headbangers of the world unite

Okay, by popular request, the aforementioned headbanging:



PS: I would like to see your headbanging.

I could maybe do this all day long

tv is more palatable in animated gif form

giffed

(the first one I made was of me headbanging)

(behold)

enter the:

(check out the other movies by this guy)

In other cinematic news, I just got my Olympia Film Fest guide. Oly has Udo Kier, Dame Darcy, and Steven Severin coming to town. Dang.

Ana da Silva @ Starr Space

Ana da Silva's set was great! She put out an album on Chicks on Speed records a while back. You can hear some of the songs on her myspace.

This show happened at a nice venue called Starr Space in Bushwick. It reminded me a little bit of old Hall O' The Woods shows. It was founded by the artist Jules de Balincourt.

I missed the big Raincoats show at the Knitting Factory the night before, but this show was special. After Ana's set, Viv Albertine (Slits) and Anne Wood came up on stage. We had a sing-a-long of "Adventures Close to Home", and then they sang "Lola".

When they started "Lola" I could not resist pulling out my video camera. It was the first Raincoats song I ever heard, sometime in high school in the back of my friend Luke's car. Here is a little clip of it, Ana on the right, Viv in the middle, and Anne on the left.

There were maybe thirty or forty people sitting arced around the floor. It was so sweet & happy.

After, Hawnay Troof brought out the jams. Vice Cooler actually was tambourining in the above clip, and toured with the Raincoats as their drummer.

Also, the first act was Max Steele, who started with a Tracy + the Plastics cover, and continued in that fashion very successfully. and DJ Anthony Thornton played dark italo disco all nite.

a forest

I have been thinking lately that maybe Boys Don't Cry by The Cure is the best album of all time.

This song, however, comes from Seventeen Seconds.

string theory, in action

(This is my preferred model of string theory, animated!)

The description from the site is "Rolled-up balls of extra dimensions (Calabi-Yau shapes) making up the fabric of space."

my head on the door was a dream

on top is a Thread Palace for Green Tara, sortof very advanced god's eye work, and that is just the middle section. It is at the Rubin Museum of Art, where I went yesterday to see the premiere of Carl Jung's The Red Book.

mindblowers of the week

1) video of a woman giving birth underwater w/ a dolphin:

(thanks sam)

2) Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr, in the new issue of McSweeney's (thirty-two) - grows in this trembling power, so unbelievably beautiful, and it evokes one of my favorite films: Until the End of the World.

3) weaving god's eyes

medieval festival at fort tryon park

saw a lot of cats out on leashes, a unicorn, some falcons, friars, bellydancers, knights, etc...

tumblr

I started a tumblr account here in an attempt to extract the posting of "random" photos. Not sure how long it will last, just having fun with technology/ making image searches last/ "cloud" image storage.

NY Art Book Fair

top:this year
bottom:last year, write-up in defunktish book blog here

I love the NY Art Book Fair! This year it took over two floors of PS1 and had performances too. It is this great blend of diy art-punks with a bit of high art and queers. Literary nerds and art brats. I even saw thurston moore had a table. It makes living here worth it.

ersatz wilds

(a:ps1 young architects)
(b:park on atlantic ave)

I.U.D. & Silk Flowers @ Deitch / NY Art Book Fair Bene

Rad. I was at home, sewing a skirt (gold & black Senegalese inverting pattern) when I remembered about it. When the skirt was done I was ready. I got to PS1, missed the review, but was whisked to Deitch in a chartered bus. It is a double warehouse space on the water in Long Island City. The bar was free, sponsored by ******* liquor, (made from "bugs and herbs") and I got in free on account of volunteering at the fair tomorrow. Silk Flowers started up, I had never seen them despite meaning to, but I had read many reviewsish about them, and so when the Ian Curtis inflection came out I was pretty sure it was them, then confirmed. It was really good though. The acoustics were wild with the tall ceilings and obelisk (truly) speakers scattered about, but they sounded better then Joy Division, I think. Where JD's guitar got intricate and pressing, SF just rode out a sweet drone ride, maybe. It was heavy. And stand-up drumming, I'm such a sucker for that, I love it.

I.U.D. brought dueling lady drummers and it was sick. Like, siiiick. Plagued slightly by tech difficulties it was still such a pounding rhythm goodness.
Also, I watched an Artist feed a white mouse to a snake art piece installation living creature. There were paintings and sculptures everywhere in the space, I remember best a circle of wolves within a ring of gauze suspended, but also lots of bleeding neon and distorted pizza/cacti.

Home now, eating rosewater halva trying to sober before my nesting. Good night.