Audrey Kawasaki

Sean McCarthy at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
all are Ink and graphite on paper.

Haborym, 2007

Peristalsis, 2007

Wispy, 2006

Chris Von Steiner

…because organic produce falls from the sky.

photo by Seze

Jermey Earhart
Burn Out, and Fade Away , 2007
Hand-cut Plexiglas, acrylic, car paint, airbrush, black light
Goff + Rosenthal Gallery

Chiharu Shiota at Goff + Rosenthal Gallery

Photo by Seze

As I was eating the amazing decadent stuffed mushroom veggie burger at Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, I noticed a chubby squirrel eating directly out of a packet of mayonnaise!!!

photo by Seze

photo by Seze

photo by Seze

I recently watched two beautifully similar movies about young girls running away and traveling from home to escape from their problems. Both Morven Caller(2002) directed by Lynne Ramsay, and Somersault(2004) directed by Cate Shortland had luscious soundtracks full of sweet electronic melodies, gorgeous cinematography and excellent scripts.

Somersault (2004)

Heidi is lonely at the rave and everywhere else…

I watched the Oscars last night with a room full of very loud ladies and two boys, and I realized that The Oscars are the Super Bowl for women (and gay men).  I was happy to see that the eternally handsome and amazing DDL won the best actor award for TWBB my favorite new movie by PTA.

“On the fly” guest for Valentine’s Day East Village Radio presents a special Valentine’s Day “on the fly” from 2-4 PM hosted by Seze bringing you Kiss and Tell Radio with a special lover’s day set.

I was so excited to host the first edition of Kiss & Tell Radio on Valentine’s day. I played only what I consider Love Songs. It was so much fun and most f my friends and family listened in live! Here is the track listing:

Liz Phair – Flower
Dapayk & Padberg – Doerti
Goldfrapp – Deep Honey
Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
Bloc Party – This Modern Love
Depeche Mode – I Feel Loved
Natacha Atlas – I Put a Spell on You
NIN – Eraser (Polite remix by Coil)
Diana Ross & The Supremes – You are no body till somebody loves you (live)
Blondie – I’m Gonna Love You Too
Unrest – Cherry Cream On
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Buttered Popcorn
lb (Atom Heart) – Jealous Guy
Dolly Parton – Love is Like a Butterfly
Jane’s Addiction – Summertime Rolls
Elvis – Love Me Tender
Nouvelle Vague – Just Can’t Get Enough
The Cure – Close To Me
The Pixies – La La Love You
Khuddar (a 1994 Hindi Movie) – Sexy Sexy Mujhe Log Bole
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
The Cure – Love Cats
Kids of The Kingdom – Everybody Need to Be Someone
Flaming Fire – Your Love Belongs To Me
The Rolling Stones – We Love You
Cheap Trick – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Sinead O’ Connor – I Want Your Hands on Me
Rose Melberg – I Love How You Love Me
Wolfsheim – Love Is Strange

…and our ears had never before, heard anything this beautiful.

Rocket’s Tail
by Kate Bush
That November night, looking up into the sky,
You said,

“Hey, wish that was me up there–
It’s the biggest rocket I could find,
And it’s holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment.
I can’t see the look in its eyes,
But I’m sure it must be laughing.”

But it seemed to me the saddest thing I’d ever seen,
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.

I saw only a stick on fire,
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground,
With no one there to catch it.

I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit,
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back.
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge–
Nobody seems to see me.
Then, with the fuse in my hand,
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket,
I land in the river.

Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit,
Size 5 lightning boots, too.

‘Cause I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire,
With my tail on fire,
On fire.
Hey, look at me go, look at me…

Miller by Man Ray

Last night I read an amazing article on the incredible complicated life of Lee Miller by one of my favorite authors Judith Thurman in the January 21, 2008 Issue of The New Yorker.

Lee Miller, the playgirl, model, photographer, muse of Man Ray and others, and war correspondent. “She had the gift of finding beauty in a wasteland, and her eye tends to petrify what it looks at,” Thurman writes. “Organic forms and living creatures become abstract in her pictures, but movingly so—the way a nymph fleeing an aggressor is transformed into a star.”

She was Painted by Picasso and also here.

A solarized portrait of Lee Miller
by Man Ray, circa 1930.

Piano by Broadwood, London, 1940 by Lee Miller
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Sunshine Superman
Donovan

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could’ve tripped out easy a-but I’ve a-changed my ways
It’ll take time, I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine, I know it, we’ll do it in style
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine

I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody’s hustlin’ just to have a little scene
When I say we’ll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine
I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find

Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got a-nothin’ on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
’bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine

I’ll pick up your hand
I’ll pick up your hand