Saturday, July 25, 2009

Ad Fad - Gucci


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

trailer trash - Alice in Wonderland

I'm amazed and petrified all at the same time after watching this trailer. I love when Burton and Depp collaborate, but it generally scares the bejesus out of me. Either which way, this film looks like a cinematic achivement of epic proportions that's really going to blow people away come March 5th, 2010.

Thom Yorke plays a new solo single

This past weekend at The Latitude Festival in Suffolk, Mr. Yorke took some time off from fronting the greatest band in the universe and played a solo set. While there he also played a new song, that has no title but's going by "The Present Tense." Enjoy!

James Cameron talks "Avatar"

With Comic-Con starting tomorrow (previews begin tonight!) I figured I should post some old info on Avatar to keep myself distracted til Thursday's panel, where JC himself will be showing clips and talking about thefilm. And of course the subsequent barrage of nerdtastic anticipation and hypotheses that will develop.



Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Please take a moment to Rock the F out to - Florence and The Machine

Florence and The Machine are fronted by British song bird Florence Welch and are pretty fantastic, take a listen for yourself and you'll certainly agree. Ms Welch was also nominated for a Mercury Prize this morning (along with other previously featured artists Bat for Lashes & Friendly Fires!)

Kiss With A Fist


Cosmic Love


Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)


You've Got The Love


Galaxy of The Lost


Girl With One Eye (Live)


Scattered (Green Day Cover)





My Boy Builds Coffins (Live with mini interview)


Postcards From Italy (Beirut Cover)


I'm Going Down (Feat Kid Harpoon)



Hospital Beds (Cold War Kids Cover)


Halo (Beyonce Cover)

Monday, July 20, 2009

"Certitude"

CERTAINTY
If I speak to you this is for better to hear you
If I hear you I am sure to understand you

If you smile this is for better to invade me
If you smile I see the entire world

If I embrace you this is to continue me
If we live all will be at pleasure

If I leave you we will remember
While leaving you ourselves will meet again

-Paul Eluard

CERTITUDE
Si je te parle c'est pour mieux t'entendre
Si je t'entends je suis sûr de te comprendre

Si tu souris c'est pour mieux m'envahir
Si tu souris je vois le monde entier

Si je t'étreins c'est pour me continuer
Si nous vivons tout sera à plaisir

Si je te quitte nous nous souviendrons
En te quittant nous nous retrouverons

It's Monday...



& in honor of Comic-Con starting this week I figured I'd give you a taste of Dr. Horrible, a 43 minute long musical extravaganza created by the amazing Joss Whedon and starring Emmy nominee Neil Patrick Harris, about a lovelorn would-be supervillain and the video blog he records in his home . You can watch the whole brilliant thing here or read hown it all came together care of Entertainment Weekly or through wikiwhatever.



Sunday, July 19, 2009

"Danse Macabre"

The Dance of Death

To Ernest Christophe

Proud as a living person of her noble stature,
With her big bouquet, her handkerchief and gloves,
She has the nonchalance and easy manner
Of a slender coquette with bizarre ways.


Did one ever see a slimmer waist at a ball?
Her ostentatious dress in its queenly fullness
Falls in ample folds over thin feet, tightly pressed
Into slippers with pompons pretty as flowers.


The swarm of bees that plays along her collar-bones
Like a lecherous brook that rubs against the rocks
Modestly protects from cat-calls and jeers
The funereal charms that she's anxious to hide.


Her deep eye-sockets are empty and dark,
And her skull, skillfully adorned with flowers,
Oscillates gently on her fragile vertebrae.
Charm of a non-existent thing, madly arrayed!


Some, lovers drunken with flesh, will call you
A caricature; they don't understand
The marvelous elegance of the human frame.
You satisfy my fondest taste, tall skeleton!


Do you come to trouble with your potent grimace
The festival of Life? Or does some old desire
Still goading your living carcass
Urge you on, credulous one, toward Pleasure's sabbath?


With the flames of candles, with songs of violins,
Do you hope to chase away your mocking nightmare,
And do you come to ask of the flood of orgies
To cool the hell set ablaze in your heart?


Inexhaustible well of folly and of sins!
Eternal alembic of ancient suffering!
Through the curved trellis of your ribs
I see, still wandering, the insatiable asp.


To tell the truth, I fear your coquetry
Will not find a reward worthy of its efforts;
Which of these mortal hearts understands raillery?
The charms of horror enrapture only the strong!


The abyss of your eyes, full of horrible thoughts,
Exhales vertigo, and discreet dancers
Cannot look without bitter nausea
At the eternal smile of your thirty-two teeth.


Yet who has not clasped a skeleton in his arms,
Who has not fed upon what belongs to the grave?
What matters the perfume, the costume or the dress?
He who shows disgust believes that he is handsome.


Noseless dancer, irresistible whore,
Tell those dancing couples who act so offended:
"Proud darlings, despite the art of make-up
You all smell of death! Skeletons perfumed with musk,


Withered Antinoi, dandies with smooth faces,
Varnished corpses, hoary-haired Lovclaces,
The universal swing of the danse macabre
Sweeps you along into places unknown!


From the Seine's cold quays to the Ganges' burning shores,
The human troupe skips and swoons with delight, sees not
In a hole in the ceiling the Angel's trumpet
Gaping ominously like a black blunderbuss.


In all climes, under every sun, Death admires you
At your antics, ridiculous Humanity,
And frequently, like you, scenting herself with myrrh,
Mingles her irony with your insanity!"


— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)


Danse macabre
À Ernest Christophe

Fière, autant qu'un vivant, de sa noble stature
Avec son gros bouquet, son mouchoir et ses gants
Elle a la nonchalance et la désinvolture
D'une coquette maigre aux airs extravagants.


Vit-on jamais au bal une taille plus mince?
Sa robe exagérée, en sa royale ampleur,
S'écroule abondamment sur un pied sec que pince
Un soulier pomponné, joli comme une fleur.


La ruche qui se joue au bord des clavicules,
Comme un ruisseau lascif qui se frotte au rocher,
Défend pudiquement des lazzi ridicules
Les funèbres appas qu'elle tient à cacher.


Ses yeux profonds sont faits de vide et de ténèbres,
Et son crâne, de fleurs artistement coiffé,
Oscille mollement sur ses frêles vertèbres.
Ô charme d'un néant follement attifé.


Aucuns t'appelleront une caricature,
Qui ne comprennent pas, amants ivres de chair,
L'élégance sans nom de l'humaine armature.
Tu réponds, grand squelette, à mon goût le plus cher!


Viens-tu troubler, avec ta puissante grimace,
La fête de la Vie? ou quelque vieux désir,
Eperonnant encor ta vivante carcasse,
Te pousse-t-il, crédule, au sabbat du Plaisir?


Au chant des violons, aux flammes des bougies,
Espères-tu chasser ton cauchemar moqueur,
Et viens-tu demander au torrent des orgies
De rafraîchir l'enfer allumé dans ton coeur?


Inépuisable puits de sottise et de fautes!
De l'antique douleur éternel alambic!
À travers le treillis recourbé de tes côtes
Je vois, errant encor, l'insatiable aspic.


Pour dire vrai, je crains que ta coquetterie
Ne trouve pas un prix digne de ses efforts
Qui, de ces coeurs mortels, entend la raillerie?
Les charmes de l'horreur n'enivrent que les forts!


Le gouffre de tes yeux, plein d'horribles pensées,
Exhale le vertige, et les danseurs prudents
Ne contempleront pas sans d'amères nausées
Le sourire éternel de tes trente-deux dents.


Pourtant, qui n'a serré dans ses bras un squelette,
Et qui ne s'est nourri des choses du tombeau?
Qu'importe le parfum, l'habit ou la toilette?
Qui fait le dégoûté montre qu'il se croit beau.


Bayadère sans nez, irrésistible gouge,
Dis donc à ces danseurs qui font les offusqués:
«Fiers mignons, malgré l'art des poudres et du rouge
Vous sentez tous la mort! Ô squelettes musqués,


Antinoüs flétris, dandys à face glabre,
Cadavres vernissés, lovelaces chenus,
Le branle universel de la danse macabre
Vous entraîne en des lieux qui ne sont pas connus!


Des quais froids de la Seine aux bords brûlants du Gange,
Le troupeau mortel saute et se pâme, sans voir
Dans un trou du plafond la trompette de l'Ange
Sinistrement béante ainsi qu'un tromblon noir.


En tout climat, sous tout soleil, la Mort t'admire
En tes contorsions, risible Humanité
Et souvent, comme toi, se parfumant de myrrhe,
Mêle son ironie à ton insanité!»


— Charles Baudelaire