February 2010
Ssion: Clown
Ssion have always blown my mind in some way or another and this video is no exception. I feel like if Le Tigre was an 80’s disco band; this would be what they’re shows would be like.
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself
“(…) Vomiting my brains out on video was gross as hell and it made me feel like shit afterward. Those tears and the ›what the fuck is going on‹ look is sincere. But just because I look like shit does not mean that I didn’t have a choice in doing that. (…) It was my idea and I chose with full agency, undrugged, uncoerced, to do it.” (Angela Seo on xiuxiu.org.)
William E. Jones: The Retrospective
You know this picture but you have no idea where it’s been taken from? Then I can help you out: It’s a still of a short movie called “The fall of communism as seen in gay pornography” by William E. Jones from 1988. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who grew up in Ohio and now lives in L.A., teaching film history at the Art Center College of Design. His work is regularly shown in experimental, video, or gay and lesbian film festivals as well as at important art spaces such as the Venice Biennale, the Tate Modern, the Cinématheque Française and others. The reason why I tell you this is because from this Friday on Jones’ complete film work will be shown at New York City’s Anthology Film Archives in a retrospective co-sponsored by MIX NYC, and by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU. If you’re from New York you find more information about this retrospective on the AFA website and on buttmagazine.com, my source for this post. To all others I recommend Jones’ pretty extensive website to get an impresson of his stuff.
MV (Misteur Valaire) – It’s All Good
MV is a electro-jazz quintet from Quebec which releases its music for free on the internet (misteurvalaire.com). And they seem to be pretty skilled swimmers. Thanks for the link, Jonathan!
Sissy Mag #5 Out Now
Click here for the website and a pdf version. More about the mag (which unfortunately is completely in German language) here.
Music Ticker: Prince of Assyria, Ali Love, Tracey Thorn, Deadelus, El Perro Del Mar, The xx, We Have Band
+++ A small musical suggestion first: Check out Prince of Assyra, a pretty interesting Swedish singer/songwriter Riku introduced me to a few days ago. Click here for his Myspace page +++ +++ There’s a new video by Ali Love directed by Trevor Jackson (Playgroup). I don’t like it, although the song is great. Anyways, I thought I’d keep you updated. You find it here on BIGSTERO +++ +++ Tracey Thorn has posted the song “Oh, The Divorsces” as a free download on her website. It’s going to the opener of her upcoming album “Love and its Opposite” (which is going to be released in May) +++ +++ Colin of Quinnford & Scout has posted this beautiful new track by Ex-Anticon-act Deadelus on his tumblr. You can download it here. Or watch the promo video for the new album “Righteous Fists of Harmony” on Vimeao +++ +++ El Perro Del Mar have recently covered “Shelter” by The xx. Watch the performance here (Thanks, Knut) +++ +++ This is the new video by We Have Band (new album in April). It looks pretty good and like a lot of work: +++
Warped Special: Honcho Magazine Covers 1978-1984
First part of a covers series of the “Magazine for the Macho Male”. The first issue was published in April 1978 by the Mavety Media Group.
HOWL (The Movie): Some Pros And Cons
My boyfriend and I just watched HOWL at the Berlinale. We just tried to put together some good reasons why this is a good movie. And why not. Here we go: + James Franco - The horrible animations which illustrate the poem as if it was a Pearl Jam song (looks like these animations guys had no idea what the whole thing is about) ———————————-
+ The way the movie reveals the relations between Ginsberg’s live and the poem
+ The court scenes (which must have been easy to shoot because they are based on the original protocols)
+ The poem itself which is being read completely by Franco (click here if you don’t know it yet)
+ A song called “Father Death” Ginsberg himself sings at the end of the movie (watch it below)
- The flashbacks (which depict scenes of Ginsberg’s live in a completely clean way, not really showing anything of the pain this guy went through)
- The way the movie romanticises (gay) history in general (which is something typical for Epstein and Friedman)
Good Blogs: Queer the Pitch
Queer the Pitch is one of these very simple but pretty entertaining blogs I haven’t saved in my blog reader but I visit regularly and can’t stop clicking myself through it everytime I open it. Its content is just a really really trashy, campy mixture of pictures and videos, a lot of them sorted by funny categories such as “annoying PETA”, “japanese political incorectness” or “glamourizing smoking”. So if you’re planning to spend your Sunday evening in bed, this may be a nice opportunity to waste some time in a good way. Click here to get there.
Vampire Weekend: Giving Up The Gun
Jake Gyllenhaal! It starts at 2:03! Thanks, Gunnar.
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