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Ok, I'm still a nerd who google's 'bennington college' news tab from time to time. Also, the Webby's are pretty damn silly, but still vaguely interesting.
First place went to the Los Angeles Recording School but I'm sure the Bennington College Timeline was just thrilled to be nominated, though if I'm correct, it costs some money to be nominated.
She must be bored with her singing-dancing-acting-fashiondesigning-babymaking-Ashtangayogapracticing lifestyle. Because she is now a film director too.
At this year's Berlinale Madonna debuted her directing skills in "Filth and Wisdom." I haven't seen it and I'm not sure I want to. (Except for the fact that Gogol Bordello is in it as themselves with Eugene Hutz in a lead role. That does intrigue me somewhat.)
Man, I love Creationism: Instead of saying, "If God can sculpt the entire fucking earth out of nothing, then maybe he could create even a complicated process like evolution," thus rendering biblical objections to natural science effectively moot, the apparent bulk of serious Creationists insist that earth is 6000 years old and that man lived in harmony with dinosaurs until L. Ron Hubbard, Marilyn Manson, Sponge Bob, and I came and fucked it all up.
Well, they're right, I guess, because they now have a 27 million dollar museum explaining that they're right. How very P.T.Barnum of them. I salute anyone willing to put $27 mil. into a wrong idea, just to prove how very right it is. Next time I'm in Kentucky, I'm definitely checkin it out.
Read the good news your(damned)self...
another edit: saw this in last week's times. don't you associate with these people?
Addendum from Book Review Ron Jeremy has a half blind, hairless rat named Fetus.
Highlights:
The word 'scrotum' is ruining this year's Newburry Award winning novel's sales as grumpy elementary school librarians ban the book. The word scrotum is overheard by the main character about a dog getting his scrotum bit by a rattlesnake. The author says this is a true story. Kids get some awesome books. And now it's new with a bunch of folks.
The navy will be deploying dolphins. Linking to dot mil sites makes me nervous.
Non NYT stuff follows including a J. Mann update.
So I'm going to ruin a surprise. About a month and a half ago, I posted about something stupid I had won in a raffle. I had said that anyone who sent me their mailing address would receive some stupid material. Well, the stupid thing I won in a raffle was a set of American Politics Quotable Notables Notecards. It contained two each of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Hillary Clinton. Also included was a set of stickers for each pair of cards. Examples include, for the Bill Clinton card, a cigar sticker and one that says "Good luck on your INTERNSHIP!" (Internship takes up as much space as the entire rest of the text and is in bright blue.)
Dick Cheney's got a pink triangle sticker, and one that says "Just a pretzel away from the presidency!"
Haw!
After writing little notes for the two people who sent me their addresses, I decided to write one to the company, "The Unemployed Philosophers Guild", which is based right here in Brooklyn.
The letter spans three of their ridiculous, stupid cards.
We'll see if they write back. Full text after the jump.
Inspiration after the jump.
Remember that little composer dude who was f'ing the japanese piano teacher? Previously married to Jamaica Kinkaid? He wrote a lil something that's a lil close to home.
Inconceivable! Oh, wait, that's his brother.
Hey, first google image search for "inconceivable" is this:
From Billy...
thanks adam
It will arrive on or before the 27th of this month.
Please post comments re: your availability for a screening.
This is amazing and terrifying.
Long live James Tenney. One of my favorite modern composers, and one of the first boys to go to Bennington (MFA,) he got fed up with computer music early on but For Ann (Rising) and it's use of the Shepard Tone was one of the first moments of pure awesome I had. Audio illusions. Sigh. He also composed the fantastic Having Never Written a Note for Percussion which Sonic Youth played on Goodbye 20th Century. I was supposed to see him play gamelan stuff the summer I spent in North B, but I got a speeding ticket and sat on a chair and felt shitty instead. For what it's worth and not in the tiny obit., he also dated cat lady artist Carolee Schneemann and they did a nifty eros filmy at Bennington (I think?) called Fuses that I have somewhere. Also, he was in some early Stan Brakhage [also dead] films. Art super star. I think Heather even liked him.
Expect MP3s and youtube clips later. Frames from Fuses above.
Hey Folks, The Kiss-Off is playing the following shows this month:
Wednesday 8/30-Death Disco party at the Annex. Probably going to be $5, but I can put anyone on "The List" if they let me know before hand, so leave acomment if you want to skip the cover. possible drink specials. From the website:
BUNNY ZED 10.30pm
THE KISS-OFF 11.30pm
Plus! Back from Ireland!
Your DJ and host BP FALLON
with The Queen Of The Hop
MATHILDE HILDEBRANDT
Friday 9/1Party Below party at the Culture Project. Pretty sure this one is free. Pretty sure its free beers too. Here's the Flyer.
and Tueday 9/12 Playing at the Annex again. Its gunna be way sweet though, cause not only is there an open bar but all of the bands playing are totally rad: The King-Left, Sigmund Droid, and The Urgency. Here is the silly Flyer I made.
This sounds stupid. Though I do like the part were the middle aged woman hisses "I think it's performance art!" Owned. This Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian. And using zombies. So i'm torn, but the embracement of celebrity worship, of even highly alliterated celebs ala Billy Bob makes me a bit sick in my gut.
Maybe Heather will run into her on the subway, call her stupid and punch her in the neck.
On the flip side, the game Zombie Vs. Ambulance isn't that good.
Dear True.com,
Please stop advertising your site as an online retailer of women.
It's really grossing me out.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bruckert
Truncated and re-edited from Wikipedia:
Her recording career began in 1966 with a rare one-off single for A&M Records, the title song from the film Breakaway. It wasn't until 1981 that she recorded a follow-up, the international hit song "Mickey". Toni Basil has appeared in movies such as Easy Rider, as the prostitute Mary.
If being a two-one hit wonder isn't enough.... now check this out, Bruce Conner, artiste de cool, whose films are almost all made from found films, shot an art film with Ms. Basil with the song Breakaway. Here is a link to the video, with an embedded one below, and here's a semi decent essay on the film. (She gets naked in it, be warned) Conner also made a Devo video for Mongoloid (has an into by Mothersbuagh which isnt on the DVD hmmm) as well as a video called America is Waiting (also embedded below) with music by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
Conner is one of my favorite avant garde film scribblers, and went on to be a mentor to Craig Baldwin who makes fairly lengthy revoiced, appropriated films and once bought me a burrito. (Heather worked at his theater.) The Toni Basil film is a lot of fun, and the song iss catchy. I like it better than Mickey, I think.
(She now is a choreographer for Sandra Bullock movies. I hate this town.)
Wouldn't normally do this, but I am really proud of the solo song I just finished...cause it has harpsichord in it! The coolest instrument on the whole damn planet!
Dylan and I wanted to be all cultural-like this weekend, so we decided to take a trip to Queens and check out P.S.1. And what were our findings? The silly nonsensical paintings of actor John Lurie (who you may have enjoyed in such films as Wild at Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Stranger Than Paradise) were by far the most interesting thing in the old school turned contemporary art museum. Granted, we seem to have visisted the museum in the midst of a change-over, but really. Really.
Don't you hate that creepy feeling of Jesus reading your book over your shoulder? Or Jesus shouting annoying cheers when you're trying to work out? Jesus is With You Always although I could help but notice that he's never with a whore. 
I have a friend here, who would like to talk to you about diabetes....
This past Friday, Dylan and I found ourselves amongst a furied sea of snobby art students, crotchey old uppersidians, couples in their mid-thirties, crying children, and massive guided tours on pay-as-you-wish night at the Whitney on the last weekend of the Biennial. It ended not a moment too soon.
Gotta love that Scottish humor. His work is best when viewed in bulk. His photographs are hilarious, his drawings are hilarious, and his animations are also, hilarious. In fact, you should just go out and buy his book, it's really the only way. Because you keep reading and as you see more and more it starts to blow your tiny mind at how very many ideas and weirdnesses he has.
I am aware that books are not free, so, if you must, here's his website:
www.davidshrigely.com
(I placed this entry under bad art because there's not category for good art...but I think it's good art, so please ignore the bad art categorization of this post...actually, this art is kind of good because it's so bad, you know, those illustrations and handwriting that are remeniscent of a 3rd grader at best...it adds to the humor...and some people might be of the opinion that humorous art isn't really art, it's more of a joke, in which case, they would call this bad art...in fact, I might venture to say that whether art is good or bad is pretty subjective, and depending on the veiwer, this may very well be a big load of bad art. So I apologize, profusely, for presuming that you will find this art, "good". (and what does good really mean, when you come down to it?)
So here you go. Just don’t go messing up my stamp collection when you are doing your twisty dance.
http://20-248-e.onlinestoragesolution.com/spikepriggen/public/The%20Tornados-Robot.mov
You liked that, did you? Then eat your heart out at http://scopitones.blogs.com/ where there is a whole bunch more crazy French music videos. They were originally made in the 60's for French Film Jukeboxes, which eventually failed, and many of the videos were lost to history. That is until a Blog came along to the rescue, and began bringing you these amazing videos through the magic of the information superhighway. So show some appreciation, you cantankerous little whippersnappers.
Karen's tatto post got me thinking about the fine art of tattoing and its connection to the "lowbrow" art world. So in that spirt I have assembled some of my favorite low brow artists, some of whom are tattoo artists themselves. I would be proud to wear any of these guys art on my skin...
NOTE: There are some depictions of nudity and sexuality after the link so....you should probably look at them.
And not that stuff Joe was working on for Koons. I got this flyer from one J. Morrison who makes my favorite sort of shirts: people asphyxiating each other. He also did a Xiu Xiu cover. So if anyone goes (it's free) tell me if there are any people choking each other or other cool things like toilet paper that insults your self image. And look, it's free. Maybe they have food. Sam, you should really be eating more..
Biggish readable flier/flyerwithin...
I've been sitting in front of this computer for hours raking the internet for some makeup resource gem that I must keep missing. But no. There is no such gem.
These are the things that you will find if you search for makeup artistry on the internet:
1) Sephora (I know it's hard to believe, but most people who work there have never done makeup artistry prior to their employment at Sephora.)
2) web pages for bad makeup artists
3) makeup schools offering $10,000 courses that last a few weeks (I wish I was kidding.)
4) makeup forums filled with people who think they're makeup artists (But they're not.)
It's all a load of shit. Is there no place that provides real collaboration, advice, and networking for people who are talented and serious artists?
Don't even get me started on finding real makeup jobs. The only makeup jobs posted on the internet involve selling makeup to old ladies in department stores. It's like being a therapist in an old folks' home except you get the added bonus of convincing some shriveled old lady that spending hundreds of dollars on makeup will magically restore her youth to the likeness of a Hollywood starlet.
Then there's MAC. What once was a pro MUA line, turned into a consumer brand posing as a pro line. I don't mean to say that the pro artists who work for MAC don't do amazing things, because they do. And, in case you're wondering, MAC's pro artists don't work at their stores; they're the ones that get hired to do really well-paid shit for famous clients all around the world. It's just so depressing to see 45 year old women with their 12 year old daughters sporting the same porn-star-meets-drag-queen-meets-Long-Island-girl makeup when they leave the MAC stores together.
