Marion Cotillard

It's pretty hard to not have a crush on Marion Cotillard. She's pretty. Sure. Sure. But she's also a good actress. Like real good. And if that wasn't enough- did you know she is in, what Vanity Fair describes as, an Expressionist-Surrealist band?

On playing in the Expressionist-Surrealist band Yodelice fronted by composer Mazim Nucci:
"I play the bass guitar, keyboard, and tambourine--I'm their one-woman band and all-purpose maid," Cotillard explains. She's taken to appearing with Yodelice on tour, dressed as a man, under "Simone," the name of her maternal grandmother. "It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."

Now, you can check out the band on their MySpace page (is this 2004? Did France not get the memo re:Facebook?)- and you might think "this is just some interesting singer-songwriter stuff- I don't get the surrealist angle" to which I would respond "YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH! DON'T YOU EVER- E!V!E!R!- SAY ANYTHING THAT IN ANY WAY CONTRADICTS SOMETHING THE LOVELY SURREALIST MS. COTILLARD SAYS OR EVEN IMPLIES! EVER!" "My issue was really more with Vanity Fair's descript-" "I WILL PUNCH YOU- IN THE FACE- WITH MY HAND!"

Also, she did something with some other band... um, but with singing... What band was it? The Arctic Monkeys- or The Killers- one of those bands I don't really care about... Coldplay? Are Coldplay still together? I don't know. What do I look like? Pitchfork?

Dan

The Gathering of the Juggalos

Jesus Christ. Juggalos are fans of the Insane Clown Posse, so apparently they are people who have never heard good music- or even most bad music, since most music I would consider unlistenable is a million times better than anything to ever come from the Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, Zwiggy Zwill, Squeezy G, etc. Anyway, these people gather together in the woods once a year (a week the rest of the world knows as "the week without Subway sandwich artists") and they do this...



So they're a "family" or whatever, which is sort of believable since there seems to be some inbreeding going on here, and I'll admit it seems positive and it would be kind of cool to see Gwar and Ice Cube- but keep in mind all of these people are going to leave their Mom's couch for a week and fly out to wherever this is and camp out in the woods to listen to the FUCKING INSANE CLOWN POSSE (it's like when Muslim's visit the holy land- their words, not mine).

Anyway, this has been going on for ten years, and last year "performance artist" Andrew WK went and represented. I'm not a fan of the guy's music, but I am a fan of the guy (note to self: Andrew WK-related post sometime soon) and so here's what he did when standing in front of a group of (apparently deaf) kids wearing clown make-up...



Keep in mind, the people booing Andrew WK, are the same people who had no problem sitting through a performance from Afro-Man... So, needless to say, if we have to pick sides in this argument, we're going with Andrew WK all the way- you're free to pick your own side, but... seriously?

Dan