Hello cats and kittens, welcome to a
new feature for Mondo Heather. While I'm sure all of you love reading
the same articles again for over a month, you deserve some fresh
content on a more regular basis. So think of this as a weekly peek
into the colorful and occasionally schizoid miasma that is both my
life and brain. Sprinkle in some self-promotion for my non
Mondo-writing and your ready to strap on your saddles shoes and go!
Something I like to do, especially
whenever I'm working on any sizable projects, is throw on a film in
the background and then some additional music. Basically, a
multimedia melange a go-go. Last night, it was Fellini's classic 8
1/2 with my Ipod mix playing. (We're talking everything from Love &
Rockets to The Residents here.) It was a great match and it lent
itself well to getting art stuff done. The latter included a collage
art book, fashioned from a formerly religiously-themed diary that I
got for free back in my retail day job years. I started this back
around 2004-5 and finally finished it earlier this week. Writing is
always and forever my main love, but the visual arts are an eternal
close second. It's tentatively titled “Dome of the Spheres,”
inspired by the obscure and lyrically weird song of the same name. It
has been one of those projects that I was not sure that I would ever
actually finish, so it feels sweet to have the bloody thing done. Woo
for productivity!
Speaking of which, the piece covering
the “SoftRock” series, created by Actually Huizenga and her
partner-in-crime Socrates Mitsios, is finished and live on DangerousMinds. I think Huizenga is one of the most interesting figures, not
to mention ballsiest, in music and video out there right now. Most
pop tartlets flirt with the whole sexy-girl thing, but Huizenga uses
sexuality as a device to be both cheeky and explore some rather dark
human territory.
One new kid on the film distribution
block that is already knocking my socks off is the Vinegar Syndrome.
They first came to my attention as the fine folks releasing “The
Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis,” which includes “Black
Love” and “Linda & Abilene,” two films that I NEVER thought
I would ever get lucky enough to see. Looking at their small but
already growing library, they are one of those rare companies whose
entire library is covet-worthy. I'm looking forward to writing about
some of their titles in the near further, both here and abroad. Keep your peepers peeled.
As a whole, this has been one weird
week. Some of it stressful, other parts extremely wonderful. No matter what, art and life are what it's all about.
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