'Twas a GENIUS weekend

So, Friday was the Passion Pit show at the Echoplex. God it was AMAZING!!!!! I danced. I sang. I met this cool chick named Marya who was getting flirted with by not one, but two members of Harlem Shakes simultaneously from the stage. Lexy was hawking her good and so was Kendrick. SWEET! She got invited to the after-party which I could've gone to, but I was there with a date (who didn't even put out btw--so I was kind of regretting not going).

The following day, she and I met up and drove to Pomona to say goodbye to the fellas before they head off on their respective tour dates. The guys were great. One of the better experiences I've had in a really long time!!!

The latest issue of Allegory Weekly is out! Get it while it's hot. The Allegory Story is on our very own Alex Everett. This kid is a real inspiration. He's nice and might I add, a handsome devil.

Also, check out the styley fashions from Boston's Kelly Designs. Kelly Dempsey is immensely talented. We're happy to have her on our pages.

And Honey M. Barc's Reluctant Hipster is super good. Very sentimental as well.

Get It While It's Hot!!!!

So, we've got some good stuff in this week's Allegory Weekly. Here's the latest on Drag Me to Hell and What Goes Up starring Hillary Duff, Olivia Thirlby and Steve Coogan. Lots of allegory in both; substance ONLY in one.

Harlem Shakes are also in this issue. Sooooooooooo brilliant. Sexy Lexy Benaim. I love you, man!!

Down to the Wire

Watching Wall-E while working on the current issue. I have a splitting headache. Lots of stupidity this week.

A couple of days ago, I ordered this new deck of tarot cards. I love it so much. It's really vibrant and funny. Hopefully, it's got some really good news in store.

Be sure to check back in when the issue goes live in a bit. Woo-hoo! Keepin' it real, folks.

www.allegoryweekly.com

Que Carajo!?!?!?

I've been up since a little past 1 a.m. I've decided to try a new sleep pattern to stave off my massive yawn fest whilst in the office each day. So far, I'm just incredibly nauseous and cranky. And I fell asleep with the a.c. on so on top of everything else, I'm cold.

Watching Rocket Science. I did the junket for this film a couple of years back. It was loads of fun. They gave away good swag. Anyway, I keep thinking about this movie The Girlfriend Experience that happens to be our film feature this week. I'd love to see it again. It's actually available on OnDemand this month. I'm cheap, but thinking about it...

http://www.allegorymagazine.com/cinema_40.html

I'm going through massive writer's block this week. It's so bizarre. I'm simply at a loss for words. Thank goodness there are other people who write for Allegory Weekly. Otherwise, we'd be screwed.

Current issue is online and rockin'!!!!! www.allegoryweekly.com

I've Got Manners

I downloaded Passion Pit's Manners today. It's really good. I listened to it while working out. I'm supposed to be writing some articles for another outlet that I freelance for, but I'm so over it. All I want to do is sleep and think about going to shows and stuff.

Make sure you stay tuned for our upcoming issues. We've got some great interviews coming up. And make sure that you're clicking on the right link: www.allegoryweekly.com. There are a lot of CHEAP, tacky Web sites who are on our tit like baby's breath. So if you find yourself on some shitty Sci-fi site, that aint us.

I've got a ton of TiVo to watch, so I'm out, yo!

Rollin', Rollin', Rollin...

Holy hell! Did you feel that? We just had one mother of an earthquake!!!!

Btw...this week's Allegory Weekly is online now.

www.allegoryweekly.com

This is how it all went down

So, yesterday was the Soderbergh interview. Did I blog about this already? I can't remember, so sorry if I'm repeat-offending. 

Can I just say what an effing genius this guy is. And CUTE!!! Mama loves her a Southern Jewish guy. Did I mention he's a Capricorn? Sigh...

I also was very pleased to be in the same room as adult film actress Sasha Grey who stars in Soderbergh's latest feature, The Girlfriend Experience. She smiled at me. I kinda melted. 

Someone's got a girl crush...

Anyway, this movie is really good. But be forewarned: although the lead character is a Manhattan call girl and the woman playing her is a porn star, there aint NO sex in that bitch, so leave your lotion and hankies at home. But go see the film anyway. It's really beautiful.

The forthcoming issue of Allegory Weekly looks like fun, people. Be sure to check it out. It's got a lot of my favorite peeps in it.

How great is classic Michael Jackson?

Listening to a copy of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall left at my place by a friend. I don't care if dude is black, white, guilty or innocent--this mofo can jam--SERIOUSLY!!!

Well, kittens, it's announcement time. I promised you big things and here they are. Coming up in the May 17th issue of allegoryweekly.com is PASSION PIT!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhh!!
Everyone around here is sooooo in love with Chunk of Change and we've all preordered Manners. Ok, well, everyone but me. I'd procrastinate breathing if I knew it wouldn't kill me.

So prepare to be dazzled. Soderbergh goes down tomorrow. Very nervous and excited about that one.

Some other stuff has been happening. But I can't talk about it all--just yet. Sigh... I hate keeping secrets.

Let's do the damn thang!

Allegory Weekly for May 10, 2009 is officially live! I'm happy about this issue. It's dedicated to working shills--artists and photogs and other editorial folks.

Sasha Lee of Gold Dust is a magazine publisher. She's the chick behind Halcyon Magazine. She also works as the associate editor of Beautiful/Decay.

Derek Van Oss, or as I like to call him, "D-Rawk!" is shagging ass all over L.A., M.C.M. (that's making cash money).

We've got some words of wisdom from Toni Seger who is a leading authority in HR and how to keep a gig once you've landed it.

And there's a very special two-part Reluctant Hipster, starting this week and concluding next week. So now you'll totally have to check in because things are really starting to get good.

Oh, and don't forget to enter our freebies contest for the month of May.

Holy Hell

I'm watching a great American classic--Spaceballs. God, I love this movie! It's hilarious. They've just met Yogurt. "May the Schwartz be with you!"

Genius!

It's about a thousand degrees in Hell-A today. I'm baking even with the a.c. blasting. So sad. Gearing up for another great issue which will go live tomorrow. You guys are going to love this one. It's packed with hot chicks, an insanely amazing artist and a guy whose strength and tenacity will blow you away.

Also, I'm making a big announcement for our music section next week. Music fans...prepare to be dazzled.

Things to do

This weekend, I'm ordering another deck of tarot cards because I destroyed the last ones while unemployed. They were giving me too much bad news--lol!

I have some mail to pick up. A bunch of interviews to do. Gearing up for the big Steven Soderbergh interview--YAY!

Also, there's some very interesting Allegory Weekly promotional stuff getting ready to happen soon. So there's that to look forward to as well. But it's all on the D.L. for now.

Maybe I'll go see the new Star Trek flick. It looks a little strange, but I've chatted with a few of the stars and Simon Pegg was super stoked about it so who knows...

Ew.

I'm so freaked out right now. I just watched an episode of "Dress My Nest." On it was my former hot shrink's hot twin brother, Dan. OMF!

And the crazy thing about it is that I think Dan is the nicer of the two. He had much sweeter mannerisms than hot shrink did. Hot shrink was way hotter, but kind of a prick, comparatively. 

I'm sleepy. I need to go to bed.

To all my brown bruthas and muthas

Happy Cinco de Mayo. You've got roughly 42 more minutes to booze it up without looking like an out of context asshole.

More T-Rex Please

Man, oh man! I'm listening to The Slider right now. T-Rex is the shit! Seriously amazing good music.

Last night was the Head Like a Kite show at Spaceland. Some good friends showed up to support Dave Einmo who was the music feature for last week. Archives coming soon in case you missed it.

Anyway, HLAK packed the place. It was a damn good performance. You won't find a better live band or a more inventive show than when Head Like a Kite comes to town. So thanks to all the tragically hip kids for coming out and supporting the Pacific Northwest.

My stomach is growling like a bear. No more midnight stops to Mickey D's after shows. That's an order!

Oh Happy Day!

Just landed an interview with Steven Soderbergh next week. LOVE his work. I'm really excited to have him in Allegory Weekly.

Heard back from Ryan Falkner (this week's Allegory story). He dug the piece on him, which is always cool to hear. He thinks we've met before...

Also got a nice thank you from Matt at greenKarat jewelry. That was pretty cool, too. Grace and gratitude are such amazing traits.

I'm loving people right now.

Happy Monday, heathens

Well, the new issue is out and looking good. Check it out here: http://www.allegoryweekly.com/

I recommend the feature on Ryan Falkner. He's a very cool guy. I love that he used to be Beck's backup dancer. Nice work if you can get it.

I'm also loving the piece on Kutsal. She's this DOPE Turkish singer who looks like sex on two legs and sings like a friggin' angel. Go girl! I hope to snag some drinks with her and our mutual friend, Manuel.

We're got a new freebies giveaway as well. Check that out at: http://www.allegorymagazine.com/freebies_11.html

This looks like it's going to be a slow, mellow week. I've got the Head Like a Kite show tonight. Can't wait to see Dave Einmo and I'm also screening that new Angels and Demons flick which is a spin-off of the DaVinci code. Nobody wants to go with me. I think that one might be a stinker.

One movie that DOES look cool as hell is the new Transformers flick. I saw the trailer this weekend while at X-Men Origins: Wolverine. There's one shot where if you look fast enough, you can kind of see Megan Fox's gynecology.

Today was a good day

I got up early this morning and headed over to West Hollywood to pick up our mail. Ooh, fun. Then, headed over to the Grove and checked out X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It kicked soooo much ass. I was super looking forward to seeing Ryan Reynolds as Dead Pool, because when I interviewed him for Adventureland, he was really stoked about it.

Ryan's a great interview. Then it dawned on me, I've also interviewed Liev Schreiber and Hugh Jackman. So this movie was especially cool for me.

From there, I ran some other errands and came home. I'm getting ready to post the next issue. But I'm kinda tired at this point. I ordered some tasty Chinese food (hot and sour soup, BBQ pork slices and a chocolate mousse cake).

Man, do I need a nap.

The Aftermath

So the thievery corporation as we're now calling them over here has refused to publish ANYONE's comments surrounding their blatant plagiarism of our piece. Not only that, but a few other people have reported back to Honey, via her link that they read both and think she was stolen from.

I've been asked to not spend too much more time on this, but I've been writing for years and editing for practically just as long and bloggers need to learn that just because there's no regulation on the World Wide Web doesn't mean you can take people's work and pass it off as your own. You can still be sued AND fined. You can still get fired if yours is a paying gig. You can lose credibility. I haven't seen a lie as blatant as their defense in this matter since the whole "Weapons of Mass Destruction" debacle, and we all know how that ended for that guy...

Today is an interesting day. Everyone is filing their pieces. I did some photo edits earlier. Just listenend to a mix tape that a friend made me with some pretty good Beck remixes on it.

I took a meeting not too long ago and now have the rest of my afternoon to sit back, chill and enjoy this first day of May.