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| Don Lemon & Tim Malone |
Congratulations to CNN anchor Don Lemon on his marriage to his longtime partner real estate broker Tim Malone in NYC!
Have a terrific Sunday Funday!
Don on IG -
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Woo!!!
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| Woo |
Independent record label Independent Project Records (IPR) announced today that they have released two albums as companion pieces by U.K. cult band Woo. The band was recently featured in Electronic Sound magazine.
Both Robot X (originally released in 2016) and Xylophonics (2017) have been reshaped and newly conceived with updated artwork for release as, for the first time ever, a one-package release on double CD and double vinyl sets, as well as digital formats. Additionally, a new video for the Robot X focus track ‘Repeatability’ is out now on IPR’s YouTube channel, produced and created by Woo’s very own Clive Ives.
IPR and Woo first worked together in 1988 with the release of Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong and then the acclaimed 1989 cult favorite It’s Cosy Inside. Almost forty years later, the men behind Woo, brothers Mark and Clive Ives, have been remarkably prolific, and Independent Project Records is in the fourth year of its relaunch. Time to join forces again.
“We had a great collaboration with Bruce back then,” says Clive Ives of Woo. “Both Mark and I were delighted about this new double album with IPR. We love Bruce Licher’s aesthetic and distinct designs. He has really surpassed our expectations with his beautifully crafted letterpress artworks for the two albums. And IPR asked the brilliant Josh Bonati to master our albums!”
“I first met Mark and Clive Ives in the mid-eighties after being thoroughly amazed by the music of Woo on their self-released debut album Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong,” remembers Independent Project Records founder Bruce Licher. “I’m very excited to be working with them again on their catalog almost 40 years later, as both Robot X and Xylophonics are wonderfully weird albums cut from the same cloth as the electronic uniqueness they created years ago. There is nothing else quite like the sound that the Brothers Ives make — a sound that is quintessentially Woo.”
Robot X and Xylophonics tell a story of retro-futuristic visions from different angles: both proudly experimental, they combine a deluge of musical influences to offer something that is, quite remarkably, deeply layered and minimalist at the same time. The unpredictable instrumentals invite listeners to attach their own fantasies to what they hear, whether those fantasies belong to the past, the present or, more likely, a robotic future.
Robot X was created from snippets of recordings made on a 4-track tape machine in the 80s. “One of our most abstract and surreal albums," Clive Ives calls it. When the record was first compiled in 2016, the brothers felt that the reality of humanoid robots being made and being used was imminent. This concept became the main inspiration for the album, fuelled by the influence of Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterpiece Brazil, with its blend of sci-fi and dark comedy.
The story, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines, proved influential for Robot X’s artwork, too: Clive Ives collaged together various old industrial machinery etchings to create robots, coming up with something that is obviously not as practical and functional as modern (real world) robots are designed to be. Even with good design, the question arises: how will these logical machines co-exist with unpredictable humans?
Xylophonics came together after the brothers Ives started reworking tracks found in the 90s section of their spacious archive. Back then, they had just begun recording onto computers. These tracks showcase their first opportunity to properly link drum machines with keyboards, and create loops and multitrack more layers without the need of sound on sound on a tape deck, working on melodic loops made with tuned percussion instruments such as marimba, kalimba and xylophone, and creating a feel that is equally futuristic and optimistic.
Friday, April 5, 2024
At Least Tell Me I'm Pretty...
Due to the writer's and actor's strike this week part II of AHS: Delicate premiered this past Wednesday (with the best episode of the season thus far) and coming at ya this Wednesday April 10th is part II of Chucky's third season.
Well I really love the TV version of Chucky it's off the wall and it works spectacularly!
I was never a big fan of the Chucky film series. Fact: I only saw the first Child's Play and turned off 2 & 3 while trying to view them at home. I didn't see another one until Bride of Chucky which was hilarious!
That is what the series does it capitalizes on what makes Chucky entertaining and fun. It does not attempt to make him scary, because let's all collectively admit it , none of us is scared of a three foot tall talking doll!!!
Chucky on the WWW -
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Michael's Musings
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| "I'm Not A Whore, I'm A Dancer!" Michael Shinafelt |
It's been 29 years since the over the top, camp classic movie Showgirls was released. I have personally seen it south of 10 times. To this day it I still draw inspiration from it.
Bear witness to me on the subway in Los Angeles doing my best Nomi Malone licking a pole impression. There you have it, that's all...
Don't slut shame, slut celebrate!!!
I'm affable as F#ck you twat, the more you know
Evil queens are just Disney princessess who worked in customer service too long
The Evil Putana Says: I'll smear my breasts and feed the babies, so there!
Headline of the Week: Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in the near future (for the record a Great Tit is a breed of bird)
Strip faster let's see some private areas, there's that
"See Darlin' you are a whore." Couldn't have a column referencing Showgirls without this iconic line straight outta Cristal Connors
Katie Maloney for the win on Vanderpump Rules
Woman Crush of the Week - Sydney Sweeney who manages to look hot in a Nun's Habit of all things for her movie Immaculate
Where does your opinion come from? Think about it, but not too much
Apparently when you treat people like the treat you, they get upset
Tom Sandoval is doing himself no favors on Vanderpump Rules this season, he's making himself look so much worse than last season
The monster at the end of this story...what did you think I was going to actually give it away?!
Off to bend it like Nomi and lick some more poles
Come on my pole licking adventure here -
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Hump Day & Chill
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| Nellie Oleson |
It's about time we got real and did a Hump Day & Chill Nellie Oleson style!
"Yes" the notorious NO sgtraight outta the TV show Little House On The Prairie, if you know you know...
For those who don't Nellie was Laura Ingalls Wilder's acid tongued rival on the show. Who would toss out such gems as: "You should be locked up in a cage and fed with a stick; you have made life miserable for everyone."
Ms. Oleson was portrayed by Alison Arngrim from 1974 - 1982
So it's time to become your own spoiled brat and sharpen your tongues Minions, and do it Nellie Oleson's way!
Nellie Oleson on Wikipedia -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Oleson
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
Ever see The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari? Well it's a classic of expressionist cinema and I saw it in college and it was pretty amazing!
Well now is not only high time you viewed this masterpiece but also get some detailed backgtound and insight into the masterwork it is.
By checking out the write-up about it on my buddy Jay Jacobson's Classic Movie Blog.
Jay has detailed insight and interesting facts and history behind the film in his entertaining and informative piece.
So here we are the first Tusday of April - time to clean out the cabinet...!
Hit Jay's history of this celluloid classic after the jump!!!
https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/post/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-1920
Monday, April 1, 2024
April Fools Etc...
It's April 1st known throughout my life as April Fools Day. I'm officially retiring April Fools as it no longer has any impact in this day and age of fake media.
Every day is a joke anymore of some sort of media perpetuated hoax. Join me and the fifty foot preying mantis in sending this archaic tradition off with a great big RIP!
April Fools! Not!
Pity the fool on Wikipedia -
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