April 2011
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Montreal's Poutine
Our Drawn & Quarterly post just got us all very hungry for the Montreal specialty, Poutine. French Fries, cheese curds, gravy, what could go wrong?
March 2011
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Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly
Remember when we went to Montreal? The people at Drawn and Quarterly were so nice an helpful. They made us a list of the best poutines in the city. The store was pretty great too. Like a little slice of San Francisco in Brooklyn in Paris. We miss them.
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Get what you get Tattoo Friday in the Lower Haight
We believe the last time this happened and few Upper Playground store members ended up with some new tattoos. if youre going to get a tattoo why not do it this way? And for $60 at Idle Hands? note: the above image is not from Idle Hands but from a google image search for “ugliest tattoos”.
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Nose Candy App for Android
Seriously, what is wrong with people? We are sorry we are posting this. Don’t buy this app, ok? Drugs are real. And serious.
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Cheating:Level Expert
This is how you do it. For the record, when we were in high school nobody had cell phones. Well, maybe just the drug dealers and the diabetics.
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Swoon Interview for ACCLAIMmag
ACCLAIMmag.com | SWOON INTERVIEW from ACCLAIM Magazine on Vimeo.
Pretty self-explanatory. We really like Swoon, and when she gets interviewed, we like to see what she is doing/thinking/talking about. Hell, we would wheatpaste with her if she asked, and we don’t wheatpaste…
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Morning Ritual: A moment for pause
For Uncle Gorby’s 80th birthday!? We don’t know, it’s just a nice picture of a woman in a moment of pause…
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Alexa Chung For Superga Photoshoot Video
Alexa Chung, who happens to have a nice sense of style, just did a photoshoot for Superga shoes, who make very smart looking trainers that anyone can wear if they are going to go the sneaker route.
The little write up on the video:
Celebrating its centennial year and with Alexa Chung as the new face of this super styled, super elegant, super cool shoe; Superga is undoubtedly set to take over...
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Alexa Chung For Superga Photoshoot Video
Alexa Chung, who happens to have a nice sense of style, just did a photoshoot for Superga shoes, who make very smart looking trainers that anyone can wear if they are going to go the sneaker route.
The little write up on the video:
Celebrating its centennial year and with Alexa Chung as the new face of this super styled, super elegant, super cool shoe; Superga is undoubtedly set to take over...
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Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dogg hit the studio...
Who wouldn’t want to get in the studio with Charlie Sheen right now? Except for the fact that he hasn’t showered in a month and is crusted with a eight balls and some STD, sure, let’s get in there. Well, Snoop Dogg and the Sheen Machine are together in a studio. According to NME, “The actor linked a photo on his Twitter page, Twitter.com/charliesheen, showing him with the...
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Definitely Thursday: Noel Gallagher "There Is a...
One of the best covers in the Noel Gallagher handbook, here is his version of The Smiths classic “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” that he played at the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit. It is just a nice version where Noel sounds like he cares that he is playing one of his own teenage influenced tracks. He does Morrissey and the Smiths justice.
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Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez
Johnny “KMNDZ” Rodriguez on his new solo show, “The Heaviest,” opening at FIFTY24SF Gallery in San Francisco on April 7:
Bob Marley wrote “Every man thinketh his Burden is the heaviest”. Music has always been a huge source of inspiration for me. As much as some of my favorite painters and paintings. These words ring true in my life, I tend to think my burdens...
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"Leica & Magnum: Past Present Future" video
Leica & Magnum: Past Present Future from leica camera on Vimeo.
We just found this video to be really well made, to be expected with Magnum Photo Agency and Leica involved on a project together. Here is what you are watching:
A core principal which framed the establishment of Magnum Photos in 1947 was the belief that photographers should have a point of view in their imagery that...
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Juxtapoz learns how to waste time with James Jean
James Jean plays a mean trumpet, but can’t dunk a basketball. Juxtapoz caught up with Jean at the Downtown LA studio he and David Choe share and produced this video: “Juxtapoz Presents Procrastination with James Jean.” They also document some nunchuck skills, spinning magazines on your finger skills, punching bag skills, pull-up skills, staring at a freeway skills, staring...
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Why weren't we invited to Uncle Gorby's 80th...
If Paul Anka and Goldie Hawn are allowed to go to Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday gala at Royal Albert Hall in London, why can’t the Citrus Report? If Sharon Stone gets to attend the last leader of the Soviet Union’s B-day, how B minus can the list get? Sure Kevin Spacey shows up because he lives in London for all the theater shit, and Arnold S Governor goes because he is...
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Photography of Alp Klanten
Battle at 3 A.M. interviewed Alp Klanten a few days ago as their almost daily, photography feature. See more photos and read the interview here.
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Republicans like to say things just to get a rise,...
Like Anne Coulter announcing that radiation is actually good for you. What’s more magical is Fox News continual instilling of this sort of bull crap into society in the form of “journalism” so that the essential information gets lost and we will never be able to have a clear discussion about any of this.
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N. Korea also makes the cutest animals
We are going to need some major convincing that this thing is real. Oh, there’s another one …
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The Vennesday Diagram- Hall and Oates
We always thought it was one person, first name Holland, last name Oates.
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Pet Rat/Hampster Clothing Available now on...
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to dress your rat in style. And yes, the caption to that photos says “Pandora’s Wedding Dowry”. What’s unclear if these are made to order or hand me downs.
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Morning Ritual: In order
Not sure why one needs to wear such a military hat whilst not wearing clothes, but to each her own.
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Oliver Peoples honors "To Kill A Mockingbird" with...
If you want to look a tad more intellectual and Gregory Peck, Oliver Peoples is making it easier for you with these new frames. Gregory’s son, Anthony, happens to be a patron of Oliver Peoples, and had the original Atticus Finch frames that his dad wore in “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
The Moment notes, “The new, bookish style ($315 at Barneys and oliverpeoples.com) is...
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Oh right, like when that guy got his head stuck in...
This guy maybe was slow before this, but he is definitely a slow adult after his head got stuck an elephant’s butt. Imagine when he went home to his parent’s house that night, and they asked “How was your day at the zoo, honey?” And right before he walked down the steps to his room in the basement, “Oh, I got my head stuck up an elephant’s ass, what’s...
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Weakness Wednesday: Manitoba "Hendrix with Ko"
We have been at the point for a long time where Dan Snaith of Manitoba/Caribou is one of the most interesting songwriters in our little world of music fandom. “Hendrix with Ko” was a track we first heard in 2003 off of Manitoba’s Up In Flames album, and when the Beta Band were on their way out, Snaith and Co were filling that experimental pop for us. Enjoy.
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Bue the Warrior
Happy People and FIFTY24MX Gallery produced and created this video profile on Belgian street muralist, Bue the Warrior, upon a visit to Mexico City. Currently, Bue the Warrior has been hitting spots all across Mexico, with his colorful characters and bright palette. Watch the profile…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buethewarrior/ http://www.fifty24mx.com
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If you don't already, get to know Obama adviser...
As we get more and more active in Libya, we should all get to know Obama adviser and National Security Council member, Samantha Power. A journalist at age 22 in the Bosnian War, she wrote extensively about the US and others inability to intervene that prolonged genocide there. Actually, just read this great NY Times profile on Ms Power.
WASHINGTON — Samantha Power took the podium at Columbia...
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London conference on Libya opens... doesn't this...
We have been paying attention closer to this Libya soon-to-be-war than we were Egypt, reason being this one feels different. This one feels like it is being run by a leader who does not care one bit if he drags his country into a ground attack by NATO and friends. But it seems like old buddies Britain and the USA are at it again, scheming and planning something.
As the Guardian writes,...
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"Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses" @ Seattle's...
We weren’t really that big of Nirvana fans, as we were too young and didn’t have the teen suburban angst built up too strong in our bones. But most people near our age had their Nirvana hysteria and moments, so this new exhibition, “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses” @ Seattle’s Experience Music Project Science Fiction Museum will be a must-see/pilgrimage. The...
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Dirty Ghosts "Shout It in" (Aesop Rock Remix)
We are very much into the Dirty Ghosts, and Aesop Rock, and that Dirty Ghosts’ Allyson Baker happens to be married to Aesop is just an added bonus for liking both artists. Aesop just remixed the Ghost’s “Shout It In” and it’s definitely one of our early highlights of 2011.
Dirty Ghosts - Shout It In (Aesop Rock Remix) by dirtyghosts
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David Choe was in Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen...
The world is a crazy place. David Choe, whom we have known for years, was in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, a video directed by a friend of members of The Citrus Report. As Dave says, “slam danced and lost my fucking mind to kurt cobain and dave grohl, man that fucker hit’s hard! You can see me for a few seconds in a video called “smells like teen spirit”
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Rodarte @ MOCA video
Rodarte: States of Matter from MOCA on Vimeo.
The work of fashion and costume designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte is on display at MOCA right now, for an exhibit called “Rodarte: States of the Matter.” The costume designers for “Black Swan” were filmed by Felipe Lima, of Arkitip, in this nice companion short.
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Morning Ritual: And then the sun...
After nearly 21 days of rain in SF, we are getting sun, so we feel like…
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Pee-Pee 1990 with The Kellys
This is what they did in Germany in 1990, they let this cult-looking family pop up on TV with their girl-looking-son singing “I ain’t going to pee-pee in my bed tonight,” or some sort of variation of this. They were called The Kellys, and they were an American-German family turned rock band that looked like cult gypsies. According to their Wikipedia page, “They have had...
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Esquire UK's 20th Anniversary bring us “20 Covers”...
By us we mean them, and by them we mean our brothers and sisters in the UK will be getting 20 special covers of their 20th anniversary issue, giving readers 20 great covers by names like George Lois, Ricky Gervais, Matt Groening, and a bunch of other Brits you won’t know like Martin Parr (unless you are a Magnum junkie). Cool idea. Don’t know who collects these things, but...
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "Give Up the Ghost"
On the official day that Radiohead release their 8th LP, The King of Limbs, we go with our favorite 2011 Radiohead song, “Give Up the Ghost.” By Radiohead standards, this is a simple, haunting number that sort of fits perfectly in an album of electronic explorations. A centerpiece that stands alone.
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Rene Almanza @ FIFTY24MX Gallery
Citrus Report contributor, and fine artist from Monterrey, Mexico, Rene Almanza, opens his solo show, Transhumano, at FIFTY24MX Gallery in Mexico City this April 2, 2011. As always, Rene’s intricate work examines the human form in a near hybrid form, evolving and growing as you look closer at each piece. The trailer captures this same feeling; people in 2050, growing new physical...
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X-Men Bike Messengers
From Battle at 3 A.M: “I had the honor of bike messengering with Joey Love in Chicago in the the late 90’s. He was the first x-men in nyc…a true legend …” -PEZ
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North Korean Children Playing Guitar
This is what you do in North Korea. Don’t they look like they are having a good time?!
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Zbiok's work from Poland
Escif’s friend, Zbiok sent us some work today. Another really strong street muralist from europe, this time further east in Poland. Enjoy the work!
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Guinea Pig Monday
Look at this little ball of fluff. We have a really sad Guinea Pig story to share but we will keep it to ourselves and just let you enjoy something adorable this monday.
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Etsy Find: Leaf Silhouettes by Jenny Lee Fowler
There is something about these silhouettes by Jenny Lee Fowler that just works. They are traditional freehand leaf silhouettes that can be custom cut from your picture. The veins and leafy greenness give them a cool unique feel.
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Casey Weldon's Cats
Casey Weldon is making some really good and interesting paintings but this one takes the cake. We are already fans of a good cat portrait, but a really strange and bugged out one is even better. It also starts to hurt your eyes after a while which is just one more reason to love it.
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Adam Kimmel x Supreme suits
This is an interesting collaboration. Supreme teamed up with fashion designer Adam Kimmel for a suit collaboration, featuring both a black and blue selection. The press release states, “Working from the same principal of inspiration through popular culture and art, Supreme has worked with Adam Kimmel to produce a two-piece suit for this Spring. The suit is understated, youthful, well...
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Thom Yorke hands out copies of Radiohead's...
Thom Yorke continues his good spirits tour of the world, this time in his homeland of England, but more specifically, London, to hand out copies of Radiohead’s newspaper, The Universal Sigh, at Rough Trade near Brick Lane. The physical copy of The King of Limbs, was released in the UK today, and the US tomorrow. Go look for the newspaper where you can...
AND, to top that off, Radiohead...
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Morning Ritual: Bardot and the Wake-Up
Just getting resorted with Brigitte Bardot… a weekend in the North was very settling…
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Gwyneth Paltrow has had "a lot" of record deal...
Gwyneth Paltrow: if you would have asked us about her in, let’s say 1998, we would have said, “lovely girl, toast of Hollywood, good looking, well-spoken, a wonderful future ahead of her. She can sing? That is great, we would love to hear her sing. She is so talented.” Then Royal Tenenbaums comes out in 2001, and we are nearly making Paltrow an all-time favorite. She’s...
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VCU = Wow.
We thought we were clever putting VCU in the Sweet 16 and proving to be right, but we never, EVER thought Elite 8, and we wouldn’t have bet a thing that would say Final Four. But now, against another amazing story (but getting less surprising because they are KNOWN studs), Butler, that will be one of the games in the Final Four. But this VCU thing, taking out the giants of Kansas...
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Madlib Mondays: "Distant Land"
We go back to the 2003 Madlib remix album, Shades of Blue, where Mr Lib got access to the Blue Note vaults and made a remarkable album of re-imagining classic jazz recordings. Here, he does a remix of Donald Byrd’s “Distant Land.” Enjoy.
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Lee "Scratch" Perry documentary, "The Upsetter,"...
Definitely don’t want to miss this one, a documentary on legendary reggae and dub artist, Lee Scratch” Perry, who brought the Jamaican music to the world. The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, narrated by Academy Award Winner Benico Del Toro in theatres this month.
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Fold Art by Dinh Truong Giang
This is the first time we have seen the work of Vietnamese artist, Dinh Truong Giang, and because we can barely fold a piece of paper, seeing some of these animal and portraits made from folding paper is quite impressive. The architecture student who studied both in Vietnam and USA, and now lives in Virginia, says this about his work:
“After about 2 years folding from books, I started to...
