R.I.P. BRITTANY MURPHY

Today I am devastated about the demise of Brittany Murphy. Although we deprived her the recognition, she was one of the most influential actresses for our generation. Her sultry, stoned, naive, and charming portrayal of Tai Fraser in Clueless will remain indelible in our hearts forever. <3



I hope you're giving toothaches at the Clueless MTV Beach Party in Heaven.


Lightning Seeds - "Change"

PUMPKINS TODAY.

WE MISS YOU D'ARCY.

MVM: SYNTH BRITANNIA

I am now a contributor to the blog for Dossier Journal! I made my first post about the BBC4 Documentary Synth Britannia, which is what I spent 90 illustrious minutes heavily absorbed in last night per Devine's recommendation.

Here is the documentary in its (near) entirety. The 9th installment was taken offline for some God-awful reason.

180 DEGREES AND I'M CAUGHT IN BETWEEN

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER? Discuss.

I'M CLOSER TO BECOMING A TANPIRE EVERYDAY

As you may or may not know, I am working on the first draft of a screenplay about "tanpires". This blog entry should be proof that I own that term should anything legal come up. I plan to skip over the current vampire trend's stale hover by virtue of the fact that if this vomatrocious script is ever to be produced it will undoubtedly be close to ten years from now. Naturally, I hope that I can coax Tanlines to be on the soundtrack. Tanlines are like the Bill & Ted of dance music in Brooklyn, only their bogus journey takes you on a tour of Ibiza and Sweden where your kool-aid gets laced with opium and you wind up sinking into a tropical sunset bedspread from which you may never emerge alive again.

Are you obsessed yet? Check out my recent HINT feature of their song "New Flowers" which I shall also post below in 5, 4, 3, 2


TANLINES - "New Flowers"

Photo by James Ryang.

MVM: Laura Fucking Sutro

Girls came to NYC this past weekend and played at the Bowery Ballroom. The most surreal moment of the night for me wasn't when Chris dedicated "Lust for Life" to me and since I wasn't standing around any of my friends but was in the pit had to turn around to total strangers and selfishly announce "That's me!", but rather it was when the band started to play "Laura" and everyone in the crowd sang along every word. Being that this song is about one of my best friends and came out of a situation that I was very much involved in, in my REAL LIFE, it felt really bizarre and uncomfortably fun. Mostly it made me miss Laura Sutro. Here she is in the video, being a topless ho and going to Disneyland. It was directed by her boyfriend Mr. Brian Lee Hughes, using 4 Japanese Barbie cameras.

YOU LOOK SO ABSURD, YOU LOOK SO OBSCENE.

ME as an "emo-ticon".

Frank Benson and Jeff Simmermon as Karl Lagerfeld and his manservant.

Lauren Devine and Scott Hug as Piggy and Kermit.

David Riley as Rafael the Ninja Turtle.

:*(

:( and Ryan Trecartin as... a raisin? A "hot Karl"? Where's Karl?

MINISTRY - "Everyday Is Halloween"

All photos by Frank Benson & Xavier Cha.