¡Molas!
¡Amo molas! Aquí está una galería fantástica, cortesía de mi amiga, madamjujujive.
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June 30, 2004
June 28, 2004
All Gaudí, All the Time
Gaudí and Art Nouveau in Catalonia: a comprehensive guide to the Modernisme art movement.
June 26, 2004
Pooch Island
The art of Michael Pucciarelli
June 24, 2004
I Remember Trudy
Mark Vallen's Art For A Change website has a great collection of xeroxed punk flyers from LA circa 1977. The flyer on the left was designed by my old mate, X-8, who got his start doing the promo for our band Low Budget back in high school, then went on to become a founding father of the LA punk 'zine, Flipside.
That's Trudy, a Masque groupie, holding a copy of Flipside on the flyer. I think I made out with her in the alley in front of the club one night, but that may be false memories created by sniffing glue and drinking a few too many bottles of Annie Green Springs Strawberry Hill wine.
By the way, the other band on that Vietnamesebabycafe bill was an Alice-Cooperish outfit called Jekyll and Hyde fronted by another school chum named, Paul Amiel Stewart, who until recently was one-half of a Seattle art-rock (mostly sans-rock) duo called Fishmagic. I haven't heard from him for a year or more, so I googled on him today to see if I could discover his current whereabouts; I found him teaching English on the faculty of a Turkish University.
Ain't search engines wonderful?
June 22, 2004
Ambient Opera
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy: beautiful hand-tinted postcards of the revolutionary Maoist opera. Not to be confused with the beautiful hand-tinted record album by revolutionary musical theorist, Brian Eno.
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June 21, 2004
Dalímania!
In case I haven't mentioned it already, I'll be heading to Barcelona in August for a 12-day vacation with my entire family. 2004 is the year of the Dalí Centennial, so I'm particularly excited to be visiting his old stomping grounds in Catalonia again. On my last visit in 2002, I visited the Dalí Theater-Museum in Figueres. This time I plan to see his house in Portlligat, and Castillo Púbol where Gala is buried, which should allow me to complete all three legs of the so-called Dalí Triangle. Do I get an ant-covered merit badge or something equally surreal for that accomplishment?.
Here's another fine site from Coudal about everyone's favorite Catalunyan poop-fetishist, VirtualDalí.
I must go study my Catalan now.
June 20, 2004
53rd and 3rd
The art of Dee Dee Ramone
And now Johnny Ramone's got cancer. Merde.
links via X-8 and Exclamation Mark
June 7, 2004
Oh Architectural Bondage, Up Yours!
As usual, I spent a lot of time in museums this trip. I made pilgrimages to the Tate Britain, the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and most memorably, the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the V&A, and the wonderfully goofy, pop-inspired architectural creations of the 1960's design group, ARCHIGRAM at the always brilliant Design Museum.
For the uninitiated, Vivienne designed much of the groundbreaking original couture sold by punk empresario, Malcolm McLaren, at London's notorious bondage boutique, Sex.
As for the ARCHIGRAM group, you can read their story in cartoon form here.