I’m not going to vouch that this MP3 of U2 allegedly covering Albert Hammond Jr.’s song, “Obstinate” (which appeared on the “In Transit” documentary DVD) is real…but if it is, I’m VERY confused.
Someone PLEASE suss this out.
UPDATE: U2 wasn’t covering Albert. Albert was playing tracks off his new solo album for the band.
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…and why? Will it be Keith for submitting a portfolio of drawings of other people’s designs? Or will someone get kicked off “Project Runway” for…
…accepting money from the National Cotton Council of America in return for only designing in cotton?
…physically threatening another contestant?
…having 3 fashion violations on one outfit and failing to show up to their Fashion Police court date?
…not revealing a criminal record in his/her past?
…wearing white socks with sandals?
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‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ dress to be sold – Yahoo! News
The dress that transformed actress Audrey Hepburn into one of cinema’s most cherished characters is up for sale, London auction house Christie’s said Wednesday.
Time Inc. to Fold Teen People; Web Site to Live On
Time Inc. today announced it would fold Teen People effective with the September 2006 issue and instead will focus investment towards the brand’s Web expansion.
The best lock to protect your bike. By Scott Elder
The best locks to protect your wheels.
The world’s most stylish pedestrians. By Justin Shubow
Street-fashion blogs keep tabs on the world’s most stylish pedestrians.
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Today I went to the premiere of Brothers of the Head, a new British movie showing at the IFC Film Center. The film is about Siamese twins who rise to fame as a punk band in the 1970s. It’s basically the story of what would happen if Carl Barat and Pete Doherty had been born with a shared liver and circulatory system.
The movie is definitely worth seeing, it’s not as amazing as some other fictional freak rock star movies (like Hedwig and the Angry Inch), but the music composed by Clive Langer that is played in the movie is well worth the price of admission. I became totally obsessed with all the original music performed in the movie that I’m dead set on getting the soundtrack.
I kinda wish this band, Bang Bang really existed because the music is great! “My Friend (You C—)” is truly an AMAZING song. If you love the Libertines/ The Clash/ etc, you will totally EAT UP this movie soundtrack. It’s really brilliant. You can check out some of the songs on the official Brothers of the Head web site.
Oh, and need I mention that the brothers that play the conjoined twins are TOTALLY HOT?? Here’s the proof of the Treadaway brother’s adorableness:
The Treadaways with the directors of Brothers, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe…
Luke and…
Harry.
Remember these faces. Not only are these kids gonna be stars (Harry will be in the new Joy Division movie, Control, playing Stephen Morris…although he totally looks like Ian Curtis in that photo) but they have awesome taste in music, as revealed by the 7-song playlist they requested the MisShapes DJs to play during the afterparty.
Hellooooo The Kinks, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Thom Yorke, Lou Reed, Kings of Leon, David Bowie, and The Clash! Total classics.
Let’s hear it for the boys and to the success of their movie, which opens in NYC on Friday, July 28th.
WATCH: “2-Way Romeo” by Bang Bang
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LjSEEK.com: LiveJournal Blogs Search Engine
Welcome to LiveJournal Search Engine! Now you can search LiveJournal using FullText search.
SPIN.com: Fall Out Boy Get Dolled Up
Action figures made in the band’s likeness will be released this fall. And no, the clothes aren’t removable.
Street Style on Style.com: Coney Island High
What the bands–and their fans–were wearing at this year’s Siren Music Festival
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DealBook – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds – New York Times
In a television interview, the former AOL chief says he is "sorry" about the merger with Time Warner.
People.com Unwraps Redesign
Martha Nelson has focused most of her energy on People.com, feverishly revamping the site to create a go-to destination for celebrity news.
PC Today Article – Set Up A Wireless Home Network
Wireless networks are easier to set up now than in the past, as we’ll demonstrate in this article. There’s still a lot of ground to cover, however, so we’ll get right to it.
Everything’s Turning Into Daphne: The very busy Daphne Rubin-Vega talks about her upcoming roles in Everythings Turning Into Beautiful, Les Miz, and Jack Goes Boating as well as her forthcoming CD, Redemption Songs. Feature on TheaterMania.com
The very busy Daphne Rubin-Vega talks about her upcoming roles in Everythings Turning Into Beautiful, Les Miz, and Jack Goes Boating as well as her forthcoming CD, Redemption Songs.
YouTube – Bush & Blair G8 Summit Conversation.
Yo Blair! …Oh god…
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Ok so part of me goes to Pool Parties on Sundays just to check out what people are wearing. Yesterday was no exception.
Now I’m sure someone who reads this blog probably knows this boy–so if you do, WHY IS YOUR FRIEND WEARING A BLACK LONG-SLEEVED SWEATER IN 80 DEGREE WEATHER? I mean, c’mon! How is he not soping wet with sweat? Peter thought that maybe he had his sweat glads removed, or there was also the theory that “some skinny dudes just don’t sweat.”
Meanwhile I looked like a clammy mess. Thanks guy, for making me look like an unkept, scraggly wet sponge, while you looked cool and collected, snapping your fingers and reading On the Road. Daaammmmnnnyyouuuu!
Ok, I can’t even make this stuff up…
Doesn’t the guy with the white shoes look like the dude from the Ataris circa 2003 Warped Tour?
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The Vines! The band that vowed never to do a live show again recently took to a crowd of about 200 people under the name “Joe Dirt” in a secret show in a side room of Annandale Hotel in Sydney, Australia on July 19th. Indeed, the same venue where Craig Nicholls bleated at the crowd and called them sheep and kicked a photographer in the face, causing former bassist Patrick Matthews (who now is in Youth Group) to leave the stage out of frustration. This was the first live performance from the band in two very long years. Australian indie blog 12 Major Chords was on hand to witness the event.
They did a set of 15 songs, including favorites “1969″, “Ms. Jackson” (Outkast cover), and “Highly Evolved”, as well as songs off their new album, Vision Valley. Lead singer Craig Nicholls sported long, chin-length stringy hair, a black zip-up hoodie, and elastic bands on his wrists. New bassist, Brad Heald, joined the band onstage. The Vines have since announced a string of live shows in Europe.
For more info about the show, head over to 12 Major Chords and Dreamin the Insane
Photo by Allie from DTI boards:
Photo from 12 MC:
WATCH: “Outtathaway” by The Vines (Live at Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia)
RELATED LINK: Photos of when I saw The Vines in 2002 at CBGB’s with Craig wearing a Vines tshirt!
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Gosh darnit! Those are the most beautiful deaf Norwegian girls ever! Thank Michelle.
WATCH: “Hands” by The Raconteurs
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[Read "I Love Me Some Siren Festival: Part 1]
Last I left off, Ryan Jarman was bleeding while the Cribs were playing. I got super-excited when they busted into “Hey Scenesters!“, a blistering song about… well… vapid scenesters, which is one of my favorite songs of the moment–although there are so many levels of subtext and irony singing along to this song during Siren Festival, I’m not sure who the joke is on.
Luckily for my feet, Art Brut was up next on Stillwell Stage so I didn’t have to run back and forth across the boardwalk. I hung out and got some drinks, and while standing around I saw this ridiculous poster:
“Wait so let me get this straight–WHEN are the Misshapes Djing on Stillwell Stage? I mean I don’t want to run the risk of missing their set.”
It was like looking at Set Breakdown for Dummies.
I’m not exactly sure why, but I love Art Brut live. Sure, it’s basically the same inter-song banter and set list every time, but their live shows are never boring. I remember reading an article that stated that the reason Art Brut tour so much out of their native country of England is because they are not that popular in the UK and are thought of as a joke band. I couldn’t believe it! Is Art Brut the indie rock Bush of the ’00s? Loved in the US but reviled in the UK?
Anyway, Art Brut was no less than spectacularly fun. Lead singer Eddie Argos always has the most incredible energy–kicking up his shoe-less feet (below)…
…and jump roping with the microphone cord (below)…
…and of course, running into the audience. He scaled the crowd barricade and jumped into the group of concertgoers (below).
By the time “Good Weekend” rolled around, the crowd was whipped into a frenzy, with everyone passionately singing along (below).
Totally brilliant. Also during “Bang Bang Rock and Roll” Eddie decided to throw in Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis‘s names into the “[Name of Band] Top of the Pops!” chant. I wondered why, but when I went back to the VIP area after the end of Art Brut, I saw Jeffrey Lewis there, so I kinda understood it. Seeing as how Kimya Dawson is supposed to pop any day now, I’m assuming she wasn’t on hand and Eddie was just spreading the anti-folk love.
By this point in the day I’d been outdoors for about 7 hours straight, only ate one hot dog the entire day, and tried to stay hydrated. Luckily the entire day was pretty much overcast, so it wasn’t ungodly hot like all the other Siren Festivals I’ve been too. But there was one final act to go… the phenomenal Sissor Sisters on the Main Stage.
I couldn’t wait! Having already seen them shake their stuff at Bowery Ballroom earlier this year, I knew their act was going to turn this into the gayest Siren Festival ever! By the time I got to Main Stage She Wants Revenge had ended and the crew was setting up for the Sisters. MisShapes DJ Geordon grabbed me onstage to take a look at the ridiculous crowd–which stretched all the way to the subway! (below)
–and I snapped a shot of Geo eating cotton candy and DJ Sammy Jo doing his DJ thing:
Right before the Scissor Sisters went on, they took some group photos…
…and gave each other some hugs…
before leaping onstage and rocking the crowd with their opening song (I think???) “Take Your Mama”…
They played all “the hits” like “Laura”, “Mary”, “Tits on the Radio”, alongside some new songs off their upcoming album. Most notably, when they tried to close their set with “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing,” the sound plug got pulled on them not once (during which they kept time with drums and…maracas!!) but TWICE (causing Ana Matronic to fall on the floor and pretend to be dead). By their third try at a finale, they opted for “Filthy/ Gorgeous” which had the crowd shaking their butts and shimmying their shoulders like they were in a Chelsea nightclub, and ended with “Music Is the Victim.”
Somewhere along the lines, Jake Shears stripped off not only his glittery tank top but also his pants, so several thousand people got to see him prance around stage in his navy blue briefs.
He did get bit with the modesty bug, and eventually grabbed a white towel to tie around his waist so for the last few songs everyone got a good idea of what it must look like when Jake Shears sings in his bathroom.
I think it was toward the very last song that Jake took the towel off again and was dancing when he started to play with his undies, as if he was going to take them off. I screamed in my head, “PLEASE, GOD NO! DO NOT TAKE THEM OFF!” because I feared all hell might break loose or someone’s head might have exploded due to the sheer amount of excitement that was pumping through the air.
The Scissors Sisters were the perfect band to round up this year’s fantastic festival. Their dedication to making their live show them most fun anyone could have is truly inspiring.
Seriously, it was the best Siren ever. See ya next year!
For more photos, check out my Flickr!
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