Featuring Yo-Landi Vi$$er and her beautiful bottom
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Tim Noakes spent a March day with Die Antwoord in Cape Town for Dazed and Confused. When I was a kid, we had a book filled with photographs of Cape Town, given to us by a family friend who had visited South Africa. I was enamored with the pictures of the beach and the beautiful women sporting butt floss. But now, for me, Cape Town’s number one female is Yo-Landi Vi$$er. In this video, Ninja outs her for wearing her bra backwards in the ’90s when Kriss Kross came out. Ninja also says “We like to take photographs.* We’re fucking serious about that.”
Colleague and associate Jarrod Shanahan is throwing a party to celebrate the release of the second issue of his zine, DEATH PANEL. Bianca Stone, Niina Pollari, Austin Lemieux, Andrew Spano, Mary Southworth and Jarrod himself will all be reading. Austin may actually be screaming, freestyle, but that’s the stuff we hate to miss.
8 PM Saturday June 5th, 2010
75 Stewart Ave #425
Bushwick
In honor of the brand-new owner of the same-old Nets, some ill Cyrillic “Lord of the Rings” art. Mikhail Prokhorov, not at all unshaken having lost the first pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, says he wants to rename the club when it moves to Brooklyn. Why not the BrooklynWizards? (Continued)
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present is still showing at the MoMA through May 31. The exhibit is quite extensive and should take one a couple hours to thoroughly inspect. There are plenty of nudes hanging out, from the two you must1squeeze through to enter her retrospective, to the one laying grimly beneath a human skeleton. But you may want to budget some additional time, say, all day, if you want your turn to sit face-to-tace with the artist herself. Not sure what these people walk away with (or without) after a silent staring contest with Marina, and we’re not ones to just jump in any New York line, though we do love peepin’ em.
We at Trumbull are pretty into chicks with expensive taste who can hang with street vermin, so, quickly, watch the Yugoslav performance artist pioneer deal with two of the world’s most disparate commodities: rats and gold.
'Magic? You just pissed on a Gypsy in the middle of fucking nowhere.'
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Michael “Mickey” Gordon Peterson, d/b/a Charlie Bronson in the British prison system, is one of the craziest men alive. Originally sentenced to seven years for an armed robbery, he has now spent over 30 years of his life (he is 57) confined to a solitary cell due to his notoriously violent behavior directed towards his captors and the structures that have kept him locked away from human interaction for so long. The English prison system sentenced him to a lifetime of solitary for his malevolence, abandoning all hopes for rehabilitation, but Charlie never gave up on himself. Over the last decade he’s quit fighting and taking hostages, preferring to spend his time exercising, writing, and creating art.
You’ve really gotta check out the 2008 film about the guy, “Bronson,” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (a Dane1). It seems pure accuracy was not Refn’s intent, setting out instead to make a film that depicted Charlie the way he actually saw himself during the years of his life when he was proudly, dedicatedly programmed for chaos. Visually, Larry Smith, the “Bronson” cinematographer, seems to have take some cues from working on the set of “Eyes Wide Shut” as a lighting cameraman back in ’99. The music in the film is also very good. I should also mention that Tom Hardy was decreed Best Actor by the British Independent Film Awards in 2009 for his role as the titular colossal man himself (he, too, is colossal).
So let’s open the file and learn more about this fascinating man.
Nonesuch, May 18, 2010 By Brooklyn Girl d/b/a Eunji Han
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Am I going out on a limb here to say that The Black Keys may have released one of the best albums of 2010? I know there are a lot of dirty kids and bearded music critics out there who would surely back me up. This DIY Ohio blues duo just gets it and has modernized old school blues into a rocking soulful and seductive experience.
The first track on Brothers is “Everlasting Light.” It has a hot boom-kick drum beat that makes you want to dance in a provocative, “I’m rolling on Molly” sort of way. Not to forget the electronica drum stylings in “The Go Getter” that truly represents how The Black Keys have melded old school rock and today’s technological advances. “Too Afraid To Love You” utilizes twangy keys that border between an accordion and organ sound, bringing a haunting element to this epic love song.
Just a couple photos of some distinguished gentlemen who made appearances at Webster Hall in NYC this Saturday for the Black N Blue Bowl (formerly the Superbowl of Hardcore).
Mark Ryan, Andy Guida (in an Altercation tee), and Jon Biviano of Supertouch. They played “Better.”
Wrote this for Sportsangle.com, this is how I feel about all the LeBron nonsense going on right now.
After turning in the worst playoff performance of his career, LeBron James might only have one more game of basketball left this season. Problem is, the most talented and accomplished young player on the planet famously has aspirations beyond athletics.
A celebrity and an outsized personality, the small forward has traditionally been selfish and petulant after his Cleveland teams’ eliminations, a fate he’s met with since first reaching the playoffs in 2006. Of course, until Tuesday, he’s been mostly excellent in these losses. So what happened early this week? Was he injured, defended well, or was he simply thinking about his dinner reservations?
