June 2008
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WatchJASON BATEMAN -
A Star is Born / Bourne?, no born.
In other news regarding this clip: Does David Cross have a new big tat on that arm?
LITTLE LEBOWSKI URBAN EXPLORER
As previously mentioned today we’ve got a winner. Ollie in the new Metromix tells us what de dee when it comes to our fair city Los Angeles.
“If delving into L.A.’s past makes you feel like the leading man or femme fatale of your own private film noir, perhaps a grittier view of the city’s underbelly is in order. Esotouric’s bus-bound tours draw inspiration from tough-guy writers such...
...IN THE FREE WORLD
UNDER THE RADAR
TOP 10 PROTEST SONGS
10 Bruce Springsteen - “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live” (2006) 09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - “What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes” (2002) 08 Elbow - “Leaders Of The Free World” (2005) 07 Sleater-Kinney - “Combat Rock” (2002) 06 Arcade Fire - “Intervention” (2007) 05 Kris...
CARDIO CINEMA KILLS 2 BIRDS WITH 1 STONE →
when it rains it pours
KNOW ABOUT IT. My little Reagomuffin es blowing up. Connie, thank you for the musical goods. You are VIP. Always have been, always will. Love to you both on the splendid occasion. We are, after all, just SCAD bees…
raisedonsandwiches:
i’m about to embark on a pretty seriously enormous project for an anti-steroid campaign for Chiat/Day in NYC… I will keep you posted on the progress… in the...
METROMIX TODAY 6/25
You’z has better get one today. Ollie article inside sure to be the supreme hotness. Son!
NEW BOOKS: A CENTURY OF OLYMPIC POSTERS
“A Century of Olympic Posters published this month from Abrams, traces the evolution of the poster from the first official one for Stockholm in 1912 until the present. The range of styles is as fascinating as the historical context and the evolution of graphic design itself. Sixties Op-Art is perfectly reflected in Mexico’s poster in 1968.”
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DIABLO CODY IS A BALLER. DOES HER BIRTHDAY TIME AT...
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DEAR GOD SUMMER HAS ARRIVED
Truth be told, it has been a warm one here in LA. A couple weeks ago I talked to the babies in BKLYN and they said, “Oh damn, we are so hot here…dying.” I’z was like, “Too bad, LA has been nice enough.” And then the heat occurred. Tuesday the air conditioning was out in the place and it was hot as can be and sleeping was an abomination but I did it. Thankfully,...
ERTEL PROBZ STILL NOT GOING TO RIDE ON THE...
“‘In Los Angeles, municipal code states that bicycles may ride on sidewalks as long as riders do not have a “willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.’ The only sidewalk in the city where it is illegal to ride is on Ocean Front Walk in Venice.”
Although we are now “allowed” to ride on the sidewalk in WeHo it’s really not...
INTERVIEW WITH ED PARK (FOUNDER OF THE BELIEVER... →
THE BEST OF LATE NITE LA: A GOOD GUIDE TO THE... →
TONIGHT TONIGHT
1.) VEGAN HAPPY HOUR POT LUCK
$1.50 PBR at Short Stop
2.) DRAWING WORDS AND WRITING PICTURES BOOK TOUR RECEPTION
Free Drinks (who know what, but I have been here and it was Tecate and Tequilla before)
Secret Headquarters
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JUST SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU. LA HAS SOME AWESOME... →
Santo Gold + Santogold = Lawsuit →
STEREOGUM'S 5 REASONS WE NEED TO SEE SIGUR ROS... →
WatchSO RICH IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
WATCH OUT! BEWARE! COOL NEW CDS TO BE RELEASED...
JUNE 24
Sigur Ros - Meo suo i eyrum vio spilum endalaust (With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly)
JULY 8
Beck - Modern Guilt
Ratatat - LP3
SEPT. 9
Calexico- Carried to Dust
CREEPINGTONS! CAT LADY KILLS CATS AND HAS CAT... →
AN OPEN LETTER TO IRB FOR HIS BIRTHDAY / FUNDAY
When people ask how old I am, I now say 26
indierockbakery:
To those friends who came out to celebrate Flag Day/my birthday/Ian’s birthday (June 20, mark your calendars), thank you for a wonderful time. It was a lovely day and night in downtown Los Angeles and an auspicious beginning to what I hope will be another great year.
To those of you who couldn’t make it because of work, distance,...
“Sometimes I worry that the ever-increasing trend toward excessive innovation has...”
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Sujan Speaks! Not so into Vampire Weekend. Let the record state, I agree with him.
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WONDEROUS NEW PIECES
FOUR
New works from Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman and Karen Hsiao at CHG
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BEST SLOGAN FOR A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT COUNCIL...
“This Buds For You”
“Well we made are way to the train, I said good-bye after eating a shepards pie....”
– ‘Cause we can’t stop and we won’t stop! INFY and I have mad love for our dear friend and noted photographer Marky Rubenstein.
THEY'RE NOT BAD. THEY'RE JUST DRAWN THAT WAY.
From Pre-Code Cartoons at Cinefamily to the NYT Sunday Book Review of The Flash Press by Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz it is clear that the past is presently pretty sexy.
FLASH PRESS
Nicholson Baker says, “The Whip was, along with three other newspapers — The Flash, The Rake and The Libertine — part of what is now called the “flash press”: a...