Just saw this today. I am guessing System D-128 did the video. Amazing and weird on many levels. Major Fucking Lazer.

Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan (2009) [Cooking Vinyl] // Grade: C-

When Bang Bang Rock And Roll came out there was something fresh and witty about Art Brut’s painfully bratty brand of punk. It was so blatantly quirky and ironic that it came full circle to being downright clever. They were everything you wanted the Libertine’s to be but weren’t. It’s a real shame that all of that biting wit and sharp urgency seems to have started and ended with that album.

Even the presence of Frank Black behind the production booth can’t salvage this album from being yer another generic outing into Brit-Punk that tries too hard to sound witty and edgy then ever accomplishing it. Eddie Argos is so much better than this, but just doesn’t seem to care enough to get back on his game. If a snarky British accent being speak/spoken is enough of a gimmick to keep you entertained then by all means! But if you want a little substance behind it track down Art Brut’s first album because it looks like Satan’s got this band on the ropes.

I’ve always been against using the term “guilty pleasure.” If I enjoy something, then fuck it, I enjoy it. But I’ve never been closer to throwing “guilty pleasure” out there than when I started recommending the CBS  show Harper’s Island to my friends. The actors across the board are miserable and I want to punch them all in their J. Crew faces (that’s actually being kind – some of them are more Land’s End). But the show itself isn’t that bad.

It’s about a group of 25 friends and family who gather for a wedding on Harper’s Island off the coast of Seattle. Seven years ago, the island became infamous for a streak of murders that remain unsolved. Each week, one or more people die until the 13th episode when “all questions will be answered.” Picture Scream mixed with And Then There Were None. With assholes.

The show is available on Netflix and on CBS.com after they air every Saturday night. Don’t judge me.

Of course I am talking about DesBoobs and her blog The Boobs

If you havent already, you need to check out her site. It has plenty-o-boobs, entertaining articles, and you might even recognize an interview with Sylvia the Ill one of our new 350 Broadway employees!

Des got her “nails did” the other day! All I have to say is Keep Fucking Watch! Thanks Des! They are sick!

Last week’s brief discussion about folks either being brought up Star Wars or Star Trek got me to thinking about a gem of a Flickr Pool that I bookmarked a few weeks ago: Growing Up Star Wars: 1977-1985. It is, well, EXACTLY what you’d expect from the title.

Definitely worth checking out for anybody who started their own personal mania in this period, as there are definitely some shots that you can just see yourself in. The above, for instance, is a contributor’s first grade portrait in which he donned the fan club-only Luke Skywalker Empire Strikes Back jacket! Mikhail…Greg…Holiday ’09? With a mangenta snow trooper helmet while you’re at it? And a bionic force-hand? Oh wait, that was later…

Also…how fucking STOKED! is this kid? I’m a fanat-atic FOR LIFE. I wish I lived in that box.

I want to be Bloodstorm. I don’t know why she’s been slept on so hard. Who cares about normal storm with her boring mother nature abilities. Bloodstorm has that AND vampire qualities. Plus, check out that do and those threads.

But mainly, she can morph into a bat, wolf or mist, hypnotize with those red glazed eyes and survives off of sucking the blood of others.

I’ll be testing to see which of these capabilities I possess during work hours if anyone wants to be subjected to such chaos.

So I’m certain those of you who are blog savvy enough found out that our Summer 09 Lookbook, shot by Marley Kate, was unfortunately leaked over the weekend without our consent. Shit happens! For those of you who still haven’t seen it, just head over to Hypebeast and join in the discussion on why we’ll never be better than Supreme… Doh!  Anyway, we’ll still be formally releasing the Lookbook in about a week, so you’ll at least have some new photos to look forward to, as it will be a bit bigger than what was leaked.

I’m still going to keep truckin’ with a preview of the Tees and Caps for this Summer on the Bloglin, though. First up is the Flame Mop (pictured above), which, well, like it sounds, is a Bear Mop made out of fire… WooOOooOooo! This was designed by the super talented Andrew Strasser AKA Bad Brilliance. In the development process, Mike Jones got 2nd degree burns from this tee, no joke!

Next we have Mt. Deathmore, which is basically Mount Rushmore featuring some of our favorite skeletal characters instead of our founding fathers. Light up to that notion, my man! Illustrated by Pierre Botardo.

And finally, we’ve got this Dirty Rotten Imbecile of a Bear Mop just waiting for the right moment to make the “Crossover”. How many heads will that go over, I wonder?

I’m taking off to LA on Wednesday  to shoot, shoot, shoot. Staying busy bringing you back tons of hot naked lady content! The whole week that I’m there I have at least 1 girl booked a day and some days I’ll be shooting 2 girls, G/G sets.  I’m staying with Zoli, who you may remember as the cover girl and Miss April from the 2009 Mishka Calendar. I’ll be shooting her for Stagg Street, the mishka 2010 Calendar and a really awesome publication that I’ll tell you all about when the issue comes out!

Charred Remains AKA Man is the Bastard – Live at 924 Gilman St. 1997

I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of Horror fans out there missed Stuck, Stuart Gordon’s  (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak) latest flick from 2007. It didn’t get all that much press and when it did Stuart Gordon’s name wasn’t always attached. Well it’s available now to be Watched Instantly via Netflix. If you’re a fan of Gorodn’s I recommend you take the opportunity and use that Netflix membership before they relegate it back to the hum drum mail-in-queue. I learned the hard way, Watch Instantly flicks don’t always stay that way forever!

While pretty gory at times, Stuck isn’t Gorodn’s usual Lovecraftian Horror tale but more of a morality/revenge yarn. Mena Suvari plays a hapless Brandi Boski, who one late evening high out of her mind runs her car into a down on his luck Stephen Rea. He goes right through her windshield and well gets stuck there half alive while Brandi freaks out, locks him (still in stuck to the windshield) in her garage while she figures out her next step/waits for him to die instead of calling him some medical attention.

While truthfully this 90 or so minute movie plays more like a Tales From the Darkside or Masters of Horror episode, it’s a damn good one at that! Gordon is still on top of his game when it comes to spinning some gruesome black comedy. If you’re tempted to scoff at the plausibility of the characters not calling in for an ambulance, know that Stuck was based on a true story.