Brilliant. He gets their wide-eyed vacuousness down pat. This is the work of Daveo Mathias, the fellow with the crew cut.
Via Tina Dupuy at FishBowl LA who writes “NSFW, depending on where you work. Like the Celebrity Centre…”
Considering its content, I have to say this might be the most hardcore rap shit I have ever heard.
Susan Tyrrell is one of the great scene stealers of American cinema. It doesn’t matter who she’s (supposedly) sharing the screen with, all eyes will be on Tyrrell. Susan Tyrrell possesses a unique charisma, let’s just say, and if I had to pick my favorite actress, I might have to say it’s her (maybe tied with Ruth Gordon). She’s great in Andy Warhol’s Bad, Big Top Pee-wee and Crybaby. Her role as Oma the sad barfly in John Huston’s Fat City saw her nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and who could forget her as tough as nails lesbian, Solly Mosler, the den-mother to a group of transvestite prostitutes in the Angel movies? No one plays a tough, psychotic bitch better than Tyrell and I mean no one.
But if you want to see Susan Tyrrell really cut loose and at her most, well, Susan Tyrrellish, you have to see her in her greatest role, as jealous Queen Mona in Richard Elfman’s cult classic, Forbidden Zone
Sadly due to a rare blood clotting disease,Tyrrell had to have both of her legs amputated. She’s still acting, playing a fortune teller in Bob Dylan and Larry Charles’ surreal Armed and Dangerous and producing amusing primitivist paintings which you can see on her official website.
My So-Called Rotten Life by Paul Cullum
A creeping, wet, slithering scent, dripping with seaweed, oceanic plants and dark, unfathomable waters.
Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, available at Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs.
The dog “standing in the corner” in the Charlie Brown sweater is our beloved little Chihuahua/Dachshund mutt, Paul aka “Jude Law” (don’t ask). Isn’t he cute? I took this picture about five years ago. He had done something “bad”—peed on the floor—and I made him stand in the corner. And stay there. He’d make to move away—“GET BACK”—and back he’d go. And so he stayed. For a long time. I was cooking and I just let him stay there. He kept his back straight and his nose right in the corner. Later, Tara came home and asked “WHAT is going on here?” and we had a rather good laugh about this. It was such an absurd thing.
The following day we saw him run into the kitchen, approach the corner, straighten his back and press his nose to the spot where he’d been punished the day before. We were in hysterics. It was this totally weird-sad-funny-pathetic canine thing: He was —or so it seemed to us—trying to simultaneously please us and yet still do his penance at the same time. That’s when the above picture was taken.
Not to just bore you with a story about our dog, there is a point. He obviously knew he’d done something wrong (he peed on the floor again) but he also thought—in a cause and effect kinda way—that we expected him to stand in the corner because he had done something wrong. That’s a fairly complicated thought for a two year old child, let alone a pooch, I think you’ll agree. Dig the doggie logic: he was punishing himself.
All pet owners have funny stories they can tell. Every dog and every cat, once you know them, can be seen to have a unique and quirky personality. I’m always saying “I wish I could be inside his head for one hour and know what he’s thinking” which is Tara’s cue to answer back “Circles. Squares. Triangles. Food. Mommy. Love. Circles. Squares. Triangles…”
I’m a sucker for anything that purports to explain canine and feline behavior to me. One cutting edge theory is that dogs are four-legged con artists who’ve connived their way into our homes and beds with their big innocent, brown eyes and wagging tails. Ditto for cats. but they’re more honest (apparently!).
If, like me, you enjoy pondering your dog’s IQ, you’ll probably like this article, The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind by Carl Zimmer:
We’ve all seen guilty dogs slinking away with lowered tails, for example. Horowitz wondered if they behave this way because they truly recognize they’ve done something wrong, so she devised an experiment. First she observed how dogs behaved when they did something they weren’t supposed to do and were scolded by their owners. Then she tricked the owners into believing the dogs had misbehaved when they hadn’t. When the humans scolded the dogs, the dogs were just as likely to look guilty, even though they were innocent of any misbehavior. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry. “It’s a white-flag response,” Horowitz says.
While this kind of manipulation may be unsettling to us, it reveals how carefully dogs pay attention to humans and learn from what they observe. That same attentiveness also gives dogs—or at least certain dogs—a skill with words that seems eerily human.
The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind
I realize that I’m violating our strict NO LEGO policy here at Dangerous Minds, but this is awesome, a LEGO version of Fallingwater!
For sale on the Guggenheim Museum’s website:
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Before Nerve, J-Date, or even Craigslist, when it came to hooking up, there was…analog video. Oh, Mr. 25-Year Subscriber To Both Playboy And The New Yorker Magazine, I do hope you met your soulmate!
Via Paperspray, Via Laughing Squid
Back in ‘99, I was lucky enough to have been in attendance at the now-notorious “punk rock reunion show” held at Santa Monica’s Track 16 gallery. X, The Bags, The Go-Go’s, The Flesh Eaters, The Weirdos and many, many other bands, all played in their fullest possible incarnations.
Given the passing of time, and people, it was a moving, memorable evening, but I think no band played tighter—or stronger—that night than closing act Devo. They opened (I believe) with Jocko Homo (Are We Not Men?), and I remember shooting friends WTF looks as the whole gallery started quaking (see photo below).
Well, starting this fall, you can witness some of that “Akron magic” yourself:
Ohio nerd-rock legends Devo are taking the whole playing-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety trend to the next level. On their November tour, they will play two-night stands in every city, dedicating each night to one particular album. The first night, Devo will play their 1978 debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! straight through. The next night, they’ll run through 1980’s Freedom of Choice. So you’ll be able to choose between experimental weirdo Devo and early-MTV new wave Devo, or you could just buy tickets to both shows.
And sure, doing the “whole album in its entirety thing” is, by now, not the newest of tricks. But let’s give the boys…er, men, their due, shall we? As you can see from the below promo film touting “laser discs,” when it comes to embracing new forms, be they mutant or technological, Devo’s always been on the cutting edge.
Via Pitchfork: Devo Reissue Classic Early Albums, Play Them Live on Fall Tour
Devo on Fridays: Girl U Want/Gates of Steel
(Thanks Danny Gromfin!)
In the Sixties, Bobbie Gentry
Her biggest hit was the AM radio staple, “Ode to Billie Joe” a song which captured the nation’s psyche in 1967, the album knocking the Sgt Pepper off the #1 spot. For years people have speculated over the song’s meaning, or exactly what it was that Bille Joe McCallister and his girlfriend were throwin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge. An aborted fetus is the standard answer, but Gentry herself says that the songs theme was really alienation:
Those questions are of secondary importance in my mind. The story of Billie Joe has two more interesting underlying themes. First, the illustration of a group of peoples reaction’s to the life and death of Billie Joe, and its subsequent effect on their lives, is made. Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first Billie Joe, and later, Papa), and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognize their mutual loss or share their grief.
Throughout the Seventies, her popularity continued with frequent guest appearances on TV shows hosted by the likes of Glen Campbell (her frequent duet partner), Bing Crosby, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope and in England she was on Morcambe and Wise. She had her own television series in both America and in the UK, signed a lucrative Las Vegas contract for an elaborate floor show—she was the original Celine Dion in that regard—but in 1978, after a Christmas appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, she quietly slipped out of the spotlight never to return. There is very, very little—almost nothing—that you can find about her since then. I recall reading a gossip tabloid standing in a supermarket line about ten years ago that said she dropped out of show biz to raise a handicapped child, but I haven’t found anything to corroborate that anywhere else.
In any case, Bobbie Gentry herself turned out to be as mysterious as her best-known creation.
One night at 3 AM, while contemplating other, possible career options, I found myself on the CIA’s website and noticed they now have a section “just for kids.”
Welcome. We?