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taco culture

2008-03-03T22:50:06Z

great leads for cheap eats, taco stands & trucks around the los angeles area. street art showcases and a crime blotter!
http://www.lataco.com/

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Robert Anton Wilson

2006-11-15T18:52:30Z

Needs help.

Here's a link to an interview with him at MungBeing (who I'm doing another article for soon that I hope you guys will help me with--more to follow): http://www.mungbeing.com/issue_10.html?articleID=366&subID=584

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Cling film + nudity + trees = art

2006-10-05T02:10:30Z

Jun. 25 - Naked art students expose their views and more in Colombia.

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=020d04c1564fa4884d991ac0870b8aaf5491f491

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Shit Happens

2006-06-27T07:07:28Z

(Comparitive religion)

Agnosticism:
How can we know if shit happens? / What is this shit? / You can´t prove any of these shit.

Anglicanism:
It´s true, shit happens- but only to Lutherans

Atheism:
I don´t believe in this shit... / Shit is dead / No shit!

Baptism:
You are shitting all wrong, and you will be punished for tt

Buddhism:
If shit happens it is not really shit / If shit happens it is not really happening TO anyone / Shit will happen again to you next time

Calvinism:
Shit happens becouse you didn´t work hard enough

Capitalism:
Sell that shit / How much that shit cost ?

Charismatic Catholism:
Shit is happening becouse you deserve it, but we love you anyway

Communism:
All this is bullshit!!!

Darwinism:
Survival of the shittiest

Denialism:
What shit ?

Energizer Bunny:
Shit happens, and keeps going and going and going and...

Evangelical:
Sell us all your shit

Existentialism:
What is shit anyway ?

Fatalism:
Oh shit, it is going to happen!

Fetishism:
I love when shit happens / I love this shit

Freudianism:
Shit is phallic symbol

Fundamentalism:
Shit happens, but dont publish it / There is no shit in the Bible

Greek Orthodox:
Shit happens, usually in three´s

Hare Krishna
Please this flower and buy our shit / She-it happens, She-it happens, happens, happens, happens, she-it, she-it...(Repeat until you become one with she-it)

Hedonism:
There is nothing quite like a good shit

Hinduims:
I have seen this Shit before / This shit is not religion, it is way of life / This shit happening IS you

Islam:
If shit happens, it is will of Allah / We dont take any shit

Jehowah´s wittnesses:
Knock Knock, "Shit happens" / Shit happens door to door / No shit happens until Armageddon / There is only limited amount of good shit

Judaism:
Why does this shit allways happens to us? / Why does shit always happen just before closing the deal ?

Lutheranism:
Shit happens, but as long as you are sorry its OK

Mormon:
Our shit is better thn your shit / This shit is going to happen again

Mysticism:
This is really weird shit

Nihilism:
Shit doesn´t mean anything / Let´s blow this shit up!

Nixonism:
This kind of shit never happened / If it happened I don´t know anything about it

Orthodox:
St.Sergius found his faith in deep shit

Paganism:
Shit happens for a variety of reasons

Protestantims:
Let the shit happne to someone else / If I work harder shit wont happen/ If shit happens, praise the Lord for it!

Scientology:
If you leave us, bad shit will happen to you

Shamanism:
Whoaaa.....Holy Shit!

Sikhism:
Leave our shit alone

Southern Baptist:
Shit will happen. Praise the Lord!

Taoism:
Shit happens / Shit happens, so flow with it

Televangelism:
Your tax-deductible donation could make this shit stop happening

Voodooism:
This shit´s gonna get you

WItchcraft:
Mix this shit together and it will happen

Zen:
What is the sound of shit happening ?

Shit happens (in variety of professions)

Mathematician:
Shit happening is just a special case...

Statistician:
There is an 83,7% chace that shit will happen. Maybe.

Engineer:
I hope this shit hold together

Chemist:
Gee, what will happen if I mix this and...SHIT!!

Biologist:
Is this shit alive ?

Economist:
I hope no one will figure out that I don´t really understand this shit

Bureaucrat:
You will have to fill out form XJ-314288 to make appoitment with our Assistant Sub-Deputy Manager to obtain form ZN-27166355...until then, we can´t do shit.

Psychologist:
Shit is in your mind / Everythig that happens is shit; some of it is just repressing its subcocious shittiness

Programmer:
It´s shit, but atleast it complies

Politician:
It´s shit but it will get me elected / If you elect me, there will never again be shit / Shit is bad for economy

Waitress:
You want fries with that shit ?

Musician:
This shit is out of tune

Accountant
Why does this shit add up ?

Linguist:
What Im doing is is a bunch of faeces tauri (For non-Latin-speakers: faeces tauri = the excerement of a bull)

Quality Control Inspector:
This shit ain´t good enough

Mafia Boss
Rub the shit out

NYC Cab Driver
Damn, looks like I hit that shit...

No shit?

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The New World Order

2006-06-26T21:46:00Z

http://www.turnto10.com/news/8332506/detail.html

"A police officer monitoring myspace.com discovered pornographic pictures of Elizabeth Muller,19, and an unidentified 16-year-old girl according to a spokesperson for the attorney general's office. Also the girls are said to be together in the photos."

1. They're charged with child molesting themselves? (And curfew violation. Dam the wild youth of America)

2. If convicted they might have to register as sex offenders even though it's still legal for Elizabeth, 19, to have sex with the younger girl. (Although I think the Bush administration would like to outlaw all icky lesbians)

3. Narcs on the web? I already feel the fingers of outside influence strolling through tribe making it sanitary. I now wonder how many have official badges.

cross posted

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atom please fill in as mod for awhile?

2006-06-26T21:29:09Z

apologies for being a neglectful mod. access issues...

atom, dear... do you mind keeping an eye on things? And I always enjoy your content...

xoxox, all-!! miss trixie

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shorts

2006-04-05T19:29:23Z

i really enjoyed this collection of odd and ambient shorts. didn't go over so hot in short attention span theatre, but maybe y'all dig on this as much as i did...
http://www.pleix.net/films.html

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The next Generation

2006-04-05T19:26:07Z

Scary even if he is nineteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcyV7z8TUI&search=pierce%20bush

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wal-mart

2006-04-04T00:42:54Z

again...
http://kosmonaut.blogspot.com/2006/03/los-angeles-south-central-farm_25.html

they did the same sort of thing in chicago. years of protesting, and a shiny new wal-mart where the protests once were.
daly was anti for a looong time, but eventually wal-mart won. hopefully l.a.'s mayor will fight a bigger right.

who will stop wal-mart? who?!

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South Park and Scientology

2006-03-22T20:04:08Z

From Matt and Trey:

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"

:D

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/17/D8GDL5O05.html

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Smokers Beware

2006-03-22T02:56:46Z

>Fake cigarettes, made of poor quality tobacco and often topped up with wood chips, are commonly sold on Chinese streets<

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-03-19T045207Z_01_PEK39686_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-CHINA-CIGARETTES.XML&archived=False

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Sandra Day O'Connor rips the GOP a new one

2006-03-22T02:45:31Z

Sandra Day O'Connor rips into GOP, DeLay, Cornyn, and warns of the "beginnings" of dictatorship

"NPR's Nina Totenberg aired an amazing story this morning about a talk that just-resigned Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown University. The first woman to serve on the High Court wouldn't allow her actual words to be broadcast, and that's a shame, because -- based on Totenberg's report -- every American needs to hear what she said. The Reagan appointee who became a moderate and an American icon -- Bush v. Gore notwithstanding -- all but named names in thinly veiled attacks on former House majority leader Tom DeLay and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, and ended with a stunning warning."

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002903.html

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"Something out of a cheap horror movie"

2006-03-03T22:55:23Z

Not arty, but reminded me of the body part exhibitions...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/24/body.snatchers.ap/index.html

(uh... yikes!)

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Battleship Island

2006-02-26T03:33:51Z

http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=21151

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Tribe Reading

2006-02-25T14:37:18Z

Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctrow (Not actually about Tribe)

" Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe is a soothsaying jaunt into the not-so-distant future, where 24/7 communication and chatroom alliances have evolved into tribal networks that secretly work against each other in shadowy online realms. The novel opens with its protagonist, the peevish Art Berry, on the roof of an asylum. He wonders if it's better to be smart or happy. His crucible is a pencil up the nose for a possible "homebrew lobotomy." To explain Art's predicament, Doctorow flashes backward and slowly fills in the blanks. As a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, Art is one of many in the now truly global village who have banded together out of like-minded affinity for a particular time zone and its circadian cycles. Art may have grown up in Toronto but his real homeland is an online grouping that prefers bagels and hot dogs to the fish and chips of their rivals who live on Greenwich Mean Time. As he rises through the ranks of the tribe, he is sent abroad to sabotage the traffic patterns and communication networks in the GMT tribe. Along the way, he comes across a humdinger of an idea that will solve a music piracy problem on the highways of his own beloved timezone, raise his status in the tribe and make him rich. If only he could have trusted his tightly wound girlfriend and fellow tribal saboteur, he probably wouldn't be on the booby hatch roof with that pencil up his nose."

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Public Again....

2006-02-25T11:35:35Z

Okay we're a public moderated tribe again. I removed the photo of the performance artist painting out of a paint tube lodged in his a**. Hopefully, that will be adequate.

I hope to be a more thoughtful moderator who provides thoughtful content n the not too distant future.

Not quite there yet so carry on in the meantime. And thanks for carrying this tribe(!!atom and jrat 'specially... ) ;)

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Communicating with Aliens

2006-02-15T00:14:31Z

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=53.538774,-1.346804&spn=0.000875,0.002626&t=k

Google UK has quite a bit more resolution than Google USA. Maybe there are messages maligning the Republicans all over the corn fields of America.

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Chuck Barris (Gong Show Host, CIA assassin)

2006-02-09T23:20:28Z

Just watched The Gong Show Movie (part of it--in passing... ). Brought to mind old Chuck Barris. That movie was fairly hilarious by the way.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080808/

oh. and if truth is stranger than fiction, this must all be true:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030207.html

Dear Cecil:

Has anyone ever bothered to seriously check the claims of TV producer Chuck Barris in his book Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to see if he's a fraud or not? Also, could you personally investigate his claims? (I think he's a fraud, but I don't have the time to investigate myself.) --Russell, Sacramento, CA

Cecil replies:

Ah, right, Chuck Barris. Barris is the showbiz entrepreneur who created The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show (the last of which he hosted), hits in the late 1960s and '70s that were thought to represent the absolute low in schlock TV, at least until everybody got a load of Temptation Island. In 1982 he published an "unauthorized autobiography," Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which has recently been given a new lease on life as a movie. Central to the book is the claim that "Chuckie baby" (as Gong Show fans liked to call Barris), in addition to being a busy executive responsible at one point for 27 half hours of network TV a week, was a decorated CIA assassin. Barris writes that after chaperoning a winning couple from The Dating Game on their dream date in some foreign capital, he'd slip away, blow somebody's brains out, and then head back to Los Angeles to contend with those A-holes at the network.

And you want to know if maybe he's making some of this up. You want to know, to be precise, if I think Chuck Barris is a fraud for claiming, inter alia (I have always wanted to write inter alia), that his nom de guerre--the name he used to order airline tickets--was Sunny Sixkiller; that in 1953 he took his 75-year-old grandmother on a camping trip to the Poconos, where they spent a wonderful day, but unfortunately when he woke up the next morning she was dead, so he zipped her body into a sleeping bag, tied it to the roof of his Volkswagen, and drove to a police station, but even more unfortunately while he was inside making a report someone stole the car; that at 16 he persuaded a 13-year-old friend of his sister's to lick his "wee-wee" by telling her it tasted like a strawberry lollipop; that having been hired by the CIA after answering a want ad, he aced his training and was soon infiltrating a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama; that when ABC decided to air The Dating Game, the CIA said, hey, no reason you can't be a successful TV producer and a spy; that he kept dodging assignments until his CIA boss said, come with me to Mexico City, it'll be fun, and during the plane ride casually told Chuck they were going to kill a communist revolutionary, which they did; that after he got back he had three ex-cons destroy the Cadillac of a jerk who was in the habit of pretending to be a Dating Game talent scout and raping would-be contestants; that the CIA then assigned him to meet a courier in London, where he exchanged an envelope of money for a roll of microfilm, then jammed his silencer-equipped automatic into the courier's mouth and pulled the trigger three times, whereupon "the man's eyes remained surprised while the back of his head splattered against the wall of the church"; that he then "greased the bullet-shaped vial [of microfilm] with [Vaseline], dropped my pants, and slid the vial up my ass"; that he then sold ABC The Newlywed Game; that he spent $20,000 on abortions for various girlfriends; that he killed a bunch of other people (the details blur); but then a lot of his friends started getting killed because there was a mole in the CIA, but Barris got the last laugh by killing the mole, who turned out to be none other than . . . sorry, I don't want to ruin the suspense. Barris says he received an award from the CIA "for outstanding service," which provoked him to muse about "the strange dichotomy of being crucified by my peers for attempting to entertain people and lauded by my peers for killing them."

So, Russ, getting back to your question: Is Chuck Barris a fraud? Of course not, silly man. A fraud is somebody who expects people to believe his crazy bullshit. If doubts remain on this score, King Kaufman points out the following in an article posted to Salon.com (you'll find it in the archive): (a) in 1993 Barris published another memoir, The Game Show King: A Confession, in which he says nothing about the CIA or, for that matter, his previous book, and (b) over the years Barris has given varying accounts concerning his age, the manner in which he proposed to one of his wives, and so on. Of the CIA yarn, Barris coyly says in interviews, "I can't really confirm or deny it"--about as close as he'll come to admitting he cooked the whole thing up as a rebuttal to critics who thought his shows were atrocities. If you want to take the story seriously, Barris is happy to let you. But come on. He made a career out of outrageousness, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind proves he never lost his touch.

--CECIL ADAMS

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Sly at the Grammys

2006-02-09T19:45:23Z

They were afraid he might not show up...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602245.html

(My friend had a Sly and the Family Stone tribute band. They just never showed up for gigs... )

weird MTV article but cool photo...
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1524032/20060209/index.jhtml?headlines=true

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Best tv EVAH!! (Mighty Boosh)

2006-02-08T18:29:57Z

good god. have you arty-farty people seen this?!!

It's ~fantastic-! I think the creators Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding met in art school

I lifted this review from internet movie database as I couldn't agree more:

Most Original Comedy For Ages, 14 September 2005
Author: tom-1488 from United Kingdom
I've been raving about this comedy for a long time even though I missed some of it when it was on TV (usually late at night). So the arrival of the DVD was awaited with much anticipation. People often ask me to describe The Mighty Boosh - which is not an easy thing to do.

Essentially the structure is that of a sit-com, in that there is the reoccurring location of the zoo, and a set of familiar characters most notably the two main protagonists – zoo-keepers Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) and Howard Moon (Julian Barratt). Vince is the fashion conscious shallow one, that plays against Howard's jazz-loving, self-important but likable loser. Each episode is a juxtaposition of the Morecombe and Wise type banter between Vince and Howard, and the sheer surrealism of their subsequent adventures that take them to exotic locations and pit them against bizarre and often quite dark foes.

For me the triumph of the show is due to the breadth of vision that links the fantastic theatrical visual look (based on largely on Noel's sketches), with Julian's love of music, together with the off-beat acting style and witty script to provide an experience that is more than the sum of its parts.

There is nothing else quite like this on TV, you won't be splitting your sides every minute at quick-fire one-liners written by teams of caffeine stimulated comedy writers, but instead prepare yourself for a rather more gentle experience, peppered by some hilarious set-pieces, who's imaginative brilliance will ingrain itself into your heart and mind. It's quite simply lovable.

http://www.static-thought.co.uk/graphics/guides/mightyboosh_2.jpg
(Howard has been boxing a kangaroo.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/mightyboosh/

http://www.themightyboosh.com/

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Freedom of Expression not a Killing Joke

2006-02-07T22:35:46Z

History pivots on a cartoon...

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/382

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698

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Spend money for No Wave/Punk Rock/Art Scene progeny

2006-01-29T03:41:05Z

http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html

Vincent Gallo's Sperm

$1 Million

Price includes all costs related to one attempt at an in-vitro fertilization. (A $50,000 value) If the first attempt at in vitro fertilization is unsuccessful, purchaser of sperm must pay all medical costs related to additional attempts. Mr. Gallo will supply sperm for as many attempts as it takes to complete a successful fertilization and successful delivery. Sperm is 100% guaranteed to be donated by Mr. Gallo who is drug, alcohol and disease free. If the purchaser of the sperm chooses the option of natural insemination, there is an additional charge of $500,000. However, if after being presented detailed photographs of the purchaser, Mr. Gallo may be willing to waive the natural insemination fee and charge only for the sperm itself. Those of you who have found this merchandise page are very well aware of Mr. Gallo's multiple talents, but to add further insight into the value of Mr. Gallo's sperm, aside from being multi talented in all creative fields, he was also multi talented as an athlete, winning several awards for performing in the games of baseball, football and hockey and making it to the professional level of grand prix motorcycle racing. Mr. Gallo is 5'11" and has blue eyes. There are no known genetic deformities in his ancestry (no cripples) and no history of congenital diseases. If you have seen The Brown Bunny, you know the potential size of the genitals if it's a boy. (8 inches if he's like his father.) I don't know exactly how a well hung father can enhance the physical makeup of a female baby, but it can't hurt. Mr. Gallo also presently maintains a distinctively full head of hair and at the age of 43 has surprisingly few gray hairs. Though his features are sharp and extreme, they would probably blend well with a softer, more subtly featured female. Mr. Gallo maintains the right to refuse sale of his sperm to those of extremely dark complexions. Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz and Lena Horne, Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration. In fact, for the next 30 days, he is offering a $50,000 discount to any potential female purchaser who can prove she has naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone who can prove a direct family link to any of the German soldiers of the mid-century will also receive this discount. Under the laws of the Jewish faith, a Jewish mother would qualify a baby to be deemed a member of the Jewish religion. This would be added incentive for Mr. Gallo to sell his sperm to a Jew mother, his reasoning being with the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar. To be clear, the purchase of Mr. Gallo's sperm does not include the use of the name Gallo. The purchaser must find another surname for the child.

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Maureen Dowd quotes Dottie

2005-12-11T15:19:58Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?ei=5090&en=8d50b0ccea5b798a&ex=1288328400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

specifically...

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

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sex is linked with creativity? you bet.

2005-12-09T07:49:50Z

Geoffrey Miller, who wrote a book called The Mating Mind, thinks that artistic ability may have evolved as a form of human sexual display.

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=5046

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Diseases, Drugs, and Chemicals, oh MY!

2005-11-24T17:00:52Z

life's good in the gutter...

http://arpa.allenpress.com/arpaonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1043%2F1543-2165(2005)129%5B1457:TEODDA%5D2.0.CO%3B2

This article analyzes the effects of drugs, chemicals, and diseases on the creativity and productivity of the famous sculptors Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo Buonarroti; classic painters Ivar Arosenius, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Michelangelo; classic music composer Louis Hector Berlioz; and author Thomas De Quincey.

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Barcode Charlie!

2005-11-05T12:09:19Z

http://www.barcodeart.com/buy/download.html

http://www.barcodeart.com/art/portrait/download/manson.jpg

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The Art of Privacy Invasion

2005-11-05T11:59:30Z

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69445,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6.asp

CARDIFF, Wales -- Michelle Teran is the pied piper of wireless networks. Leading a band of followers through the city streets, the Canadian artist drags along a screen embedded in a suitcase that is showing supposedly secret images captured from cameras inside surrounding buildings.

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Pubic Service Announcement

2005-10-09T04:03:31Z

Please PM me if moderation required. **LOVE!!** :)

http://people.tribe.net/trixie-puff-puff/blog?r=10535

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my website

2005-10-05T01:57:08Z

www.antonioolmos.com

I would like to share my work with you and hear your thoughts on it...on all levels..content, design, anything that takes your fancy.....

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Having a Bad Day?

2005-10-03T03:53:33Z

Compared to this?

(HA-HA I love this!!)

http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm

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Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence in New Orleans...

2005-09-30T21:29:28Z

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_259121855.html

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"Restoring Pasolini"

2005-09-16T00:03:30Z

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/37/news-ireland.php

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Building Political Platforms

2005-09-15T22:51:16Z

Here's mine:

Reform all things VOTING and give it back to the people--How it's funded, how the voting districts are divided--all that.

Address as critical to our survival as a species, if not life on the planet:
CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE
POVERTY
ECOSYSTEM

There is actually a lot about our CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM that is good. But damn if we couldn't improve on that shit. along with the PRISON SYSTEM.

Leave science to the scientists
religion to the churches
philosophy to the philosophers
ethics to common ground (let's focus on what we CAN agree on collectively and leave the details to the general trend)

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Biojewelry

2005-09-14T19:05:54Z

Check this out: some crazy folks are growing wedding rings from their own bones. The ultimate way to say "I love you!"?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/start.html?pg=4

Why go to Tiffany's for a wedding band when you have one grown from your own bones? That's what five British couples did this spring, starting with a trip to the hospital for a quick jaw biopsy to retrieve bone cells. The idea - a romantic experiment dubbed biojewelry - is the love child of Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, design researchers at the Royal College of Art, and Ian Thompson, a bioengineer at Kings College London. The trio used a four-step process (below) to coax the cells into skeletal symbols of everlasting devotion. It takes months. In September, the jewelry - plus still photos and a time-lapse video of the process - will go on display at Guy's Hospital in London. After that, the betrothed get the rings for keeps. "I love the idea that it's precious only to us because it is, literally, us," says Harriet Harris, one of the participants. "It's almost worthless to anyone else." You can't say that about platinum.

The process
1. Extract bone chips from jaw. Rinse.
2. Place bone cells in ring-shaped bioactive ceramic scaffold.
3. Feed liquid nutrients and culture in a temperature-controlled bioreactor for six weeks.
4. After coral-like bone forms fully around scaffold, pare down to final ring shape and insert silver liner (for engraving).

- Sonia Zjawinski

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My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes

2005-09-12T11:00:58Z

In no particular order, here are my favorites:

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."

"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
(on being challenged to use the word Horticulture in a sentence)

"I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host"

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

"That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them."

"That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough."

"Too fucking busy, and vice versa."
(Reply to her editor who was pestering her for belated work while she was on her honeymoon)

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."

Anybody have additional favorites?

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but is it redux?

2005-09-01T17:59:00Z

ARAI took off his clothes, keeping only a small yellow Pikachu Pokemon fig leaf on his genitals, and squats on a canvas. While singing the Japanese national anthem "Kimi-ga-Yo means Our superior　Emperor regime", he presses a plastic tube containing red paint from just below his buttocks, as if excreting red human waste...Using his bare buttocks on the "waste." he paints a full but irregular rising sun in the middle of the canvas that turns out to be a copy of the Japanese national flag, which he later hangs on the wall.

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12224&highlight=kimigayo

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Cultural "me time"

2005-08-29T19:01:54Z

so when I FINALLY get some time to myself... next week maybe? maybe take a day off? I've PROMISED myself I'm going to visit AT LEAST one museum and see some art film or something too.

The asian art museum has that exhibit of tibetan art. Some Nob Hill something or other has that exhibition of corpses. oh... here it is... only 8 more days I don't think I can do that one alone, either (too creepy):

http://www.theuniversewithin.org/

And here is the art film theatre near my house not sure what to see. Sorta wanna see "Grizzly Man" too, I guess, but that's not AS conveniently located...

http://www.sfstation.com/business.php?blId=1173

Any other recommendations?

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art-fart

2005-08-15T20:04:37Z

who's got the art?

I'm all distracted lately I'll pick up the posting here soon when the non-art aspects of my life quit rising up to bite me on the butt(ttt).

atom my queen, er nymphette.. you can help me out here. You're:

ARTWHORE-! :D

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Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World

2005-08-08T20:28:16Z

Anyone wanna go?

http://asianart.org/currentexhibitions.htm

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Public Art

2005-07-13T14:24:50Z

http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/

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Wild West Bank

2005-06-27T02:29:40Z

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1118715540626

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inherent drive for identity

2005-06-23T21:56:17Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/spermdonorsoffspringreachoutintopast

maybe more of us are sibs through the milkman than we ever knew.

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Artistic Utopia Brought Under Threat?

2005-06-23T06:43:39Z

http://www.sundayherald.com/49383

Thoughts?

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Go paint a bowl of fruit or something.

2005-06-21T07:42:53Z

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/16/falling.artist.ap/index.html

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A performance artist wearing safety harnesses jumped repeatedly from a museum roof to create photographs that recall scenes from the World Trade Center attack, but his spectacle was scorned by some onlookers and victims' relatives.

Collaborating photographers snapped away as Kerry Skarbakka fell more than 30 times from the five-story Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. The photographs will be retouched to erase the pulleys and wires that kept Skarbakka from hitting the pavement.

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Happy Bloomsday

2005-06-19T11:34:01Z

Already.

The Irish Arts Foundation
and the Roxie Cinema
will celebrate Bloomsday with a special screening of an
imaginative film which takes a fresh, accessible and
irreverent approach to Ulysses.

"Imagining Ulysses"

Bloomsday
Thursday, June 16 ONLY
Showtimes: 6:15, 8:00 & 9:45

Roxie Cinema
3117 16th Street
SHOWS: 6:15; 8 & 9:45PM
INFO: 415-863-1087

Audience Award
Best Foreign Film
Santa Cruz FF - May 2005

"Imagining Ulysses"
Ireland 2004 / 90 min

"Imagining Ulysses" was produced last year by David
Blake Knox and Hilary Fennell to mark the centenary of
Bloomsday, the imaginary day on which all the action in
James Joyce's great novel takes place. It takes a fresh and
irreverent approach to Ulysses.

Like Joyce's novel, "Imagining Ulysses" comes in 18
different episodes and, like the original, each of these is
designed to have its own distinctive theme and style. Each
of the 18 films throws a different perspective on the man
and his work - watching them is a little like walking around
an art gallery and viewing a group exhibition on one topic -
Ulysses.

Narrated by Oscar Winner Brenda Fricker, with Patrick
Begin as the voice of Joyce, animations by Bafta winner
Time Fernee and an original score by Ray Jarman, the
overall intention of the film is to honour the spirit of the book
- in an imaginative, accessible and original way.

Contributors include the Oscar winning Film maker and
writer Neil Jordan, the Pulitzer winning author Frank
McCourt and the Booker Prize winning novelist Roddy
Doyle, as well as the doyenne of Irish women writers, Edna
O'Brien, the distinguished American critic Camille Paglia;
the Booker Prize winning novelist DBC Pierre and the
award winning novelists Martin Amis and Irvine Welsh.

Winner: Gold Hugo Award
for Arts and Culture
Chicago Intercom FF 2004

More Information
www.iaf.org
www.roxie.com/June05.html#imagine

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The Cremaster hits imdb front page status

2005-06-18T19:57:07Z

Aimee Mullins is the Please Meet at IMDB right now:

Please Meet Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins's roles include (holy mackerel!) a credit in Matthew Barney's very art-house Cremaster 3. Because of Publicity Photos when casting directors, directors, and other industry types look Aimee up, her page springs to life and she's immediately not just that actress from the Cremaster movie, she's got a striking face to go with the credit. Our new self-submission system makes adding headshots or gallery photos easier and faster than ever. Go to your client's page, click on the "Primary Photo Not Submitted" image to start this simple process or head directly to the IMDb Publicity Photos purchase pipeline.

http://imdb.com/

http://imdb.com/name/nm1190429/

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exploding toads

2005-06-13T18:26:02Z

I dunno, but it's weird...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154761,00.html

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Beat me, whip me

2005-05-26T00:16:03Z

make me write bad checks...

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/15176_whipping.html

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Bums' Paradise

2005-05-26T00:12:44Z

Bums' Paradise

Saturday, May 28th

7:00pm

Free

----/ Event Description /-----------------------------------------------

This will be a rare free screening of the documentary "Bums' Paradise."

Meet the Bums! Filmmakers Tomas McCabe and Robert "Rabbit" Barringer
as well as others from Bums' Paradise will be present for Q&A.

Bums' Paradise is a 53-minute documentary that depicts the lives of
the men and women who lived in the ten-year-old Albany Landfill
community prior to their eviction. It follows them through the
eviction and documents them one month after the eviction. The film
emphasizes their concepts of community as well as the amazing art
that they created.

Instead of being a documentary about homelessness, Bums' Paradise
considers the question: What if the homeless -- the indigent, the
bums -- told their own stories?

----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------

Faithful Fools
234 Hyde Street
San Francisco
415-474-0508

On Hyde Street between Turk and Eddy. Its the purple building!

----/ Additional Info /-------------------------------------------------

Info@BumsParadise.com
510-290-8883

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new toons!

2005-05-13T22:05:47Z

new toons: chainsaw edition
review of laura's speech to the journalists:
george on the farm.....

http://home.comcast.net/~froyla

is john mcCain mad at me?

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Rent my Daughter-?

2005-05-13T22:00:41Z

oh my-! :0 !

http://rentmydaughter.com/content.php?page=vfeedback

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Thanks, Snout-!

2005-05-13T20:01:12Z

The piggie (I'd use your real name but I don't recall if we're only free with that in private tribes or just what the deal is) did the tribe photo mosiac for us at my request.

I love it!!! Thanks, piglet--you rock-! :)

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black mallards in formation

2005-05-12T18:48:19Z

There was an enormous swarm of black mallards flying over the bay this morning--just barely a few inches above the water...

the ferry overtook them so we became a part of the formation that stretched all the way from where we were, east of alcatraz, practically all the way to the bridge. tres cool.

I need a vacation.

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Frontline World

2005-05-04T17:00:06Z

Stories from a small planet.

When I first got to SF I found out Frontline was produced in part here because I met someone I was talking to about a job who was peripherally involved. I really hated their format at that time. They were promoting supposedly progressive ideas but using the medium in the most pedantic way possible. I HATED it!!!

But they've changed their format and have a special "Stories from a Small Planet" series of more in-depth news from around the world, and it's actually pretty good. Could get even better but they're using some better media techniques and better narration, at least. And they seem more even handed--they probably still have an "agenda," but at least they've gotten more sophisticated about it.

The episode I watched last night was about what it's like trying to be a journalist in Baghdad/Iraq, and the grueling ride to the airport along the most dangerous stretch of road in the country--less than two miles that they've been unable to secure in these "19 months" is what they said... the next segment was on the Sudan--summary was that genocide seems like too small a word to fix something that is so broken. Third segment was about a remote area in china where the "minority" population is islamic (a more secular version that is currently popular elsewhere) and how harsh the chinese government is on people they deem "dissenters" (anyone not chinese who articulates an idea pretty much).

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/

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sarah vowell is so hot(tt)

2005-04-27T19:25:38Z

saw her again on John Stewart recently. cool career. I'm sorta jealous...

she's hott-!!

http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=3834&f=1

Her new book:

http://www.americamagazine.org/BookReview.cfm?articleTypeID=31&textID=4108&issueID=526

She did the voice of "Violet" on the Incredibles, too. Cute little voice. Cute hott brain...

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Marla Ruzicka

2005-04-25T16:40:46Z

My tribe friend Iomi, who I've met and of whom I think highly, has lost a friend and wants the world to know about her.

Please take a minute to pay respects--it's a sad but inspiring story.

http://honolulu.tribe.net/listing/5bc9850e-dcfc-44db-a464-ee24740f19a3?r=10535

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Revolving Art Series

2005-04-22T18:26:55Z

Revolving Art Series

JUDY LEVIT

AND

SUZANNE ONODERA

PAINTINGS

Friday, April 22

5-7pm

Exhibit dates: April 22 – June 17 th 2005

300 California Street @ Battery

8 th floor

San Francisco , CA

www.judylevit.com

www.sonodera.com

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papal trivia

2005-04-20T01:02:18Z

how many rats could ratzinger zing
if ratzinger Could zing rats?

answer: three.

natch.

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"A Bahl Beemsh" at Boontling Gallery

2005-04-20T01:00:06Z

"A Bahl Beemsh" Work by John Casey, Jordan Mello, Seth Mulvey, Vincent Perea, Loren Purcel, Christopher Russell, and Orion Shepard. Opening Reception Friday April 15 7:30-10 PM.

Boontling Gallery

4224 Telegraph Ave.

Oakland, CA 94609

http://4leagueindustries.com/boontling.html

http://www.bunnywax.com/sculpture.html

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questionable art? bring in the s.s.

2005-04-14T19:02:13Z

in today's chicago sun times...

Secret Service visits art show at Columbia

April 12, 2005

BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
Organizers of a politically charged art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery thought their show might draw controversy.

But they didn't expect two U.S. Secret Service agents would be among the show's first visitors.

The agents turned up Thursday evening, just before the public opening of "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin," and took pictures of some of the art pieces -- including "Patriot Act," showing President Bush on a mock 37-cent stamp with a revolver pointed at his head.

The agents asked what the artists meant by their work and wanted museum director CarolAnn Brown to turn over the names and phone numbers of all the artists. They wanted to hear from the exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez deLuna, within 24 hours, she said.

Curator in previous controversy

"They just want to make sure it isn't something more than a statement," Brown said.

This isn't the first time Hernandez has had a brush with the feds over a fake stamp. In 2001, authorities said they suspected he was behind a bogus stamp that bore a black skull and crossbones and the word "Anthrax." It was sent through the mail during the height of the anthrax scare.

The Columbia exhibit features 47 artists from 11 countries and depicts powerful religious and political leaders worldwide on mock postage stamps. One, called "Citizen John Ashcroft," shows Ashcroft's face fashioned from images of naked bodies at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Another piece -- "I saw it in a movie starring Steven Segal" -- shows a series of images of an airplane nearing, then crashing into the Sears Tower, and ends with the Chicago skyline without the skyscraper.

A Secret Service agent called the gallery again Friday, asking for contact information for Al Brandtner, a Chicago artist who created the Bush piece, Brown said. Brandtner could not be reached for comment.

'Just doing some looking into it'

The gallery didn't have the information because the show is made up of independent artists not tied to the college -- including Hernandez, a Chicago artist who not only organized the show but has works featured in it. Brown said she referred the agent to attorneys representing the artists.

Secret Service spokesman Brandon Bridgeforth said he couldn't go into specifics about last week's visit.

"We are doing some inquiries into the art exhibit. We're just doing some looking into it," Bridgeforth said.

Columbia College spokeswoman Micki Leventhal said agents were responding to citizen complaints about the artwork, which received some pre-show publicity in Chicago media.

Leventhal said news of the Secret Service visit was surprising and unprecedented for any art show. She said the exhibit had opened in Philadelphia with no complaints. Columbia agreed to the exhibit because of its "high artistic standards" and supports it even though the artists are not affiliated with the college, she said.

"We're an art school. Our position has always been and remains: We support freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression and academic freedom," Leventhal said.

Hernandez said any government involvement could come close to trampling First Amendment rights.

"It frightens me ... as an artist and curator. Now we're being watched," Hernandez said. "It's a new world. It's a Big Brother world. I think it's frightening for any artist who wants to do edgy art."

Hernandez said he hopes the public sees the exhibit as a whole -- and not just about one man or even one country. Some works Hernandez thought would be more controversial challenge Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church. Others look at Nazi Germany and the killing fields in Cambodia.

He refused to talk about the 2001 incident, when he was suspected of being involved in a fake anthrax stamp that shut down an area of Chicago's main post office. Hernandez and another Chicago artist routinely sent fake stamps through the mail, then sold them for thousands of dollars.

The exhibit at Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash, runs through May 11 and is dedicated to Chicago artist Ed Paschke, who died Nov. 25

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ALASKA TO FLORIDA

2005-04-10T14:53:46Z

Come check out my updated site for the trip this summer!

www.myspace.com/Coenen

Thanks a lot!

- Aaron

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LOOK!

2005-04-08T20:45:48Z

Kipod is sleeping!

http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/482/82e/48282ec4-f779-432d-8c4b-fb9d0952fd2b

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The Pope, Prince Rainier and Jimmy Swaggart, RIP

2005-04-08T14:56:00Z

Now they're dying in threes! I can't get that many pictures into my avatar.

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Herzog's Best Friend

2005-04-08T13:33:53Z

I saw (most of) this flick last weekend. Rocked-!

My Best Friend:
http://www.posthoc.com/mybestfiend.htm

Werner Herzog reflects on his relationship with Klaus Kinski.

I haven't even seen Fitzcarraldo or Burden of dreams so I got a treat comin' some day.

His best quotes refer to the making of that film. First, on the jungle environment where they filmed--about how it's brutal, but in harmony-- a "harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. I love it... but I love it against my better judgement."

The other refers to Kinski's violent outburst. The indians on the film were ENTIRELY unaccustomed to this, and never settle disputes with conflict and use VERY VERY gentle body language with each other and gentle touching. So when Klaus would freak out they would sit back and look worried and tremble. But later, the chief told Hergoz "we were never afraid of that raving madman--we were afraid of you, you who were so quiet."

Near the end of the shooting, the indians asked Herzog if they wanted to kill Kinski for him when the shoot was over.

:)

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Jake Labotz

2005-04-07T16:49:38Z

I'm pimpin' my homeboy jakey again--check him out LA people--show the love!!! He just got back from an extended tour in the Netherlands (although he says his career is "droopy").

http://www.jakelabotz.com

You can see him play some original old-timey music in Steve Buscemi's (prison film) Animal Factory--his music is featured in that actually. ~swoon-!

Ballad of the Unknown Bluesman

I left the Bigfoot Country when I was just a boy
Had some kinfolks in Chicago Illinois
Farmin just weren't my thing
wanted to be a guitar man
mama's tears comin down like rain
back in Mississippi

Trouble and bad luck like my company
Took me to California
but at least we're across 26th street
I didn't mean nobody no harm
county jail with some parts from the farm
we didn't have no gangs down home
back in Mississippi

I made a record even got on the radio
I woulda killed makin music
but it only kept me poor
now I play in the curch once in awhile
that kind of music
never goes out of style
well I learned it as a child
back in mississippi

Steel plants and the factories
broke my back
but they paid good wages
yes we went on strike
well the unions was the first to go
jobs today really pay so low
well I hear there's work down home
back in Mississippi

And I believe I've stayed up north here long enough
I've had some good times but mostly things been rough
well Chicago's so goddamn cold
chill my natural body almost took my soul
I'll spend the rest of my days down home
back in mississippi

mmmmmhhhmmmmm that's where I be found

with the people close to the ground

back in Mississippi...

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Police Raid Club Over Nude 'Art Night'

2005-04-06T19:54:49Z

Boise allows full nudity for "serious artistic" expression only

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050406/2005-04-06T133657Z_01_N05103326_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-NUDITY-DC.html

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Misia Sert

2005-04-06T19:29:26Z

So when I first moved here I didn't know anyone and had lots of time on my hands and one of the books I read was kind of a bitch to read but ended up being fascinating--about the life of Misia Sert. Impossible to summarize briefly. In short-short, patron to many artists of the Belle Epoque and into the twentieth century.

From Verlaine, Dubussey, and Toulouse Latrec, to Renoir, to Diaghilev of the Ballet Russ, to Ibsen, to Coco Channel.

Among her close friends was Proust, who I'm reading now.

Because I'm reading the Proust I went back to look some things up in the biography. So fucking fascinating!!! Unbelievable...

I'll post some excerpts this weekend when I have time.

It's interesting enough that I'm feeling pain that I can't just read full-time.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679741860/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-6165136-5039954?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

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i <3 huckabees

2005-04-04T18:18:15Z

great movie.

much better than cats.

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Baudelaire's Dandy

2005-04-03T19:07:29Z

"The dandy regards neither love nor money as an end in itself. He leaves those gross passions to more ordinary mortals, and unlimited credit is wealth enough for him. Dandyism is not, as many seem to think, an exaggerated love of fine clothes and material comfort. These things, to the perfect dandy, are mere symbols of his own spiritual aristocracy. Dandyism is primarily a desire to be individually original, but always within the limits of polite social convention. It is the love of startling others and of never being startled oneself."

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McDonald's allows artists to do what they do best

2005-03-31T20:40:30Z

LOS ANGELES -- Hip-hop artists have plugged in virtually every high-end brand from Cartier to Versace into their song lyrics. But now the Big Mac is about to get name dropped.
McDonald's wants to have its Big Mac featured in several hit song lyrics by summer.

McDonald’s Corp. has hired entertainment marketing firm Maven Strategies to help the fast-food giant encourage hip-hop artists to integrate the Big Mac sandwich into their upcoming songs.

Summertime airplay

The goal is to have several tracks hit the radio airwaves by the summer. Maven, based in Lanham, Md., has already approached record labels, producers and individual artists with the Big Mac proposal -- which emphasizes writing lyrics around the sandwich’s name alone, and not necessarily including McDonald’s or the Golden Arches. “Once we partner with a particular brand, we identify artists that meet the attributes of the brand,” said Tony Rome, president-CEO of Maven Strategies. He added that because artists have different styles -- some are more serious, some are more party driven -- “we always want to make sure their style works with the advertiser.” Maven also tries to identify when an artist is hoping to release a new record: An advertiser could time a new marketing campaign around the release of an album that features its product in a song.

Final song approval

For the deal involving the Big Mac, McDonald’s receives final approval of the lyrics, but it will ultimately allow artists to decide how the sandwich is integrated into the songs. “The main thing is to allow the artists to do what they do best,” Mr. Rome said. “We’re letting them creatively bring to life the product in their song.” Maven’s already started receiving several songs for consideration. Maven receives a consulting fee for its services. Music acts, however, will not receive payment upfront. Instead, they will earn anywhere from $1 to $5 each time their song is played on the radio.

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japanese tranny pop

2005-03-30T22:30:20Z

Manufactured Transgender Pop Group 'Lady' Set to Debut

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200503/200503270008.html

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Video Games are Evil

2005-03-29T18:52:52Z

Interesting PSA concerning children and video games....

http://www.mediafamily.org/mediawise/psa.shtml

Children don't frighten me. Children who play violent video games don't frighten me either. Parents who believe TV, video games, and music are responsible for violent behavior in their children scare the shit out of me.

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weird gardens

2005-03-28T08:47:19Z

http://www.weirdgardens.com/

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Get hung, dammit.

2005-03-27T20:14:17Z

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/art.prank.reut/index.html

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Robert Anton Wilson in "Maybe Logic"

2005-03-27T20:03:59Z

Message From Squid:

Robert Anton Wilson in "Maybe Logic"

Sat., March 26

8:00-10::00 (second feature 10;00-12:00)

$6.66 for first show, $9.99 for both

----/ Event Description /-----------------------------------------------

Performance-lecturer Erik ("Techgnosis") Davis introduces the Bay Area
debut of the intimte portrait oif Robert Anton Wilson, 'Maybe Logic".
Davis will guide a Q&A with dircector Lance Bauscher after the
feature-length video.
At 10pm, an addtional documentary will screen, "Wilhelm Reich in Hell",
which is an account of Wilson's performance of his own play.

----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------

ATA Gallery
992 Valencia Street
san francisco
415-648-0654
www.atasite.org

Valencia and 21st St., in the Mission District

----/ Additional Info /-------------------------------------------------

othercine@hotmail.com
415=648-0654
www.othercinema.com

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marraige

2005-03-27T19:52:42Z

Britney muzzles herself: Has Britney Spears bared too much? The pop star is taking a vow of silence after reading over a cover story in Allure in which she discussed her split with Justin Timberlake, her Vegas wedding to Jason Alexander, her post-honeymoon pudge and the rocky beginning of her current marriage to Kevin Federline. "We hit a little bit of reality, hardcore, after the first three weeks. But we handled it fine, and now things are starting to go really smooth," Spears told Allure. "Before we got married we were on tour, and we were just like kids, ordering room service, saying, 'Let’s go out tonight.' Then, all of a sudden, you have this home, you have the kids [Federline's two children from a previous relationship], you have to get the diapers, get the dog to the vet. It's this reality. Like omigod, I have to tell the maid to buy diapers and get the pool boy to walk the dog? Can't I just make out with Kevin all the time? Being married sucks." Writing on her Web site, Spears says, "I feel the article focused too much on my personal life and various events from my past. I've already dealt with these issues with the support of my family & friends and have fully moved on. In the future, I will refrain from discussing my private life in interviews." (The Scoop, MTV News Online)

"being married sucks"

--Spears 2005

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Another one for the superstitious christians

2005-03-27T18:54:05Z

Remember after 9/11 and all the photos were popping up of satan's face in the smoke. The virgin mary gets a grilled cheese sandwich, but the devil gets a whole turtle.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/21/evil.turtle.ap/index.html

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creepy

2005-03-27T18:50:34Z

http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/whatonearth/Item_Forest-Faces8482_AR3632G_ps_srm.html

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shamrocks, eh?

2005-03-18T04:15:50Z

i've seen people laugh like that from a big bowl...just not a big bowl of shamrocks.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sl&g=events/lf/031605stpatricksday&e=1

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Smithsonian to exhibit rare pearls

2005-03-18T01:20:05Z

what with all this talk of pearl jewelry lately..

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Allure%20of%20Pearls

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BTK

2005-03-15T19:32:38Z

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/btk_killings

i want my serial killers to look like raving lunatics, not the nerdy dad next door! jeebus.

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whoa...

2005-03-15T17:33:36Z

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=796&e=4&u=/eo/16099

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this one caused me brain damage

2005-03-15T17:31:50Z

http://www.csh.rit.edu/~rage/TLGmedia/anim_pages/anewbunny.htm

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not like i love the irs

2005-03-15T08:01:58Z

but i hope they take everything he owns and send him to prison for a long long long long time. what a complete fucktard.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=762&e=4&u=/ap/20050311/ap_en_tv/tv_survivor_taxes

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Robert Crumb and me

2005-03-11T22:28:59Z

Robert Crumb is now art..here is a bunch of links that proves he is a motherfucking artist......lets get discussing

www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi

www.guardian.co.uk/arts/cru...tory/0,,1431884,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/arts/cru...tory/0,,1432842,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/arts/cru...tory/0,,1433495,00.html
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