Keeping You Warm

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have a new album coming out next year sweetly, aww-cutely titled, Belong. They are releasing two new songs in December (the 14th). This one is Heart in Your Heartbreak and it is addictive especially the delectably smooth "She was the heart in your heartbreak" chorus lyric. The guitar solo revs it up nicely. I just want to dance around in a cardigan now. The single cover art is gloriously lush and soft with its pastels. I still think the Say No to Love cover art is their best though. Both images compliment each other well though.

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/15047-heart-in-your-heartbreak/

Good album info: http://stereogum.com/565382/progress-report-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/franchises/progress-report/

Guy and Madeline

Love me some musicals that actually resemble real life. Life really can be a musical! This movie is called Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench and The Village Voice liked it. It was filmed in Boston. A Bostonian musical? Who would have thunk it? Two trailers below. The font on the poster is fantastic (love that blue, yellow, green, and red). Even though it comes from the Juno/Away We Go school of poster design (animated, drawn cutesy stuff), I really like the poster. Can't wait to see it. I'm a total sucker for bursting, exploding into song and dance in the middle of the street. Gets me every time.

I Can See It Now

So Baz Luhrmann, director of the zany and wonderful Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, and cheese ball Australia is doing The Great Gatsby as his next movie! What?! After the initial shock wore off, I became intrigued and excited about Baz's adaptation. The Great Gatsby is not a book you mess around with. It's a classic. But thinking of the beautifully described party scenes in the book, I can see Baz doing something special. The party scenes will be splendid. Will he keep it in the 20's? Will he incorporate musical numbers? Please yes. Flappers, music, lights, Gatsby's house! The green light! Oh boy, I'm getting very excited. However Baz often pulls the cheese and sap card which I really hope he doesn't do too much in this adaptation. Gatsby is not sappy or cheesy. I'm hoping he takes the Romeo + Juliet route here while using some of that Moulin Rouge spectacle. He's trying to find Daisy now according to the article below. Leo DiCaprio will be Gatsby and Tobey Maguire will be Nick apparently. Look at the list and pick your Daisy. I'm thinking Michelle Williams, Rebecca Hall, or Keira. Check out these articles. I'm very excited by all this and hopefully we will get a cast announcement super soon.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/baz-luhrmann-playing-the-field-to-pick-the-right-daisy-for-the-great-gatsby/

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/baz-luhrmann-worshops-the-great-gatsby-in-new-york/

Lush, Overflowing Waterfall Synth Beds of Bleakness

"Too Much"

Oh my goodness!

http://perezhilton.com/2010-10-27-kylie-minogue-announces-us-tour-in-april-and-may-of-2011-to-promote-her-album-aphrodite

Rihanna has a song on her new album called S & M. Chances of it referencing Mapplethorpe or Brian Ridley or Lyle Heeter? Not very likely.

Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter

I am currently loving this image by Robert Mapplethorpe, Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter (1979). Hope that doesn't make me creepy. The juxtaposition between classy living room and rough leather lovin' is genius. Everyone has a living room, regardless of how you like your sex. I enjoy the "Home Sweet Home" someone cheekily attached to the bottom.

An interesting take on the photo from http://sexuality-space.tumblr.com/post/925538175:

"Kenneth E. Silver, in “Master Bedrooms, Master Narratives” argues that these particular images (homokink couples at home) are challenging (to the American ‘public’) because they represent, not the pathology of homosex(uality) but its ‘ardent domestication’: they are attempts to depict “gay conjugal” space. The images reveal certain ‘narrative’ expectations regarding the appropriate locations of queer sex. Certain kinds of sex (homosexual, kinky) are linked to certain kinds of spaces (clubs, dungeons) : can sex be recreational (non-reproductive, playful) and residential?"

The people going to see this in a museum back when it was first shown would have the stereotype of S & M being grimy and grungy, done in dark alleys or something like that. But Mapplethorpe breaks that stereotype and the viewer sees their own living room in Brian and Lyle's living room. The S & M world doesn't seem as distant to these viewers as it did before.