Looks like Brody Dalle has a new band, and so far, me likey very much. While I was never much a fan of the Distillers mall punk sound, I love the direction Spinnerette is taking. With a video by the amazing Liam Lynch , and a sound that seems very influenced by her baby daddy’s band, Queens of the Stone Age, I have a feeling this girl could quite possibly kick some much needed life into the rock scene. With her gorgeous looks and Joan Jett snarl, girl’s got an attitude. I’m always complaining about how there aren’t any great rock chicks around these days, and with the exception of Karen O, I stand by my claim. Well lets see how Brody does, this might actually be fun.
Combine gender-bending therapists, mutinous nuthouse patients and toss in wrestling lesbians for good measure and you’ll get Waiting For the Show: a madcap, what-the-frack new comedic play by Theresa Diamond.
Psych ward inmates Nina and Anne, daily rehearse their fire-eating, snake handling, anti-abortion variety show as Maria from ‘The Sound of Music’ and former el presidente George Washington, which is periodically interrupted with Nina’s trips to the Treatment Room. When mongo bonkers scientists Dr. Nietzche and Freud enter to observe, the gloves and straightjackets come off!
The show runs for four weeks starting this Thursday at the WOW Cafe in NYC. For additional info, log onto waitingfortheshow.com.
Don’t have enough money to buy new clothes? Why not…shop in your own closet!
Shopinyourcloset, a new fashion blog, was created in part to mainstream magazines recent economically-sensitive fashion articles that advise readers to save their bucks by revisiting their own closet, not always considering the fact that some outfits already owned should be buried in a landfill instead of in the back of one’s wardrobe.
Pictures submitted from readers showcase sartorial choices from days of yikes! ranging from offbeat to off-your-rocker, proving that bad clothes can happen to good people.
xoxo Alma R. Zeno
Is it just me or do all plastic surgery victims end up looking the same? I saw The Wrestler this weekend, it’s a sad and lonely story about getting old, and loving to do things that are bad for you, well acted, great soundtrack etc, but the whole time I was watching Mickey Rourke I could not help being distracted by his freaky face. Why do people do this???
Sad news reported today that Ron Asheton was found dead in his Ann Arbor home this morning, cause of death not yet known. Asheton was one of the founding members of the best American rock band ever, the Stooges. R.I.P Ron. source: Ann Arbor news
Taking a book club and turning it into an all-girl, reading-inspired, song-fest? What will they think of next? Once I peeped these deets below on nonsense nyc , I was hooked (though it would be cool if they added some women writers to the mix in 2009, doncha think?):
Unparalleled songwriting nerdery. Local songwriters Phoebe Kreutz, Chloe Matheou, Liv Carrow, and Susan Hwang perform songs inspired by, and based on, Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. Book-themed food and drink are served, and audience members are encouraged to give in to any Vonnegut-inspired impassioned outbursts.
The Bushwick Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at Goodbye Blue Monday to rejoice in book-inspired music from the most talented songwriters in the area. February: Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. March: Edwin Abbott’s Flatland.
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
J,M,Z trains to Myrtle station
8-9p
718 453 6343
myspace.com/bushwickbookclub
bushwickbookofthemonth@gmail.com
A while back, I posted about the weird youtube/FOC mashup phenom of people (mostly ladies) videotaping themselves lip-sychning to various Flight of the Conchords songs. Well, seems like the Conchs themselves have gotten wind of this weirdness, and so now HBO is running a Flight of the Conchords Lip Synch contest on their site , in order to promote the new season.
They’ve already posted a few entries; I’m not sure if these are real or faked as examples for further submissions, but anyway, they are fun to watch, and make me so excited for the new season I could almost scream.
Nadia G., my favorite bitch in the kitch has turned her awesome online cooking series (featured in our Feb/Mar issue) into a brand-new cookbook so you can whip up her dishes without the aid of your laptop. With a poptastic design and hilarious tips, Nadia G.’s Bitchin Kitchen Cookbook has all the cheek of her videos. Chapters include One-Night Stand Breakfasts, PMScapades, and Broke-Ass Dishes–this gal is speakin’ my language. Get a copy here and as Nadia G. says, rock your kitchen and let the boys clean up the mess.
One of the best things about holidays and living in New York is finally having the time to check out the amazing resources the city has to offer. Last week on my days off I made it uptown to the MOMA and finally got around to seeing Pipilotti Rist’s installation ‘Pour Your Body Out’. I had huge hopes for it after seeing clips of it and pictures online weeks before. When I got there it was really crowded (I guess we all had the same intentions) and all the cozy spots in the center circle were taken! My first impression was totally let down, but then I found a corner spot and just sat there for a long time watching her projections float across the walls and the lights go from red to blue and all variations in between. The images were of roses, and succulent fruits being picked by hands reaching down at you. (see video here)
I quickly relaxed and began to really enjoy this installation. People were urged to remove their shoes and ‘make new friends’ upon entering the exhibit. Adding to the atmosphere were deep moaning sounds that intentionally imitated under-water noises, it was too blissful.
On top of all this, Pipilotti Rist not only changed my experience and mood, but she also turned the austere, white, masculine interior of the MOMA into a dark red, warm womb. Absolutely necessary on a frightfully cold day, and pretty incredible when you think about the majority of museum shows. Exhibition runs until February 2nd, it is not to be missed.
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Combine gender-bending therapists, mutinous nuthouse patients and toss in wrestling lesbians for good measure and you’ll get Waiting For the Show: a madcap, what-the-frack new comedic play by Theresa Diamond. 
