Mightiness – The Mighty Monareta w/ Mad Professor!!!!

Who would've thought that my favorite group in the world would end up being Colombian? Monareta are just godly like that.... and with Mad Professor?!? Damn, that's beautiful... My dream boy Checho ain't on drums here, but this is still BRILLIANT!!!

More Aesthetic Jewels via Eri Nobuchika Redux!

Swing Out Loveliness – Sonic Sublimity from the Loveliest + Mightiest in the World

Still trying to figure out how to get back to L.A. or to San Francisco in time for the early June shows, but I must!!!! A move to either city (back to L.A. or to SF for the first time) is in the works, but it surely won't be in two weeks, so it'll have to be a quick jaunt! In the meantime for all else, check the loveliness!!! xo, B.

Sunday Loveliness of the Perennial/Eternal Sort

One thing I love about Facebook – was reminded of this mighty classic by the goddess Liane Carroll (who I'm jealous got to see the lovely Madeline Bell last week)! Yes, I've been posting all my best on there + neglecting here, but I'll be dividing my time better shortly... The long + short is that I hate Austin, but a move is in the works, even if it's back to sad old L.A. Thank god it's gay church day ($1 mimosas + $1 drafts)... xo, B.

It's Better to Travel Redux – M-Flo + Dragon Ash loveliness...

I know it's been far too long since I last posted on here but that's the curse of Facebook – it's distracting + addictive + fuck it... rather enjoyable! All the better to keep distracting me from a certain godly sublime and lanky but sadly unavailable Austin bartender... But I digress as is often my wont! I'll have more to catch up on here shortly, about the few things I love about Austin + the slightly more than a few that I don't (ideally before my birthday next week) along with much eye-candy per my many obscure new actor loves. In the meantime...
Leave it to M-Flo to provide a radiantly lovely vicarious trip – and an unexpectedly more earnest + fuck-all lush + magnificent one at that! As I said elsewhere, put this between Eri Nobuchika's "Lights" + Mondo Grosso + BoA's classic + almighty "Everything Needs Love" + you've got a flawless excursion most definitely ahead... xo, B.

Kinky Loveliness Redux Part 8 – Hasta Quermanos

Hello all,

While I'm sad and bitter today (even more so than usual (xo)) that the beautiful ones have gigs throughout Texas this week (McAllen and Laredo were postponed, but Dallas, Houston and San Antonio are still getting the boys in all their sublimity) but NOT playing in Austin (ugh!!!)... I was hoping it was because they'd be doing SXSW but alas, it's not to be. If any of my Austin people care to offer a ride to San Antonio for their Club Rio gig on Saturday I'd be ETERNALLY grateful. Meanwhile, stay tuned for my breakdown of the best of the SXSW schedule (Monareta! Zoe! Primal Scream! (The goddess) Alice Russell!) as I brace for my first one and ponder how I'll make it through without getting plastered (Xanax anyone?), and take solace/enjoy the godly ones last week (I assume – miraculously for once I wasn't alerted to it by 18,000 different sources) on Jimmy Kimmel. I was under Gil getting drenched in (his) magnificent sweat at the front of the crowd for their last Kimmel appearance (wait a moment while I calm the vapors and the necessary swooning (xxooxx)), but unfortunately I couldn't be there for this one (one of the only things I'll ever miss about hell-A – not being in the same city as Kinky and Volumen Cero (a.k.a. the illimitably resplendent Lucho and his boys)). I'm also tossing in a lustrous Kinky photo I hadn't yet seen for good measure. As always, dig!

Best and xo, B.

More Aesthetic Jewels via Eri Nobuchika!

I first found Eri Nobuchika while hunting for Shinichi Osawa/Mondo Grosso spots, and found the utterly absolutely fucking resplendent "Yumenokakera". Now after my boy Remi sent me the most definitely lustrous trailer for the new Nintendo Muramasa: The Demon Blade (see below), I got inspired to go back and hunt for more, only to find the two above-cited spots for Eri's sublime in all aspects "Lights." Dig!

xo, B.

Yes We Did... But We Still Need to Hear the Original Mantra on This Beautiful Day

Once again the atmosphere feels lustrous and lovely as this (formerly? I doubt it, but...) half-ass country steps up for our man's swearing in, and of course the original (and now seemingly rather prescient) Pointer Sisters' shout-out NEEDS TO BE HEARD FROM THE ROOFTOPS – and what better conveyance than this MIGHTY MIGHTY 1974 breakdown?!?!? Hope Collective just has the same beautiful spirit and, though I've posted it before way way back, it's always sublime to hear it again...

(And I just dig this opulent Bluefly graphic, as far as red, white and blue go, so as always I had to add some further aesthetic lustrousness...)

My plan for the day (severely tempered by the fact that as usual I am a broke-ass boy!)? A hike up to Zilker Park, a glass of Vinho Verde (my new favorite white wine... and it's Portuguese (also lovely)) at Halcyon, than settling in when OCH (Oil Can Harry's, my Austin fag bar home) opens at 11AM CT for the swearing in and Barack's speech... Should be radiant...

Whatever your plans, have a lovely one and enjoy... xo, B.