I love cats so much that I think I follow more cats than people on Instagram. I'm perfect for this Internet age of cat ladies. Meet you at the Internet Cat Video Festival? Aw, hell yiis! (No, but seriously.)
Consequently, Cat Art Show LA, a self-proclaimed "meditation and ... celebration of the feline form" is right up my alley. Which is where I found a link to the venerable Cats That Look Like Pin Up Girls tumblr. Yay cats. That look like pinups. Maow.
I met Alan in Brooklyn at his art show. He'd plastered the walls with shinnnny gold pom poms he said Cee Lo Green had used in a music video. (Or maybe it was the 2012 superbowl halftime show starring Madonna. One of those.)
Near the gold pom pom wall, he'd hung babe-alicious bodies peeking out from the gold poms.
His series, "Be Healthy, Yeah," follows suit with the babe-alicious photos. But, in the series it's bodies + fruit. More body than fruit. But, yeah. They're pretty cool. Check 'em out.
Be Healthy. Yeah.
When mindlessly rabbit hole-ing through Instagram feeds, I found these beautiful typewritten Federico García Lorca-reminiscent poems. Each one is a distilled emotion, a tightly-packed newly budding rose. It's fun to imagine the poet standing in front of his gas stove (probably somewhere in Brooklyn) burning the edges of these evocations.
To read more, visit his Instagram feed @ riojones7. Or, what fun: if you'd like to request a poem, email him at riojonespoetry [at] gmail.com. I think I'm going to do so right now.
In "Other Forms of Life," a grandfather and a grandson search for the answer to the mystery of how a bag full of bloody dear tails wound up on the grandfather's doorstep. As someone who's recently lost a grandfather, the pedestrian simplicity of this grandfather/grandson's search (they wait in line, stand on sideways, talk with the drycleaner) -- and its lack of a fulfilling conclusion for the grandfather -- pulled at my heartstrings.
Read the full story at Carte Blanche.
Beautiful Tolkien-inspired posters. I've made this one my lock screen. See more of these gorgeous illustrations here.
First published in McSweeney's, this 8-bit Beowulf-inspired story will make you chuckle at the expense of thine poor confused grandparents. Lo, 'tis a joy to be unafraid of the router -- nay, the electrical outlet -- though they be shrouded in the fogs of mystery.
The long-haired straight-forward rocker dudes in Denver band the Knew make up, "the Garage band everyone wishes they had the balls to form." Their music attacks your eardrums with horn sections, fuzzed-out guitars, synthesizers, layers upon layers of drums and guitar. It's fun, gritty, and fuzzy-loud ... a load of buckshot in your tailfeathers.
Steve Roggenbuck, the Internet's version of Whitman, has made me think poetry may not actually be dead to anyone other than poets? Some lines from his awesome/weird YouTube poem, make something beautiful before you are dead:
"this is a fucked up tree; this is three trees coming out of the same tree ...
I want to kiss you on the baseball field in the middle of the night ...
back in my grandfather's day, they didn't have yolo! ...
guess who you can't hug when you're dead ... everyone! ...
you are literally gonna die; make something beautiful before you are dead ...
hey fricker, guess what? we're both alive at the same time!"
Through cyclical, repetitive labor, Anna creates works of art that embody her experience of continually searching for a better world. She uses a variety of mediums in her work such as photography, film, sculpture, and drawing.
Seam, the work pictured, was created with paper, thread, and mylar. It, along with Anna's other colorful, ethereal pieces, reflects her continuous search for a utopia, or perfect place.
To see more of Anna's art, visit annaayeroff.com.
Painter, sculptor, installation artist, and writer, Josh Cave works with diverse forms of media to create expressive, abstract, personal likenesses of people and objects. Find more of his beautiful, haunting, austere work at joshuacave.com.
The Reflection of You from Bear In Heaven's synth/rock/pop/indie/dance/electro-amphibious album I Love You, It's Cool is rhythmic, textured, and satisfying. The more you listen to it, the better it gets.
The Reflection Of You. Taken from our 3rd album "I Love You, It's Cool" due for release on April 3rd 2012 through Dead Oceans / Hometapes
From Joywave‘s second mixtape, 88888, Tongues is electro-pop pop effervescence for groovin on a sunny day.
Free Download of 88888 Mixtape: http://www.joywavemusic.com Exclusive Premiere: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/exclusive-song-premiere-tongues-joywave-feat-kopps 88888 Mixtape // April 2013 Koda Vista // Spotify: spoti.fi/M80Epl Koda Vista // iTunes: bit.ly/M80GO6 Live at the Planetarium 2012: bit.ly/12YaIse
Hootin' and hollerin' from the man with the "twangy" guitar (quotation marks always included). This one's got Lee Hazlewood's greasy fingerprints all over it.
Fairly self-explanatory, and pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to sound like.
I'll be posting a few good ol' tunes today that are based around vocal ejaculations. Ooooh! Aaah! So here are The Fireballs, doing their thing.
Good ol' Mingus. This great track kicks off a great album with a great title, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. It's got that swing for sure, but the best part of his compositions is how they always seem on the verge of falling apart. Hell, some of them do fall apart. I'd be interested in hearing a Reinhardt / Grappelli combo take this one on, if only to exploit the minor-key forward-thrust that makes this tune so easy on the earballs.
Here's a swingin' track from Jacqueline Taïeb, one of those yé-yé girls who finds a brief resurgence every now and then, most recently after Francoise Hardy appeared on the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack. This one sounds more like Ocean's Eleven / Mark Ronson. I dig the delay on the horns, and the singing is smooth and confident. Am I in love, or is it tinnitus?
Here's a nice little single from The Trinikas. I guess they were a high school group? If you ever go to your local Northern Soul night, notice how many of the bigger tracks have a bit of minor feel to them ("California Soul," "Nothin But a Heartache," etc.) Throw in one like this, that starts on the 4? You got yourself a hit!
Here's another kinky jam from the olden days. Phunk/phashion diva Betty Davis was briefly married to Miles, but apparently she was "too wild" for him. Larry Graham is all over her first album, and there's plenty of Sly-ed out rollin' and thumpin' on this track from They Say I'm Different, her second. Frantic clavinet courtesy of Tony Vaughn. Light In the Attic dusted these off a few years ago, just piling up more gems in their excellent catalogue. Righteous proto-Parliament-via-Bowie cover art on this one as well. Dig in, folks!
Hang yer hair over your face and emote! Find more from shoegazer Cloudkicker here.
