The video for The Golden Filter’s new single Thunderbird came out earlier this week. Warran Wright directed it, and it’s quite nice to look at.
The song itself didn’t do much for me on the first couple of listens, but then it morphed rather quickly into one of my favorite singles of right now. It’s currently winding its way up The Pop Chart.
Filed under: books, gay, shameless self-promotion | Tags: jeffrey escoffier, Me Me Me, new york, readings, sex worker literari
The readers were just announced for the December edition of Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry’s Sex Worker Literati and oh, hey, look who’s going to be there.
The magic happens on December 3rd at the Happy Endings Lounge on Broome St in New York City. I’m super-excited, as I’ve never actually read publicly before and this event has the distinct appeal of a) allowing me to read in a city where I don’t really know many people, but also b) having that New York glamour that’s so appealing to provincial yokels like myself. Also, the awesome Jeffrey Escoffier is headlining that night. (I don’t know why I’m the only one of the readers with a decent author photo, though…)
This also marks my fourth New York trip in two months, which I’m also excited about. And while I’m in the city I hope to check out the Mixtape show at the Jen Bekman Gallery. It opens tomorrow, and as as you know I’m all about the mixtapes and the Jen Bekman.
Filed under: art, gay, shameless self-promotion | Tags: art, providence, world of queercraft
For all of you Providence people, this is just a quick heads up that tomorrow’s the last night of World Of Queercraft, the show I curated at Craftland in downtown Providence.
Eight crafty artists working in textiles, video, photography, and printmaking; there’s a rainbow flag and drunk naked marines and Barbra Streisand karaoke; you should definitely check it out if you haven’t yet.
(Incidentally, it’s also the only place in New England where you can currently buy Pinups Magazine, the perfect present for anyone whose stockings you plan to stuff this year.)
[image: still from Evergreen, Monica Panzarino, single-channel video, 2008]
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, belle and sebastian, design of a decade, mike piazza, stuart murdoch
4. Belle and Sebastian, Piazza, New York Catcher
I’ve been a stereotypical Belle and Sebastian fan from the first time I pressed play: I bought If You’re Feeling Sinister on a high school trip to France because Jarvis Cocker told the papers that he liked it; I got a third or fourth-generation Tigermilk tape from a stranger on the internet; I bought The Boy With The Arab Strap the day it came out and then carried it to school the next day for no reason whatsoever, just on the off chance that someone might ask me if there was anything new and exciting in my backpack that day. I wasn’t making lifesized models of the Velvet Underground in clay, but I may as well have been, and I did get very uppity when people didn’t know who Scott Walker was. (I only knew who Scott Walker was because someone on B&S’s Sinister list put him on a mixtape they sent me.) Stuart Murdoch was shamelessly high school-ish and I was shamefully in high school.
That was the nineties. By 2003 I had grown up, and so had they. While it was cool in 1996 to flaunt anti-social bookishness, the new millennium was about exploring New Things. In Belle and Sebastian’s case, New Things meant producer Trevor Horn, he of the Buggles, fresh off producing the breakthrough album for tAtU. With Horn’s guidance, Belle and Sebastian’s fifth full-length ventured off in all kinds of different directions, most notably on Stay Loose, which sounds downright clubby.
