NEW MUSUEM

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most respected internationally, with a curatorial program unrivaled in the United States in its global scope and adventurousness. With the inauguration of our new, state-of-the-art building on the Bowery, the New Museum will be the destination for new art and new ideas.

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENNING:Things To Do For People Like Us When We Are Bored With Everyone Else

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB


As nightclubs continue to get bigger, fancier and more extreme, the drinks get more expensive and the music gets more and more wack. Countless DJ's have come out of the woodwork everyday proclaiming to be better than the next guy. Many claim to possess a great new concept. In actuality, most are merely doing the same thing and nothing new is happening. It's not a good trend.

It's time for something different. Something unusual…

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB.

Let's get back to the basics. Strip it all down to its bare essence. No cover. Cheap drinks. GREAT MUSIC. Reminescent of the bar scene of the 70's.

Venture back with us to the days when a few beers and some good people came out to see, not be seen. And the music was good. Before House. Before Hip-Hop. Before genres separated us, they brought us together. A time when the word "Disco" sounded unusual. And the desire to dance and sing was not something you did only in the shower. You went out to your favorite social club.

Lono Brazil(TURP SOUNDS) and partner Josh Deep(DEEPER SOUL RECORDINGS) have created "DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB" for the purpose of getting back to the basics. Both have reached the apex of the club & electronic music scene. Both want to be refreshed. Both fiend for something unusual to go down.

Josh Deep emerged from a dark cave on the South Side of Chicago in the mid 70's initially wrecking havoc on the jazz/funk scene in the late 80's and early 90's twisting up Rhodes and other electronics around Chicago. Avid record fiend turned label head, Josh Deep started Deeper Soul Recordings early 2004.

He has shared the stage with Kahil El'Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, DJ'd with Archie Sheep, Osunlade, Rich Medina, IG Culture, Bugz In The Attic, and DJ Harvey at his four year residency at Sonotheque Chicago. Moving on, he is now ready to bring the many sounds of twisted Disco to your ears and boogie feet.

Lono Brazil has also held down residencies at nightclubs and bars like Gold's (Tokyo,Japan), Freds (London,Eng), APT (New York, NY), Reign (Beverly Hills, CA), Les Deux Cafes (Hollywood, CA), Sunset Room (Hollywood, CA), The Standard Hotel (Dwntwn Los Angeles, CA), Star Shoes (Hollywood, CA) and countless one-offs in San Francisco, Chicago and NYC over the years.....He's old enough to have experienced Larry Levan, Dave Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles and the likes perform live in the early 80's and young enough to still stay in the forefront of all things innovative. Originally from the first wave of electronic music producers and DJ/Promoters from Chicago, Lono Brazil was instrumental in bringing Hip-Hop,House Music, African, Latin and Electronic to the forefront of the music scene and is still to this day regarded as a true ambassador of Quality Music.

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB is a collabrative effort between Lono Brazil and Josh Deep.

Saturday November 24th 2007
Danny's Tavern_
1951 W. Dickens (Damen & Armitage)
Chicago, IL. 60614__773-489-6457
11pm- 3am__No Cover
Early Arrival Suggested

This is a 21+ event.

Cost: FREE!

Official Site: http://discounusualsocialclub.blogspot...

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WHAT IN THE WORLD???
Or better yet where in the universe did JANELLE MONAE come from???

This is Cory Daye from Dr. Buzzard Original Savanah Band meets Klaus Nomi at the intersection Manhattan Transfer & Shirley Bassey sleeping with Sir Nose De-Void Of Funk!!!!






THIS GIRL IS F***ING AMAZING!!!!
SHE IS THE FUTURE. I have not seen anything like this in 25 years. Andre 3000 baby sis.....
All I can say is FINALLY!!! Oh & Merci Beaucoup!!!

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GETTING READ: Books To Read So That You Won't

The Keyshia Cole post really inspired me to do this one. One of the things I forgot to mention in my post on Ms. Cole with all due respect was her ample natural breast. Something that has not gone unnoticed by us men. It is in my most humble opinion one (or two) of her biggest assets.

Now you women readers don't get your thongs in a twist and become appalled by my frankness and matter of factness in discussing this topic. This is not to be taken as something vulgar or pornographic. My appreciation for all things feminine stems from my profound love and admiration for the female and her anatomy. WOMEN ARE THE BEST THING THE CREATOR GAVE TO THE UNIVERSE!





The Golden Hills before the Silicone Valley: Three decades of the world's most spectacular natural curves

Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II Bosom-Mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard Hughes's The Outlaw and Frederick's of Hollywood, Dian guides you over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more, including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of the World`s Largest Natural Breasts.

The 396 pages of this book contain the most beautiful and provocative photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely death in 2005. In a world where silicone is now the norm, these spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.






"I am a breast, a mammary gland disconnected from any human form, a mammary gland such as could only appear, one would have thought, in a dream."
Philip Roth, The Breast, 1972




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GETTING READ: Books To Read So That You Won't

On the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary, Assouline presents the authoritative volume on the bikini with iconic images from its history, a study of its symbolism, and a look at the most defining fashions. A sexy alternative to the one-piece swimming costume, the bikini forever changed the way women relate to their bodies. “Smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit,” as it was first described by its creator Frenchman Louis Reard, the bikini has become a symbol of female sensuality and liberation. Here is a four hundred page tribute to the Hollywood pin-ups of the 50s; Bond girls Ursula Andress and Halle Berry rising up from the sea; the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, birthplace of the tanga; Brigitte Bardot, topless and poolside in St. Tropez; the itsy bitsy teeny weeny styles of the 60s; beach bodies on spring break; the monokini, tankini, bandini, and v-kini; the strappy and the sporty; the sexy and the outrageous. But whether iconic or ordinary, scandalous or social, every image of the bikini in this luscious volume is about beauty.

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IT GIRL: Keyshia Cole

I just found this....I don't read Vibe Magazine anymore but.....








I gotta get this one....










IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!!
Keyshia Cole has took MJB's spot as the queen of ghetto fabulousness.....Mary is going to have to join the ranks of legend/classic/icons like Chaka, Aretha etc....Cause Keyshia Cole is THE QUEEN OF HIP-HOP SOUL!

Nothing is more ghetto at the moment than KC. She epitomizes the ghetto aesthetic to the fullest. And her Reality Show is banoodles!!! Her mom, her sisters they just really letting it all hang out.




Keyshia has clearly been through some shit! (Watch The Show those of you in the states. It's heart breaking). But it is reality of how the majority of black women are "Livin In America". Keyshia is obviously a strong young woman.


Like Mary, she sings with that pain in her voice. She has that thing. You hear it when she starts to blow.

But the thing that she's got that Mary dosen't is SEX APPEAL!! I mean don't get me wrong. I have been in love with Mary since she was singing back-up in the Father M.C. video. But Keyshia Cole is F-I-R-E!

And pretty as hell! We are all witnessing a beautiful flower in bloom. She has so much potential. And can walk down the path that MJB have paved before her.

A note to Madison avenue marketing geniuses: GET HER NOW!!!!!! SHE IS THE LeBRON JAMES OF R&B.

Do your homework. Keyshia is so relevent right now.....

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© MURAKAMI
October 29, 2007–February 11, 2008
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90013

One of the most internationally acclaimed artists to emerge from Asia in the postwar era, Takashi Murakami effortlessly navigates between the worlds of fine art and popular culture and is best known for his cartoon-like, “superflat” style. This major traveling retrospective includes key selections spanning the artist’s career, from the early 1990s to the present. More than 90 works in various media—painting, sculpture, installation, and film—are installed in five sections, occupying over 35,000 square feet of exhibition space. The first portion features many of Murakami’s acclaimed large-scale otaku-inspired sculptural figures from the late 1990s. The second section comprises a grid-like shelving display of Murakami’s merchandise. A fully operational Louis Vuitton boutique, showcasing the artist’s collaboration with the designer brand, is on the mezzanine level. The largest portion of the exhibition traces Murakami’s artistic development, including early works that engage branding and the evolution of his signature character, DOB. Of particular importance, is the debut of Oval Buddha, an enormous self-portrait sculpture in the guise of a Buddha, and the premiere of part one of the artist’s first major animated film, kaikai & kiki. New installments of kaikai & kiki will continue at the exhibition tour venues.





© MURAKAMI is organized by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel with Project Coordinator Mika Yoshitake.



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