Hell, who knows—one of these days I might join the ranks
of “technologically advanced, standard upright creatures”
and obtain/learn Photoshop

[ or, you know, whatever the Mac equivalent is. . . ]

Until then, however?
HERE’S   THIS

Readings/Spoken Word Performances

Saturday, October 29, 2011 (Hollywood, CA)

with
MARGARET CHO (Drop Dead Diva, The Cho Show)
KIM FOWLEY w/ NOIZEE & BRIANNA GARCIA
JIM TURNER (Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre, 2-Head Dog)
TOBY HUSS (Carnivàle, Adventures of Pete & Pete)
SELENE LUNA (The Cho Show, My Bloody Valentine 3D)
CLINT CATALYST (Cottonmouth Kisses, 1000 Ways To Die, The Adonis Factor)
MICHELLE CARR (Velvet Hammer, The Berber Show)
Emcee: BIENO SVENGALI (Svengali Magic)

The Vitals:

PLEASE NOTE : THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW (8-10 p.m.)

10/29/11
“Halloween Highway 2 : Art of Bleeding and Guests”
Art of Bleeding
Steve Allen Theatre
4773 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m.
Linkature: Facebook Event Page , Facebook Group
All Ages (Though Not Recommended for Children)
$10 Admission
Contact: comedy@artofbleeding.com , abram@artofbleeding.com
❧ Or via Facebook (Please see links above)

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About Art of Bleeding:

“The Art of Bleeding is a uniquely non-accredited educational institution offering powerful and ego-destabilizing lessons in health and safety. Our presentations (often staged from an ambulance) utilize live performance, film, puppets, music, animation, and thinly veiled medical fetishism to explore the topic of catastrophic health emergencies within the framework of children’s television programming.”

Hemoglobin Hotties

Also, here’s a little

via Mine Archives:

Bloody Cool ? Reverend Al Ridenour’s Antics Define ‘Sick’ In The Best Sense Of The Word

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Though I digress. More about
The Last Saturday of October!

“This Halloween weekend, The Art of Bleeding will once again transform the Steve Allen Theater parking lot into a ghoulish carnival of entertaining catastrophes featuring a SPECTACULARLY REAL MULTI-VEHICLE CAR-CRASH TABLEAU.

Against a smoldering backdrop of twisted cars, you’ll have the opportunity to hear TRUE STORIES OF MEDICAL HORRORS and ACCIDENTS from a rotating line-up* of storytellers including MARGARET CHO, ANDY DICK, JIM TURNER, TOBY HUSS, EDDIE PEPITONE, SELENE LUNA, DON BOLLES, STEPHEN HOLMAN, CLINT CATALYST, MICHELLE CARR, KIM FOWLEY, DUKEY FLYSWATTER, DANNY SHORAGO, KIM STODEL, BIENO SVENGALI, and more.

Providing dubious educational counterbalance to these tales of trauma will be THE ART OF BLEEDING’S “Magic Ambulance Theater,” a tragically misguided children’s show featuring gore-drenched actors, pedantic Safety Ape, bickering robot, and an ample array of attendant nurses in less-than-ample wardrobe.

FEMALE BLOOD WRESTLING, and a frighteningly live sound-performance installation by the enigmatic medical miracles of BOUNCEHAUSEN round out the evening.

And by all means, feel free to come in your Halloween costume! Doctors, nurses, and ESPECIALLY accident victims encouraged. Prizes for outstanding achievements related to our theme.”

(Again, there’s a high likelihood this show may not be appropriate for children.)

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TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA:

Steve Allen Theater

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*Please note: this event takes place three separate evenings.  I’ve listed the the night in which I’m a participant, for reasons that should be obvious— but hey! Maybe you’re not super-saturated with information on a daily basis, nagging like a steady succession of pop-up ads programmed to auto-start with a You-Will-Watch-Me insistence so gauche, your keyboard locks, a carcinogenic hue plagues your screen and sweeps it dark as

Oh, #whatever

I’m sure any of the nights will be fun.  I just hope to see you when I’ll be there, so we can . . .

Insofar as caloric value?  Of that I’m not certain

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AUTOMOBILE SCULPTURE: Clod Wrinkleman, Al Ridenour

ART OF BLEEDING MAGIC AMBULANCE THEATER: Randy Horton, Phil Glau, Al Ridenour, Eric Ridenour, Auriana Borealis, Jezebelle X, Harmony Rose, Tayler Jones, B.J & Eileen Winslow, Erin Robotmachine.

BOUNCEHAUSEN: Jason Hadley, Elizabeth Herndon, Joe Borfo, Cathy Gingerly, Rev. Mook, Rev. Dak J. Ultimak, Kel, Nicole Arneson, Matteo Oettam, Tim Wheeler, Esther Napastick, Michel Cicero, Todd Sterling

BLOOD WRESTLING: Auriana Borealis, Snow Mercy, Chrystal Skye

Projections by LUCID PROJECTIONS.

CADILLAC AMBULANCE AND GEAR courtesy NIK WHITE

Lukewarm news to the deltoid devotees among internet enthusiasts, perhaps—
though still a hot tip for most :

Whether recent release or ‘not-so’ . . . latch onto the sound sculptures of
$LØW HE4D when & if chance presents.

two LPs, Two Thousand Eleven

[ Veins : Phantasma Disques ]

[ Night Glitters : Disaro Records ]

$LØW HE4D

Haven’t had the best luck with Soundcloud embeds in recent days, so
for a limited time—as in: cue the immediacy of infomercials here, kids—
I thought I’d share a track that doesn’t appear on aforementioned albums
but remains among my personal favorites.

With brooding bass-lines and vocals so shrouded in glacial electronics, they
can induce gooseflesh on even the most brutal August eve: click-through
to DL “ i will nvr get ovr u & will die w/ u on my mind “

« © »

Also!

As if the [ far from ] Slow Head isn’t prolific enough on his own,
an individual known as ‘Denounce’ & he have a side project

Augm

is the name of said endeavor, & I’m living for ” Sky Opener “—
total synthed-out sensory dream-pop for hazy days & lazy ways

[ Release forthcoming, via Haunted Cassette Tapes ]

However, since laziness won’t help me with the novella
currently known as my To-Do list :
consider this my cue . . .

Though please do be sure & peep beneath the cut, where
a video for the single ” Speaking in Tongues to Ghosts “
[ from Night Glitters ]

awaits

[ Video Directed by Farson's Army ]

« © »

Till Next Time —
Many Thanks !

Well, clearly they’re exactly that : plans other than
me, in the role of ‘ D.J. ‘

& you, hangin’ at

where there’s no hassle re: a cover, lover. . .

[ Unless you arrive after 11 p , at which time a fee of two dollars is requested.
As in, like : two dollars . ]

Just make it happen,  O.K.?

O . K .

☿

Ah!  & Not only/but also :
I’ll be serving the WORLD PREMIERE

of a special release from  I†† !

[ More shall be revealed
Soon . . .Soon Enough ! ]

photo : Tim Jenkins

“Rest In Peace (And Jewels). . . “

I read the head-line & felt my stomach drop like a hackneyed phrase.

The style icon ” laid to rest ” by jeweler Shaun Leane

Tom Ford — but you already knew this, Y/Y?

Quick as a click-through, I arrived at Samantha Conti‘s
article ” Daphne Guinness’ Golden Glove” — from which I gleaned details of
the debut event for Contra Mundum, Guinness’ collaboration with Shaun Leane.

detailed view : 18 carat white gold [ yes, " steampunk " : I'm looking at you ]

Having lost two friends last month, it seemed a bit cruel, the cliff-hanger. . .
but brilliant.

[ Cue taken, duly noted : & thank you ]

Photo by Nick Knight

Upon noting Conti’s coverage is dated July 1st—translation : in ‘internet time,’ rigor mortis
has already set—my next thought was “Shit! I bet they’ve already covered this at Haute Macabre.”

Which, incidentally, wouldn’t be a [ optional usage : scare quotes ] bad thing
but I shouldn’t have to explain this

Surprisingly, they haven’t.

What comes as no surprise : the power of zeitgeist, synchronicity. . .
& good taste.

Nixon‘s been on a “Guinness ‘tear‘” this week, &—incidentally—posted a shot of Daphne in a coffin.

Who’s Free Of Flaw? Seriously : Look. Upon. This.

[ from the "Digital Death" event for  World AIDS Day, via Buy Life ]

I bring you
—  this moment —

[ Image Source : The Vault of Horror ]

&
In full histrionic glory, via animated GIF. . .

« † »

[ Source : Sleepless In Southie ]

«©»

“You wanna talk about reading? Let’s. Talk. About. Reading. . . “

[ Paris Is Burning ]

[ It's Nikki.  Y'know, Nikki Narcotic . . . Yeah, Well: NIKKI KNOWS. You know?! ]

“I’m sick & fucking tired of all these haters!”

Oh, GL▲SS †33†H :

How you fill my shattered, charcoal-stained heart with glee.

There was a moment—a brief blip on history’s collective monitor, one might say—in which
the tiara-adorned Scene Queen had a significant role in the inexplicable phenomenon
referred to as “ CeWebrity .” [ Yes, I know it's heinous. Do I need to spell every— ]

[ CUT TO ] : a formulaic Wiki How ; How-To & Tribute Videos ; an on-line ‘zine & social
networking community ; hubs like Be-Scene.org & Scene Central, a virtual locale for
“ladies in waiting” [ no, but really ] & aspiring Scene Kings to—hell, I don’t know…
compare quiz scores while waiting to see if their applications for anointment
were accepted, I suppose.

Some of the O.G. S.Q.s [ yep, sure did ] parlayed their notoriety into lucrative businesses.
Others?  Well, I’m sure they could tell you.

As for the new breed?

For fuck’s sake, don’t call yourself a ” scene queen .” [ or king . . . or TS, etc. ]
EVER.

That’s. . .just. . . humiliating.

Whatever the case,

as with Cosmo, The Rules or any other ‘How-To’ Guide :
If you really want to

&     BE      A

My advice?
Bust your own fkn’ move.

Don’t get me wrong: there’s some wicked adorable kids among the lot,
fantastic explosions of color and creative expression .

[ Courtney Dior = one such example of Cuteness ]

hyper-hyphenate
[ photographer/poet/model/memoir author ] Kris Kidd

image credit : Kesler Tran

However, insofar as Nikki?

Short of the long: this  amalgamation fictitious character encapsulates the monstrous end of the spectrum,
in which rigid Ranking Systems and bratty, entitled behavior is the norm.

C H E C K   ±   I T  :

NARC by GL▲SS †33†H

[ Mmm-hrmm. Yeah, whatever Nikki. Bet your skank-ass extensions you'd troll efagz
to see if your asinine antics merit discussion, even. ]

But enough about Nikki—she’s so 2007, I’m surprised she isn’t donning a miniature top hat smothered
in Hello Kitty appliques while “modeling” a cupcake, middle finger of her other hand
extended in that universal gesture of bad breeding.

What I’m really here to talk about?
The Correctness Maximus who immortalized her :  GL▲SS †33†H

It’s like this:

What you need in your life is a physical copy of their EP
available through Black Bvs Records

Unless, of course, you’re like Andie Walsh & have more pressing issues…

N a m e l y , the dilemma of

prom queen by GL▲SS †33†H

[ Oh, & Y E S : Another Cyanide-Coated Piece of Perfection, It Is! ]

[ digital downloads available via Bandcamp ]

Also, out now
through Phantasma Disques :

GL▲SS †33†H / ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ [of Mater Suspiria Vision ]

Split CDR

†

[ Full disclosure: I even went so far as to pre-order a copy, like the fan girl I'm not. . .usually ]

†

Additional resources for this band that’s been dominating my nano as of late :

[ on The 'Tubes ]

GL▲SS †33†H on Facebook

MySpazz

Last.fm

Gemma Ward † Caroline Trentini † Iselin Steiro † Lily Donaldson † Agyness Deyn † Sasha Pivovarova

A moment worth re-visiting, from the “In My Tribe” editorial
Fashion Rocks Magazine , 2007

[ VIEW FULL SIZE ]

Excluding the rare exception [ namely, bashin' my dash with—well, content I don't want to encourage;
hence, the deliberate omission], I don’t understand why a person wouldn’t “follow back.” Granted,
I’m still a novice in the grand scheme of tumblrification, but I don’t know of a means by which
one can tell how many “followers” a person has. . .nor do I care to, quite frankly.

I mean, MySpace has gone down the shitter—it doesn’t even have a name anymore;
that’s how far removed it is from social relevance.

Didn’t the myopic Don’t-You-Know-How-Many-”Friends”-I-Have mindset accompany it?

[ Seriously? But SERIOUSLY ]

It’s rudimentary, my take on this sitch:
the primary function of tumblr’s dashboard [ or "feed" ] is that of an open dialogue, a continuous conversation
in which anyone from the 200 countries scattered around this curious planet we inhabit
has a unique opportunity [ so long as there's internet access, though that's a given—
I might as well be telling you it gets dark at night. . . ]

Because tumblr’s predominant means of communication is by way of a visual vocabulary, the opportunity
of which I speak is the ability for an individual to participate in the site’s ostensibly endless discussion
without the usual complications 6,800 different languages present.

Sure, music is a ‘universal language’; we’re familiar with the adage, most of us.

In the case of tumblr, however,
the ability to upload videos & mp3s further validates my premise/rationale, rather than dilutes it.

[ She's So Happening, via ThreeFrames.net ]

So : short of the long? Yeah, I follow back.
I also acknowledge that the sum of one’s “followers” does not deify.

[ Icarus much? I'd mutter Give Me A Break, but we have our day in the sun : each & every. . . ]

Oh, & when I attend a potluck dinner?

I don’t only eat the dish I brought.

#knowwhatimfawkinsayin’ ?