I'm a music journalist too! If I can't be sewing and dressing people, I would pursue a writing career, though magazines are sadly becoming obsolete...
Anyhoo, I had an early interview this morning and the singer I spoke with was really awesome and I felt like I was talking to a friend - maybe b/c he's one of the scene queens and I've been following his online adventures for awhile.
But here's advice for all you upcoming journalists - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE FRESH BATTERIES!
My batteries died after the first three, bullshit questions. So, also make sure YOU TAKE NOTES. B/c if the recorder dies, you'll still have quotes.
I'm now looking at a bunch of random quotes and notes with only exact answers from three questions pretaining to the current tour. I'm nervous as to how this'll turn out.
Oh! My 30 Seconds to Mars show review got posted with the only really sweet image of the evening that came out: Show Review
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Epic Shoot - Hells Yea!
Friday...we shot for an upcoming feature in an online magazine. It'll be up in oh, 4 weeks. Details to come!
Photographer - Barrie Blau
MUA/Hair - Nicole 'The Magician' Gevirtz
Models - Vika Noxx, Alien Baby and Kami!
I feel like you don't even have to post images, b/c well, just the idea of all these crazy talented ladies is enough to be like - whoa! That's freakin' awesome!
We had a bumpy start to the day, one being the fact that Route 202 is the road of despair, I almost got into an accident b/c of some old male geezer and Pennsylvania is a backwards backroads kind of place.
I'm such a North Jersey girl it's retarded!
The suitcase I brought was overflowing with clothes and thank God there were three models. We got through two of the magazine looks done and then started to play with other outfits.
We put Alien Baby in this leotard I made WAY too small. But she's a skinny minnie and it worked out.
Rawr face!
Me safety pinning the damn thing b/c it still was big on her!
After pizza and Alien Baby being all bendy for the camera...Kami came! The lovely Nicole feathered her hair to revive the ghost of Farrah Fawcett to mess up Barrie's camera...Ellie finished being bendy and Vika hung out in the second to last look.
The models did two group shots and Kami got her pose on with a re-mixed outfit.
Can't wait to show the world the photos! Here's some beauty shots to tide the world over and one of Alien Baby being bendy.
But first! B/c I am also a photographer and photo editor (haha), here's a candid of the photographer modeling - she's a pretty skinny minnie
http://www.barrieblauphotography.com/
Photographer - Barrie Blau
MUA/Hair - Nicole 'The Magician' Gevirtz
Models - Vika Noxx, Alien Baby and Kami!
I feel like you don't even have to post images, b/c well, just the idea of all these crazy talented ladies is enough to be like - whoa! That's freakin' awesome!
We had a bumpy start to the day, one being the fact that Route 202 is the road of despair, I almost got into an accident b/c of some old male geezer and Pennsylvania is a backwards backroads kind of place.
I'm such a North Jersey girl it's retarded!
The suitcase I brought was overflowing with clothes and thank God there were three models. We got through two of the magazine looks done and then started to play with other outfits.
We put Alien Baby in this leotard I made WAY too small. But she's a skinny minnie and it worked out.
Rawr face!
Me safety pinning the damn thing b/c it still was big on her!
After pizza and Alien Baby being all bendy for the camera...Kami came! The lovely Nicole feathered her hair to revive the ghost of Farrah Fawcett to mess up Barrie's camera...Ellie finished being bendy and Vika hung out in the second to last look.
The models did two group shots and Kami got her pose on with a re-mixed outfit.
Can't wait to show the world the photos! Here's some beauty shots to tide the world over and one of Alien Baby being bendy.
But first! B/c I am also a photographer and photo editor (haha), here's a candid of the photographer modeling - she's a pretty skinny minnie
http://www.barrieblauphotography.com/
Monday, May 3, 2010
Bamboozle, you suck.
My sister and I have attended the Bamboozle for the past five years now. Obviously under this name it only lasted one year down in Asbury Park and once transferred to Giants' Stadium's parking lot, went downhill.
It wasn't so bad in retrospect last year. Actually, the line up was really good, though the festival still wasn't the most enjoyable.
This year, honestly, if the tickets weren't free, I wasn't going near it.
Parking was $25 per car (unless you got there after 5pm), water was $4.50 and beer (which I don't drink in the sun) was $9.25. Nevermind the ticket prices.
Plus the line-up for the East Coast wasn't stellar - screw you Bamboozle Left and Chicago, you guys got the good bands. And...the Roadshow sounds way better than both days combined.
Ok, enough complaining. Let's talk about the good parts!
Day 1: THE AQUABATS!
First time seeing them and not the last. They are super heroes and have matching uniforms - thank you!
They played awesome punk rock mixed with ska and kickass-ness.
Then they sung about taco Tuesday
Fought evil crab people
Made fun of security
Then had a pool party! Inflatable whales and beach balls included
Almost kicked some girl's ass b/c she a dumb bitch with a pussy-ass boyfriend. People have NO manners at shit like this.
Day 2: FOXY SHAZAM!
Ok, there was also Minus the Bear, Dear Hunter and Wale who were bright moments of the day and played incredible music and really connected with the audience.
Minus the Bear and Dear Hunter are typical progressive, involved rock that is so pleasant to listen to. More kids should have been at their set than at like Kesha.
Wale and the 'hip hop' stage plus b-boy arena was mad chill and awesome. The crowd was smoking and drinking most of the time, so people weren't annoying and rude and then when no one was performing...break dancing! Those guys were really something from what I saw, especially in the heat.
FOXY SHAZAM is sick and amazing and TRUE performers who get it. They make great music and know how to put on a stage show. So fuck y'all if you wasted your time with Say Anything.
Between their singer's funny commentary and then his eating of 6 or 8 or 4 lit cigarettes and then offering $20 for anyone to kill him (he insulted the white people of the crowd, haha)...you had their singer/brass musician dancing sexily around, their keyboardist smiling, then serious, then jumping on his keyboards and a crowd that cheered and danced along.
Then. The singer towards the end, climbed the side support of the stage, going up to the beam above, swinging like on monkey bars before turning upside down, ripping off his shirt and then landing on his feet on the stage like a cat.
Yea, next thing they were off the stage b/c security got PISSED. There was five minutes left that they could have played, but maybe it really was the end - who knows.
Bamboozle this year SUCKED. But it had it's highlights. Whatever
It wasn't so bad in retrospect last year. Actually, the line up was really good, though the festival still wasn't the most enjoyable.
This year, honestly, if the tickets weren't free, I wasn't going near it.
Parking was $25 per car (unless you got there after 5pm), water was $4.50 and beer (which I don't drink in the sun) was $9.25. Nevermind the ticket prices.
Plus the line-up for the East Coast wasn't stellar - screw you Bamboozle Left and Chicago, you guys got the good bands. And...the Roadshow sounds way better than both days combined.
Ok, enough complaining. Let's talk about the good parts!
Day 1: THE AQUABATS!
First time seeing them and not the last. They are super heroes and have matching uniforms - thank you!
They played awesome punk rock mixed with ska and kickass-ness.
Then they sung about taco Tuesday
Fought evil crab people
Made fun of security
Then had a pool party! Inflatable whales and beach balls included
Almost kicked some girl's ass b/c she a dumb bitch with a pussy-ass boyfriend. People have NO manners at shit like this.
Day 2: FOXY SHAZAM!
Ok, there was also Minus the Bear, Dear Hunter and Wale who were bright moments of the day and played incredible music and really connected with the audience.
Minus the Bear and Dear Hunter are typical progressive, involved rock that is so pleasant to listen to. More kids should have been at their set than at like Kesha.
Wale and the 'hip hop' stage plus b-boy arena was mad chill and awesome. The crowd was smoking and drinking most of the time, so people weren't annoying and rude and then when no one was performing...break dancing! Those guys were really something from what I saw, especially in the heat.
FOXY SHAZAM is sick and amazing and TRUE performers who get it. They make great music and know how to put on a stage show. So fuck y'all if you wasted your time with Say Anything.
Between their singer's funny commentary and then his eating of 6 or 8 or 4 lit cigarettes and then offering $20 for anyone to kill him (he insulted the white people of the crowd, haha)...you had their singer/brass musician dancing sexily around, their keyboardist smiling, then serious, then jumping on his keyboards and a crowd that cheered and danced along.
Then. The singer towards the end, climbed the side support of the stage, going up to the beam above, swinging like on monkey bars before turning upside down, ripping off his shirt and then landing on his feet on the stage like a cat.
Yea, next thing they were off the stage b/c security got PISSED. There was five minutes left that they could have played, but maybe it really was the end - who knows.
Bamboozle this year SUCKED. But it had it's highlights. Whatever
Friday, April 30, 2010
Flogging Molly = Love
This past Monday we went to see Flogging Molly at my favorite venue, Starland Ballroom
River City Extension was playing as we got in and I'm considering them like The Decemberists only more punk rock. Lots of instruments, fun, folky and easy to get into.
Turns out my friend knows the one band member and asked me to go to their CD release party in Asbury Park earlier in the day. Who knew I was going to see them that day?
Big D and the Kids Table were also up before Flogging Molly. Of course I knew who they were, but had never really bothered to get into them. They showed me I suck at life. Awewsome as hell.
90s ska still proving to be relevant and just as killer as when it first was huge. You could tell the new stuff from the old (he said what was what), a little harder/darker maybe describes the newer material.
Fun times, expecially watching the street punks dance around. Skinny boys in studded vests and jackets are love (and most were of age - they would find liquid refreshments in the bar area! that's how i know)
FLOGGING MOLLY!
Yea, I saw them at Warped Tour, but this trumps Warped Tour like whoa.
They played on and on and everything was a song near and dear to my heart. I'm not too into their new album, Float, but can't win them all.
The crowd was just bananas the whole time and while you could see a bit of boredom/anticipation during slower songs, they needed them to rest and reflect.
What was really something was how the band interacted with each other and the crowd - being so genuine is rare these days. Singer Dave King, when he wasn't making mention of his wife and bandmate Bridget, pointed out the young fire fighter in the crowd who apparently stalks the band when they play, haha.
We left before the encore, but a Monday night is hard when work has to come the next day. Such a great show though - the crowd was on point, the openers were stupid awesome and Flogging Molly is always professional and just plain good.
Plus we kept noticing the trend of red socks. Can you see them on guitarist/banjo-ist/multi-instrumentalist Bob Smith? Was there a reason I didn't know?
River City Extension was playing as we got in and I'm considering them like The Decemberists only more punk rock. Lots of instruments, fun, folky and easy to get into.
Turns out my friend knows the one band member and asked me to go to their CD release party in Asbury Park earlier in the day. Who knew I was going to see them that day?
Big D and the Kids Table were also up before Flogging Molly. Of course I knew who they were, but had never really bothered to get into them. They showed me I suck at life. Awewsome as hell.
90s ska still proving to be relevant and just as killer as when it first was huge. You could tell the new stuff from the old (he said what was what), a little harder/darker maybe describes the newer material.
Fun times, expecially watching the street punks dance around. Skinny boys in studded vests and jackets are love (and most were of age - they would find liquid refreshments in the bar area! that's how i know)
FLOGGING MOLLY!
Yea, I saw them at Warped Tour, but this trumps Warped Tour like whoa.
They played on and on and everything was a song near and dear to my heart. I'm not too into their new album, Float, but can't win them all.
The crowd was just bananas the whole time and while you could see a bit of boredom/anticipation during slower songs, they needed them to rest and reflect.
What was really something was how the band interacted with each other and the crowd - being so genuine is rare these days. Singer Dave King, when he wasn't making mention of his wife and bandmate Bridget, pointed out the young fire fighter in the crowd who apparently stalks the band when they play, haha.
We left before the encore, but a Monday night is hard when work has to come the next day. Such a great show though - the crowd was on point, the openers were stupid awesome and Flogging Molly is always professional and just plain good.
Plus we kept noticing the trend of red socks. Can you see them on guitarist/banjo-ist/multi-instrumentalist Bob Smith? Was there a reason I didn't know?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
MEGA UPDATE!
No photos, no reviews, no sob stories...
Just CRAZINESS!
-My work is going to be seen in some really cool places!
-My clothing gets to travel all across this country...I loves me models & photographers!
-Getting ready to post some new items for sale, I have no room for new pieces
-Concert season has begun! This week has been and will become the most shows I've seen in a week
-Plus, I got a photo pass for Courtney Love (I'm kind of refusing to say Hole). She looked good, but my photos came out horrible, haha, but it was fun
-I have new photos to post! Not yet, I'm lazy right now
RAWR!
Oh, and my Jared Leto interview I did for The Aquarian...it's one of their MYSPACE BLOGS, nevermind it was on their website newsfeed. OMG! Their publicy people must have liked it :)
Just CRAZINESS!
-My work is going to be seen in some really cool places!
-My clothing gets to travel all across this country...I loves me models & photographers!
-Getting ready to post some new items for sale, I have no room for new pieces
-Concert season has begun! This week has been and will become the most shows I've seen in a week
-Plus, I got a photo pass for Courtney Love (I'm kind of refusing to say Hole). She looked good, but my photos came out horrible, haha, but it was fun
-I have new photos to post! Not yet, I'm lazy right now
RAWR!
Oh, and my Jared Leto interview I did for The Aquarian...it's one of their MYSPACE BLOGS, nevermind it was on their website newsfeed. OMG! Their publicy people must have liked it :)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Jared Leto and Big White Balls
Oh you'll see...
I was stoked to interview His Holy Leto-ness (TheAquarian.com), which was an awkward phone thing, but I was even more stoked on a photo pass at the Roseland Ballroom...
Seemed His Leto-ness or whoever, took away the photo pit for more 'fan together time' or whatever and I got yelled at by security (well sorta, not really, ok, i'm exaggerating). So I got stuck taking photos upstairs with my base model camera - oh wells.
But the show was AWESOME!
Street Drum Corps - Neon Trees - Mutemath - 30STM
I like Street Drums Corps. At the end, they were sawing at the metal barrels and the singer came out in leggings and a military helmet - I want to make him leggings next time.
Neon Trees were meh. I can see where people do like them, but besides the singer wearing an epic red jacket in the beginning and their drummer is a girl, who also was hanging out downstairs chatting with everyone after the set, I'm not too impressed.
Mutemath was AMAZING and their drummer comes out, hangs up his hat and duct-tapes (velcro?) his headphones to his head. Then it was just one big explosion of music, completely grabbed you and then that faint hint of a Southern accent of the singer (they're from New Orleans) came out and had me hooked.
So, I was stupid and went to the basement bathroom DURING the set, fearing the line between Mutemath and 30STM. I was a fool and thus was left only seeing 4 songs by Mutemath - they ended by flipping over the keyboards, taking apart their equipment and still playing it and making music.
On to 30STM...
The floor was rediculous the whole night, so thank God I was upstairs. Stupid Leto though at one point, told everyone from the back to take 3 HUGE steps forward. They did. Poor people in the front...
For the show...It felt at times that they played each song as if it were the last of the evening. Over dramatic and long pauses, as if to hear the screaming of fans.
They played one (or maybe two, I'm not familiar with the first album) old song and then an equal mix of their current and previous release.
At one point, I saw cameras facing my direction, which was away from the stage, and was like - Look! Leto's beneath us at the sound board!
So yay, he sang "The Kill" right there and then once over...the security guards started like moshing and pushing the crowd apart for Jared to make his way back to the stage and we were left thinking - how did he get to the sound board in the first place?
But yea, great show and for the finale, they brought fans up on stage - most were those that purchased the 'VIP Package' and then they pulled maybe ten people from the crowd. Cool. Then BIG GIANT white balloons were thrown into the crowd as the band finished up "Kings and Queens."
Jared liked to talk and make jokes that I read he did in other show reviews. So...I was just wishing i had the extra funds to see them the next day over in Montclair at Wellmont. Oh wells - it'll just be sweeter the next time they come to town.
He made a lot of funny faces...
Oh and he lost his shirt at the end. Seriously, the girls in the crowd ripped it to shreds as he ran back to the stage.
I was stoked to interview His Holy Leto-ness (TheAquarian.com), which was an awkward phone thing, but I was even more stoked on a photo pass at the Roseland Ballroom...
Seemed His Leto-ness or whoever, took away the photo pit for more 'fan together time' or whatever and I got yelled at by security (well sorta, not really, ok, i'm exaggerating). So I got stuck taking photos upstairs with my base model camera - oh wells.
But the show was AWESOME!
Street Drum Corps - Neon Trees - Mutemath - 30STM
I like Street Drums Corps. At the end, they were sawing at the metal barrels and the singer came out in leggings and a military helmet - I want to make him leggings next time.
Neon Trees were meh. I can see where people do like them, but besides the singer wearing an epic red jacket in the beginning and their drummer is a girl, who also was hanging out downstairs chatting with everyone after the set, I'm not too impressed.
Mutemath was AMAZING and their drummer comes out, hangs up his hat and duct-tapes (velcro?) his headphones to his head. Then it was just one big explosion of music, completely grabbed you and then that faint hint of a Southern accent of the singer (they're from New Orleans) came out and had me hooked.
So, I was stupid and went to the basement bathroom DURING the set, fearing the line between Mutemath and 30STM. I was a fool and thus was left only seeing 4 songs by Mutemath - they ended by flipping over the keyboards, taking apart their equipment and still playing it and making music.
On to 30STM...
The floor was rediculous the whole night, so thank God I was upstairs. Stupid Leto though at one point, told everyone from the back to take 3 HUGE steps forward. They did. Poor people in the front...
For the show...It felt at times that they played each song as if it were the last of the evening. Over dramatic and long pauses, as if to hear the screaming of fans.
They played one (or maybe two, I'm not familiar with the first album) old song and then an equal mix of their current and previous release.
At one point, I saw cameras facing my direction, which was away from the stage, and was like - Look! Leto's beneath us at the sound board!
So yay, he sang "The Kill" right there and then once over...the security guards started like moshing and pushing the crowd apart for Jared to make his way back to the stage and we were left thinking - how did he get to the sound board in the first place?
But yea, great show and for the finale, they brought fans up on stage - most were those that purchased the 'VIP Package' and then they pulled maybe ten people from the crowd. Cool. Then BIG GIANT white balloons were thrown into the crowd as the band finished up "Kings and Queens."
Jared liked to talk and make jokes that I read he did in other show reviews. So...I was just wishing i had the extra funds to see them the next day over in Montclair at Wellmont. Oh wells - it'll just be sweeter the next time they come to town.
He made a lot of funny faces...
Oh and he lost his shirt at the end. Seriously, the girls in the crowd ripped it to shreds as he ran back to the stage.
Friday, April 16, 2010
I Had To...
So, I'll admit it - I would LOVE to get a bit of liposuction done OR implants to be more proportionate and just fuller. Basically my body is out of whack and I want to be proportionate - I mean hell, I'm reminded when I'm fitting spandex outfits on myself.
But I wouldn't have both - well maybe only b/c I don't have the money.
But you know who does have the money...Tweedle Dum aka Heidi Montage
We were talking in work and I was like - those new photos, her boobs are now really THAT big?
My suspicions were right. Holy shit girl! You're boobs are as big as your head. People say plastic surgery addiction and I'll also add trying to follow Playboy idiots and Pam Anderson b/c without reality TV, you realize you're nothing.
Whatever. I started looking at photos, before and after, and want to throw in my two cents.
You know, she was cute and she always had the cute little body I would die for right now. She then gained fame and was always wearing high-end clothing and yea, what would you want to change?
Ok, well maybe if I had the money I could always find things to change too. Here's a photo from the 'between' time. Yea, she's prettier, BUT what it is more so - If you just did way lighter hair, bleach the eyebrows and a really good make up job, you wouldn't have needed surgery. I agree with the nose job and you want to know something, if she really was an A cup before...they why not get an implant to have more womanly curves. BUT! She went retarded and not like to a full B cup, which is what she should have.
Dude, seriously, your boobs are larger than Spencer's head. This is just horrific and did she get more work done to her face? I think so and that's a shame, she was way prettier before. Those implants looks like they hurt. ouch!
But I wouldn't have both - well maybe only b/c I don't have the money.
But you know who does have the money...Tweedle Dum aka Heidi Montage
We were talking in work and I was like - those new photos, her boobs are now really THAT big?
My suspicions were right. Holy shit girl! You're boobs are as big as your head. People say plastic surgery addiction and I'll also add trying to follow Playboy idiots and Pam Anderson b/c without reality TV, you realize you're nothing.
Whatever. I started looking at photos, before and after, and want to throw in my two cents.
You know, she was cute and she always had the cute little body I would die for right now. She then gained fame and was always wearing high-end clothing and yea, what would you want to change?
Ok, well maybe if I had the money I could always find things to change too. Here's a photo from the 'between' time. Yea, she's prettier, BUT what it is more so - If you just did way lighter hair, bleach the eyebrows and a really good make up job, you wouldn't have needed surgery. I agree with the nose job and you want to know something, if she really was an A cup before...they why not get an implant to have more womanly curves. BUT! She went retarded and not like to a full B cup, which is what she should have.
Dude, seriously, your boobs are larger than Spencer's head. This is just horrific and did she get more work done to her face? I think so and that's a shame, she was way prettier before. Those implants looks like they hurt. ouch!
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