The Dandy Lion

my friend wants me to twitter

2008-06-30T21:24:00.001-07:00

this title has nothing to do with the story... but to my friend... theres your fucking update

anyway back to the present... I was watching tv last night (of course I was watching tv) and caught a new episode of swingtown. now to any of you who haven't seen or heard about this let me give you the headlines. CBS in all of its public access glory has just birthed a show thats set in the 70s and deals with an upwardly mobile family whose new neighborhood teaches the parents a few things about sharing.

now my girlfriend manages the premier erotic boutique in los angeles... and this has given me plenty of time around the more ahem... liberated..... so why would a show about swinging have to be set in the 70s? ... what is the state of sex today?

because here in this millenium sex is a complex issue. arguably sex in the public eye has reached an all time high and yet... we're still shocked when we see it in public... (janet jacksons nipple being a perfect example) now this doesn't apply as much to our friends accross the pond and surely the times I've had in new york related to sex are outrageously more...outrageous than those I've had anywhere else.

In a particularly rousing display at the box during fall fashion week last year I saw a tranny pull a dildo out of its ass 7 feet from my face... fuckers told me we were going to a caberet and the next thing I know theres an andre the giant sized rosie the riviter displaying an entirely unimpressive man penis.

With all this sex... what better time for taschen to unleash their newest ode to the anatomical enormity than with their new Big Book of Penises which my aforementioned partner snagged the ability to host the book release party for...

so whats the deal with sex today... just find out

coco loves taschen

rad

romina

melody's in her domain wearing vintage pucci

what we're celebrating

best salt and pepper shaker ever

the girls of coco

frou noey

vh1 party coming july 11th

he kinda looks like justin from she wants revenge

weiners

street fashion blogs eat your heart out

your smile reminded me of

ok this man is amazing... appaaaaaaarently... he did ALL the makeup in paaaaaris during the 1950s

bon appetit

whoa whoa... (this is not my hand)

again not my hand

although I wish these were my glasses

this my friends... is the... ahem... cover model

trio of fabulousnessness

hello mom... I write you from west hollywood

strike a pose diva

affection

loook at those CHOMPERS

courtney love lookalike... or her... who knows

my bug mistress of management

...ok just look at this picture... its awesome

hello velvet

bad ass nails gaby

ok... so like terrorist scarves and trucker hats... who votes we retire the kanye shades

she furociously peddles for the likes of sprite and carls jr...

cheers to you

slangin

asaaault

whoa... suprised are you... well its just a penis... nothing you haven't seen before

you can even blow it a kiss

is this even a word...

badass curls... wish I had some black in me sometimes

best tattoo of the evening

superfly is what he said I think

we are all maniquens

kissing in front of the coco label

my welcome upon hitting up the second location for the party... alpha... across the street

cutest bald man with no shirt and scary facial hair/tatoos ever

ladies of coco part 2

oh so thaaaaats where it is

portratist

rossala

end of the night giggles

My Night at Misshapes

2008-06-11T17:10:00.001-07:00

Dana captures my spirit

My friend from Miami two months before is now in NYC and has a new beau... my old friend...

MIchael Nouveou

Well well Mr. Merlin... what a different wizard you have become...

This guy helped me throw my first party... and I'll never forget that.. Thank you Tommy Hotpants

Jackson is Frankpollis... look it up

Justine D had like a mob of people around her all evening...

Jackson and Kim early at the door

Always a pleasure to see you

Ballooons and asians... love it

Mike Furey of Dangerous Muse

Dev in hypercolor

The man behind the white/red/black wall

Texas is beautiful this time of year

Kinda like being hypnotized

Sarah Lewittin is one very impressive Jewish girl...

Apache Beat

Ok seriously... this is like the Carls Jr guy's evil twin and he was actually there... Sofia loved him

Meet Brock... he made out with my girlfriend the night I met her...

Something obviously amusing on that screen...

I love red lipstick

Sean March with my new friend Bunny in the background

The gatekeeper and elder statesman

Pick up V Magazine to find out why these two are helping to change culture...

I love couples like this..

These Young Puritans

Final Bow

The Iconoclast

Happy 25th birthday Sofia

Rad necklaces all around..

Julian Gilbert is juliangilbert.blogspot.com

Oh Dana...

Musical stylings by Dev of Lightspeed Champion

Greg K everyone.

Greggory!!

The very talented artist Sean Dack....

Jacob and Geordon are amazing

I wanted to make sure everyone saw these shoes.

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Under Where?

2008-06-01T17:50:00.001-07:00

From the wonderful people who brought you the Jackie Tohn video...

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if you'll just wait in the parlor i'll go get rock n roll

2008-05-17T19:30:00.001-07:00

Now lets take a look at the east coast for inspiration. My little brother lives in NYC and is a rock obsessive, being more of a "Quadraphenia" style rocker as much as I've always been a mod. We fight over the legitimate claims of pop music and the sometimes clash on bands like The Killers etc. But I have to agree with him today because for this band I know I can count on his blessing.

The Parlor Mob hails from New Jersey and at their most wonderful indie pop sound like a great White Stripes descendent. But at their darkest they become something very wonderful indeed... bringing equal parts sombre Led Zeppelin guitar rock and modern sensibility to this very fresh take on old school rock n roll.

Watch this video if you have ten minutes you can spare to reaffirm your trust in rock n roll.

www.myspace.com/theparlormob - Can't Keep No Good Boy Down

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Beguiling

2008-05-17T02:42:00.001-07:00

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Oh Captain My Captain

2008-05-13T19:44:00.001-07:00

I spend a lot of money on magazines. The funny thing about magazines that are tailored specifically to the most artistically interested/inclined... for a demographic that isn't exactly defined by their starting salary, these magazines are expensive. Twenty and thirty dollar fashion mags are not at all rare and sometimes special editions can command prices doubling and tripling these costs. But why do we do this? Why would we shell out this kind of money for something that just comes out again the next month. The answer is we prize information, and the possesion of said information comes from an active interest in obtaining it.

But wait... what if you could have everything a magazine gave you... beautiful photography, helpful but easily manageable articles and last but certainly not least, amazing cutting edge coolness?

Yea...and its free and always updated.

Meet your newest insider friends.

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i always liked dancers...

2008-05-11T17:16:00.001-07:00

I'm loving hot female lead singers right now...

and on that vein..

check out this hot number also hailing from our favorite imperial godfather... London UK

introducing

The Screaming Ballerinas

www.myspace.com/screamingballerinas - Crucify

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Thin White Duke

2008-05-11T14:24:00.001-07:00

All hail Leila Moss and The Duke Spirit....

This album reminds me that while Los Angeles is in the middle of our folk music revival other cities are looking at music a bit differently. Enter the stunningly beautiful and equally talented Leila Moss who fronts this aesthetically pleasing post-grunge band as they channel influences ranging from The Velvet Underground to Sonic Youth to Blondie. Tracks like "The Step and the Walk" and "My Sunken Treasure" bring to mind smoky cellar clubs and leather clad Lou Reed lookalikes while "Lassoo" and "Neptunes Call" reveals the brilliant production of Chris Goss (Queens of the Stone Age). Their new album Neptune was written as they toured America in 2006, musically created in London and then finally recorded in the nothingness of Joshua Tree...

Looks like it's London calling and they want their musical supremacy back...

www.myspace.com/thedukespirit - My Sunken Treasure

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Happy Mothers Day

2008-05-11T04:49:00.001-07:00

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New York City Phantom Music

2008-05-09T11:55:00.001-07:00

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Phantom Evening

2008-05-09T01:33:00.001-07:00

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First Batch

2008-05-06T01:17:00.001-07:00

My new camera is so awesome I needed to try it out... here are the quick picks...

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The Dinner Party

2008-05-04T18:25:00.001-07:00

Unbelievable film. A surreal treat for the francophiles among us.

Sidenote: We left for a dinner party afterword where we never ate.

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Genius. Pure.

2008-04-29T14:47:00.001-07:00

These gentlemen have the honor of my consideration for most inventive new artist in the last 20 years or so...

Listen to this music...thats all I can say.

www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley

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James Earl Jones

2008-04-28T20:02:00.001-07:00

You can guess how often I do the right thing...

I think if I had a good and bad angel on my respective shoulders the good one would resemble Woody Allen; mixing very good logic with his neurotic jewish quips... My bad angel on the other hand I think would be something more like my man Mr. James...

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Don't Miss

2008-04-26T13:21:00.001-07:00

This troubadour makes me happy. Singing with a wonderful mixture of a youthful Bob Dylan mixed with early folkish Bowie, Nik Freitas is going to be a huge star. He plays numerous instruments and his myspace shows a wonderful and promising progression through his three albums. Nik joins up with Jenny Lewis and Rilo Kiley in San Diego on the 15th but if you hurry you can check him out at Spaceland here in LA on the 2nd.

NIk Freitas- www.myspace.com/nikfreitas (Sun Down, Don't Be Shy)

This Berkeley California quartet creates pop. Upbeat youthful harmonies that blend a sort of shins optimism and intelligence with the kind of catchy guitar riffs used by bands like The Kooks and The Arctic Monkeys. No suprise then that The Morning Benders are playing support to The Kooks on their current tour... stopping in Los Angeles May 19th at the Wiltern.

The Morning Benders - www.myspace.com/themorningbenders (Waiting for the War, Boarded Doors)

I can't really describe the way this song made me feel and the band doesn't do much to help. Their myspace includes one song only and they claim to come from the "North Hills" of California... which could mean the northern reaches of the state or the hills that fall within a mile of Mulholland. This said "Don't Send Me Away" is a heartbreaking and hauntingly beautiful folk ballad about not wanting to give up on love... Its funny and definitely speaks to a higher level of musicianship on the part of this band. One word: Bravo

Dawes- www.myspace.com/dawestheband

The LA Dandy

2008-04-09T23:42:00.001-07:00

Welcome inside The Green Door

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The Dandelion Collection

2008-04-09T20:59:00.001-07:00

Long Black Blazer w/ Downturned Lapels

Blue Streak Sweater

The Red Baloon Shirt

Mini Dot Sweater

Grey Silk 19th Century Style Suitcoat

Blue Blazer w/ White Striped Lapel

Super Soft Dark Blue Denim Mini Trench

Grey Silk Waistcoat w/ Removable Lapel

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Coming Soon

2008-04-08T14:47:00.001-07:00

The Dandelion Collection: Seoul

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Phantom Planet Film

2008-03-26T20:06:00.001-07:00

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My Hero

2008-03-25T16:58:00.001-07:00

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Coming Soon

2008-03-25T14:33:00.001-07:00

The Breeders

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Phantom Planet Video "Do The Panic"

2008-03-20T13:48:00.001-07:00

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Seriously....

2008-03-18T00:57:00.001-07:00

George Harrison, Jeff Lynn, Roy Orbinson, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan

The Traveling Wilburys

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Atlanta?

2008-03-06T17:37:00.001-08:00

My favorite thing right now.

Heartache
Ladybird and Me

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A Dinosaur Among Men

2008-03-06T17:31:00.001-08:00

Bless this man.

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Bedford Academy..

2008-02-29T21:13:00.001-08:00

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Paris

2008-02-08T23:05:00.001-08:00

Commes De Garcon

Ann Demeulemeester

Dries Van Noten

John Galliano

MY TWO FAVORITE COLLECTIONS

Yves St. Laurent

Bruno Pieters

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Parsons Project -- Procrastination

2008-01-30T14:01:00.001-08:00

Instant Messaging

My mouth speaks to one and my fingers to many
Instant information irrigation from one friend to the next
Popup conversation leads to pop revelation
Creation of social nuances by the bucketful
New personas and personal features
Age sex location creation
Purple Blue Taupe and Mauve highlights
On insights I make or don’t
Still need to impress and regress
Back to the days of Jr. High
Why keep in touch though
With geography so far away
More trips than web clips
If I wanted to keep a real friend
But I don’t

But still the boxes come
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
And I answer all
Appalled at my inadequate will
To still make the wrong choice
But it’s so fun to look at everyone
And make a new person in front
That they can talk and chat to
And start anew just like me

Social Networks

We are all connected
Oft rejected, but fully willing to try
It’s the allure of the things
The pain it brings
Or not as luck may have it
Depending on your profile picture
Standing tall against a wall
Posing stoically to allow
No deduction of the production
That went into that emote face
Favorite movies to read
And books to watch
If anyone cared it’s a great thought
But sadly not

But it helps connect
This much is true
Separation seriously to the sixth degree
Become pitiful as my face on a book
Or my own particular space
Inspire breakdowns in sex, age and race
And they find me and I them
A habitual hermit holed up in my own 2d space
Ready to cook up old stories for old friends in old situations
Inspire their daily life with some spice
Until we both bore with the pleasantries

Porn

Super star stick thin teen watches quietly as her life slips away
But I’ll stay and say
Something in this train wreck amuses me
Paying a fee to watch some tramp hug it out
In a slightly more lewd version of Caligula’s feast
There is a beast, in me and more importantly in you
That loves to watch this creative carnal decadence

Long tits and round dicks parade on an endless slideshow
Inside my minds eye voyeuristic fantasies fly about
In a surrealist pantheon of not quite love
Sex sex sex sex rated XXXX
As the half black teen who was halfway molested as a child
Swallows a phallic tome to the halfway man standing above her

These images to tame an inner lust
Threatening to push over and boil under and cause utter disarray
So we take strokes as the mercury boils higher
And the muscles spasm once or twice
Out comes that devil, and two clicks later we’re done

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2nd Edition Portfolio

2008-01-28T16:49:00.001-08:00

Max, Portrait

Candid, Crobar Miami Beach

Jimmy Webb, Rokbar Miami Beach

Jazz, Guys Nightclub Hollywood

Sofia Lamar, Stereo Nightclub NYC

Juxstapose, Seoul South Korea (Film-No Photoshop)

Group Shot, Bangalore India (Film-No Photoshop)

Beggar, Mumbai India (Film-No Photoshop)

Morrisey, The Palladium Hollywood

Morrisey, Palladium Hollywood

She Wants Revenge, Henry Fonda Theatre Hollywood (No Photoshop)

VHS or BETA - Can't Believe A Single Word Video, Vasquez Rocks, CA (Published VMagazine.com)

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Milan FW 08 Picks

2008-01-16T13:25:00.001-08:00

Burberry Prorsum

Gucci

Versace

Calvin Klein

Bottega Venneta

Etro

Alexander McQueen

Costume National

Fendi

Jil Sander

Armani

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my tenative portfolio

2008-01-12T02:41:00.001-08:00

VHS or Beta @ The Troubadour, West Hollywood

She Wants Revenge @ Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood (no photo adjustment)

VHS or Beta Video for "Can't Believe a Single Word"

Morrisey @ The Palladium, Hollywood (Last show in "old" Palladium)

VHS or Beta @ The Troubadour, West Hollywood

VHS or Beta Video for "Can't Believe a Single Word"

She Wants Revenge @ Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood (no photo adjustment)

Morrisey @ The Palladium, Hollywood (Last show in "old" Palladium)

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Custom Hotel

2008-01-06T18:50:00.001-08:00

I found this place about six months ago and Mel remembered... what a new years

all for $150

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Flowers

2008-01-06T17:34:00.001-08:00

Thank you Jeff Leatham and the Hotel George V for my new hobby.

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gandy.

2008-01-06T17:24:00.001-08:00

Woman who inspire.

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Major

2008-01-06T17:18:00.001-08:00

I think my spaceship knows which way to go...

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What a guy.

2008-01-06T17:12:00.001-08:00

How alluring are the big cats. I don't flinch when I say the domesticated dog is a far superior choice than its feline equivalent. But there is no more potent symbol for the ultimate in decadence and opulence than these beautiful animals.

Dandy sidenote: Hugh got too commercial.. its almost impossible to find pictures like this of him...

ormaybethebeginning.

2008-01-05T19:24:00.001-08:00

Endovanera.
Cheap and Easy.

Woman can be Dandy too

2008-01-05T19:10:00.001-08:00

Cheers Paul & Joe..

Sometimes I think that girls fashion is being eclipsed by the speed of the menswear explosion...

Sometimes I don't.

Oscar Wilde

2008-01-05T19:03:00.000-08:00

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Birth of a Dandy Lion

2008-01-04T13:04:00.000-08:00

A Dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and the cultivation of leisurely hobbies. Historically, especially in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, a dandy often strove to imitate an aristocratic style of life despite being of middle-class background.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of egalitarian principles — often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of "the perfect gentleman" or "the autonomous aristocrat".

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, "metaphysical" phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: "Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism" and "These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking .... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind."