Fight Videos C/O Barry

Barry has not sent me anything in a while.  If you forget who he is, click here.  He is important.  He sent me a bunch of videos of people fighting each other.  The first one is pretty graphic and insane and the second one I don’t really care about.  I included his comments with all of them below the video.  I also posted one at the very bottom that I found while looking at his video.  I saw a fight last night too, but it was incredibly pathetic.  But the good thing was after that the Annex/Darkroom bouncer Ro told me this amazing story about the last time he got into a fight. He was drinking in some club and the bouncers throw this dude out and he pull out a knife and starts stabbing the bar’s owners car tires.  The bouncers are doing nothing about this.  A few minutes later someone runs in and tells Ro that the guy is now stabbing Ro’s tires.  He runs out and starts yelling at the guy who threatens him with the knife.  Ro simply goes to his car and pulls out a golf club (I would kill to see Ro golf) out of his trunk and charges at the guy with it.  The guy throws a knife at Ro.  It bounces off Ro’s chest and then he proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.  Then the cops start stomping Ro with their clubs and such.  They were going to take Ro to jail until the knife guy pulls a second knife on the cops.  When they finally get him under control they find 12 knifes on him in total.  They let Ro go.  Fucking crazy.

Anyway, fight videos… no knives.

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I’m not sure whether or not I’ve sent this to you already, but my goodness.

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Martial artist’s skills actually work in street fight! Headlock takedown followed my side control, a full mount, and raining elbows results in an easy victory.

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Who starts a fight with a backhand? A bad, bad boy.

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Get Trashed ‘N’ Trashy – 7.12.08

A one off event in Brooklyn at Galapagos featuring DBB regulars Cobra Krames and Kids With Snakes… That is two snakes for the price of one. The party was put on by this really cute girl named Charlotte who does promotes for something called Luxe which I found impossible to Google. I got there pretty late and missed a lot of fun, but the highlight of the night came when Purple Crush sang an a cappella jam to me about Scion money, cocaine and Franki Chan. It sort of sounded like the Moldy Peaches and I wish I had video taped it. Also some friends from Richmond, VA were in town. One of them is moving here. I hope I see her around. Radical.  Photos made the Voice…

Okay, get on the photos. Get on them now.

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Sarah 2.0

Sarah 2.0 is called Sarah 2.0 because my friend was dating a girl named Sara for a long time and then he broke up with her and pretty much immediately started dating another girl named Sarah. I dubbed her Sarah 2.0. Although I have not seen Sara 1.0 in a month or something and am now good friends with 2.0, he will still always be 2.0 to me.

Anyway, we tried to shoot this set once before, in this exact same bathroom, but she had really bad sunburn. I thought it would make for really great tan lines, but it was too uneven and ended up look like some kind of rash or something. It was really too bad. When she was wearing a mask to Trash last friday for the Masquerade Ball thing, I thought this would be a really good time to reshoot it. I think the photos are pretty hot, but before we get to them some completely unrelated notes of interest:

  1. I am watching this Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus VHS tape that my coworker lent me while I am updating this and John Lennon is jamming with Keith Richards and Eric Clapton (They went by the name The Dirty Mac) and Jimmy Hendrix’s drummer and they are all rocking out and it’s great and everything and then Yoko Ono comes on and it is like screaming and wailing and it becomes the most awful thing ever. And everyone is just sort of looking around feeling embarrassed except for John who is taking the whole thing very seriously. It is very fucked up. I had no idea how bad Yoko really was.
  2. On Friday night, I didn’t take any photos, but I was at Trash and I was talking to my friend Nicole and this really drunk girl comes up puts her arm around me and starts telling me that she wants me. Me and Nicole are sort of laughing and I am holding her up. Nicole and I keep talking. Then she goes up to Nicole and says “If you have a problem with him going home with me, we can take this outside.” Needless to say that Nicole fell on the floor laughing and I decided right then and there that that was the best and will be the best thing that anyone has ever said to me, about me, or involving me in anyway for as long as I live.

Anyway, it is time too look at half naked photos of the lovely, long legged Sarah 2.0. NSFW.

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Sukiyaki Western Django: Remaking Yojimbo… Again…

When I write up movies, I tend to write up ones that you probably aren’t going to see on your own. So when I talk about them, I have a weird dilemma. I want to talk like the film nerd I am, name dropping directors and films and such like I would to other film nerds, but at the same time, I have to talk to an audience who probably does not give a fuck about Asia Extreme or German New Wave or Exploitation film. So I guess for this movie I will do a little of both. Let’s start with answering the question: What is a Spaghetti Western?

Spaghetti Westerns were Westerns made by Italian’s shot in Spain, primarily in the 1970’s. They used Italian actors to play Mexicans in the west. They also employed international actors and had them all speaking different languages to each other. The most well known of these movies were the Leone/Eastwood “Man With No Name” films… A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More and Good The Bad And The Ugly. In these films Clint Eastwood spoke English to the Italian actors speaking Italian. When the film was released in the States, Eastwood’s dialogue remained his own, but the Italian actors had their voices dubbed into English. This was reversed for the Italian releases. These films were generally low budget, but often ultra violent making them especially interesting to American audiences. These movies gained significant influence in the world of American filmmaking.

So the next thing we need to talk about is Yojimbo. Yojimbo was a samurai film made in 1961 staring Toshiro Mifune made by the legend Akira Kurosawa in 1961. It was about a samurai who comes to a small town that is stuck in a war between two rival gangs who run gambling houses. Yojimbo convinces one gang to hire him for protection and then plays the two gangs against each other, getting money on both ends. Despite my love for Kurosawa and Mifune it is not one of my top 5 favorite Samurai films… however two of it’s remakes are two of my favorite movies of all time.

The first of these was the previously mentioned A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. This put Spaghetti Westerns on the map and made both Eastwood and Sergio Leone famous. That trilogy might be my favorite of all trilogy. Sitting here thinking about that seems insane, but I cannot honestly think of a three movie series that I like better. Maybe if you count Park Chan Wook’s Vengance films as a trilogy… or discount Planet Of The Apes 2 and 5… or Nightmare On Elm St 2,4,5,6 and Freddy Vs Jason… Or started watching the Godfather series and started taking a shot every time someone got shot and by the time you got to the third film you were passed out drunk and you woke up to the credits. Or quite possibly if you consider Wayne’s World Bill And Ted 3. But I don’t think you can do any of these things, so let it be said that The Man With No Name Trilogy is my favorite Trilogy ever. Apologies to Bruce Campbell.

Let’s move on… Only 2 years later a bad ass motherfucker named Sergio Corbucci decided to remake A Fistful Of Dollars… only this time he added more blood. You know that scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr. Blonde cuts off that cops ear? Well he stole that from Corbucci’s remake 1966 Django. Corbucci, while not as well known as Leone, is probably just as amazing, and definitely way more fucked up. I will go right ahead and say that the ending to his film The Great Silence is one of the top 5 best endings in film history. (I blogged about it here.) Anyway… Django is probably not as good as A Fistful Of Dollars, but it is certainly bad ass, and Frank Nero could probably take Eastwood in a fight… or a gun fight.

Okay so let’s see what we have here…. Japanese samurai film, turned into Italian western, turned into ultra-violent Italian western… Fast forward 40 years and meet Takeshi Miike. Miike is a revolutionary Japanese Asian Extreme director who has made at least 3 of the top 10 most fucked up films I have ever seen. He decides to turn this Japanese samurai film turned ultra-violent Spaghetti Western into… An ultra-violent Japanese Sukiyaki Western with a hint of samurai swordplay. Sukiyaki is a Japanese noodle dish which is I guess the closest thing Japan has to spaghetti. This is hilarious. The film is called Sukiyaki Western Django and is a remake of… well… Django… and A Fistful Of Dollars… and Yojimbo…

The film is extremely fast paced and out of control and makes very little sense… like pretty much every Miike film. It is completely fucking insane and is very different from the other films. The plot line is basically the same as the other films… this time the main character comes between two rival treasure seeking gangs and according to little text tags at the beginning and end of the movie it takes place a few hundred years after Yojimbo and a few decades before Django. (UPDATE: I was wrong about this.  Check the comments on the post for details.) There are clear references to Django and a sword fight scene that references Yojimbo. One of the characters is names Akira which is assumed to be a reference to Akria Kurosawa until in his second of two cameo appearances Quentin Tarantino explains that he called his son Akria because he is a big Anime nerd. The film veers off course from the original plots as well, as the hero does not really play both sides… he mostly just fights against everyone for no real apparent reason. There is also the addition of an ass kicking female character which is completely absent from all the previous films. And lastly, instead of being dubbed into English or Subtitled, all the actors speak English… completely marred by thick Japanese (and in some cases Chinese) accents. It is pretty impossible to tell what they are saying some times, especially when everyone in the theater is crying laughing. I think this just adds to the confusion and bewilderment of this hilarious action packed remake of a remake of a remake of a remake. That being said, I can do nothing but recommend this film whole heartedly when it comes out in wide release later this summer.

Lastly, I must mention that there is another A Fistful Of Dollars remake (well it is closer to Fist than it is Yojimbo) called Last Man Standing (directed by Walter Hill of The Warriors fame) which was a Bruce Willis bomb that is actually pretty fucking awesome. Excluding Deer Hunter it is probably the best Christopher Walken film that features Walken in anything much more than a cameo. Sorry this is another tangent in a way too long post, but Christopher Walken has been in some of the worst movies in history. I know everyone loves him, but look at his IMDB. Outside of True Romance, Pulp Fiction and Waynes World his film career is fucking embarrassing. What does it say when the thing you are most known for is a SNL sketch?

Okay, I have ranted too long. Just watch all the trailers… in reverse chronological order after the jump…

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Poling Place Photo Project

On Super Tuesday I went down to my polling place and tried to take some photos. A friend of mine had just designed the website to the New York Times/AIGA Polling Place Photo Project and thought it would be fun to see if I could get anything cool. Unfortunately they would not let me photograph there and some cops hassled me a bit. I ended up submitting three pictures, they all were kinda terrible. The only one I liked was a photo of the “Vote Con Esperanza” flyers I had seen around my neighborhood the week leading up to Super Tuesday. This means “Vote With Hope” en english. I really liked that, so I took a photo of one on the wet ground. It is not a great shot, but the flyer is great. The other two photos were just shots take outside the school/polling place. Not so exciting.

Anyway, my friend who did the design told me that a few of the best images were selected and now rotate as the main photo when you go to the site. They used my Vote Con Esperanza shot. I just wish I had some good photos to submit, because it is almost embarrassing to have this one up… Although… I think this means I can put the New York Times on my CV right? Ok… Probably not.

Check out the site, and send in some pictures in November…

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Six Six Sick – 7.8.08

I guess it bares mentioning from time to time that the Tuesday party upstairs at Happy Endings is called Disco Down. While I am friends with both parties, 66Sick started first, so the party on this site is categorized as such. They should really just team up.

Anyway, Tuesday was pretty nuts. The most crowded I have ever seen Happy Endings maybe. I sort of went there looking for some people who never actually showed up. Some other people did, and I had some long conversations, including several I did not want to have about other party photographers. Sophia Lamar and Larry Tee were there… Dances With White Girls was dressed in a little sailor suit and Jackson was sans glasses. I am not sure that any of that is important, but that seems like the type of thing people mention when blogging about parties. I got to hang out with my friend Erica who I had not really talked to in ages, and I went to breakfast with Xochielt after who I had not seen in even longer. So that was good. Also, right before I left I took photos of the biggest boobs to ever appear on this website, or maybe ever anywhere on Earth. So be warned.

Enjoy the madness here.

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M – Darkroom – 7.7.08

Oh dear oh dear…. I do not sleep nearly enough. This is becoming a problem. No time to do anything, no time at all…. Photos.. photos… What do we have here? It was Monday the other day, I think that is the case… I was at Darkroom trying to come to grips with a terrifying world full of mummies and badgers and things of that nature… suddenly out of nowhere I had a camera in my hand and I seemed to be photographing party-goers and human dance-o-lanterns and such things as that? Was this a dream? Did I make this all up? Alas, no, the photos prove otherwise… I am not sure where this all ends or what it all means, but when I awoke and began searching franticly through the images that some how ended on my camera, I saw that there were about 50 of them of my friend Monique and I trying desperately to take a decent photo of us. This was clearly to no avail, as our colors don’t match and I am often a hideous man. Until next time my junior adventures, I bid you farewell.

Les images du lundi arriver ici.

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Let It Be Known…

That I have about 5 or 6 updates ready to go up, I just haven’t had time to get them up.  I am taking tonight off, and things should be up late tonight.

In the mean time I wanted to post this clip.  I have been holding onto it for a while now, waiting for an excuse to post it.  It is probably the greatest sports highlight I have ever seen.  A female streaker hits a shot from 30 feet out.  It is sort of amazing.  It is slightly NSFW as the girl who kicks the goal is in fact naked, but it is not really that bad, and it is really that amazing.

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Friday Night – 7.4.08

So yes. Friday. It existed. I went to Trash at 40c then Annex for Ruff Club then back to Trash for a bit and then I got to eat fried chicken which is my favorite thing to do on Earth. I have photos of Trash and Ruff but not of chicken. I am not really sure if anything important or interesting happened, but I did notice that everything was dead in the city because everyone was watching fireworks on some random apartment in Brooklyn, or so one might suppose. Oh, the first group of photos in this involving my friend Stormy water boarding my friend Kelly, taking off all her clothes and then setting off a smoke bomb. NSFW. Happy 4th of July motherfucker.

Oh, I also had a 15 minute conversation with Danny Tamberelli who was the little Pete in Pete and Pete. He went to school with some friends of mine, and was involved in some sort of drama involving his ex and her boyfriend. Thew two of them are making a book about celebrity shaped penii who live in boxes and they want me to photograph it. I am not sure. Danny seemed like good people and I am sure I will run into him at some point or other in the fure. Okay Okay… Pictures now.

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