEESE! Last season, several of my fellow designers cried wolf for the same reasons. Somehow, among all the broken machines and needles, the rest of us managed to present an outfit on the runway.

Coming to Angela's defense, Laura managed to treat Jeffrey as her sixth child and put him in his place without even batting an eyelash. Jeffrey then stooped to an all-time Project Runway low, one-upping even Santino, by wishing Laura would have a stroke! Jeffrey should have spent less time name-calling and more time creating a better outfit for his chosen fashion icon, Madonna. His design looked like a bad hybrid of Tina Turner's Mad Max costume and a goth teenager at a local mall." Nick Verreos at People.com

OK, I really thought I was going to dislike her..

but Jackie Warner is the bomb- she's just so charismatic. If Workout comes back for a second season they should just focus on Jackie- I don't care about former marines or prissy girlie trainers. Just give me Jackie telling some gorda to move her ass.