song of the week: one life stand

"One Life Stand"
Hot Chip
directed by Roel Wouters

The shoulder seesaw dance is the new Chicken Noodle Soup with the soda on the side.

song of the week: night by night

"Night by Night"
Chromeo
directed by Jeremie Rozan/Surface 2 Air

Midday dance party in an abandoned warehouse with multiple partners? YES, PLEASE!

carry all

Man Tote, Price Upon Request
Pabst Blue Ribbon
The ultimate man tote and it's all mine!

song of the week: 90% of you

"90% of Me Is You"
Gwen McCrae
1974

Good stuff.

song of the week: "moments in love"

"Moments in Love"
Art of Noise
1984

song of the week: ""love like a sunset"

I'm pretty susceptible to semi-indulgent instrumentals. Then again, the last time I saw Phoenix, I think indulgent was the order of the day.

song of the week: heart rate rapid

"Heart Rate Rapid"
Metronomy
Directed by Dandilion Wind Opaine

Doesn't this look like the kind video Martin Margiela would make if he did music videos? It's a bit of a stretch, but you get it, right?

soul train

"Girls"
Moments and Whatnauts
1975

I heard this song when I was working a temp job at Dolce & Gabbana's corporate office last week. Could this song be more perfect?

p.s. Want some more 70s soul group costume nonsense?

endorsement: samuel adams winter lager

Samuel Adams Winter Lager
I had crab cake sandwiches for dinner tonight and this seasonal beer could not have complemented it better. I know I've been posting quite a bit about food and beverage recently, but it's cold outside and it only seems appropriate to indulge as I become friendlier with my space heater.

the girl

I finally watched "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" for the first time and aside from the charismatic and loose performances from the film's two male leads, the real story of the film is Katharine Ross as the Jeanne Moreau ideal in their "Jules and Jim"-esque semi-love triangle. Soft, doe eyed, and smart, she's the babe and yet she knows exactly what she wants and doesn't go along for the ride just for the boys, but as a lark for herself. I mean, wouldn't we all want to ride on a bike with her on some sunny prairie?

the pick up artist

Sketches by Richard Haines
What I Saw Today
I'm glad someone else finds this city so inspiring.

can't get you out of my head

Three moments that made me powerless to this pop/r&b/dance jam from 1986:
1. Shows up somewhere in between Missy Elliott and Public Enemy on "No Pause" by Girl Talk
2. Shows up in vinyl form at a street vendor I passed the other week on Sixth Ave near the IFC Center
3. Shows up in a scene from Garth Jennings's "Son of Rambow"

I can't escape it!

last of the followers

Okay, okay, I get it now. It's everything they say it is.

new age

Things sound like they might be getting a little funkier on TV On The Radio's upcoming album, "Dear Science,":

"Golden Age"

ladies and gentleman, introducing...

Sessilee Lopez photographed by Steven Meisel
Vogue Italia, July 2008

"BAM! Beauty hit me."--Martin Lawrence, "You So Crazy"

the island

You'll have to excuse the lack of posting lately. I have been completely, head over heels, absofuckinglutely enamored with "Lost." I know I'm four years too late but I just finished season one and I think it's safe to say I'm officially hooked.

p.s. If you ruin anything for me beyond season one I will hunt you down and kill you. I wish I was joking.

vintage fashion

Do you have about 500 hours to kill on the internet? Well, you're just in luck, especially if you were a fan of the Saturday morning fashion television show, "Fashion File." For the brief time I had cable in the late '90s, I remember from time to time waking up randomly on Saturday mornings just in to stumble upon the Canadian fashion news program on E! that featured coverage of the latest fashion shows, trends, models, and of course, the vast knowledge and curiosity of host Tim Blanks. Once again, I have found "Fashion File", but this time on their website that offers an extensive library of video segments from just about every designer you can think of. Listening to Tim Blanks wax poetically about the genius of Karl Lagerfeld or Alber Elbaz is always a pleasure, but these videos call to mind the forgotten moments in fashion that were fun and subversive at the time but seem like forever ago. Tom Ford's erotica-soaked tenure at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent or the "living instillations" of Imitation of Christ made me wonder if these ideas and the people behind them would be relevant in today's fashion gauntlet. Oh well, we can just watch and enjoy. Trust me, you will watch more than one.

Click here for videos.

song of the week: "cross the dancefloor"

Madonna this. Madonna that. To pause from the great debate about how much her new Timbaland produced sound tickles our fancy, I offer something closely akin to her last album:


"Cross the Dancefloor"
Treasure Fingers


"New York Story"
Lee Douglas


Is all of this disco referencing in recent dance music an answer to the sucked dried but oft-imitated pop-synth sound of '80s dance that has been so popular since the turn of the millennium?

Click here and here if you liked what you heard. P.S., Thanks to Maggie for turning me on to Treasure Fingers. That sounded kind of dirty, but she kinda liked it.

disco is dead pt. 2

"Beatific"
Glass Candy

Doesn't this song make you want to roller skate? Just a thought.

rain on me

Blackout sunglasses, $14
Urban Outfitters
Maybe if I wear my new sunglasses it will finally stop raining and feel like spring.