HollyStar Suicide in Brown Eyes

• INTO: Tattoos, sex, drugs, and rock & roll, art, design and fashion.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: My boyfriend, my life, candies, gifts and clothes.
• MAKES ME SAD: Mmm? I don’t know. I’m so happy! =)
• HOBBIES: Eating candy, photography.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My boyfriend, SG, Chanel, Prada, friends.
• VICES: Sex, sex, sex.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Studying and partying.

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by Nicole Powers

“I was used to the realities of sucking at something.”
– Justin Halpern, author of Shit My Dad Says

Justin Halpern is an ordinary guy who curates an extraordinary Twitter page. In less than a year it’s garnered over 1.3 million fans who follow Justin simply to keep track of the latest and greatest shit his dad says. Justin’s talent lies in realizing the aforementioned shit was of a superior quality to that emitted from other dad’s mouths. He also has a knack for conveying the underlying heart behind his father’s seemingly harsh witticisms.

Raised on a farm in Kentucky, Justin’s dad, Sam Halpern, is a man of few words – who knows how to make every syllable count. The exact opposite of passive-aggressive, Halpern, Sr. has never been backwards about coming forwards with his often-unsolicited opinions and words of advice. Growing up, this brutal honesty was difficult to deal with, but now Justin is reaping the rewards. His @ShitMyDadSays Twitter page has spawned a hilarious yet surprisingly touching book of longer vignettes — brilliantly retold by Justin — and a TV sitcom produced by Warner Brothers for CBS starring William Shatner, which was co-written by Halpern, Jr. in association with the team behind Will & Grace.

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Lynx Suicide in Stand By

• INTO: Frogging, animal conservation, baking cupcakes, taking my bunny POPO for walkies, Hello Kitty, Japanese cuties, plushies, cute underwear, leopard print, cow print, and antiques.
• NOT INTO: Eating cupcakes, rudeness, animal abuse, winter, serious goth people.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Hello Kitty, cute plushies, sexy boys, Hugh Hefner, happy people.
• MAKES ME SAD: Sad people, roadkill, Robert Mugabe.
• HOBBIES: Making plushies……cuteness♥
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Hello Kitty, internet, summer, my 2 baby kitties, Fonzy & Tokio.
• VICES: Anything pink.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: With friends…….♥

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Sash Suicide in Gets Wet

• INTO: Movies, sex, being naked, lucky strikes, more sex….
• NOT INTO: Assholes.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Green tea, bubble gum ice cream, udon, driving, and being with my best friend and my boy.
• MAKES ME SAD: Being alone for long periods of time, not having sex, eating greasy foods.
• HOBBIES: Taking my clothes off.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Cell phone, cigarettes, black eye liner, bracelets, and my tongue ring.
• VICES: Smoking and sex.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Naked.

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by Nicole Powers

The Pleasure Principle is an album that’s provided its maker, Gary Numan, with both instant and delayed gratification. Three decades ago, when the now classic electro album first came out, it made a massive impact culturally and commercially. The Pleasure Principle, and the iconic single it spawned, “Cars”, hit the number one spot simultaneously on the album and singles charts in the UK in September, 1979. The following year, the records crashed the US Billboard charts, making the painfully shy young vocalist, composer and musician a household name here too.

Numan’s Kraftwerk-inspired tracks, which channeled the voice of the machine, had a raw energy and DIY aesthetic that served as the bridge between ’70s punk and the early dance and hip-hop scenes of the 1980s. Indeed the bare break beats from the opening segment of “Films” (the fourth track on The Pleasure Principle) became the sample of choice for a generation of producers, thanks in part to the song’s inclusion on Street Beat’s tastemaker compilation series Ultimate Breaks and Beats (which served as the primary DJ and studio sample resource pre-CD).

Ironically, as the spotlight faded on Numan, the sounds he created proliferated exponentially through the fabric of pop music culture. As a new generation of producers sampled samples, the origins of these staple breaks escaped many. However those in the know – such as Basement Jaxx, Armand Van Heldon, Afrika Bambaataa and Dr. Dre – openly covered, used, credited and paid homage to Numan’s body of work.

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Auriga Suicide in Bedroom WIndow

• INTO: Slytherin, fruit, books, rain, taking pictures, reading, writing, train rides, bubble tea, Tarantino films, Scorsese films, writing screenplays, Sundance, IFC, and the Anjelika.
• NOT INTO: The usual things people aren’t into like cruelty and such.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Learning Hebrew, bubble tea, falafel, iPod, SG, happy thoughts, Woody Allen films.
• HOBBIES: Watching Sarah Silverman.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: The New Yorker, MAC, iPhone, Vaio, bubble tea.
• VICES: Nail biting.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Writing, reading, eating, and singing.

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by Nicole Powers

“I’m going to write songs about fucking blowing my head off and giving in to apathy,” says Filter founder and frontman Richard Patrick during our interview. It’s not that he’s going to do either, it’s just that he understands what anger combined with a sense of hopeless can do to a person’s psyche.

In 2008 he released Anthems For The Damned, which served both as a protest against the Iraq war and a tribute to a friend it had claimed. (Anti-war, but very much pro-troops, Patrick has traveled to the Middle East twice to play concerts for those who risk their lives to serve our country.) Two years on, though our president may have changed, the status quo (or lack thereof) remains the same in the Middle East. After too many years listening to grim reports from the frontlines of a war that was misguided from the start, both the troops on the ground and the masses here at home are suffering from a severe case of fuck up fatigue. With dissent now largely falling on deaf ears, and, even worse, serving to remind the proletariat of their powerlessness, Patrick gets why it’s therapeutic to embrace indifference, shrug your shoulders and say “fuck it” to the world.

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