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P-p-poster!
Folks, our new t-shirts will be available tomorrow! So come on out to the show and we’ll help you find your size. Remember this discussion (plus comments)? Well we listened and have two different shapes and colours for y’all to choose from and all the shirts were silkscreened by the band. Thanks to the St. Emilie Skillshare for letting us use their screen printing room!
About tomorrow’s show:
This is a new show series and the folks who are doing it promise “bands, DJs, Mixed Tapes, Cupcakes, cheap drinks and good times that are out of this world” in addition to cheap drinks and a call-out for “the best MIX TAPE you can create. We will play them all throughout the night and the best one that gets the ladies dancing and boys moonwalking wins a prize!”. If there aren’t cupcakes, I might riot.
Doors open 9pm, 5$ Entry
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Check out this bit of magic discovered over on Tessa’s blog (she’s co-founder of Fixture Records). It’s Mitz’s new band Mavo recording at the Bottle Garden, a recording space I assume belongs to the Freelove Fenner folks. I love this sort-of making of documentation- all in one take too! Nice camerawork, Conor. Nice sounds, Mitz!
In a similar vein, Nightwood timelapsed every day of the making of Carta Marina and you can check out those videos here. The plan is to rework them into something longer and more comprehensive. Maybe I’ll start that this afternoon.
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(source)
the bright girls of summer
like horses, like whips of leather
they gallop toward each other
a beast as light as feathers (…)
- Listen to Come All Night by Dirty Wedding
- Listen to Sleep Late by Sick Friend
- We’re playing with both these bands on Thursday night at Jupiter Room. More soon!
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Tim Burton
Tim Burton at MOMA! Doesn’t that sound like fun? The exhibition opens up Nov. 22nd, so start planning your road trip. In the meantime, check out the Burton-styled page on the MOMA site as well as the video below…
Um, by the way, Tim’s main squeeze is Helena Bonham Carter and it seems she created a line of lingerie and swimwear called Pantaloonies a few years back! How bizarre!
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Video still from the Flaming Lips music video 'Watching The Planets'
Watch it on NME to see what Wayne Coyne looks like nekkid! “It’s naked bodies galore as everyone bares all to run, cycle and chant around the forest in Flaming Lips’ excellent new video to ‘Watching The Planets’.” My favorite part is the big furry ball with some kind of fleshy opening.
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Midge © Allyson Mitchell, 2006
In term of big furriness, check out Allyson Mitchell’s Lady Sasquatch series. Allyson is a self-described “maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film”.
It Ain't Gonna Lick Itself © Allyson Mitchell, 2005
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Ducky Doolittle
If you live in Toronto, you are lucky to have regular access to the Come As You Are workshops going on at the awesome sex toy boutique and bookstore (Montreal lost it’s short-lived version, Venez Tels Quels a few years ago). Check out the Creative Sex workshop offered by Ducky Doolittle, author of the book Sex With The Lights On.
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Laura Dern and Nic in Wild at Heart (1990)
Nicolas Cage: while the world laughs, we clap! (Can’t wait to see Bad Lieutenant …Herzog!)
- “Cage has two speeds, intense and intenser. I like both speeds. I find him an intriguing actor because he takes chances. He’s an actor without speed limits. You want an Elvis who parachutes into Vegas? A weatherman whose viewers throw fast food at him? An explorer of the national treasures buried far beneath Washington? He’s your go-to guy.” – Roger Ebert on Knowing (2009), The Chicago Sun Times
First, a highlight reel of respectable films:
- Knowing (2009…totally underrated)
- Matchstick Men (2003)
- Adaptation (2002)
- Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Red Rock West (1993)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
- Moonstruck (1987)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
- Birdy (1984)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- Valley Girl (1983)
Secondly, a highlight reel of guilty pleasures:
- Ghost Rider (2007. Come ON. A bikeriding skeleton!!!! My bad: a bike riding Nic Cage skeleton!)
- Con Air (1997…this film is an essay in 90’s-era action film cliches)
- National Treasure (2004)
- Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000…thankyouthankyouthankyou! So much material for excellent Nic Cage impersonations. See video below.)
..And, never mind the absolute schlock, all great movie stars have ‘em.
- “I have great affection for Harrison Ford, George Clooney and Brad Pitt. But can they go rockabilly like Nic did in “Wild at Heart?” Not that I liked the movie, but it’s a good question. With him it’s a lion-tamer on a high-wire. Anybody can play the ringmaster.” - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times“
Nic in Peggy Sue got Married
Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu- a mock trailer shown during the intermission of Grindhouse (2007):
- “There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He’s daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively.” – Roger Ebert on Adaptation (2002), The Chicago Sun Times
Hats off!
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from The Selby
We have a sparkly new Tumblr with which to reblog all the amazing images and ideas we come across on the interweb! What an embarassment of riches.
We especially like to follow our buds:
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by Matt Furie
- Matt Furie
- Matt Furie interview on FECAL FACE
- Matt Furie’s Big Adventure on XLR8
- Download his wallpaper, yeah!
by Matt Furie
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Awesome animated video! Some fun facts about the Sledgehammer video (from wikipedia):
- Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.
- The portion of the song featuring the synthesized flute solo was realized in the video by first one and then two oven-ready chickens, headless and featherless, animated using stop-motion.
- In 1987, it won nine MTV Video Music Awards, a record which still stands as of 2008.
Thanks for sharing Mike!
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1985 The Goonies Dark Blue Ringer T-Shirt, to wear while watching old movies
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Stuff to do on Friday the 13th:
- Finish up your stuff for Expozine (something many folks in Montreal are actually doing today/tonight)
- Go to Mitz’ Friday the Thirteenth DJ party at Silver Door
- Go to that Silly Kissers/Mixylodian/Witchies show this evening at Le Milieu
- Start planning your outfit for the sure-to-be-amazing Tune-Yards/Dirty Projectors show Sunday evening
- Here’s an awesome quote from Tune-Yards (Merrill Garbus) in this week’s MTL Mirror:
“I consider all art to be political,” says Merrill Garbus. “The fact that I recorded an album all by myself is a feminist statement in this day and age, when most musicians I know, but especially female musicians, have a hard time seeing that they can be a recording artist by their own efforts. For men as well—you don’t have to have approval or a master hand over your creation, it’s yours and it can be all yours.”
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Megapuss' risqué album art- the censored version (click for more)
In creating this new Sexy Thursdays series, I had an uncharacteristic bout of prudishness when I almost considered attaching “NSFW” to these posts. I quickly remembered my roots and rallied against this weirdo inclination.
My hero, Susie Bright, on this increasingly-more popular warning on websites in a blog entry entitled “This post is NSFP: This post is not safe for prudes“:
- “NSFW is unmandated, unlegislated censorship — there’s no ballot to punch, no senator to harangue. The great majority of NSFW warnings are the result of unconscious class bias, with the conceit of American ethnocentrism. It’s made a mockery of out of journalism and the First Amendment. NSFW and its slippery slope of “assumptions” leads to stories and ideas of all kinds being banned, firewalled, off the grid in places from universities to major wire services. Let’s change our own responses…(Read More)”
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Montreal’s red light district is in danger! If you haven’t heard the terrible news, what’s going on is that the city is demolishing this unique Canadian Heritage Site on St. Laurent and St. Catherine streets in order to build an office building. Boo! Hiss! To get the low-down, check out Save the Main. Or listen to this appeal by local burlesque troupe, The Dead Doll Dancers:
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This Friday:
UP YOURS - BENEFIT FOR STELLA!
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:00pm
5656 avenue du parc
performance a 23h15:FROSTED LEMON COWARDS MOTHER FUCKERS!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138876034451&ref=ts
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BURLESQUE PERFORMANCES AFTER
DANCING LATER
djs:
DJ FATTY CLITZ & DERELICT
LIKE THE WOLF
MUSCLEMAN
CATASTROFIK
FIVE DOLLARS SUGGESTED
PROCEEDS GO TO STELLA! SHOW YOUR LOVE!
http://www.chezstella.org/
!!!!!!!
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