24 hours in new york

September 15, 2010
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24 hours in new york

What can you do in a 24 hour period in the Big Apple? Whatever the fuck you want to do…so long as you have wheels to get around in. I jump in my ride (a pickup truck)  and start heading east (from Manhattan to Long Island). The first thing I see is a stainless steel casket on wheels on the curb…waiting for its new owner? I was heading to the beach on an adventure with no expectations other than seeing the all-girl rock band Open Ocean. They were playing a show in Montauk at the Memory Motel (of Mick Jagger fame). On the way there I called my buddy Jesse even though I knew he would be hesitant to sign up for a mission with me. Jessie and I were building the Vitamin Water Chapel at the Williamsburg Waterfront starting at eight o’clock the next morning, so this is a dude with whom I go way back. The girls aren’t playing until the afternoon, and I have to give Jesse some time to get his shit together. To kill some time I drive through Fort Greene and stop by the Brooklyn Flea (which some claim to be the best flea [...]

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goodbye T.A.G.\/\/and thanks for all the awesome!

September 15, 2010
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goodbye T.A.G.\/\/and thanks for all the awesome!

Where one amazing adventure ends, another begins...so it goes.

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aesthetic improv

September 14, 2010
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fashionvictim

Fashion? Fashion. Ok, I can deal with that. Well, maybe not. The thing is that I am an absolute dunce when it comes to anything fashion related. I can’t coordinate shoes, I rarely wear jewelry, and applying make-up is often the single most challenging thing I do in a day. So, what does fashion mean to performance? Besides the obvious superficial performative characteristics of fashion, I believe that it runs deeper. Fashion is personal aestethic, not just ornamentation. It lives deep within our bodies and minds. It’s how we craft a snapshot of ourselves in the world. In order to demonstrate this fully, I would like to invite you to do a little improvisational exercise. One of my favorite things to do in acting classes was mime. I know, I know: it’s so Jaques Lecoq of me. But while you’re getting ready for the coming fashion shows, why not try this out and see where your body leads you? 1. Get together with a group of people. They can be artists, or not, but preferably radical (just because it’s always better that way). 2. Split the group in half. 3. The first half, stands before the second (create the spectator [...]

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the k team presents\/\/kool

September 14, 2010
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the k team presents\/\/kool

Strut down the Katwalk K Team style as you listen to Kool. Hell, Yes! Be kool. Become a fan of the KTeam on Facebook. Hell, yes! P.S. For optimal listening enjoyment, Chino rekommends headphones.

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the sadder but wiser girl

September 13, 2010
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the sadder but wiser girl

The Internet tells me that Fashion Week has been happening in New York since 1943. I had never heard of it until two years ago. This is how unfashionable I was: I would go to New England coffee shops, order hot apple cider, look at the leaves, and read languid Victorian poetry. I am sick of the Hall and the hill, I am sick of the moor and the main. It had a certain charm. Then, one day, at a friend’s apartment, I was made to watch an episode of Gossip Girl featuring Fashion Week. At first, I inwardly resisted GG, believing it was a slut show that made thirteen-year-old girls think it was awesome to be slutty. I’m still aware of that – this show is not for thirteen-year-olds, because they can’t understand it – but it is filled with great music, great fashion, and sharp literary references that fill me with glee. The show’s setting is The Upper East Side, and its characters are rich high school and college kids who never have any parental supervision. They have their own maids, limousines, helicopters – practically their own penthouse apartments. They’ve been drinking at bars for years, even though [...]

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dressing up at dragon*con

September 13, 2010
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dressing up at dragon*con

It’s Fashion Week in New York!  But the fashion event closest to my heart took place a little over a week ago in Atlanta. Once a year, over Labor Day weekend, thousands of geeks and nerds of all ages and fiction preferences gather downtown for a celebration of fantastic fandom called Dragon*Con. Dragon*con days are made up of attending panels, checking out the art show & dealer room, gaming, screening independent media productions, meeting your favorite sci-fi figures and recovering from the previous night’s festivities. And you can do some top-notch people- and fashion-watching during the days, but it’s Dragon*con nights that the fashion-show is out in full force. Droves of DIY-costume clad con-goes fill the convention hotels’ lobbies, hallways and elevators — many fueled on assorted combinations of caffeine, food court fares and adult substances — to mingle, party and take a ton of pictures. Yours truly has attended the festivities as, variously, the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride, Romana from Doctor Who (1978 to 1979) and the Flash – among others. Dragon*con might not be the most overtly political space you can find, nor the most critical & inclusive one (ironic enough for a celebration that’s in many ways about embracing your [...]

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this week on the avant guardian\/\/fa-fa-fa-fa fashion

September 13, 2010
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/fa-fa-fa-fa fashion

We here at theavantguardian.org like to keep our collective finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, so there was no doubt in our minds as to whether we should coordinate our own fashion week with the Spring-Summer 2011 collections on display in New York for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Expect the usual avant garde fun along with some hard-hitting reporting from behind the scenes at all the shows, parties, and on the streets. We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town…..beep beep! Photo Credit: StyleHop Blog

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commodity fetishism gone right\/\/the epic east village lingerie tour

September 12, 2010
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commodity fetishism gone right\/\/the epic east village lingerie tour

I didn’t get much sleep last night thinking about underwear Have you ever stopped to consider underwear in the abstract When you really dig into it some shocking problems are raised Underwear is something we all have to deal with Everyone wears some kind of underwear Even Indians wear underwear Even Cubans wear underwear The Pope wears underwear I hope The Governor of Louisiana wears underwear I saw him on TV He must have had tight underwear He squirmed a lot Underwear can really get you in a bind You have seen the underwear ads for men and women so alike but so different Women’s underwear holds things up Men’s underwear holds things down Underwear is one thing men and women do have in common Underwear is all we have between us You have seen the three-color pictures with crotches encircled to show the areas of extra strength with three-way stretch promising full freedom of action Don’t be deceived It’s all based on the two-party system which doesn’t allow much freedom of choice the way things are set up America in its Underwear struggles thru the night Underwear controls everything in the end Take foundation garments for instance They are [...]

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sub-entry 24> episode appendix ii \/\/ on medicine and the chaotic impulse

September 12, 2010
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sub-entry 24> episode appendix ii \/\/ on medicine and the chaotic impulse

Walking down Saint Roch Avenue (Roch is pronounced “rock,” as in what this city is not built on), down the middle of the neutral ground full of giant oak trees, past all the colorful shotgun houses and the men playing horse shoes in the grass, you come to the Saint Roch Cemetery. I've always known where it was – I'd always meant to go there some day. But the fact was, I'd never stepped foot in there before. This was a sub-entry for an episode that hadn't happened.

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celebration!

September 11, 2010
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Taitinger Cave

New beginnings are the best excuse for celebration. There are many great celebration foods, but nothing says celebration and new beginning like popping open a big bottle of bubbly. Sorry, Walter: I know this is usually your terrain, but I can’t think of a better way to ring in the new year, the fall harvest, my new haircut, your new job, his new lover, their new house or anyone else’s new beginning than an icy bottle of Taittinger! And no better way to start drinking than to shout it out. Celebration! And any way you choose to shout it is fine by me. To everyone’s new beginning this week no matter how big or small. Congrats, kanpai, salud, mazel tov, felicidades, Hō ta lah, cheers, l’chiam, chin-chin, skål, bravo, proost, stin iyá mas, ʻŌkole maluna, pozdravlaiu, sláinte agus táinte, gefeliciteerd. Here is a good snack in case the bubbles start to go to your head. Devils On Horseback (Make extra: these are really good.) Pitted dates Manchego cheese Pancetta or bacon Stuff the dates with a good hunk of Manchego, and wrap them in the pancetta. Bake. Voilà. Photo credit: Ruby Custin

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