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Surreal sightings at the PMA
Salvador Dali wasn’t the only surreal thing happening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art yesterday. Legwarmers, a surreal fashion trend, made an appearance in the gallery full of ants and decomposing donkeys. Compare and contrast to MoMA’s patrons, who wear their underwear on the outside. Also, the Dali gift shop is quite surreal, as demonstrated […]
MOMA fashion police
The recently re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is overwhelming. Not only is the place filled with sculpture, photos, drawings, paintings, and film, it’s filled with people. Lots and lots of people. Many of them are wearing questionable clothing. Is it art? Exhibits A and B: a protest against the traditional repression of undergarments?
Futureheads: Philly concert review
Finally there’s an online review (Inky: registration required) of Wednesday’s Futureheads show at the TLA. I was worried that I’d have to write one myself instead of implementing the original plan: wait for someone else to do the work, link to it, and call it a day. Says Patrick Berkery at the Inquirer: when [they] […]
Sax dot com
Thanks to Clair, who probably just wanted to relax after a long day of work last Thursday but instead endured an expletive-laden phone call about DVD players and why the $&*@ would they put two red holes in the back when there is only one &@@!@& red plug and what kind of moron wrote that […]
The Futureheads: ultimate winter blah antidote
The anti-winter blahs project is going well. I did everything on my previous list except for the Davey and Goliath marathon, which I had down for the wrong date and which conflicted with the Iguanas show that I didn’t get to because Bright Eyes played at the Academy of Music on the same night, but […]
Scopitones, anyone?
Live from Scopitones.com, here are some Scopitone* videos for your Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure: Calendar Girl – Neil Sedaka Queen of the House – Jody Miller My Teenage Fallout Queen (a significant song of social protest that you can dance to) – George McKelvey *What’s a Scopitone? According to Wikipedia: In the 1960s, French technology […]