07
Nov
09

A little bird told me… Post Post – All-girl and queer. About time.

 

It’s not just Wesleyan– it’s a host of top-ranking liberal arts/ivy league schools that are producing new talent. Look at Ra Ra Riot or Vampire Weekend too.
And if you’re looking for an alternative to the typical straight, male indie band, you should start paying attention to this up-and-coming band Post Post based out of Bryn Mawr College. All-girl and queer. About time.

It’s not just Wesleyan– it’s a host of top-ranking liberal arts/ivy league schools that are producing new talent. Look at Ra Ra Riot or Vampire Weekend too.
And if you’re looking for an alternative to the typical straight, male indie band, you should start paying attention to this up-and-coming band Post Post based out of Bryn Mawr College. All-girl and queer.  About time.  more at genres & moods

 

05
Nov
09

you are a penguin too

I got this email today:

you are a penguin too. (penguins are so sensitive) song by lyle lovitt
c

03
Nov
09

Post Hallowe’en Post

Hi folks – Just have some stuff I wanted to share – haven’t been posting much, but I’m still here.

This just scared the bejeezuz out of me because I’m a parent with two boys and I know how afraid that woman must have been.

Why people are afraid of flying:

My latest love affair: Kap Bambino (more at Genres & Moods]

27
Oct
09

Lilith Fair 2010 – The Celebration Of Women In Music

Brand New Website Launches Today Revealing First Round of Cities
October 27, 2009 (New York, NY) – Nearly 6 months ago, Nettwerk CEO and Lilith Fair co-founder Terry McBride announced via Twitter that the all-female festival would make its return in 2010. Today, the official Lilith 2010 website launches, not only revealing the new look and feel of Lilith a decade later, but also the first set of cities that the traveling festival will be hitting–New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and more. Check out www.lilithfair.com for the complete list.

About
From 1997 through 1999, Lilith Fair was one of the highest grossing touring festivals in the world, with over 1.5 million fans in attendance and raising over $10 million dollars for national and local charities. Founded by Grammy-award winning artist Sarah McLachlan along with Dan Fraser, Marty Diamond and Terry McBride, Lilith Fair was the only tour of its kind—a celebration of women in music featuring artists like Sheryl Crow, Christina Aguilera, Erykah Badu, The Dixie Chicks, Missy Elliot, The Pretenders, Nelly Furtado, Jewel, Queen Latifah, Indigo Girls, Tegan and Sara and of course, Sarah McLachlan.
Nearly 6 months ago, Nettwerk CEO and Lilith Fair co-founder Terry McBride announced that the all-female festival would make its return in Summer 2010.

Brand New Website Launches Today Revealing First Round of Cities
Submitted by lilith_admin on Tue, 10/27/2009 – 10:00
October 27, 2009 (New York, NY) – Nearly 6 months ago, Nettwerk CEO and Lilith Fair co-founder Terry McBride announced via Twitter that the all-female festival would make its return in 2010. Today, the official Lilith 2010 website launches, not only revealing the new look and feel of Lilith a decade later, but also the first set of cities that the traveling festival will be hitting–New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and more. Check out www.lilithfair.com for the complete list.
About
From 1997 through 1999, Lilith Fair was one of the highest grossing touring festivals in the world, with over 1.5 million fans in attendance and raising over $10 million dollars for national and local charities. Founded by Grammy-award winning artist Sarah McLachlan along with Dan Fraser, Marty Diamond and Terry McBride, Lilith Fair was the only tour of its kind—a celebration of women in music featuring artists like Sheryl Crow, Christina Aguilera, Erykah Badu, The Dixie Chicks, Missy Elliot, The Pretenders, Nelly Furtado, Jewel, Queen Latifah, Indigo Girls, Tegan and Sara and of course, Sarah McLachlan.
Nearly 6 months ago, Nettwerk CEO and Lilith Fair co-founder Terry McBride announced that the all-female festival would make its return in Summer 2010.
Be sure to check back here soon as we will be announcing more cities shortly!
First Round of Cities:
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
Calgary, AB
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis, MN
Montreal, QC
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Portland/OR
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
Toronto, ON
Vancouver, BC
Washington, DC
First Round of Cities:
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
Calgary, AB
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis, MN
Montreal, QC
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Portland/OR
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
Toronto, ON
Vancouver, BC
Washington, DC
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27
Oct
09

LGBT News

I feel so tired tonight – don’t know why, but we had our first snow/slush pre-winter downpour and things are messy. Here’s some interesting lgbt highlights I found in the newsworld:

Hollywood director Paul Haggis quits Church of Scientology over ‘anti-gay’ stance – The Hollywood director and screenwriter Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology in protest against its position on gays and treatment of members who wish to leave.

Haggis, 56, who won an Oscar in 2005 for co-writing Crash, said that he was quitting the church after 35 years. “I could not, in good conscience, be a member of an organisation where gay-bashing was tolerated,” he wrote in a letter to it.

He also criticised the church for its alleged policy of “disconnection” in which members must cut ties with anyone deemed critical of the organisation, which counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its followers.

Haggis said that his wife, Deborah Rennard, had been forced to “disconnect” from her parents after they resigned from the church and did not speak to them for a year and a half.

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Large employers back retaining domestic partnership benefits (Starbucks recently joined the group)

Some of the Northwest’s largest employers today announced support for the Approve Referendum 71 campaign, which seeks to uphold state law extending marriage-like benefits to gay, lesbian and some senior couples.

Referendum 71 would ask voters to approve or reject the law. A consortium of religious conservatives collected signatures to get the issue on the November ballot with the hopes of repealing it.

In a joint statement, The Boeing Company, Nike, Microsoft Corp., Puget Sound Energy, RealNetworks and Vulcan Development Inc. said the law does not “sanction or encourage same-sex marriage … but recognizes that, regardless of their sexual orientation, people may enter into partnerships and create family units that deserve respect and equal treatment.

“We embrace everyone’s fundamental right to be judged on their merits and contributions rather than factors such as their sexual orientation,” the statement said.

Referendum 71 is a ballot referendum that asks Washington state voters to re-confirm the expansion of domestic partnership rights and obligations in Washington’s originally limited domestic partnership legislation. The expansion (SB 5688) was signed by Governor Christine Gregoire on May 18, 2009.
Supporters of the domestic partnership law[2] are asking voters to approve referendum 71 to keep the domestic partnership law. Over 200 organizations endorsed the approve 71 campaign including over 100 faith based communities.

IDAHO – INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA & TRANSPHOBIA (see annual report 2009)

Lesbian and gay podcasts aggressively promote LGBT visibility
October 26, 3:42 – PMGLBT Online Media Examiner – Genia Stevens

Many members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community criticize mainstream gay publications for what they consider a lack of content that promotes the true diversity present in the LGBT community. Some of these critics decided to launch their own visibility projects to ensure that all segments of the LGBT community receive the recognition they deserve.
Podcasting has become one of the most popular online visibility projects in the LGBT community. A quick Google search will result in hundreds of podcasts produced for the LGBT community. Here’s a list of podcasts Twitter users believe have earned space on everyone’s PDA: click for a list of podcasts

24
Oct
09

Who Shot Rock & Roll?

Who Shot Rock & Roll – The Brooklyn Museum Photo Exhibit
The rock & roll generation get’s to dust off the glam relics and pomp it up one more time. Personally, I’d be happier if this were an exhibition that addressed pop culture disillusionment, ha – but who am I kidding, it’s all disillusionment right?

Brooklyn, known center of the universe, is host to one of the oldest museums in Amerika, and The Brooklyn Museum is hosting a photographic exhibition by ‘the handmaidens to the rock-and-roll revolution’.

The print of Tina has just the right edge of surrealness & tinsel coating – and so it supports in a confidential way, the ‘gotta be tough to make it in this business’ edict. Actually, ‘this business’ of rock & roll is in dire straits, as most people are aware. I remember when I was growing up, there was that underground understanding that the bands who ’sold out’ and signed with a label were no longer worthy – well, anyone who went through the trenches of pop culture knows that routine. The idea was to keep music free, by and for the people – it was nothing about business or money. It was the ivy league kids who wanted to work in the cocaine cool industry instead of daddy’s widget factory that caused the music business to vault into an ultra competitive money making machine. Now we can see that is crumbling, and musicians are making it for themselves.

Well anyway, is it Rock & Roll that got shot or is it pop culture’s baby, the underground? Maybe it wasn’t a bullet, maybe it was a velvet underground hammer. There is no underground now anyway – everything is so info-highway, and hi-tech, that you can start learning how to put together tunes and within a month you can have an entire presence on the internet, and a CD under your arm. Can you imagine fifty years ago when you had to scratch and crawl just to get a song recorded? Everyone has computer home studios now…

In today’s world, the cycles of life and death in pop culture have sped up and repeated so many times, that there is little perspective left of any of the origins. Let’s face it, in pop culture, artifacts and icons are there for reusing – and of course for selling products. But to the new generations, pop trash is just fodder for remixing.

Remember, creativity and originality is best served at the end of a whitewashed trail.

tina

Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938). Tina Turner, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles (detail), October 1985. Chromogenic print. © Henry Diltz

October 30, 2009–January 31, 2010
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor

Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs that personalized, and frequently eroticized, the musicians, creating a visual identity for the genre. The photographers were handmaidens to the rock-and-roll revolution, and their images communicate the social and cultural transformations that rock has fostered since the1950s. full article

cross posted at: genres & moods

23
Oct
09

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction

20
Oct
09

Beats Me

20
Oct
09

The hill is long and and up a dark hole.

Just in case you’re still reading me here instead of at the new site over there, here is a tidbit.

I re-watched Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels last night in my continuing effort to ply copius amounts of post-modern noir goop atop of my hideous, disfigured post-consumer waste overmmind. I started a workshop today in Creative Non-Fiction (honest). It was deeply disturbing, nobody listened properly and everyone was laughing far too much at things that were not funny, and to boot – nobody could write – which explains the necessity of the workshop. I was about to refuse going again and some part of me wrestled the other part to the ground and put a dirty shoe on it’s throat and so on… so now I’m going to go. The homework: 1) bring a book or two that represent the kind of book you’d like to write. 2) write down ten words that you really like. wtf? 3) I think people are suspicious when they laugh too much, and don’t listen.

My stats for a week. If you happen to be one of the trans-titty-and other parts-seeking readers, well, I’m sure you’re not reading this, so whoever is reading this, thanks for your visits.

A recent stat pic

My stats for a week. If you happen to be one of the trans-titty-and other parts-seeking readers, well, I’m sure you’re not reading this, so whoever is reading this, thanks for your visits.
A recent stat pic

stats

My readers are continuing to grow, albeit slowly, spending a bit more time before they split, and well, it’s enough to keep going, but I’m working hard to muster a post with relish.

Here’s this for now -

This is a comment I made recently:

I constantly wonder why certain people read certain blogs; I even do mini profiler stalker things, over a few minutes to just wonder what the fascination is and who the writers and readers are. I don’t like the delayed sales pitch or political agenda, and I usually smell them pretty quick. I usually like out of the box, trickster, not really saying anything unless you read it close or get the innuendo. I like subtlety and people who write with character that just happens to be their own. I often tell people how I got to their site, cuz I think that’s interesting too. I’m glad you described your process of meandering around and sniffing things out – I have a blood test first thing so I couldn’t eat anything tonight. I always nibble on stuff in the evening so I def noticed it, nagging me a bit to postpone the test… This was a welcome distraction.

19
Oct
09

Woman denies murdering lesbian lover

That poor kid…

October 19, 2009 – 3:09PM AAP
A 62-year-old woman has denied murdering her lesbian lover.

Francis Lorraine Marshall pleaded not guilty in the South Australian Supreme Court on Monday to murdering her long-time partner, Bernadette Liston, in their Victor Harbor home.

Ms Liston’s body was found by her 12-year-old daughter when she returned from school in October 2002.

Police have said Ms Liston was bashed, stabbed and shot five times.

At an earlier Adelaide Magistrates Court hearing, prosecutors alleged Marshall murdered Ms Liston for having a four-year affair with a man who fathered the lesbian couple’s child.

Marshall will reappear in the Supreme Court next month.




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