Who could ever be mad at spring? Get rid of the old, bring in the new! For me that involves hand-me-downs of fashionable proportions. I luckily have the most stylish of sisters that tend to bestow a closet full of goodies when they do spring cleaning. This is my first sign of not seeing my groundhog’s shadow. (shout outs to Bijules, Brooke Nipar and Roxy Cottontail for half my wardrobe).

My next sign is a bustle of activity. Rooftop wine, wind and weed sessions. More importantly, new projects to keep me motivated and excited about life. Whats making me excited about life right now? Telephones to start! RCRD LBL to boot! A little while ago, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Fool’s Gold artist Sammy Bananas. Sammy and I both share a passion for dance music as well as really good (to some people awful) mainstream R&B and hiphop. We made a “cover” for the T Pain MASTERPIECE (my words) “Can’t Believe It”. People not only believed it, but loved it. Including DJs that played it for two months on the forward thinking power 105 in LA. Sammy and I had so much fun we decided to continue to run with making these loose covers. Thus spawned Telephones. We are beginning to bloom and boom in spring with our second track - Pop Champagne. RCRD LBL has picked it up and you can check for it early this week.

I love rcrdlbl.com and lucky for me, the feeling is mutual. So I will keep you posted for more freebies on there in the future. Including the one they are dropping later this month, a song I did with superproducer DJ Teenwolf (Ninjasonik) called “It’s Like”.

Thanks AGAIN to Brooke Nipar for the Telephones press photo and my beauty Aire-Anne (Disco Makeup by Aire) for the makeup!

What more could I ask for? Paris in June?! CHECK! Amongst London and a few other cities. I will be hitting Europe up for a couple weeks to do some performing, recording and relaxing. I’m out of my mind excited, anticipating the shenaningins that will ensue with my black widow sisters, my uncle Teki and the TOMB crew!

take some claritin and enjoy! it’s gonna be a bigun!

Alright, since this is a new blog and most everyone I know is tired of hearing me blather on about foreign horror movies, I’m going to try and consistently write about them here…at least until something else shiny catches my attention.

First up is a flick called Vinyan from a mad Belgian named Fabrice Du Welz.  He’s a relatively young director with only one other feature under his belt, the maddening backwoods-hicks-run-amok tale Calvaire.  Vinyan tells the story of a couple (played by Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Beart) who lost their son in the 2004 tsunami disaster.  6 months later, while watching a documentary about ravaged villages in Burma, Beart sees what she believes to be her child, living among a group of orphans in a burned out village.

With only the slightest hope that their son could still be alive, the couple embarks on a dangerous search for him through Thailand and deep into the dangerous Burmese wilderness and the deeper they go, the stranger it gets for them…until they are as drowned in madness as any victim of the tidal wave that started the whole thing.  The Apocalypse Now parallel is easy to make, and as with Calvaire (obviously inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Du Welz is not ashamed of his inspirations, because he proudly takes the same disorientation of Apocalypse Now and colors it with his own amazing visual style.  Like in this opening clip, which is like nothing I have ever seen before, ever.  The visual equivalent of listening to Merzbow.

Anyway, I will shut up now.  See it, and follow Fabrice Du Welz.  He’s brilliant and if he keeps this up, he’ll end up one of the best directors of his generation.  Trailer is below.

-Ryan