It’s a tough life.

With COLT Man Luke Garrett (NSFW, duh)
30 June 2008

With COLT Man Mitch Branson (NSFW, duh)
30 June 2008
(Thanks to Linda for the photos)

For your sliding-into-the-festive-weekend-and-it-feels-so-good enjoyment, I’d once again like to take the opportunity to present Australia’s The Presets. A “Trouble Week” musical interlude, if you will.
Remember that it was the troublemakers who made history on this weekend.
“My People”, The Presets (Apocalypso):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ufW2INWmM

I’m here with all of my people
Locked up with all of my people
So let me hear [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s “Trouble Week” here at This. That. No Other. (like “Shark Week”, only troublier), and what better ambassador for the best kind of trouble than the inimitable Eric Leven — New York blogger, filmmaker, activist and bon vivant — who celebrates 27 years on this planet today. Everyone says Leven’s [...]

The trouble with fashion? Too few models like this real man from Vivienne Westwood:

“Well, after seasons of skinny emo boys, Viv has given us something interesting to look at.” — New York Times
I’m sure he looks even more interesting without that particular… ensemble. And accessories.
(Thanks and a tip of the chapeau to Dale for the [...]

Shit Piss Fuck Cunt Cocksucker Motherfucker Tits
Those are, of course, “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” the legendary George Carlin routine by the legendary — and now very dead — George Carlin. Sad face. Very sad face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmRypAYz_E

George Carlin was the first public figure I ever heard who accurately articulated the uncommon nonsense [...]

The entire script of John Water’s Female Trouble, pushed through Wordle:

“I hope I get arrested. I hate this school… and all these ignorant teachers who don’t know one thing. I’m the one who should be teachin’. I hate my parents, too.”
JW news from The Hollywood Reporter:
Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey are attached to star in [...]

Of course the big music news last week was the release of the better-than-all-their-previous-albums-combined-to-the-power-of-infinity Viva la Vida (or Death and All His Friends) from Coldplay. It’s not so much that I’m finally hearing what everyone else was hearing as much as they’re finally putting out something worth hearing.
But bigger news in Casa bstewart was the [...]

For your Friday enjoyment, the new BearForce1 song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vrsxg0naA

It’s impossible to adequately describe — or completely catalogue — the awfulness of this song and video. Unless y’all would like to try, of course, since I’m still trying to figure out why their style and iconography resembles a nursery. Or why only 37.5% of the group could [...]

The Dandy Warhols’ music has been bound to my DNA for so many years and their latest release — …Earth to the Dandy Warhols… — is no exception. Have you seen them in concert? See them in concert.
Listening to The Dandys makes me wish I was a bazillionaire, so I could rent Toronto Island and [...]

The funniest thing about Seth Rogen and James Franco at the MTV Movie Awards last Sunday night wasn’t the way MTV pulled waaaaay back from the pair the moment a (fake?) bag of weed was proffered and a (fake?) doob torched at the podium. And it wasn’t the pair riffing with double- and quadruple-negatives and [...]