Saturday, June 30, 2007
Pulp - Common People live at Glastonbury (1995)
if there is a band that is better than ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars than this is truly that band
The New Sound
my friend justin sent me a cd over 3 years ago with the new sound by the capricorns on it and i think i played that track roughly 35 times in a row. it is one of the greatest songs to ever grace my computer
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Quiet American - Original Featurette
haven't seen this yet hope they didnt screw it up the quiet american is my favorite graham greene novels
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Bowie, david - 1975 - Cher Show (23.11.1975) - Young America
was cocaine ever so obvious on prime time tv? i was just over a month old when this aired that coupled with the fact that saturday night live premiered at my birth probably explains why i am so screwed up.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946) preview
(the real) tuesday weld rescored this great film for a show at the tate modern in 2006
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Bananarama - Love In The First Degree (Performance)
this is the source video from the karen kilimnik video described below
the following is from my comment on the karen kilimnik retrospective at the ica (runs til aug 5 2007 dont miss it!) via roberta and libby's artblog check out the review i responded to here http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007/04/obscure-object-of-desire-karen-kilimnik.html also i am going to connect the dots more to follow california nancy pelosi al gore ohio the pippettes carl andre etc etc everything else i stay up late thinking about.
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"Obscure object of desire: Karen Kilimnik at the ICA"
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anthony said...
Great, great show. Hellfire Club, Pink Panther, and Brigette Bardot wearing shorts are among my favorites. I had seen many of the paintings before at 303 so the pleasure really lies in viewing the early work. A surprise and perhaps my personal highlight was Bananarama Guilty, a video dated 1990-92. You put headphones on and hear Bananarama's smash hit 'Love in the First Degree':
"Only you can set me free
'Cause I'm guilty - guilty - guilty as a girl can be.
Come on
baby
can't you see
I stand accused of love in the first degree.
Guilty of love in the first degree.
Only you can set me free
. ..
Guilty of love in the first degree.
Cuilty - of love - guilty of love in -
Guilty - of love - guilty of love in -
Guilty - of love in the first degree."
The video is so blown out-just black and white blocks and dots. You can see hands waving, clapping back and forth, and then you can start to see the girls deep center of the frame. Top of the Pops formation choreography. The song plays out and the video abruptly cuts to better quality footage of Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna dancing in her underwear-Get into the Groove. Then another cut - a snippet from MTV's late House of Style. Then a short bit from some horror movie starring Daphne Zuigna. Then short blue screen. Then repeat. "...only you can set me free.."
Watching this video is like getting a chance to take a nap in the bed Matisse made his cut-outs in. It's all there-dancing in front of the tv, trying to memorize Bananarama's routine. The video played so many times to get the dance moves right, to remember the words, to hear the crowd cheering. The snippets at the end of tape marked Bananarama Guilty previous interests. 1980's downtown new york cool. You're in new york now so naturally all you can think of is London.
I first read about Karen when I was at St. Joe's Prep. I was fourteen and I worked in the library for work study. The second floor of the library had this great book Vogue in the Sixties a big great picture book full bleed images beautiful. They also had New York Magazine and I remember reading in the Intelligencer section about this artist from Philadelphia making a ruckus in New York with "scatter" art. Sounded great, it looks great. I have the blue pinstriped Karen sketchbook with the full bleed images. It's a handmade Vogue in the Nineties. I still have a crush on Karen Kilimnik in the first degree. It hasn't waned a bit. -anthony campuzano
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anthony said...
Great, great show. Hellfire Club, Pink Panther, and Brigette Bardot wearing shorts are among my favorites. I had seen many of the paintings before at 303 so the pleasure really lies in viewing the early work. A surprise and perhaps my personal highlight was Bananarama Guilty, a video dated 1990-92. You put headphones on and hear Bananarama's smash hit 'Love in the First Degree':
"Only you can set me free
'Cause I'm guilty - guilty - guilty as a girl can be.
Come on
baby
can't you see
I stand accused of love in the first degree.
Guilty of love in the first degree.
Only you can set me free
. ..
Guilty of love in the first degree.
Cuilty - of love - guilty of love in -
Guilty - of love - guilty of love in -
Guilty - of love in the first degree."
The video is so blown out-just black and white blocks and dots. You can see hands waving, clapping back and forth, and then you can start to see the girls deep center of the frame. Top of the Pops formation choreography. The song plays out and the video abruptly cuts to better quality footage of Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna dancing in her underwear-Get into the Groove. Then another cut - a snippet from MTV's late House of Style. Then a short bit from some horror movie starring Daphne Zuigna. Then short blue screen. Then repeat. "...only you can set me free.."
Watching this video is like getting a chance to take a nap in the bed Matisse made his cut-outs in. It's all there-dancing in front of the tv, trying to memorize Bananarama's routine. The video played so many times to get the dance moves right, to remember the words, to hear the crowd cheering. The snippets at the end of tape marked Bananarama Guilty previous interests. 1980's downtown new york cool. You're in new york now so naturally all you can think of is London.
I first read about Karen when I was at St. Joe's Prep. I was fourteen and I worked in the library for work study. The second floor of the library had this great book Vogue in the Sixties a big great picture book full bleed images beautiful. They also had New York Magazine and I remember reading in the Intelligencer section about this artist from Philadelphia making a ruckus in New York with "scatter" art. Sounded great, it looks great. I have the blue pinstriped Karen sketchbook with the full bleed images. It's a handmade Vogue in the Nineties. I still have a crush on Karen Kilimnik in the first degree. It hasn't waned a bit. -anthony campuzano
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