i would start the fire

JULIAN is back!

some people think they're always right

I TOLD YOU 2009 WAS GOING TO KICK ASS.

Starting February 11, 2009 @ 2 PM (maybe more like 4, you know, in case an alarm or two fails) the year officially begins to destroy its enemies ninja-style, with knives, blades, machetes, bombs, rifles and karate chops.

Need proof?: http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2009/01/strokes-time.php

oh my god i think i'm in control

1st, I'm a little late on this, but CONGRATULATIONS, AMERICA! We have emerged from the Reign of Misunderestimated Terror and Bad Strategery into a new era of HOPE AND CHANGE.

2nd, you should all check out Ida Maria, a Norwegian post-punk singer/songwriter because she ROCKS. Best song on her Myspace is the addicting "Oh My God," for its existential passion.

image from http://myspace.com/idamaria

She's coming to NYC with Glasvegas for two March dates. On March 28th, she'll open at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and on March 30, she'll open at Webster Hall. Tickets are $22 in advance, and I think they go on sale today.

3rd: Thanks to Rebecca for this tip. Go here: http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/01/video_michael_pitt_stars_in_ys.html to watch Michael Pitt in the Fall 2009 YSL video... It's so HOT it should be illegal.

4th: OMG LOST RETURNED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, and life will never be the same. I don't want to get into it because I can get pretty incoherent in my LOST rants. I rely on the geniuses at Lostpedia for that, but let me tell you that I think the premiere showed that we're all in for great surprises, twists, and turns this season, and with Marvin Candle/Mark Wickmund/Edgar Halliwax/Pierre Chang opening the season, I'm already pleased. Pleased, but not satisfied. Keep it coming, writers.

oooooooh oooohh la da da da da

Fleet Foxes are a fucking joke, right?

he hit me and it felt like a kiss

http://www.sundress.net/wickedalice/contents28.html

3 of my poems are out in Wicked Alice. Please read!

birthday mambo

Adam Green.

There are no words. (image from bbc.co.uk)

up rolls the riot van

Sex Fox graces the cover of Details with his face. I've never been more excited for LOST to return, which it does, in 1 time-moving-slow-as-a-snail week. Is Locke really dead? Does Ben still pull all the strings off-Island? Which dead people can Hurley see? Did Sawyer and Juliet get busy on the disappearing Island? Is Richard's eyeliner tattooed on his lids?

If the writers can answer at least one of these questions in season 5, I will be satisfied.

you're my #1 guy

New songs up on Lissy Trullie's myspace. They sound much more new wave than the pre-existing demos, but I like them! You can feel the absolute need to dance that's so overwhelming at her live shows ooze from the computer speakers into your living/bed/bathroom. Shake it!
Check out the tracks, including my new fave "She Said" and her addicting cover of Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor," or better yet, buy tickets to see Lissy Trullie at the Mercury Lounge on February 11.

In "My Life" news, I went to The Scene's record release party in the Bronx on Saturday night. It was my first venture deep into the mysterious 4th boro, and I have to say I got more than I bargained for: a headbandtastic evening complete with kegs, "Last Night" and "Paper Planes" renditions, and hot gangsta pot smokin (younger) boys! Here's a shot of Lox and Beef at their finest (as always, duh!)

And I'm reading Roberto Bolano's 2666... I really believe he's the best writer I've ever read (sorry, JD.) But I think the best thing about Bolano's work is that he gives ultimate authority to language... and poetry, specifically. I could get into a crazy rant right now but I'm only 100 pages into the epic, so I better wait.

Also, if you watched GG tonight (Oh, Chuck, you fool!!!), did you catch the Paul Rudd allusion??? Cher's step brother in Clueless? Yeah, that's P-Funk. That's what I'm talkin about, baby! WIKI WIKI.

we're best friends

So, you know, post-holiday buzz kill hovers in the air this 1st work week back. I'm already feeling lazy because I didn't make any 2008 lists, but that's because my 6 year old Dell desktop died in New York while Scott and I found ourselves stuck in an ice storm in a Sheetz parking lot in Pennsylvania this Christmas. Also because NYE at Santos was pretty much a haze, illustrated only by the photo of me and my mystery new best friend in the entry below.

All excuses aside, though, 2008 was a pretty good year. I would call it "The Year of The Virgins," only because my concert sched for 2008 was capped, beginning and end, by those sexy boys. I'm gonna keep that train moving with a V-day show in Brooklyn this year. I'm also predicting that Lissie Trullie is going to BLOW UP in 2009, presuming she does release an album this Spring. Another prediction: RPATZ mania continues full throttle with the movie New Moon and the DVD release of Twilight (I'll be in line for it, baby.) 

Reluctantly I will tell you that I have a little bit of stored up hope (post-Obama win, maybe?) that the Strokes really willlllllll get their acts together this year.?.???.....

All I know for sure is that life is good. My boyfriend just bought me my favorite freaking movie of 2008 on DVD: PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. Franco, get in me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Everything is possible.