L@T: (+)vity in Action

Blarrrggg its my weekly updates mateys!!! I had this whole thing that I was going to talk about...you know the hatrix* and so forth but you have to write that kind of stuff when you're just coming out of it so I'll do something positive instead. Here's a mish mash of things that bring a smile to my face of late:

1. I just started volunteering at a radio station which has made me start to re-evaluate my musical taste which are wide (and can be offensively tacky to some) and embracing but I'm hoping I'll meet some cool people. I meet this girl Jenny C. but she's leaving in a week...this is a theme of my life, people passing through...I don't know if that makes things more beautiful or sad. Nope, this (+) tivity day (which is nearly as much of a bullshit holiday as family day since only 40% of working parents actually qualify for the day off and its not for families but just because there's too long without a holiday between new years and Easter so its all crap....nearly as much crap as Valentine's day ...I digress). Anyway I'm starting to work on my radio show that I want to pitch to the station. Its in relation to movies, soundtracks, and trivia 9the kind you only find trawling the net as I am wont to do.). It should be really cool but it has no name yet or set format. Until then I'll practice my on air personality and just help out around the station (Because that's what good girls do!)
   
2. PingMag (http://pingmag.jp/)- Go to the english and then the japan section. This website makes me smile in regards to ...everything Japanese!!! They have so many articles on products, artists, shows, etc. Gives a girl something to aspire to for when I move there!
3. Rolo Realm (http://www.thehookupzone.net/RoLoRealm/topten.php)- Oh YES. I hesitated to include this but my dorkiness knows NO BOUNDS. By the way, the new Wolverine movie is coming out and so many sick, sick characters are going to be in it (Hold up I had to do my overbundence-of-joy-contained dance again) like Gambit and a way smarter Sabretooth (nefarious!)....Geeeeeekkkkk.
   
4. Audrey Kawasaki ( http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/2007/index.php)- An amazing artist who works on wood (like her canvas) and paint and pencils etc. An extremely diverse talent from Pratt University. You may feel uncomfortable with the youthful sexuality (I guess this is where classy pervs get their jonesy's on...) but if you look past that and examine the romantic world she creates, in contrast to my next artist, you gotta respect the woman. WORK!
5. Fafi ( http://www.fafi.net/wallpaint/years.html)- I actually wasn't going to discuss her next but her caustic little creatures do tend to make me laugh. She's the most(in my opinion) badass female painting graffiti artist from france but travels all over the world doing so much more. She's a business woman on the march on fashion, brick, publishing...repping.
   
6. Fresh laundry...seriously nothing like going a round with the old washing machine and coming out the better for it.
   
7. Beth White (http://www.lindgrensmith.com/search/white/index.php)- Okay I just became a huge fan of hers (ten seconds ago!) She makes art out of paper like silhouettes (This is not Punch & Judy, ladies & Gents). She's doing a show with Ms Kawasaki which is how I discovered her. Her intricate portraits show an ingenuity and a level of mature sophistication without losing their (and I wouldn't add youthful but some would) quirk. Its so fun like art should be. I suddenly have the urge to go break out some safety scissors and coloured paper...
8. "NCIS" and "Location, Location, Location" reruns- Let me break it down: Kirstie Allsop and Jethro Gibbs are too hard for you regular folks. They will break you and mold you into the perfect NCIS agent/ English home buyer ever. Enough said. (Heroes plz plz plz come back to me....)
   
9. Alex, Ray, Sammy, Coco, and Tia- These kids make me laugh. And they kind of sound like a brat pack.
   
10. The Noisettes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91iV8gQb1U)- This English band (What's The Time Mr. Wolf?) are so last season in some people's eyes but I am in full on love. And a super hot black girl Shingai Shoniwa fronting this sweet, I wouldn't quite say rock, party thrash band is just a triple bonus squared.
    
11. Alice Smith ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx_LdMnOvZA)-Get thee to Youtube immidiatemont!( That's supposed to be French...I should brush up on my French.) And if I hear one word about Alicia Keys VS Alice I'll scream. Just Don't DO It. It's like Kate Nash VS Lilly Allen- not the same just because it's 2 white girls.
    
12. Great lush movies- Frida, Chungking Express, Fallen Angel, The Fountain...I can't stop playing these movies again and again. Sometime I'm not even watching it, its background noise. I can feel the emotions in the voices and silences...the music, the sounds of breathe. Two of them are subtitled but trust me, they're so worth the risk if you enjoy emotional, visceral movies ( w/ or w/out plot...I'm talking to you director Wai!) that take you to a place inside yourself that you trouble to relate and communicate to others.
13. Beth Ditto from The Gossip(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gossip)- The second I feel bad about myself, my inner voice of confidence takes her form and pumps me up. I would unabashedly become a lesbian for this lady. This voice sounds like chicken and beer and sultry good times dancing till your sweaty in a bar where the DJ is so good you forget if anyone you know is there.
    
14. The Vagabond Set ( http://www.thevagabondset.com/)- This lady is living a very cool life (perhaps vapid according to some but none should judge. You're so jealous!) and I'm not exactly sure how she does it but does it she does. She's just moved to Tokyo ( from Manchester, England but is a Swede...you get it after awhile) and she details the fashionable and the life according to her and Said (I've figured it out...I kept thinking she was just saying said repetitively because she doesn't capitalize [importance of grammar kids!] but I'm pretty sure that's just her boyfriends name.). Its a cool knick nack of stuff drenched in designer duds.
15. And so I've finished Hitodama to the point that I'm comfortable showing it to people...of course now I want to flesh one of the characters a bit more...and what you may not know is that each book gets a playlist of songs that evoke characters as they are and as they hope to be and who they've been- this book is really about loss and coping as young adults (Beer, beer, beer!). I'm starting on the next novelette ( I'm not sure exactly what to do about the first yet) and I found the song for my character Janey L. in this book by Shane Alexander:Shipwrecked: and the whole album that goes with it. Go listen immediately ( The Album Is Out NOWWWW...I'd have it if I weren't so broke and I refuse to bittorrent this, a girl must draw a line! If not true beauty then where?) at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjohC0dNWk)
    

EEWW there was pure silence for most of this post but I then regained my senses and began to play this randomness of a playlist called Relaxo (its unusually blah): Feeling Good:Micheal Buble, There Is:Boxcar Racer, Coal to Diamonds:The Gossip, (Skipped Berlin...started to wonder WHAT is this garbage...), Breathe (2 am):Anna Nalick, Dead Meat: Sean Lennon, Magick Man:Heart, White Flag: Dido, Like A Star: Corinne Bailey Rae (Cannot wait for her new stuff), Once: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Cool Jazz:Miles Davis, Every Planet We Reach Is Dead:Gorillaz- And this is where I had enough of this tripe and risked the All Music Shuffle(*GASP*) which produced this: I'm Coming Freestyle:Lupe Fiasco, Sinnerman:Nina Simone, Dream:Alice Smith, Woodstock:Alice Smith, Foundations:Kate Nash, Pump It:Black Eyed Peas, Who Is Tanya:Tanya Stephens.

Crazy I think I just saw microscopic bug....maybe I'm just tired. I'm going to work on a visual collage for this post now!

*More on the Hatrix at another post but not this one. I will be happy today. Happy, happy, happy...