It’s gotten extremely cold so I’ve been in bed over eating (candied yams and roasted legs of lamb have been my favorite meals to cook) and watching youtube. By far my favorite indulgence the past few winters has been and remains The Tough Alliance.
December 27, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Party Time!, Video Magic . Tags: mp3, tough alliance, Videos . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
Happy Holidays everybody! I’ m headed to New York for a much needed vacation. Perfect Machines is an up and coming SF Punk band that has been causing a stir on the west coast as of late. I’ve seen them play a few shows in SF, every show has been awesome, lots of beer and [...]
December 25, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Party Time! . Tags: absinthe boy, afi, fat mike, fLabel, johnny evil, masmelo, mp3, nofx, perfect machines, punk, rancid, social distortion . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: 3 Comments
The first thing I noticed about Ebe Oke was his strikingly elegant appearance (images by Rafael Perez Evans). His photos have the quality one would obtain if their boyfriend or girlfriend was a photographer and considered him his ‘muse,’ but not in that annoying sexual way people sometimes force on the viewer – it’s more [...]
December 24, 2008
Categories: Bands We Love, Interview, Uncategorized . Tags: mp3, ebe oke, nico, ira cohen, Stockhausen, patrick wolf, isabella blow, Phil Manzanera, brian eno, ed harcourt, leo abrahams, reality television, roxy music, beach house, grizzly bear, chris garneau . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: 1 Comment
Teenage Millionaire are an up and coming angst-ridden teen band that, I have a feeling, will be sweeping venues across the nation in 2009 following the release of there first EP. Luckily I am going to New York City this week so I will get to witness their performance at the Bowery Poetry Club before [...]
December 21, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Party Time!, Tour Dates . Tags: bowery poetry club, ed banger, gnarls barkley, kanye west, karl latham, radiohead, teenage millionaire, tour schedule . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
Very recently, I received a copy of poet Sara Larsen’s new anthology “23 Chromosomes.” All titles in the collection are from various art pieces by David Wojnarowicz, the book is for him; basically the collection is Wojnarowicz, Rimbaud paraphrased, quoted, appropriated, entwined in these poems. All the Rimbaud that was used is from “Illuminations”. [...]
December 21, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Fiction, Film, Poetry, Video Magic . Tags: 23 Chromosomes, art, David Wojnarowicz, Diamanda Galas, Diane di Prima, earthworm press, guilty guilty guilty, illuminations, mp3, Poetry, Rimbaud, sara larsen . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: 1 Comment
I first caught wind of Clara Engel about a year ago, I blogged about her before at Fantastic Weapon, now she’s trying to come to the West Coast for her first ever West Coast Tour. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of her work and I’m trying to help her make the jump to [...]
December 19, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Party Time!, Video Magic . Tags: a silent place, Antony Hegarty, benjamin smoke, black pearl hog, cam archer, Chavela Vargas, clara engel, Diamanda Galas, ingmar bergman, Interview, John Tavener, m lamar, Maja Petrovna, Meredith Monk, mp3's, patti smith, tender, the judy experience, video, virginia woolf, yeats . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: 3 Comments
Since it is the Holiday season and we’re all starving cause we hate everything, I thought I’d put together a little cheer up! My favorite albums/films/books/whatever I fucking feel like of 2008! These are not the best things ever nor were they necessarily made in 2008, I’m just getting nostalgic about the past year and [...]
December 17, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Concert Review, Dance and Performance, Festival, Fiction, Film, Interview . Tags: action kylie, agent ribbons, Antony and the Johnsons, arthur russell, barf manifesto, blind, catalonia, cool thing: best gay fiction, derek jarman, Diamanda Galas, dodie bellamy, fanstastic weapon, ghost town, guilty guilty guilty, hercules and love affair, justin swaby, kevin killian, lawrence braithwaite, madder love, nellie mckay, outside lands music festival, psychic tv, wigger . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
Akiine is simply adorable. I’m serious – just look at her. On my ever expanding quest to find hidden musical gems on the internet, I struck diamonds, rupees and emeralds with this one. Not only did she seem really happy to do an interview, but she gave me a wealth of responses so huge it [...]
December 12, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Bands We Love, Interview . Tags: bjork, coral reef squids, dandi wind, Iceland, joanna newsom, kimya dawson, Laurie Anderson, northern lights, poetry slam, the far side, vampire weekend . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: 6 Comments
Shaun Saunders (aka Boy of Bark) added me one day on myspace probably about a year back. Since it was myspace I was prepared for the worst (let’s be serious here), so I was shocked and amazed when I actually liked it… a lot. Then I was equally thrown about when I realized he was [...]
December 6, 2008
Categories: Bands We Love . Tags: Antony and the Johnsons, Boy of Bark, Final Fantasy, Mormons, Owen Pallett, Playground Records, SLC, Utah, Xiu xiu . Author: tarnation1 . Comments: Leave a Comment
There has always been a lack of trans representation in children’s literature, which is a shame because most transgender people say they felt like they were transgendered since they were a child. I don’t consider myself transgender but I remember spending countless hours in my head as a child constructing characters that didn’t conform to [...]
December 5, 2008
Categories: Artist Watch List, Literature . Tags: childrens fiction, marcus ewert, piki and poko, rex ray . Author: Sebastian Sebastiani . Comments: Leave a Comment
