by Fred Topel
“I’m good at starting things.”
– Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam movies are hard to explain anyway. Try to encapsulate 12 Monkeys in a logline about time travel, or pose The Fisher King as as simple drama about grief. The lengths Gilliam had to go through to finish what tragically became Heath Ledger’s final film take things to the next level.
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Tarion Suicide in The Waiting Game
- INTO: Doing things I shouldn’t be doing.
- NOT INTO: Trendy stuff.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Trent Reznor, Pink Fluffy Killer Bunnies.
- MAKES ME SAD: Shaved Pink (unfluffy) KIller Bunnies.
- HOBBIES: World domination.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My newrocks, spikes, Trent Reznor, music.
- VICES: Lollipops and merry go rounds.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Contemplating what I’ll do first when the world bows before me – oh and what’s for supper.
Get to know Tarion better over at SuicideGirls.com!
By SG’s Team Agony
Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.
[Elea in Soul Nighter]
Q. I have a girlfriend named Stephanie and I love her with all my heart. We were together for about three months and everything was perfect. Then she had to move to Miami for family issues and is supposed to come back to Vermont this November. We still talk and she says she loves me a lot still, but her status updates on MySpace and stuff give me a different idea. What should I do? I don’t want to lose her.
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by Nicole Powers
The Huntington Library is world-renowned for it’s collection of rare books and manuscripts, which include a Gutenberg Bible and a first folio edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays. Eyes were therefore raised four years ago when the institution acquired something a little racier – a collection of artifacts relating to Henry Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), donated by his widow Linda Lee Bukowski.
Known for his hard-drinking and hell-raising ways, Bukowski gained notoriety and fame chronicling society’s underbelly in his hyper-real, gritty and pithy poems and prose. (The screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly, which starred Mickey Rourke, was written by Bukowski and is semi-autobiographical.) However to see his work though the bottom of a glass is to see it only in one dimension as poems like “Bluebird” and “Laughing Heart” attest.
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by Nicole Powers
“We have fittings and sip violet champagne.”
– Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese is one of the world’s most dazzling women. The Swarovski-adorned mistress of striptease has done more to preserve and promote the hallowed art of burlesque than any other performer alive today. Her sexy and spectacular shows feature stunning costumes and larger-than-life props, but are always grounded in the purity of the classic art form. Thus they have an innate dignity that never relies on the kind of bump and grind sleaze that many of Dita’s contemporaries mistake for erotica.
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Rambo Suicide (seen here with Dot) in Hellotitties
- INTO: Arts, crafts, psychology and animals.
- NOT INTO: Negativity, irresponsibility, side aches on the treadmill, any kind of drug you snort.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Anything tiny, flowers, tea, art.
- MAKES ME SAD: Animal cruelty, obscene wealth.
- HOBBIES: Dancing, skating, working out, posing nude, watching TV series on DVD, riding my bike, drawing, cross stitching, making greeting cards, reading, and writing.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Chapstick, phone, water, sunglasses and love.
- VICES: Junk food.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Watching movies, cooking, sleeping, playing with kitty, shopping, driving, and making arts & crafts.
Get to know Rambo (and Dot) better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Blogbot
Gary Numan played the final show of his US tour last night in front of a packed house at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles (it was his second consecutive sold out performance at the venue). Marking the 30th anniversary of his classic Pleasure Principle album – which features the seminal electro tracks “Cars” and “Metal” – Numan played the bulk of the album in the first half his set before exchanging his keyboard for a guitar and launching into newer material.
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