I just received an invitation to present a lifetime achievement award to Tom Moulton. Michael Paoletta is out of town, it seems. Nice to know I’m second choice. Hope I don’t make an ass out of myself.
DJ Kicks – Henrik Schwarz (k7)
In the House – Martin Solveig (Defected)
Immer 2 – Michael Mayer (Kompakt)
Fabric 27 – Matthew Dear as Audion (Fabric)
Two/Three – Dabrye (Ghostly)
The Shining – J Dilla (BBE)
Underground Classics – Pete Rock (Rapster)
Kings of Techno – Laurent Garnier & Carl Craig (BBE/Rapster)
The heat came on tonight. Radiators hissed, pipes clanged, dust burned off, some water dripped. The house smells of incense, pot, soup, heat, the clothes tumbling in the dryer. World Series – Detroit losing to Saint Louis – huh? Was distracted by the World Cup most of summer, missed much of this season, but this? More disturbing – I used to root for underdogs; now I just want to win…
Detroit may not win the World Series, but DJ’s still love it.
Dateline’s been having a field day in the guise of community service by busting cyber pedophiles in prime time specials “To Catch a Predator.”
Watching the parade of men entrapped by vigilante group PERVERTED JUSTICE, one cannot help but wonder – Quien es mas Wanker?
Are we the audience or the “good folks” at Dateline and company really any less perverted for getting our jollies watching these guys have their jollies dashed??? The glazed look, the nervous energy, the anticipation of the spectacle – it’s equally as pronounced in both the predators and the vigilantes and the cops – and the audience.
For extra jollies, PJ has created a special secion on their website – PJ/Wankers.com, where entire transcripts of Instant Messages, (addresses included) as well as XXX webcam JPGS (with disclaimers, of course) are posted under sensational banners like:
This wanker was caught exposing himself to bethany_t_1992, a 13 year old girl… or so he thought!
After being busted, some reformed pervs take the time to thank PJ for scaring them straight. Ah, Justice.
3/11/05
scandalous_87 (11:22:47 PM): u like
bethany_t_1992 (11:22:53 PM): yes
bethany_t_1992 (11:22:57 PM): how old
bethany_t_1992 (11:23:02 PM): im 13
scandalous_87 (11:23:41 PM): ur hot as hell for that age
scandalous_87 (11:23:42 PM): wow
bethany_t_1992 (11:23:49 PM): lol
bethany_t_1992 (11:23:50 PM): ty
scandalous_87 (11:23:57 PM): any more pix
bethany_t_1992 (11:24:06 PM): no sowwy
scandalous_87 (11:24:21 PM): even see some nice cleavage
bethany_t_1992 (11:24:28 PM):
bethany_t_1992 (11:24:30 PM): no u dont
bethany_t_1992 (11:24:31 PM): lol
scandalous_87 (11:24:49 PM): it rhe pic i do
scandalous_87 (11:25:04 PM): for ue age cant believe ur boobs are that big
bethany_t_1992 (11:25:23 PM): they aing that big
bethany_t_1992 (11:25:28 PM): 32a
bethany_t_1992 (11:25:30 PM): almost b
scandalous_87 (11:25:37 PM): u a virgin
bethany_t_1992 (11:25:43 PM): yes
scandalous_87 (11:25:57 PM): nice
scandalous_87 (11:26:11 PM): ever been with a guy and fooled around
bethany_t_1992 (11:26:16 PM): a little
bethany_t_1992 (11:26:20 PM): kissing and stuff
scandalous_87 (11:26:30 PM): hold his cock?
bethany_t_1992 (11:26:39 PM): no
scandalous_87 (11:26:50 PM): ever touched one
bethany_t_1992 (11:27:02 PM): yes
scandalous_87 (11:27:15 PM): how old was the guy
bethany_t_1992 (11:27:26 PM): 17
scandalous_87 (11:27:36 PM): was it big to you
bethany_t_1992 (11:27:40 PM): lol
bethany_t_1992 (11:27:41 PM): yes
scandalous_87 (11:27:56 PM): did it make u wet
bethany_t_1992 (11:28:07 PM): i gues
scandalous_87 (11:28:33 PM): u ever touched ur clit and made it cum
bethany_t_1992 (11:28:43 PM): cum?
scandalous_87 (11:28:55 PM): yes
bethany_t_1992 (11:29:07 PM): i dont think so
scandalous_87 (11:29:29 PM): so uve played with ur pussy
bethany_t_1992 (11:29:35 PM): yes
scandalous_87 (11:29:44 PM): how did u like it
bethany_t_1992 (11:29:50 PM): it was fun
scandalous_87 (11:30:17 PM): u should try ur ass sometime too
scandalous_87 (11:30:20 PM): its awsome
bethany_t_1992 (11:30:26 PM): huh
scandalous_87 (11:30:44 PM): fingerin ur asshole or use a dildo
scandalous_87 (11:30:48 PM): its awsome
Notice: The files in this gallery were acquired voluntarily & legally from the screen name scandalous_87.
The files below may contain graphic or lewd images. These images are inappropriate for minors under the age of 18.
Subject: appology from scandalous_87
From this day forward i give you my word and my word is as good as gold that i will never chat on this yahoo messager or any messager ever again. Im not a pervert of any kind and when someone told me their age and they were not of age i should of stopped there. I have thrown this web cam in the trash because they are nothing but junk and ruin very good people like myself.
While we’re on the theme of horrors and torture and such – an oldie but goody: Botero’s Abu Ghraib.
The Art of Abu Ghrai
All photo credits: AP Photo/Francois Mori
Photo: Revista Diners
While we’re on the theme of horrors and torture and such – an oldie but goody: Botero’s Abu Ghraib.
The Art of Abu Ghrai
All photo credits: AP Photo/Francois Mori
Photo: Revista Diners
Got this from Mike a few days ago. Since Halloween is upon us, seems like a timely post… from, who else – NY POST.
We had a run-in with this guy two weeks ago on an especially intense crazy person night in NY. He was wearing his S&M Zorro uniform slouched on plastic chair. Nobody could tell if he was dead or alive and some old Russian ladies were poking him with blunt objects to see if he would move. He was so wasted he could barely walk. This is from the Post today…
VILLAGE CORPSE TWIST
By LARRY CELONA, DAN KADISON and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Only in the West Village, kids . . .
The body of a man clad in a kinky black leather mask and decked out head to toe in S&M gear was hanging from a chain-link fence on Hudson Street yesterday – as many passers-by ignored it, thinking it was a Halloween display.
The slightly built, fair-skinned mystery man may have been choked to death by a dog collar around his neck, it’s other end strapped around a 3-foot-tall fence post, police sources said.
The 40ish, tattooed man was found kneeling, braced face-first against the fence in front of 424 Hudson St. at around 6:45 a.m.
In a bizarre twist, the body had been there for at least an hour, dismissed by some who walked past as a quirky seasonal display in an area scattered with S&M and gay bars.
“The body was covered with a black suit and he had a mask on his face,” said deli owner Indra Patel, who first spotted the strangely posed corpse when he opened next door around 5:30 a.m.
“I thought it was a dummy. It looked like a dummy, because every year they do decorations like that. I was wondering why they put up the [Halloween] decorations early.”
Patel said at least an hour went by before a woman walking her dog realized the sidewalk exhibit of a man wearing a pair of leather spiked gloves, chaps and a vest was a real person and called police.
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“Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables” is probably what Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe felt like doing when their debut single, “West End Girls,” went nowhere upon its initial release in April 1984. Instead of destroying furniture, Tennant and Lowe went back to the soundboard to remix the song. Upon rerelease in 1986 on the album Please (EMI), “West End Girls” became a huge hit, topping the charts across the globe. They may have not invented the remix, but few acts have seized on its redemptive power like the Pet Shop Boys.
Prior to meeting in a London electronics store in 1981, architecture student Lowe was playing “Hello Dolly” on the trombone, and Tennant was a journalist for Smash Hits magazine, ineptly interviewing fellow Marvel Comics geek Marc Bolan. The chaps’ shared love for disco catalyzed the formation of West End, later renamed Pet Shop Boys because it sounded more like an English rap group. While interviewing The Police in New York in 1983, Tennant fortuitously slipped a demo to Bobby Orlando, the Hi-NRG producer behind Divine and the Flirts.
Despite the Bobby O touch, “West End Girls” barely rose above the day-glo Top 40 din that dominated the charts in the Reagan/Thatcher era of the mid-’80s. Inspired by Grandmaster Flash’s song “The Message” and T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land,” “West End Girls” — a hybrid of melodic synth pop and maudlin lyrics — sparked only marginal interest in the United States. On the FM dial, L.A.’s post-punk/new-wave beacon KROQ (with its roster of taste-making ex-pat Euro DJs), broke the original import during the pastel-splashed Olympic summer of 1984. In 1985, Pet Shop Boys signed with EMI and recruited Stephen Hague (New Order, Erasure, OMD) for retooling; by early 1986, the rest was chart-topping history. The band had a string of hits, including “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money),” “It’s a Sin” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” (a duet with ’60s pop icon Dusty Springfield). In 1990, Neil Tennant joined New Order’s Bernard Sumner and The Smiths’ Johnny Marr to open for Depeche Mode at Dodger Stadium as part of the group Electronic — just one of the many side projects that have kept the Boys in the limelight. While slow to catch fire, Pet Shop Boys burned white hot through the rest of the ’80s and early ’90s.
With PSB gaining much respect in the music industry, big-name artists began lining up to work with the duo. Liza Minnelli, who hired PSB to produce her 1989 Results (Epic) LP, said of the duo: “To find somebody who you like enough and trust enough and respect enough to say, ‘Forget it, I’ll do whatever you want,’ is quite amazing.” While recording the PSB-inspired/remixed “Sorry” for her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.) album, Madonna reportedly exclaimed “I fucking love them!”, underscoring a mutual admiration stretching back to PSB’s 1988 song “Heart” (written for but never delivered to Madonna by PSB, who were too shy to give it to her at the time). Other multimedia cohorts include photographer Bruce Weber and the late director Derek Jarman. “I suppose some people think pop music and theater shouldn’t mix, but I think pop music is theater,” Jarman had said of his recurrent work with Tennant and Lowe, which included directing the PSB video for “It’s a Sin.” Additional cinematic and theatrical ventures include soundtracks for Battleship Potemkin and The Crying Game (on their own Spaghetti label), as well as their film, It Couldn’t Happen Here, and musical, Closer to Heaven.
Although Fundamental (EMI/Rhino, 2006) is only PSB’s ninth album in 20 years, Tennant and Lowe constantly update their sound, securing their standing in the cultural index. More than 80 DJs and producers have remixed their songs, including Moby, KLF, Sasha, Frankie Knuckles, Basement Jaxx, Tiga, Scissor Sisters, Richard X and Michael Mayer. Covers such as “Always on My Mind” and “Where the Streets Have No Name;” B-sides and compilations (Disco 1 through 3, Introspective, Discography, Alternative, PopArt); and productions with Elton John, Dusty Springfield, Blur, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Yoko Ono and Madonna garnered them further critical acclaim, heightened their commercial profile and deepened their cultural cachet.
Fundamental reunited Tennant and Lowe with Trevor Horn (the Svengali producer for ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Seal), who had worked with them on PSB’s third album, Introspective (EMI, 1988). Proving PSB’s long tooth still bites, the first single from Fundamental, “I’m With Stupid,” prods dubious couplings (Bush/Blair, stars/fans, musical duos) with PSB’s trademark sardonic lyricism and catchy electro-pop. The video pits the satirical comedy duo Little Britain as performers lip-syncing the song for Tennant and Lowe onstage. While the exasperated alter egos call out for approval, the Boys sit tied together and classically unresponsive in an empty theater. Echoing a sentiment shared by a legion of devotees, Little Britian whimpers “We love you,” into the dark silence as the curtain descends. Considering what is said of imitation and flattery, if such unrequited fawning is not a measure of respect, what is?
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