Sex rock at its finest
- Best Little Secrets Are Kept
- "Milkshake, milkshake, I love to feel you sweat. We don't have to go to the pool if you want me to make you wet. Can you keep a secret? Because the best little secrets are kept."
- Buy it on Amazon
All you hipsters and trendspotters that read this site probably already own this CD, but if you don’t have Louis XIV’s Best Little Secrets are Kept then I say “Tsk tsk!” The trendy dance rock band first made waves touring with The Killers last year and is now hitting alternative radio hard. With lyrics that are not so subtle about sexuality and sexual escapades, catchy danceable hooks, and great production value, this is a CD not to be missed.
By now, most Crap Filter readers probably know that at the beginning of the year I declared a personal vendetta against trendy dance rock… yet for the second or third time this year, I’ve fallen into listening excessivley to another dance rock CD. Hypocrite? Sure, I probably am, but I can’t help it when there is actually good music coming out of the trendy genre I had previously written off. Continues after the jump »
Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 5
This week, Michele and Alex take on Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 4 and 5, which played at a midnight screening last weekend in Manhattan.
Michele: For years I have heard of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle- The masterpiece that it is, etc. I had viewed some of his art, unrelated to this particular project at the MOMA, and was impressed by it, but always sort of wondered about the conceptualization of his art. The Cremaster series is comprised of 5 levels, all based on the Cremaster muscle (a muscle that covers the testis).
For a while, I even had a copy of “The Order” a 30 minute selection of the Cremaster at my disposal. I am sort of glad that I didn’t watch it, since apparently it is only a portion of Cremaster 3. So I had no idea what to really expect in video form when Alex & I went to see Cremaster 4 & Cremaster 5 this weekend.
Alex: I’ve seen The Order before, which is 30 minutes of the 3 hour long 3rd Cremaster. Part 4 is actually the first of the cycle that Barney created. It runs only about 40 minutes. The piece crosscuts between a motorcycle race in opposite directions on the Isle of Man, while a Satyr (Barney) journeys to meet the race at its midpoint. Naked, painted female bodybuilders, underground caverns, and lots of petroleum jelly ensue.
When Bernard met Rose
S.O.S. - 2.19
Rose-Bernard Centric
Rose and Bernard got their moment in the sun with a backstory revealing how they came together, Rose’s bad timing, and how they ended up on Oceanic Flight 815. And it was okay. Review! Continues after the jump »
And baby makes three… freaks
That eerie silence you’re not hearing is the lack of sound of Katie Holmes pushing out baby thetan girl… or something absolutely ridiculous like that.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Actor Tom Cruise and his fiance, actress Katie Holmes, welcomed the birth of a daughter on Tuesday, according to Cruise’s publicist.
They named the girl Suri, which “has its origins in Hebrew, meaning ‘princess,’ or in Persian, meaning ‘red rose,’ ” Cruise spokesman Paul Bloch said in a statement.
What more is there to say, really? This one never had a chance.
Diamond Dave gets the can
So Diamond Dave is getting fired. If only he quit, I could have used some kind of ‘Jump’ pun. Maybe he’ll move to Panama! Eh…why bother?
Roth’s radio career began in January, when he replaced Howard Stern on the CBS stations. But reviews were poor and Roth fought with management over the show’s format, putting the show on the skids less than four months into its run.
Roth, during one angry on-air rant, predicted the show could be yanked before May.
He always was ahead of his time. Opie & Anthony, who I’ve never actually listened to, will replace Diamond Dave, who I’ve also never listened to.
Walter Sobchak battles the Pirate Baby
There’s not a whole lot to say about this that you won’t figure out from just watching it yourself. Basically, it’s a pixel animation in the style of a side-scrolling video game, entirely in black and white. Just watch it. The server is getting killed right now, so it may take a few tries to get it to work, but it’s worth it.
You can check out more of Paul Robertson’s work, including test animations for this video, at his Livejournal page.
Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
Via Boing Boing.
The “Other Stripper” Exposes herself
There was news today in the Duke Lacrosse team rape thing. I guess the other stripper at the party is coming out in support of her coworker, and professing the guilt of the players, despite being in the bathroom at the time. I was pleased to learn that Syracuse University (go Orange!) has refused to accept any lacrosse players wishing to transfer there. The rape accusations aside, this team was in trouble all the time, so I don’t want them at my alma mater. The really perplexing thing about this case is why this second woman is a stripper. Going only off this picture, she wouldn’t get many $1 bills off of me. But being that she imbezzled thousands of dollars in the past, probably a good idea not to give her any of my money anyway.
This Week’s Netflix
This week’s stash includes the Outback true-horror Wolf Creek, the live action anime Initial D, and the 1980’s classic Broadcast News.
If you read the reviews, Wolf Creek is either the best or worst foreign horror flick of 2005. For me it’s somewhere in the middle (for the record, the scarriest non-US film of last year is The Descent). Wolf Creek itself is actually a giant metor crater in the middle of the Australian Outback, where our 3 main characters are going to for a hiking trip. After their hike, they find their car has broken down. Is the sweet-natured but weird Crocodile Dundee wannabe that helps them out gonna torture and kill the poor hikers? Uh, yeah probably.
Chris Rhee needs your help
Fellow 9rules member Chris Rhee had a rough weekend. He was helping a friend out with a film project when some no-goodnik swiped his gadgetry.
Quoth the Rhee man:
The basic story goes like this: I caught a ride to San Francisco with my buddy, Brian Hata, to help out Steven Wishnack with a film project for his class.
After we finished filming everything, we started loading up Brian’s car with our equipment. I brought two bags and a box full of stuff for the shoot, so I had to make two trips to the car. In between one of our trips, someone stole my two bags which contained pretty much every electronic thing I owned that could possibly fit into two bags.
Would it kill you to do something nice for somebody once in a while? Send the man a few bucks to help get things back to how they should be.
There’s also some discussion happening over at the 9rules blog.
Inconceivable!
Cynthia McKinney, a congresswoman from Georgia, fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war is Asia, but only slightly less well known is this one. Never walk away from an interview, without removing or turning off your microphone! As Frank Drebin was caught once, so now is the congresswoman, who was heard making a disparaging remark about an aide. The remark was not as bad as some might have you believe. The real best part is that after that, she tried to go back and tell the interviewer that the slip up was off the record. Of course the newspeople essentially said “T.S.”, and now we all get to hear the gaffe. You can enjoy the delightfulness here.
