Paula Suicide in La Azotea
- MAKES ME HAPPY: The big supermarkets, especially the bread section – love the smell mmm!
- MAKES ME SAD: Nothing, everything has a solution. Life is something provisional, so I don’t take it so seriously.
- HOBBIES: Travel travel travel, to be lost and out of space.
- 5 THINGS I CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT: I can’t live without the beat of my heart.
- VICES: Morocco chocolat, music and him…
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Lost.
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By Edward Kelly
Intimate is not usually a word used when describing late night talk shows. Generally, a better track to take is to simply focus on the host’s ability to crack a few jokes, ensure that they’re relatively amiable, and that they interview a hopefully engaging guest. But if it were that easy then everyone would be able to do it.
On Monday night, Conan O’Brien returned to the airwaves on the cable network TBS. His new show, aptly titled Conan, marks what will hopefully be the denouement of The Late Night Debacle. To refresh: O’Brien took over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. After only seven months at the helm, NBC decided that maintaining a cool head in the face of trying times was a really dumb idea. Instead they seemed to think that panicking, airing private grievances in the most public of forums, and spending Brinks truck’s full of cash would be a much better way of doing business. It was like the National Broadcasting Company decided that nothing says “profits” to shareholders like the execs reenacting plots from Degrassi Junior High. You know what came next: O’Brien was ousted and offered his too-late slot back, and Leno was reinstalled in his old post-news position.
Instead of disappearing quietly back to the graveyard shift, O’Brien did what he does best: went right on being Conan O’Brien. He hit the road with his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour and signed up for a Twitter account. Then came the deal with TBS. Now, with the agreed waiting period required by NBC at an end, the new cable show is up and running.
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by Damon Martin
After a stunning debut that drew in over 5 million viewers last week, AMC’s new series The Walking Dead has been picked up for a second season with a 13 episode run already approved by the network. Indeed, the zombie filled show, based on Robert Kirkman’s comics of the same name, has broken cable records for viewership among adults 18-49.
Now that The Walking Dead can be called a legitimate hit, television networks will likely mine the comic book world vein, looking for more material that can be turned into TV gold. Shows like NBC’s Heroes and ABC’s No Ordinary Family have drawn upon the superhero myth, but weren’t actually based on any established work. So as The Walking Dead continues on AMC, let’s take a look at five series comic book series that have the potential to make it big in TV land.
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By Erin Broadley
There are drummers, and then there are street drummers – the guys who truly aren’t afraid to get down and dirty with their craft. The musicians in Street Drum Corps are both, having played played traditional drums in rock bands for years before lending their sticks to something decidedly more free-form and experimental.
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Bixton Suicide in My Neighbor Totoro
- INTO: Video games, and anime/manga culture.
- NOT INTO: Closed-minded folk and unkempt feet.”
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Familia, food, herb.
- MAKES ME SAD: Being let down.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Reading and burning followed by gaming. That is, while I’m on vacation of course.
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by Suri Suicide
Artist/SG Member Name: Mrs_Misha
Mission Statement: “My art is a fusion of Japanese anime, Hindu and Buddhist religious imagery, and traditional tattoo design. My favorite subjects to paint are mermaids, pin-ups, geishas, and monsters – preferably a mix of at least two of them at once. I like the dichotomy of having a monster look cute and sweet. My paintings and drawings are not based in reality; I try to create a world where even monsters are cute and the world is a happy place. Seeing the people not as they are but as cartoon characters. I also love doing pop culture art, using the paintings of old masters and redoing them with one of my big-eyed girls. I’ve done several variations of the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Venus Rising from the Waves. Part of the pop culture love is video game art, tributes to the old 8-bit era, an interest that I’ve had since childhood and was rekindled by a group show I was in at gallery in L.A. in 1988.”
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