Archive for the ‘Films Books Media’ Category
Chelsea Girls 1966
Monday, October 25th, 2010Director Todd Solonz – Life During Wartime
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010I love this!
Air – La Femme D’Argent
Friday, September 3rd, 2010The first track from Airs’ Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Love this footage!
In Their Room – A film by Travis Mathews
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Ahh..remembering the days when we were all bored and disenchanted.
In Their Room is about gay men, bedrooms, sex and intimacy. The film veers into the bedrooms of eight different men where you see them doing everything from the most banal to the most erotic. Complimenting
the revealing nature of their everyday activities are confessional interviews about fantasies, turn ons and
vulnerabilities. You never leave their bedrooms, but this is unmistakably San Francisco of the present.
Okay, people are talking about FLIPBOARD so I’m giving it a good look. Everyone is telling me that this is the future….but is it my future? I’m not sure yet. I didn’t know that the future was going to cost a lot of money and force everyone to become avid consumers in order to participate.
SKINNYFAT – Festival Premiere Sunday, June 20, 1:45 PM
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010I first saw a preview of “Skinnyfat” at the fabulous Queericulum event back in March. This KOOKY queer comedy, directed by Andy Bydalek features many familiar faces from the Comfort & Joy crowd, including Frisk, Fig, Digger, Hissy, Ride, Artist, Wingheart and more! And it will be making its world premiere at the esteemed San Francisco LGBT Film Festival on June 20th at The Roxie!
“Skinnyfat” centers around two friends (played by Jayson Jaynes and Evan Johnson) on a desperate quest to regain their six pack abs after the softness of late-20s has set in. With razor sharp humor, writer-director Andy Bydalek creates a hilarious portrait of image-obsessed gay culture and shows what can happen when body-consciousness becomes body-fixation.
5 million stars!!!
WE WERE HERE: Voices From The AIDS Years
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Sunday June 20, 2010 1:00 pm
I just viewed the preview of David Weissman’s emotionally charged new documentary film “We Were Here” and am recommending that everyone see AND support his new film. The film takes a deep and reflective look back at the arrival of AIDS and focuses on a small number of interviewees, all of whom lived in San Francisco before the epidemic hit. This event will sell out so buy tickets in advance through FRAMELINE.
Kim Novak Appreciation Week
Friday, March 19th, 2010
We all know exactly how it feels.
You just landed a starring role in a major motion picture and you’re in the back seat of a 1954 limosine with your personal assitant rehearsing your lines for tomorrows film shoot. You just bought a new home in the Hollywood Hills and everyone loves you. You’re at the top of your game.
Suddenly, you look out of the car window and realize that you are not completely happy. Something is missing. Something has gone array but you can’t quite put your finger on it. A strange sense of existential anxiety fills your body as you watch a group of children playing out in the sun.
Was it too much coffee?
Is my life really just a shadow of what it was meant to be?
Then you realize what it is. You forgot to pick up your gown for the awards ceremony that night..ahh, relief.
Driver, turn left please.
VOICE FARM – Are You Ready?
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Are you ready for the message that Voice farm has prepared for you?
BIOME WIDE IS HERE
Friday, March 12th, 2010
A biome is a natural ecosystem defined largely by dominant vegetation and climate types.
Terrestrial Design presents the Biome™ typeface family, designed by Carl Crossgrove. Biome won a Certificate of Typographic Excellence in the Type Directors Club 2009 type design competition under its previous, working name of Nebulon.
Biome can be described as a retro-futuristic, soft superelliptical display sans-serif design in seven weights, with corresponding oblique italics.
Kelly – Shoes the Full Version
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010With 34,349,156 views, Liam Kyle Sullivan wins the award for most infectious YouTube video of the decade.
We Love Chanel
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Made me look
Patti Smith - Just Kids
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
I remember the day that I was introduced to Patti Smith’s music. I was 15 years old, living in Danville CA and listening mostly to Bowie, Kraftwerk, Eno and Roxy Music. My best friend Erich Brogger called me and said “Myke, there’s something that I want you to hear. Can I come over now?” Erich came over and put Horses on my Marantz turnatable. The house was empty so we turned it up REAL LOUD. My thought today is exactly the same as when I first heard these songs..Jesus Fucking Christ. She’s a genius…
Free Money MP3
Dancing Barefoot MP3
Land MP3
Gloria MP3
Patti just released her new book “Just Kids” which offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives as androgynous bohemians in the transitional days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. Patti writes with a kind of honestly and authenticity about friendship that serves as a reminder that all of the most beautiful things in life are transient and can never be owned.
I find the book particularly fascinating because of the focus on their lives before either of them had any idea what kind of fame and success lay ahead. Really a reminder that when we live fully in the present and pratice creative devotion, anything can happen.
Just to say, I don’t read much, and it takes a lot to get me to commit to any book, but this held my interest from beginning to end and I’m giving it:
5 million stars
A quote from one of Patti’s idols, Arthur Rimbaud
“I want to be a poet, and I’m working to make myself a visionary: you won’t understand at all, and I can hardly explain it to you. . . . The sufferings are enormous, but you have to be strong, to be born a poet, and I’ve realized I’m a poet.”
Arthur Rimbaud, May 1871, at the age of 16
Patti Smith – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Patti Smith Indicts George W. Bush
