http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php Section for blog posts. en tara_mcginley@yahoo.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-16T05:38:28+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/fake_faces_the_uks_leading_lookalike_agency/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/fake_faces_the_uks_leading_lookalike_agency/ “David Brent” and “Gareth Keenan”   “Eddie Murphy”   “Pete Doherty”   “Peaches Geldof”   In today’s business you want quick results and quick service so welcome to the new Fake Faces Ltd. website designed with speed and efficiency in mind. This website will instantly give you a quotation for your lookalike request, whether it is just for one celebrity lookalike or for multiple looka-alikes it is instantly available here at the click of your mouse. We have a copyrighted formula to calculate all your entered details which will give you an instant quotation that includes all expenses so you are just left with knowing exactly what the final price is. There are no hidden costs with Fake Faces Ltd. Fake Faces   (via Graham Linehan) Amusing 2010-03-16T05:38:28+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/amy_alkon_i_see_rude_people_one_womans_battle_to_beat_some_manners_int/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/amy_alkon_i_see_rude_people_one_womans_battle_to_beat_some_manners_int/ Advice goddess Amy Alkon is one lady you do not want to mess with. Hear tales of her revenge against telemarketing companies, cell phone abusers, permissive parents and the thief who stole her pink car! (Who steals a pink car?) Her new book is I See Rude People: One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society.   2010-03-16T02:47:08+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/bea_arthur_mountains_pizza/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/bea_arthur_mountains_pizza/     Here’s an inexplicable photo-blog dedicated to Bea Arthur, mountains and pizza?   Previously on Dangerous Minds: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich   (via Cakehead) Amusing 2010-03-16T03:44:47+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/strangely_hypnotic_shoe_shining_demonstration/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/strangely_hypnotic_shoe_shining_demonstration/   Just for the gorgeous stereo sound alone. So relaxing !   Thx Brian Morishita Amusing, Fashion 2010-03-16T02:08:48+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/amanda_lear_1967/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/amanda_lear_1967/   The glamorous Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, circa 1967! The music is by François de Roubaix. via Lady Bunny Blog Previously on Dangerous Minds: Amanda Lear: Hot Tranny Mess Art, Music, Pop Culture 2010-03-15T23:53:07+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/marc_almond_what_makes_a_man_a_man/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/marc_almond_what_makes_a_man_a_man/   Following on from the below post, another sad song and a real Marc Almond gem. Here, a powerful live performance of Charles Azanavour’s deeply moving ballad about the life of a drag performer, What Makes A Man A Man? One of his finest performances, if you ask me and a unicorn chaser of sorts for that Louis Farrakhan post from earlier today. (Hear Azanavour sing his own song—in English—during a Carnegie Hall performance here. Liza Minnelli sings it here.) Music 2010-03-15T22:51:10+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_days_of_pearly_spencer/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_days_of_pearly_spencer/   For whatever reasons—my 45 RPM picture sleeve has a woman on it—I have long assumed that Irish singer David McWilliam’s sad song about a homeless person about to die, 1967’s The Days of Pearly Spencer, was about a woman or a drag queen. The lines “Pearly where’s your milk white skin? What’s that stubble on your chin?” I always took to mean a drag queen not being able to groom herself properly and I thought this image—the 5 o’clock shadow—added an extra poignancy to the song. Not true. Apparently the song is about a elderly homeless man McWilliams befriended in the 60s. I think you’ll agree that the song is memorable. The arrangements and orchestration were done by the famous arranger Mike Leander, who had earlier worked with Phil Spector and the Rolling Stones. The chorus is either sung through a megaphone or a telephone, and the effect is striking. McWilliams, who died young at the age of 56 never had a hit with the song, which nevertheless became well known via dozens of easy listening cover versions, a psychedelic version done by the French group Vietnam Veterans and of course, the famous Marc Almond hit of the 90s, which added a final, more uplifting verse. (In Almond’s version, Pearly is looking back at a life lived in the street after getting off the street). McWilliams looks a lot like Matt Damon, doesn’t he?     Music 2010-03-15T22:16:02+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/john_coulthart_on_the_art_of_jim_leon/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/john_coulthart_on_the_art_of_jim_leon/ Here’s an awesome find from artist John Coulthart (who I relink quite a bit because his blog is, in my opinion, one of the great sources of interesting original content on the web. He finds the kind of stuff that you would prolapse even if you saw in a bizarro, dusty boutique used book store, you know, those things we had before the Interwebs that don’t exist anymore. His blog is kind of like finding a first edition of the Necronomicon 3-4 times a week.) Here he writes about Jim Leon, who drew bizarre psychosexual wonderlands for Oz magazine in the 60s: This, dear friends, is what the art of the fantastic could give us but rarely does, something which combines the metaphysical intensity of the Symbolists with a post-Freudian sensibility to create what Philip José Farmer once called “the pornography of the weird”. Jim Leon was a British artist whose work gained prominence via the underground magazines of the 1960s, especially Oz, although he was never really a psychedelic artist as such. Many of his earliest paintings show the influence of the Pop artists, it was only later in the decade that a distinctly original and surreal imagination came to the fore. Oz was always pretty scurrilous and had no qualms about challenging the authorities with bizarre sexual imagery which other magazines would never dare to print. Leon and other artists were fortunate to have such a public forum for outré work, a few years earlier or later and they might not have found an outlet at all. (Behold this utter glory here.) (John Coulthart: The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions) Art 2010-03-15T19:00:59+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/young_louis_farrakhan_sings_about_transsexuals_and_zombies/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/young_louis_farrakhan_sings_about_transsexuals_and_zombies/   Who knew Louis Farrakhan was a happening Calypso singer as a young man? Before there was “Lola” or “Take A Walk On The Wild Side”  there was The Charmer’s own composition “Is She Is Or Is She Ain’t” wherein the future Nation of Islam leader grapples with gender identity politics over a festive jam. Yay ?     Bonus B-Side: “Back to Back”. A song about a zombie jamboree, natch.   thx Suzy Beal ! Amusing, Music 2010-03-15T15:52:54+00:00 http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_anachronistic_art_of_mcdermott_mcgough/ http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_anachronistic_art_of_mcdermott_mcgough/   Short documentary about the wonderfully anachronistic art duo of McDermott & McGough from the Revel in NY website. It says in the description below that they live as if in the 19th century, but I was under the impression that they are now allowing things prior to 1930 to infiltrate their lives. I love their work, it’s just incredible.   For over 30 years, the art duo of Peter McGough and David McDermott have been living as though it’s the end of the 19th century. From a townhouse in the East Village they created their art by candlelight, lived without modern appliances and traveled through Manhattan on horseback complete with top hats and the finest couture from nearly a century ago. As painters, photographers, playwrights and filmmakers, the artists came of age during the same East Village art scene that made superstars of Keith Haring (their one-time roommate) and Julian Schnabel (who’s championed their work). Notorious in their own right and exhibited locally through Chelsea’s prestigious Chime & Reid Gallery, McDermott & McGough have been the subjects of countless stories told both in print and oral legend. They also just directed a short film titled Mean to Me with model Agyness Deyn that’s getting a lot of buzz lately.   Art 2010-03-15T03:29:41+00:00