Lileks (James) dot com. Run now, do not walk, RUN! Go Go Go! You must get your fill of hilarity! The Unblog, The Institute of Official Cheer, Where The Past Comes To Life So We Can Promptly Beat It To Death Again."Where old pop culture is subjected to our patented Re-Ironization Process, and converted into chipper, spiffy, feather-light postmodern commentary on commercial culture. Or, to put it another way: there�s enough here to kill two, maybe three lunch hours." See the The Gallery of Regrettable Food, Interior Desecrators or Lost in a 70s HELL! and A Permanent Collection of Impermanent Art. Why not tour the Dorcus Collection and take in some seriously bad mens fashion! Don't forget Mister Coffee Nerves OH THE FUN! I'm giving it an official link just because it's fucking brilliant!
9:50 AM :
A material for the future. Bill Price's experiments with concrete composed of glass and plastic could lead to buildings, perhaps entire cities, made of a material that transmits light. An Instant Guide To Transparency and the Avant-garde.
9:07 AM :
Thursday, April 05, 2001
Rock n' Roll Fag Bar or Ode to Proto Punk Glam Rock Boys Everywhere
Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in Black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yeah.
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yeah...T.Rex
6:14 PM :
"Transphobia is like God" says Amanda LaPore "It works in mysterious ways." and "Obviously I'm very draggy but so are alot of women" said friend Sophie LeMar. Trannies get their day in court for dismissal from dismal Twilo.
6:13 PM :
New wave! It changed my life. Whereas punk was grim and apocalyptic--mutilating your body, singing about anarchy--New Wave was all about rock lobsters, turning Japanese and doing the pogo. All it took was a Plexiglas bra and a pair of wraparound shades, and you, too, could be a New Wave Star! How I Became So Fabulous by James St. James or How I wrote a 'tell all book' that took me from the "A" list to the "B" list and back to the "A" list in 15 minutes.
6:10 PM :
Wednesday, April 04, 2001
10:04 AM :
Tuesday, April 03, 2001
I was lucky enough to recently preview the Merrill C. Berman Collection of Modern and Graphic Design. It is the most significant collection of work in private hands today and qualitatively rivals collections of the Stedlijk Museum and Museum of Modern Art. A small collection can be seen on the Berman site while over 200 are now on tour thanks to the patronage of the Smithsonian Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, Mead Paper Co. and a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collection traces the development of graphic design in the 20th Century with art from Russian, European and American designers of the late 1920s and 30s. As expected the works are startling, inventive, fresh and extremely daring. A few notes; Beatrice Wood's poster for the Blind Man's Ball at Webster Hall 1917 advertised as 'Ultra-Bohemian, Pre-Historic, Post-Alcoholic'! The relevancy of the Constructivists who rejected the role of the artist as genius and replaced it with the artist as engineer-someone who could design useful mass produced objects for the good of society (thought provoking). ManRay as an amazing graphic designer. Collage done right, and the over use of the term Spartakiada. Catalog here.
2:07 PM :
Monday, April 02, 2001
He is my favorite pastry chef, if only for his seriously cool retro dessert book with tons of sinfully good stuff that looks great on FeistaWare.
8:55 PM :
Rummaging through a collection of storage boxes searching for something which is now long forgotten, turned up another long forgotten item; the film, Parting Glances. An early, touching and witty exploration of AIDS; written and directed by Bill Sherwood, and featuring great performances by Steve Buscemi, and Kathy Kinney (Drew Carey Show). Set mostly in SoHo and various Manhattan apartments, the film, although very much concerned with AIDS, is also a lively and humorous commentary on the different generations of gay men, and the thin line that often separates lovers and friends in the gay world. The plot is focused on the lives of three people during a 24 hour period and their individual reactions to all forms of 'goodbye'. The acting is so exquisite and lovely that one barely notices the sadness that seems to creep into this film. A particularly funny dream sequence Nick (Steve Buscemi) is visited by a ghost who tells him heaven is boring and he should try to hang out as long as he can. John Bolger (who played Phillip Spaulding #1 1985-1986 on the Guiding Light) is wonderfully sexy in a late 1970s Saint kinda way. Released in 1986, the film does seem slightly dated but in a curiously interesting manner, the unique story and the fun cast are well worth a viewing of this little film.
8:04 PM :
It was just that sort of morning, the inspirational feeling of spring, sunlight and Lady Soul singing Chain of Fools. A quick shower and a tighty whitie shake about and hustle, catching a quick breakfast on the run, I haul blood, ass, and all through a morning commute with a companion of 1001 remixes of FSOL- Papua New Guinea. Mountain bikes everywhere on campus, shorts, t-shirts, good legs. The hot blond muscley crew cut buddy lee? guy at the Villa Capri deli counter, munching down an Apple and pb&j. He laughs and smiles, joking with me between orders of Pastrami on Rye. Strictly veggie focaccia, met-rx bar and mineral water. Long slow sunny walk back to class, dragging feet, slightly bored, horrendous case of spring fever.
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