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/// Hairy Chested Gallery VII ///

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/// Music Ticker: Robyn/Diplo, Dirtbag Journalism, Enjoyed: A Tribute To Björk, The Drums, Yeasayer ///

+++ A few minutes ago CATCH FIRE contributor Max Mohenu has posted this link to a new song by Robyn on his awesome music blog Dirtbag Journalism, a site I highly want to recommend here. The song is called “Dancehall Queen” and it’s produced by Diplo. Thanks, Max! +++ This may not be big news for a lot of you, but it’s still worth being posted: In 2008 the music blog Stereogum has released “Enjoyed: A Tribute To Björk’s Post” featuring cover versions of indie bands/projects like the Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu, Final Fantasy and others. It can be downloaded for free here +++ There’s a new, pretty charming video by The Drums. I’ve been waiting for some time now to find the right moment to post it on the blog, but it feels as if this moment has passed by. Still, you can watch it here, and it’s worth the click +++ This is the fancy new video for Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.”. Join the hipster party:

 

/// 160G Magazine: “The Youth Spirit” By Jamie Luca ///

http://www.160grams.com/

 

/// Fanboy Of The Month Shooting x 2 ///

With a monthly feature called “Fanboy Of The Month” the website and web community Fanboys of the Universe not only promotes itself but fandom in general by showing how charming and sexy nerdiness can be. And as you can see they have some pretty convincing arguments for this assumption. Click here for more good reasons.

 

/// J.W. Anderson Fall 2010 ///

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/// Watch It Online: The Lavender Lens ///

“The Lavender Lens – 100 Years of Celluloid Queers” is a documentary by filmmaker David Johnson from 1995, I just found it on the sissydude tumblr (Johnson has uploaded it himself a while ago). The movie is a pretty extensive and uncommented montage of both famous and rather unknown queer moments of all film historical eras, starting with the legendary “Gay Brothers” from 1895, one of the first example of a motion picture. Because of it’s length I think it is a good idea to take the advice given on Best Documentary not to watch the movie in one go, but to “dip into it periodically”. Especially since the resolution of the video is not very high.

 

/// 6 Pictures Of Vivianne Sassen’s “Africa”-Series ///

http://www.vivianesassen.com

 

/// Web Debut: Five Star Niggaz ///

Consider me a fan of these guys, whoever they are and wherever they’re from:

 

/// 1 + 1 = 1: A Tribute To Bryer P-Orridge ///

Genesis Bryer P-Orridge and her wife Lady Jaye were one of  the few pandrogynist couples in the world, actually they are sort of the inventor of what is called Pandrogeny. As a (male) singer and musician of the British band Throbbing Gristle as well as the founder of Psychic TV Genesis has always been interested in the transformations of the body and the possibilities these transformations can open up in terms of rethinking gender identity and finding new concepts of what love means. Genesis and Lady Jaye perceived their love as so strong that the both of them were just parts of one shared entity, a “pandrogynist” person called “Bryer P-Orridge”. This is why through several surgeries they started to change their bodies in a way that they would more and more resemble each other. Sadly Lady Jay Bryer P-Orridge died of a heart failure in 2007, but recently several film projects have been released that in different ways deal with the couple’s relationship – one of them is Jake’s Yuzna’s awesome film “Open” that won a special Teddy award at this year’s Berlinale (click here for the Berlinale info sheet), another second one is a documentary called “The Ballade Of Lady Jay” by filmmaker Marie Losier (trailer below) who also shot the brilliant great video to “Have Mercy” by Psychic TV. More about Genesis P-Orridge and the concept of Pandrogeny on her website. Jake Yuzna will soon be part II of the CATCH FIRE interviews series – as soon as I have completely transcripted the interview. I also posted a clip of another documentary about the couple produced by Metropolis Web TV.

 

/// Jonathan Boulet – North To South East To You ///

Thanks, Knut.