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vaginal davis is one of my art heros and a major, lifelong inspiration. she has an art exhibition in stockholm that spans 5!!!!!! museums called magnificent product. it is more than remarkable to see a body of work that spans more than 40 years be more exciting today than ever before. she has the ability to be politically astute, sexual, funny, heart breaking, bizarre, literate, crass, culturally cutting and culturally embracing. her work is magic in the truest and most literal sense of the word in that her work will change you. installations, film, painting, photos, collage and writing that is worth any effort to go but buy the catalog if you (not unreasonably) cannot important sections of the exhibitions are in collaboration with CHEAP and Jonathan Berger.
Jun 25, 2024
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Staying at the Roxy in NY (formerly the Tribeca Grand) is akin to being on an elegant cruise in Manhattan. It’s my home away from home in the city. Everything is there: from live jazz in the massive atrium lobby with the glass elevator zipping up and down and the divine food and drinks (I recommend the lobster roll and a mescal cocktail) in recessed leather booths shaped like teacups, to the gorgeous red velvet theater below - which offers the best films on screen in Manhattan - curated by the brilliant Illyse Singer. After attending a killer film and fascinating Q&A, retreat to the Django, the speakeasy next door, which stays open til 4AM and is often where the hottest underground music acts play… What else could you ask for?
Jan 16, 2025
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Made a WhatsApp group with all my film friends in it and have been using it coordinate going to screenings. It's so much fun! There's loads of little independent screenings happening where I live and some very good independent cinemas, but even if all you have is a TV you should start a film club too. This evening I'm off to an old pub that's been converted into an events space to watch The Garden by Derek Jarman 😎
Feb 11, 2025
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most underrated movie theatre in la. student tickets are $5
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streaming music is fucking dumb. it sounds like ass, a person who doesn't know anything about music programs a robot to tell what you should like, it makes music extremely disposable and therefore meaningless and it is 99.99% theft from musicians. however things that are fucking dumb and the music business were made for each other-so if that is what it's going to be, you might as well use a GREAT streaming (steaming) platform. Radiooooo is a map of the world and timeline of decades. you pick a country and pick a decade and music from there and from then will play. 1990s Algeria BOOM! 1940s Brazil ZAP! 2010s Czech Republic BLAMO! 1960s South Korea ZORK! it is curated by music fans not an algorithm and you can set it at slow, fast or weird or all three. if you have to drink poison at least drink bitchin' poison.
Jun 25, 2024
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as a band we have a healthy collection of pedals, not as many as some but certainly an interesting selection. one of the most curious new ones we have is the Lossy by Chase Bliss. There are lots of degeneration pedals but this one specifically emulates shitty early digital/mp3/cdr/internet dying types of sounds. though based on past technology, it is an unsettling device as makes the sounds of our current, failing civilization's most recent problems: an over reliance on inherently bad communication methodologies and representations. it makes sounds that are bad for you but in a charming way. it reminds you that the end is high nigh but the pedal is bright pink so it will be a cutie pie, cartoonish kind of smashy smashy ending.
Jun 25, 2024
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Animalia is novel by French author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and it may be the best book i have ever read. It is set on a family pig farm around WWI and in the 1980s and is RIFE with disgusting beauty, shocking physicality, unusual astoundingly imaginative turns of events and both wonderful humanity and wonderful inhumanity. the writing is dense but never tedious as are the emotions and feral motivations it explores. i found myself laughing out loud not at how funny it is but at how incredible it is. i wish it were 3,000,000,000 pages long. it is his first work translated into english and my bandmate, who introduced me to it, is learning french just so she can read his other books.
Jun 25, 2024