The Blondes World/SF premiere was a devastating success. And afterwards, the reception we got was just ridiculous. Two words, dudes: Foie gras!

Photos to come.

Thanks San Francisco.
Thansciso,
L + W

Ha uh speaking of cartoons about me

A truth story from summer 2007 by Lisa Ramsey.
Also check this hilarious one about th’ Nuva ring (NSFW, (s)natch).

Thx Catherine,
Lev

Withoutabox.com has this program where they select films to get IMDB pages. And yeah, uh - CHECK IT OUT!

Best part was filling out the form, e.g.:

For some reason they haven’t added our guides and some other people yet. And we’re still figuring out how to credit the movie’s crucial soundtrack contributors.
But, yeah.

L

Now I’m happy,
L

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, everything that made this happen…
Via Number18 via Andrew Sullivan via Alas

L

P.S. Remember this fantastic Wesley Clark ad from 2004? I do. Deeply.

Fact: Last night I got misty thinking of Sawyer singing Redemption Song. I miss Lost.

P.S. Isn’t this picture Whit and I made once something special?

I was having drinks recently with my friend Mike who grew up in Detroit and Ann Arbor in the late 70s-early 80s. And I dunno what we were talking about - I think the internet, what’s it’s good at and bad at - and he started to tell me about this radio DJ from his childhood, The Electrifying Mojo.

Mike described this amazing DJ who’d play these long sets mixing stuff like John Cage and Kraftwerk with Parliament and Prince - especially Prince. Like apparently he once made an on-the-fly 20 minute remix of When Doves Cry involving real dove sounds.

And then Mike quoted me this:

“If you’re in your car, honk your horn
If you’re in water, splash
If you’re in bed, boogie on your back…

When you feel like you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot.
And remember - ain’t nobody bad like you!”

Mike said the Electrifying Mojo would say stuff like that every show and that it was the best feeling to be driving a car - or when he was younger, lying in bed with the radio - and feel a solidarity with all the other Electrifying Mojo fans.

He said he’d tried to find some archives and hadn’t had any luck. Obviously, I offered to look around too. Here’s what I found:

1) Wikipedia entry with lots of history (and some future!)
2) Transcript of Electrifying Mojo’s historic interview with Prince. (anyone got a recording?)
3) Juan Atkins saying the radio show was “the reason [techno] happened in Detroit”.
4) And most importantly…6 Youtube clips of Electrifying Mojo broadcasts! Like:

Wow. Absolutely full credit and thanks to great youtuber mcmorris55, but I used Vixy to make MP3s of his Youtube postings so I could listen on my iPod. And if you want them, you can download the MP3s here.

Hearing it from Mike and reading testimonies online, fans say again and again you can’t get it if you weren’t there. And that’s obvious. I urge you to read some postings here or here. These are testimonies to something truly special to have experienced. But even totally de-contextualized and museumified, this shit is awesome.

And it’s all tied to so much I’m excited about, I won’t even try to talk about it. But. Shout-outs to Umeanmatt’s great Prince project. And to young inheritors of the aesthetic, BFFs Lil’ Wayne and T-Pain.

L

Speaking of weirdo, trippy, tangential, double vision, etc: Girlfreh Catherine is having her first post-graduate art opening in New York!

Other Certainties
Curated by Summer Guthery and Amy Owen
September 19th - October 24th, 2008

Opening September 19th, 7-9pm
October 24th Closing Performances by Melissa Brown, Carla Edwards, Pablo Helguera, and Rachel Mason

NYCAMS
44 West 28th Street, 7th Floor. Between 6th Avenue and Broadway
Gallery Hours - Thursday through Saturday 1-6pm and by appointment
917.574.8365 or 917.968.1831

Tyler Coburn - Catherine Czacki - Patricia Esquivias - Tommy Hartung - David Maljkovic - Rachel Mason - Paulina Olowska - Lisa Oppenheim - Walid Raad

See you there!
L

P.S. Catherine’s fantastic book of many pictures, the past collides with the future/the future collides with the past is now buyable at Lulu.com! Keywords: time travel.