“And If Cupid’s Got A Gun, Then He’s Shootin’…”

Quickly, now—download this track:

“Until We Bleed” — Kleerup featuring Lykke Li

No, really. Download it.

I’m attempting to convey something here, to translate the vocabulary of my heart.

Let me try that again: What I’m trying to do is provide a soundtrack for Mia Tyler ’s photography, so I’d appreciate it if you’d just humor me for a minute, O.K.? (& that’s with a “please” & “thank you”)

I can’t tell you if it’s a song Miss Tyler would choose herself; hell, I don’t even know I’d pick it, if I were given the chance.  I don’t know much of anything, except that chance is how this intersection happened:

I flipped open my laptop, navigated my cursor and clicked the iTunes icon—you know the one, the CD symbol covered by a pair of musical notes?  They’re a water-cooler blue, the blue of an aquarium. A blue not unlike that of my screen-saver, but the click of another icon—planet earth engulfed in flames: the search engine, Firefox—eclipsed that hue when a page snapped open on this rectangle I gazed into, eyes skimming a page of tweets.  I don’t know that I’ll ever be comfortable with that phrase , a 140-characters-or-less challenge to “Think long thoughts in short sentences.” [Ferlinghetti]

But anyway, just as Lykke Li’s ethereal voice crept through my speakers, I happened to be scrolling through these images.  The combination of Li’s sensual, airy timbre with Tyler’s photographs, delirious with warmth; the harrowing rise of bows stroking cello strings with the lyrics “Lights black; heads bang/You’re my drug/We live it…”

Well, I was sideswiped by emotion.

Enjoy,

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Envy: A New Fashion Magazine from The Creators of The Fashionably Independent

The Widget?  Pentegram, fully throwin’ down…

(That’d be five stars, in case my strand of Polari doesn’t translate well.)

Fully backin’ the ability to customize the size and lay-out options, as well as the international content contained therein.

To be honest, I’d rate the content in the current “issue” as a 4.5—meaning, of course, I know full well The Indie Fashion crew is capable of upping the ante beyond the established paradigm.

My request? Sprinkle in some content from Japanese men’s Vogue—as I’ve yet to see a single copy at any news stand (and I live in L.A., for F’s sake)… but the scant amount I’ve been fortunate to locate on-line?

Sleek as an Atsuko Kudo latex pencil skirt freshly polished. Sophisticated. Deliciously androgynous.

Of course, there’s also the occasional editorial in Imago ‘zine (Canada), Gazelleland (New York), Coilhouse (Los Angeles) and the slew of $40-and-over periodicals rife with opulence, editorial genius and consummate consumer lust that creep their way over from Europe…

Because these?

Of course, this is merely my opinion: but it’s when these truly independent flashes of serendipity—synonymous far too often with short print runs before the recently-launched creations belly-up…

It’s when these disparate elements get stirred into an already stellar sampling of aspirational imagery

that my mind melds &

corneas are left burning with a brilliance that feels so

alive alive
alive…

Here’s to
Cheers from
The Future—

(& With Great Anticipation)

Cx

:: Ah Yes… & For Abe Gurko’s Brilliant Commentary On The White-Hot Little Miss Lohan? :: CLICK HERE ::

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ShowWX Presented by MicroVision at The Sundance Film Festival, 2010

So, I’m going to Sundance.

Remember that gorgeous independent film I’m in? You know, “Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman”?  The one I yammered about a while ago. Well, it’s screening at Sundance, and…yeah. As an Angeleno transplant, over the years I’ve acclimated to the freon-tinged climate shady people imbue this brightly-lit place.  To fair the “whether,” the most important reaction I could have is: act as if this news isn’t very important at all.

It’s a tricky thing, this More-Jaded-Than-The-Orient sense of feigned indifference—because if “reality” T.V. cameras are added to the equation?  Flip it. Be so real it’s Faux Real…and it will be: on film.

Semantics and human behavior are complicated.  But how I feel?  How I feel, for once, is pure and simple and precise. I’m so excited; I’m spinning around like tinsel on a majorette’s baton at half-time.

That being said, the vitals are:

Friday, 22nd January, and Saturday, 23rd January 2010, 2pm

ShowWX Presented by MicroVision at The Sundance Film Festival

Cinema Lounge at 333 Main Street, Park City, UT

Curated by Shade Rupe,

The program includes new work by

Floria Sigismondi, Sean Pecknold, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Rodrigo Gudiño

and

Matthew Mishory

More Info “Beneath The Jump”

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Aural Fixation: 33 Tracks From The End Of The Aughts, My Heart To Your [Downloadable Device]*

✼—Limited Time Offer/”It’s A Lot Like Life”—✼

Alright you guys: Apart from a few tracks on which I had some creative involvement, I’ve never utilized Ye Olde Dot Com in the context of a public music share. Never until now, that is… With this: a veritable list of my 33 favorite songs from ‘09.

As stated on Fluxblog, Music For Robots, NME’s “Daily Download”, Music Is Art, Glorious Noise and a slew of other noteworthy locales among the internet ethers, any music posted is provided under a code of ethics ✼ [& Disclaimer] ✼

Though it should go without saying, if anything from this catalogue aux Catalottalisps moves your spirit, contributes to involuntary thrusts of elbows and hipbones, or just plain pleases your ear canal with good aural: give the musicians some much-deserved love and support. That’s “love” as in: the kind from your pocketbook—not Nature’s Little Pocket, and “support” that doesn’t involve an underwire or cup size.  Odds are, Pamela Des Barres has that Other territory covered, anyway—unless VH1’s Next Big Hit: a competitive “reality” series entitled Groupie: Go Ho or Go Home! is still in negotiations.

So, yes…here’s my first Em Pee Three Web Log

a play list intended as a means of promoting the artists as well as the art

for the sake of art itself:

The creative spirit is contagious

and these are the the lullabies that transmit inspiration
Lily Allen and Annie’s bubblegum pop with biting, cyanide-laced lyrics that
induced an emotional imprint, capture an essence:
the interrobang I experienced upon hearing the somber vocals of Fever Ray’s Karin Andersson
collide with boody-bass, a re-mix that shatters her glacial strip-tease & throws everything
off, like the crepuscular hour in which I was first infected by Demdike Stare:
hunched over at my desk, fist gripped around a sweat-slick black Ticonderoga, that
late night/early morning’s weapon of choice for my
battle with words—though what I fought more than anything was to stay awake
floating in and out of consciousness, when
suddenly and without warning, I was surrounded by an echoing incantation
that rose up, a miasma as mysterious as voodou yet synthetic, manufactured, cold

Wait…What the F was I rambling about?

:: never mind all that :: just ::

close your eyes :: inhale deeply, & :: listen

pictured above :: the big pink

Metric — “Help I’m Alive (Immuzikation B-Ting Like A Hammer Remix)”

The Big Pink — “Dominos”

Fever Ray — “When I Grow Old (Bassnectar Remix)”

The Joy Formidable — “The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade”

Twisted Wires — “One Night At The Raw Deal”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — “Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)”

Simian Mobile Disco (featuring Beth Ditto) — “Cruel Intentions”

As Tall As Lions — “You Can’t Take It With You”

Bat For Lashes — “Daniel (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix)”

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart — “Everything With You”

The xx — “Basic Space (Astronomer Remix)”

Lykke Li — “Knocked Up (Kings of Leon Cover: Death To The Throne Remix)”

Health — “Die Slow”

Veil Veil Vanish — “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”

Passion Pit — “The Reeling”

Hunz — “Draw The Line”

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Found While Cruisin’ & Perusin’ Ye Olde World Wide Web

“Flouncing About” — Spoken Word Text by Clint Catalyst; Narration by Pauley Perrette

with the aural fixations/visual manipulations of

P. Emerson Williams (from Veil Of Thorns)

the artwork of—and special appearance by— Joshua Petker

as well as portrayals by Dirk Mai and Julia Romanenko.

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Christian Louboutin XY Counterpart for The XX Set (A Shoegasm a lá XXX)

Ladies,

please allow me to introduce

you to/two…

:: Now ::

After such great expense,

feel free to proceed

with the best of your worst behavior

Because ‘Participant’ Is Not An Award, And Life Is Not The Special Olympics

Truth of the matter is:

We don’t all get a hug for our efforts.

What we do ‘get,’ however, is Freedom Of Choice…

(though make no mistake: to not choose is—in itself—a decision).

A choice you’re hereby offered the opportunity?

Who gets an award (yourself, perhaps?), and

For what?

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But for those of you whom the terminally cute

is a constant reminder that human beings do, indeed, have a “Gag Reflex”?

Go ahead and OWN THAT BITTER BILE

DOWN TO THE BONE!

Pictured above, at Hollywood’s latest haunt of legendary proportions, Mr. Black:

Aldo Vento

flaunts his Hater status

in black-on-black-on-black…

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Jared Gold/Clint Catalyst BRAND NEW MERCH!

Please

CHECK IT OUT/”GIVE IT A SCROLL…”

Or, via URL:

Jared Gold Merchandise at Audiolife.com

I ain’t mad about this surprise from Ye Olde Jay Gee–

Not at all!

†

As always:

Thanks very much

for your interest!

†

:: (of course, of course) ::

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You. This Evening. Harlow/Nylon Pink/Aldo Vento & Me…

Let’s Make It Happen!

See you there?

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