Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Jake in the "Brothers" photoshoot. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Hit Record 1" photoshoot. Michael Cera in "Juno". Patrick Fugit in Darcy Hemley's photoshoot. Kirsten Dunst in Art Striber's photoshoot. Scott Pilgrim and Ramona. Poison Ivy from The Cramps. Rivers Cuomo playing on stage.
Punk Turns 30 (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Punk Turns 30 has devoted a whole (growing) gallery to The Cramps! You can buy your favorite Cramps images Right here! Even if you aren't going to make a purchase just yet... visit the Gallery and see some pix of the Cramps that you may not have seen before.... all from the World Famous but now long gone Tropicana Motel. Of course, you can get the Punk Rock Motel picture book full of Cramps pix too....
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Exploitation films are B-grade gold for those who like it rough, sleazy and thrill-packed.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Bobby Troup wrote “Route 66″ in 1946 and the first version was Nat King Cole’s (same year), although Perry Como followed a dozen years later. Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones had hit versions and dozens of other artists have done it as well, from Tom Petty, John Mayer, Manhattan Transfer, Them, Natalie Cole, Brian [...]
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Yes Yes Vindictive // Brille
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Zhang Ziyi will be putting away her swords and flexing her funny bone in her next picture, "Lost for Words."
Lobal Warming (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
ETA: Hello, referents from Maria . I hear that Bing and Maria had a few moments much like MV an me. Anyway, welcome. Since I am chef, planner, and cleaner this morning, MV has assumed the role of musical conductor within the GM household. She seems to be hitting a similar mood (an amalgam of my iPod, her iPhone, and my random CDs, tapes, etc: Kiss my toes, give me something that I miss. So, without...
Parallel Divergence (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
The unexpected demise of famous young people due to “accidental” drug overdoses has dotted modern history. Janis Joplin, John Belushi, River Phoenix, Kurt Cobain, and Heath Ledger all succumbed to an addiction that snatched away their lives when they were in their prime. While crystal-meth, crack and ecstasy are now the most “popular” of illicit [...]
strange maps (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Off the top of your head, how many songs do you know that mention US states, either in their title or in the lyrics? Here’s how far I got: • “It Never Rains In Southern California” (The Mamas & The Papas') • “Paris, Texas” (Ry Cooder) • “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” (by The Cramps, although only in [...]
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
The Venus Fly Trap One Girl Band Genre: Garage / Blues / Psychedelic From: San Pedro del cow, France Aggressively putting two fingers up to the careerists who frequent the front page of the NME (and no doubt the French equivalent), Ramona de la Muerte, otherwise known as The Venus Fly Trap One Girl Band, discards the rules, screams like a banshee with toothache, records all her songs in one shot and...
Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
News about the demise of Polaroid film production has pulled a number of interesting items out of the woodwork: Eames + Cramps + Cams: Check out this demo film of the Polaroid SX-70 made by famous furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames, but inexplicably set the music of The Cramps . Weirder still, it all kind of works. [ Via ] "The late cinematographer Jamie Livingston, who died at age 41 in 1997,"...
Noded (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Feeling like I could be in a Monty Python skit. My Brain Hurts. When I travel I swap out my "everyday go to client" briefcase for my "travel through airports" briefcase with wheels. After arriving at Noded North yesterday, I swap everything back to my everyday briefcase. Everything except for asprin. Scrounging I found some at the bottom of the...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
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Gadget Lab (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
This is a video commercial for the original Polaroid folding SLR, the SX-70. Produced by ace designers Charles and Ray Eames and featuring a soundtrack by The Cramps, this video rocks in many ways, although the pacing feels slow by...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Recently on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked at horrible box art that plagues motherboard and videocards, the accuracy of videogame analysts, a smart way to build in a guide in a power drill, a nice logo for a Microsoft ad competition, perhaps the most BBGesque video yet of an old camera, shot by the Eames, set to The Cramps, a cheaper version of the Leatherman Skeletool, a survey of in-dash car interfaces,...
