I saw Band of Skulls 4 times in 2009 and I still haven’t had enough of this UK trio. I’ve RSVP’d for a couple parties @ SXSW so hopefully I’ll be able to catch them sometime soon. I need my fix! Here’s there new video for the song “Friends” from the New Moon Soundrack.
I can tell you about the band 100 Monkeys but chances are you won’t read anything I’m saying because you’re probably too busy screaming. Why? Because 100 Monkeys features Jackson Rathbone, better known as dreamboat Jasper Cullen from the Twilight Saga. And that’s fine.
One of my favorite albums of late summer/early fall is Sea Wolf’s latest White Water, White Bloom (itunes). There is something soothing and hypnotic about the rhythm of Alex Church’s acoustic guitar that, when paired with his lazily romantic lyrics makes this record work amazingly well in more intimate, laid back environments. I was also bumping it in the tour van for a string of dates up and down the west coast. Now I can’t hear this record and not think about the changing leaves.
In the spirit of Halloween, below is the video for “Wicked Blood” off of White Water, White Bloom starring fan of the LA music scene Shannyn Sossamon (Rules of Attaction, A Knight’s Tale). I met her once sitting next to her at an Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert at The Regent downtown and she was even more beautiful in person. Speaking of beautiful actors…
Because AvantTrash is a very vampire friendly place, I’m glad to announce that on November 6th, Sea Wolf, alongside Band of Skulls, Death Cab for Cutie and Anya Marina will be performing in a special Twilight: New Moon event at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles. Select cast members will be on hand for a Q&A afterwards. Bring your earplugs, the vampy teens will be in full effect.
I’m infinitely creeped out by the new trailer for New Moon, the 2nd film in the Mormon Teen Vamporn Twilight saga. Chimpy Eddie Munster Werewolf Tribe (What 17-yr-old gains 30lbs of muscle to keep his role)? Unconvincing “Adrenaline Junkie” Kristen Stewart? Shirtless Emo Robert Pattinson (see Little Ashes for homoerotic moneyshot)
Just fuck already, kids! That’s the easiest way to get someone out of your system! Vampy glamour or not once these kids finally hit it it will go from “I can’t live without you. :( ” to “Um, yeah so…you’re great and all… that was fun… I’ve got your number…i’ll call you, really! Let’s get together again, uh, uh…soon!”
By far the creeeeeeeeepiest part of this trailer was “you’re how old?” Dakota Fanning making scarlet sexy immortal jailbait eyes at us like a mini-Madonna ca.1983? Wasn’t she just a yellow baby-toothed 90-year-old Gollem in a tweens body?
I might have to skip this one, I’m in fear of the Mormons taking my soul or wanting to move to Washington or some shit. I’m gonna go have a cry in the shower until I shake some of this confusion.
My friend Bunny Holiday (of Lady Sinatra) is the Doorman at The Viper Room here in West Hollywood. I spend entirely too much time there because I don’t have to work and live 440 ft from the best dive on the strip. Since I met him, Bunny has been singing the praises of Singer/Songwriter A.A. Bondy.
A.A. Bondy is the solo acoustic project of Scott Bondy from the 90’s Alabama rock band Verbena. His 2007 debut American Hearts garnered praise from indie publications and festival goers of last year’s SXSW but remains largely under the radar. A.A. Bondy has announced a run of headlining dates around the September 1, 2009 release of his sophomore album, When The Devil’s Loose.
MST3K (actually RiffTrax) +VAMPIRES = Wishing AliUptown a good week. She’s been going through some difficult times. Give her your love.
Surprise, surprise a post that’s long overdue. Another thing that might not shock you is that I was at Best Buy at 10 a.m. the day the True Blood Season 1 DVD and soundtrack were released. That’s right, had to get it right then, even though I couldn’t watch it until I got home from work. And I also need to add to the ridiculousness of it all by mentioning I live a block away from Best Buy. I can’t always explain why I do the things I do.
No one’s gonna get that. Oh well.
I think this poster is badass. It did take me awhile to figure it out. I thought their promo poster for the first season was pretty cool, and loved seeing it all over Chicago, so I hope this one makes an appearance in my city too. And while I am beyond excited for Season 2 of HBO’s True Blood (back in June), I have to call bullshit on a couple things. Now I realize these are things that no one else gives a shit about, but I have to be heard on these.
Don’t get me wrong, I have total fealty towards vampires, that’ll never change. But you gotta admit, zombies are all the rage. They’re what the kids are into these days. I love me some zombies too, and I love zombie makeup. I would do zombie makeup for a porno, and I may!
The shoes are amazing for so many reasons. The pinup girls are awesome cause they are hot and shit…not really all that zombie-ish though. I would have more decaying flesh falling off and stuff. But that’s just me. Actually, not just me cause it seems like people can’t get enough of the brain-eating variety. And I think that’s probably a sign of the oncoming zombie apocalypse (which I am ready for, Thriller-dance and all).
Let me give you a hint, he’s not sucking blood in this one.
Although it has only been screened at select events and not out until May 8th (in limited release), Little Ashes is creating a big buzz with great thanks to media fodder and Twilight vamp Robert Pattinson starring in this art flick.
From the shows beginning, an involved viral marketing campaign has been central to True Blood’s popularity. It’s a good show, don’t get me wrong (or my co-author will kill me). I think had they not done things like giving samples of TruBlood and replaced their posters with defaced anti-vampire slogans, enough people might not have watched the show and it would have gone the route of John From Cincinnati as a One Season Wonder that died before it’s time.
Their latest campaign is a wooden poster sized flat with stakes cut out at the bottom for people to break off and the tagline, “In case of Vampire” with a diagram of stabbing a vampire in the heart. Clever. I haven’t seen these yet in L.A. and I kind of fear that people will actually get stabbed or mugged with them. Nobody wants to be poked by a stick! “Gives me your money or i’ll pokes ya!” The homeless down in Hollywood might try to build a shack out of them (this applies to the forclosed in Beverly Hills as well). But it looks to me that the stakes have been screwed down for just that reason. HBO has a great legal department, did I mention they are also VAMPIRES!
Okay, I assume most people relatively savvy to the internets know about Hulu-that’s not what this post is about. But I do love it verah much. Fell asleep to ‘A League of their Own’ last night. Thanks Hulu!
I’m also digging their commercials-you probably saw Alec Baldwin’s version if you watched the Superbowl. But when I saw Eliza Dushku’s, I was overcome by the sexiness and the evil slayer/dollhouse active fantasies that followed. That thing she did with her tongue…??? See for yourself.
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Books on tape. Well, not so much tape as CD. And not even CD really, cause it’s on my iTunes. So…books on mp3 I guess. The story goes…
I’ve read all of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mystery books, and also love the crap out of True Blood (say what?). Not surprisingly, I sung the HBO show’s praises to everyone who would listen, or pretend to listen. My brother (Brother One, for now) got into the show, thanks to yours truly, and I recommended he read the books. So at Thanksgiving, I brought the first 3 books of the series home for him to read.
For every one thing I post on here (at length, not little blurbs), I must write 3 dead drafts that just get half written with brilliance and I never have time to finish them. ( Sorry, tribute to Ron Asheton and the time I met him backstage at SXSW with Iggy, Spoon and Kings of Leon!)
I still hate my job, but still have one. All 50 hours of it. So much anger for my livelihood. I used to be poor, it was the happiest I’ve ever been. Zero was there and that’s about all that matters.
Something my ex-roommate and I could actually bond over-me, with the slight vampire obsession, and her-the late twenties chick who is really a teenage gay boy inside, where it counts, what, with her love of boy bands, useless pop trivia, and of course, High School Musical. I’ll admit to watching a scene or two, and I gotta say, the music in this parody is almost on par with HSM. So when I stumbled across this YouTube video of a ‘mash-up’ of our our two interests I thought of her, bless her heart. I found it amusing, especially the reference to young Hollywood actors, and the wigs. Great parody. That’s all.
Our new favorite movie…well, the poster and concept at least. Reposted from DeadLantern.com.
Two Thumbs Up!
People in other countries make really great commercials.
So after much arguing/bribing, I’d finally convinced my roommate to see Twilight with me. She tolerates my vampire, ahem, problem. She unmercilessly makes fun of me, but she does understand. Bitch creams herself for Lord of the Rings, so we see eye-to-eye on the whole nerd-obsession thing. But alas, she came to me the other day with the concern that it wouldn’t have enough sex in the movie to make sitting through it tolerable. I should have lied, but I came clean and told her that we’d be lucky for a hot make-out sesh or two, and she bailed on me. And I don’t dislike anyone that much to force them to come with me. Poo.
The new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! (via The Leaky Cauldron).
But I’m just pissed because The Golden Compass wasn’t very good and didn’t get a sequel.
So there is no point of trampling chubby goth girls over it.
Thanks to Atlantic Records, I got a pre-release of the soundtrack to the Twilight movie, in theaters November 21st. The CD’s arrival came just shy of it’s release, so I am cranking this review out for y’all. I just said y’all. The soundtrack features several previously unreleased songs, by Paramore, Linkin Park, Perry Farrell and the movie’s Britishly attractive star, Robert Pattinson (insert swoon here).
