LIFE IN NEON: 22 IS THE END

I've been reincarnated. Check it out. And, tell your friends.

FASHION: SANS for Hint Magazine

My good friend Jean-Baptiste has tipped me off on these cool shirts by SANS for Hint Magazine. These organic unisex SQUARE styled t-shirts are a hallmark of SANS style, which is extremely hip and like a wave from the future. Essentially, these shirts are THE summer shirt of 2007. They are pretty pricey, but the deal Hint has in their shop is pretty modestly priced (if money is readily available). Check them out, and if you get one before I do, let me know how they are!!

FAVORITES: Scrabulous.com

Scrabulous.com is probably one of my favorite websites. I am absolutely addicted to Scrabble and this website is a good way for me to feed this addiction. One fantastic feature on the website is that it has the e-mail version of the game. This allows you to start a game with as many as three other people and play Scrabble as you would normally. It can get pretty intense, and the temptations to cheat are huge, but unfair. If you aren't into that, there are many different versions of the game and different rooms to play in. It's pretty radical.

NO COMMENTARY NECESSARY: Scarlett Johansson & Kenan Thompson & Bill Hader in Dress Shop

'WHY COME MY BABY CAN'T GET THIS TO SHOW OFF HER JUNK?'

Kenan Thompson is show stealer.

(I was over reading Shelby Goes Bowling and was reminded of this.)

(thanks Justin)

KILL ME PLEASE: Night of the Comet's VS I Am Legend

I was perusing trailers and came across Will Smith's new one I Am Legend. After watching this trailer, I realized that this is exactly like the 1980 cult classic Night of the Comet. Moreover, the sites are claiming that this is more of a remake of Vincent Price's The Last Man On Earth; but, let's not play, which one was more radical? Duh. Night of the Comet!

I mean, 1980s Los Angeles, valley girls in a post-apocalyptic world, zombies, mall raids, unlimited video game play--what more could you want from a sci-fi/horror film?! Will Smith's takes place in NYC, features 'vampire cannibals' (also known as zombies, retard), the struggle for him to survive. Ugh. Lame.

In any event, why would you want to see this? Will Smith is as worn out as an eighty year old's dildo. He is super lame and hasn't made anything really fantastic since...Fresh Prince? Six Degrees of Separation? Independence Day? I've never really been impressed (unless you reach into his bag of musical ability and pull out 'Parents Just Don't Understand--THAT's bodacious).

Are you guys going to go see it? Watch both trailers, and weigh in.

Night of the Comets VS I Am Legend

NO CONTEST

MAINSTREAM GONE RIGHT: Planet Earth

Planet Earth is a twelve part mini-series that originally aired on Discovery Channel in April and has been rerunning on Animal Planet every Wednesday night. This show is kind of old news, but I have been obsessed with it since it came out and am a little stumped as to why I haven't posted on this earlier. This was a collaboration between BBC and Discovery, and the results are beautiful and utterly mesmerizing.

Each episode takes a small theme, like forests or jungles or plains or fresh water, and chronicles the animals and planets that live and thrive in these areas. They've accumulated footage for the past five years and each episode is estimated to be about ten million each. The results are jaw dropping. They were made for high definition television, and to watch it on anything else is a crime.

Moreover, there are TONS of never-before-scene footage of animals doing very rare things. Each episode has at least one of these moments that are bound to leave you wondering how they caught them on tape. I would post online video of some of these moments, but that is not doing the show justice. I mean, twenty tigers killing an elephant? a deep-sea octopus with tentacles that light up? multiple Bird of Paradise mating dances? a gnu being eaten by an alligator? a fox stealing gosslings? The list goes on and on.

From the abundance of footage gathered, a movie is slated to come out soon to all theaters AND Imax. It's going to be awesome. Moreover, it is also on DVD. But, beware, the one sold at most local retailers is the BBC, David Attenborough nattarted DVD set. The Discovery Channel, Sigourney Weaver narrated DVD set is only sold at Discovery Channel retailers (this one is better: Weaver is a stellar narrator).

MAN FAD/POLL: Short Shorts Everyday? SRSLY??

I've been living in NYC for the past month. And, I've been noticing that the newest male hipster trend is to wear short, short, short shorts. Thanks to the now-so-passé American Apparel (which, I can't deny, I love them), hipster guys are wearing short shorts like crazy! I'm not going to lie, I wear pretty short shorts to the beach; BUT, everyday? Are you shitting me? That's a little uncalled for. Let's get real: any minute these dudes' balls could pop out. Not cool. It's definitely a plausible sceneario: it's happened to me at the beach.

What do you guys think? Should this trend be picked up? Should I encourage friends to wear these? Shall I endorse them?

I most likely will wear those corduroy short shorts American Apparel has been selling. Who am I kidding?

ON REPEAT: Roisin Murphy's 'Overpowered'

Not only is my favorite, Roisin Murphy's, song absolutely amazing, she is also wearing totally radical Gareth Pugh clothes and actually making them look street worthy, or a look into the future. She also has done some fantastic self-production of this song and most of her new album, which should be out in England in mid July. This is ther first single off of the LP.

And, the video is totally awesome.

UPDATE: I've magically found this track, it's b-side, and the Kris Menace remix. KILLER.

Roisin Murphy 'Overpowered'
Roisin Murphy 'Sweet Nothings'
Roisin Murphy 'Overpowered (Kris Menace Instrumental Remix)'

UPDATE: I fixed the links!!

PROMOTION: McFly 2015

McFly 2015 is a grassroots movement to get Nike to sell and manufacture the shoes that Marty McFly and other futuristic people wore in Back to the Future: Part 2. They were seen in the movie, but not sold. People want them produced now because they are totally radical, and it's almost 2015. How appropriate.



All you have to do is sign up and are you in! It's one of the coolest grassroot movements ever, and they even have a MySpace account and a Virb accont. Help these brothers out, dudes, mainly because I want a pair, too.

MAN FAD: The Party Pouch

My good friend Elise, who I mention ten thousand times because she is super awesome, turned me on to the reimergence of the fanny pack. She has been rocking a Le Sport Sac fanny pack for years now, and it wasn't until she pushed me to get one at a thrift store that I got one: a huge, blue and orange Salom Snow, fanny pack for skiiing.

Let me tell you something: the fanny pack rules. Not because it is extremely trendy or anything, but it is a HUGE conversation starter and attracts people over to you, which is slightly amazing. More important than trendy or conversation starter, it is a Party Pouch.



"A 'Party Pouch'? What is that?" you ask. I answer that it is a glorified fanny pack that is a party on the go: I use my Party Pouch to carry streamers, blowers, a harmonica, disguised bottles of liquor, an even smaller bottle of mixer, a disposable camera, and anything else I accumlate as the evening erodes and devolves.

Moreover, the next morning after a night of vice, you are destined to find some fun creatures lurking in your Party Pouch. The night after my twenty-first, this is was I found:



Other more day-to-day use of the Party Pouch are that it can:
-hold unecessary accessories you are wearing, like hats or sunglasses
-be used to smuggle dinner into a movie theatre
-hold your car keys and phone
-support a mini-dance party, with iPod and battery powered speakers
-to steal shit, if you steal shit
-hold babies

Party Pouches are here to stay. Embrace it.

(NOTE: this post is dedicated to Emma, because she inspired this post and, on twenty-one, the Party Pouch did in fact have party hats and a "Welcome New Baby" balloon attached to it.)

DRINK: Cotton Candy

Upon turning twenty-one (which was two weeks ago), I created a pretty good drink (which I am sure was already invented, but - what the hell - none of my friends had tried it before).

It tastes like cotton candy. It's a pretty girly drink that is terribly sweet.

Ice
1/3 cup of vanilla vodka (Stoli Vanilla is the best)
2/3 Cranberry juice

Enjoy.

(NOTE: That picture is from one of the many birthday celebrations. Someone purchased me a Mind Eraser. That shit tasted like shit.)

POLL: New Neon or Back to Black?

A year ago, I purchased these slip-on loafers from the Gap that were brown with tree/bark print on the top. They were cheap and comfortable, but not very appealing and hard to match. Moreover, there was a lot going on with them, with the shades of green and brown and black competing with each other.

I decided I wanted to spray them totally black to get more use out of them (I only wear black - it's the color of my soul). After I painted them, I thought "Hey, why don't I splatter paint them neon!" I've done this once and a thousand times to clothing items, but this time I did it in a different manner which was more of a "drip" style, then followed by splatter paint. The results aren't terrible, but I am on the fence whether to

!.) keep them how they are

b.) scrap off the paint and spray paint them back to black.

Here is how they look:



What do you guys think? My friend Elise, who rules, said yes, but I still don't know.

Can I get a witness?

KILL ME PLEASE:Toms Has Sold Out

FUCKING TOMS HAS MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE FUCKING CORPORATE DEVIL: URBAN OUTFITTERS IS NOW SELLING TOMS.

MAINLY ONLY TO GIRLS, BUT I AM STILL PISSED.

BEYOND PISSED, ACTUALLY: THAT STORE TAKES EVERYTHING COOL, STREAMLINES IT, THEREBY MAKING IT ONE. HUGE. DUMP.

FUCKTARDS. I HATE THAT STORE SO MUCH.

SADLY, I THINK THAT IS WHAT AMERICAN APPAREL IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN FIVE YEARS.

DAMN. LIFE BLOWS SOMETIMES.