| Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 |
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It's pronounced "goat blood." Or "goat-uh blue-d." Or however you want.
Older Art Lady: Tell me what your sign says? Matt: It says, "Goteblüd." Older Art Lady: I don't want to read that! Recently my pal Matt Goteblüd, of Goteblüd store/gallery in San Francisco (he and Ed Luce also publish Ed's really great comic book "Wuvable Oaf"), emailed me and asked if I would be his assistant at the Goteblüd booth at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair at the Pacific Design Center.  So I did that. Thursday we set up. Then Friday and Saturday and Sunday we hung out at the booth and told about two dozen women in their 30s that the old issues of "Sassy" in the "You Are Her" exhibit were not for sale. Stuff that happened: Checked out all kinds of old-school art people. Black clothes + glasses w/brightly colored frames. Every time I'd walk past the Blum + Poe showroom on my way to dispose of another paper cup that had once held hot tea, I'd watch someone almost make the mistake of stepping on the pieces of felt they had on the floor. This reminded me of an argument about touching stuff that I had with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zombietruckstop not long ago. He got scolded by a guard at Redcat once for touching a Margaret Kilgallen structure that was located in the center of the room. In his defense, there was a little door on the structure that seemed to be inviting interaction, and there was no specific notice not to touch it. But my personal rule is always don't touch it or step on it unless you ask first. Or unless it's a chocolate bust you're encouraged to gnaw on or a piece of candy in a pile in a corner of the room that you're supposed to pick up and eat. Which happens. When I told ZTS about my personal rule--one that I extrapolated and decided he should follow too--he said, "You don't make the rules about art!" It's now one of my favorite recent things he's said to me. Gave donuts and banana whoopie pies to people in other booths. I bought the donuts. I made the banana whoopie pies. Having Jessica E. play the Chills' "Brave Words" record, among many she played that were great, on the turntable set up in the back. This song is not on that album. Enjoyed the Mastodon Maze from brand new L.A. gallery Mastodon Mesa, which is currently living in a temp space at the Pacific Design Center. Graham and Mya, who curate MM, told me Vin Diesel and Carl Reiner came in. Not together. When Mya was a kid she was in "The Man With Two Brains" and so she got to introduce her adult self to her old director. I like that story. I also liked the singing blowdryer installation, which was a bunch of blowdryers on the floor with speakers where their blowy parts would have been. They made a spooky choral sound instead of drying things. Saw Nicole Kidman at the coffee shop next to the Pacific Design Center. She looks stiff in the face, but happy all the same. The shop is called Kaffee Wien so I spent all weekend saying, "COFFEE-WEEN!" to moroccomole at random moments. Enjoyed browsing at all the cool shit at the Ooga Booga booth. Wendy from Ooga Booga was the lady who made our wing of the art fair happen. If you live in Los Angeles, or you're just visiting, you gotta go down to Chinatown and visit Ooga Booga and buy something weird there. You'll be happy you did. I wore my Wuvable Oaf t-shirt on Sunday and five different people commented. Four were women who said, "That's YOU!" and one was a guy who said, "I went to a pool party like that last summer." For the record, I do not resemble the Oaf beyond my having a shaved head. Proof: http://www.wuvableoaf.com/At one point a DJ showed up to take over the turntables and played very spacey house music. This caused Matt to serve the runway like he was Chanel Iman. He also made the booty go pop. A freaky older guy came by the booth to ask if we were giving anything away. We weren't. He walked off. Then Matt said, "Oh wait, take this crumpled plastic cup. It's by Martin Creed." But the guy was already out of earshot. Saw some art I loved by Tauba Auerbach and Chris Johanson and Josh Smith: |
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| Saturday, February 6th, 2010 |
| 5:59 pm |
My email got hacked.
Anyone who got Viagra spam from me, that was someone who decided to break into my email. I know you don't need Viagra. |
| Friday, February 5th, 2010 |
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| Thursday, January 28th, 2010 |
| 6:54 pm |
TEAM GOTEBLUD, I AM ON IT.
I'm going to be at the Pacific Design Center all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Matt W of GoteBlud fame. (go here to find him on LJ goteblud) GoteBlud will have a booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the big L.A. art fair, this weekend from 11-7 on Friday and Saturday and 11-6 on Sunday. I'm going to be there with Matt as he sells vintage zines, just assisting and bringing snacks. Some of these awesome zines are rare and totally desirable. Bring money. Also on display at the GoteBlud booth will be a traveling version of the "You Are Her" show featuring hundreds of Riot Grrl zines from the 1990s. I alphabetized them today. Stop by and admire my alphabet skill. Favorite title that I used to own that I found in the boxes today: "Everything I Touch Turns to Shit and Garbage." More excellently, Ooga Booga has a booth near us too. There's a turntable in our little wing and people are just putting records on it. Awesome SF art place Jack Hanley Gallery has a space too. A day pass is $16. As I left the PDC today after set-up, a big opening night reception was getting underway and fancy people were showing up. I was carrying a pair of scissors (Matt needed me to bring some today) and was given a wide berth. http://artlosangelesfair.com/ |
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| Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 |
| 10:57 am |
Ten items or less.
1. Watched this on TV over the weekend:  I realized that Santo would be the best kind of celebrity to be. You get all the money and all the mass adoration and then total anonymity anytime you took off the mask. You could go to the grocery store or hang out with your friends and as long as they didn't get drunk and loudly announce, "Check it out. This asshole here is SANTO!" then you could just have a great life. 2. Here's a weird thing. While Movies.com switches over to its new relaunch version, some people see the old page and some people see the new page. And even though I always see the new page, sometimes the reviews appear or don't appear. And it feels like a random occurrence every time. It's a technology thing that they'll work out, but in the meantime it's a fun game to go to the site and see what movies you can read about and which ones you can't. Like, for example, I reviewed the acclaimed indies "Fish Tank" and "Police, Adjective" and sent them off to my editor but they never showed up on either version of the site. And then, out of nowwhere, somebody linked me to my own "Legion" review from last Friday and boom, there's "Fish Tank" and "Police, Adjective" and even the new indie "Bitch Slap." For the record, in case this link happens to take you to some porn site on accident, I liked "Fish Tank," disliked "Bitch Slap" and think "Police, Adjective" is essential viewing. http://www.movies.com/movie-reviews/bitchslap-review/dave-white/1301983.Weedeater is a band that I enjoy. 4. moroccomole was fighting off a cold or something earlier this week. He was lethargic and sore all day Monday. Fell asleep on the couch for an hour in the early afternoon. Woke up and felt gross. I forced him into the shower and then into some pajamas. Then I went to Greenblatt's for sick-food. Chicken matzo soup, potato knish, black-and-white cookie. I like it when he's sick/borderline sick/maybe just fatigued/whatever because then I get to eat that food too. He took some knock-out drugs and went to sleep at like 6:30 that night and slept for almost 15 hours. So they did the trick. 5. Went to the Warner Bros. lot for a screening. Wonder if Yanic Truesdale, who co-starred on "Gilmore Girls," knows that a parking space with his name on it is still waiting outside of one of their big soundstages. All the rest of them have been repainted for people working on "Chuck." His remains. 6. This woman has an airplane for a dick.  [from sulthmoor and then from hipster runoff] 7. xtreem_aaron never fails to come through with great things to look at... |
| Monday, January 25th, 2010 |
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| Thursday, January 21st, 2010 |
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| Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 |
| 9:04 am |
A thing I love about Los Angeles
When it rains, the whole city goes haywire. Car accidents go up three million percent. Events are cancelled ( moroccomole had an Outfest thing to do last night and they shut it down), open-air businesses don't know what to do. It's the equivalent of what happened in Texas every time it snowed. The city doesn't shut down, but it's hobbled a bit. I won't get on the freeways here when it rains. I like my life and my car too much. My friends call me a pussy. I don't care. I just won't do it. I'll drive to a screening or some other short distance, but that's it. I like how it gets as cold as Los Angeles ever gets while this happens and you can see your breath. I like that it cleans off all the dusty buildings. I get freaked out and horrified when I see houses mudsliding down hills. I like that it washes off our apartment balcony. I like that when my boots get soaked and I have to dry them by the wall heater in the bathroom that when I put them back on again I have warm boots. I like knowing Main Street USA at Disneyland is flooding. I like how the local news goes out of their minds with STORMWATCH!!! coverage all day. They interrupt shows for it. I like being able to drive to the Fox lot like I did last night for a screening of "Tooth Fairy" (not the worst kid-movie ever made, by the way, review coming soon on Movies.com) and having most of Santa Monica Blvd to myself because no one else wants to go out in it, either. I'm a huge fan of thunder and we got some of that yesterday. There was even a tornado in Orange County. Not so big on tornados. I don't miss that particular Texas feature at all. I also don't like it when I forget and leave my umbrella behind in a screening room on the Fox lot like I did last night. It had let up some by the time the movie was over so it didn't feel odd walking back to my car and driving home without it. Another thing about the Fox studio lot: when it's dark and stormy their parking garage--already a labyrinth that goes down down down into the earth--is like psychotic-murderer-coming-up-behind-you spooky. On Monday we walked to Irv's for lunch. It was a holiday and it was pouring so we knew that Sonia would be missing both the casual sidewalk business as well as the business from West Hollywood City Hall across the street. When it rains that's our cue to have lunch there. She has a small covered area behind the kitchen with four tables for people who don't want to order their food to-go. All the tables in front that are shielded from the water by giant umbrellas were soaked anyway and covered in plastic bags. And the roof is sort of slanted so water just pours down onto you when you try to order. You have to be devoted to go there on a rainy day. And she just stays open. Weirdly enough, while we were there, a small but steady stream of people walked in to pick up to-go orders and Sean, Sonia's brother, was running back and forth with neighborhood deliveries. |
| Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 |
| 11:23 am |
Every year...
I go, "Oh, look who's going to be at Coachella!" and then I remember that I hate/ignore 95% of all the other bands there and that it's the devil's butthole of heat and misery and I'd be carrying an umbrella around with me all day. Then I'm done thinking about it. But still. It'd be terrific to see: |
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| Friday, January 15th, 2010 |
| 9:36 pm |
Movies.com is rebooting and sputtering and whatnot
There seems to be a short-circuit on Movies.com and my reviews come and go today. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. Who knows why. They're beta-testing a relaunch, that I know. They'll get it worked out. I'll repost when it's fixed... |
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| Thursday, January 14th, 2010 |
| 1:17 pm |
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