"It's like a dream, no end and no beginning..."

Street styles: Tartan in action

Dope plaid Vans slip ons sir, dope indeed.
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Deadweight

All this Danny Boyle love I've been sharing made me think of "A Life Less Ordinary" but mainly the soundtrack and the Beck song Deadweight. Sadly the embedding request has been disabled but you can still check out this totally genius vid directed by Michel Gondry!

a legend lost

Legendary actress, singer and dancer Earth Kitt died yesterday, and surely will be pissed. This inconoclast was born in a cotton field and eventually made it to Hollywood where she played CatWoman on the 1960's Television version of Batman. The woman will surely be missed but thankfully her art lives on.

"C'est Si Bon"


"Santa Baby"

A belated Christmas gift to you nerds out there/ trailer trash redux

If you haven't seen it already, here's the latest Watchmen trailer. Once again it features awesome music, this time from Muse.

"You got to have a dream. if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"

This ditty was stuck in my head long before his arrest, but I had to share and show some love to Diz now. Hey better late than never.

"Your arms are calling out, they wave like a swarm of sound...you step the stage and take control, control, control..."

I've had this song stuck in my head since I saw The Faint in October and it's been worse than ever lately because "Control, control,control, control..." keeps thumping through my noggin. Thankfully it's a sick song.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Did you get what you wanted?

A Christmas Eve Blackout

So the powere went out throughout the neighborhood for about 4 hours. Thankfully it was on in time to watch "A Christmas Story"
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The Bees Knees & the Cat's Pajamas

The Bees Knees is a new feature on things I just find utterly delightful and fantastic. The saying bees knees for instance is exactly one of those things, since it just seems to preposterous to be true but something I would love to witness, just like the Cat's Pajamas, because really who wouldn't want to see a Cat's Pajamas. And for the inaugural post a video clip.

Happy Hanukkah everybody!

Though Hannukah started on Sunday bnight and we're half way through the Festival of Lights, I'd be remiss not to mention it and give a shout out to Judah Maccabee, considering growing up in Miami, 98% of my friends were Jewish which made me Jewish by association. Plus it's so much funikah to celebrate Channukah!

While looking for the perfect picture of a Menorah to post I came across all these great ones I had to share.

Hot Meat @ "Milk"

Though I was tempted to put some hot meat in my mouth while watching "Milk," I thought it would detract my focus from the film.
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Please take a moment to Rock the F out to Crystal Castles!

Crystal Castles "Alice Practice"

Crystal Castles "Crimewave"

Crystal Castles "Courtship Dating"

Crystal Castles "Love and Caring"

Crystal Castles "Vanished"

"...if you catch me at the border I got visas in my name..."

Though I wasn't even a zygote during The Last Great War, I hearken the sonic bombardment of having to listen to Paper Planes over and over again in the Pineapple Express trailer, to having to listen to the luftwaffe attempt to dominate Europe. Strong words I know, but the song was just overplayed. Though "Slumdog Millionare" totally redeemed it for me and features the original and the even more stellar M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix) .

While on the subject of Ms. Arulpragasam here are a few mnore sick tracks from "Kala."

"World Town"

"Jimmy"

"20 Dollar"

The Science of Sexy

If you are unaware of who this lovely creature is, enligthen yourself immediately! Dita Von Teese is a pinup star, model actress and burlesque dancer, and can basically be compared to the modern day Bettie Page. Dita has an exquisite fashion sense, which I have featured below.

Dita Von Teese is committed to total glamour at all times and I fully respect her for it. Check out her Wonderbra commercial which is preposterous yet splendid.

By the by...

TV Reviews

"Hey shut the fuck up boy, you are starting to piss me off..."

The Swedish kick continues!I just happened to find this song by Peter, Bjorn and John out of nowhere, but it's mildly addictive. And I also want to thank Sarah Odio for informing me about the Swedish Lunar Lander and House Building Mission...it's as if she were encouraging me to move to Sweden and eventually the moon!

"Hey (Shut the Fuck Up Boy!)"

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight...

The juke box we just got for our office!
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I'm in love with Panic Bomber

Panic Bomber is the new solo project from local Miami musician Richard Haig and it's fucking awesome! I went to the Sweat Records Stocking Stuffer party and ran into Pat Walsh (check out his weekly party NightDrive by the by,) who asked me if I'd heard Richard's album yet, which I had not. Coincidentally I had run into Rich during Art Basel at the ANR, The Jean Marie and Rachel Goodrich show, and he told me he was working on something new and going by the name of "Panic Bomber," which immediately intrigued me, since Richard is a rather intriguing person, & what better to get the people riled up than the mention of something terrorism related.

So when Pat played the "Calling in Threats Demo" for me, I was shocked, entertained and instantly obsessed. As Panic Bomber Richard's found a way to combine a myriad of electronic formats together to create, fun, dark and mildly hilarious yet incredibly good dance music. Off the Radar Music posted a little feature about him, which is rad because he deserves as many shout outs as possible. You can download the whole album "Calling In Threats" for free on his website or listen to 3 of the tracks on myspace, which happens to include the song I simply can't get enough of "Until Our Legs Break," (while "Smooth Sailor" is really growing on me as well.)

You can see Richard as Panic Bomber in seizure inducing action live at The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street) Friday, January 9th,2009 at 11 pm (& hopefully he'll play Nightdrive on the 1/21/09 too.) So check him out he's going to blow up, figuratively and maybe just literally.

Shit I dropped like it was hot...

When I first saw this children's book on the creation and signing of the Constitution I thought it would be a really great/educational gift for my seven year old cousin for the holiday season (yes I'm aware I'm a nerd and love American history too much.) Then I realized it was written by Lynne Cheney, Dick's wife and I exclaimed "Ah HELL NO!" aloud, dropped the book and looked for some anarchist reading material for my cousin instead.

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Alexander McQueen is a mad genius

While more and more womenswear designers plan on designing menswear too, Alexander McQueen has been up to it for a while. The pictures below are from the Gilt Group sale of some of the stuff from last week and I just had to share.

yeah yeah yeah fur is murder, but it just feels so damn good.