by Mur Lafferty
SuicdeGirls presents the first installment of our brand new Fiction Friday series, Marco and the Red Granny, which is brought to you by SG columnist Mighty Mur a.k.a. cyber commentator Mur Lafferty.
Marco and the Red Granny is set in a not-so-distant future where an alien species has transformed the moon into the new artistic center of the universe, where the Sally Ride Lunar Base soon gains the nickname “Mollywood.” These aliens can do amazing things with art and the senses, allowing a painting, for example, to stimulate senses other than sight. When someone asks a starlet, “Who are you wearing?” she could as easily say “J.K. Rowling” as she could “Gucci.”
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by Erin Broadley
“We have chemistry that you spend your entire career trying to find.”
– James Michael, Sixx: AM
In Los Angeles, the music industry is more than just a business. For some it’s a game, a l’enfant terrible experiment of intoxicating proportions. For others, it’s an asylum. It’s a labyrinth of lunatics, all lost amongst themselves and all scrambling for something to protect them from the deafening roar of self-destruction. All too often drug addiction becomes the mute button. As Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx details in The Heroin Diaries, it’s an industry that is mysterious and beautiful, as well as shattering, and one whose battles get waged right here, in our hearts, and often at the expense of our own artists.
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by Damon Martin
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are best known as the creators of the irreverent and extreme Comedy Central series South Park, which has been running for 14 seasons now. On it, the pair have tackled numerous subjects that other TV shows would deem untouchable. Their humor often takes aim at cultural icons like Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise, but their favorite anvil to hammer is organized religion.
It’s that love of religion that led Stone and Parker to write and produce their latest work, The Book of Mormon, which opened last week at the Eugene O’Neill theater in New York, and has thus far received rave reviews. Stone and Parker describe their musical as “an atheist’s love letter to religion.” It’s an interesting line to walk, but while both are non-believers, they admit to being fans of religion in general.
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by Ryan Stewart
“There’s a trickster in my noggin.”
– Guy Ritchie
This week will see the release of Revolver, the latest cinematic neckbreaker from 39-year-old British helmer Guy Ritchie. His previous gangster films, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and its follow-up, Snatch, were hailed as major events on both sides of the pond upon their release, and today are seen as cornerstones of a new film genre – the heightened-reality, super-kinetic gangster film, in which the most gruesome toughs and unlikely hoods imaginable all conspire in a near-comical, circle-jerk fashion to outdo each other and rack up the most impressive body count.
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by Blogbot
The Sunset Strip’s Viper Room hosted a soirée to celebrate the release of Game author Neil Strauss‘ latest, a rock & roll interview anthology-cum-self help book entitled Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead.
The superstar scribe, who’s penned biographical bestsellers with the likes of Mötley Crüe (The Dirt), Dave Navarro (Don’t Try This at Home) and Marilyn Manson (Long Hard Road Out of Hell), nearly missed his own party thanks to a line of 300 fans who showed for a signing earlier on in the evening at The Grove’s Barnes & Noble.
Though Strauss missed excellent sets from local rockers No More Kings and DTLA’s comical Weekend Pilots, he did make it just in time to see burlesque artist (and Lucha VaVOOM producer) Rita D’Albert shake her last tassel, before unlikely ladies man Har Mar Superstar took over the stage. True to form, Har Mar (the sexed-up R&B alter ego of one Sean Matthew Tillmann) got rid of his clothes as he got the room moving – and SuicideGirls was there to photograph the party in his pants (see images after the jump).
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by Blogbot
This Sunday (April 3rd) our very special in-studio guest will be drummer extraordinaire, and all-round top dude, Josh Freese.
Josh has worked with some of the biggest, craziest and/or coolest names in the business; He’s a member of The Vandals, Devo, and the on-hiatus A Perfect Circle, and has played with NIN, Sting, and Guns N’ Roses, to name but a few.
Fresh off a tour with Devo, the wacky skin whacker will be in-studio talking about his forthcoming E.P., My New Friends (a follow-up of sorts to 2009’s Since 1972), and the novel way he plans on pimping it.
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by Ryan Stewart
“I consider immature men to be my peers and my homies.”
– Diablo Cody
Over the next few months, Hollywood’s hottest writer, Diablo Cody, will see her second and third scripts rushed into development. One of those, Girly Style, is a girl’s version of Superbad. The other is a horror film called Jennifer’s Body, starring Transformers’ Megan Fox, and it’s about – wait for it – a cheerleader that eats boys. Literally. If you want to know what kind of mind could come up with such a thing, a good place to start is with Cody’s 2005 memoir Candy Girl, which chronicles her unlikely journey from teenage miscreant in a punk band called Yak Spackle to achingly ordinary office drone to topless dancer (she went by Roxanne and other names) to popular blogger to aspiring screenwriter in her late twenties.
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