It’s time to get weird. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti mixes unusual arrangements of vintage derivatives that are much like going on a trip (a la Frank Zappa – listen to Round & Round on the myspace). Originally Ariel, performed these pieces as a one man show with a boombox. Now he’s got a full on band and has breathed new life into these intriguing & strangely wonderful songs. With songs about castration and intense disorienting live shows, Ariel really doesn’t approach anything in a normal or mainstream way. Tim Burgess (Charlatans) recently posted this as his current favourite album. I love to see one of us weirdos on top without compromise. Big ups.
The hits just keep on comin’ folks. This time our diminutive dancer has some real star power behind her, bumping and grinding along to the Amy Winehouse hit, Rehab and her friend in the mask has an expanded speaking groaning role.
In all honesty, I do not know much about Brazil and while I would love to take the easy way out and just blame America’s woefully inadequate educational system, the truth is that I am just lazy. Therefore, my impressions of what I am sure is a wonderful country is limited to the lonely excesses of my youth meaning that, as far as I am concerned, Brazil is a sunny land comprised solely of beaches overflowing with gorgeous women who will partake in the most filthy erotic acts with you, if you have a camera. At least, that’s what I knew. Now, however, another facet of Brazil’s vibrant culture has been revealed to me, in the form of a dancing, lilliputian transvestite and her dancing partner. Wearing a bondage mask.
Go on, don’t be shy. They dance for you.
Update: Arthur points out in the comments that this is from Chile which, while in South America, is not Brazil.
For the dapper Neo-Victorian gentleman with a constabulary of aeronautical Lilliputians for dandruff, Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich’s Ludiculous Skytop Zeppelin Hat.
The Midget Palace: once the royal residence of the “King and Queen of All Midgets” and their son, “The Only Child Born to Midgets” (who was normally sized), now a gay bath house promoting sausage-filled saunas for Montreal men.
The Midget Palace [Flickr] : Boing Boing (who are cautiously tip-toeing around the potentially explosive political incorrectness by pretending not to think this is hysterical)
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
