Swag Magazine Launch Party in LA
Swag Magazine has announced they will kick off their offical launch party March 28th at the Key Club in Los Angeles. According to the rags offical site:
Swag is the glossy new magazine about cool stuff for cool people. Swag is all about everything the successful rock stars, styling club kids, and all around artists and cool individuals want and need. Swag is about the rewards you deserve. Swag is about the rewards you will get. Swag is the style guide for the wild life.
The event is 18 and over and doors open at 10:00P.M. My Ruin and Fear Cult are to perform live on stage along with Taime Down who will be spinning live beats.
Click here to reserve your ticket today.
Swag Magazine Online
New David Sedaris Book
America's favorite department store elf and Santaland Diaries author David Sedaris, is set to relase his latest side-splitter Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim in June of 2004. Sedaris, who has also penned such cult classics as Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day, can often be heard on radio show, "This American Life", distributed nationally by Public Radio International.
David Sedaris Book List
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Finding the perfect phone sex can be a challenge. You often have to click through hundreds of banner ads and pop-ups, and by the time you find what you want, both your computer and your horniness have crashed. Check out this site for the web's most comprehensive guide to talking dirty on 'da phone.
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Nasty Boys
Remember when a t-shirt was just a t-shirt? Not anymore. Clothing manufacturer David & Goliath are feeling the heat from several social groups who claim their shirts, which have statements such as Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them and Boys Are Smelly emblazoned across the front, are a threat to male self-esteem.
The shirts have been around for three years, but were recently thrust into the national spotlight by pundits debating whether feminism impugns the rights of males and whether a T-shirt could be an instrument of oppression.
Founder Todd Goldman isnt too worried though.
We were pretty well known in the juniors segment, but this has really expanded our exposure," said Todd Goldman, founder and president of David & Goliath. "I couldn't buy this kind of publicity."
Well Todd, here's a little more.
"Boys are smelly" T-shirts cause a stink [Reuters]
William Gibson Promotional Tour
Famed cyberpunk novelist, William Gibson, author of such titles Neuromancer and Idoru, is currently on tour to promote the paperback edition of his latest book, Pattern Recognition. You can view a list of his February tour dates here.
Metal Chastity Belt Sets Off Alarm
According to AFP, a few days before Christmas a chastity belt set off a metal detector in Athens when a 40-year-old woman attempted to board a play. Once security guards found the belt, the woman was allowed to fly on to London on the pilots responsibility.
The womans husband had forced her to put on the belt to prevent any extra marital affair on her trip to Greece.
Pot Suckers Stir British Authorities
The BBC reports that laboratories in England are testing marijuana-flavored lollypops for illicit chemicals. Authorities and parents are worried that the hemp lollypops encourge drug use. The suckers are labeled as containing hemp extract.
I mean, there's a big enough drug problem as it is. These lollies are selling for 30p when ordinary lollies are about 10p, the kids are going to think they're something special, stated Angela Nichol, of New Farnley, Leeds.
While authorities test the lollypops for any THC, shop owners say that they are completely within their rights to sell the suckers.
Rockwell Plays Zaphod in Hitchhiker Adaptation
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Sam Rockwell has has been cast as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the President of the Galaxy, in the adaptation of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Mos Def will star as Ford Prefect, Martin Freeman will play Arthur Dent, and Garth Jennings will direct on his first film.
"Che" Everywhere
Che Guevara's face plasters everything from T-shirts to bikini's; Elizabeth Hurley was spotted using a $4,500 handbag emblazoned with the Argentine revolutionary's mug. While people understand that Guevara is a revolutionary/community of some kind, most don't know the history of revolutionary Cuba or Guevara's part in it.
In "Loving Che," Ana Menéndez writes about the revolutionary through the lens of a Cuban painter's obsession with his image. "There were several catalysts to the novel, the strongest of which was just seeing the face of Che everywhere," the former journalist says. "To me, it's a sad symbol, in a way. He has a very sad, faraway expression. [Castro's revolutionaries] had been in power for some time. Perhaps he was dealing with some personal disillusionment.[...]"There's just this fascination people have with the man - which is not of the man, but of the photograph."
What would Guevara say about his his visage being sold on T-shirts? What he say to the communists and revolutionaries that buy them?
A full article on this topic, as well as the citations above, can be found here.
Hello Candy!
I live in New York City where 9 times out of 10 one can get everything from crack to a Crock-Pot any time of the day or night. Yet when it comes to getting my hands on those yummy little Asian candies, cookies and bubble teas, it aint so easy. Check out Asia Foods for everything from Pockys to Hi-Chews delivered right to your front door
Asia Foods
The Punisher Speaks
The Punisher star Thomas Jane spills the beans this week to MTV.com. Slated to hit theaters this April, The Punisher joins the ranks of other successful Marvel blockbusters such as X-Men and Spider-Man. Jane, who portrays revenge-seeking comic character Frank Castle, assures us that things are gonna get bloody.
Thomas Jane Interview with MTV.com
Thirty Percent of Americans Want Only Abstinence Taught
A recent NPR/Harvard School of Government/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 46 percent of Americans want contraception with heavy emphasis on abstinence taught in sexual education programs. The poll also found that 28 percent of people thought that it is inappropriate for "teens can obtain birth control pills from family planning clinics and doctors without permission from a parent". In addition, the poll found that parents think their daughters are better prepared to examine sex and sexuality than their sons:
Sixty percent of parents said their daughter was very prepared; only 36 percent said the same of their son. Interestingly, fathers (60 percent) were as likely as mothers (59 percent) to say their daughter was very prepared. However, fathers (23 percent) were much less likely than mothers (45 percent) to say their son was very prepared.
The poll also examines how Americans define abstinence as well a statistical breakdown between the differences of what Evangelic Christians and non-Evangelicals consider appropriate to teach in sexual education.
More Palahniuk News; Review of Documentary
Movie Poop Shoot has posted an extensive review of Postcards from the Future, a documentary that looks at Chuck Palahniuks novels, the death of transgressive fiction, and a weekend in the authors life. The documentary, which is being sold exclusively at www.chuckpalahniuk.net, examines in great detail the interaction between Chuck Palahniuk and his fans, including a moment where:
Palahniuk looks in disbelief as he is being interviewed by a puppet named Special Ed, and the face he makes is priceless. We can read his mind and its almost as if he is saying, Being a nice guy is one thing, but Hemingway never had to answer to any sock puppets.
Movie Poop Shoot has also posted an interview with the documentry's filmmakers.
Nielson to Measure Selected TiVo Viewership
TiVo has signed an agreement with the Nielson Media Research to provide them with TiVo viewer data. This comes after concerns from television networks that the Nielsens measurements dont reflect the growing usage of [Digital Video Recorders]." TiVo subscribers can "Opt In" to the program.
Nielsen Media Research will not include TiVo data with its traditional audience measurements, but rather give television networks the data separately.
Unique Prize for the Lomo Mission
A new mission posted online today by the makers of such wonderful cameras, Lomographic Society International. The winner will receive a one-of-a-kind Colorsplash Camera designed by NYC street graphics master, Dalek.
Topic #014 : STREET LIFE
Prowl the avenues, alleyways, and underpasses in a relentless hunt to spike your Lomographic street cred. Seek out daredevil graffiti, illegal guerilla artwork, building sprawls, concrete jungles, opulent lobbies, and hardcore blight. From urban glitz to urban grit, you belong to the city.
I Want My LOBO TV
Inspired by Swiss tourism posters from the 30s, the LOBO design group has finished their latest music video for Hollands robot disco artists, Legowelt. Entitled Disco Rout, its the Dire Straits Money for Nothing video for the Macromedia Flash generation.
Lovebug
Looking for something original to get your sweetheart for Valentines Day? For ten bucks, you can buy a hissing cockroach from the Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton, N.Y. The zoo is currently running a special Valentines Day promotion entitled, "Give Your Beauty a Beast." According the Washington Post, the adoption includes a photo, cockroach fact sheet and a free pass for your special friend to visit the little hisser. How romantic!
Cockroaches Suggested As Valentine's Day Gift
German Cannibal Digests Court Sentence
German Cannibal, Armin Meiwes narrowly escaped a life sentence in a German court this past week. 42 year-old Meiews, on trial for killing and eating a 43 year-old man whom he had met on the Internet, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars. The court rejected the prosecution's plea for a murder conviction and life sentence because the victim, Bernd Juergen Brandes, had actually instructed Meiwes to eat him alive and then feast on his remains. The horrific display of sexual fetishism, which he recorded on video tape, has sparked shock and fascination around the world. Psychiatrists found Meiwes deeply disturbed but sane, and he could be released as early as 2008. The prosecution is expected to appeal.
German Cannibal Sentenced
X-Men Strikes Again In 2005!
During the promotion of his new film at The Sarasota Film Festival, veteran sci-fi actor Patrick Stewart fessed we should all keep our eyes peeled for X-Men 3 in 2005. The Bradnenton Press reports:
Despite Star Trek's continued success in syndication and on the silver screen, a younger generation of viewers knows Stewart best not as Captain Picard, but as Professor Charles Xavier, from the two blockbuster X-Men pictures, the latter of which opened in 2003.
"X-Men 3 should come out in 2005," Stewart said on the red carpet. During the discussion inside the theater he said he hoped the franchise continues for several more films.
Patrick was at the festival promoting his new film, "The Lion in Winter," which co-stars Glenn Close and debuts on Showtime in May.
'Star Trek' Veteran Stars At Film Festival
Chinese, German Media Upset Over "Body Worlds" Display
The Associated Press reports that Body Worlds, an art workshop in China, has drawn some attention by Chinese, as well as German, media because of the possibility that some of the corpses in the display may have been executed prisoners, as well as corpses that may not have been donated.
The displays, which feature bodies that have been injected with epoxy and silicon, are the creation of Gunther von Hagens, a native German, who has set up shop in Northeastern China.
