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NYC: Bowie Ball

Who am I kidding? I don't know how to quit this blog.

Deryck Todd, founder and promoter (and current Pop Fantastic Muse) , doing set up at Fat Baby, for the first Bowie Ball in August 2006...

SPEAKING OF.....there will be ANOTHER Bowie Ball at Don Hill's, this next weekend, Sunday, January 14th, 10 pm til your mascara stars running.

www.bowieball.com

art art art: Blake Loosli

Don't you love this tattered portrait of Paris?

Another great portrait that he has created:

Arrested Development. One of the best comedy shows on tv, ever.

No, I cannot speak.

www.blakeloosli.com

Animation: RIP Joseph Barbera

Comment: Why I love/hate Madison Square Garden

The first time I visited Madison Square Garden and the surrounding Penn Station area, I was 15. It was my first in-person look at this insane city and , trust me, I did NOT like it AT ALL. I found New York filthy, repulsive and far too confusing to understand. I couldn't believe that people operated in such shocking squallor. Magnifying this contrast was the fact that I had just flown in from sunny synthetic Orlando that morning.

Needless to say, in my 15 year old Colorado teen mind: I was not impressed.

Cut to today, I LIVE in this neighborhood.. the neighborhood that I first saw and thought so ugly. I've never really loved being near Penn Station because it's more like living in a bus terminal than an actual residential neighborhood. There is little sunlight on my street, too much vehicle exhaust and since I began living here, I dress more and more like the neighborhood transients. And the air is AWFUL on my skin.

However, I shouldn't be so quick to criticize...K-Town, H& M, and D'aiuto's bakery are all just steps away.

Another reason I love the neighborhood today:

Scissor Sisters will be headlining at the legendary Madison Square Garden, two blocks away.


2 blocks from my place. Yummy. No fuss. Who else could say "hey, after the show at madison square, let's just pop by my place and unwind. I'm only two blocks away."








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Films: Brilliant, Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins will never be the same for me again.

Comment: To Thine Own Self Be True

"Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for.
There ... my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!"

-- William Shakespeare

Now, this is great advice.

Art art art: Sara Van der Meulen

The part of me that loves Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland and the Ed Gorey illustrations is in love with her work.

I don't really know a thing about her except that she is from Belgium!

Her online portfolio is here: here

Retro: The Bugaloos!

This show used to leave me feeling queasy and uncomfortable. They still disturb me, but I find that I like them... I think it's the bright colors..

Animation: Maleficent!

Just because...

Animation: Michael Dudok de Wit

It's too cold to go outside anyway. French animation. GORGEOUS. "The Monk and the Fish" was the first film I saw by Michael Dudok de Wit. Here is another, "The Aroma of Tea"

Le Sigh: Audrey Hepburn

Interesting article from the BBC....

"She's again topped a 'most beautiful' poll. Yet many fans weren't even born when she started making movies. What's the enduring appeal of the original waif?

Audrey Hepburn. Lovely, wasn't she? And her old-school glamour has beaten off modern day pin-ups - she's been voted the most beautiful woman of all time in a poll for New Woman magazine. But why is she so popular, among film fans and fashionistas alike? "

Read the rest here

Comment: Double Whammy

NOOOO!

Cate Blanchett AND Jennifer Connelly made the list??? Nooooooooooooooooo! This is a cruel world.

Comment: Monday

prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......................................

Comment: Factory Girl Reshoots

Here is the trailer. I can't believe they're still shooting reshoots for this...Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgewick's nutty and brief co-dependent relationship, with Sienna Miller playing Edie.

hrrrm.

art art art: Makani

Fan art usually sucks, but DEFINETELY not in this case.

The artist known as Makani (real name Heather) is a Harry Potter fiend (with a charmingly strong interest in the villains) and she posts her very beautiful and very cool work on the site Accio brain!



She's a girl after my own heart, as she realizes her crushes on Snape, and Lucious Malfoy in these gorgeous sketches. THe above sketch is of younger portrait of Bellatrix Lestrange, Draco Malfoy's aunt.

I wish we could take an art class together at Hogwarts. *sigh* Her work makes me long for my days as an art school girl...

You can also find her work here: http://makani.deviantart.com/

Le Sigh: Charlize Theron & Stuart Townsend

Love them both. Why do they remind me of Popeye and Olive Oyl?

Real Life: London... A Pint and a Fight, a great British night

I LOVE London....

Marco & I were in town for a friend's lovely wedding...whose reception I think I may have had a bit too much to drink... regardless

I liked that some of the fashionistas seemed to be working a Rolling Stones groupie look-- primarily Marianne Faithful - or the Mod thing. The guys were typical beautiful British fodder, tall, great skin, smart clothing... rarely can you go wrong with that combo.

We stayed in Notting Hill this trip

When in London it is good to:
1. eat curry
2. eat chinese
3. drink beer in a pub
4. go shopping (unfortunately the dollar is pretty weak against the pound)
5. stroll

The local all girls school.. Later on in that night, M and I had an argument on that same corner.

When in London, it is NOT good to:

1)expect to find Korean food

2) lose your ticket before you exit the Tube

Out in the suburbs: Pinner

Hope to be back again soon.

Comment: Damnit, Andy

Andy Taylor has left the band.... AGAIN. This would be split number 2 from them.

"See you all again in twenty years for the next reunion..."

TV: Project Runway

Vincent is irritating me oh so much. Too neurotic...way too neurotic.

Mega Post: Kate Winslet

Films: The Order of the Phoenix

..I'm very sad that the twins cut their hair....

Pitch Perfect casting.

Harry Potter fever...soon soon soon...here's a doodle in the meantime!

Check out: Wine Nerd Game

For all you budding oenophiles, this is a WICKED game... You are a wine grower, and you must choose your region, your grape, when you will harvest, and what you will serve with it.... I did pretty well!!! Okay, I'm lying!

Click here to play this game

NYC: Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg

Then it hit me

i am not going to be famous

i won't get to be a rockstar

i am going to be stuck on the payroll

doing work that doesn't interest me

for a very long time

http://www.thenithitme.com/

Animation: Duran Duran Anime

If you've attended any of the recent Duran Duran concerts, you've probably seen this. I think that I thought it was really good at the time, but I was also high off my ass. I don't remember Nick having fangs and it's pretty violent ... The song is a live performance.... and gawd, I just don't understand all the FUCKING FANGS.....

Fashion: Punk Glam Grunge Rockabilly Goth

This is from Fashion Rocks 2006. First of all, I apologize profusely for the audio on this. The visuals are no better.... however, no geek has uploaded a better version of the clip on YouTube yet, and I don't know how to digitally grab from the television

Regardless, please know that while my intentions were good, my excitement so overwhelmed me that I would post anything, even tripe, for people to see what I found so uncontrollably compelling.

This clip is from the Fashion Rocks 2006 show last week--- I admit, I thought it pretty cool. I never thought I'd see a medley of literally all these in a fashion show. I think I loved it.

Funny moment: Watch for the long hair blond guy during the Grunge segment- he looks a little lost.



I know there's a high irony about the whole thing, but hearing the crowd cheering bananas for the grunge and the goth presentation cracked me up.

I'll keep looking for a better clip-- and does anyone know whose music they performed on the Goth segment of the show?

Pop Fantastic: CITY Magazine Summer 2006

If you haven't heard yet, I have an illustration in CITY Magazine's Summer 2006 issue. It's on newsstands now, and it's on page 32. Be sure to pick up a copy!

And as always, please check out www.popfantastic.com

The site has been redesigned, new layout, new work.. enjoy!

Comment: Gwyneth Paltrow's burkha

I think this is the best fashion choice she's made in a long time... *cackle*...oh, I kid. .The next thing you know she'll be credited for starting the "veil' trend among Hollywood actresses.

Retro: Book of Love

OMG. Does anyone remember Book of Love?

My fondest memory of Book of Love was going to one of their Gothic Theater performances back when I was in Colorado. We had a group of assholes in front of us during the show who thought thaty they were the shit because they scored backstage passes after the band threw them into the crowd. 15 minutes later, Tam has pickpocketed them, and when those idiots realized their tickets were gone, they immediately turned around and started yelling at Sharon, who, as usual, had NO idea what stunt one of us had pulled.

Anyway, they have a new site up and it looks wonderful...Book of Love influenced my art so much.. their sound was so dreamy and danceable.. *sigh*

I didn't know that they hailed from NYC....I always thought they were European or something.

bookoflovemusic.com

(I recommend turning the volume down because the website delivers the Susan Ottaviano "uh-huh" from Boy everytime you click a link, which you may or may not find annoying.)

Comment: Zandra Rhodes

Zandra Rhodes at the Oscars.What a standout!