Friday, July 29, 2011

Elevator Music



This tie reminds me of the tie that Ciff Huxtable got for Fathers Day one year. All it needs to do is light up to reach it's utmost cool potential, in the land of coolness aka Brooklyn Heights. Been there!

Horse Power



I wonder if this is the type of calender girl that Neil Sedaka was talking about? Lavinder stockings, big twiggy cut eyes and a wafe Kate Moss pose. What a Philly! I shall name her Giddy Up. And she shall win the blue ribbon.

Friday, July 22, 2011

I'm runnin' with it



Viva Las Puertas!!

Parisian Blues







Artist: Pablo Picasso
Tone: Blue

Slow dance



Keepin it classy.

Bacation Ples!



Place: Costa Rica
Year: Forever ago

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dirty Harry



Philly: Debbie Harry
Photographer: Mick Rock

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly
DJ's spinning I said my, my
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sais pas, Flashe no deux
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!

Record: Rapture
Year: 1981

Cocktails and Cartoons



A piano rebuilds it self in a massive margarita glass of some sort. I love it!
Blame it on the samba.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Noe the Gaspar. He's a rapie kinda guy.









Even though he never brought up how intoxicating and lovley the color of the film was, I think Roger Ebert hit the nail on the head with his review on Irreversible. I don't think that Rotten Tomatoes even watched the film and Scary films blogspot kinda got it, but was comparing it to a bunch of old school horror films that I have not seen yet. Yet. So I will take the easy way out and give you verbatim, Roger Ebert's point of view on Irreversible.

"Irreversible" is a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable.

The camera looks on unflinchingly as a woman is raped and beaten for several long, unrelenting minutes, and as a man has his face pounded in with a fire extinguisher, in an attack that continues until after he is apparently dead. That the movie has a serious purpose is to its credit but makes it no more bearable. Some of the critics at the screening walked out, but I stayed, sometimes closing my eyes, and now I will try to tell you why I think the writer and director, Gaspar Noe, made the film in this way.

First, above all, and crucially, the story is told backward. Two other films have famously used that chronology: Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," the story of a love affair that ends (begins) in treachery, and Christopher Nolan's "Memento" (2000), which begins with the solution to a murder and tracks backward to its origin. Of "Betrayal," I wrote that a sad love story would be even more tragic if you could see into the future, so that even this joyous moment, this kiss, was in the shadow of eventual despair.

Now consider "Irreversible." If it were told in chronological order, we would meet a couple very much in love: Alex (Monica Bellucci) and Marcus (Vincent Cassel). In a movie that is frank and free about nudity and sex, we see them relaxed and playful in bed, having sex and sharing time. Bellucci and Cassel were married in real life at the time the film was made and are at ease with each other.

Then we would see them at a party, Alex wearing a dress that makes little mystery of her perfect breasts. We would see a man hitting on her. We would hear it asked how a man could let his lover go out in public dressed like that: Does he like to watch as men grow interested? We would meet Marcus' best friend, Pierre (Albert Dupontel), who himself was once a lover of Alex.

Then we would follow Alex as she walks alone into a subway tunnel, on a quick errand that turns tragic when she is accosted by Le Tenia (Jo Prestia), a pimp who brutally and mercilessly rapes and beats her for what seems like an eternity, in a stationary-camera shot that goes on and on and never cuts away.

And then we would follow Marcus and Pierre in a search for La Tenia, which leads to a s&m club named the Rectum, where a man mistaken for La Tenia is discovered and beaten brutally, again in a shot that continues mercilessly, this time with a hand-held camera that seems to participate in the beating.

As I said, for most people, unwatchable. Now consider what happens if you reverse the chronology, so that the film begins with shots of the body being removed from the night club and tracks back through time to the warm and playful romance of the bedroom scenes. There are several ways in which this technique produces a fundamentally different film: 1. The film doesn't build up to violence and sex as its payoff, as pornography would. It begins with its two violent scenes, showing us the very worst immediately and then tracking back into lives that are about to be forever altered.

2. It creates a different kind of interest in those earlier scenes, which are foreshadowed for us but not for the characters. When Alex and Marcus caress and talk, we realize what a slender thread all happiness depends on. To know the future would not be a blessing but a curse. Life would be unlivable without the innocence of our ignorance. 3. Revenge precedes violation. The rapist is savagely punished before he commits his crime. At the same time, and this is significant, Marcus is the violent monster of the opening scenes, and the crime has not yet been seen; it is double ironic later that Marcus assaulted the wrong man.

4. The party scenes, and the revealing dress, are seen in hindsight as a risk that should not have been taken. Instead of making Alex look sexy and attractive, they make her look vulnerable and in danger. While it is true that a woman should be able to dress as she pleases, it is not always wise.

5. We know by the time we see Alex at the party, and earlier in bed, that she is not simply a sex object or a romantic partner, but a fierce woman who fights the rapist for every second of the rape. Who uses every tactic at her command to stop him. Who loses but does not surrender. It makes her sweetness and warmth much richer when we realize what darker weathers she harbors. This woman is not simply a sensuous being, as women so often simply are in the movies, but a fighter with a fierce survival instinct.

The fact is, the reverse chronology makes "Irreversible" a film that structurally argues against rape and violence, while ordinary chronology would lead us down a seductive narrative path toward a shocking, exploitative payoff. By placing the ugliness at the beginning, Gaspar Noe forces us to think seriously about the sexual violence involved. The movie does not end with rape as its climax and send us out of the theater as if something had been communicated. It starts with it, and asks us to sit there for another hour and process our thoughts. It is therefore moral - at a structural level.

As I said twice and will repeat again, most people will not want to see the film at all. It is so violent, it shows such cruelty, that it is a test most people will not want to endure. But it is unflinchingly honest about the crime of rape. It does not exploit. It does not pander. It has been said that no matter what it pretends, pornography argues for what it shows. "Irreversible" is not pornography.

Tell em Rodge.

Friday, July 15, 2011

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong












I have read so many reviews on this movie and most of them are pretty inaccurate. It was a hit before it was a hit. The director writer, Pierre Grimblat was reckless. He hired a 20 something philly that didn't speak a lick of french for a french film. He got an award for best commercial of the year in Europe so he had Serge go and receive it for him and filmed it for the opening credits in the movie. Serge could have gotten arrested. He told his own personal story of infidelity with a young girl and the adventures that they had blatant and out right all the while he was married and had a child on the way. He also turned a flailing on screen duo that couldn't stand each other during screen testing into the couple of the year and in my opinion, frankly they became icons. Balls man! The kid had some balls for his day and time. Yes Jane got a bit annoying but I think it was suppose to be. She was a child enthralled in an adult world. By and by it was a wonderful flick, a home movie for a cute budding couple and interestingly shot for a admitted movie junkie like myself. So to put a cherry on the sundays of all the critics and bloggers that poo pooed this movie, maybe this type of film just isn't for you. Titanic or Black Swan might be more up your alley. As for Grimblat, Bravo! Tres bien Monsieur!

Monday, July 11, 2011

Gatsby ish



I like this one piece Vuitton little number. I would switch out the white buttons for black but would like it in my closet collection just the same.

Every time! Every time...




Band: Yes
Album: Fragile, 1972

A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.



Dennis Hopper

Photo by: Andy Warhol

"..he always wanted me to go to Mexico with him and his friends. His friends were crazy. They were so sixties.." -A.W

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Just down the way




Location: Pfeiffer
Photo by: Mark Brown

The Sir of Big Sur








Besides having the sweetest venue/library in all of California, Henry Miller was a wanderer. His whole life he country hopped, wife hopped and never looked back. He is an ever fixed mark on american literature and the good ol "C" word. He was a influence on the beats for gods sake. I have already invested in the movie The Tropic of Cancer staring Rip Torn. You should do the same.

A congrats is an order.



It seems like only yesterday me and my cousin were watching Muppet Babies or trying to get our bangs to look exactly like Kelly Kapowski and now she's getting married......Congrats Vieja! Next is babies and a mini van. But by the looks of your ring I have a feeling that a. Prince would love it and b. You will pull it off in style. <3