Welcome to all things Sliimy (pronounced “Sleemy”). If you’ve been on the receiving end of a brilliantly viral “Who Is Sliimy” tweet and are still going ‘Huh?’ You’ve come to the right place. So who is this intriguing character who is proving so fascinating to the good and the great? He’s Yanis Sahraoui, a 20-year-old from Saint-Etienne near Lyons. His friends and fans call him Sliimy, a nickname since childhood. Why? “Because I was really skinny, so lots of kids called me ‘spaghetti’,” he says, hardly explaining it at all. “So I stayed as Sliimy and created a blog called ‘Sliimy’. It doesn’t mean anything. It sounds like pop music.”
Why yes, yes it does. We’re giving away 1 custom Sliimy Music Tee (a $40 value, HOLLA) that comes complete with a download for his zingy and fresh debut album “Paint Your Face.” Just email punkphoto at gmail dot com with ‘Sliimy’ in the subject line and we’ll take care of the rest. PS: Lily Allen’s sleeve artist, Check Morris, designed the artwork for Sliimy’s debut album (and this shirt)! The fold-out collage for Paint Your Face is a riot of colours and shapes, fabrics and textures, surrealist brica-brac and objets d’art. Sounds just like his music if you ask us. So yeah. That’s who Sliimy is.
So a little boy named Max had quite the opening weekend at the box office- 32.5 million bucks as reported by Warner Brothers. I haven’t seen it yet, which some people find weird it because it’s one of my fave books of all time, which is exactly why I stayed away. Please note, here is Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in its entirety (all 10 glorious sentences):
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another. His mother called him “WILD THING!” and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything. That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew- and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are. And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws- till Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with a magic trick of staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things. “And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!” “Now stop!” Max said and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper. And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat so he gave up being king of where the wild things are. But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go- we’ll eat you up- we love you so!” And Max said, “No!” The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled theur terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him- and it was still hot.
Holy crap! Is this why I am such a criminal when it comes to run-on sentences? Someone tell Cameron! *Anyway* Spike Jonze just released a new short with his wonderfully twisted sense of story telling. Check out his collaboration with Kanye West on “We Were Once a Fairy Tale.” I had to watch it in batches and fast forward parts - I have a hard time watching Kanye offstage, especially when he’s riffing on Kanye. But the hurling pink confetti? Amazing. The opening footage though of bottle service and VIP is perfect. The yelling over the table and missing major points in conversation while making important social exchanges to fleeing the dancefloor to find respite in the bathroom… it’s a big part of my life. That’s kinda effed up. Yikes.
To end things on an upnote, here is one of my fave Spike Jonze spots, 59 seconds of bliss:
Thursday October 22nd ATJF Official CMJ 2009 Showcase at Cake Shop : Free with Badge, $8 without
7 PM AND THE RELATIVES
8 PM SHILPA RAY & HER HAPPY HOOKERS
9 PM POW WOW!
10 PM THE ANSWERING MACHINE
11 PM KITTENS ABLAZE
12 AM SHAKY HANDS
Let me be the first to NOT post “This New Technology” - all is fair and love and chart countdowns on the Hype Machine, so go forth and stream it (if you’re so inclined)! We’re pretty pleased with this episode. Speaking of which definitely stay tuned for our CMJ party plans. Lineup should be locked down any day now and it’s looking awesome. I might make cupcakes.
PS What’s your fave nickname for the lads? Midnight Truckersluts? The Juggsies? Believe me they’ve heard ‘em all.
Grandmaster Flash showed up at this Midnight Juggernauts gig to introduce the band. So like, everyone that snoozed on the majesty of Dystopia and are currently losing their sh*t over “This New Technology” welcome, get acquainted, and hold onto your hats.
Midnight Juggernauts : Shadows (Click arrow on right hand side of player to download mp3)
Read Cameron Cook’s infinite words of wisdom on HEALTH’s live show *HERE*. The photo (on film!) is from a shoot we did for the upcoming print issue of ‘SUP with an ace interview by Chocolate Bobka. I have shots of 3 out of 4 members peeing into the East River. Guess which ones? STAY CLASSY PLANET EARTH! PS Get Color makes it into 2009’s Top 10 easy.
Looks like Anna has quite a big year ahead of her = having her first kid and dropping the long awaited solo album being high on the list. We’ve never been to an event or meeting with her that’s been timely, so I kinda had to laugh when I started doing the release date / video posting arithmetic. Well here you go. Ready to Uff indeed. PS Photos from the first NYC Ed Banger rager will get posted someday, promise (the above having been shot in the kitchen closet at Club Element)…
Yes, Kordan- the wonderboy that Cut Copy heard playing on East Village Radio and tapped immediately as an opening act for their US tour with the Presets - finally released his Fantasy Nation EP. You can both download it for free or purchase to receive an additional track *here* In the meantime enjoy our favorite, Tokyo Tears, below. Be sure to check Kordan’s blog too, which is packed with holograms, lasers, and art.
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