For no other reason than they're awesome.
Find out why after the jump...
OBSESSIONS
April 03, 2009
March 30, 2009
OBSESSION: EMPIRE OF THE SUN
My boss came back from Europe with Empire of the Sun's debut album album and I am now obsessed. Like the grown-up love childs of The Psychedelic Furs and Gary Numan, Australians Luke Steele & Nick Littlemore whine their way thru moody, unapologetically 80s electro-pop dance songs that I'm very happy to have stuck in my head.
The album isn't available on iTunes yet as I don't think it has been released in the US, but you can pick it up at Amazon.
Catch the video for their single Walking on a Dream after the jump...
February 06, 2009
January 06, 2009
OBSESSION: SALLY KELLERMAN
I knew Sally Kellerman's voice before I knew her face. She has the flowing sultry drawl of a dignified yet dirty angel, for years voicing the ads for Hidden Valley Ranch and uncountable documentaries. I used to try to imitate her throaty delivery as a boy in front of the TV. When I saw Back To School I yelled out in the theater, "Hey that's the Hidden Valley Ranch lady!" And that she was, looking sexy as hell over-forty in a fedora, but she is so very much more.
December 17, 2008
OBSESSION: JULIA & SUZANNE SUGARBAKER
Back before there was Tivo, I would record Designing Women on VHS. Not because I wasn't there to watch it, but because I knew I would want to watch it again - and I did. I love those Southern broads.
The show itself is hilarious and at the time it aired I had just been moved from Louisiana to New Jersey. I was missing the more eccentric south and saw a lot of my family full of cranky great aunts in the cast, especially in the Sugarbaker sisters.
Suzanne is a big gay man in drag, a modern Scarlett O'Hara sassing everyone up and then batting her eyelashes to get what she wants. Failing that, she may very well have a gun in her purse. She isn't embarrassed to walk a pig while wearing a tiara and I can respect that.
But Julia is a lifelong role model. She reminds me of my mother: confident, elegant, opinionated, and prone to verbal fits. Yup, something worth aspiring to. I often think WWJSD? when gearing up for a tirade and no matter what the rub, keep this in mind: keep it real, keep it classy.
Witness:
a couple more favorite clips after the jump...
December 13, 2008
OBSESSION: ANDY WARHOL
I am obsessed with this picture. I need it in a 14foot mural plastered across my living room wall. Who wants to help me with that?
November 19, 2008
OBSESSION: PAULINA PORIZKOVA
With the America's Next Top Model finale looming tonight there is something that has been weighing heavily on my mind. I love Paulina Porizkova. On the (very) short list of women I would go straight for, Paulina is at the top.
