Nightlife
Revenge Porn by Cee Lo
By Mr. Brownsuit
Like many of you, when I’m hit with a friend’s all-too-frequent “Dude, you have to see this video!” excitement, I curse YouTube and settle in for 2 minutes of life I’ll never get back. Yet, every so often, the baton is passed and before you know it – you’re that guy. Today, that guy is me. Seriously, you have to see this video!
Quite possibly the best song ever written and sure to be [ Read More...]
The Inevitable Demise of the Pop Superstar
Braincookies by Xifer Fortier
I recently browsed through Here Come the Regulars: How to Run a Record Label With No Money by Ian Anderson. No, not THAT Ian Anderson (godfather of hobbit-rock). THIS Ian Anderson owned an indie record label in 2003. He was 18. The book was published in 2009. To be honest, I didn’t get very far — it was in the bathroom, and my house-mate [ Read More...]
The Gay 90’s – Why Rock Radio Sucks
By Xifer Fortier
The only thing better than reminiscing about not listening to rock radio in the 00’s is reminiscing about not listening to rock radio in the 90’s. The 90’s was FM’s last gasp as a culture-defining institution in America. AM radio telegraphed the evolution of ideals in the 60’s. In the 70’s FM solidified the unity of a generation with respect to sex, politics, money, recreational drug-use, and ill-advised facial-hair.
In the [ Read More...]
Cocaine + Music = Genius. Duh.
Braincookies by Xifer Fortier
Let’s talk a little about the longest lasting marriage in show business, shall we? I’m speaking, of course, about music and cocaine and the way they interact – for better or worse.
Cocaine-use, in my experience, turns up as a personality trait. This observation is glib and a little judgmental, but true. From a musical standpoint, I’m not convinced that this is all bad. Am I making a pro-coke statement [ Read More...]
Caribou and the Art? Behind Math Rock
Braincookies by Xifer Fortier
I hated calculus.
I aced math through junior high and high school. Given my adolescent awareness of life’s contradictions, math was comforting. There was an answer that was correct or not. There was proof. Math helped feathered-hair, acne-pocked me understand what was happening: how tall I wasn’t, the price of beer versus the pittance of my allowance, would she ever kiss me, when, and how many times?
Two eighths made [ Read More...]
Snapshots From a Call Girl – Sanjay
By Girl Next Door
Sanjay
$1000
I met him at his suite at the W hotel which was nice but I was expecting much more than just a normal looking hotel room with a corner banquette. He asked me to look “natural and sweet” which for him meant a cheap cotton dress from Nanette Lepore and cowboy boots from Justin. I put my hair into a ponytail because I know he likes to pull it down.
He had perfect [ Read More...]
La Drag Familia and The Many Spellings of Suppositori
By Holden Starstruck
He really is a boy. He really is a mother. He really is a drag queen. He really is a performer. He really is an artist. And as with any performer, he really fits into any role life seems to throw at him. And as with any artist, he really makes any role thrown at him his own.
He’s also hungover. It is approximately 1:30 in the [ Read More...]
I Will Never Go Hungry Again
Splatter Art by Holden Starstruck
The first and only thing you should know is that this life isn’t for everyone. This isn’t Carrie fucking Bradshaw pondering on the holy trinity of style, nightlife, and romance. This column is the Fight Club meets Disco Bloodbath of the online sphere.
The drugs, the alcohol, the sexual escapades, the drag, and the explicit life get to people after a while. Some people get tired, some people get apathetic, some people [ Read More...]
To Do: Buy Kneepads
By Erin Feher
Remember when you were six and you had a list of incredibly cool things that you wanted to do when you grew up? Well, that list worked out pretty well for me (live in California, write a book, marry someone who hails from a sketchy South American country, own one of those one-piece bathing suits with the stomach cut out), so I never really abandoned the habit. And now I have a new [ Read More...]
Heartless
By J. Broadway
The FRAY – Heartless from IE HAGY on Vimeo.
Editor IE HAGY has recently posted The Fray’s music video for their cover of Kanye West’s “Heartless” to his vimeo page. Not only is The Fray’s rendition of the song really quite dope, but the video is also pretty interesting and quirky, featuring an animated anatomically correct heart running around leaking pencil-drawn blood.
Interestingly, Kanye’s video for the original version of the track [ Read More...]
