Not to quote the Beach Boys too hard. But I really feel that this summer is going to be a good one. As last year we did not even have a summer here in Los Angeles. And I was struggling with much of an artist block and was working in a place with very limited space, that really caused me to be very depressed with my work and social life.
But in January of this year. Blaine and I moved to a new loft in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, it has been quite a refreshing change and I feel much of my creative self has been restored. Knowing this it gives me great hope in making some really great work this summer. I have been producing a small amount of work over this past year. However moving away from collage and diving straight into painting again is starting to feel a little stale like a day old croissant.
Though painting it is such a great passion of mine, and my style is quite unique and makes people feel good. I just feel like a huge part of me is missing and needs from the easel and sink my teeth into a heavy collage projects. I often have plans to go out and start hunting for something to start working on. But Our schedule has not permitted me the time to go on the great treasure hunt for new stuff. So I just go back to painting.
However this summer I feel that with the change in the weather and the good space that we are in now. It's time for me to go out and do a treasure hunt for pieces to collage and move forward with my plans. It means a lot to me to have tons of cut up magazines around me with a glue gun, lacquer, cigarettes, beer, lots of French pop and 60's pop records playing in the background with the sun shining through the french doors of downstairs room of my loft and Lester Bangs wagging his tale while I am up till hours with the night creating things that make me feel full and not so empty inside.
As of today, this will be Powerpop78's summer of collage.
ox
POWERPOP 78
I am the Owner POP LIFE ARTS & Devilish Delights LA I am also an Artist, DJ, Pop Culture Archivest, Music Business Wife who lives a pretty interesting life. I am just here to share my experences with others.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Coachella Takeoff
Up early getting last minute things together and trying to work on the final packing stages. Packing is something I am quite good at and enjoy. However every year we go to Coachella I find myself in a little panic over what to bring. From clothing, jewelry, bath and body products, shoes, household items, pool toys, food, drink and office supplies.
I do feel that since we have a rental place I can do a little over packing. I am sitting here now writing this and suffering from a small panic over what clothes I have packed and whether or not I need to Weigh my options not sure if it's really worth it, but this is just how I am "The Constant Over Thinker"
Julie came over for a drink and a chat last evening, and I even sent her off with cooking chaffers, party supplies and a pinata. I am starting to wonder if I am alone in this feeling and if anyone else worries about this stuff like I do.
powerpop78's Double Take List
1. Do I need to pack more kitchen stuff (the house comes with a stocked kitchen"
2. Maybe I need more pool towels someone make not like the ones there.
3. I think we need more alcohol for the guest (keep in mind I don't drink hard alcohol)
4. If I have face scrub I need to have a toner and if I bring the toner, I have to have eye cream firming solution.
5. Batteries is one long package enough. (well I can always stop at Target)
6. What is someone forgets that. I should just have one on hand (this could mean any item I become fixated on at the time)
7. Film cameras and bags. I have this compulsion to bring them all.
8. I can't let people see me in the same swim suit daily. Is 5 really enough.
All and all with all of this over thinking I manage to forget something it just seems inevitable. I keep telling myself don't worry. However I just can't work this way. But the show must go on and there is still so much to do. I am now just going to to and relax and pack up my car before the counting of the hair ties starts. I just need to relax and this about the great bands that are playing and the friends I get to see.
In some ways I always feel like Coachella is the music business version of The Bill Chill for my generation for dear friends a colleagues. And for myself and the B it's like a great reunion for friends from far and near. I can't wait to get to the desert, crack and Red Stripe, float on a pool raft and get ready to open of my desert abode for 5 night of non stop madness with some of the most talented people I know.
Cheers! and Happy Coachella to all of you!
I do feel that since we have a rental place I can do a little over packing. I am sitting here now writing this and suffering from a small panic over what clothes I have packed and whether or not I need to Weigh my options not sure if it's really worth it, but this is just how I am "The Constant Over Thinker"
Julie came over for a drink and a chat last evening, and I even sent her off with cooking chaffers, party supplies and a pinata. I am starting to wonder if I am alone in this feeling and if anyone else worries about this stuff like I do.
powerpop78's Double Take List
1. Do I need to pack more kitchen stuff (the house comes with a stocked kitchen"
2. Maybe I need more pool towels someone make not like the ones there.
3. I think we need more alcohol for the guest (keep in mind I don't drink hard alcohol)
4. If I have face scrub I need to have a toner and if I bring the toner, I have to have eye cream firming solution.
5. Batteries is one long package enough. (well I can always stop at Target)
6. What is someone forgets that. I should just have one on hand (this could mean any item I become fixated on at the time)
7. Film cameras and bags. I have this compulsion to bring them all.
8. I can't let people see me in the same swim suit daily. Is 5 really enough.
All and all with all of this over thinking I manage to forget something it just seems inevitable. I keep telling myself don't worry. However I just can't work this way. But the show must go on and there is still so much to do. I am now just going to to and relax and pack up my car before the counting of the hair ties starts. I just need to relax and this about the great bands that are playing and the friends I get to see.
In some ways I always feel like Coachella is the music business version of The Bill Chill for my generation for dear friends a colleagues. And for myself and the B it's like a great reunion for friends from far and near. I can't wait to get to the desert, crack and Red Stripe, float on a pool raft and get ready to open of my desert abode for 5 night of non stop madness with some of the most talented people I know.
Cheers! and Happy Coachella to all of you!
Monday, April 11, 2011
POWERPOP78 COACHELLA ART PROJECT 2011
I am also willing to send people copies of the photos I take. As long as I have contact info. I may also ask you a few questions as well.
COACHELLA ART PROJECT SCHEDULE.
Day 1 Friday April, 15 2011
"ON YOUR FEET"
I will be taking photos of peoples feet on the move and the shoes they are wearing.
Day 2 Saturday April, 16 2011
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE ARE YOU FROM"
I will be shooting random festival goers and asking you. Where you are from and what brought you to the festival.
Day 3 Sunday April 17
"WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING IN YOU MOUTH"
Random shots will be taken of people eating, drinking, dancing and doing god know what with things in their mouths.
I will be using all of these items for an upcoming art show I am working on. I am hoping to receive a warm response from people while I am taking these photos.
I look forward to seeing you all there.
Powerpop78
Monday, March 28, 2011
Coachella Fashion Police "We will be watching"
For over the past 12 years, I have been lucky to be part of the Coachella music festival. My husband has had several of the bands bands that he manages play there ever since the very first festival. During the first two years of the festival fashion was never the important of a thing. people came out in shorts, t-shirts, sandals and vintage frocks. Over the years the festival has reached such great heights, that fashion and celebrities became a huge influence on culture of the festival as we know it today.
The years of free and easy dress died with the electroclash movement. Now you find retailers branding swimsuits, shorts, Bags, Sandals, dresses, sun glasses and poser boho fashions as "Coachella Style" I find this quite funny, as one can go on to the Nordstroms website and purchase the Lucky Brand "Coachella Bathing Suit" And then do a search for the rest of your wardrobe for that long weekend.
In the early years, when style came into play with the festival, you saw some really great original styles, much like the ones you would see at Reading to Leads festivals in the UK. But over the years the festival has launched A few major standing styles that have really saturated the polo grounds. I referrer to some these as the YIKES factor, and the other ones are pretty great and original and practical for the desert. Here are some of my dos and don't for Coachella.
1. The Low brow "Bros & Hoes fashion.
Would you really want to bee seen with fools like this!
2. "All I wanted to do was look cool".
3. The Goths, how I admire them. Staying so true to who they are in that hot weather. And looking smashing.
4. I am a Rock Star so I can get away with it. (well maybe)
This really says a lot
3. The Goths, how I admire them. Staying so true to who they are in that hot weather. And looking smashing.She looks a little hot, but I bet she is having a good time.
4. I am a Rock Star so I can get away with it. (well maybe)
Har Mar showing is festival side
5. I really wanted to stand out, but I think it was a bit much.
Honey, if you were going for Mod, you got it all wrong!
6. To have good style, you must also have some class.
Great outfit, I give her a ten.
7. I am not here for the party, I am just a music fan.
Cute and comfortable she knows how to do it right!, and you know she has jeans in that big bag she is carrying!
8. Out to Party and Get Fucked! You know many festival goers are looking for a one night stand, well here you go!
9. Working Class Punk Looking Dashing in the Heat
LCD''s Handsome Fearless Leader James Murphy Dress to Impress.
10. Classic Punk Straight Edge Chic.
Ian MacKaye Wearing his classic DC Punk style works for him every time!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Powerpop78's 70's Thoughts
When I think about growing up in the 70's these are songs that I remember, for good reasons. I think that this list does not totally represent me, however these are songs I will never forgot, memories so ingrained in my head I often find myself singing some of these songs and bursting out in laughter or tears.
I hope you enjoy this list
1) The Ramones – Blitkrieg Bop
2 minutes of sublime noise. Perhaps I like it so much because it has that 60s garage spirit floating through it. Also a band of great presence. They changed the face of Rock music by giving it a gentle tweak.
2) Fórmula V – Eva María
As promised, prime Franco-era bubblegum pop. Formula V.
3) The Who – Amazing Journey
From Tommy, the greatest Rock Opera/Concept album ever written. Amazing Journey tells of a trip to inner space where a young boy escapes his life’s trauma. Awesome drumming by Mr Moon as usual.
4) Lou Reed – Vicious
The whole Transformer album is a joy. A dirty, New York, heroin-addled blow job delivered by Andy Warhol’s most talented man-whore. Oh honey you so vicious…
5) Stiff Little Fingers – Wasted Life
Jake Burns is probably the best vocalist ever. A voice so raw it can scrape the paint off your skirting boards (don’t point your speakers downwards). Here we get pure punk mingled with Northern Irish politics. Fucking A.
6) Hawkwind – Spirit of the Age
Here Hawkwind invent Rap music (probably) after bringing a melding of Moorcockian SF, acid, noise generators and a tenor sax to a boil and adding Bob Calvert’s lyrical genius. If I could I would have included 50 Hawkwind tunes here, but that would break the rules (one song per band only).
7) Blondie – (I’m Always Touched by your) Presence (Dear)
Debbie, Debbie, Debbie… What a perfect little pop song this is.
8) Eater – Outside View
Can’t get this song out of my head. Just a great punk record.
9) Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
George Clinton, Dr Funkenstein from the planet Funk… A radical political agitator bringing revolution to the dance floors of a segregated, racist nation. I’m a late convert to the delights of Funk, this is one of the tracks that sucked me in.
10) Janette – Por Qué Te Vas
The Song title (translation: Why are you leaving?) A great little ballad too. Featured in Carlos Saura’ s great allegorical film ‘Raise Ravens’ about the evils of military dictatorship (the film was released while Franco was still alive. A brave move).
11) Jethro Tull – Jack-In-The-Green
12) Soft Machine – Etika
13) Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
14) David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
15) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds
16) The Stranglers – Ugly
17) Alice Cooper – School’s Out
18) The Sweet – Teenage Rampage
19) Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
20) John Lennon – Imagine
21) The Special AKA – Gangsters
22) The Runaways – Dean and Justice
23) Pink Floyd – Money
24) Thin Lizzy – Whisky in the Jar
25) The New York Dolls – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
26) Patrik Fitzgerald – Trendy
27) Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe 4
28) Los Diablos – Acalorado
29) The Jam – In a Strange Town
30) The Angelic Upstarts – Murder of Liddle Towers
31) Uriah Heep – Blind Eye
32) 20/20 – Yellow Pills
33) KC & the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way (I Like It)
34) The Dickies – Paranoid
35) Wishbone Ash – The King Will Come
36) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Floppy Boot Stomp
37) Television – Venus
38) Kirsty McColl – They Don’t Know
39) The Damned – Smash it up
40) Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?
41) Fernando Esteso – La Ramona
42) The Rolling Stones – 100 Years Ago
43) Wizard – See My Baby Jive
44) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – American Girl
45) The Notsensibles – I’m in Love With Margaret Thatcher
46) The Undertones – Get Over You
47) Silvio Rodriguez – Ojalá
48) Iggy & the Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
49) Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
50) Steve Hillage – Electrik Gypsies
51) Gil Scott Heron – The Bottle
52) Can – Vitamin C
53) The Ruts – Babylon Burning
54) Spizz Energi – Where’s Captain Kirk?
55) Secret Affair – Time For Action
56) The Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict
57) Black Sabbath – War Pigs
58) The Hawklords – Psy Power
59) Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout
60) The Pink Fairies – The Pigs of Uranus
61) Saxon – Backs To The Wall
62) Abba – Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
63) Tyrannosaurus Rex – Ride A White Swan
64) Devo – Mongoloid
65) Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
66) Rush – 2112
67) Ten Pole Tudor – Who Killed Bambi?
68) The Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
69) Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody
70) Vangelis – Dervish D
71) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock
72) Wire – Mannekin
73) The Doors – LA Woman
74) Wayne County & the Electric Chairs – Fuck Off
75) X Ray Spex – Up Bondage Up Yours
76) John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street
77) Siouxie & the Banshees – Staircase
78) P.I.L. – This Is Not A Love Song
79) Melanie – Ruby Tuesday
80) Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
81) Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Come Up and See Me
82) Gang of Four – At Home He’s a Tourist
83) Hot Chocolate – Everyone’s a Winner
84) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
85) The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
86 Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
87) Slaughter & the Dogs – Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone?
88) The Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare
89) Triana – Luminosa Mañana
90) The Mekons – Where We You?
91) The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
92) Motorhead – No Class
93) Lluis Llach – L’Estaca
94) Metal Urbain – Lady Coca Cola
95) Steve Miller Band – Jet Airliner
96) Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
97) The Rocky Horror Show – Sweet Transvestite
98) Badfinger – Day After Day
99) Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
100) Throbbing Gristle – Something Came Over Me
I hope you enjoy this list
1) The Ramones – Blitkrieg Bop
2 minutes of sublime noise. Perhaps I like it so much because it has that 60s garage spirit floating through it. Also a band of great presence. They changed the face of Rock music by giving it a gentle tweak.2) Fórmula V – Eva María
As promised, prime Franco-era bubblegum pop. Formula V.
3) The Who – Amazing Journey
From Tommy, the greatest Rock Opera/Concept album ever written. Amazing Journey tells of a trip to inner space where a young boy escapes his life’s trauma. Awesome drumming by Mr Moon as usual.
4) Lou Reed – Vicious
The whole Transformer album is a joy. A dirty, New York, heroin-addled blow job delivered by Andy Warhol’s most talented man-whore. Oh honey you so vicious…
5) Stiff Little Fingers – Wasted Life
Jake Burns is probably the best vocalist ever. A voice so raw it can scrape the paint off your skirting boards (don’t point your speakers downwards). Here we get pure punk mingled with Northern Irish politics. Fucking A.
6) Hawkwind – Spirit of the Age
Here Hawkwind invent Rap music (probably) after bringing a melding of Moorcockian SF, acid, noise generators and a tenor sax to a boil and adding Bob Calvert’s lyrical genius. If I could I would have included 50 Hawkwind tunes here, but that would break the rules (one song per band only).
7) Blondie – (I’m Always Touched by your) Presence (Dear)
Debbie, Debbie, Debbie… What a perfect little pop song this is.
8) Eater – Outside View
Can’t get this song out of my head. Just a great punk record.
9) Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
George Clinton, Dr Funkenstein from the planet Funk… A radical political agitator bringing revolution to the dance floors of a segregated, racist nation. I’m a late convert to the delights of Funk, this is one of the tracks that sucked me in.
10) Janette – Por Qué Te Vas
The Song title (translation: Why are you leaving?) A great little ballad too. Featured in Carlos Saura’ s great allegorical film ‘Raise Ravens’ about the evils of military dictatorship (the film was released while Franco was still alive. A brave move).
11) Jethro Tull – Jack-In-The-Green
12) Soft Machine – Etika
13) Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
14) David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
15) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds
16) The Stranglers – Ugly
17) Alice Cooper – School’s Out
18) The Sweet – Teenage Rampage
19) Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
20) John Lennon – Imagine
21) The Special AKA – Gangsters
22) The Runaways – Dean and Justice
23) Pink Floyd – Money
24) Thin Lizzy – Whisky in the Jar
25) The New York Dolls – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
26) Patrik Fitzgerald – Trendy
27) Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe 4
28) Los Diablos – Acalorado
29) The Jam – In a Strange Town
30) The Angelic Upstarts – Murder of Liddle Towers
31) Uriah Heep – Blind Eye
32) 20/20 – Yellow Pills
33) KC & the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way (I Like It)
34) The Dickies – Paranoid
35) Wishbone Ash – The King Will Come
36) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Floppy Boot Stomp
37) Television – Venus
38) Kirsty McColl – They Don’t Know
39) The Damned – Smash it up
40) Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?
41) Fernando Esteso – La Ramona
42) The Rolling Stones – 100 Years Ago
43) Wizard – See My Baby Jive
44) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – American Girl
45) The Notsensibles – I’m in Love With Margaret Thatcher
46) The Undertones – Get Over You
47) Silvio Rodriguez – Ojalá
48) Iggy & the Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
49) Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
50) Steve Hillage – Electrik Gypsies
51) Gil Scott Heron – The Bottle
52) Can – Vitamin C
53) The Ruts – Babylon Burning
54) Spizz Energi – Where’s Captain Kirk?
55) Secret Affair – Time For Action
56) The Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict
57) Black Sabbath – War Pigs
58) The Hawklords – Psy Power
59) Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout
60) The Pink Fairies – The Pigs of Uranus
61) Saxon – Backs To The Wall
62) Abba – Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
63) Tyrannosaurus Rex – Ride A White Swan
64) Devo – Mongoloid
65) Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
66) Rush – 2112
67) Ten Pole Tudor – Who Killed Bambi?
68) The Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
69) Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody
70) Vangelis – Dervish D
71) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock
72) Wire – Mannekin
73) The Doors – LA Woman
74) Wayne County & the Electric Chairs – Fuck Off
75) X Ray Spex – Up Bondage Up Yours
76) John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street
77) Siouxie & the Banshees – Staircase
78) P.I.L. – This Is Not A Love Song
79) Melanie – Ruby Tuesday
80) Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
81) Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Come Up and See Me
82) Gang of Four – At Home He’s a Tourist
83) Hot Chocolate – Everyone’s a Winner
84) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
85) The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
86 Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
87) Slaughter & the Dogs – Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone?
88) The Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare
89) Triana – Luminosa Mañana
90) The Mekons – Where We You?
91) The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
92) Motorhead – No Class
93) Lluis Llach – L’Estaca
94) Metal Urbain – Lady Coca Cola
95) Steve Miller Band – Jet Airliner
96) Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
97) The Rocky Horror Show – Sweet Transvestite
98) Badfinger – Day After Day
99) Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
100) Throbbing Gristle – Something Came Over Me
Monday, March 21, 2011
Alexander Calder performs his "Circus" - Whitney Museum
Everything that I had ever wanted to do in art was because of Calder. I still remember seeing this on 60 Minutes. Though I was just a Small girl I could never get this segment of 60 minutes out of my mind. I would go to sleep at night with these Images would dance in my head.
I guess I owe Calder a lot, he really inspired me in many ways. I Really hope others feel the same way. I just wanted to share this video with others. As it always brings a smile to my face.
I guess I owe Calder a lot, he really inspired me in many ways. I Really hope others feel the same way. I just wanted to share this video with others. As it always brings a smile to my face.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Laughing out Loud
The little bruised angel had fallen on the pavement in front of my feet I just looked and laughed...
Monday, February 28, 2011
"ON YOUR FEET PAL" IS TRAVELING TO COACHELLA
This year at Coachella, I will be coming from behind the scenes and in full action looking for some new shots of feet. So if you see me coming with my camera you just may be part of my art project "On Your Feet" along with this I will be starting my new project. "So what are you having" I will be taking shots of people from the concessions areas all spring and summer long at different music festival from around the globe. So is you see me coming get ready. POWERPOP78, the artist on the go...
Friday, February 4, 2011
Fake Plastic Trees "Just a thought"
"Fake Plastic Trees" criticizes how modern society stifles individuality and forces people to swallow idealized conceptions of how life should be. The whole song centers on the idea that humans, either through their own fallibility or through society's relentlessness, easily and obliviously mold their lives according to the unspoken standards they set on themselves. The result is a shallow, artificial, "fake plastic" living that perpetuates itself and destroys uniqueness.
The first two verses, which reveal the tragic consequences of pretense, evoke feelings of despair and pointlessness. The image of a woman watering a plastic money tree is heavily shadowed by shades of existentialism. The act of nurturing is the woman's attempt to create something genuine, something reflecting her identity. The bleak, futile reality lies in the fact that her "creation" thrives unto itself, surviving as the product of society's goals and inhibitions and outlooks, not hers. The plastic tree is a misconstrued representation of her true self. Helpless and beguiled, she falls victim to the ruthless nature of society and its indifference to the individual experience.
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
This artificialness of life is all-encompassing; no one is spared. The people around the woman are just as deceived as she is: the "fake plastic earth", the "rubber man", and the "town full of rubber plans" all point to a self-contained societal body that runs without human contribution. What's sadly ironic is that the people are self-destructive. The nihilist underpinnings of the line "in a town [that] plans to get rid of itself" suggest that many people probably realize the absurdity of the niches they're supposed to fill but lack the willpower or drive to swim against the tides of society.
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
The chorus "It wears her out" is the first indication of the problematic effects of living to society's standards. It's very unnatural to change yourself or survive in a place that offers no room for personal development. It's also frustrating (for the few people who choose not to fill this mold) to put your heart into something artificial.
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
The second character introduced provides an example of the absolute deterioration of a person who has unsuccessfully tried to fill his niche in society. Descriptive phrase like "broken" and "cracked polystyrene" paint a picture of a crumbling, wrecked mold victim to external undoing. Years of adhering to society have cracked the man's resolve and razed his spirit, leaving him useless and non-contributing (a message about communism, perhaps? hehe).
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
The next verse is a specific criticism of facades. The eighties marked the heyday of cosmetic surgery, ushering in a genre of image obsession and appearance alteration. For many people, plastic surgery was a panacea to life's problems, a way of handling the aesthetic imperfections that society places so much negative emphasis on. But changing how you look is only a superficial way of feeling better about yourself, so it's not surprising that Yorke associates this form of surgery with artificial gain. After years as a plastic surgeon, the man has reached a point in his life where he no longer accepts that he was "helping" the girls. The poignant line "gravity always wins" (besides being an obvious reference to image augmentation) brings attention to the eternal conflict between man's inventions (like society) and nature, and even goes as far as to suggest who will be the victor.
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
The song continues with the narrator's near rejection of his "fake plastic love." She fits her mould nicely, because she embodies verisimilitude, but simply for that reason her love can never be real. The narrator realizes this when he says "But I can't help the feeling/I could blow through the ceiling/ If I just turn and run." He's so close to tearing away from the clutches of society - all he has to do is act extraordinarily and unexpected. Sadly, he reverts to normalcy and submission, even tendering an apology for not always being dishonest to himself like she was:
If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time
On Your Feet Pal
I am in the process of working on a new project. This project has been in the works for years! however I felt it was time to use it for my art show that will happen this year. Over the years I have traveled all over the world. I documented this by taking photos of my feet in places I had never been before. I have this compulsion on my feet at the strangest of times as well. I wanted to give people a little taste of what is in store. I hope you like it.
Me and the very famous Large Marge waiting in the Coachella catering for Radiohead.
Backstage at the Nokia to see Beck opening night.
Somewhere somehow in summer time..
The clean streets of Tokyo.
Retuning home from London with my right foot swollen from walking all over with my pal Joel.
Carter Vinccent standing on the corner of Avenue A Summer 2008
Me and the very famous Large Marge waiting in the Coachella catering for Radiohead.
Me in New York wandering around shopping while B was in business meetings.
Backstage at the Nokia to see Beck opening night.
Somewhere somehow in summer time..
The clean streets of Tokyo.
Retuning home from London with my right foot swollen from walking all over with my pal Joel.
Carter Vinccent standing on the corner of Avenue A Summer 2008
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Missing in Action
As we continue to unpack mystery boxes from our move. I have been finding some interesting stuff.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
Gruff's Art Show at th VA. This is such a thing of beauty and ever so clever!
My 2011 List of Top 100 Alt-Country Songs
1. Last Dance - The Mekons
2. Lake of Fire - The Meat Puppets
3. Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo
4. Fuck This Town - Terry Allen
5. If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
6. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
7. Constant Craving - kd lang
8. A Ghost To Most - Drive By Truckers
9. Outtasite (Outta Mind) - Wilco
10. One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket
11. Righteously - Lucinda Williams
12. The Funeral - Band of Horses
13. Dark Light - The Beat Farmers
14. Drown - Son Volt
15. Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
16. Shelter - Lone Justice
17. Murder (Or A Heart Attack) - Old 97's
18. You've Been So Good Up to Now - Lyle Lovett
19. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
20. Yesterday's News - Whiskeytown
21. Don Henley Must Die - Mojo Nixon
22. Banditos - The Refreshments
23. Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
24. I've Forgotten What It Was in You (That Put the Need in Me) - Maria McKee
25. Waiting for the Sun - The Jayhawks
26. The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
27. Gun - Uncle Tupelo
28. Shop It Around - Jason & The Scorchers
29. Ways To Be Wicked - Lone Justice
30. Can't Stand It - Wilco
31. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
32. Guitar Town - Steve Earle
33. Is There A Ghost - Band of Horses
34. Let's Kill Saturday Night - Robbie Fulks
35. Star Witness - Neko Case
36. I See A Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
37. Till I Am Myself Again - Blue Rodeo
38. You Never Know - Wilco
39. In Love With A View - Mojave 3
40. Eight Piece Box - Southern Culture on the Skids
41. What Made My Hamburger Disappear - Jefferey Frederick
42. Fast as You - Dwight Yoakam
43. Hard to Be Human Again - The Mekons
44. Help There's A Fire - Jason & The Scorchers
45. I Don't Know - Hank Williams III
46. Factory Belt - Uncle Tupelo
47. Comin' Down - The Meat Puppets
48. I'm Gonna Soothe You - Maria McKee
49. Danko/Manuel - Drive-By Truckers
50. Make It Last - The Beat Farmers
51. Let it Ride - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
52. I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
53. Lights of Downtown - The Long Ryders
54. Even If It's Wrong - BR5-49
55. Cowboy Man - Lyle Lovett
56. The Other Kind - Steve Earle
57. Steal Your Love - Lucinda Williams
58. Windfall - Son Volt
59. Goodbye's All We Got Left - Steve Earle
60. Goddamn Lonely Love - Drive-By Truckers
61. Magic Toy Missing - The Meat Puppets
62. 4th Of July - Shooter Jennings
63. People Got A Lotta Nerve - Neko Case
64. She Must Think I Like Poetry - Robbie Fulks
65. Radar Gun - The Bottle Rockets
66. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - The Jayhawks
67. Black Soul Choir - 16 Horsepower
68. Sam - The Meat Puppets
69. Blue Collar Suicide - The Refreshments
70. Give Back My Heart - Lyle Lovett
71. Barrier Reef - Old 97's
72. I'm Amazed - My Morning Jacket
73. Mississippi Mud - Hank Williams III
74. I'm Down to My Last Cigarette - kd lang
75. What Else Would You Have Me Be? - Lucero
76. No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
77. Jacksonville Skyline - Whiskeytown
78. No Depression - Uncle Tupelo
79. Looking Forward to Seeing You - Golden Smog
80. No More Room in Hell - Grievous Angels
81. Crazy Mary - Victoria Williams
82. She's A Jar - Wilco
83. Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park - Cowboy Junkies
84. It Won't Hurt - Dwight Yoakam
85. White Freight Liner Blues - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
86. Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear - The Handsome Family
87. Hot Rail - Calexico
88. Cursed Sleep - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
89. Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling) - Lone Justice
90. Burying Geraldine - Freakwater
91. Where the Devil Don't Stay - Drive-By Truckers
92. Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne
93. When Leon Spinx Moved to Town - Califone
94. She's No Lady - Lyle Lovett
95. Clogger - 16 Horsepower
96. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
97. Lost Highway - The Mekons
98. Race Horse - The Blood Oranges
99. Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home - The Long Ryders
100. Any Day Will Be Fine - Mojave 3
2. Lake of Fire - The Meat Puppets
3. Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo
4. Fuck This Town - Terry Allen
5. If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
6. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
7. Constant Craving - kd lang
8. A Ghost To Most - Drive By Truckers
9. Outtasite (Outta Mind) - Wilco
10. One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket
11. Righteously - Lucinda Williams
12. The Funeral - Band of Horses
13. Dark Light - The Beat Farmers
14. Drown - Son Volt
15. Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
16. Shelter - Lone Justice
17. Murder (Or A Heart Attack) - Old 97's
18. You've Been So Good Up to Now - Lyle Lovett
19. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
20. Yesterday's News - Whiskeytown
21. Don Henley Must Die - Mojo Nixon
22. Banditos - The Refreshments
23. Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
24. I've Forgotten What It Was in You (That Put the Need in Me) - Maria McKee
25. Waiting for the Sun - The Jayhawks
26. The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
27. Gun - Uncle Tupelo
28. Shop It Around - Jason & The Scorchers
29. Ways To Be Wicked - Lone Justice
30. Can't Stand It - Wilco
31. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
32. Guitar Town - Steve Earle
33. Is There A Ghost - Band of Horses
34. Let's Kill Saturday Night - Robbie Fulks
35. Star Witness - Neko Case
36. I See A Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
37. Till I Am Myself Again - Blue Rodeo
38. You Never Know - Wilco
39. In Love With A View - Mojave 3
40. Eight Piece Box - Southern Culture on the Skids
41. What Made My Hamburger Disappear - Jefferey Frederick
42. Fast as You - Dwight Yoakam
43. Hard to Be Human Again - The Mekons
44. Help There's A Fire - Jason & The Scorchers
45. I Don't Know - Hank Williams III
46. Factory Belt - Uncle Tupelo
47. Comin' Down - The Meat Puppets
48. I'm Gonna Soothe You - Maria McKee
49. Danko/Manuel - Drive-By Truckers
50. Make It Last - The Beat Farmers
51. Let it Ride - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
52. I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
53. Lights of Downtown - The Long Ryders
54. Even If It's Wrong - BR5-49
55. Cowboy Man - Lyle Lovett
56. The Other Kind - Steve Earle
57. Steal Your Love - Lucinda Williams
58. Windfall - Son Volt
59. Goodbye's All We Got Left - Steve Earle
60. Goddamn Lonely Love - Drive-By Truckers
61. Magic Toy Missing - The Meat Puppets
62. 4th Of July - Shooter Jennings
63. People Got A Lotta Nerve - Neko Case
64. She Must Think I Like Poetry - Robbie Fulks
65. Radar Gun - The Bottle Rockets
66. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - The Jayhawks
67. Black Soul Choir - 16 Horsepower
68. Sam - The Meat Puppets
69. Blue Collar Suicide - The Refreshments
70. Give Back My Heart - Lyle Lovett
71. Barrier Reef - Old 97's
72. I'm Amazed - My Morning Jacket
73. Mississippi Mud - Hank Williams III
74. I'm Down to My Last Cigarette - kd lang
75. What Else Would You Have Me Be? - Lucero
76. No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
77. Jacksonville Skyline - Whiskeytown
78. No Depression - Uncle Tupelo
79. Looking Forward to Seeing You - Golden Smog
80. No More Room in Hell - Grievous Angels
81. Crazy Mary - Victoria Williams
82. She's A Jar - Wilco
83. Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park - Cowboy Junkies
84. It Won't Hurt - Dwight Yoakam
85. White Freight Liner Blues - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
86. Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear - The Handsome Family
87. Hot Rail - Calexico
88. Cursed Sleep - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
89. Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling) - Lone Justice
90. Burying Geraldine - Freakwater
91. Where the Devil Don't Stay - Drive-By Truckers
92. Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne
93. When Leon Spinx Moved to Town - Califone
94. She's No Lady - Lyle Lovett
95. Clogger - 16 Horsepower
96. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
97. Lost Highway - The Mekons
98. Race Horse - The Blood Oranges
99. Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home - The Long Ryders
100. Any Day Will Be Fine - Mojave 3
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