The Pussycat Dolls keep sexing up the world of entertainment by breeding one sizzling all-girl act after the other! Their latest offspring is the international Paradiso Girls whose video for the song “Patron Tequila” (talk about product endorsement!) is an eye candy and one of those videos which has almost completely met my expectations! The song has taken its beats from the Dolls’ HIT “Don’t Cha”, it even reminds of its music video aesthetically. Which in this case is a positive thing!
One of my favorite PORNSTARS, the über-sweet and super-sexy Sasha Gray, has done a Traci Lords! Well not exactly, since while Traci left the adult industry all bitter and for good Sasha has just crossed over to mainstream cinema while still being active in the adult counterpart.
She is starring in the lead role of the acclaimed producer/director Steven Soderbergh’s experimental and RedOne cam-shot “The Girlfriend Experience” which is being shown in international film festivals at the moment.
I’m attending a screening soon and am looking forward to meet miss Gray in person. Please don’t envy, or …by all means do!lol btw, the tag-line of the film goes “see it with someone you ****”! hehe, I love it!
My late dear grandfather was a painting artist. He was my teacher and source of inspiration when I was a child. I remember sitting next to him on weekends, when he attended to oil painting up in our family house’s attic. I sat beside him one day back in 1996 and quickly draw this sketchy portrait, I was 21 back then. He passed away a few years ago and ever since I have been searching for this portrait which I felt captured his smiling spirit as I always saw it! A while ago I found it in a long lost folder, together with many other drawings of mine from that time. God rest his soul …
Speaking of posing for pictures, in the post about the 7th Music Band written days ago, people sometimes ask me how comes I tend to strike a pose when being photographed. I know I do and I have been thinking about it and come to the conclusion that its more of an automatic reaction than a conscious move. Of course through the years I have become more and more aware of the fact that I tend to do that, but ever since I was a kid even when I wasn’t fully aware of being photographed I happened to pose when I found myself facing the camera! Like in this candid pic which was taken by a lurking relative when I was on a daily escapade in our family house garden.
The Sartorialist is one of my favorite blogs when it comes to both fashion and photography. The fashion photographer Scott Schuman walks the streets of the world during spare time and shoots people whom he finds fashionable and photogenic. This image, courtesy of his blog, has managed to capture, what I would like to call, a family of naturalborn posers! Look at that father and his kids, the look in their eyes and their posture. Keep in mind that this was a candid shot of random people which was snapped in a matter of seconds when meeting them on the street. Yet each one of these gentlemen looks as if he has been preparing for this shot his entire life! Conclusively my argument is that its genetic, …being photogenic.
I’ve owned this movie in more than a year now, purchased solely because of its cover! OF COURSE! hehe! And I was under the impression of it being the kind of teen-movie with next-to-no substance and ambition other than cashing in on its only worth-watching scene depicted on the poster (warning: nudity!). Boy I was wrong! It is a comedy, in a way, but far from merely shallow. Its also something of a philosophical manifest which is mainly, if not only, revealed and realized at a particular stage in life. I personally have gone through a similar one, pondering the details of being, with my own “manifest” written and archived somewhere. I especially relate to the male lead character’s interest in art and thoughts about aesthetics, the female beauty and form in particular. The transitions back and forth between comedy and drama can be a tricky one, but in this case it is pulled off and paved through an amazing soundtrack. I mean Guy Farely has scored this movie, for God’s sake! My absolute favorite soundtrack scorer who doesn’t do less than epic proportions. Overall This movie shows how a clever cover can actually stand for a clever content and not just to cover the lack of it!
France’s Sophie Marceau and Italy’s Monica Bellucci, two international sex symbols! The photos above portray them as young starlets and even though I’ve always loved both of these ladies, there is no question to whom time has been extra kind!
I can’t wait to see them together in action, joining …talents! 
I can’t wait to watch this one! I love all the secrecy and viral marketing which preceded this trailer. Reminiscent of “Cloverfield”, which’s genius marketing sold and surpassed the actual movie!
A bit of trivia :
During the 70’s in Cape Town, South Africa, there existed an inner-city residential area where 60000 people where forcibly removed from their homes and relocated away in smaller houses away from the city center. This amounted to 1/10 of the city’s population.
The place’s name was District 6!
The TRANCE wizard ATB’s seventh album “Trilogy” isn’t a set of three related albums as the title might mislead but rather an entirely new studio album with a crossover attempt to POP-ROCK genres and a brilliant track featuring Heather Nova. The album was released as a single CD album with 12 tracks recently but now a limited edition including a second CD packed with 14 excellent CHILLOUT tracks is on the market! One energetic and one ambient soundtrack, perfect for every kind of summer enjoyment!
The leggy R’n'B singer Amerie releases her new album “Because I Love It” any day now! If you’re looking for SASSY meets CLASSY in the genre then by all means look it up! And by that I dont only mean up her short skirt! hehe!
When I was a child back in Iran, in an era where VCRs were legally banned from homes and childs were lured to turn their parents in for owning the technology, I used to watch and love a special effects documentary series on the state TV in which the so called “Jaadooye Cinema” was explored. Right there I became acquainted with the work of the STOP-MOTION animator and filmmaker Ray Harryhausen. The pioneer who long before CG (Computer Graphics) animations revolutionised the fantasy genre with his primitive yet impressive special effects! 
Feel-good Electro-POP combined with BOHEMIAN vocal harmonies sum up the music of these three synthesizer-loving girls. They are hardly hummingbirds, still Au Revoir Simone’s sophomore album “The Birds of Music” has a scent of the season! Perfect for late spring weekends!
