Dominos Partie Deux
April 11, 2009
neat - o.
THE FALL OF DIM MAK!
February 2, 2009
OK, HI PEOPLE. STEVE INVITED ME TO “BLOG”. SO LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE SCREWED. HERE WE GO…
Hello. I’m Justin Pearson, age 33, a leo, and proud parent of Gee Gee Pearson-Edwards. I’m better known for such projects like, The Locust and Three One G records. Anyhow, Steve and I have some history and well, the planets aligned and brought my new band to the Dim Mak table… ALL LEATHER. A brief explanation of All Leather: As some of you may or may not know, being a musician in this day and age, well being a musician with dignity and integrity, leaves you somewhere below the poverty line, trying to pull off working odd jobs and hustling in order to play, rehearse, and tour. So I landed this night job, when not on tour, at a gay club in San Diego, where I live (I’m straight guys, sorry). I found myself night after night, hearing this electronic dog shit music over and over and over. Don’t get me wrong, I hear that the stuff I play, is “crap”, “noise”, etc. But I’m sort of speaking from an educated musical standpoint. Or at least a creative artistic perspective. What I’m referencing is run of the mill, cookie cutter, dance music. But over the course of the nights spent stopping people from jerking each other off, plunging toilets, getting hit on my leather daddies, and trying to figure out the gender of some of the patrons, I would hear a gem among the sea of musical turds. Please keep in mind, this is only my opinion and well, opinions are like assholes… everybody has one. I stumbled upon Ida Corr’s “Let Me Think About It”. Now take a track like that, or even some of Britney’s “hits” and you have something substantial. What I envisioned was music like “Let Me Think About It”, but with more abrasive elements and better vocals as well as more interesting lyrical content (the lyrics to that track are about as lame as you can get). I combined forces with two friends, Nathan Joyner and Jung Sing, and have an outcome that is influenced by whatever sort of musical genre or culture that I’m trying to explain here, and applied it to a background with actual musicians, able to pull off live shows not attached to someone rocking out (or not rocking out) in front of a laptop. Boring shit in my opinion. So i met with Steve, we shot the shit, and jumped in bed with each other, potentially bridging some sort of gap between musical this and musical that. All Leather has had foreplay with some musical outfits like Otto Von Schirach, MSTRKRFT, SQZMYLMS, and Hawnay Troof, falling in the remix world, while the band actually covering a version of “Let Me Think About It” with slightly altered lyrics and added balls. Now we are here to let you think about it. Good luck, you might need it. See you all soon when i have something “important” to blog about. Over and out.
JP
xoxo
Requiem for a Dream: Review – SPOILER ALERT!!
June 6, 2008
ok, what? who likes this shit? i remember watching this when it came out like a millions years ago & finding it amazing, yet disturbing. the “ass to ass” scene i remember being traumatic to watch, but i barely even noticed it this time around. is this because i’ve become desensitized, or is this movie just poorly made, pretending to have cutting edge cinematography, & i am now old enough to recognize it?
tigga, please!
what’s up with the split-screen business?? it’s the same fucking frame with a thick, black line drawn down the middle!
ok, ok, i get it, the theme of the movie is that everyone in it has their “fix”.
great, now what? mom watches TV; the son does heroine. so??? take a walk down to coney island with a hand-held video camera and film your own version of this bullshit any day of the week.
ugh, the more i write about this, the more i am pissed off that i bought this movie, & now will have to lose money on selling it to the neighborhood used DVD store.
honestly, the only reason i bought this movie in the first place was cos i remember thinking it was cool when their pupils dilated, & i like [movies about] drugs…
ok, first things first: Sex and the Shitty – The Movie SPOILER ALERT!!
June 3, 2008
ok, i must admit that i have watched every episode, on DVD, of the poorly-crafted, pseduo-cleverly written television series. and i even spent money that i really didn’t have on the admission fee to see the movie. [honestly, i went mostly so i could have movie theatre popcorn and fountain cherry coke.] all the while, still mocking the shit out of this show, so the natural progression would be to, like the majority of the female and gay male population, go to the theatre and see this fluff blockbuster!
throughout the television series, i constantly thought to myself, “how is it that 4 educated, intelligent, supposedly-cultured New York women have only men, sex, clothes, shoes and drinks to discuss? i mean one of them has their juris doctorate from Harvard, for christ’s sake!” i also had thoughts that this show was giving women a bad rap. i mean, i talk my fair share of girly game, but i wish these women were not represented as so vapid.
now, 4ish years later, all that could run through my mind was, “how are these middle-aged women gonna pull off that bullshit for 2+ hours?”
this time, the focus was different, it was mostly about “the relationship”; granted, sex, shoes & designers came up, but they took the back burner to the relationship nucleus - definitely more age appropriate.
also, they seemed to, by the end of the 2.5 hours, achieve the impossible: carrie - pinned down big, charlotte - got pregnant, miranda - stopped thinking of herself for once & samantha - well, samantha reverted back to the samantha we all knew in days of yore, except she now has a dog that humps everything - how novel.
this movie neither disappointed nor impressed me; honestly, i left the theatre feeling exactly what i expected to feel: unenlightened, yet slightly amused & entertained.
i would give this movie an A for effort, but probably a C+, [the “+” is me being generous] overall.
