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The Final Countdown

I don't think the alliance is going to like that ...

Cross-Post: Noo Muzik Tuezdayz

Eno and Byrne.  Ulrike, feel free to razz me, but I think these songs are purty.

Important Art Auction

Will someone buy this for me?

From the Annals of Effective Marketing

May I BIM-munize you?

Her Toes Done Up With Her Fingernails Matchin'

This is the only sort of moving image I want to look at anymore.  Your editor is a little depressata lately, and somehow this sort of video is just the thing.  Very calming.  Luckily, youtube is FULL of these.  Olympics special, after the jump.

Baffling YouTube Video of the Day

The Olden Days

Compare and Contrast: Teh Modern World

The problem with everything is that now the girls will totally tell.

UPDATE -- I don't want to throw any shade at Ms. J -- she's still fantastic.  But think of how much nicer this would be if she were standing in front of a mantle, in gorgeous B&W 16mm slowly getting drunk and revealing what's up instead of prancing in front of a green screen.  WOULDN'T THAT BE NICER???

BYOB

Bathroom, that is. 

Tease!

'Big Boy'

Jeppe's solo career!  Very exciting!  Hopefully some New York dates?

Compare and Contrast

Three Ruth Brown related videos after the jump.  One insane, one awful, and one AMAZING.

It's Been Far Too Long

Buckcherry has a NEW ALBUM!!! Yessssssssss! And if you act now, you can pre-order the supercool Fan Pack: So you better act fast. Still need more convincing??? 

    "BLACK BUTTERFLY" is now available for preorder via www.Buckcherry.com. Fans who preorder the Limited Edition Fan Pack will receive the track "Too Drunk..." at the time of their preorder. The ringtone for the track is also available on the band's website. The album -- co-produced by longtime Aerosmith collaborator Marti Frederiksen (the co-writer of Buckcherry's top 10 smash, "Sorry") and Buckcherry's own Keith Nelson -- will be offered in a standard CD package; a "Limited Fan Club Edition" version, which comes with bonus tracks and a one-year membership to the Buckcherry Fan Club; and a "Limited Fan Club Edition" bundle which adds a "BLACK BUTTERFLY" T-shirt to the previous package. For more information, visit www.Buckcherry.com.

The new song and video are after the jump.

Take Yr Top Off!

I like that part of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon  where you learn that  all the  early film stars were constantly coked up, which  was a funny revelation about Keystone Cops and Chaplin and all that other  frenetic, unfunny, early comedy.  But here, it's pretty obvs.  This is what your editor is going to spend the afternoon doing, though I'm not sure I can hoist the chair over my head.  I love this woman.

To Do: New York City

Werner Herzog's Stroszek at the Rubin Museum. 150 W. 17th St. @ 6th Ave. Free w/ $7 min bar tab?! Some sort of movies and drinks affair -- we'll report back. Just the thing to shake off the bad vibes from The Dark Knight last weekend.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young RAWKSTAR!!

A brief introduction to me (I think this says it all):

Shot 20 years ago, I was 6.

Celebrity LiveJournal Alert!

As it turns out, the always uncanny, mystically witty Nayland Blake has a LiveJournal!  What medium hasn't he mastered?

[photo credit: Nayland Blake, por supuesto.]

On The Record: Let Flex = Flex Edition

In high school, I used to haunt the used record shops, picking up $1 records indiscriminately.  A big fan of Laurie Anderson at the time (and still, in fact), I was particularly excited to pick up an LP of Mister Heartbreak for the low, low price of one dollar.  But the real bonus was what was tucked into the sleeve--this flexi-disc from a 1982 issue of Artforum, featuring a very early version of Let X=X, one of my favorite songs off Big Science and United States Live.  Enjoy the spareness! 

Thank The Wonderful Deity For The Internet

About a year ago, my good friend K. found herself in possession of a screener of Mi Coche, a truly astounding piece of short-form cinema.  We watched in gape-jawed amazement at something that seemed to defy description, and to call into question the entire oeuvre of video art of the past several decades.  It was  pretty life-changing. 

Sadly, the screener had to be returned.  We've talked about Mi Coche ever since, but with no way to get back that most rare and treasured DVD, we were forced to recreate, through storytelling and inadequate gesturing, that which we had witnessed with our own eyes. 

But tonight, I'm privileged to bring the pleasures and treasures of Mi Coche to all of you. It lives, courtesy of Al Gore's information superhighway!  After the jump, the Rawk Lobster premiere of...Mi Coche.