My buddy Greg has been saying this for years–a medicine “created by a school teacher” is not something to brag about and is no substitution for drugs crafted through the rigorous application of the scientific method.
And now Airborne just lost their case with the State of California, and is going to have to significantly change [...]
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California wins lawsuit against Airborne
Posted in Art, Comics, LAist, Other Stuff, Politics, Soda Pop on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ted Kennedy at the DNC
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Politics, Television on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Man, I loved the speech. And I loved Ken Burns’ tribute movie! I was genuinely touched. I’m so impressed that Kennedy, who’s been such a positive force for the advancement of liberal ideals (well, except for that one thing), was able to get out of his sick bed and come down for what may likely be his last public appearance ever.
Goddam [...]
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree thingie
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Performers, Politics, The Beatles on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was eating lunch with coworkers at Il Fornaio in Pasadena, when I realized that Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree exhibit thingie was right there outside the windows in the Old Town courtyard in front of Gordon Biersch.
Apparently once all the wishes from this site and various sites around the world are collected, they’ll be put [...]
Devo sues McDonald’s over “New Wave Nigel”
Posted in Art, Bands, Celebrities, Devo, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Pitchfork Media, Politics on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A month or so ago, my brother had a profound urge to send me a surprise gift package in the mail. “Have you checked your mailbox?” he kept asking. I finally got it and found out that he’d desperately wanted to send me this little guy. See, I’m a huge Devo fan, and McDonald’s had [...]
Wuthering Heights
Posted in Art, Bands, Celebrities, Electronic Music, Losanjealous.com, Performers, Shows, Songwriters on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I went to the Summer Camp event this weekend and caught some great performances by Electrocute, the Lady Tigra, and We Are the World. But perhaps the most sugary sweet treat to watch was Jer Ber Jones, the electroclash drag queen (no, not that one) who wears a Dee Snyder wig and tall tall heels. He [...]
manifestos.net
Posted in Art, Books, Futurism, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Poetry, Politics, Punk on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My friend DJ Algonquin just clued me into this amazing site, wherein are listed hundreds of manifestos, many of them accessible via various links. Of course, me, I’ve got a lot of art manifestos in book form at home, but not so many political or religious ones. This site has everything, from Rayonism to Luigi [...]
Lucian Freud – “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping”
Posted in Art, Other Stuff, Personal Shit on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lucian Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” just became the most expensive painting ever purchased while its creator was still alive.
I vividly remember seeing an exhibit of Lucian Freud at the Chicago Art Institute when I was a teen–that’s the last time I’ve seen any of his works “in the flesh,” as it were, but I was [...]
Marcel Duchamp and Theresa Stern
Posted in Art, Books, Celebrities, Futurism, Performers, Poetry, Punk on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, so we visited the Norton Simon today, and to be honest, the Duchamp exhibit was a bit small. All the stuff was from the museum’s permanent collection, and though his twirling paintings-in-motion that had not been exhibited since 1963 were pretty incredible (perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, actually), I think the leeches at the Tate Modern [...]
Marcel Duchamp Redux at the Norton Simon
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Futurism, Other Stuff, The Beach Boys on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Marcel Duchamp Redux exhibit is showing at the Norton Simon right now, the museum that once was the Pasadena Art Museum and which hosted Duchamp’s spectacular first retrospective in 1963. And this Sunday at 4 there’ll be lectures and fun to be had, so I’m definitely going.
They’re showing a dozen pieces from Duchamp’s history, including some [...]
Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori
Posted in Albums, Art, Classical Moosic, Electronic Music, Futurism, Other Stuff, Performers, Songwriters on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another great purchase I got at Amoeba this weekend was Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises, a compilation of Futurist speeches, original recordings, and recreations of music and noise composed by the Italian Futurist ringleader F.T. Marinetti, as well as Silvio Mix, Franco Casavola, Francesco Balilla Pratella, and a bunch of other crazy Italian artist [...]
