| July 7th, 2007 - 77Boadrum @ Brooklyn Bridge Park |
[09 Jul 2007|10:02am] |
BOREDOMS 77BOADRUM - RSVP information
Thank you for RSVPing to tomorrow's BOREDOMS 77BOADRUM performance.
Your name has been added to the RSVP list for the event. HOWEVER, the RSVP response has been overwhelming - which means that we CANNOT guarantee admission, except on a first come-first served basis. We cannot overstate this: Not everyone will be allowed in.
The line will begin at the corner of New Dock and Water Street at 2:30pm. Please do NOT arrive before 2:30pm as the police stationed there will ask you to move along. Doors will open at 4pm. After we hit capacity, we can only admit you on a one-in, one-out basis.
PLEASE BE PREPARED TO WAIT, OR TO BE TURNED AWAY.
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| VIDEO/TRACK: Gnartoon - "Spring Break Cancun" |
[07 Apr 2007|02:27pm] |
Video for Gnartoon's Rock N' Roll Rollercoaster | GNARTOON - "SPRING BREAK CANCUN"
When I was given the link to this website, my first reaction was, "What the fuck?" I was pretty anti-Spring Break anything when I was in college. I used to stay at school and do extra radio shows at my old station. I looked at the top 8 friends, all fratty dude-bros. Once the song loaded, it hit me. It was none other than surf rock pranksters, Gnartoon. They had too many line-up changes to remain a band; but are partially still alive in the synth-rock outfit Boss the Big Bit. Both bands feature members of: Canseco, Rooney, G2, Chief Briggum and ArchiveOtis.
To the left click to see Gnartoon's only music video - filmed in the basement of F and 6th, famed practice space and former residence of Gnartoon/BTBB members. |
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| March 27, 2007 - Paper Mag's Beautiful People Party @ Hiro Ballroom |
[01 Apr 2007|10:45pm] |
Photo by Style.com's Patrick McMullan | free booze is always beautiful in my book.
Paper Magazine throws an annual "Beautiful People" Party in honor of those featured in their "Beautiful People" issue. Featured people in this issue are referred to as "B.P."s and collectively as the "class." Class-mates are supposedly as beautiful outside as they are inside . . . supposedly.
For some reason, Ryan P. always invites me to things on Tuesday nights. Don't know why, but its mildly appealing to challenge the work-week; stumbling in on Wednesday morning with stories of trevails and gossip. Tuesday night, I slipped on a fancy black dress at work and walked a couple blocks down to the Hiro Ballroom in Chelsea; which is located underneath the Maritime Hotel. If you ever plan to meet friends there, have a set time because cell phone reception is wholly cut off in that swanky basement.
I don't even know why I RSVP anymore, because I walked up and my dear Emily H. just opened up the velvet rope and said, "She's good. She's on the list." As I was walking through, this other girl, pointed at me and yelled, "I KNOW YOU!!" Made me feel like quite the rock star. Ok, not direct Arcade Fire or Decemberists level of rock star; maybe The Elected level, yeah. Like, I go to enough parties where people will look at me and think, "Huh...she looks like the keyboardist of that rock star's side project thing". I stood in the ID line behind NY display-case extraordinaire Eric Vidmar, who had these jewel patches over his eyes. There was a table of Guess giftbags in the long hallway to the actual ballroom. I peeked into them and just saw perfume, magazines and other promo doo-dads; so I refrained from taking them. Instead, I talked to the girls that were handing them out...
"Do you have to stand here all night?"
"Well, no. We have shifts."
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| REMIX: Thomas Lunch - "You Are My Drug" (Slok n' Roll Remix) |
[30 Mar 2007|10:49am] |
Photo courtesy of Fanatic | THOMAS LUNCH - "YOU ARE MY DRUG" (SLOK n' ROLL REMIX)
Thomas Lunch is an odd ball (but it doesn't mean that I don't like him). I can attest to this because he took his pants off during his set at SxSW; he also sings fervent indie rock songs about tater tots and robots. T. Lunch has had a recent run at Top 200 college radio and I was surprised that he was down with the hip hoppin' Metermaids during a live set; to which he exclaimed, "They are so fun! Psh, you don't think I'm down?"
I now stand here corrected because he knows the Italian DJ Slok. Alessandro Russo aka Slok, banged out this casio-beat dance track of "You are My Drug" from Thomas' album Diagrams Without Instructions
Mp3 is courtesy of Most Wanted Entertainment |
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| SXSW 2007 Recap |
[21 Mar 2007|08:53pm] |
Courtesy of Last Night's Party | Bands I saw:
1) Hello Stranger – Juliette, Jared
2) Loxley
3) Tom Brosseau
4) Eli Reed
5) Uncut
6) Minmae
7) Miko
8) The Silos
9) Honeycut
10) Apostle of Hustle
11) Black Angels
12) Yo! Majesty
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| CMJ 2005 by Jenn de la Vega |
[25 Feb 2006|07:18pm] |
This article appered in the Winter 2006 edition of KDViations the KDVS 90.3FM quarterly zine (kdvs.org)
15 KDVS DJs + New York City + 1 Hotel Room = Chaos
College Music Journal (CMJ) publishes college radio charts on a weekly basis, but they only throw the CMJ Music Marathon once a year. Four days of concerts all over New York City and parts of Jersey; workshops on radio organization, record labels and music; and a networking fair. DJs, Music directors and college radio staff from all over the country throw down a pretty penny for such an experience. Luckily, I discovered CMJ’s group discount and convinced 20 people to commit a deposit. With a couple of nervous flyers in tow, we boarded a plane for JFK on September 13th, 2005. All 15 of us checked into a wonderful suite referred to as the “Ethan Hawke Suite” because he stays there when he’s shooting movies in New York. Naturally our group split up to visit our mother station, WFMU in Jersey, while I trotted off to the Lincoln Center to check in. De Novo Dahl was finishing their set at the Lincoln center day stage when I arrived. The best thing about CMJ is that you can approach the artists. As a music director, I keep email and phone contact with many promoters and record labels on a weekly basis. CMJ provided opportunities to meet these people face to face.
Highlights:
-Our own DJ G2k played impromptu organ on stage with The Robot Ate Me at the Knitting Factory.
-DJ Rob Dog met Taylor Hanson of Hanson.
-Our General Manager got a lesson on podcasting.
-Seeing David Bowie encore with the Arcade Fire at Central Park.
-I sung Happy Birthday to the drummer of the Rosebuds.
Clear Channel had a booth at the conference headquarters. With no shame at all, I sat there eating chips and even took a free backpack. I was jet lagged and didn’t mind seeing Kanye West music videos loop in front of me. My biggest criticism about CMJ lies with the advertising and workshops. KDVSers aren’t used to so many advertisements because we’re a noncommercial station; but all the free swag we got (bags, lanyards, CDs) were plastered with myspace.com, DKNY, Clear Channel and Spin magazine ads. I was a little off-put. Next year, if I go, I would like to ensure that the freeform voice be heard via a workshop or seminar about freeform radio stations. Why not? WFMU is a train ride away; we could definitely put together a great presentation about our unique radio format. With over 1000 bands rocking New York, it sends you to different clubs and venues all over the city. Overall, I think CMJ is a wonderful but imperfect festival. I recommend that if you plan to start your own record label (DIY, Major, Minor, Independent) or would like to network with more artists and music businesses of all types, then CMJ Music Marathon is a valuable resource. More information about the CMJ Music Marathon can be found at: http://cmj.com/marathon
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Jenn de la Vega is half of the Power-MD team. Check out the Mushpot on KDVS (Wed 9:30am-Noon), it’ll make you sway in your seat.
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| Low Power Radio Roundup 2005 by Jenn de la Vega |
[25 Feb 2006|07:12pm] |
This article was published in the Winter 2006 KDViations, a quarterly zine by KDVS 90.3FM (kdvs.org)
All photos by Bradley of Santa Cruz. ( bradley@riseup.net )
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1774912.php
Davis, CA is an incredible source of good radio. On October 8th and 9th, KDRT 101.5FM pulled together a two day caucus-style conference, the Low Power Radio Round-Up. The purpose of the Round-Up was to further the low power radio movement, and to unite a low-power radio network across California.
Delegates included staff members of the Prometheus Radio project, pirate radio stations, Free Speech Radio Network, TUC Radio, KRBS, WMUC, KDEE, NFCB, KCSB, KPFA, KFOK, KVLP, KDVS and KDRT.
Cosponsors included KDRT, the UC Davis Technocultural Studies Department, KPFA and KDVS. A couple of KDVS staff members led workshops:
-Douglas Everett hosted “Writing for Radio”
-Todd Urick led “Music and Local Programming: FCC
Compliance, on-air tips and resources”
-Steven Valentino facilitated “Researching and Writing News
Briefs”
-Les Light held a series of radio theater training sessions
After several scheduled workshops, a genral meeting was held to steer the next Radio Round-Up, and to share contact information. A tour of KDVS was provided after the first day of workshops, and a social was held at the Delta of Venus Cafe. Delegates were put on a listserv to share further resources and ideas. More information about the Radio Round-up can be found at http:// gotouring.com/radioroundup.
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Jenn de la Vega led a workshop on volunteer relations, it was fun! She is aching to go
to more conferences and hopes to see you around! You can reach her at
musicdept@kdvs.org
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| Her-story: Body image now and then. |
[25 Feb 2006|05:49pm] |
The following is a script of a presentation that I participated in called, Her-story: Filipina body image and Beauty Pageants.
This presentation was based on the book Beauty Bound: Why we pursue the myth in the mirror by Rita Freedman. It can be checked out at Shields Library at UC Davis or the UCD Women's Center Library.
Preschoolers believe that boys like to play ball but girls like to play with "being pretty." Teenage girls say they often feel ugly and three out of four women consider themselve too fat. More women than men seek cosmetic surgery. Atrractive females are hired for certain jobs (secretary) but are not hired for high profile executive jobs. I don't mean to generalize, but these things do happen and show that beauty and body image are definitely of social import.
Beauty is a social myth. Among fish and birds, males are usually the ones that sport the bright colors and fancy feathers. In our culture, women adorn their bodies with fancy clothing, jewelry and even go so far as to alter their bodies in the name of attraction. Males, on the other hand display prowess with possessions. Beauty is not a gender neutral trait, there are no televised men's beauty pegeanst where they parade around in bikinis. Because beauty is assymetrically assigned to the feminine role, women are more definted by their looks than their deeds. To be womanly is to be beautiful. Ugliness is associated with being unwomanly. Example: Sitting with one's legs apart is considered "unladylike." Women are subjected to "lookism" a form of social control that influences how people see themselves and how others see them.
The belief in one's own attractiveness can be as hard to achieve as physical beuty itself. We are ashamed of cellulite, limp hair, age spots, stetch marks, moles; we are plagued by self consciousness, distorted body image and appearance anxiety. Example: Always checking the mirror "Do I look ok? Do I look fat?" Many people equate what they look like with who they are. Think about how ridiculous that idea is, you can't see my major when you look at me, you can't see where I was born. So looks cannot possible determine who you are.
Generally, when you ask someone to describe themselves, women tend to describe their bodies first. Our American culture teaches women that they must be pretty to be worthy and it sets up a standard that is unhealthy and unattainable. A lot of women suffer from negative body image where there is a lack of self esteem. Most women with this mindset distort reality by either seeing themselves as the wrong size of see a certain body part enlarged, too small or abnormal. Example: How many of you have used the term "thunder thighs"? Look around you, all shapes and sizes of you have raised your hands.
Women tend to internalize social myths that define them; it is true for minorities too. Few women are aware of their objectification: adornment and makeup and dressing up is fun! Objectification changes body image and erodes self esteem. To be obejctified means to be seen as athing that exists for a viewer. Your existence depends on the observer who can either bring you to life by recognizing you or snuffing you out by ignoring you.
We pluck ,shave , wax, cut and thread our hair. We apply lotions ,emollients, creams, salve, balms, conditioners, and treatments. We go under the knife, poke ,prod and dessimate our own bodies. Why do we do this to ourselves? Its a strong human need to conform to social norms. Women that don't conform are seen as a threat to this set social norm. Example: The women who don't wear bras, don't shave their legs are characterized as unclean and ugly.
The first Miss America Pageant was held in 1921, the winner was named Margaret Gorman
This is the current Miss America, Jennifer Berry
Little girls start to internalize these social norms in fairy tales. The tales emphasize body transformations. Example: cinderella's sisters cut their toes and heels to fit the shoe. Toys are marketed to certain genders, only for boys or only for girls.
The earlierst piece of art was the Venus of Willendorf, a bulbuous fertility figure. You can see how our thoughts of beauty have changed over the generations. From bulbs to sticks.
VERSUS
Twiggy, the supermodel
Women are equipped with estrogen that pads the body more than masculine bodies. This explains why females of normal weight midjudge themselves as overweight when they compare themselves to men of equal weight. Feamle beauty has been equated to slimness for only the past 60 years. Example: Marilyn Monroe was a size 13 ! Negative body image can lead to eating disorders or other destructive habits towards the body.
A lot of books that I have found lumped Filipinos into the Asian Pacific Islander group, a pan-Asian image in society, when really, Filipinos have their own unique facets of body image. A huge problem is that there are no published books on Filipino body image, ther is a huge call to actioon for pinays and pinoys everywhere. Break tyhe silence about body image, otherwise the world will never know about the truth of the female experience. Silence is a compatriot of subordination: a tacit message that we approve and accept what we are. No more silence means nameing the unmentionable: proclaiming your stretch marks, age spots, moles ,varicose veins, flat chest, all the rest. FAT is a fact of life. We don't even have to just address women either, an even more unexplored subject is men's body image.
The next time you look in the mirror, think about why your ___________bothers you.
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| The Politics of Menses |
[25 Feb 2006|03:53pm] |
WARNING: If you don't like vaginas or talk about menstruation, you should stop reading.
I was on the pot thinking about my period. It hurts and it flows out. Those are my general reactions. I started to think about the ways that women or menstruating humans have to deal with this issue. Menstruation. Menses. It soulds like "men" is a common root. Are men really the root of our monthly pains? Technically, no. Menses comes from the latin mensis, meaning moon. The menstrual cycle occurs in 28 day (on average) cycles, about a month.
But wait, that doesn't completely take the "men" out of menstraution. Here's why: Dr. Earle Haas (NOT A WOMAN) invented the tampon. The notion that a man invented a product widely used by and for women sounds inane, doesn't it? Not only do men NOT menstruate, most of them attribute strange or angry behavior to the "period." Menstruation does cause fluctuations in hormones and emotions, but expressing one's self should not be attributed to one's gender. Believing such is sexist and implies that women only get passionate about something when they are bleeding in the crotch. That brings me to another point: passion. It comes from the latin word passus, meaning suffering. It makes sense for women to get emotional when their insides are internally crumbling and physically hurting on a monthly basis.
I didn't think about the origin of the tampon until I thought about the commercials for O.B. tampons, their tagline is something along the lines of "Made by a woman gynecologist." Why would they emphasize that? What are they impying about regular Tampax tampons? The tampon was invented by someone that didn't understand a woman's body. Dr. Hass just didn't like the fact that his wife had to handle wet rags every month. While rags are messy, in fact, tampons are best known for causing Toxic Shock Syndrome, a fatal bacterial disese associated with leaving tampons in for too long.
Think about the literal operation of tampons: Plugging a leak. Naturally, wouldn't you want to let the blood flow out like it is supposed to? Tampons aren't like wine corks, it won't smell or feel better when you put one in (or pull one out for that matter). It seems unnatural to try to stop something that happens every month. Symbolically, we are plugging up the flow of pain that is associated with our menses as well as almost erasing that mensis happen in the first place.
Philosophically, the invention of man (the tampon) is restricting the existence of woman; it is the commerical rape of women. There is a struggle between comfort and necessity. Plugging up the remains of the uteral wall is symbolic, hushing the deterioration of woman. Avoiding contact with what is yours (your own blood) is driving a cottony wedge between woman and womanhood. The physical appearance of the tampon is phallic. A tampon is an 8 hour erection in your vagina absorbing what could have been a child.
Did you know that the average woman will use 10,000 tampons in her lifetime? The average period is 5 days. The average tampon is left in for 4 hours. That's 30 tampons per period, 360 a year. The sale of tampons is a veritable market, the unavailability of such has been referred to as blatant sexism. Environmental concerns have also been brought up, the applicators are made of undegradable plastics and the cotton plugs are said to have been treated with cholorine bleach.
Why do we keep using them if they are so offensive to the mind, body and environment?
The short answer is convenience. Making your own pads and santizing your own sponges (as tampons) is timely and tricky. Materials need to be boiled and washed to kill any bacteria. Luna pads aren't easy to change at work or on the go. A balance that I have seen is that many tampon users have opted to buy them without the applicator so it is not as wasteful.
Even if menses does not have the same etymological root as "man, " man has forced hs way into our vaginas: through the tampon.
Alternative choices provided by wikipedia.org
Some women choose not to use tampons, due to health and/or environmental concerns. Several alternate ways of absorbing menstrual fluids are available. Women in developing countries are less likely to have these choices (including tampons) available.
Some women may choose not to use tampons because they fear damaging their hymen, regarded as a proof of virginity. In some cultures, the use of tampons by virgins is discouraged because of this.
Disposable
disposable menstrual pads (sanitary napkins/towels)
organic tampons
organic menstrual pads (sanitary napkins/towels)
softcups menstrual cup
Reusable
menstrual cups
diaphragm as menstrual cup
cloth menstrual pads
homemade menstrual pads
homemade tampons
Free-flow (layering [using layers of clothing to avoid obvious leaking] or instinctive [learning to recognise when you will bleed])
padded panties/period pants/Lunapanties
sea sponges (used like tampons)
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