what is it about costumes hat are so eternally enthralling? i honesttly have no idea but i do know that my wardrobe is going to be saying hello to a lot of outlandish clothes this winter. and it's not only mildly interesting//comical clothes that will be hanging themselves within those four wooden walls, but full-on costume! so start ebaying, go to the sunday market, make your own and generally liven yourselves up a bit to replace the lack of any sun at the moment.
NEWZ IN SUPRA LAND
future dance robot confirmed to feature on cassette release numero 2
in fact cassette release numero 2 in future
november still running into technical hurdles. canon are really shit at making printers.
the scanned november version should be up tonight or tomorrow latest
pheobe, felix, ewan, keina and possibly BMCS to feature in december. this is going to be acccceeeeee! a christmas present in it's own right.
welllll then, the swims boys! if you've been paying attention to this humble little zine you will know who these guys are, and if you haven't, you might not, so pay attention to this people of the world.
here's a lovely tv video showcase on the guys at their recent gig supporting pete and the pirates (yes, pete and the blooming pirates, kings of lovely music, very good live, part of the reason peggy sue are so called...) at the london barfly. what-ho boyo, they're getting big. and rightfully so, i say.
i'm putting all the work i have done on supra boring in a book! mainly because i'll lose all of it if i don't and then be really pissed off at myself but there we go, it's in a book thought you'd like to know
last night i watched this. it is one hell of a good film! you should, should, should get it out on lovefilm asap. really, do
i just posted a very (barely) interesting bulletin which i feel needs sharing. immediately. then i'll give you all some lovely snippets of very interesting info you should heed with your golden eyes and ears. but first....
"if you like oompa loompas listen to my profile song it seriously reminds me of charlie's time in that chocolate factory seriously
so happy! but my hair do's come out which is rather a sizeable shame, i did love it so i suppose i'll do it again tomorrow and take the hairspray out with me
but honestly this MORNING i hairsprayed my hair so it looked like how the singer in new young pony club used to have it and now chloe sevigny or whichever annoying model it is who has half their head shaved (i stand corrected, lovely chani of house of it reminds me it is actually alice delaal, an equally annoyingly over-hyped piece of furniture. though i am sure miss layzell would disagree slightly) anyway it looked reminiscent of that and then it's only just come out if you want hairspray get hold it by catwalk no joke 1.there's loads of it in the bottle/spraycan/thing 2,.IT'S LIKE SPRAYABLE BLOODY CONCRETE i fed my cat and not a single hair-sprayed strand of hair moved not one folicle
wow that's a long bulletin i'm off on a joyful crusade against boredom with a fairy wand, hairsprayey hair and a film called the illusionists and of course my supra boring book this is amazing when i nicked an art book from miss smith i never knew this would sprout from the pages like a beautiful if slightly prit sticky flower
WAHEY i really am leaving now CIAO leave me comments i'm so close to 2000 it's unreal
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department of eagles^^^
on mildly less self-indulgent shores, department of eagles released their second album earlier this month and my GOSH is it good. yes. it's very good. very very good. but i won't go on about these guys too much as they've bagged themselves a charming little slot in november's edition, so you'll have to read that instead if you want to know more. or you could go on their website. personally, i'd read mine, but only because i doubt anyone else will. how depressing :(
'In Ear Park' was released on 7th oct. on 4AD records.
that was the shining section for your lovely ears, now for the similarly charming eyes.
his tetris project
guillaume reynold is a swiss bloke who is seriously, seriously cool. if you're a fan of those 'old skool' video games then hop over to youtube and czech him out NOW. not later, now! his human stop-animation performances have gained him various awards, and there was a bzzzzz after him at Bellaurd, the French festival, that a full hive of bees would have been asking for from good old father christmas in less than 2 months time (!). he;s even taken to the skies in reincarnations of hasbro transformers, going nuts with a remote controlled blimp over 22 cars, buses, lorries and trains all driving together in open ground. but even though he readily admits to not even liking console games let alone owning one as a child, he spent hours in his youth developing his very own games via his commodore-64 pc. he says the goal of his project is in fact not to create works for the internet but to “create images or animated videos by reassembling people who have no relationship with contemporary art.”, an intention that might just answer why most of his human pixels in his recreation of Pong are defiantly sitting and have been able to sit for nye-on 90 years a-piece. his projects develop on popular culture, games, movies and legends “because almost everyone can identify something already known or seen. I don't need to explain the rules. For my TRANSFORMERS series, my goal was just to use the name as a generic term known by the world community that describes vehicles ‘transforming’ into robots.” all his works are filmed during festivals, and he aims to involve the public, for example in the second of his transformers series he wanted to “honour and run together all the city services. 22 vehicles including firemen, police, roads, parks and gardens, ambulance, garbage were mobilised together with 40 people for 5 hours. it was shot and shown for the festival images'08 in vevey, switzerland.” after quickly snapping an aerial shot with a small blimp, everybody disassembles again to start something completely new, maybe another robot, or face, or an accusing looking egg-plant, who knows?! but whatever he does, we know it'll be big. very big. very, very big. so keep your eye on satellite images over the next few months for anything... interesting!
What is it with Britain that we all spend the dark months waiting for summer, carefully crafting 'come on summer' lines on our MySpace’s, finding summery pictures just to cheer ourselves up, and then after all that waiting and expecting when it all comes down to it our 'summer months' are spent as knee deep in water as the rest of the time. And what's worse is the endless swimwear adverts strewn throughout the high street, making us feel a bit shy about stripping down to anything smaller than a tunic. That is, of course, if the great power in the sky turns off the taps long enough for there to be any point in swimming; these days you don't need a pool to get soaking wet.
And when nature isn’t emptying the Atlantic Ocean above our heads, we’re hit by winds that could quite literally blow you over. Now don’t take this the wrong way, I love mother nature and I know us and our food need water but seriously, there’s watering the flaming plants and drowning them! No wonder there are deserts, all the rains coming to Britain for a lovely seaside holiday instead.
Another thing I can think to moan about that’s related to the weather is umbrellas, AKA my arch nemesis. One time I actually managed to cut my hand open with one of these ridiculous contraptions. It isn’t the normal brollies I hate, no, but the new-fangled fold up ones. Yes, they are useful, and you can fit them in your bag but they break within about 5 seconds of being outside. The only other alternative is a coat. If anyone knows where I can get a nice, waterproof coat that doesn’t belong in the bin, email me.
I must admit that when my friend and I first went in at about quarter to 5, Resident was the busiest I’d ever seen it. I felt a little rude for coming into resident with absolutely no intention of buying anything, not even taking one of the many free mags at the front since I have them all already, so I resorted to looking at Artrocker, and then scanning the shelves near me for any good cds, aka cds of bands I’ve heard of. after recommending cookies by the 1990s, and telling my friend how it's written mainly about girls and drugs but is still very good, I give up on looking occupied and just eye up the rather fancy camera the woman next to me is wielding. And finally, out come Charles and Rebecca, collectively Slow Club and they immediately kick off into 'Let's Fall Back In Love', the title track of their new E.P., released 1st September on the 'ever reliable' Moshi Moshi record label. Charles strums along the lovely guitar riffs we know slow club for on a rather battered but all the more charming for it acoustic guitar and Rebecca improvises with their lack of a percussion section by clapping and stamping with surprising vigour; I wouldn't like to be resident's floorboards! They play a couple old favourites, including one of my own special favourites, 'When I Go', and introduce some new songs. Isn’t it impressive how they manage to remember all these songs?! And not only do they remember endless lyrics, along with the guitar music (I noticed Charles didn't even look at the guitar while playing, even more impressive), but they always manage to sing in time with each other. The conclusion? A pair of musicians who love what they do, and practise a lot! I seriously recommend you have a look at their E.P., and you should definitely jump at every opportunity to see them live!
where there is a will, there is a way, and i have a will! supra boring, thou shalt not stop being printed! the solution: black and white! okay, so the new editions won't be as snazzy and great as the past issues, but beggars can't be choosers!
so watch out for the new (black and white) look of supra boring, coming to a store near you! (that's if you live in the north laines, brighton of course)
but don't fear, this blog will go on afterall, the show must go on
