9.24.2007

Ava Koertig

Her many facial piercings catch your eyes. All sparkling and pretty, all gold and diamonds, all over her face. Piercings on the bridge of her nose, her nostrils, her tongue, on her lips, on her ears, on her cheeks, on her eyebrows; all of which have least one diamond on them. Her almond shaped eyes are black, like the darkest nights of winter. Chocolate skin of perfect texture, hair in a huge ‘fro, long silver nails. Her clothing was a mixture of funky, grindhouse chic and Janis Joplin on acid. Her platforms were at least six inches tall. She wore an eye-patch (not unlike a pirate) over her left eye. Her perfect features combined with her formidable height (thanks to those custom made platforms) and the facial perforations made her quite a formidable figure.


Ava Koertig was raised in a small town in central Germany called Niestetal. She was adopted by a rabbi who lived there and was brought up in the Jewish tradition. At age sixteen she kissed her sleeping step-mother on the cheek, left a note on her step-father’s table and left to travel the world. Ava traveled far and wide; two years later, she was married for forty three days and sixteen hours to a certain James David from Sydney, Australia. The ceremony took place in Tampa, Florida on a golf course owned by a prominent lawyer with a 1-800 number. Her trail vanishes after that for seven years and then all of a sudden she reappears at her adoptive parents’ doorstep with three missing toes, a glass eye, a face full of piercings and approximately seventy four million American dollars in various Swiss accounts. Nobody knows what occurred in those seven years that Ava disappeared.


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noise: Pelican - Pink Mammoth

Yoshima

The first thing you notice is the long flowing hair. Like The rays of the sun, a beautiful light golden color, you could even call it silver colored. It cascades down his back like a curtain of silk. He looks at you with pink eyes. He squints so much that his eyes look like slits under his almost nonexistent eye-brows. It is not that he does not have eye-brows, it just looks that way because of the fact that all the hair on his body is almost translucent. He is extraordinarily tall; much more than most people of his land, he stood over a head taller than the head monk at the monastery. His skin was pale; almost translucent like his hair. One could see almost every vein and nerve in his body if they looked hard enough. He was a man with albinism.

He was known as Yoshima. Nobody knew his real name; he was found as a baby on the monastery's doorstep almost twenty eight seasons ago. The monks took him in and raised him as their own and as a child of god. He was considered as being holy by the villagers because of how he looked. The people of the land used to come from far and wide to just see him and kneel before his presence. Yoshima hated this. He did not want to be worshipped or treated like an angel. He wanted to be "normal". Every night, lying in bed after his nightly meditation, he would imagine how he would live his life if he were "normal". But it was not to be, Yoshima did not know the ways of the world outside of his monastery. He believed that his body was the reason for his life being the way it was, and for this he hated his body and himself.

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noise: Air - One Hell of a Party

9.07.2007

White Raggae Troll

Awesome live video from Pitchfork 2006!

9.06.2007

Heard Somebody Say

"I heard somebody say the war ended today,
but everybody knows it's going still..."

9.05.2007

Colorado Girl

One of Devendra Banhart's more obscure covers... "Colorado Girl" originally performed by Townes Van Zand...

9.04.2007

21 days of Devendra

sound : Cristobal - Devendra Banhart (from "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon")

alright people.... devendra banhart's new album "smokey rolls down thunder canyon" comes out september 25th (i am listening to the leak as we speak... don't worry, i support the artists i love... i have pre-ordered the special edition version of the album even though i have no money :P).... thats exactly 3 weeks from today....

just because i totally worship the man and have nothing better to do with myself i am going to be posting a video a day (as much as possible) of / about / for devendra from youtube and such....

alright, lets go...

"Sight to Behold", Live in Poland