out of town. not online much.

post titled: music for when your mother-in-law visits...
DISCLAIMER: post-google is still feverish from flu and had coffee / ate solid food for the first time in days this morning
since this is all over the internet and people are like "whoa." "omg" post google feels the need to briefly comment on the new lady gaga video bad romance
FILE UNDER: things that make you say "whoa" in the first decade of the 21st century. NOTE: Kylie Minogue-meets-blade-runner-(but a version of Blade Runner directed by... David Cronenberg or whoever did 'the Cell' and ripped off Matthew Barney ) garnished by people who didn"t make the cut for the next 007 movie and/or Dita von Teese myspace freakshow tryouts...
ALSO FILE UNDER: Why art can never compete with marketing, armies of make-up artists, lighting designers, choreographers, cgi guys, and whatever directors.
ALSO ALSO FILE UNDER: bald cat, hairless cat.
oh, and: mainstram American pop has finally officially become early-to-mid 90s eurorpean dance/rave culture.
oh, and and: seems like the weird is is also beiong pushed into the mainstream, ...then what- a normal backlash? Like: tennis and weezer?


the video was directed by Francis Lawrence who described it as a "futuristic version of a Russian bathhouse". hurm.

MORE TO COME as I watch this OVER AND OVER AND OVER...

MIN 4:40-ish there is a MILLA JOVOVICH thing going on, ...by that I mean 5th-element bandage-outfit-meets-Resident Evil.

 
fyi: wolverine and sabretooth are actually brothers...

 
 
 
 
...homework over the weekend. fall of the berlin wall 20th twentieht twentieth anniversary celebration david hassellhoff hasselhoff haselhoff hasselhof

new art work: SuttonBeresCuller at the Lawrimore Project, seattle
and then...
the artwork of ethan jackson

marketplace: Charles Handy - Need work? Trying making your own.
very nice for people like me who can just barely stand the organized workplace and ... after a few months, simply can't handle the office life any longer... clock is ticking, I'm back on the loose again Dec. 14.

there only things on the internet that truly, deeply scare us:
bald hairless bears and custom vagina necklaces aka vulva portrait pendants.
thanks to reddit and Death for the hot tips.
...lordy, lordy, lordy.
sooo: it is the weekend- g'bye!

last month I described having a sort of 'lord of the flies' weekend after a diversion (seeing cyclown circus playing in the window of an art opening at urban art forum on heinrich heine strasse) on my way home from seeing josh tillman (aka j. tillman) play at privatklub. it would"ve otherwise been a quite night, but
I finally thogutht to hunt down the location of that strange abandoned factory on googlemaps, and here it is:
köpenickerstr. 48/49 (i believe) note: collapsed roof (4th floor) and full-size young trees also growing from the roof... this is an amazing location, right on the river, something cool should be done with it before some other bastard company snatches up the plot...

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i was deeply affected by e.t.: the extra-terrestrial as a child, (it was the second movie I ever saw) so somehow that made j.j. abrams' TED talk just that much better.

trickle-down motivation sequence.

The 34-year-old ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ star admitted he has never been happier than since he embarked on his romance with Katy, 25.

He said: "To be honest I haven't stopped smiling. She's a lovely girl and it's going really, really well. In fact I've never felt more settled in all my life. Katy is fantastic. I'm really happy."

Earlier this week Russell – who was first romantically linked to Katy at the MTV Video Music Awards in September – admitted he was ready to settle down and start a family.

He said: "I am ready for children actually. It's been seven years since I took drugs. I've made a film. I don't have to fight so much. I've grown weary of the carousel."

p.s. so. on a parallel note.... I accidentlally ended up... absolute silliness: I was doing some 'research' for a story on Russell Brand and Katy Perry yesterday, and just happened to check her twitter acct. right after she announced that she was giving away tickets to the MTV Europe music awards, which I -thought: "gosh, what the heck" long story short: I picked up the tickets, thing is tonight. siliness...
Beyonce EMA performers including Foo Fighters, Green Day, Jay-Z, Leona Lewis, Shakira, Tokio Hotel and U2. The MTV Europe Music Awards will be hosted by Katy Perry. Jonas Brothers plus Backstreet Boys, Juliette Lewis, Jean Reno, Miranda Cosgrove, Asia Argento, Bar Refaeli, Brody Jenner and Batista Joss Stone o2 world berlin