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!! OMG, Evasion Persuasion: Ms. Lauryn Hill's 'Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)' !!
Last week we got a musical chubby at the news that Ms. Lauryn Hill might be releasing new material and she just went ahead and served us up some serious 'don't even mess me about Uncle Samuel' lyrical smorgesBourguignon with her track 'Neurotic Society'.
After having released the track Ms. Hill -once again- took to tumblr to announce "Here is a link to a piece that I was 'required' to release immediately" -presumably- hence the additional 'Compulsory Mix' tag, who's lyrics become even more voluminous from within the confines of imprisonment from that same "economic paradigm" Lauryn previously called out against:
"More money, less equality...hypocritics on salary...contagious social gluttony Quiet victims with no defense portrayed over dollars and cents... Don't trust it, this cosmology is busted"
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Thursday, May 9, 2013
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!! OMG, lady shady shade: Alexis Colby and Dominique Devereaux serve it up !!
Now that '..Drag Race' has reached the finish line, we are all gasping for a sip of tea, and these couple of bitches are brewing a steaming pot of loose leaf EARL GAY:
Kevin sent me this a couple of days back with the heading 'Dynasty Shade Fest', which I think about sums it all up, these bitches are throwing the best kind of shade, that is rich privileged fur-clad lady shady shade, apart from the other best type of shade which is LAMP-SHADE, of which there are none in this scene, just lots of well tended to indoor tropical plant shades.
[thanks Kevin & Margot]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
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!! OMG, Xena Warrior Princesses: Ukraine's Asgarda Girls !!
In 1904 American psychologist G. Stanley Hall said "Adolescence is a new birth".
Based on the book of the same name by punk author Jon Savage, Matt Wolf's documentary 'Teenagers' premiered at Tribeca film festival last week. It explores the lesser-known teenage subcultures that have emerged since the beginning of the 20th century, the term 'teenager' itself only cropping up since the WW2.
Dazed asked Wolf to list his 5 favourite teen tribes, top of the list being Ukraine's Asgarda Girls.
Described as "Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety" these 150 female students live together in the Carpathian Mountains where look to revive the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology. They train under former Soviet karate master Volodymyr Stepanovytch and practice life skills and sciences as empowered women free from the oppression of men.
Follow the jump to see photographs of the Asgarda Girls...I totes want to be one too, it's like the Spice Girls, but with a sickles and nunchucks instead of a colour-coordinated sparkly microphones!
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Thursday, May 2, 2013
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!! OMG, mari et mari: Pierre et Gilles for V Magazine !!
'Pierre et Gilles's' pre-photoshop photographs "are iconic, yet none of their sitters look robotic...because everything is done by hand" so says shoe designer and long held friend Christian Louboutin.
The French couple have photographed Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop and Madonna and collaborated with fashion designers Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier over the years, and their.
Their latest series, which you can see after the jump, are a series of self portraits of the couple created in pre-emptive celebration of the approval of Marriage Equality in France:
"It's actually our second time doing this...in 1993 we did a fake wedding which showed Gilles as a bride." _Pierre Commoy
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Monday, April 29, 2013
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!! OMG, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz: Mounir Fatmi's 'Sleep (Al Naim)' !!
If you are not familiar with Sir Salman Rushdie, read a blooming book some time. His first novel 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker Prize in 1981, and his fourth novel 'The Satanic Verses' won him death threats and from angry Muslims and a fatwā issued by the -then- Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Oopsie!
Paris-based Moroccan Artist Mounir Fatmi's latest piece is a reinterpretation of Andy Warhol's 1963 film also entitled 'Sleep', and features a 3D render of Sir Salman Rushdie...asleep...obv.
This 6 hour durational piece was censored at a show at l'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris last year but is currently showing in Fatmi's solo exhibition entitled 'History is Not Mine':
"Rushdie lives between different worlds, between countries, between life and death. It is at once boring and voyeuristic to look at someone sleeping for six hours. I want the audience to feel guilty about Rushdie's destiny."
[via nowness]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Friday, April 26, 2013
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!! OMG, the vision of Divinity: Jeffrey Schwarz interview !!
Jeffrey Schwarz has directed over 100 films; documentaries about movies, films on films, covering the making as such classics as 'Footloose' [this amounts to several films, obsessed much?!], 'Bewitched' and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.
His in-depth documentary on the queen of all queens, Divine, premiered this year at SXSW and features previously unseen photos and videos provided by Divine's mother Frances Milstead who was still alive when Jeffrey was collecting together his material for what he describes as "the ultimate 'it gets better' story".
Schwarz sat down with Afterelton to discuss his dream of one day making a Divine Biopic, his search for film-funding sugar-daddies or "donor angels", and remembering that John [Waters] and Divine, were creating "movies for gay people who didn't get along with other gay people":
"Today's queers need to remember people like Divine and the people on the fringes who made it easier for the rest of us."
True dat!
You can read the whole interview HERE [I promise only a single mention of canine excrement] and you can browse the North American film screening deets, after the jump.
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Friday, April 12, 2013
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!! OMG, SHAKE YOUR HABITUAL ASS: The Knife's 'STH' interview !!
Beginning with a mesmeric swingy swing and the footage taken from their album teaser from last December, The Knife's album 'interview' expands upon this very album teaser blurb and their later released album manifesto [also after the jump], questioning systems of fame and school institutions that they see as failed and championing those systems [the ecosystem, the soundsystem] which they still believe can instil change.
Scanning through relatively mundane images [people dancing, birds feeding, doorways and windows, railings and walls], Olof and Karin narrate a new process-heavy-shake-up of old habits:
"we approached each other...through the language of others...and we play...and we played and we played and we played...to let go of what we already knew about music and explore what we didn't know...letting go...we want to question the knife"
"we used homemade instruments, or played traditional instruments in non-traditional ways and tried to find non-tradional ways of creating traditional sounds...making a bedspring sound like a voice, or a voice sound like a bedspring"
They discuss protest songs [against monarchy and the nuclear family] and the power of safety in collectivism. They use the "commercial homogenisation and extreme hierarchical conservatism" of the music industry as a metaphor for societal shifts in Europe, and set aside their previously worn masks which questioned ideas of "fake tanning" fame and identity, but then became commercial institutions in themselves:
"I think there are no real 'us', behind the masks there are other masks"
I've popped the video after the jump due to some non-nuclear titty sucking near the end so jump in and SHAKE YOUR HABITUAL ASS !
"it's time to move...to fall...to fly"
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Thursday, April 11, 2013
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!! OMG, stick thin: Wolgang Stiller's Matchstickmen !!
German installation artist Wolfgang Stiller is a fire-starter, a twisted fire starter. I mean look at the heads on those hot-rods, they are like blackened indignant old man orgasm faces, like maybe he hasn't squeezed one out in a while and then a little grey drop comes out the end and he's so ecstatic that he just INTERNALLY COMBUSTS on peaking.
I find these matchstickmen so beautiful, with the open match boxes looking like open funeral caskets; the faces serene but with a sense of something sudden and tragic has befallen upon them and they lie where they were struck down.
Follow the jump to see more more shots of these flaming queens.
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Thursday, April 11, 2013
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!! OMG, What is that poopie-smell?: Oh it's just Maggie! !!
It's been a couple of days now since Maggy CRAPcher -who famously fretted that "children are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay"- popped her frumpy privately owned clogs and and someone finally called a cab so she would leave the party. Let me just say that I write this, not because she died, but simply because she did what she did when she was very much alive and not very well in the Prime Ministerial head.
Being born smack bang in the middle of the hot mess that was Thatcher's rule, and growing up in Liverpool and Glasgow, two of the working class cities that this week held parties in celebration of her planetary riddance, my socialist parents brought me up to believe two very important things; firstly, to accept and celebrate those who are 'different', and secondly that the exception to this rule is Maggie Thatcher, who, to use my mom's euphemism for "farts" [don't ask why this word requires a euphemism] is a big pile of 'POOPIE-SMELL'!
Russell Brand wrote an excellent article this week for British newspaper The Guardian, in which he pretty much summed up what Thatcher meant for Brits of my generation on the side of sanity, who, as soon as they began eating solids and baby-bumping to Bananarama on Top Of The Pops, learned also that the bad smell in the room meant one of two things, either they themselves had done a "poopie-smell", or otherwise it just smelt like BROCCOLI FLATULENCE as Margarette Thatcher was croaking up more conservative gobbletygoop on the TV again.
You can read Brand's article HERE, where he discusses her dirty Falkland war-mongering, her refusal to stand against apartheid, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich and his confusion over why The Spice Girls looked to her as a source of Girl Power... Sorry Geri, I think you're confused love, put your peace fingers down and sush for a second!:
"when I was a child she was just a strict woman telling everyone off and selling everything off...It's like a whimsical live-action episode of Postman Pat where his cat is craftily carved up and sold back to him."
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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!! OMG, brother grimm: Mykki Blanco on his Poetic Roots !!
It runs true that a gender-exploratory rapper such as Mykki Blanco would have his/her feet heeled in poetry and performance art roots.
Mykki spoke to dazed about her/his early ventures into performance art [through the Paint Unconsciousness collective], an fetal love of 'fringe biographies' [Bette Midler, Oscar Wilde], and his early ventures into poetry which s/he describes as "Brothers Grimm turned on it's head".
You can read her/his interview HERE, and see one of Mykki's earlier backing-tracked poetry readings of 'From the Silence of Duchamp to Noise of Boys' HERE.
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Friday, March 22, 2013
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