This could be you at Crate and Barrel. Before you get kicked out for being a freeloader. Whatevs, it's a recession! Photo via mymodernmet.com
If you ever find yourself becoming sad about your lackluster surroundings, have no fear: Furniture stores are great places to hang out.
Are you a fainting couch? Photo via diaryofasmartchick.com
The key to spending some time around nice furniture and sitting on nice couches is to first call a friend. There’s nothing better than sitting on new furniture with a friend.
Go to Starbucks or your favorite coffee store. Get a coffee. Get caffeinated.
I really wish men (and women for that matter) would ditch the hoodies and dress like this. Come on, Target! Give us an affordable regal line, please! Or at least H&M. That would ROCK.
No, it’s not swimwear for your cat. They hate water silly!
This amazing cat swimwear is brought to you by Wildfox. They should definitely come out with calico and orange cat ones. A black cat would be way fierce too.
Yo-Landi and Ninja of Die Antwoord. Photo via salacioussound.com
Die Antwoord consider themselves to be a “futuristic rap-rave crew from South Africa who represent a fresh new style called ZEF.”
The first time I watched a Die Antwoord video was their video for “Evil Boy“. Like probably everyone who watches anything Die Antwoord-related for the first time, I had absolutely no idea what to think or say (which is rare in the day and age).
Pure astonishment and shock resonated for minutes, hours: I didn’t know whether to be frightened, excited, applaud their commitment to performance, or never watch anything on the internet ever again.
Yep, Yo-Landi wearing rats. Photo via fokyeahyolandi.tumblr.com
Yes, they are seriously weird as shit, as most of their music videos come off as multiple scenes from nightmares spanning your entire life. You can’t tell if they are seriously talented freaks who are performance geniuses, or they’re going to murder us and wear our skins as coats to their next show. But isn’t that part of the fun?!
Ninja, the rapper in the group, had this to say in a Spin magazine interview about the is-it-real aspect that surrounds Die Antwoord:
“This American reporter was telling us that reality TV makes Americans care about if things are real or not. But you watch reality TV and you get a dull feeling in your balls. You watch us and it’s thrilling. There’s a sweet analogy for how musicians can think about this: People are unconscious and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake them up. Some people are too far gone. They’ll just keep asking, “Is it real? Is it real?” That’s dwanky. That’s a word we have in South Africa, “dwanky.” It’s like lame. “Is it real?” Dwanky. You have to be futuristic and carry on. You gotta be a good guide to help people get away from dull experience. Don’t be rude to the people who don’t get it. It’s better to be nice to those retards.”
Die Antwoord's new album "Ten$ion" is out now. Photo via consequenceofsound.net
Ninja is right. They are genuinely the only group I’ve ever seen that if I saw them in public, I’d be equal parts mesmerized and scared as fuck. Exhilarating.
TEN$ION
They even turned down a million dollar guarantee from Interscope records concerning their newly released album Ten$ion. They explain what went down:
“So anyway… Interscope offered us a bunch of money again to release our new album TEN$ION. But this time, they also tried to get involved with our music, to try and make us sound like everyone else out there at the moment. So we said: ‘U know what, rather hang on to your money, buy yourself something nice…we gonna do our own thing. Bye bye’.”
Their latest album Ten$ion was released on their own independent label ZEF Recordz. Die Antwoord even performed on David Letterman.
Check out their latest video off of Ten$ion for their song ” I Fink U Freeky”. You may be scared, but get over it.
Right off the heels of winning Tour of the Year from the Pollstar Awards for Lady G’s Monsterball Tour (which I saw in Chicago 2010 and it was amazing!), Mother Monster has released the official poster of The Born This Way Ball. The 2012-2013 tour is rumored to keep our Lady busy for 2 years and make over 420 tour stops. That is some serious touring, folks. To the delight of us all, MM has also released a drawing of what the stage and arenas will look like.
Lady G says:
“To give you a bit of insight on the design of my new tour, the central area within the stage will be known as “The Monster Pit.” “The Monster Pit” is General Admission only, and Little Monsters unlock it when they arrive to the arena or stadium. Entry to “The Monster Pit” is relegated to the fans who have arrived first, waited all night, + dressed to “Ball.”
I SO SO SO want to get Monster Pit tickets (let’s hope it doesn’t turn out like the Florence + the Machine ticket waiting fiasco).
The stage looks beautiful, like a medieval princess pop star singing to her beloved commoners. And she even has designed a circular stage so she can go out amongst her fans. There really is more “front row seating” than normal which is WAY WAY cool.
Oh please oh please oh please let me get tickets to this. I’m starting to save RIGHT NOW.
Images via Lady Gaga’s facebook (PS I love how Lady G isn’t using timeline yet. You stick it to ’em Mother Monster!)
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