Chock full of glitter and doom

In my posession right now, I hold a ticket to see Tom Waits on July 5th at the Fox. Granted, not the ideal location, as my ticket was $82.50 for upper balcony, but hey I’ll take what I can get. When I mentioned this to my boss, a devout Tom Waits fan she started screaming fanatically in the phone and then hung up on me (I’m guessing to order her own tickets). So, for all of those who share our love, you better get on Ticketmaster now. You probably should have before even reading the rest of this post if you want a ticket. Anyways, hopefully you won’t suffer the same fate I did with his show at Tabernacle on his last tour through Atlanta. I was five minutes after the tickets sold out. In 3 minutes or something ridiculous. I missed Waits’ crazy banter once, but I will NOT again.

 

I am going to have Fishing with John to prepare myself for fish stuffing pants goodness that I anticipate will be this show.

 

Support a Good Cause on Sunday

So I’m on the list-serve for Young Blood (which by the way, is amazing in its new location), and I got an e-mail about “Nest Atlanta - Launch Fiesta.” It’s in support of the Atlanta debut of Nest.  Nest is a non-profit organization that helps women in developing countries by giving them micro-credit loans to start or maintain their own crafty/artsy business.   Even better, the function is taking place at  1*Five*0 and Luxe in the BrickWorks Midtown West Development (I have NO idea where or what this is, but I will find out by Sunday, and I’m sure it’s super hip and I will also be sure to pretend like I have known about it forever).  The event runs from 12 to 6 on Sunday, and there will be “fiesta style food and drinks” according to the YB e-mail.  There is a $5 suggested donation at the door.

Show & Tell

Show & Tell is this Sunday at Eyedrum from 1 to 6 p.m. Show & Tell is an opportunity for artists to meet and present work to members of the Eyedrum Art Committee. This event is considered an alternative to submitting a formal proposal for a show, and artists who participate will be considered for future art exhibits at Eyedrum. Many artists who have attended previous Show & Tells were awarded solo shows in our Small Gallery. Others are being considered for group exhibits. All you have to do is bring in your work and talk about it. If you are shy, don’t even fret: you will only be talking to one person at a time, and I promise we are not intimidating in the slightest. You probably made fun of us in high school.

 

 

It was too good to be true

SuperDeluxe is apparently being absorbed into Adult Swim! It’s nothing like when Nike bought Converse, NYU took over CBGBs, or Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace - first of all, SuperDeluxe and Adult Swim are bffs under Turner so it does make sense for them to combine powers (like some other Turner alums, the Planeteers). And basically, comedy sites seem popular but don’t generate enough revenue to stay up for long.

From the internal memo (via Washington Post):

Super Deluxe.com and Adult Swim.com, we have businesses whose potential for individual growth is limited by their increasingly complementary content. Rather than position them as competitors for the same audience, the smarter move is to consolidate the two brands to create a richer, stronger platform that builds on Adult Swim’s number-one position with young adults.

Meanwhile, Videogum has up the 10 best SuperDeluxe videos of all time (including my SD fave, Chelsea Peretti’s “All My Exes”) in memory of the hilarious times we all shared, alone in our bathrobes, watching comedy videos on our computers.
from www.superdeluxe.com posted with vodpod
from www.superdeluxe.com posted with vodpod

Sorry kiddies, no more Kronic Kandy for you

I just heard on WABE this morning that good old Sonny signed a bill into law that makes it illegal for Atlanta retailers to sell marijuana flavored candies to minors, since lawmakers are sure it will convince little kids to want to use the real thing. Here’s a little blog from the AJC, and it’s dated February 2007. How have I missed this for so long??? It’s hilarious! The candy is called “Chronic Candy” or “Pot Suckers” and comes in several delightful options, like lollipops and gum drops. Going down on my Google search results, (lets hope the clear private data function is really effective on my work PC) there is an MSN article from 2005 is all about the same topic. That article is much better. It explains that the candy gets its flavor from hemp oil, like what they use in those lame expensive beauty treatments for fake hippies. It also looks like there is more than one company making these things. Points to California company Chronic Candy for their slogan: “Every lick is like taking a hit.”

Unfortunately, the Atlanta-based company Hydro Blunts doesn’t have a slogan listed. But they market their lollipops as Kronic Kandy. Kudos for the klever use of the “k.”

So if you are a minor and crazy about your Pot Suckers, you should go buy them before July 1. After that, it will be illegal.

P.S. It looks like Junkman’s Daughter is a safe bet if you are looking for where to pick some of these up.

P.P.S. Sorry Christa, I hotlinked again. But I refuse to download the photo of the pot lollipop onto my computer at work just for Pecannelog. Especially when I know you’ll come behind me and fix it.

Smog alert: Orange

Don’t go outside if you have bad lungs!

Talley time

It’s college graduation time and the list of commencement speakers at colleges and universities around the state is, as usual, super boring. EXCEPT! At Savannah College of Art and Design they get André Leon Talley, editor-at-large for American Vogue and famous for being forced by Anna Wintour to lose weight. In turn, he forced Jennifer Hudson and Mariah Carey to lose weight. That’s fashion!

If we have any SCAD almost-grads reading, please report back after the Atlanta or Savannah graduations on May 31 with a detailed description of André Leon Talley’s commencement costume and accessories (including how many fur garments he is flaunting in Atlanta summer) and a transcript of his speech. I’m sure it will be INSPIRING!

Who is “Whitney”?!?!?!?!?!

Music blogs across the nation are a-buzz! WHO IS WHITNEY PETTY, DEERHUNTER’S NEW GUITARIST? Is she a real person or a hot suburban stoner cheerleader guitarbot built by Bradford Cox out of his magic “blog” technology? How will she reconcile her love for Aerosmith with Deerhunter’s ambient musical autism? Does Thomas Wheatley know her since they share an alma mater? More importantly, do Thomas and Whitney realize they may have more in common than they thought? And why was she at a party four years ago with two other hippies?

Details are still coming in! The intrepid bloggers at Pitchfork got their hands on her last name so who knows what other deep dark secrets they will dig up!

Paint job

Grant Park, Little 5 Points

The most fantastic disco in the South

There are so many things going on this weekend! Youngblood Boutique and Gallery is grand re-opening in Poncey-Highland, Criminal Records is hosting Free Comic Book Day, Highland Row Antiques is having its first of the month sidewalk sale, there’s a pug meet-up in Piedmont Park, and some other stuff I’ve forgotten already.

But here’s one thing you won’t be able to do: attend Mr. V’s Figure 8 Disco in the Westgate Shopping Center. ‘Cause it’s closed now. Sorry, guys.

Go see my friend’s band play or I will abuse caps lock even more

HAHAHAHAHAHA, I am mad with power because I have a blog and can command you to do things! Things that you will undoubtedly not do, but whatevs! I SAID WHATEVS!

Anyway, next Monday, May 5 go see my high school friend’s band the XYZ Affair perform at the EARL. This could be your ONE CHANCE IN LIFE to see/hear an ACTUAL REAL-LIFE INDIE POP BAND FROM BROOKLYN, NEW YORK play.

Maybe you have seen the XYZ Affair’s famous video that was all the rage on the internet for a couple of weeks last summer STARRING EVEN MORE OF MY HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE FRIENDS! More importantly (to some), it features a bunch of old Nickelodeon stars.

Spoiler alert: Ferguson from Clarissa Explains It All is bald now. Yeah, that’s right, I’m two degrees of separation from MELISSA JOAN HART and you can be too.

They’re opening for Morning State (Atlanta) and Jukebox the Ghost (D.C.). $8, 9 PM.

More like Tres y Cuatro de Moustache, but whatever

Aaaaah, it’s that time of the year when white frat boys across the U.S. finally recover from their St. Patrick’s Day hangovers and get wasted all over again on Cinco de Mayo. Kirkwood Aces is starting the celebration early by hosting their annual Cinco de Moustache this Friday and Saturday. I guess you have to grow or otherwise acquire a moustache if you really want to be in on the fun, which includes $1.50 tacos, $2 Tecate cans and $3 margaritas. And:

As always, there will be prizes for the best real and fake moustaches, moustache movies, moustache decorations and the infamous PERVERSE PINATA on Saturday night. And, make sure you ask us about out moustache ride special. Now reduced to only 10 cents!

1992 Hosea Williams Drive

Must-see TV

In 1969, a piece of technology was released that would help propel America into previously-unknown worlds of visual psychedelia and television-induced ADD: the video mixer.

So along came Atlanta’s very own pre-MTV The Now Explosion (which is one of the most ’70s names ever). First on channel 36, then channel 17 (it was only about 2 years old at this point and not yet called TBS), then national syndication, The Now Explosion was basically hours and hours of amateur local performers dancing and singing to the Top 40 hits of the day with lots of crazy video effects that had never been seen before, like cuts and dissolves. In other words, the WORLD’S FIRST MUSIC VIDEOS.

The Now Explosion website details (with many pictures and videos) the show’s history, production, cutting-edge (and really expensive) editing techniques, personalities, and how it was lost and then found by media archivists at UGA.

My favorite is at 2:31 when three shirtless guys dance to “If I Had a Hammer” like they are in Jesus Christ Superstar. Check out Now Explosion medley #2 that excerpts some fantastic choreography (with matching turtlenecks!) to “Light My Fire” at 2:03, and a creepy game of Simon Says at 3:41 in medley #3.

Previously: How do you say Decatur? How do you say Dacula?

Real Atlanta

If you’ve been bored since One Punk Under God left Atlanta for Brooklyn (okay, HOW was someone who preaches at the Masquerade able to afford a condo on Ponce overlooking the Fox?), then you haven’t been watching the current reality tv show in filmed Atlanta - BET’s College Hill: Atlanta. The episodes are online, but if you can’t pay attention to anything for 17 minutes, Videogum is filling us in on all the dramatic nuggets - which basically just revolve around one guy, Dru, being slutty and at one point holding a table knife at Maggiano’s. Oh, and once a guy cried because he was so excited to meet Ludacris in person.

Also, there are two Ashleys on the show, which is an accurate ratio when you have any assemblage of Gen Y-ers (50% of all females must be named Ashley). The Ashleys are awesome because they are morally outraged by Dru’s failure to change his sheets between one-night stands instead of by his actual one-night stands. Ashley L also has a shirt that says, “I LOVE MY CRAZY FRIENDS.”

Unlike the Real World, where the roommates have “jobs” like promoting bars or running a spray-tan salon, the College Hill kids are volunteering with the Ludacris Foundation. Still - maybe you will see a girl you know come home with Dru one night! OR MAYBE IT WILL BE YOU!

Morbid Wednesday

Atlanta’s Winecoff Hotel fire in 1946 was the deadliest hotel fire in history, killing 119 guests (out of 280). Arnold Hardy, a Georgia Tech student, snapped this photo of a woman leaping to her death from the burning building. He later won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for this image, and was the first amateur to win the award. (The building is now the Ellis Hotel. More on the Winecoff fire here.)

This photo is from a 1952 issue of Jet. (via vieilles annonces’ Flickr)

My celebrity sighting

Spotted on April 19, 2008 at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. He’s going to take pollution down to zero. He needs to do something about his legs though. The tights are looking a little saggy.

Atlantic Station has a glamorous ZIP code but no one cares

Atlantic Station’s developers lobbied to get a ZIP code that would roll off the tongue and be a symbol of prestige and power, but no one knew about this until AJC told us. They got what they wanted - 30363 - which should be easy to remember, I guess, because it has so many threes.

“That was very deliberate,” says Brian Leary, vice president of AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp., the Atlantic Station developer. “We’ve been using that ZIP code as a lifestyle statement. We want them to think ‘I am 30363.’”

The Atlantic Station people are not-so-secretly jealous of 30307, because the code that includes Inman Park, L5P, and Candler park has bumper stickers proclaiming 30307 is “not just a ZIP code, it’s a lifestyle,” as well as calendars commanding us to “OBSERVE THE CODE” above photos of an old hippie dressed as Uncle Sam and a pair of golden retrievers wearing tie-dye shirts.

We punk

’80s hc punk mohawk = (photo by: bill hallman, atlanta)

I stumbled across the Flickr of Tonya, a girl who was totally into the Atlanta punk scene in the ’80s. She lives in San Francisco now but plans to dig through more old B&W negatives of punk shows at Metroplex et al and eventually add them to Flickr.

L5P punk scene (1984?), Atlanta: Brian Goodman, Little 5 Pts, Atlanta.

Private school fashion

Overheard in Bill Hallman dressing rooms:

“Mooooooom, I don’t want Woodward kids to get their hands on TOMS. They just want J. Crew and Lacoste. They are so unoriginal. This would blow their minds.”

Nuptial jams

Okay, so I did not make it to the Inman Park Parade after hyping it here. Instead I went to a wedding and at the reception I enjoyed the sizzling sounds of THE BEST WEDDING BAND IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Flavor. I have the giant blister on my heel to prove it. I strongly recommend Flavor for any special event, even those where alcohol is not served in abundance.