links, things, consumer advice, fashion tips
Newest & hottest link: The Los Angeles Palanca Museum
features 2 pages of recent aquisitions of drawings by the incredible Peruvian
sensation Pedro Palanca. At the end of the 2nd page you'll find a link to Palanca's
own personal website!!! If you might be interested in purchasing his art by
all means get in touch the prices are way lower than they ought to be. . .
One of my 4 (four) acting jobs in 2001 was for Shawn Durr and Eccentric Orbit Films in Chicago. Look out for him one day he will break through with a loud crash. . . and I am so into him that I'm linking this website even though the pictures of me on it are really bad!!! I play the conceited bleach blonde muscle stud who gets his commeuppance from the young punk vampire in the forthcoming feature, "The Last Fuck".
LOCAL Heroes and antiheroes
Rick Castro. I think what he does with rope is exhilerating, at least to look at in the pictures. He makes me think and think. Warning! This link bypasses The entrance to the site with its "WARNING: This website deals with artistic depictions of nudity and adult sexuality. If you are under 18 or offended by such representations, please do not enter this site!" While you're there order a copy of "The Bondage Book" at the very least.
Another trésor de los angeles is Len Whitley, I'm mean Whitney, avatar of AAARRGH! Superhero Personal Training and neo pop artist extrordinairre. Behold and even buy his wondrous canvases and think about taking a course in physical development with this very special superman.
It would be no exaggeration to declare that Van Bandwidth is one of the most fascinating beautiful people I've ever the pleasure of . . . . Check out and comtemplate him also the artgoods and services offered; there is something for everyone at Van's very Millenial site.
Bibbe Hansen's Site is fun, favorite things of mine on it include a still from Bibbe's Andy Warhol Facctory Screentest and the oedipal poetry of Bibbe's mother, Audrey, in which she addresses her son as "motherfucker".
Larry-bob is one of the most cultured (I guess that's my way of saying "coolest") people on the web from what I've seen. Editor of Holy Titclamps and the Queer 'Zine Explosion and Queer Music Explosion he is, or rather his site, essential web surfing. His site of interest to all! Yes, Larry-Bob, someone SHOULD scan all the works of self-styled Baron Corvo the weird failed priest aesthete who was a pioneer of a certain brand of modernism and wondered why he was rejected by Rome while he wrote poetry about the exquisite limbs of the saints and martyrs and on "ladlove" among priests even I learned about just last night looking at yr site, along with a number of other amazing discoveries. This is one of the most valuable resources on the web. His rants, like "Fags Against Facial Hair" are great, too, and there's a new one every week. He just lives in San Francisco though.
Dan Plonsey and his beautiful Algorithmic music. Hopefully with the new technology Dan will upload some longer snippets! Email Dan Plonsey to ask for bigger snippets! Dan also features incredible creative writing at his site! Read about the boroque Saga of the Aymes Family. He is the head of matters of taste things Polish and things musical at Beanbender's, which will take you to him if you need to search search for Beanbenders until I get this link made. Dan claims not to actually be Polish. Dan's also bound by the bay area.
I'd love it if you'd tell them "Supermarky sent me!"
Buzztown's Barber
Shop is a nice place to learn about your short
haircuts there are lots of photos there are letters and discussions which
are fun cause some of the people writing in are "normal" conservative
even others are fetishists, although I haven't found anything really dramatic
like I've seen on AOL yet, still you can feel that the energy is there probably
some of the same fetishists but people are more restrained in this forum.
They have listings so I might suggest that they add the Clippers
"haircut nights" at the Faultline every other Thursday where very
good short haircuts are given for a very reasonable price in a colorful
atmosphere to say the least. They will do anything hairwise. This site is
a good point of departure for access to a plethora of hair sites, mostly
with strong fetish over/undertones.
Recently I visited Chicklet's
World and of all sites I've ever visited it made
me laugh out loud the most; I came to it via Holy Titclamps (above). I think
Chicklet is also defunct but if she resurrects maybethis link will bring
you to her. The bitch never answered the email I sent anyhow. . .
I can't very well omit this recent find: an AMOK journal featurea on the subject of Trepanation, the practice of boring a hole into one's skull in order to achieve "a permanent high" including stills from a film of a do it yourself with an electric drill trepanation done in the late '60s and a little update on the life and career of the star.
Lip Balm Anonymous is a consciousnessraising/support site for Carmex/Blistex/Chapstick addicts. I found it on a page of links I got while doing a search for The News of the Weird Archives(where you can subscribe to receive NOTW regularly) "Pauls' Page of Arts and Kewl Stuff" . Also this guy linked to The Exploratorium, the Dear Abby site, which is not a revelation it's ok though worth a click. I finally diecded to say hello to Paul recently I never heard from him buthe silently added a link to my site so I'm thrilled!
The "Interesting Ideas" Outsider Art Links is the start of a great adventure for you which ought not to exclude the "Interesting Ideas" website itself which is the home of such wonders as a collection of artistic representations of The Gyro in signage for Chicago gyro restaurants ("The Gyros Project"). From there you're on your way to little tours of several environments built by cranks and preserved and supported after their deaths, collections of art by street people including one very psychotic person who wrote a poem 10x more interesting than HOWL and very similar in a way but for our day and age not for the beats (this poet is named 7x77. If you visit be sure not to miss any of the links within the section on him. For some reason they have two links to "more" of his work on the same page leading to two different pages, the 2nd of which is by far the more interesting), etc etc. It will make you want to make pilgrimages to all these wonders of the world, depending on your individual nervous system. Adolf Wölfli is considered the King of outsider artists, really. If you liked any of the Wölfli reproductions here you might like some of his vassels'. I've also made the interesting ideas link page!
"My kinda music"!:
the official der
Stockhausen Page from which you can download that
extra special 70th anniversary order form: a document which is to be treasured
even if only as a never opened Adobe Reader file. Its really gotten expansive
lately with updated from that bitch Suzanne Stephens direct from the Stockhausen
Ranch!
The Joni Mitchell page is a pleasure. The page about her new albumn seems to still be under construction. I recommend skipping it and going directly to the history of Joni. Here's a historical picture: a photo of Joni and Morrissey in mutual admiration which I share for them both. I swiped this from the Joni Mitchell page. Gee, maybe I should have asked. I will but 4 now will assume it's OK...
The Pauline Oliveros Foundation page is pretty impressive. You really have to hand it to Pauline for being able to leave such a thing while still living. The gal has done some good!
a Fashion link:
The Ultimate Fashion link I've got is First View.
If you're interested in this sort of thing check it out; you will thank
me.
Do you Kare about Kiekegaard? I used to because I started by reading the "Either" of "Either/Or" which is really anti Kierkegaard and then some, I later learned. Several months ago when I looked up Kierkegaard on various search engines all I got was a text of an episode of Monty Python but now the web is Kiekegaard Krazy and you can see what I mean at: Kierkegaard Kentral.
I like the Anarchy and Anarchism page.
Hatewatch This page about the activity of neo nazi and anti this and that groups?everything from gays and blacks to christians and jews?is good for a needed jolt.
Here is a subpage containing the Mehmet Sander dance manifesto. Mehmet Sander is a very great artist. He says that dance should express gravity rather than try to defy it. His dancers fall down a lot.
Things cookie:
Cookie
Mueller was a wonderful writer in addition to
being a part of the John Waters repertory company back when he made great
films a long time ago. She died of AIDS. I hope that these people will add
some of Cookie's less documentary stuff. Her fiction is incredible. I hate
Dennis Cooper sort of and Lydia Lunch I used to love but lately she is such
a fucking drag I can't believe it. But maybe she's perfected what she was
trying to do because it was always meant to be unbearable and she expressed
disrespect and contempt over and over again for her fans for the fact that
they would listen to the sounds she made. I don't know, I thought she was
great when I saw her twice but the last time I saw her she just whined and
whined in this "spoken word" thing and I actually walked out.
I could only applaud that piece if it was really intended to get people
to leave in which case I would love it especialy cause I was the only one
who left so I would feel this participatoriness akin to wearing a fantastic
designer outfit or designer mélange or just a great outfit, in which
you are a part of the artwork: in the end you are a costar. One part of
Lydia's rant on that night I recall as being quite funny in which she prescribed
a punishment for O.J. Simpson whom she finds guilty that he should be forced
to wear high heels, to grow his hair long then bleach it have himself some
plucking and electrolosis and I definitely remember he was to have breast
implants and probably a castration and possibly insertion of a uterus so
that he might bear children as part of the punishment, Then I suppose he
would be submitted to beatings and murdered brutally. I hate the glamorization
of sdaism and sexual brutality to be found in writings by artistes like
Cooper and I hate tough guy acts whether performed by an an actual woman
or even from William Burroughs types. I hate it! Lydia and Dennis are also
featured at the site where Cookie Rules.
If anyone in L.A. needs a good housekeeper, I know one whose name is Cookie, email me for fabulous references. I will only deal with good homes! *New* She just lost one gig cause our next door neighbor, who once sued for over a million dollars when she fell on her ass on this property and broke her arm, died a couple of weeks ago. They found her body three days later.
I found this treasury of cookie recipies
Here is a boy's loving page dedicated to "Eraserhead" it includes a wonderful analysis of symbols in the film giving one "Explanation" of it. It might enhance your appreciation of the film, did mine.
If you are already a fan you should join the Louise Brooks Society. You will get news and invitations to Louise Brooks ("Brooksie" they call her) parties of some sort. If you don't know who Louise Brooks is or what she looks like you should check out the Louise images at this site and at others linked to it that is if you like beautiful women or great actresses and great stars. She was too intelligent to remain a movie star for long, is what it comes down to. She started as a "modern dancer" and ended up a brilliant writer. I don't know if she ever wrote fiction... Does anyone?! Tell me! Go to my email page (It's probably the best looking page on this site, btw fyi)! Her greatest role (I'm really assuming you know nothing) was as "Lulu" in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box" which was based on plays by Frank Wedekind, who was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the way though he went to Germany shortly after his birth. Or else he was just conceived in either Oakland or San Francisco. Accounts vary. Anyway, the Wedekind plays also formed the basis for Alban Berg's opera "Lulu". The "Lulu plays" deal with social and personal antagonism towards sexual power, what Louise called "Sexual hatred" as opposed to sexual love. Louise Brooks was/is sort of an amazing thing in film in much the same way the Dianna Rigg was/is an amazing thing for television as Mrs. Peel in The Avengers. The quality is similar, the attitude. But Louise Brooks shows more, vulnerability, for example. However Dianna Rigg is a grat actress in a way that Louise never considered herself to be. Louise was a great actress, however. It's just that she always played herself in her movies. Dianna Rigg has more range. Both incredible women though! Hmm, maybe she's just a "one 'n'" Diana...
I correspond with a Russian man I found on the Birthday Web (we share the same b'day: 11/22) and he provided me with scans of Christina Orbakajte, one of my favorite actresses, who starred in one of my favorite movies, the Russian film "Scarecrow" or "Tchutchula." I can hardly believe how Christina has grown up. It looks as though she may have had a nose job. She is a wonderful actress and a pop singer in Russia. Misha, my pen pal, tells me "By interest at self Christina is obliged in many respects if not wholly to her mother Alla Pugatcheva who found many love of the people of former USSR."
Christina today
Young Christina
Interesting shots. The second one looks a little like Holly Woodlawn on a very good night
Nose job?
I hope I don't seem too terribly mean. Let me stress that I admire Christina wholeheartedly. Listen I would get liposuction myself if it were indicated and I could afford it. That's another thing, you can find a lot of "before" and "after" photos of lipo. Months ago you couldn't get any. Now: lots. The web has arrived, I say it again. Anyway I was recently reading the biography of Kenneth Anger and the author put down Hollywood Babylon 2 as being too nasty and heartless and bitter but I thought it really wasn't so bilious. At least he always gave the artists their due in terms of professional respect and I really thought he seemed sympathetic to most of them if still it was possible to laugh at their suicides, humiliations, etc. I'm not complaining about her nose at all.
NEW CHRISTINA!:
And here's mama, Alla:
Still newer Christina sent to me on the occasion of our birthday: 11/22/97
with Alla...
I've had her last name wrong on this site for over a year I discover also this year Mikhael let me know. Now I can look for one of her records; she's a big singer in Russia as you can see in some of the photos.
I wouldn't really qualify this as a favorite thing, but this is a strange thing, a remarkable thing. At this site in the Internet Crime Archives you can download a quicktime movie of Richard Speck with siliconed breasts saying how much fun he has in prison. The Archives are updated freuqently like very frequently and are favorite fun if you like this sort of thing and who doesn't.
This document is amazing. It is the transcript
of a lecture by the founder of Stop Prison Rape.
What I wondered about reading it was whether or not
the same classes exist in the gay kommunity as do among men in single sex
prisons, only with a smaller bandwidth between billions...A Million Jockers, Punks
& Queens.
This is tacky, a least favorite thing, actually: the world's first male beauty contest (if you exclude the kind that used to be held in every part of San Francisco every day for example: I remember they had a Mr. Financial District), from Singapore. I hope the page hasn't changed textually although I haven't read it this time out. The links are a little screwy; you ask to see the winners and you get a Spanish translation of the first page. It didn't used to have sexy pictures of men on it and now it does, so I'm kind of disappointed. It was so innocent and idealistic at first and the organizers stressed "macho" as one of the ideal traits of the "Manhunt" man. I am very anti-porno, by the way. This is a "smut-free site" and an "anti-porn site"! I think pornography interferes with peoples' ability to function sexually with real human beings, when Jessica Stryker or whomever is waiting under your mattress.
By contrast, especially tacky for advising above each hunk's photo "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" is the Gorgeous Goth Guy of the Week page--my link takes you to one guy's photo, but from there you can get back to the GGGW central and from there to other goth guys or goth sites, btw fyi. *New* Here's a site that links to the Geeky Goth Guy of the Month (see if you can distinguish what distinguishes a goth god from a goth geek; I can't) and the Goth Pet of the Month (not like a "Penthouse Pet" for that there is the Goth Babe of the Month but pet in the sense of like a black cat or ferrets..).
While we're on the subject there's also Amphigory where you can buiy goth accessories and "Special Effects" hairdye.
This is, no, was really a favorite site I check no checked in on every week. The TV show from whence it came is or ws really great too: True Taxicab Confessions. If you don't watch TV don't worry cause each episode is transcribed and it's grand to read these wonderful short pieces of real life drama. I have to say the episode for 11/7 is not up to the usual great standard, I thought. All of the other ones are much more fascinating to me. (at 1st update of this page: actually I think this show is going downhill and it's getting demoralizing almost creepy whereas it used to be sort of uplifting).
Find-a-Grave is a directory of famous names and photographs of their headstones, easily searchable. I recommend Charles Ives' tombstone.
I have mixed feelings about this page, but it is one of the more interesting opportunities on the web for people in Los Angeles and vicinity at least to do something--to get in their cars and do something. This page is called "The Zone" and it is the magazine of the Los Angeles Cacaphony Society and they do things like their members meet from nationwide in...I forget...they are going to Colorado or somewhere this year all dressed as Santas to have a "Santa Rampage" and last year two of their santas got "national media coverage" when arrests were mafde and charges filed. So far so good. Then they organize these field trips to you know "incredibly strange" kinds of things and this is where I get a little uncomfortable about it. For example they are going to meet at some religious observance basically to laugh at it and they are all going to either wear white flowers or carry white envelopes. It sounds like a fun service, very weird and tacky but their spirit in "coming to the stable" just has an odeur of snobbery a lot to me and I don't like that. I wish I could go to the service anyway but I wouldn't wear a flower. I won't be in L.A. for Christmas this year though. I used to go "midnight mass hopping" with firneds in High School every Christmas Eve and we laughed so I shouldn't be so hard on these people. I didn't like get a huge gang to come and laugh at the solemn celebration though... Some of the things they tell you about it sounds like it might be nicer to go when the club isn't going. But I don't know, the person who made their page seems intelligent. I mean probably they are wonderful people. And what is most beautiful about their organization is that they are open for anyone to join them on any of these outings they organize and there is no charge except for what you have to pay to keep up: admission to a museum plus money for lunch at K-Mart, for example. See that's another thing I'm a little leery about: lunch at K-Mart. Maybe a little too cacaphonous for my system...
Speaking of Santa and Art. Don't know what you ought to gift a niece or nephew with? You wouldn't want to give this to one of your own children. It's all set for downloading and printing, even, but you should first try to buy it from the guy, if you have even half a heart. It is a Book of Fluxus activites for children. Created by Channing Hansen, he's the grandson of one of the fluxus artists who was most famous for droppin pianos from tall buildings all over the world. The whole family is interesting to check out, I guess most of their site was done by Channings mother, Bebe. Unfortunately it has been decided not to share with the world photographic studies of the two young Channing boys. The grandmother wrote unusual poetry, very oedipal. The fluxus pieces for children have an emphasis on destruction. I found it fun for all ages.
I'm not the fan of "Bewitched" that I used to be when it originally aired that is. The Bewitched page has a few interesting pictures of Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of Robert Montgomery, as a young brunette and there are interviews with her from this period on the site. And from it I learned for example that the woman who played "Louise Tate" is the same person as "Miriam" the murdered woman in Strangers on a Train. It's a site well worth a visit though! They call her "Lizzie" all the time on this page and I emailed the pagemistress to ask why and evidently that's what Elizabeth Montgomery liked to be called. "Larry Tate" can be seen doing pretty much the same character only with the added element of being a sexual sleaze in the film, "The Sweet Smell of Success" by the way. Tony Curtis also gives a great performance as a sleazy press agent. Tony Curtis is of course a sleaze which we know (if ever we'd doubted it) from the TV program "Hollywood Babylon" which is the sleaziest TV show ever made especially because Mr. Curtis changes outfits several times throughout each episode and each outfit is way too young for him and would be extremely tacky on anybody. Dentist style shirts and Biker Jackets. I would pity him except I accidentally had a phone conversation with him once and he really is a self important poop... And the "art gallery" he had in Beverly Hills which featured his derivative paintings along with typical haute schlock galleryfair was eventually busted for selling like fake Agams or something, I understand.
You might call this link "The Importance of
Being Ernest". You'll find yourself right in the middle of "The
Cigarette Papers" an archive of documents from one of the big tobacco
companies. For your perusal there are letters written by Ernest Pepples
about how smoking is not injurious to health and may even benefit (stress
relief, etc.) us for a healthy lifestyle....
.http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/html/1603.01/1603.01.1.html
--ernest
There are awful pages on a lot of things I love and I refuse to mention them. Well maybe I should try to link to them first, since they are all that's out there as of yet. I make bookmarks at the drop of a hat though and there are many more links to come which are choice in some way or other to me and to Mary Morrissey, moviegoer.
I really shouldn't put a link to this page which otherwise would never get hits, how would it? I found it by being on one of those geocities "squares" and looking at consecutive pages (yawn). It's the only "page" on its "site", it appears. It's someone's act of vehement vengeance against an HIV positive person who woudn't date him again. It's pretty awful. I feel weird almost guilty making this link. Maybe I shoudln't what do you think? But I think it was really something to come across it. Of course the web is going to be used this way by some disturbed individuals! The name of the page is: Gay Trash
The Corporal Punishment Research Institute or something like that it's called, is one of the most fascinating things I've come across inalongwhile. Its archive is exhaustive along the lines of the internet crime archives "newsflash" only more conprehensive and more eye opening. I ahte to say it but it makes one appreciate living in the good ol first world...
Word must be one of those famous sites what with the address "word" and it's damned slick and it has some great stuff on it also some disgusting stuff. I found it by doing a search for the author of a book I liked, "Grossed Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient--An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids", Jim Hogshire. It turns out he's a "pill hound" and used to publish a 'zine called "Pills-a-go-go" and "Word" has a great article by him all about how to write your own prescriptions. There's a substantial collection of artwork some guy got out of his trash, like 50 or 60 scanned images all by one particular outsider artist; that's great. Then there's a disgusting story by the guy who wrote the screenplay to "My Beautiful Laundrette" in which the guy brags about shootign up his underage girfriend for the first time as an aside to a story I couldn't finish about a stubborn turd he turned at her parents house the night he was invited there for dindin which wouldn't go down the "loo". What a creep! There's a lot of stuff I haven't checked out. "The Turd" took the wind out of my sails...
teenolympia has a lot of interesting information about supplements and steroids.
Miami New Times Weekly Online Newspaper | miaminewtimes.com | Feature | May 28 - June 3, 1998 Hoping to cash in on the current craze for Cuban music, a burgeoning retinue of Americans attends Havana's Cubadisco '98. is actually part of the name of this link as it appears in my bookmark page! It's a very long article about my heroes like Paulito y su Cojunto Elite (Paulito is pretty much the singer of the moment for me) and NG La Banda what they call "timba" music which is like the advance guard of salsa...
There's a lot of good stuff about Cuban Music out there...people recounting their musical pilgrimages to Cuba very exciting to read about
Michael Matta's Home Page is the name of the site which hosts a woman's account of this poor sweet kid who had a really tough life in NY dying of AIDS just shy of the "miracle cure" being available. I was glad to read it though it's extremely sad.
You can read the reviews of "Swan Lake" which opened in NY a couple of weeks ago (they're weird reviews, kind of blase about the quality of the show as though you already knew that, which is ok for me since I saw it 8 times a year ago, but...the tone is rather ridiculous when you think these are reviews of a show that's just opened. It's a forgone conclusion that it will win tonys if it's deemed eligble for them but WHY the articles don't really get into it! Anyway since my browser is not working right now I'm leaving it to you to find those articles yourself from the NYTimes, USA Today and Newsweek.com Also a lot of obituaries about Betty Carter, who died in October, which are interesting reading...
This site has some sweet boys on it but very little contact info for them, which is sad. They aren't the internet type, most of them, I guess...but hell they must have telephones! Oh, it's a guide to gay Latin Clubs in L.A.
I thought I had a lot more new links...on to the not so new links...
I thought the great Mehmet Sander had ruined me for traditional dance forms but I'm really obsessed with this production which I saw 8 times in L.A. and I even wrote in defense of the swans when some caviar critic put the show down for not being "it's great to be gay" enough; he also was very sloppy in his notes and this was in the L.A. times so I had to be heard! *New* that letter was published on the web, I never saw it in print and I was lividly pissed to discover that they edited it to make it seem as though my differences with the critic were merely opinionizational. I made the letter extremely short so it had nothing to do with space that they ommitted my observation that, "His sloppy analysis even refers to the second scene of Act III as "the second act"" Also I expressed my regret that the press rarely ever menitoned let alone gave any credit to William Kemp who performed the lead role about half the time whose performance I consider to be "essential". And they edited that sentance out (dont' recall exactly how it ran but it sas a short sentance! I ended up sounding like a merely whining critic's critic. That is fucked!
My favorite swan is William Kemp. I miss my swans right now...I had to leave town before the production closed so I sent several of them lots of post cards. . .
MY FAVORITE SITE ON THE WEB ENTIRE SO FAR is Mr. Lunch
except for possibly the labrynthine PALANCA website as aforementioned in the L.A. Palanca museum page. . .
Have you done a search for your own name? A friend of mine did a search for his own name, not a particularly common name, and got 5 matches of computer people with photos and a real estate agent with his mother's name who has the slogan "Make your move with Mary" and her photo as well.
Of course the favorite thing of all is email from you. And I'll tell you something else is beginning to freak me out, man, which is the large number of people who don't return email when I email them after looking at their pages. I think I'm being quite solicitous in most cases and it really shocks me that people don't answer. Is this common? This one guy had a page that had near the top from an Anderson Wakeman Bruford Howe song, "So giving all the love you have, never be afraid to show your heart." and I couldn't believe it when he never answered my friendly mail!! And he's a computer science student so presumably he visits his computer every once in awhile. Is this common or am I doing something wrong?
I used to have movie reviews on here then I stopped doing them. So, if you're interested in movies from '96 n '97 that's to say my opinions on em click here at the movie review archive.
