My new project: NAKED RAINBOW….get into it!

naked-rainbow:

Ummm…get into it. Duh.

I’ve been playing house wife for far too long due to my constraining financial circumstances..or lack thereof! 

Tomorrow. I am ending the spell, at least for 24hours until Friday!

ELI ESCOBAR is releasing his DESIRE EP as aural relief from this steamy weather we somehow survive in in the city! There’s been word around the block about this guy—his no-good groovy tunes are poisoning the minds of bass faces everywhere! He’s infiltrating with smooth synths and dreamy vocals and electronic dance traditionalists out there are in uproar! ..but maybe that’s not a bad thing. 

So save whatever cover you were planning on using at Santos or Webster or Blackbox…this is da place to be! 

http:///www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247919195220885

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I want to be the girl with the most cake

He only loves those things because you love to watch them break

I fake it so real I am beyond fake

And someday you will ache like I ache…

——“DOLL EYES,” Hole

There’s quite an interesting arch that marks the journey of my reaction as I watched this video—and by ‘interesting,’ I mean short.

My first reaction was UNruffled as I agreed with every written recollection of this infamous interview, saying “Oh yeah…she is obviously loaded…” This is a girl who’s been through a lot of shit, using a lot of drugs, she obviously fell off her head before coming out for this interview (and I’m not surprised if someone LITERALLY had to push her from behind the curtain as her queue to go on!), celebrity train wreck. The Lindsay Lohan of the 90’s. Whatever, I get it. 

Except…..around 1:20, you see that she has a cigarette in her hand. And if you look closely as she brings it to her side, you see that it is LIT. Meanwhile, she goes into this spiel about Lady Macbeth and BLAH BLAH BLAH! But WAIT! She mentions that her mentor is Carrie Fischer and some business with Myrel Streep and finally around 2:28, she starts belting out one of the most renowned and, arguably, one of the most difficult female monologue in Shakespeare’s works.  

And this is coming from someone who spanked off to Shakespeare all throughout high school and won an award for playing Lady Macbeth (not bragging, my Shakespeare days are well behind me!). 

So I keep watching Courtney Love and her nonsensical, at least on a remedial level, ramble about how she proved to MERYL STREEP (Meryl Streep yall…) that she was “worth [her] salt.” My God! Its not that Courtney Love is absolutely out of her mind (well she probably is, but in a good way); its that her rate of intellect is on such a high level than the people she is speaking to that she only makes sense if you put her thought process into slow motion!

Is she crazy? Probably.

Is she high? Obviously.

Might she be a genius? ……I’m afraid so!

So, long story-short: I realized Courtney Love is a genius—I mean, look at that Drew Barrymore impression at 3:08, like that was ENOUGH for me!

SHE’S A GENIUS! Its not something that I can explain explicitly, I just know! Yes, she is a misfit. Its because she is a genius or, dare I say, a star seed. The amount of potential energy could help save the world! And I hope she still gets to do that in the future; she has already influenced me!

If I were to dally into the intricacy of her poetry (some being the above quote), this post would be an essay. Just take the time to read her Wiki biography. She’s lived quite a life, to be understated in the plainest of terms. 

Oscar Wilde once said the theatre was among the greatest art forms in the world because it is “the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

And I think this is why people can identify with Andy Warhol and Heath Ledger and David Bowie and, finally, Courtney Love—they have been able to touch and to strike chords with so many people because their life is an ongoing work of art based primarily on Sincerity. Everything they do is REAL, and even the things that are not exactly honest SEEM real because it is delivered from sincere effort to understand ALL people. 

THAT is what I call an artist. And that is what I think our goal should be: to produce art from “the need to feel and to make others feel” as J-Lo once put it!

God bless Courtney Love!

Now..excuse me as I exit to watch “The People vs. Larry Flynt!”

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Now here’s an Ode to what I say was the last great movement Rock n Roll has ever seen: PUNK.

I recall a very memorable statement by the critic Douglas Wolk:

Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point…Iggy howled like a psycho, the band sounded like they could barely play the elementary riffs, and occasionally a moment of bone-headed poetry made it through the glorious muck.

And that was basically it.

Protopunk, which eventually evolved into Punk Rock, was not about the melodies and the lyrics and the artistry. It was about one of these two things (both, if you’re lucky!): Rhythm and Energy. It was a bunch of young, loud psychos banging on their drums, screaming in their microphones and ruthlessly scratching on their guitars as a desperate way of expressing their angst—and of course, Iggy did it best! ;D

Above you’ll witness one of my favorite bands right now who were all about the noise—SONIC YOUTH—singing one of my all-time favorite songs by one of my all-time favorite bands—IGGY & THE STOOGES.

And, if I’m blessed enough, I’ll keep listening to the likes of these hoping that I, too, will be able to howl like this one day!

Peace, Love & Energy!

Don’t you love wearing ‘ironic’ clothing? Wearing cowboy boots when you’ve never stepped foot South of Pentagon City, VA? Wearing squirrel hats when you’re vegan? Dressing over-sized clothing like a homeless person when your parents pay for you to live in a loft that’s $10,000/month? Don’t you love being all IRONIC like that?

Well, I DON’T! If I’m an underdog, I’m gonna act like it, and DRESS like it! ;)

Speaking of…a good friend of mine, Eric Younger of Ragamuffin Cal, just launched his new clothing line under this (^^^) name—all with this Underdog theme in mind. Check out the video that acts as an introduction to the story of this RAGAMUFFIN CAL and you’ll understand more—>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLjUm-cOgg&feature=player_embedded

So obviously this guy doesn’t come from royalty and despite others are trying to frame his path of normality, he aims to go out and earn his own an alternative way…Whoah! Sounds like the story of my life, and—more than likely—the story of yours! 

I’m a t-shirt collecter/destroyer basically a fan of clothing more along the lines of shit I believe in like Rock n Roll and underground record labels and being an underdog! So be like me, BUY ONE OF THESE TEES, destroy the beautifully crafted hem lines and rock it to the local bar and say “FUCK YEAH IM MOTHAFUCKING RAGAMUFFIN CAL! Chill ass underdog on my way to success— or whatever the fuck that is!”

So do yourself a favor and, for the first time in your irony-driven life, buy clothing that supports a cause you believe in and is sincere about representing you. And—as much as I live this company—American Apparel doesn’t count!

As STUPID as that name is, we’re all Rag Cal’s in one sense or another, just embrace it! This city is full of losers but we’re pullin outta here to win! (<—lyric courtesy of Bruce Springsteen :)

http://www.ragcal.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/RAGCAL