it's not fathers day but it's good to be thankful everyday..

ty showed me this holy ghost video the other day and it had me cracking up..trading places downtown/williamsburg style.

and here's 'i'm his girl' by friends...

i can really get behind these lyrics right about now;)

the foggy mountains of switzerland welcomed us in for an international hang.

we have just returned from a magical journey abroad to ravello, italy and locarno, switzerland..we visited the latter destination for the locarno film festival to celebrate the european premieres of two of my betrothed's producing projects: ANOTHER EARTH (artist public domain) and TERRI (verisimilitude).



not that i could be a million percent objective but both films are truly wonderful in the most thoughtful fashion. not hard to imagine given the respectively radical nature of both directors mike cahill and azazel jacobs.
i strongly encourage you find a way to see these films, they will not just entertain you but thoughtfully challenge you to consider the shared human experience and the complex circumstance of subjectivity.



for the audiophiles, the ANOTHER EARTH soundtrack by the dear men of FALL ON YOUR SWORD is BRILLIANT!!!

they flew all the way to locarno to perform but unfortunately the 220 voltage got the best of their equipment..leaving my dance off with lady brit at a stand still, cut regrettably short by stupid swiss energy... but if you wanna get with it;) i strongly suggest you check out (+stream) it here. or better yet buy it here! (or remixed here)

+as i was getting my google on just now i've found a funny smaller-world-by-the-day crossover...
a music video of my old friend henry gummer/wolfe's song "somebody else" shot by aza (terri+mamas man) starring the newest member of team awesome (i.e. new favorite dance+gun club partner), brit (co-writer+star of another earth)..

sometimes a still is just too static..

we showed upstate who's awesome last weekend.


santa monica night rainbows.


a dear deer on the way to woodstock.

lastly a kiss of shit robot at terminal 5.

it's an anthem to cruise inside of.

"boy trouble" by benoit+sergio
introduced to me on a radical new mix i've just happily received.....and which am playing on major repeat.
blasting in the volvo and the casa...
hope you dig it as much as me;)

she was casually embedding herself into my heart. (visually pleasing me the whole way in a most uncommon fashion.)

no bigs (or BFD if you nasty),
just some more epic and tripped out brilliance from my dear darling gal, chrissie abbott.

(just saying...this might well be my most favorite thing to be featured in of all the fotos+videos i've collaborated on..)

leaving me to wonder...why do some of my favorite sunny special friends have to live on the other side of the atlantic??? it's majorly lametown some days more than others...like today when i'm reminded that my witchy woman collaborator is too far to collaborate with on the daily. i'd like a zipline transporter from london to nyc to lala pronto...k? k!

when in limbo, grab some seeds+sequin skivvies+we'll get groovy.

i was just reminded of this the seeds song on this snowy (AGAIN) morning.
seemed a fun fittingly cheerful california tune to obscure this monotonous white.

(p.s. hot damn...where can i get some of those sparkly underthangs?! so hot-boss miss bets!)

our hair was white, the grandma fur was wet+we laughed stumbling through the bitter taste of cold.

cedez+i had a wonderful tromp in the snow last night....i've rarely had the experience, if ever of walking on completely fresh, unmarred snow in nyc...
in conclusion, existential talks+snowday walks-tuesday was a true fact-delight.

in other news,
i've been listening to a lot of this cass mccombs song:
"i went to the hospital"
..................in which he sings, "i wanna be famous for falling in love."
to which i say, what a great romantic/artistic/narcissistic lyric.

might even say it's influencing this artist statement in a nice melancholy fashion..

(as it pretty well vibes with some existential leanings of mine: see simone de beauvoir-my new favorite existentialist. [p.s.why didn't we learn about her rad chica shit in philosophy!?!])

anyhoo, have a listen if you've never, or it's been awhile.


oh+mikes's highly anticipated circa 2010 mixes, ***smoke***+***mirrors***, showed up in the mail this week!!! (click on those links to see brandon's full break down+mike's best/worst albums of the year)
(with some very familiar fotos as album art:)

thus, i'm delighted to be able to introduce you (or remind you if you're cooler than me) about these two great jams i've got on repeat:

pepper rabbit "none shall sleep"
+
bear hands "what a drag"

+in case you're curious about what goes on in my head during the art making process, i thought i'd share some recently googled research topics:

ritual
pop art
nymphs
ideology
narrative
witchcraft
mythology
shamanism
on the road
woody allen
existentialism
thelma+louise
dazed+confused
transcendentalism
social anthropology

if you don't have the win, you may not find the way.

the forgotten bonus of a car is driving around to the tunes of now....these are two songs i've been trolling the pop hip hop stations for...

black and yellow by wiz khalifa

+girl you be killin em by fabolous...
word.

we put the roof down and our hands up to the wind.

we swaddled them in stars and stripes and crossed our fingers.

a raucous good ole july 4th weekend...unexpectedly spent in LA+not on our roof. (apologies again to those who called+texted at the door 3000 miles away when i didn't answer the buzzer;)

while it was awesome+full of goodness, those dodger stadium fireworks ain't got shit on the river jams..just saying, the right side is still just that for some things.