NOTE: I wrote this a few months ago and never posted - dunno why.

Lately I’m developing a new appreciation for stating the obvious. Like I admire NyMag getting all explicit about how Andrew WK is the best role model a young New Yorker could have. That had to be said publicly, but everyone was being too cool to do it.

In that spirit, I’d like to mention that Andrew W.K.’s wife, who only gets like a one-line mention in that article, seems pretty cartoonishly awesome. This bio is appropriately all-bold on her site, but I’m rebolding the especially bold parts:

In January 2008, Cherie teamed up with Patricia Moreno and created cycleSati, an uplifting, high energy ride which incorporates the power of the mind. Cherie has also starred in fitness DVDs through Gaiam and has performed at fitness conferences and events around the world. Cherie is dedicated to helping people live their dreams through fitness and mindfulness. In addition to Cherie’s group fitness achievements, she also supports her clients world wide with private weight, pilates, yoga, kickboxing, and personalized, multi-dimensional training. Always up for a challenge, Cherie enjoys living life on the edge. Outside the gym, Cherie travels the world performing as a musician, songwriter, and vocalist and enjoys competitive snowboarding.

As somebody who get’s more involved with things that are a bit too much, I think this style of intellectually/spritually overdetermined exercise will get me much more into fitness than the Sunset Park weight room’s doing right now. So it’s an aspiration of mine to take one of her classes at the Chelsea Crunch.

I’m also pretty intrigued by her (and W.K. produced) HOUSEROBICS music. Watch this clip. It starts off like that cheerleadery electroclash I had enough of in 2003, but by about 2 minutes in, there’s some genuine ecstasy. Sort of embodies for me the idea that the stuff “we” were jokingly doing back then is far more worthwhile pursued seriously. Or like deeply.

Cherie Lily’s current music project is a genre of dance music she created called HOUSEROBICS featuring original dance music infused with fitness. HOUSEROBICS is an exciting, new, high-energy, one-of-a-kind solo project blending house, aerobic dance, inspirational lyrics, and electronica.

L

Well done dudes. Genuine class and Very siked for tmw’s screening.

But if can’t make it or didn’t make reservations, don’t sweat. Cuz announcing

Here’s that in text:

BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE
Thursday June 11th, 8pm.
Seating begins at 7:30.
$5 suggested donation. Snacks.

Gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
Columbia University
310 Dodge Hall, MC 1806
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Directions: http://arts.columbia.edu/neimangallery/contact.html
Contact: info@blondesinthejungle.com

More screenings to come. You can always check em here or better yet join the mailing list

Yrs,
L

Been meaning to post this - it’s a swirly-alternative mix I played at a rooftop party this day last month and on WHFR a few weeks ago. I like it I mean it’s sorta an exercise in obviousness, which I’m really into these days.

Lev Leviev: e-LEV-ate Me Later

When I think of the 5 or 6 people that would enjoy this mix most, it’s the same people that check this blog regularly. So if you’re reading this and it’s May, this is literally for you.

Oh and it’s also dedicated to the Lakers who either win easily or make an embarrassing mess.

L

Above: The real and fictitious John A’s. It’ll be like that - in your mind.

As part of Fractious Press’ Ka!FraBOOMctious bizaar, we’ve got a special screening at the Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday at 2pm. Our program pairs 2 of our fiction movies with their home-movie counterparts.

First, Maine’s great and ominous waters, then in-yo-face nostalgia on the outskirts of NYC.

InstaMovie01 [2007/photoJPEG/Color/6min]
The Allagash River, Maine. July 2007.

Vampire Weekend: Walcott (newgaze remix) [2008/8mm/Color/4min]
Challenge and monstrosity in an X-Files dream of New England. An unauthorized fanfic.

InstaMovie02 [2008/photoJPEG/Color/10min]
Sunday June 08, 2008. 98′F. Partly cloudy chance of thunderstorms. Puttin on the Ritz and Fleetwood mAacfee at 502, Brooklyn NY.

Jazz Christmas [2006/16mm/B&W/9min]
1920s New York through the cloudy lens of 21st century revisionism. The Beautiful and Damned, before they knew about that second part.

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the Ka!FraBOOMctious bizaar
zines * comix * books * records * tapes * cds * posters * crafts * and more
Vendor fair + screenings + readings throughout the day.
DJing by Jeremy Novack
Admission is free and open to the public

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Ding Dong Lounge
Street: 929 Columbus Avenue, between 105 and 106 Streets
City/Town: New York, NY
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There’s something about driving through the Berkshires on the most beautiful day of the year jamming Summer Feelings that’s both cartoonishly right and feels like it’s totally happening to somebody else.

So I sincerely urge you to go to the 2nd weekend of the Hinterland Film Festival. Cuz that’s what it was like last weekend. And, duh, the program was awesome.

Plus, to urge urge you, we’ve posted the classic trailer to our film O Nurse, which will be playing there this Saturday.

Zip car?
L

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

Please enjoy this video for “The Executive Look”, the electrifying anthem from the Blondes in the Jungle soundtrack!

link: http://www.blondesinthejungle.com/video.php#executive

And, remember SF premiere tomorroWW!!
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).