“Got models in the moshpit dancing off beat but they know the words to my shit …” (Jay-Z, “Jockin’ Jay-Z)

Wow so cheesy. But I like editors-in-chief with a good sense of humour.

Emmanuelle Alt is showing I don’t really know what that is her best moves for the relaunch of VOGUE.fr

And I like the new VOGUE.fr.

And even though I miss Carine, I really like Emmanuelle. But jeez woman, you have to learn how to snap on time.

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Just like the great George Michael taught us.

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You just have to know where to look.

Image above: by Hannelore Knuts.

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Waiting for Lightning

A documentary on Danny Way.

This looks sooooo good.

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JMSN is the new The Weeknd. That’s the lazy way of explaining it. I don’t get the same visceral kick out of JMSN that I experience when listening to The Weeknd’s trilogy but I do like the sound and I’m curious for more.

Shady Mark Cobra Snake and his lady vs. shady lady and lady Cobra Snake. Part of the Sincerely Hana ‘Switcheroo’ series.

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If you find yourself in the car next to me in traffic and see me staring out the window and wonder what I would be thinking: this is what my mind is like at those moments.

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This is DJ Paul from 3-Six Mafia, not over-intellectualising his solo material at all, I’m happy to say. Rhyming ‘overrated’ with ‘asshole dilated’ is just the best thing ever.

There’s a new Brigitte Bardot exhibit opening at the Los Angeles Sofitel, featuring 30 rare and unseen photographs. Although some of BB’s later choices are debatable at best, you can’t argue with that face. Which reminds me of a quote about Miss Bardot I heard recently: “If you can’t save the face, save the animals.” Forgot who it was from, though.

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Zebra Katz. Ima watch that b*tch over and over and feel my brain cells changing.

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Silly wabbit Nicki doing that cartoon style like no one else can. Stop hating already.

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Oh, hi Bill. Hanging with Girls Generation backstage at Letterman, I see? Nice.

If you’re reading this to determine whether this video is worth clicking and spending 2:49 of your online time: mon Dieu! stop now and click this thing!

Imagine Vangelis, Enigma, and Ed Banger tag-teaming to produce a prophet for the end-times, dressed in blue cookies, commanding cosmic laser transport, choosing a concubine from the gathering of stunned humans and generally acting very God-like.

This is a first glimpse of the new album “God is Blue”.

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1. Pepito Bleu
2. The Colour of Your Mind
3. Sedulous
4. Cochon Ville
5. Magical Hurricane
6. Russian Attractions
7. Mayday
8. Draw Your World
9. My Poseidon
10. Against the Law
11. My God Is Blue
12. Yes It’s Possible

Evil Twin is the master.

Evil Twin is the bass.

Everybody has one.

Let.

Them.

Out.

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Profess your love, watch the city from afar, get in a fight, hit the road and eventually close your eyes and let it wash over you.

Youth Lagoon’s most recent video is a small miracle and we should be thankful for it. Tyler T Williams is the director. I’m guessing ‘Melancholia‘ (that large, looming cinematic miracle) was the inspiration.

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The best Shlohmo tracks are made in moonless absences you have never heard of. And although this new one called “Wen Uuu” is mild and clear, it is still smudged with the darkness blotting out hope, the gale prophesying your downfall.

wen uuu

I’m on one – Drake (Shlohmo’s chopped & screwed mix)

Shlohmo Fader Mix

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Trapped inside a burning house

Free download: click HERE.

There Will Be No Peace _

            by W.H.Auden _(1956)

Though mild clear weather
Smile again on the shire of your esteem
And its colors come back, the storm has changed you:
You will not forget, ever,
The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
Prophesying your downfall.

You must live with your knowledge.
Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
In moonless absences you never heard of,
Who have certainly heard of you,
Beings of unknown number and gender:
And they do not like you.

What have you done to them?
Nothing? Nothing is not an answer:
You will come to believe–how can you help it?–
That you did, you did do something;
You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
You will long for their friendship.

There will be no peace.
Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
Clear in your conscience on this:
Their cause, if they had one, is nothing to them now;
They hate for hate’s sake.

I wasn’t really ready to come out of retirement vacation and I’m not for the record. But this is too good not to post.

Eddie Huang, I’m thoroughly entertained.

“There’s your soul burger, don’t start dancing when you finish this one.”

+ His place is called BaoHaus and the tagline is “Fresh Off The Boat”.

If you’re trying to visit New York anytime soon? Youvegotstowatchthis.

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Via HypeBeast

And on the first day of Christmas, a magazine called LOVE gave to me …

Nine Ladies Dancing,
Eight Maids-a-Milking,
Seven Swans-a-Swimming,
Six Geese-a-Laying,
ohhh, awww-e-awww,
Four Calling Birds,
Three French Hens,
Two Turtle Doves,
And a bunch of supermodels stripping underneath the tree.

In a move that could almost be topping ‘peace on earth’, LOVE is making your most heartfelt Christmas wishes come true with a delightfully cheesy advent calender. Each day, we get one video of a supermodel being naughty with shiny wrappings, garlands and balls. All to the soundtrack of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby and other festive favourites.

OPEN YOUR PRESENTS HERE

There are 8 videos up, so 16 more to go!

In celebration of the new Opening Ceremony capsule collection by Chloë Sevigny (see above and see more below), we get a personal tour inside Chlöe’s closet, where she keeps her original bunny ears from Gummo, the skteches Alber Elbaz made for her when he was with Yves Saint Laurent … you know: the regular junk you keep shelved away somewhere.

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Get the complete collection HERE.

Things to look forward to. Things that rubbed my retina the right way.

Poem by ee Cummings. (via Yimmy’s Yayo)

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I’m looking forward to seeing  Better Than Something, a documentary with and about Jay Reatard, much-missed punk music genius and all-round asshole.

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Aside from releasing the documentary itself, the makers have been digging up unreleased images and sound files from Jay’s past. Like this 2006 Angry Angles live cut called  “Apparent Transparent”.

More blasts from the past:

This is a picture of DJ 50 Grand’s basement in Brooklyn. He was Notorious B.I.G.’s first DJ.

This is part of the “How Ya Livin’ Biggie Smalls” series of photographs in The Fader magazine, featuring photographs of locations important to B.I.G.’s life and work.

First ever cover of Vogue. Part of the Magazine First Covers series at Retronaut. My favourite is the People cover with Mia Farrow:

OK, back to the current manifestation of the ever expanding and multiplying one we call the ‘now’.

Kanye & Jay-Z posted a new backstage video of the Watch the Throne video at VOYR. The stage is looking incredible, the Kanye quotes are finger-lickin’ pieces of out-of-context-food for haters and inspiration to the rest of us and Hova walks in to take a picture with a kid who shaved WTT in his hair. But the coolest moment for me was when Yeezy and Hova start making their way to the stage and the security walkie talkie crackles “Chi-Town is walking.” *Krrrgh* “New York is walking”.

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Cute! Flosstradamus feat. Kid Sister – Luuk Out Girl via FirstUp, where you can also stream Kid Sister’s latest EP “Kiss & Tell”.

RIP Patrice O’ Neal. NSFW. PLEASE BUY HIS STUFF HERE.

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A funny one to end:

Das Racist on Conan O’ Brian, which caused quite a stir on the internet and in the Michael Jackson corner. Whatever you think about their MC credentials, this is how you make a TV debut.