Each week, ChinaShop ask someone we like to pick a mood and 5 songs that put them in that mood. This week’s picks come from the D.C. based “Jukebox The Ghost” and well, here it is…
Mood: Horny
Bring on the R Kelly
One of the great things about music, and why I love it so much, is that it affects people in ways that no other medium really can. It has this incredibly ability to touch every emotion inside a person – love, laughter, madness, heartbreak, joy… what have you – sometimes hitting each and every one of those over the course of a single song. It’s said that the sense of smell is the most powerful sense in a person, the one that conjures up emotion and memory most vividly; however I disagree. I think it’s hearing. I can listen to a song and be taken right back to a memory of / with it like it happened only yesterday, even if that memory is almost as old as I am.
With the above in mind, I’m brought to the first bit of news this week: after the passing of his close friend, Sally Menke (Quentin Tarantino’s longtime editor), RZA along with James Black, Kobra Khan and Justin Nokuza have released “Gone” in her honor.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most expensive pair of jeans ever sold were a 155-year-old pair of Levis 501, bought by an anonymous bidder on eBay for $60G’s in 2005! And as of this last Saturday, another Guinness milestone was, BANG! POW! CRACKED!, into infinity and beyond.
The Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in NYC might not be your first stop. In a city so full of art and culture, museums and galleries galore, it might not even be your second stop. But I can honestly say, it should at least make the list. The current exhibit, Dead of Alive: Nature Becomes Art is captivating. It’s a collection of work “from 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures”. Whether you are a fan of organic materials or not it will win you over.
“I am sickened and disgusted by the use of ‘Crazy Train’ to promote messages of hate and evil by a ‘church,’” singer Ozzy Osbourne said in response to news that Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church used lyrics from his song at events surrounding Tuesday’s (October 6) Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court hearing. An attorney — a daughter of the church’s founder, along with her sister — paraphrased lyrics from Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” at a post-Supreme Court hearing press conference in Washington D.C.
Riot Fest started the five-day celebration of punk music last night by hosting seven legendary Chicago punk bands at the infamous Double Door. The highlight of the evening was Naked Raygun’s performance. The most anticipated act of the night, the sold-out crowd went wild when Santiago Durango joined Raygun on stage. After 24 years without playing a Raygun song, he exploded onto the stage, his trademark booming guitar sounding the same as it did in 1986.
Brian Viveros is a celebrated fetish artist, known mainly for his erotic paintings of smokey eyed pin-up girls with cigarettes dangling from their overly red lips. His recent show, The Dirtyland just opened this past weekend at Thinkspace Gallery . With images of strong women in situations of war and struggle, one would think the show might come off dark. On the contrary, it doesn’t position woman as victim, but fearless, seductive and entirely bad ass.
The French have taken over Los Angeles…well maybe not entirely, but this was the case last weekend. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Goldenvoice and KCRW presented Ooh LA L.A. Fest 2010. This year’s event took place at three different venues: Club Nokia, the El Rey, and Spaceland and brought forth a variety of French artists to show the crowds of Los Angeles ‘how the French do it.’
Poor Dave Grohl. Traumatized by events that happened at a Scissor Sisters show, he’s suing the band, their management, the venue, and Ticket Master for the sum of $75 Million dollars. Well, I’ll let him tell you. Dave, we’re behind you all the way buddy. No one should have to re-live such an event! You deserve every dime!
If you’ve seen their behind-the-scenes special from Lollapolooza, you know that a Matt and Kim show means not only happy, catchy music — but a certain irrefutable giddiness, contagious in a way not unlike that rage virus in 28 Days Later (only, yes, HAPPY.) Fans jump onto the stage, seemingly unable to control their love for the duo’s catchy, almost jingle-like dance-punk. There’s copious hugging (sometimes featuring the nudity of actual registered sex offenders) and Kim and Matt run around the stage like children let loose for recess after a miserable half-day, tossing around tee-shirts and balloons and whatever they can find just to spread their infectious cheer.
