tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32588812024-03-07T15:40:05.066-08:00Wick'd Boy NewsI am impressed by sunshine.Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-10036446698958468912011-03-14T21:40:00.000-07:002011-03-14T21:40:13.117-07:00Shaken FaithThe world cracks open and breaks our hearts - Japan's quake keeps the horrors on refresh as things go from bad to worse. I am not wanting to post much frivolity lately, and while I should be focusing on career aspects, I just can't for some reason. Visiting there in the early oughties, I was a huge fan of the culture and people, and found them to be very calm in the chaotic Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-85875948847074544542011-02-26T09:08:00.000-08:002011-02-26T09:08:31.120-08:00HOLCOMBE WALLER: INTO THE DARK UNKNOWNEVB has a lovely interview with Portland/via New York transplant Holcombe Waller. I love this man - he's like equal parts Laurie Anderson and Elliot Smith (*yeah, bad analogy - but the visuals and quiet impact of the work is what i'm trying to convey) and he's the only one I've seen nail Brel's "Ces Gens La" with such awesome presence and staging.
In any case - this video for "Bored of Memory"Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-90457952226786953342011-02-18T19:40:00.000-08:002011-02-18T19:40:00.697-08:00Jessie J: Master's Tools, See House, Dismantle? Err?Interesting single that's apparently a huge hit in the UK, but here - not so much. What's the problem here? Is it the aggro-girl sweat or perhaps the threat of when the goods get together? (Or is it that Jessie J is the co-author of Party in the USA?)
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-28315200482147138932011-02-08T20:11:00.000-08:002011-02-08T20:11:30.038-08:00PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh MurderOnly Polly Jean Harvey can deliver on an autoharp and a prayer. I agree w/Patti Smith - that song does make you happy to be alive. Sigh.
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-46455869820296071282011-01-26T13:11:00.000-08:002011-01-26T13:11:37.947-08:00My LA MontageState of MY union: I just need three things in life: love, love and love... that and a killer soundtrack with a John Hugh's like teenage 80's abandon to dance around in a slow Santa Monica surf Bruce Weber inspired montage.
Oh - if was all this gleeful and inspiring, we'd have healthcare figured out by now. See the new video by the awesome, sexy Patrick Wolfe after the Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-7019879618175433002011-01-14T18:20:00.000-08:002011-01-14T18:20:43.119-08:00Lust and Landfill...One of my New Year's Resolves have been to chuck a good half of my wardrobe. You know - the trendy, unwearable reminders of the oughties (and creeping back in vogue 90's)...
Trouble is... Where does it go?
Photo by Christian Boltanski
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-45950004834752230472011-01-03T22:20:00.000-08:002011-01-03T22:20:12.884-08:00One-One: Remake, Remodel
Baby Shoes and Briefcase
Ok - So, I'm at the 10-year mark for the blog, which is pretty amazing considering that i've kept anything going that long (job, notwithstanding). Trouble is -uhmm, err. I can't really prove it. See - the first few entries have gone awol... I could have sworn I had a list of resolutions from pre-9/11 that were so shiny and reflective of the naughty oughtiesOtterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-75955896020704212782010-12-08T12:05:00.000-08:002010-12-08T12:05:24.232-08:00NYTMagazine: James Franco NarcissusOh goodness, I'm a flutter... Is he talking to me? Oh, wait... It's just his reflection. Oh wait - it's HIS reflection... Uhmmm, hmmm - the fact I'm watching this is slightly bothersome... but... uhmmm...
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-7260040625219086342010-12-07T22:59:00.000-08:002010-12-07T22:59:01.419-08:00Yuletide Bullying #2: National Portrait Gallery ProtestMan protests Smithsonian's censorship of the David Wojnarowicz video art piece "A Fire in My Belly" on his iPad, is wrestled to the ground, arrested and is banned from the Smithsonian for life, proving that art is dangerous and not to be trusted by it's very keepers. Good luck in trying to keep people out with ipads, different ideas and non-violent strategies.
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-42288331974300273162010-12-02T22:56:00.000-08:002010-12-02T22:56:24.501-08:00Yuletide Cultural BullyingWow - sometimes backsliding culturally goes so unseen and unnoticed, to where you wake up and think - huh - is it really a 1990-culture war all over again? Eerily enough - 20 years later - the Smithsonian's move to remove David Wojnarowicz from the Hide/Seek exhibit, namely the "Fire In My Belly" video, is like a sad synchronicity. Something that's not grabbing headlines as it should be, Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-2170377153337434542010-11-12T11:30:00.000-08:002010-11-12T11:30:00.166-08:00The B in B-list stands for Babulous...The only way I can explain/rationalize reality TV is that the aliens, thousands of centuries from now, need to have a great punchline to "What the **** happened"? "Real Housewives" and "A-Gays" will be the only existing historical documents, and intergalactic encyclopedias will be updated to show a race of botoxed, bloated, overexposed mutants who posed, preened and recorded bad dance singles. Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-50521449967977483702010-11-09T11:04:00.000-08:002010-11-09T11:04:01.309-08:00Miniature TigersSometimes it's difficult to find the pattern or the distinction. I'm never been into the details, but sometimes the details are better than the source... Take for instance this awesome video by Miniature Tigers...
Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-37836648828752790412010-06-28T21:27:00.000-07:002010-06-28T21:27:50.352-07:00Source Material: The Sexy ChaplinI thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin
What's not to love about Chaplin? I'm sure he would be honored that millions of twit pics on John Galliano's summer 2011 line featured a Modern Time's take on swimwear. Sinewy twinks in Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-1005248261000138882010-04-12T19:43:00.000-07:002010-04-12T19:43:11.395-07:00100 Games on 1 face
Terrible! I've not made a post since NY 10... I've truly fallen off the wagon again in terms of tracking my internet ADD (and corresponding arrested development). But I can say in my defense that I've been sorta busy on other endeavors at the moment. So, what do I do now? I had a whole bunch of blog-worthy stuff in the past few weeks (personal/political Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-51947125352829223652009-12-31T18:35:00.000-08:002009-12-31T18:35:20.255-08:00Noughtie Pine Retrospect
So with everyone wrapping up with a focus on the decade that's yet-to-be named (no "me"-decade as much as a "Generation OMG" or if you're over 30, the "I'm Still here-read my tweets!!!" decade). It is, as Carrie Fisher described in an interview "googling yourself w/out lubicrant" - we're self-obsessed and self-promoting, so this is the decade where everyone has a medium of some kind whereOtterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-19541934865738009532009-11-24T21:42:00.000-08:002009-11-24T22:30:13.722-08:00Acceptable Abuse PoliciesMy fave femigossip site, Jezebel, linked to this sad, but interesting article in the Guardian about the cyclical return to misogynistic lyrics/narratives in pop music. Deborah Finding has been tracking various memes in pop music over the last 50 years and found a disturbing trend that emerges every so often in the lyrics: some form of acceptable domestic abuse. She site's the early 60's Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-48287938344935779072009-10-20T21:45:00.000-07:002009-10-20T22:09:03.355-07:00Popular ResistanceFile from a "Future that never happened" circa 1999 (as intrepeted from 1982): I love this video mashup of post-punk group Family Fodder's "Film Music" with a 1982 BBC sci-fi drama "Play for Tomorrow". The low-brow neutral patina of what is supposed to be a minimalist future (complete with a pop-history that is hyper-linked by flat screen TV's) is nothing short of a brilliant advertisement Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-57481576213380659822009-10-12T21:34:00.000-07:002009-10-12T22:50:31.805-07:00Norman Rockwell ConquerorsThe crispness in the air, the leaves changing and my civil rights are up for a vote in a few weeks. Gosh, I love fall. It really is great to have to remind the confused, out-of-touch voters in remote areas that Ref 71 has nothing to do with taxes or (god forbid) the children... And I can't tell you how much I trust the virtual hoards of these voters like I would if they were carrying torches Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-88992872913869282372009-09-03T19:46:00.000-07:002009-09-10T21:46:27.047-07:00FlartsThe air is artificially crisp, movies are slower-paced, and the poly-wool blends are hitting the racks at H&M. That can only mean one thing - FALL ARTS (which I'm hoping to condense into a new phrase: FLARTS... workshop it around, etc). Flarts means more art than we can shake a stick at. Instead of foliage, we hibernate into big buildings with theme-shows... Like we have SAM anticipating Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-20863899482624298642009-08-25T22:28:00.000-07:002009-08-26T21:25:49.919-07:00Peel slowly...Randomness (or this is how I spent my summer vacation while the world spun out of control...):500 Pine Party - You can't return home. Even for a night. We've tried, but good attempt.Apparently , late-century art school transgressive passion is back in all it's androgynous Cate Blanchet fabulosity. But then again, so are hipster beer guts. No, No, no!!!Idea for a reality TV series: Dinner Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-1425663244202868512009-08-06T20:33:00.001-07:002009-08-06T20:49:34.903-07:00I lost it at the movies......to quote the late film critic Pauline Kael. Not that there's any major cultural void with the passing of John Hughes, however you can't deny that he recreated our teenage years (if you were part of last century) and had an impact on modern movie comedy. Time will only tell if he'll be seen as prolific as Capra (maybe - even with cheeze-doodle fare like Home Alone), but he did give us some Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-44816788038355956462009-07-26T21:09:00.000-07:002009-08-03T21:12:34.123-07:00Beacon Hill AquariumMore light rail enthusiasm, which will probably soon give away to boredom, and later anger - Beacon Hill's station which is impecibley cute and twee: an undersea world 167 feet down beneath the surface...Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-61608125238946536192009-07-20T21:53:00.000-07:002009-07-20T22:19:06.988-07:00If they can put a man on the moon......then they should be able to solve [insert social injustice or economic inequity here]. Yes, I celebrated the 40 year old anniversary of the first (staged?) moon landing by having a day of anti-gravity surreal proportions (mostly bad, small hellish bursts], but the highlight was finally getting chance to ride Seattle's own entrance into spage-age transportation... No, not the monorail, sadly -Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-39986542183119520492009-07-17T18:51:00.000-07:002009-07-18T00:44:21.001-07:00Precious Moments (in History)I know that in many ways, it's a cardinal sin to go after people who completely do not have any sense of irony (with your own), and I also know that you should not track-back to someone's site unless you're 'pro' whatever freak flag they are choosing to raise at a given moment, but for some reason, I totally realized that this site here will explain everything to you about white people. No need Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258881.post-74646442565259946402009-07-07T20:46:00.000-07:002009-07-07T21:15:12.044-07:00Sequins: Sequence: SequinsissentialOk - the last gasp from the spectacle that was the Jacko Memorial, and no more jokes: I point you to the quote from my more succesful doppleganger below (in his 96 reaction during the brit awards):...and this quote from Momus:Michael Jackson is not just the King of Pop, but the Last King of Pop. Three major factors will prevent there ever being another one: digital culture and its fragmentation Otterpop!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12728825037709363548noreply@blogger.com0