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.
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!
“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
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“Sometimes people think one type of artwork is different from another but anything that gets your juices flowing is the same.”
– Senon Williams of Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever is a band with a sound so wild you have to hear it to believe it. They are six person band with a native Cambodian singer named Chhom Nimol. Essentially they are a rock band with that bizarre foreign sound to it. It’s fucking great. I got a chance to talk with their bass guitarist Senon Williams about their album Escape from Dragon House.
Read our exclusive interview with Senon Williams of Dengue Fever on SuicideGirls.com.
Yankee Suicide in 7th Inning Stretch
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What the hell is going on up on Capital Hill? There is a new bill called The National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the Senate on Thursday. That bill sounds nice; we are authorizing national defense and giving money to troops yay! But in actuality that’s not the only thing this bill is doing. It also contains a provision that will give the military new power to detain Americans indefinitely without trial, and even mandates military detention for some terrorism suspects. Let me type that again, the bill contains a provision that will give the military new power to detain Americans indefinitely without trial, and even mandates military detention for some terrorism suspects. Yes, that bill PASSED the Senate with a 93-7 vote. Even Rand Paul who is a Republican Senator and Tea Party enthusiast said “WTF?”
