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/// Jonsi – Do Go (The Video) ///

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Via Stereogum / P4K

http://jonsi.com/

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/// Kids On TV x 2: Short Film “Game On” / Video Interview ///

Monday, February 8, 2010

http://www.kidsontv.biz/

Via Slava Mogutin.

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Sissy Nobby & Big Freedia: Bouncing BUTTs
Ab Soto: Butch Beat
Jonsi – Do Go (The Video)

/// Up And Coming: Gosha Rubchinskiy ///

Monday, February 8, 2010

Gosha Rubinskiy is a 25-year-old Russian fashion designer, film maker and photographer who seems to have a faible for the nineties as well as teenage delinquents and the youth in the post-USSR era in general. For the show documented on the pictures below (it took place at a sports hall in Moscow spring last year) he casted local skaters, hockey players, graffiti artists and street kids as models. The video further down is shot a short film by Rubchinskiy about the every day live of a bunch of Russian skaters. You find more of his work on his Flickr stream and over at Dirty Butt! as well as little article about him and the sports hall show here. Also, you find the fanzine-like look book for his first collection “Evil Empire” on an awsome blog called MAFIA HUNT I discovered yesterday, click here to have a look at it.

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/// Turning Trash Into… Trash: Jiz / Sienna D’Enema ///

Sunday, February 7, 2010

John Waters would love this: Jiz is a spoof on the campy kids’ cartoon show “Jem and the Holograms” about a female glamrock band. The re-dubbed version turns the main character Jem into a violent drug addicted drag queen and everyone else into queer weirdos. The episode below in which Jiz turns out to be a huge fan of abortions may not completly have the drive of the older, shorter Jiz clips, but is still pretty funny. You find more Jiz-stuff and other rude re-dub experiments like the “Golden Shower Girls” on this YouTube channel. It’s run by a guy called Sienna D’Enema, who in this small interview he gave the online magazine Heeb turns out to be a film maker from L.A. who wants to stay anonymous but at the same time announces more of these kinds of clips.

Tags: Comic/Anime/Illustration, Eighties, Gendered, TV, Trash | Comments (0)

/// Music Ticker: Jonsi, Tomorrow, In A Year, Two Door Cinema Club, The Magnetic Fields, Gil Scott-Heron ///

Saturday, February 6, 2010

+++ “Do Go” is another song that will be on Jonsi’s first solo album “Go” that’s going to be released on Aprtil 5th. Click here to listen to the song and here for the tour dates his record company has just announced +++ On the website Fairtilizer you can now listen to a roundtable conversation of The Knife, Mt. Sims and Planningtorock. It was recorded to provide fans and journalists with some backround information about “Tomorrow, In A Year”. It’s pretty interesting +++ Musically Two Door Cinema Club may not be the most exciting band of the universe, but I liked the video for their debut single “I Can Talk”. Watch their latest one for “Undercover Martyn” here, it’s also kind of nice +++ The Magnetic Fields not only have a new record out, there’ will also be a documentary about songwriter Stepin Merrit released in the next few weeks. Watch the Trailer for “Strange Powers” on OMG blog +++ The beautiful video below has been recorded for Gil Scott-Heron’s new single “Me And The Devil”. His album “I’m New Here”, will be released next week. It’s his first new studio album since 1994 +++

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/// Good Blogs: I ♥ Tumblrs ///

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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And don’t forget this one:

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/// Watch It Online: Synth Britannia ///

Friday, February 5, 2010

Synth Britannia is a documentary that aired on BBC Four in October 2009 and that follows the British synth pop movmement from its early and rather experimental stages in the late seventies to the eighties, when it all of a sudden had a major impact on Western pop culture. The inventors of synth-based pop music such a The Normal, The Human League or OMD where all influenced by computer music heroes such as Kraftwerk and Gorgio Moroder as well as the punk era in which making music was no longer perceived as a the privilege of trained musicians. Unfortunately the documentary focuses mostly on the technical side of this music and on the way it affected and was affected by society in general, the fact that this movement established a whole new style that e.g. allowed men to be androgynous and emotional isn’t really analysed here, it’s only superficially mentioned . Still the film is really worth watching if you like the music and the style of that time. I also posted some of my favourite artists and songs appearing in the film below.

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Tags: Eighties, Film, Music, Seventies, TV, Watch It Online | Comments (1)

/// Poll: More/Less Pictures On CF? ///

Friday, February 5, 2010

Hey guys, I recently got critizised several times for posting too many picture galleries (like the one below) and single pictures on this site instead of “real” content. I’ve always wanted CATCH FIRE to be a very visual site, but I surely don’t want to annoy or even bore people with too many pictures. So please tell me what you think and vote: