by Fred Topel
“I think there has to be a nonviolent democratic revolution”
– Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel has never made easy films. Basquiat was a biography of the street artist who became a protege of Andy Warhol. Before Night Falls portrayed exiled gay author Reinaldo Arenas. And The Diving Bell and the Butterfly told the story of author Jean-Dominique Bauby – all from the point of view of the one eye from which he could see after a paralyzing stroke.
Miral is a story set in the midst of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, told through the eyes of a Palestinian girl. Miral (Freida Pinto) grows up in a Palestinian orphanage, where her teacher, Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass), encourages her to stay out of politics. But young activists in the PLO like Hani (Omar Metwally) are powerful examples to Miral, and she wants to get involved.
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Alle Suicide in Wellington Tunnel
- INTO: Naked women, Russian vodka, steaks, leopard prints, long weekends.
- NOT INTO: Veggie burgers, Mondays, mushrooms, capitalism, idiots, clones.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: My kitty, orgasms, sushi, horror movies, hot baths, days off, milk chocolate.
- MAKES ME SAD: Routine.
- HOBBIES: Art, music, and photography.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Sex, my love, my kitty, my contacts/glasses, music.
- VICES: Drinking, buying useless things.
Get to know Alle better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Brad Warner
That’s right! Here’s your chance to win a date with Brad Warner! You know he’s a dreamboat! You know he’s a famous author! Now here’s your golden opportunity to actually go on a real live date with Brad Warner! Where will you go on your date with Brad? Will he take you to his favorite Thai restaurant? Or perhaps you’ll go on a shopping spree to the comic book store! Who knows?
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by Helen Jupiter
“All this meaningless, worthless input beamed into kids brains. Where is…”
– Todd Rutherford
Gram Rabbit is not your average band. They’re not writing the kind of boring, junk pop standards that you hear on the radio or see performed on the ubiquitous “Late Night” shows. Instead, the Joshua Tree-based band is constantly striving to push the boundaries of rock, pop, and electronic music.
Their first two albums, Music to Start a Cult to and Cultivation, were lyrically inspired and musically complex. Their third album, Radio Angel and the Robot Beat, plays like the soundtrack to a darkly-edged dance party, and offers the same adventurous variety of styles and sounds.
You can listen to some of the tracks on their website, then pick it up on CDBaby and throw your own “naked dance party.”
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Higgs Suicide in Plus 35 Charisma
- INTO: Intellectuals, hot cars, hot women, tattoo conventions, physics, cooking big meals, growing veggies in the garden, the environment, and learning anything about everything.
- NOT INTO: Blind religious devotion, blind patriotism, killing things for no good reason, ignorance, breeding.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Thor comics, being outdoors, Roman art (actually most anything Roman), vaccinations, true connection and understanding, getting and giving messages, opera, having my hair played with, and most other cornball girl stuff except the color pink.
- MAKES ME SAD: Being disappointed, assholes, gay bashers, traffic, people who narrate their own lives out loud, red tape, unnatural disasters, when people end phrases with prepositions.
- HOBBIES: Creating artwork, gardening, cooking, reading, traveling anywhere, and PS3 and Xbox.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My husband, my dogs, my camera, Photoshop, books, rain, a dishwasher, connection to the internet, Sharpies, self expression.
- VICES: Irish whiskey, wine, cigars, classy strip clubs, hot cars, hookahs, and European women.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: In the garden, traveling all over Europe, going to museums, and making art.
Get to know Higgs better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Alana Joy
Every week we ask you guys to show us your ink in celebration of Tattoo Tuesday: we choose one favorite submission each from Twitter and Tumblr and they win a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.
Check out this weeks winners!
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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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