Kim Gordon with Peaches
Electro smut superstar Peaches has a new fighting-inspired video for the song “Close Up” that also features ex-Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon and the fabulous fighters of Lucha VaVoom.
It is amazing.
Sarah wrote about the video for Fightland.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
Dolly Parton’s slot
Hard as it may be to fathom, Sarah is also obsessed with things other than The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
One of these things is Las Vegas. And by extension, the fascinating, glittering gambling machinery that fuels the whole city.
She wrote about this machinery — specifically, the music-themed slot machines — for Paste Magazine.
Read the full story here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
2015 Polaris Music Prize Short List
Someone had to assemble the basic facts about the 2015 Polaris Music Prize Short List act all in one place, right?
It’s a public service.
Head over to AUX to prep yourself on Alvvays, Viet Cong, Braids and the other seven Short List nominees.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The second piece from Sarah’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. quadrilogy from the last week or so was an analysis of the fighting techniques used by the spies in the U.N.C.L.E. film and television show.
What she learned was that the original Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin had a bit of Royce Gracie-like flair to their combat skills.
You can read the full story by heading over to Fightland.
Filed under Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Robbie Williams
I’ve been helping do up some news stories for the charitably-minded music-ish site Samaritan Mag lately so I decided to collect a bunch of these pieces all in one place.
Here are 10 of these stories…
Buy Dairy Queen Blizzard On Miracle Treat Day, Help A Child
People With Multiple Sclerosis Being Challenged To ‘Do’
TOMS Backpacks To Help Combat Bullying
Jimmy Kimmel Looks For Positive In Cecil The Lion’s Death
Robbie Williams Helps Ramp Up Charity Auction of 159 Personal Items
Robin Thicke, Common, Nile Rodgers To Help Fulfill Nelson Mandela’s Wish
Popdose Charity Album To Help Publicist Pigeon O’Brien’s Cancer Fight
Donations Can Be Made in Memory of The Jellyfish Project’s Daniel Kingsbury, Dead at 28
Neil Young’s New Song Firmly Anti-Starbucks, Monsanto, GMOs
Coldplay, U2, Kermit, Ed Sheeran Help Raise $10M For Inaugural Red Nose Day USA
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
