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http://coilhouse.net/2009/11/marko-mitanovski-scissorhands-meets-lady-macbeth/

http://coilhouse.net/?p=11057

Via Stylecunt & Haute Macabre – the good cop & bad cop of alt fashion – comes the discovery of Marko Mitanovski, a Belgrade-based designer with a penchant for ruffs, asymmetrical corsets, antler-shaped hairstyles and elongated, knife-shaped fingertips. Mitanovski’s recent Renaissance and Elizabethan-inspired collection, entitled Lady Macbeth, was splendidly captured by Coilhouse favorite Peter Ashworth. The richly hued orange-lavender series provides an upbeat look at Mitanovski’s rather somber designs, and can be seen on Ashworth’s site. Expect for Mitanovski’s designs to appear in the next Lady Gaga video in 3… 2…

Post tags: Fashion, Fetish, Goth

http://coilhouse.net/2009/11/night-comfort-with-tom-labrie/

http://coilhouse.net/?p=11047

Tom LaBrie is a man’s man and a ladies man. He’s a man with a form fitting, wide collared shirt and slim, flared pants. He’s a man with a moustache and an unfortunate haircut. Tom LaBrie is also a man on a mission, and that mission is to get you into the squishy embrace of a fabulous new waterbed. Tom LaBrie made his pitch as the host of “Night Comfort Theater” on Sacramento-based UHF station KTXL in the 1970s and ’80s. In soft, sultry tones he hypnotizes the viewer, his words washing over them like warm, honeyed laudanum, enveloping them in their easy chairs, beckoning them to taste the aqueous pleasures his waterbed warehouse has to offer. Like a polyester siren, his song is nigh irresistible to all but the most steadfast insomniac Odysseus.

Get yours today!

Read the rest of Night Comfort With Tom LaBrie

Post tags: Advertising, Crackpot Visionary, Fashion, Shopping, Television

New Orleanians, or anyone that can head to NOLA between NOV. 13-15—Acting Up (in Acadiana) has created a haunting, truthful and memorable play—the performances in Play. Music. Heal. of the talented professional theatre company are astonishing and vital.

(I had a small part in developing this project contributing some writing.)

ACTING UP (IN ACADIANA)

http://www.actingupinacadiana.com

PLAY. MUSIC. HEAL.: neo-traditional struggles, South Louisiana, a wealthy political family, an offshore worker, his pregnant girlfriend, a festival dancer who does pet funerals, and a vegan butcher tell individual stories without listening to each other. If “you can change the world with only three chords”, will they ever listen?

Catch it at the New Orleans Fringe Festival November 13-16

http://www.nofringe.org/

http://coilhouse.net/2009/11/the-dole-banana-man/

http://coilhouse.net/?p=11037

Is it even necessary to discuss the utter insanity of Japanese media? I mean by this point I think it has been firmly established that, to the Western sensibility, their commercials are bat-shit crazy; 30 second recordings of spectacularly horrible acid trips. The Japanese version of Mad Men would require the talents of David Lynch and Takashi Miike working in concert. To stare into the mind of the ad man of the Far East is to stare into the face of God. We blink, for our feeble brains cannot process its wonder.

This ad for Dole bananas is no different. The Dole Banana Man struts down the street as people accost him; demanding satisfaction, which he obliges. A woman sitting on a bench despondent, it seems, from a lack of bananas. Not for long, however, as the Dole Banana Man comes upon her and, smiling at the camera, his bananastache atwitter, he bestows on her a bounty of fruit sprayed forth from one nostril; a potassium rich snot-rocket. In doing so he joins the ranks of other, food-bestowing characters like the Cheese Man who shills for Nissin, assaulting people in their homes in order to add cheese to their cups o’ curry. He even has a love interest now. No doubt Dole will do the same and give the Dole Banana Man a female counterpart; someone who he can grope with his sweet, fleshy digits.

I fear what the future holds.

Post tags: Advertising, Crackpot Visionary, Drugs, Horror, Japan, Madness