David Blaine Sets New Worlds Record....

On the Oprah show today, David Blaine broke the Worlds Record for holding his breath for 17.04.4 minutes...amazing!......think about that...17 mins!!

In NYC, I have seen 4 of Davids performances live and he always puts on a physically grueling, interesting, and crowd pleasing event.

I love what it is that makes different people tick and for David it seems to be challenging the mind /body connection or dis-connection.

I think he's a great showman.

Albert Hofmann...Father of LSD

R.I.P. Father of LSD
1906 - 2008
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD, has died of a heart attack. He was only 102.
On Friday afternoon, April 16, 1943, Hofmann had just completed synthesizing a batch of compounds when, he subsequently wrote to his supervisor:
“I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness. At home, I lay down and sank into a not-unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours, this condition faded away.”
And thus the world’s first-known acid trip was born.

Trippy

Nastassja Kinski by Richard Avedon.

Madonna Update....

On my way to work this morning, I went to check out the Madonna @ Roseland line and there are now about 1000 people waiting for tickets for tonights free concert. I spoke with a couple who flew in from PARIS for the event. They have been camped out in line since 1pm yesturday !! The line is full of people on the sidewalk in sleeping bags, lawn chairs and tons of litter all over the place....including an empty bottle of Jack Daniels...well, after all it was cold last night...lol!

Dont forget, you can see the show online at 10pm tonight on MSN.com.

MADONNA TO PERFORM LIVE ON MSN.COM

Tomorrow night April 30TH, Madonna will be doing an RARE, one of a kind, intimate performance at NYC's Roseland Ballroom in celebration of her new CD "Hard Candy".

MSN.com is going to broadcast the concert live at 10pm EST.!!

The link is : http://music.msn.com/madonna

On my way home from work today, I walked by the theater and there was already a line of about 500 die hard fans camped out on the sidewalk. All for a limited number of tickets that will be given out at NOON tomorrow!

Daniel Day Lewis....

Happy 51st Birthday

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a legendary two-time Academy Award-, three-time BAFTA-, two-time Screen Actors Guild- and Golden Globe award-winning British-born actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. Day-Lewis studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and Christy Brown for My Left Foot.

He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four movies in the last ten years. He is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Often, he will remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedule of his films.



My Beautiful Launderette and Room With A View


Gangs Of New York


There Will Be Blood


In The Name of The Father

The Insurance Man

Unbearable Lightness of Being

My Left Foot

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

"Silversun Pickups" Breakout At Coachella...

Coachella Music Festival (Coachella) is a three-day annual music event held in the desert at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, CA. Every year, one group gets alot of attention for their breakout performance and from what I have read, this year belongs to the "Silversun Pickups".

So I thought I would give them a mention on the blog.

check out their cool website : http://www.silversunpickups.com/

Well Thoughtout Twinkles - Live


Kissing Families


Lazy Eye


Well Thoughtout Twinkles

Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair Scandal....

The New cover of Vanity Fair magazine is causing quite a scandal. The pictures of Disney's billion dollar baby Miley Cyrus, by Annie Leibovitz, are being called indecent and inappropriate for a 15 year old. What do you think?.....leave a comment at the end of this post.

ZERO ASSOLUTO....

Zero Assoluto is an Italian pop / R&B duo comprising Thomas De Gasperi and Matteo Maffucci .

I first heard of Zero Assoluto when they collaborated with one of my favorites Nelly Furtado on "All Good Things".

GEORGE W BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

The presidential retard said this week that the $600 dollar stimulus rebate checks with greatly help people cope with the current rising cost of EVERYTHING....Thanks!....Is $600 going to help people get their homes back?.....dumb, out of touch fuckhead! I would like to see him try to count to 600.

NEW YORK TITANS...

New York has its first professional Lacrosse team - The New York Titans.

With my good friend Rafael, I went to one of their final games of the season at Madison Square Garden last night.

I went not knowing to much about the game and by the end of the night I found myself very entertained and into the excitment of this fast paced aggressive sport. They won the game and now enter in to the season playoffs!

They even have a cheerleading squad.....lol.

CANNES FESTIVAL OFFICIAL POSTER BY DAVID LYNCH

The poster of the Festival de Cannes 2008 is a photograph by David Lynch, with a graphic design by Pierre Collier, a cinema poster artist. This tribute to the talent of David Lynch provides the theme for the 61st Festival de Cannes.