Hide/Seek & Fire In My Belly Update

The Smithsonian has released a wimpy statement that indicates that they “Stand Firmly Behind “Hide/Seek” Exhibition”.  Which is total bullshit. If they’re was anything firm about their stance, David Wojnarowicz’ video would still be on display.  If we are going to have to fight another culture war to defend the rights of free expression [...]

More Fire In My Belly

For your reference, David Wojnarowicz’ piece, Fire in My Belly (via Carol Cheh of Another Righteous Transfer), in its YouTube incarnation.

The audio is from Diamanda Galas‘ Plague Mass, which in my opinion is one of the most important and moving pieces of music composed in the last 50 years or so.  If [...]

GOP Fires First Shots in a New Culture War?

So there were elections, and now radical, right wing powers are sharpening their agendas, with incoming House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va.) leading the way.

So the first shot is the demanded removal of David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 work, A Fire in My Belly, from display in the exhibition [...]

Get Darque With Me

Zoetica Ebb over at Coilhouse has done the hard work at assembling a double fistful of ten YouTube selections of that darker, slower music that hung in the air in a thousand dimly lit teenage bedrooms in the 90′s. Follow the link to watch them, love them, sharpen your buck knife to them, [...]

Kanye West x Vanessa Beecroft

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Vanessa Beecroft, whose career has been devoted furthering my principle that anything in sufficient repetition can pass as contemporary art did the art direction for Kanye’s newest exploration of his own genius. No embedding, so you’re going to have to follow the above link.

31 minutes (plus credits) of Kanye West [...]

Now we’re just grasping at straws…

Annoying Sound Warning! The video below is accompanied by what I can only imagine is the rejected soundtrack from Atari’s ET: The Extraterrestrial II or something of equal quality.  It will loop and repeat itself for the entire 10:43 of the video, so I strongly suggest turning off your speakers before you hit play.

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Your Giant Holographic Icon, Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is a software-based, Japanese singing voice that manifests in many forms, including live concerts. She has a specific appearance, long blue hair, loli-esque body and a Sailor Moon-y outfit, and can be seen and consumed in just about every media imaginable. I guess this is the Aidoru phenomenon in yet another fruitful [...]

RIP Bob Guccione

Here’s an all-to-brief YouTube toast to the man who brought us OMNI Magazine, Caligula and letters that began with “I never thought it would happen to me…”

Yes, I had a subscription to OMNI, and believed everything I read because I was like 10 years old at the time.  The hypersuggestabilty of prepubescence [...]

Kusama + Baby = Awesome

I’m by no means the only person to have fallen headfirst down Kusama’s infinitely reflected, obliterated work. Flickr user Sanhelsington has captured the distillation of the intoxicating power of Yayoi Kusama.

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Double Awesome

Loud Music + (Flamethrower x Slomo ) + (Fire Extinguisher x Slomo) = Awesome x 2

via James Rojsirivat