garage explosion

Part 1 of 3 part series on modern garage music. Dead Moon, the Oblivians, the Gories, Jay Retard all highlighted. nice film about musicans and the lifestyle and the motivation behind it.

I think the first part is the strongest that's why I'm including only it here. The rest can be seen at VBS tv.

ah...just what this tuesday needs

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we live in public

Just watched a strange & mildly depressing film, We Live in Public, about Josh Harris the supposed inventor of broadcast internet. Apparently Josh was a tv baby and grew up to be a mad genius. He's obsessed with fame and filming everything he does. In the late 90's he created an "art" piece called Quiet which consisted of a 100 people living in an underground bunker in Manhattan and having 110 cameras filming everything they do at all times. It was quite hedonistic and really base. The "party" was eventually shut down by police. He then did another art projected w/a claimed "pseudo" girlfriend where they lived together in a loft for 6 months with cameras positioned on them at all times (even inside the toilet bowl) and then people would follow on the internet and become involved in their life thru chat boards. Josh pretty much had a nervous breakdown after this (go figure) and moved to a farm (he's now back in society trying to get something called Wired City off the ground). I don't understand why anyone would want to film themselves 24/7 or why anyone else would want to watch or care, but it turns out there are plenty of people who share this affinity with him (ie chatroulette, reality tv). His prediction is that humans will no longer be able to function in an organic way and everything will be virtual and then eventually computers will take over and humans will become extinct.

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D.C.

do not touch

yertle the turtle

I forget his name

he's only 11 yrs old, still a baby.

lives at the American Museum of Natural History

old school upper eastside

space

ah oh

do you like my hair this way?

more shoes

I started watching this thinking I'd only watch a couple minutes to see what its about, and an hour later I was still sitting there watching it. This subject matter is of personal interest to me. I travelled cross country, alone, in my early 20's. I didn't walk, alas, but I've been through the same emotions and thoughts that Lee presents in his movie. Inspired by an interview with Werner Herzog in which he said "forget film school, one should make a journey alone, on foot, for five thousand kilometers, "let's say from Madrid to Kiev". Lee quit his job and did just that, taking his camera with him on his travels. More info can be found on the vimeo site and his website.

get low

So, I've seen yet another movie based on the concept of forgiveness, is this something in the cultural zeitgeist that I'm not privy to? Get Low is a nice summer movie (along with Inception) in that its lite fare that whisks you away to another time and place. Specifically Tennessee in the 1930's. The script is loosely based on a true story of a mountain man hermit who held his own funeral before he died. Its a cute concept, they try to add more weight to it by adding a mystery element of what the hermit had done to drive him into seclusion (this is ultimately anti-climatic). What's really great about this movie is the actors. Every principle actor in the movie is stellar and of course Robert Duvall steals the show. I also enjoyed it being a period piece. Maybe because its August in NYC, I enjoyed feeling like I was in the mountains of Tennessee in 1930? Its a sweet story filled with humanity and some lite comedy thanks to Bill Murray.

life during wartime

Enjoyed watching Charlotte Rampling, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, Michael K Williams in Todd Solondz new movie, Life During Wartime. A continuation of sorts of the previous movie Happiness but using different actors to play the characters. Its all about forgiveness and the theme of can you "forgive and forget". Laugh out loud dark humor and great to see surprising performances from the above mentioned actors. Best line from the movie....."I'm sorry I said you were shit and I was champagne."

dzi croquettes

Dzi Croquettes, is an interesting film about a Brazilian gay dance theatre group, also described as an all male Zeigfield Follies. The subject was really interesting and original, the film itself from a technical aspect could have been better. I wish there was more footage on the group performing instead of tons of interview snippets from the same people recounting their experience seeing the group. But considering the Croquettes existed in the early 70's I guess there isn't much actual footage to be found. Its a shame as they were highly creative and original and it would be great to see more of their talent. The guys were incredibly sexy dancers with long lean torsos, thongs, hairy legs and chests and makeup and skirts. They really captured femininity without turning it into a caricature or mockery. At the end of the movie there's a line that goes "gays don't die....they turn into glitter" the whole audience roared with laughter.

over 400 sea turtles dead

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protect me from what I want

no excuse for this

A government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with the new calculation suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.

The new estimate is 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. That range, still preliminary, is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.

-NYT

death set

The Death Set "Far Weathered Friends" from Project Fathom on Vimeo.

loss for words

Solvent - "Loss For Words" Video from Ghostly International on Vimeo.

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subway art wtf?

time warp

last day

ahhh, lil babies

how romantic

chicks with dicks

yep

Vivre Sa Vie

I forget that I'm responsible, but I am.
I told you escape is a pipe dream.
After all, everything is beautiful.
You only have to take an interest in things, see their beauty.
It's true.
After all, things are just what they are.
A face is a face.
Plates are plates.
Men are men.
And life....is life.

dennis hopper

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secret passage way in Grand Central Station

little brand new baby pine cones

a thousand shades of green

feet on the ground

zen rock

rain drops