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with hat tip to v-hold…. brilliant:
head over to www.chelsearodgers.com to get a look at the lastest prince video (for the song ‘chelsea rodgers’) - the vid itself isn’t that great (tho’ it does have some nice moments), but it’s the best song off his latest ‘planet earth’ and it heavily features the divine shelby j. on lead vox. (fyi, it was filmed live during matthew williamson’s recent london fashion week show)…
from vouge.com:
MATTHEW WILLIAMSONIF you’re coming home after five years on the New York schedule - to an exhibition feting your decade of success in the industry, no less - you’ve got to make an impression… How to really get noticed? How about Prince performing from his seat in the front row? That just about did it for Matthew Williamson this morning. A tent in Eaton Square shook with the tension of a style World Cup as the fashion glitterati hustled for their closer-than-close front row seats; squeals of excitement and cheering from backstage gave us a clue that something mega was about to happen… and then a couple of Motown backing singers (microphone afro and lash-to-brow eye glitter - we’re talking the real deal…), took to the stage and we didn’t know whether to sit and clap or stand up and dance.All of a sudden identical twin dancers, in purple silk shifts with silver sashes, appeared to perform pop dressage down the catwalk with Prince himself singing his latest song from his seat in the
front row. Until then, knowing as we did that he’d been in town for the Couture Gala last night (wearing white Versace), we assumed he’d just come to support Williamson (and hide his Gala hangover behind those glossy black shades and matching trilby) - but now we hear the whole thing will serve as Prince’s new video, no less. From front row to MTV… It was a serious fashion moment, dahlink - and Williamson gave himself a job to live up to the moment with his new collection after such an eye-popping opener.(September 19 2007, AM)
Dolly Jones
home from miami - so.very.nice.to.be.home for a while.. i’m anxious to get back to day-to-day life.
i was thrilled when i got home when i opened my mailbox and this greeted me:
now, firstly - ew is my bible. i read it cover to cover. i love it. but to be greated with the perfection that is mr. crowe - well hmmm if that didn’t just make my day, not much else will. i loves me some russell. god he’s dead.fucking.sexy.
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for some cool as shit graphics check this out:
it’s an alternative version of the video for siouxsie’s ‘into a swan’. i’ve loved that mirror effect since prince and the revolution did it for the ‘when doves cry’ video… i think it’s used well here.
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copies of a couple blake lewis tracks (the 6th cut off of last season’s american idol) circulating around the net… i gave a quick listen to ‘break another’ and ‘know my name’. of the two, ‘break another’ has a bit of potential. it’s typical pop-fluff mixed with a bit of disco and of course, that scat singing that blake’s known for. ‘know my name’ however is complete dreck.
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speaking of dreck, the new britney came out today.
now - i’ve given the album a listen (no i didn’t pay for it - it’s everywhere on the net)… and i gotta say, it’s not quite the disaster i thought it might be (color me surprised). that said however - that album cover is terrible [the girl/record company machine has never done great cover art]. the album itself is full of beats (toxic was certainly a precurser to this highly electronic album) and there are some pretty slammin tunes… let’s face it however, this is less to do with britney as much as it’s about her producers (bloodshy & avant (from ‘toxic’), the clutch & the neptunes).
there’s an urgency to these hook heavy/slamming dance-floor tracks… killer loops - hot production, and utterly disposable - all at the same time (but really isn’t that fairly normal in today’s next-best-thing world)… time will tell if the album holds up well - but for now, it’s the perfect summertime record (wait - time to check the calender… last time i checked these kind of jam’s fair better in summertime)… the nice thing here is that for a couple of tracks you forget that she’s a trainwreck… and you remember this is a girl that is capable of a funtime dance jam… it’s nice to get lost in pop-fluff every now and then…
…at least until i need some substance…. speaking of where did i put that me’shell ndegeocello record…?
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*don’t you think that’s probably the first time siouxsie & britney have been mentioned in the same breath? lol
day one - over. i’m backstage waiting for the show to start - in a lull. i like lull’s.
day one - a smashing success… word is it’s the best show we’ve ever done (including the small fact during the show we had a false fire alarm).
problem is we’ve set the bar very high for future events. the technical aspect of this show is massive - we had over 190 technical queues yesterday, and about a hundred today. average show is an 100, give or take.
this theater is stunning - tho’ so not set up for a hair show… here’s a shot of part of the built in lighting rig. i love this shot:
here’s a rare shot of me posing with one of our models. for those of you top model fanatics, it’s janet - kicked off in last weeks episode:
more when i’m home in minneapolis tomorrow.
yo’ ’sup?
sorry for the lack of posts - i’m in miami for the final show of my exceedingly busy show season - it’s been a helluva couple months. i’m staying in a craptacular radisson with shitty access to internet.
for.fuck.sake.
it’s 2007. internet access is not hard to manage.
i’m just sayin’.
it’s now 8:18pm - been in this theater since 7am this morning. i’ll be in here for at least the next 3 hours finalizing the script…
the show starts tomorrow mornin @ 9am - ends monday at 1pm.
long - but great day…
more later
p.s., the above pic - that’s the raw theater space we’re in… the knight concert hall -
beautiful space. really stunning.
with apologies to non-cat people, and hat-tip to alexander - this is fucking brilliant (and completely true to life):
see that lil’ link over there to the right? the one that says ‘current’. click it.
it features my current obsession in musical form. ladytron’s ‘destroy everything you love’ - it’s fab! really!
‘course it’s moody and kinda dark - but i like it. it kinda describes me right now. tho’ it’s not really about me, it’s more about a situation from my perspective.
it’s neat how song’s can sum up your thoughts eh?
oh, and two links down from ‘current’ is a hot lil’ link called ‘tattoo’s’. ya might wanna check that one out too - some hot ink there.
cheers!
so my friend christopher picked this up on a lark as he thought it looked a bit like me:
it does rather look a bit like me don’t you think?
this is one of those lil’ guys where you put a blob of play-doh in the “head” (ahem, body cavity) and then insert the feet bit into the lil’ guy and he miraculously grows hair (boy i wish i could get plugged like that and grow hair!)
but… and here’s the interesting bit (goes back to the “getting plugged” bit above):
that’s the play-doh kyle with the feet bit separated from the body bit. ummm…. anyone notice anything interesting about them-there feet?
a lil’ phalic no?
me think’s our friends at hasbro have some ’splaining to do.
— music heard while writing:
siouxsie - into a swan/hard version
siouxsie & the banshees - happy house, tenent & trophey
not sure who has more (ill-advised) time on his hands - the people who made this video, or me for finding it.
ugg - i need a life.
i doubt this is a real billboard - at least, not a real one in the united states, but just the same, brilliant :-)
i can not wait to get one of these cars (’cept mine would be yellow where the gold is and black where the white is).
greetings & salutations - sorry for the lack of posts lately; was on the road and had literally no access to the internet (gasp!) -
lots of things happening lately and soon i might share something big, but in the meantime, can i just say how fucking much i love having a musical twin in london? my colleague ian is from the united kingdom and whenever he comes over for a show he tends to bring me prezzies… and this last weekend in dc was no different.
ian and i share a love for all things siouxsie and he brought me the 12″ vinyl of la sioux’s recent into a swan - with two mixes unreleased on cd. can you say i geeked out at the prospect of new siouxsie?
there was just one challenge tho’ - i haven’t had a turn table for a while (having got rid of much of my vinyl collection years ago).
::sigh - what the fuck to do?::
well, the obvious answer is to go and be a good american (i was in dc at the time, afterall) and spend valuable money on a vinyl-to-mp3 converter turntable.
(uploading prince & the revolutions ‘love or money - extended version’)
yes, my friends, i’m completely enraptured by old 12″ extended versions by prince, kate bush, siouxsie and more (for example, the divine jill jones rarity - ‘bald man’; my theme song).
so i’m completely giddy happy listening to rare tracks that i haven’t heard in years.
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unrelated:
rushed home from dc just in time to see the sublime johnette napolitano play the entry in minneapolis. makes me happy.
(sorry johnette, i know you hate it when people take your pic, and you want us all “in the moment”, but it was such a great moment, i couldn’t resist taking a souvenir)
unrelated pt 2:
last night cb came over to watch heroes and i entertained him a bit by showing him an instructional dvd on how to give a guy a brazillian wax. go here to read the salicious details (he sum’s it up better than i could).
unrelated pt 3:
(don’t try to understand - this is for one person, and one person only)
most of my inspiration as of late is at the office.
and now that i’m blocked i have no idea what the hell to say when i’m at home… ugg… i’ve got to write down notes when i’m at work.
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unreleated, i got a wonderful pic from a fellow blogger (on the blogroll) showing me his ass. wow. i guess working out and eating right pays off - quite the butt!
lots of stuff rumbling through my head - haven’t figured out how to get it all out and post here, so until i do - here’s my favorite piece of music from the past couple of months in video form. it also has one of the greatest lyrics of recent times..
the video is freshly released…brand spankin’ new music for your tuesday.
unkle, hold my hand:
i really love this video…. beautiful. and haunting.
watch the whole thing. i love the ending.
not a video perse.more a commercial.regardless.brilliant.
meshell ndegeocello. the world has made me the man of my dreams.
“After getting her jazz rocks off with 2005’s The Spirit Music Jamia, Ndegeocello returns to her genre-bending roots. With her eye on global events and her heart gnawed at by mixed emotions, the mellifluous-voiced bassist coasts from punk rock to orchestral ballads to seductive grooves. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, saxophonist Oliver Lake, and Malian singer Oumou Sangare lend their talents, while Ndegeocello’s dreamy vocal styles buttress this boudoir-friendly work.” (Grade: A) — Margeaux Watson, Entertainment Weekly, 9/28/07.
ok, not that i’m a stud or anything - but i sure as fuck like my new glassess. they are from the all-american classic company ray ban (i’ve always been a big fan of ray ban’s, they’re just so iconic, way back from the risky business days - my face could never pull off that style tho’). they’re super modern, with a nice metal detail.
check ‘em out:
just a quick post to wish my future husband a happy birthday!
liev schreiber - birthday boy! come here and let me give you your b’day spanking! 
i fell for him way back when he co-stared with parker posey in party girl. the man positively smolders. his move behind the camera means i get to drool less and less about him, but i’ll always have party girl.
oh, and i’m about to go plop down too much money on a new pair of eye glasses… i positively hate shopping for glasses - it means i spend way too much time staring at myself in the mirror.
wish me luck.
with hat tip to by the bayou for posting this first:
fall is officially here in the twin cities and i couldn’t be happier. fall is, without a doubt - my single favorite time of year. there’s something so amazing, so comforting about this particular change of season. i love the smell in the air (crisp, yet warm), the sound the leaves make as you walk through them and the way all the color’s get just a bit more bold.
of course with fall comes the inevitable change to winter. but, given global warming, winter ain’t what it used to be in minnesota.
thanks to everyone who voted in the first ever atomic pop! poll regarding if i should spend 99 of my hard earned pennies in buying the tune ‘gimme more’ by brit brit. as i was about to press the button “buy song” scoot swooped down and gave me a copy of the tune. yes, jason, i realize i chastised you for getting tunes that way, but brit brit doesn’t need the moolah, siouxsie does! i am completely addicted to this damn song. ugg.
last night, cb came over to get caught up on ‘heroes’ and hang out a bit - i made a killer (or at least i think so) sausage and peppers dish for dinner and on cb’s suggestion, we tried the above. can i just say whoever decided to make a yellow cake flavored ice cream should be canonized… this ice cream is flipping white trash all the way - and oh so fucking good. (p.s., make sure to link on over to cb’s site for his most excellent take on the family circus comic strip).
so friday i’m off for a quickie hair show in cincinnatti (ooh, don’t be jealous). the fun part? i get to see jason. i’m super excited to have dinner with him friday night after model call (if he’s really nice, i might just get him a ticket to see the show on sunday too!).
and lastly, i present rocco dispirito for no other reason than i’m completely in love with this man. dead. fucking. sexy.
i’ve been laughing over this for days… brilliant. thank you seth green - your a god!
i need - and expect all of my loyal readers to weigh in on this subject… i need ya’ll’s help (if i could figure out how to make the poll thing work, i’d make you do it that way) - instead, please just respond in comments… (really! may fate is up to you)
here’s the question of our time…:
do i download britney’s single ‘gimme more’ from itunes?
seriously - i’m so on the fence on this one…
on the plus side:
- the ‘hook’ is killer
- nice production
- good to have a piece of pop fluff every now and then.
on the negative:
- it’s trash
- it’s britney (bitch)
what to do? it’s not that i’m a huge britney fan (i’m not really), but the pull of this train-wreck is undeniable. + i’m kinda really rooting for her to get her shit together. she’s just such a disaster. the single is the #1 track on itunes right now.
tell me what to do - i’m so on the fence
