Lynch’s Silencio

Finding yourself in one of David Lynch’s films will either be your greatest dream come true … or your worst nightmare. Lynch’s films are eerie, striking, and mysterious. One of the greatest scenes of any Lynch films comes from 2001′s Mulholland Dr. and is set in night club Silencio.

So, when I heard that Lynch was opening his own club in Paris named after the thrilling Silencio, the hairs on my arms definitely pricked up a bit. Raphael Navot and Lynch headed a large team that designed the space from the ground up, creating a Lynchian dream world.

ACM: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

In just seven days…I can make you a great album cover!

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I’m Ga Ga for Gaga!

When Lady Gaga first burst on the scene a few years ago, I wrote her off as a passing fad. Certainly no Madonna, Cher, or Elton. Perhaps I judged an over-decorated book by its cover. Lady Gaga has become increasingly more popular and outrageous. Gaga continues to dress in the most scandalous and over the top costumes and outfits possible. Going to get coffee requires a full wardrobe department and makeup team. Behind all of the crazy outfits and makeup, Gaga has become a true champion for the under appreciated. On her latest album, Born This Way,  she preaches that we were all born the way we are and that God, or ‘capital Him’, always accepts us. She has become a cultural phenomenon, and there’s certainly no denying her catchy tunes. Even the skeptics like me have started to appreciate her eclectic wardrobe. Here are a few of my favorite pieces from her collection.

Lady Gaga wore this bubble outfit during her last tour. She sported a similar look on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Gaga accepted an MTV Music Award in this red lace ensemble.

That same night Lady Gaga sat in the audience wearing this headpiece.

Gaga walked the red carpet at an event with this giant black leather bow on her head.

Armani designed this beautiful dress for Lady Gaga to wear at the 2010 Grammy Awards. This look is definitely my favorite, combining just the right amount of Gaga with Grammy.

Lady Gaga may be extremely out of the box and sometimes a little too over the top, but it doesn’t look like she’s going anywhere any time soon. While she’s here, we might as well sit back and enjoy the show!

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Disney v. Burton

When I was little one of my favorite movies was Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. I was too young to understand what that caterpillar may or may not have been smoking or why Alice got bigger and smaller when she took certain pills and ate certain foods, but I loved the characters in all their colorful glory. So, when I heard that Tim Burton would be remaking one of my childhood faves I was more than thrilled. Then I learned Johnny Depp was on board and I was practically over the moon. I was slightly disappointed to discover that many of my beloved characters had been remodeled… and not necessarily for good. The new movie was much darker, and less playful than Walt’s version, but I guess I should have anticipated that. This was Tim Burton after all.

My fun loving Mad Hatter has turned into….

a seriously scary creature! Johnny’s portrayal of the Mad Hatter was creepy at best, and in some cases downright maniacal!


At least the cheshire cat stayed fairly true to form… although it’s hard to mess up a somewhat off beat cat with an overly toothy grin. There’s no doubt that the costume design for Burton’s version of a childhood favorite was beautiful and elaborate, it just didn’t quite hit the nail on the head for me. My expectations were a little too high for the Burton flick, I was hoping for something a little closer to the original and got a movie that was entirely different than I anticipated.

Would You Catch More with Honey?

A design team, Auger Loizeau, has come up with some pretty bizarre, end even unsettling, robot furniture. The furniture is conceptual as well as functional – it’s meant to make you think about the role of robots.

Now how does it do that? By making the robots (and therefore your furniture) carnivorous. Check it out:

This little contraption is a clock run on bio fuel; bio fuel provided by the flies it catches and then converts to energy. Next we have a lamp that attracts moths and other flying creatures, then converts them into fuel.

But her’s the real kicker: A coffee table that runs on mouse. That’s right, mouse. The iris in the middle of the table traps mice that climb on the surface through the special hole in the custom leg. It eats any crumbs you might have left, and then…

So you tell me: Fascinating, creepy, or downright wrong?

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Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

You may have heard Mr. West on the news recently. His latest meltdown/outburst occurred on the Today Show and on his own Twitter feed. His new, highly anticipated album is coming out November 22nd. Coincidence?

The name of the album and cover art on the album were controversial as well. Titled “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” this was the original cover art:

Interesting to say the least. Also, Wal Mart won’t carry it, to say even less. Here’s the new cover:

Much less interesting.

As much as his personal stuff gets in the way, he’s right about one thing: You can’t argue with the music. Here’s Runaway, a new track.

The ESPN Herbie Awards: Stoopid?

One weird thing ESPN does is allow Kirk Herbstreit to take many hundreds of thousands of their dollars for talking on television about college football. Another weird thing they do is allow him to give out the “Herbie Awards” every year. Even weirder, they allow Herbstreit to give an award in the category of “Looks Good in Uniform.” Huh? One player out of more than 10,000 in the FBS gets picked. I know; dumb. Here are this years nominees, doin’ work:

Safety DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson

DeAndrea does look great, hard to deny it.

Tight End Kyle Rudolph, Notre Dame Our Mother

Rudolph is captured here at the exact moment he realizes he’s being coached by Charlie Weis.

Defensive Back Patrick Peterson, LSU (A.J. Green is pictured eating his lunch)

This is a picture of Patrick getting owned for the first of two times by A.J. Green in last year’s UGA-LSU tilt. Wow, he really does look great in that uni.

What do you guys think? Legit award, or more bizarre thought-poop from Herbie?

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Celebrate Howard Finster

Howard Finster is my favorite American artist. I was introduced to him by my Dad when I was younger; at first I just loved that he wrote all over his “canvases” and seemed a bit nuts. That he lived and worked in my homestate of Georgia only grew my affection. But, as I’ve grown up, the paintings, carvings and sculptures have come to mean more.

Finster was a deeply religious man convinced in a vision from the lord that he should paint. He created thousands of folk art pieces over his life, including his home, Paradise Gardens, which became an ever-changing permanent exhibit of carving, painting, paint-penning, chalk-drawing, sculpture, agriculture, and architecture. When he died the place fell into disrepair, but it has since been put under the protection of the state, and volunteers are working now to restore it to it’s former glory.

Finster’s un-precious, un-precocious, un-pretentious works of art are the mad, wonderful scatterings of a brilliantly fractured mind and talent. They’re so much fun, they look so good, they’re so honest and American.  See them in the Smithsonian or in Northwest Georgia; they’re folk art at it’s purest and least complicated.

Lady Gaga vs. Roisin Murphy

There’s been a hubub recently about the marked similarity between the “look” of Lady Gaga as compared to a performer who’s been around longer and done some of it before; Irish performer Roisin Murphy. Take a look:

Pretty, pretty, pret-ee similar. Eh. For me, it’s the music, and that’s pretty much unimpeachable. As for Roisin, she had this to say: “I respect Lady Gaga’s work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live and dancing too. I Don’t Care about Shoulder pads!”

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