I know the heyday of Hanoi Rocks was a bit before the time of the video star, but they would have been so perfect in that medium. I can’t even find any videos from Michael Monroe’s solo work. I want someone to make a music video, with use of a time machine, for Dead by […]
Brett Simon, of Assassination of a High School President fame, directed this cannibalistic video for the QOTSA song Sick, Sick, Sick. I think I vaguely thought the song was about living life to the fullest in a risk-taking and sexually-fulfilling way. I love the way it rhymes Problem and Hoodlum. Once I saw this video, […]
Shortly before the Nine Inch Nails video for Closer came out, a girl I knew was showing around a photo of Trent Reznor in the black with the ball gag, supposedly as proof that he was her boyfriend. Because Los Angeles is a surreal place, a girl who served me grilled cheese with bacon at […]
Ah, the “Satanic girls gone wild”. Pop quiz: Which rock star has dated more of the lovely beauties of Gothic Sluts than Marilyn Manson? Last time I checked, there is only one. Music video by Marilyn Manson performing Arma-goddamn-motherf**kin-geddon. Interscope Records Lyrics Death to ladies first, then the gentlemen Forcery, taxes, facelifts, abortion, nervous breakdance […]
Am I a dick for feeling like the engineering for this recording involved a Madonna filter autotune on the chorus? Not to mention the concept. Music video by Lady Gaga performing Judas. Lyrics Ohohohoh I’m in love with Judas Ohohohoh I’m in love with Judas Judas! Judas Judas! Judas Judas! Judas Judas! GAGA When he […]
One of the things I love about Los Angeles is that people take weirdo art seriously here. Tim Burton has a major exhibit running all summer at LACMA, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I don’t always feel good about some of the themes in his movie work, but I always adore his aesthetic […]
Many years ago, I came out to Los Angeles to visit my brother at UCLA and check out the Sunset Strip. I was young, fit, and fearless (a foolhardy adventurer), so I walked all the way from the UCLA campus to the happening part of the Sunset Strip at night. One long-haired metal boy serenaded […]
In Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, she described one of the characters as being either gay or a particularly dangerous sort of womanizer. No special reason why Brian Molko makes me think of this aphorism. Just my taste in men I guess. Not saying this applies to his actual personal life; just making an aesthetic […]
One of the oddest impacts of the internet is that being actually famous has become super unfun and being even a teeny bit internet famous can lead to a lot of the same headaches real famous people have — privacy invasion, unflattering paparazzi pics, strangers saying mean stuff — only without the resources actual successful […]