Archinect just published a fascinating new interview with Peter Eisenman by well known conservative writer Robert Locke. Those who know me, know that I consider Eisenman a sort of nemesis. After reading this piece though, I have a great deal of respect for his unapologetic, straight-forward demeanor. I still disagree with almost every word that spills out of his mouth, but I strangely admire him. The rhythm of Eisenamn and Locke's conversation makes for a quick and spirited read. Kudos to Archinect for getting the exclusive on such a well done and surely controversial article.

Will Ferrell as George W Bush.

Apologies if this morning's post was a bit gloomy and all over the place. Feeling much better after booking my flight to NY, buying a fistful of lawn tickets for the Cure/Interpol/Rapture show on the 11th, and Rob sending not only some encouraging words, but his very inspired Dorkwave playlist, which I'll post on the site later tonight. Oh, and Shannon got home today ("home" being a relative notion for bi-costal Doyles), which makes it all better. :)

Dorkwave.com receives a few updates, including some made up bios and tracklistings from myself and the brilliant Mr. Will Calcutt.

I've been kind of grumpy about the state of the Detroit scene lately, and am really missing New York for the first time since moving back. Part of that is Mrs. Doyle is out east having a great time, and I've been working long days in culturally retarded Auburn Hills and hearing a lot of same-old same-old techno stuff on the weekends. Okay, Hawtin a few weeks back was perhaps the best I'v ever seen him... brilliant... and Servito last week was incredible, but, other than that, hasn't been all that much to get fired up about. Bottom line: I need some inspiration. Very much looking forward to the Ghostly homecoming, the Curiosa Festival and to Gibby, Mark and Dave kicking some ass on August 13th. I know many of our readers don't know these guys, but believe me when I say they represent everything true and awesome about the post-electroclash electropunk scene in NYC. (No pressure guys, if you're reading this.) By the way, true die-hards Hong Kong Counterfeit will be special Guest DJ's at 976 tonight at Lit. One thing that's been inspiring is the new Matt Dear album, and I'm not just plugging it for all the obvious reasons! It's anything but same-old same-old, and really develops his distinctive microhouse/pop vocal crossover direction set with Leave Luck to Heaven. Definitely pick it up. *end rambling, contadictory early morning post*

Because ...you know...there isn't a war or an election going on.

Tractile LIVE (Moodgadget)
Clark Warner (Minus)
Aarnio (Ghostly International)

Tonight at Goodnight Gracie's in Ann Arbor | 10pm | 21+

Okay, maybe the internet still is awesome: Misprinted Type V3.

The end.

The Treasury Department has referred its investigation of Halliburton to the Justice Department. Not because of price gouging in Iraq, but because of business ties to Iran! There's money in that there "axis of evil".

Christ...

[thanks to IsDickCheneyDeatYet.com]

Agent Plaslaiko is having trouble accessing Burnlab at the moment, but if he could he would tell you that that tonights thing at Cooper Hewitt in NYC might not be outside, but its still going to happen. So you should stop on by regardless of the climate.  He also encourages all those back home in Detroit and elsewhere to send food. He'd like some tuna. Prefferably in spring water, not that veg oil shit. But he will take what he can get. Thank you.

K Mart is using a Ravonettes song in their new ad campaign. Not quite sure how to feel about that, but I am pretty sure the Reid brothers aren't getting any money from it.

The Smart Cities Group at the MIT Media Lab recently unveiled a concept car designed with Frank Gehry. The project started several years ago with our own Munich corespondent Jaron Rothkop and Lear Corporation, and sponsorship has since been passed along to General Motors, who will display the prototype next year. Images here, and more info at AutoWeek.

Per BitBoy's post, you can find me on there as republidude313. i like to scope and find out what the last hip youngsters are saying about republicans.

One word: scary.

Four teams presented design concepts to redevelop the abandoned High Line along Manhattan's west side late last week. It's little surprise that Diller Scofidio + Renfro's concept focuses on user experience, while Holl and Hadid do little more than add their stylistic thumbprints to this incredibly unique site. View all the designs here. The proposals will be on exhibit at the Center for Architecture through August 14th. Exhibit details here.

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Summer Sessions are underway in NYC. Come schmooze, drink and dance on the lawn this Friday to New York's newest resident DJ, our own Derek Plaslaiko. More info here. While you're there, be sure to check out the current exhibitions, including FutureShack, exploring shelter for refugees and the homeless.

This Saturday in New York, Enabler and The Crucial Get Down present a special UK edition of SECURITY with:
Ed DMX (DMX Krew) - Rephlex Records, Breakin' Records
Richard Fearless (Death in Vegas) - Optional Records
Cowboy Mark (The Crucial Get Down, NYC)

Happy Ending | 302 Broome Street, btwn Eldridge & Forsyth
10pm | three bucks | flyer here

+ remember to get "funky and punky" with Mark this and every Friday at Lit, and in your cubicle every Monday via East Village Radio.

Our good good friends Plexus a.k.a. Mike Schroff and Boy Jesse a.k.a. Heartthrob recently started a weekly party in Billyburg called "Darkwave BBQ". (Not to be confused with "Dorkwave BBQ", which is a whole other thing in the works.) This week's edition is titled Coquettes For Kerry, and will be a fundraiser for the Kerry/Edwards campaign. How we adore mixing a night of drinking and minimal techno with politics and juxtaposed goth icongraphy! Here are the details, right from Plex:

Plexus & Heartthrob explore Politix...and host COQUETTES FOR KERRY: a benefit for the Democratic party.

As the world darkens, and the evil oil hawks continue to wreak havoc in the name of this nation, Plexus & Heartthrob do their best to do what they do best, while lending a hand in shaping things up. Enlisting a few talented friends, the duo have organized a night of music, libations & excitement. Look for the following plot twists in this weeks cliff hanger:

A rattling set by an accomplished musical guest (GIBBY)
A raffle of exciting items
A brief licentious performance by an ex Rockette (IVY)
Jazzterbation by Marylin Chiggers
Possible male nudity (Latif)
Pickled Pundits
A donation can and booth by local folk artist John Arnold
Regina's husband comes out of the closet
Michiko transforms into a harpy
Meat by Vivianne's Projects

All donated proceeds and a percentage of the bar (from the DJ's) will be donated to the Kerry/Edwards campaign. All guests to receive a coupon for a free shot of espresso at ST. HELEN'S Cafe in Williamsburg. Free meat to those in red white and blue.

Airing Thursday July 22nd. 10 pm, on Cash Checking, 28 N. 3rd St. @ Kent Ave., Brooklyn NY

We have yet to get first-hand reports back from the grand opening of Sven Vaeth's CocoonClub this past Friday. We have good reason to believe the party is still going. However much fun they may be having, nothing over in Frankfurt could compare to the the grande battle dance-off between Robert Gorell and Allen Goodman last night at Theakston and Lazar's birthday party. Incredible. This gives a vague indication of what went down, but moves such as The Spinning Claw and The Kneebuster have to be experienced in person.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are due to release a new double album, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus September 20th on Mute.

Come celebrate the birthdays of both Mark Lazar and Rob Theakston, two of the finest human beings one could hope to know, tonight at Agave on Woodward in Detroit. Mike Servito will be playing tunes on the patio under a clear summer sky. Coctails and music start around 10pm.

It's not like me to write about mainstream media here, but I have to say Anchorman is quite possibly one of the best written comedies ever. Not quite Young Frankenstein, or even the true tales of Bill Bonds, but highly recommended.

Back in March, the web site for the Bush-Cheney campaign featured a "create your own banner" tool, where you could enter your own slogan and print out your own poster, with the Bush-Cheney logo, and a note at the bottom "paid for by Bush-Cheney '04, Inc." Democrats, of course, couldn't get enough of this.

The original sloganator accepted everything, then it started censoring profanity and words like "Hitler" "dictator," and "evil." Nevertheless, many clever folks exploited the sloganator to their own ends before its sad demise only a couple of weeks after its birth, and its mourners assembled some of the best for this slide show.

Mr. Jobs said of Mr. Jackling: "He was a very wealthy man. Unfortunately, he didn't have very good taste."

Playlists on Dick Cheney's iPod.

Photos from last week's edition of Les Infants Terribles and more info on next month's I Dork New York now at Dorkwave.com

Beloved Ann Arbor-based record label Ghostly International is celebrating its fifth anniversary by spreading the love across America. (Has it really been five years?!) Art and Artifice 2004AD hits New York this Friday night with Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Dykehouse, James T. Cotton (DJ) and SV4 (DJ) at the Knitting Factory.



A handful of new Ghostly releases hit finer record stores last week, including Aeroc's Viscous Solid, Dabrye's Game Over, and Matthew Dear's Backstroke (featuring typography by your's truly and photo-illustration by Mr. Will Calcutt.)



Catch an interview with Aeroc a.k.a. Geoff White this evening on Liz's radio program. Tune into WDET tonight at 1am to hear the latest in a seriese of on-the-spot inteviews conducted last month at Mutek.

On a total tangent, has everyone seen Burnlab editor and Brooklyn drinking-hole mogul Tony Saracino's new Friendster photo? Awesome.

Yet another reason to drink...
As if another reason were needed. Thanks to Amazon Rainforest Vodka drinking is now an environmentally conscious task. With each bottle sold, buyers receive a preservation deed guaranteeing that 5,000 square feet of rainforest were saved. So far, the company has purchased more than 72 million square feet. Double-distilled from sugar cane, Amazon Rainforest has a sweet, ultra-smooth taste. One sip and you'll be ruined for grain or potato-based vodka swill. Via Trendsetters.

Huge thanks to everyone who came out for Les Infants Terribles on Friday night.
A few highlights:

* Kemp and Boomer were awesome.
* Greg Campbell on the mic: priceless!
* Jon O came through yet again with an amazing new space.
* Although it arrived late (due to Mark Lazar's radiator blowing up,) the sound system was so worth the wait.
* The bass-line from Bella Lugosi's Dead run on constant loop downstairs... all night.
* Traxx "singing" live at 4am. (God bless you, Mel.)
* Boomer bumping lame trance DJs at The Works at 6am to play Nitzer Ebb.

Photos to come shortly. The next edition takes place Friday, August 13th with New York's finest, Cowboy Mark and Gibby Miller.
See you there.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Sign an urgent petition to stand up for the validity of the United States Constitution and stop the Federal Marriage amendment: the most un-American and morally corrupt act of terror G.W. has taken part in since... well, at least sometime last week.

Tonight tonight!
Boomer + Kemp + massive new sound system + awesome space + drinks + you + us = chaos.
10pm (probably more like 11) - late (well after 2) | 18+ | free!
Les Infants happens once a month. Don't punk out. :)

tadd mullinix truely is a chameleon, strikingly illustrated by his appearance under the moniker james cotton... (i see why he added the t)

that chip weirdness is something i surprisingly have not heard mention of considering i live in barcelona. the scariest thing about it is that baja beach far from some chic, hyper-modern place but a place where the waiters and waitresses wear bathing suits and spray water and champagne over themselves...frightening

The illustrious Dan Selzer will be laying down some Italodisco and new wave with DJ Chupacabras (Barcelona) tonight at 976, the new weekly affair at Lit in NYC + the expected unexpected from residents/hots Dave Elliot and Gibby.

upcoming guests include:
July 14th : COWBOY MARK (Rothko/Aktion)
July 21st : Makeoutclub.com 4th anniversary party with MOONEY SUZUKI LIVE (and a special live band suprise), guest DJs Dave P (Making Time), Damian G (The Explosion), and EDMX (DMX KREW, Berlin)
July 28th : HONG KONG COUNTERFEIT
August 25th: TEAM DORKWAVE (Burnlab/Untitled/Les Infants Terrribles) *that's right!*

Lit (you know) is at 93 2nd Ave. between 5th and 6th.
976 happens every Wednesday | 11pm - much later | free!

The new issue of URB hit the news stands on Tuesday. Les Infants Terribles is one of the magazine's "25 Hot Summer Nights Out":

What happens when Detroit's best promoter, designer and hustler decide to take the decks once a month? A new genre of music called "Dorkwave" is created along with this monthly basement party that features the skills of residents Jonnie O, Michael Doyle and Rob Theakston. Everything from '80s industrial to modern electro gets chewed up with shoegazer and indie techno. Special guests from Ersatz Audio assure complete re-education.

heh-heh.

See all you terrible children this Friday.

the future of entertainment? capcom just released onimusha 3 featuring the motion-captured body of jean reno and his voice....in barcelona at least they have even gone so far as to have the advertizements look like movie posters and be where movie posters normally are.

i like the new words for 2004, though i would propose "404" being "the office mate who never seems to be in the office, presumably because he or she is sleeping in either the toilets or closet." (a definition which i am afraid might be slung at me)

Every once and a while some music hits the Ipod with such fury, that I almost violently crave more of the same, immediately.

Such has been my curse since allowing Vladislav Delay into my life. After obsessing over the Luomo material- in all of its studio and live mp3 forms- the new VD album, Demo(n)tracks, had me absolutely pained to hear more of his newer, more concise, dubby, clattery material. Then lo-and-behold, a full hours worth of free new material along the same lines. And- dig a little deeper to find over 40 tracks (some common, many rare).

Great weekend back in Detroit. NYC Labbers will be happy to know that neither day job nor marital bliss seem to be keeping Mr. Doyle on the straight and narrow. And his new car (no subways in the D) has a really complicated thermostat system.

Detroit high-lights:

-Flyering cars in the rain for next week's Les Infants Terribles (it rained from exactly when we got out of the car until exactly when we got back in the car. PERFECT TIMING)

-Tastefest Turkey leg. Too bad Mr. Craig's Dj sets wasn't as nicely roasted.

-Hawtin at Panacea. Since when do Detroit clubs stay open until 4am? Plus, the dancinest, diverest, buumpinest, weirdest, smilinest, funnest Hawtin DJ set I've heard in a long time.

-Reasonably priced drinks.

-Finally getting my record collection out of my parent's house and on its way to LA.

Low-lights:

-Rain = humidity. We no sweat in LA.

-Sr. Theakston out of town camping. Sr. Plaslaiko too busy packing.

-Hawtin ONLY playing until 4am. i could have done another 4 hours.

-Never going back to Tastefest, therefore wasting the food/drink tickets given to me by Doyle.

Conclusion: Far better Detroit experience than Movement weekend. Too bad I won't be getting back for many many moons, but once the girlfriend moves out here, money will start going to the furniture stores instead of the airlines. BUT- i did just buy a Swiss Army self inflating air mattress. So expect Glazer's discount Los Angeles chateau to be open for visitors come September.

Ladies and gentlemen: your next vice president. A rather different character than the current v.p. (who, last we checked at least, isn't dead yet.)

To the residents of New York City,

Within the next few days inside a haggard u-haul driving down I-80 you'll find the following contents: One (1) Derek Plaslaiko, several records, some clothes and several other objects, to be sure. Let's get one thing straight: much like Team Doyle before him, Plaslaiko is on loan to your city until you guys can get things bumping again. No matter how long he lives there....no matter how much you will feel the propensity to claim him as one of your own....he is a Detroiter first; embodying the spirit and charisma of our music scene. You may THINK he's yours? But he's not. Please refrain from enabling yourself from further turmoil and confusion. Should you find yourself unable to handle his energy and spirit, kindly send him back to Detroit and we'll take good care of him. For much like Vernors and Lafayette Coneys...he's a Detroit treasure, and should be automatically revered as such. Feed him well, give him an adequate wage and a job with reasonable working hours so he can DJ and flourish during the night time. Give him plenty of space to chew up and spit out your tired, impotent electronic music scene and reinvent it gig by gig. But most of all? Brace yourself. I don't think you realize the cyclone kiss we're about to send your way.

Thank you.

Rob Theakston

Techno megastar Sven Vaeth's CocoonClub opens in Frankfurt on July 16th. Designed by Wiesbaden-based 3deluxe with the intent to take club culture to the next level, CocoonClub features two restaurants and a state of the art night club realized in 3deluxe's signature genetic architecture. The triangular main space is surrounded by "a permeable cell membrane wall containing 13 capsule-like, glazed micro-rooms. They allow visual contact between the active inner spaces with its main dance floor and the quieter surrounding area with its adjoining lounge." Resident DJs will include the likes of Richie Hawtin, DJ Hell, Miss Kittin and Vaeth himself. Images and more info here.

Maestro of graphic design Peter Saville has launched a clothing line (available only at über-hip Parisian botique Colette) in conjunction with husband and wife design duo, Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro. Titled "From Painting to the Clothes" the result comes in the form of T-shirts, bags and cashmere sweaters.

Two for three Friday night. Electric Six cancelled their show at the Detroit Taste Fest. (We cried in out over-priced margaritas.) However, OSLO's 'special guest DJ' Carl Craig was superb, and Robotnick... all I have to say is OH MY GOD. The 53 year old Italo-disco/electro legend opened his laptop set with a version of Killing Joke's Love Like Blood, sang, danced, twisted knobs, and delighted a packed room of Detroit's heppest well past bar hours. The live version of Problemes d'amour left jaws gaping. A rare treat indeed.

as a second follow up to the post by josh, this sunday the maxalot gallery in barcelona will inaugurate WeWorkFromThem 1, an exposition by WeWorkForThem, creators of YouWorkForThem, (i am officially a bit confused) who are currently in spain for OFFF4 (OnlineFlashFilmFestival) this year held in valencia

Friday night in the D:
Electric Six at the Detroit Taste Fest, 8:30pm.
Robotnick at OSLO, with *special* guest DJ, 10pm.

I'll probably take the car and the Mrs. to find somewhere with pine trees and sand and furry animals on Saturday. Canada sounds like an appropriate place to spend the holiday this particular year.

You all have a good weekend!

speaking of video...

Draw Down is a new short film by Phoenix Perry with Arnold Steiner and audio by Brian Jackson created for the upcoming second edition of the critically acclaimed RELINE DVD series.

The film will debut at the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, July 15th as part of the Synaesthesiologists: Global Audiovisuals Now program. Watch a short QuickTime clip here.

(It should be noted that Kill Memory Crash provides audio for the Enter the Dragon trailer, re: Josh's post below.)

This will either be awesome or put me to sleep in 5 minutes. I'll let you know after I watch it tonight.

Vladcik performs his very popular techno-ballad, Elektronik Supersonik.