ARTIST: SAGAZAN, OLIVER DE

Intense French performance artist Oiver De Sagazan. His transformations are really inspiring for me right now as I'm learning about transforming people into someone or something else.

RAPSCALLION: PUGH, GARETH

Supa-genius.





*Edit* I just found this last video and the screeching homo in me had to add it to this post. It's too good not too. The end is cute.

MUSIC: COCOROSIE

Hey. Hey. HEY! Cocorosie! HEY! Why are you so AMAZING? HUH?! HUH!? HUH!?!?!
I will see them live before I die.

DANCE: 'WACKING VS. VOGUING'

This video is RADICAL! It appears to be a promo video for a runway battle show. If only I lived in Stockholm. Then I could have gone to this AND I could be friends with Robyn. Sigh.

MORE: DANGERKAT

Squeeeeee!!!!! I JUST found this video of House of Dangerkat performing 'Opulence' from Juste Debout 2008. I fucking love this performance and I've watched the video they have posted on their Youtube page (that I reposted here a couple of weeks ago) like fifty times. It's pretty far away and fairly grainy, but this one looks like it's shot from backstage so it's way close! I hope you can tell I'm excited. Get into it.

MUSIC: XIU XIU

I am living for Xiu Xiu today. I got their newest album ('Dear God, I Hate Myself') last week and I liked it so much I got two more today ('Fabulous Muscles' and 'Knife Play'). Their music is incredibly emotive and stirring, going all over from terribly sad and forlorn to whimsical and dancey. And the fact that lead singer Jamie Stewart is way sexy doesn't hurt either.

The videos I posted below are just some of my favorites, but I pretty much love everything on the albums I have.

Note: Some of these clips are not the band's official music videos.

ARTIST: MCRAE, LUCY

In-fucking-credible.

Chlorophyll Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

PERFORMANCE GROUP: DANGERKAT, HOUSE OF

House of Dangerkat has been an obsession of mine for a couple of years now. Their performances are living art from beginning to end. It's a collaborative process that includes coreography, costume, fashion, makeup, and music all smashed up into an amazing performance piece. And "Dangerkat" herself and I share the same birthday (July 7th, if you wanted to know). They work in both Canada and New York and some day I hope to witness their awesomeness live.

MUSIC: WAITS, TOM

Tom Waits is a well-know looming creature in both music and film, so I won't beat a dead horse (although some of his music would seem to advocate that, quite literally). This song is so powerful and moving to me. I once heard him say in an interview that he was no actor, but I think he was being a bit overly modest. His characters always steal the show for me. People who are diversely multi-tallented fascinate me. I'm always really jealous of them.

MUSIC: GOSSIP

OPERA: TOMORROW, IN A YEAR

Ok, so I literally just found out about this but I was so excited that I had to blog about it immediately!! (Did I really just type that?) Ew...anyway...LISTEN TO THIS!!! Genius music duo The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims, and Planningtorock are collaborating to produce the music for an upcoming opera being arranged by Danish performance company Hotel Pro Forma. The opera is based on Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of the Species'. Get excited, because it's BREATH-FUCKING-TAKING! One song from the opera is waiting at http://www.theknife.net/ to fill your senses with delight. It's called 'Colouring of Pigeons' and it's moving and it's beautiful. AND if you sign up for their mailing list you can download an mp3 of the song for your very own. CAN YOU TELL I'M EXCITED!?! Ok. I feel better. NOW GO! DO IT NOW! And then check out these related things (you won't be sorry):

http://theknife.net/o0o.html
http://hotelproforma.dk/
http://www.myspace.com/mtsims
http://www.myspace.com/planningtorock
http://feverray.com/