Urban Honking

“Omarion” is the new “binoculars.” Etymology: “Our weekend plans are so binoculars, I require a higher resolution to imagine their blinding-hot shine. Shall I bring a telescope? Are we up in the planetarium? So Omarion.” NOTE: I do not expect this to take off, in mine or any other lexicon. 1. Beardly Omarion has been […]

Favianna Rodriguez and Oakland’s East Side Arts Alliance are having a political poster sale in NYC on Weds. I am partial to Soviet constructivist poster art, and these folks have combined it with Diego Rivera and Brent Rollins Ego Trip aesthetics. I am loving their Zapatistas US stylee. Ridonculous band posters by Aesthetic Apparatus. I […]

Here is how I feel. I am sick in the apt, sleeping, reading back-issues of teen mags and choosing courses from the NYU spring sem “it is cheaper if you don’t go for credit, but fuck a degree anyway” catalogue, and listening to lots of music but deriving the most pleasure from M.I.A. Arular. Mid-morn, […]

The Victory records Urban Assault Vehicle: a branded SUV, meant for extending the sell-by date on Taking Back Sunday’s failed-relationship toddler-faces. It’s kin to rap labels’ airbrushed ad-vans— but, dressed in camo and ready to fire, it also takes a cue from El Army’s cross-promotion with Lowriderand The Source mags. Militaristic punk and hip-hop, indoctrinating […]