LIPSTiCK TrACeZ

Coming Down South for the Art Basel fun? Going to catch Madonna VIP in Rome, bring ear plugs for DJ Paul Oakenfold. Jumping on a jet with P. Diddy to party in St. Barths for New Years Eve? Oh wait, he flies coach now like the rest of us. Well, if you came back in this life  as Edie Segwich and you are the party girl queen of the social scene, don't let the recession get you down! You can still get your make-up done for free at the Mac counter and then run on over to Ilus located at  248 Elizabeth Street near Prince st, phone 646-454-1678. It is known as the "luxury for lease" boutique in Nolita that offers three-day dress rentals. Beautiful brands such as Miu Miu, Badgley Mischka, and Gucci for your viewing pleasure. But if you break it, you buy it! So don't pull a Borat and bring a bull in a china shop. You can rent a designer bag, jewelry, shawls, and clutches! Oh My! So don't worry about getting caught in the same outfit twice, you have a place to go and you'll look twice as nice! 

Shallow
The Standard, Miami welcomes Malcolm McLaren for the Miami premier of his acclaimed featured-length video work "Shallow" on Sunday, November 9th at 8pm.  "Shallow" (2007-2008) is a feature-length color video art work consisting of individual film clips sourced from erotic films of the late 1960''s.  Devised as a series of "musical paintings" in alternating slow motion tempos and precise edits, McLaren deliberately selected moments immediately preceding or following sex scenes - extending a handful of frames into nearly still portraits of seduction and artifice.


Malcolm Mclaren, founder of the Sex Pistols, was born in 1946 in London and currently lives and works in Paris and New York. The artist was invited to speak at Art Basel in the conversations lecture series on Punk and contemporary art and the following year he returned to Basel to Premier his first film, entilted Shallow. Mclaren's sex and seditionaries clothing series (originally conceived during his partnership with Vivienne Westwood) was recently exhibited in the Anglomania show at the Metropolitian Museum of Art in 2006. Upcoming Projects include the development of a stage musical about fashion.

Malcolm Mclaren has been invited to present his film work as part of The Standards Lovelife series.

Sunday, November 9th 8 o' clock
RSVP.MIAMI@STANDARDHOTEL.COM

When I was 13, South Beach was ghost town. When I was 15, South Beach was New York City's playground. When I was 20, instead of the beach becoming a brighter creative community, it was commercialized. Good-bye LuLu's, The Spot, Warsaw, The Kitchen Club, The Cave, Washington Square all lie in a graveyard of past fun. The Techno aliens have landed and opened up places called Kiss and Touch.

I became a Netflix gal, until I suddenly heard of Wynwood and galleries such as O.H.W.O.W. who plan to re-energize the cultural art scene.This is amazing for our community!  If I see another Romero Britto poster in someone's living room, and the owner of such a poster calling it great art, I'll just rip it down and tell them O.H.W.O.W. has so much more to offer. Go buy their BOOKS!  This luxurious space is the creative outlet everyone is looking forward too. Starting with this SATURDAY :

                                                     O.H.W.O.W presents their first opening
                                                     Rostarr's  "Wreckless Abandon" 10-11-08
                                                     with music by the Ghetto Brothers
                                                     3100 NW 7th Ave. from 7-11
                                                     306.490.2976
                                                     Admission is free
                                                     www.oh-wow.com

Rostarr is already a Rockstar. Born is South Korea, but has lived in NYC since 1993, he has been a key figure in the city's underground art scene and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. His work  jumps of the canvas and mentally awakens your brain. He defines his work "Graphysics", meaning the fusion of graphic art governing the movement of energy. Sound cerebral enough?
Romon Kimin Yang graduated from the school of Visual Arts in 1993. In 2004, he was recognized as an honoree at the A.I.C.P show held yearly at the New York Museum of Modern Art and his work has been praised by Art Forum, Modern Painters, The New York Times and Artnet. com and many many many other prominent publications. Art Darlings get ready to be mesmerized!

Other artists part of the O.H.W.O.W community include: Rita Ackerman, Dash Snow, Dan Colen, Gang Gang Dance, Terence Koh, Ari Marcopoulos, The Virgins, and many more.  Books available by : Kai Regan, Heron Preston, Weirdo Dave, Jack Walls, and Aaron Bondaroff.

I'm going to have to lure Karina Ors into Barney's for her to sit down and chat with me about what O.H.W.O.W. has planned for Art Basel!
                                                     

last chance to see this show, 10 days and counting
bring David Lynch as your date
DON'T MISS IT!!!!

Michal Chelbin
STRANGELY FAMILIAR
4 September - 18 October 2008

Check out the prints at :

 the ANDREA MEISLIN GALLERY
526 West 26 street #214 NYC 10001
212.627.2552
Tuesday- Saturday 10-6
www.andreamelislin.com

This book is excellent and would make any photographer happy to have on their coffee table for the Jewish and Christian high holidays.

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Books& Books Proudly Presents.........
An Evening at Saks Fifth Avenue in Bal Harbour Shops in honor of Candance Bushnell

                                                       For her newest novel,
                                                       One Fifth Avenue
                                                       Friday, October 3, 7:30 pm
                                                       Cocktail reception begins at 6:30
                                                       Saks Fifth Avenue in the Bal Harbour Shops
                                                       Level 3
                                                       9700 Collins Ave. Bal Harbour
Bonus: While supplies last complimentary tickets available at Books&Books in the mall
 The New York Times raves that, "Bushnell is........the philosopher queen of the social scene."
I liked how that rhymed.  It seems Like One Fifth Avenue is the building that I would love to live in along with my interesting neighbors like: an aging gossip columnist, a hedge fund king's wife, a free spirited actress, and many more. It sounds like this building is not easy to get into.  Like Daddy just can't lay out the tax return and you are solidified an apartment. I feel like it would be cool to hang out with Candace and the aging gossip columnist and dance the night away at Bungalow Eight or slam back some cosmopolitans  at The Beartrice Inn. Some Fun Facts about Candace include :

-She was a regular at Studio 54
-Her Sex and the City column was written for The New York Observer
-She is the recipient of the 2006 Matrix Award for Books and the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine
-Is the author of One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, 4 Blonds, and Sex and the City
-She currently resides in Manhattan with her husband, NYC Ballet's principal dancer, Charles Askegard.

So all you singil gals can ask all your questions, buy and get your books signed and possibly  meet to single queens to party away with in the Miami Social Scene.
Or Try to take Candace to THE DUCE, 14th and Washington! One Classy and Cool Bar, especially to meet men!

Upcoming events at Books&Books on 10-23-08 Micael Largo will speak about Genius and Heroin
and on 10-29-08 Debbie Reed Fischer reads from Swimming with Sharks.                                                                                                                                                   

SARAH PALIN

If age 72, if elected John McCain will be the oldest president ever inaugurated. Yet the person he has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency is ultra-conservative, has no foreign policy experience and has been a Governor of the least populated state in the nation for less than two years. Here is some background on Sarah Palin:

She was elected Alaska 's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town of less than 9,000 people outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1
Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2
She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5
She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species--she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7www.womenforbarackobama.com









Will  anyone ever throw Sarah Palin a rose on stage? Do you think she got them after her beauty pageant contests? Did she bring guns to her pageants, in case she did not win she could shoot the judges? Did she dry the roses out and decorate her home with  them like the little Martha Stewart she is? I was in Denver photographing the DNC, and staying with friends when the news broke.  My gal pal Emi's husband ran in and said, "John McCain picked a woman VP!!!!!!." We thought to ourselves smooth move counselor! And on the bottom of the screen flashed Hillary Clinton's thoughts about how great it is to select a woman for VP and how exhilarating it is to  "break the glass ceiling."
So we watched, we never heard of this governor from Alaska before. And the first images they show us is her firing an, I believe M-16, machine gun. Then hunting images of her lying on a dead bloody Moose and at last her stance on abortion. Emi and I look at each other, we were dazed and confused. Emi said, "I should call jack down here, her three year old son, to show him how cool it it to use guns!"
I said to her," Take a plane a come on down to Miami, in the movie theaters we have these amazing video games  and you can shoot people of all races!" Emi responded, "Well, at least they are politically correct video games!"

The first image I thought of after I saw her shooting away was Columbine, and how easy it is for anybody to get a gun in this country.  In the 1970's in NYC, people used to open their coats and say , "Wanna buy a watch?" Down here it's like let's pull up to the local gas and sip and a man pops out of a van and says, "Wanna buy a gun?"  The more I hear about this woman, the more Botox I think I need to hide my angry lines. I just hope the hard core religious fanatics stay home and think of more books to ban. Here are some favorite's of Sarah's!!!!
Sarah Palin's Book Club

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'¢Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John
Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Hallowee n ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K.
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and
Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
M y Friend Flicka by Mary O'¢Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health
Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolti ng Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by
Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles
Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the
Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of
the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth


Recently, I saw the movie, Lars and the Real Girl, staring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. Everyone is excellent in the film and I give it 10 thumbs up! The movie focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept, delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll over the internet, Bianca, and falls in love with her.

What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.

Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.

I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands.  But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!

 
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light,  and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.

-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles.  Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.

-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.

-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.

-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.

-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.