by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I think what’s fun in the structure of these movies is that the audience is in on it but one of the characters isn’t.”
– Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey is very much like the characters he’s played in a few of his movies. He’s easy going, laid back, charming and very easy to talk to. He plays another one of those guys in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch. His character Trip is a wealthy boat broker who still lives with his parents at age 35! So his parents hire Sarah Jessica Parker to fall in love with him so he will have the confidence to move out.
Read our exclusive interview with Matthew McConaughey on SuicideGirls.com.
Vivid Suicide in So Damn Thirsty
- INTO: “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” – Audrey Hepburn “All of my Hummingbirds have alibis, and a hundred profound virtues cover my body.” – Max Ernst
- NOT INTO: Falling from grace.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Cheap champagne with strawberries, the color pink, smeared lipstick, biting lips.
- MAKES ME SAD: Lack of forward momentum.
- HOBBIES: Driving cars fast and boys wild.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Coffee, vodka, sketchbook, iPod, cold apples with peanut butter.
- VICES: This isn’t self destruction …it’s evolution.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Sinking ships and loosening lips.
Get to know Vivid better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Mentalrage
It might be decades since you could pick up a copy of Black Mask, but anyone thinking that hardboiled fiction has disappeared is clearly mistaken. One of the names you should be paying attention to is Christa Faust, creator of femme fatale Angel Dare, and author of hardboiled pulp gems Money Shot and more recently, Choke Hold.
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by ExAddict
Listening to: “Cinema” w/ Benny Benassi [Maurizio Gubellini Remix] [feat. Gary Go] (Available on iTunes)
Dispatch Location: @OrangeYYZ, ING Direct Cafe, Toronto
Hipster (from Hipster.com) is an application not unlike Instagram which applies filter effects, lighting screens, text, GPS integration and borders to all your iPhone or iPad photos and makes them available in your custom photo stream on Hipster.com and is instantly exportable among other social media platforms including Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, and Foursquare.
The unique thing about this “program” (although I recognize we are diverging from the use of that term) is that the app presents photos as postcards. I like the general look of this as it is presented in my photo roll on the Hipster.com website. I prefer this Hunter S. Thompson-inspired layout rather than the boxy square-tab presentation offered by Instagram. The postcards are better suited for writers or journalists augmenting their tweet-style with “notes from the front” as the GPS functionality looks tight as hell if you are broadcasting reality or your pseudo-reality.
While Instagram weighs in with a mighty 1783 ratings versus just 10 for Hipster, I prefer the latter for ease of use. User settings and menu options are easier to manage in Hipster compared with Instagram, and I also enjoy that my tweetstream is updated with references to #Hipster, which makes me feel, well, like a #Hipster. Plus, it’s one of those apps that instantly logs on with your Facebook ID meaning no extra password nonsense.
There are 14 sweet postcard filters to start with and the developer emailed me this week to tell me that a new batch of postcards would be available soon, including Christmas-themed styles. There is a certain adventurous fun to being the first in your area to populate the Hipster website with your own local postcards. I hope you can appreciate this app. It’s super fun for writers and us citizen journalists!
by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I’ve always made my own way and then I saw somebody who was just going with the flow, it looked really attractive and nice.”
– Lisa Crystal Carver
Over the past decade or so Lisa Crystal Carver has made an industry out of Drugs Are Nice with an album, a DVD and now a book subtitled A Post-Punk Memoir. The book now out from Soft Skull Press chronicles Carver’s life in the band Suckdog, her major problems with her family and of course, lots and lots of drugs.
Read our exclusive interview with Lisa Crystal Carver on SuicideGirls.com.
Phoenix Suicide in Back To The Wild
- INTO: Epiphanies, art, editorial photography, watching stylish pretty girls dancing to music, sex, reading philosophy.
- NOT INTO: Ego, especially when it’s unconsciously flaunted as a virtue.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Sunny days, those waking moments when ideas just come to me and I jump out of bed to get started on them, eating organic produce.
- MAKES ME SAD: Everything is beautiful in it’s own way.
- HOBBIES: Dancing, dreaming, watching documentaries, nature shows, and the odd action movie.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Art, sex, books, music, love.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Looking at naked women.
Get to know Phoenix better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Tarion Suicide
A column which highlights Suicide Girls and their fave groups.
[Tarion Suicide in Kiss the Machine]
This week, in preparation for the coming apocalypse, Tarion Suicide gives us the 411 on SG’s Zombie Hunters Group.
Members: 2,824 / Comments: 20,073
- WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: This group has threads covering everything you need to know about zombies and the impending apocalypse. It ensures that every member has a “zombie plan” and the best possible chance of survival. Members discuss everything from the best choice of weapons to the most effective safe house. If you’re into zombies you will find info on the best books, games, movies, and TV shows right here!
- DISCUSSION TIP: This is a fun group, so don’t be too serious.
- BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “Do not set zombies on fire! They will run around and catch everything else on fire!”
- MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: The Walking Dead! Official TV Thread – everyone has an opinion on this show!
- WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: All those who want to survive the zombie apocalypse.
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