Valentine's Day miracle?

MIRACLE: Teen's heart, stopped for 4 days, beats again
Story Highlights
• Boy, 17, collapses after jogging in gym class
• Teen found to have hehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifart defect
• Heart stops as boy waits for transplant on bypass machine
• Heart begins beating again on its own; "it's a miracle," doctor says
[source]


[mp3] Angelo Badalmenti - Haunting & Heartbreaking (Lost Highway) [/mp3]

[mp3] Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart [/mp3]
*why does Dyslexic have such a complex spelling? seriously, is that supposed to be funny?

[mp3] Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart [/mp3]

Andre's show in SaMo, CA this weekend!

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: andrae
Date: Feb 12, 2007 9:04 AM


If you are in LA this weekend, come see the dance show that Jamie and I are producing, called "Bathroom Follies" at Highways Performance Space, 8:30pm. Not only is Jamie "the Shit" for choreographing the whole thing, but he actually dances the role, in one of the pieces. I'm doing the costumes. Here's a little more info about it and a link to buy the tickets:
https://www.anadynesystems3.com/servlets/frhclientformdisplay?xr4=&formts=2006-05-23%2012:16:21.515002

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 16TH AND 17TH
8:30 PM

BATHROOM FOLLIES

For Immediate Release

DANCE, FASHION, SPECIAL EVENTS leogarcia@highwaysperformance.org

PROJECT RUNWAY DESIGNER AND CHOREOGRAPHER COLLABORATE ON DANCE PRESENTATION ABOUT PUBLIC RESTROOM LIFE, ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FEB 16 & 17.

Santa Monica, CA - Highways Performance Space presents the premiere of "Bathroom Follies", a dance work conceived by Choreographer Jamie Benson and Project Runway's Andrae Gonzalo. Benson garnered critical attention originating the role of "Eldon" in LATC's Ovation award winning production of "Shag with a Twist" in 2005. Los Angeles Fashion Designer Andrae Gonzalo gained acclaim as the emotionally bald designer of Project Runway's 2nd season, and for his conviction that good fashion is "clothing that tells a story". In these pieces, Benson and Gonzalo appropriate the inherent relationship of dance with fashion to explore the dynamics of public vulnerability. Early notions for "Bathroom Follies" arose from their shared experiences, serving LA's cultural elite in the Founders Room of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as the aftermath of Gonzalo's Emmy-nominated breakdown on Project Runway.

Highways performance Space is located at 1651 18th Street, in Santa Monica, CA, ½ block north of Olympic Blvd. Tickets are available for either night at $20/general and $15/students (students must present ID at door). Buy your tickets on-line @ www.highwaysperformance.org . Call 310-315-1459 for show information.




For this dance work, Benson and Gonzalo collectively investigated scenarios which dramatized the common human realities confronted within "the facilities". Inspired by this goal, the fashion/costumes for the piece are intended to be clothes which tell a more experiential story than those in an ordinary fashion show. Benson's choreography incorporates jazz, modern dance, and ballet, in order to access the varied spectrum of human dynamics found in this unorthodox setting. The final result is a series of six dance sequences which dissect the social and psychological dimensions of human activities in front of the bathroom sink, or within toilet stalls.

Each of these pieces focus on the public performances which occur the moment we expose our human intimacies to the florescent gaze of "the john". Whether transformed by the anxiety of pending urine test results, the vexing pretense of female social politics, or even the simple pleasures of an illicit blowjob, the bathroom still remains the quintessential "room of rest", and the repository of those experiences which unite us all as human beings.


Highways Performance Space is in its 18th year as Southern California''s boldest center for new performance, promoting the development of contemporary, socially involved artists and art forms from diverse local, national and international communities. Artistic Director Leo Garcia continues to affirm Highways mission of developing and presenting innovative performance. For more information, photos or interviews, please contact Leo Garcia, Artistic Director @ 310 453-1755

Curious about what we're doing for SXSW in Austin?

Uh oh... 857 in the house!

-----------------start Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Eight Fifty Seven
Date: Feb 9, 2007 3:13 AM


Dude this was announced before we even sent a press release out!

Check out the Brooklyn Vegan post here: David Cross taking over the world w/ Super Deluxe SXSW party, etc



-----------------end Bulletin Message -----------------

[mp3] David Cross crossing CES* with porn [/mp3]
*CES as described by Wikipedia.

Ian McKaye vs. All Ages ban

I stole this from Noah @ WFMU... but really wanted you to see it!
(Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains)
Wednesdays 11pm - 2am
WFMU 91.1 fm & 90.1 fm
www.coffeebreakradio.com


[mp3] Minor Threat - Salad Days [/mp3]

wiki on Minor Threat
Buy it in the Dischord online store

In other news, Anna Nicole Smith has bit it.

Battles record coming out, I'm totally stoked.

Seriously. Color me so so so so excited...
Battles is coming out with a record on Warp on May 22nd.

The single is coming out April 2nd...

Oh my god. Someone hold me back.

Here's a track to keep you at bay:
[mp3] Battles' - Tras [/mp3]

www.myspace.com/battlestheband
www.bttls.com

M.I.A.'s "Bird Flu"

I don't even know how people can waste their time and ca$h on Lady Sov and the train of followers when M.I.A. is around and socially concious and gorgeous. How?

Here's her new video:



ps) Sorry for the long absense, been a bit busy with work! I'm sure the non-bloggage hasn't kept your attention too well... So I'll encourage those who also blog here to post more and post more mp3s as well as make an effort to do so myself. Tata!

The Starlite Desperation - posterage.

I made the sketches for this poster for that art show at Circus of Books on Santa Monica (West Hollywood, CA) that I'm in - along with a WHOLE BUNCH of great folks like Ernest E. Gibson III & Taylor Jacobsen. This show runs until March something (early March...) Go stop by and let me know what you think if you're in the 'hood.

Thanks to my good friend/artiste/curator/horrible speller extroirdinaire John Knuth for recommending me for the show.

It is not band approved, but my flatmate Jeff who is el drummer boy for the band has seen it. He didn't say he liked it or anything but he gave me a nod.

They're playing The Smell in downtown L.A. this Saturday and The Viper Room on Monday, so you can ask them what they thought of it there.

[m4a] The Starlite Desperation - We Don't Do Time [/m4a]

More Than Words

Extreme's original:


Frankie J's cover:


Do you remember that scene in the movie Clueless where Alicia Silverstone stands up in debate class? The following is meant to be read like her character is reading this:)

...How in the world did no one send this to me until today? Until right now? This Frankie J video was uploaded last Valentines Day. WTF. Just thinking about some kid being mislead into thinking that Frankie J wrote this sugar-sweet song kind of makes me want to barf and throw punches at the same time. This is so typical. Some polished suit dude stealing prose and poetry (well you know what I mean) from some sensitive heshers and calling it his own. Hoo!

The song is far more convincing coming from Nuno and Gary, especially given their prior "hard-edge"*. Watching your "tough dudes"* break it down all softie like and risk their "masculinity"* to give a little romance to their lady friends... that's so much more meaningful.

I mean, what does Frankie J have to lose? We already knew he was a mangina at first glance. PLUS - hello (!) ... Frankie J not only rips the original video off (the song wasn't enough holmes?!) but adds images that doesn't even make sense: Model lady friend is at a photo shoot, then she's done with the photo shoot. (HOW DOES THAT PROPEL HIM INTO SINGING "MORE THAN WORDS"? What?! He can't hang tight while his model girlfriend does HER JOB? Freakshow! Talk about co-dependence.)

The simplicity of Extreme's version of two dudes in black and white gives us the impression of a real rift between the dudes and their ladies. The women being absent shows that there is a real miscommunication here, and the dudes are working to try and make it through to their women. Extreme's video pummels poetry compared to Frankie J's dummy version.

End rant.

*slight tounge-in-cheeky