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Got a Girl Crush On: Troy in Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn”
Love this coming-of-age movie that vignettes around being the only girl in a family of boys during a summer in Brooklyn in the 70s.
(Source: queenbowie)
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Got a Girl Crush On: Brooklyn-based director and mixed-media animator, Jordan Bruner
(via artalogue)
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Got a Girl Crush On: 1968’s “The Girl on a Motorcycle” (starring Marianne Faithfull) dubbed to music from Chairlift’s “Amanaemonesia”!
(the official video is equally awesome, btw)
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Got A Girl Crush On: Ilana Glazer in Sugar Boy’s Kung Fu Mom
UCB alum, gamer, and 1/2 of the sketch comedy duo, Broad City — Budding comedy superstar, Ilana Glazer’s been killing it as of late.
Today I stumbled on to this amazing Sugar Boy video and I just keep re-watching Ilana rollerskating, karate chopping and high-fiving her way through my beloved borough in attempts to retrieve her favorite baseball card. If you make it through the entire video without the slightest bit of a Girl Crush yourself, I’d keep it to yourself. Ilana has some mad nipple-ripping skills.“Go kick a butt now right now, baby!”
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High ResolutionHey New Yorkers!
If you’ve yet to get your hands on copy of Issue #2 of our mag, we are now being carried at Life:Curated in Brooklyn!
Life:Curated
186 Grand Street (b/t Bedford & Driggs)
Brooklyn, NYSo stop on in this adorable shop and check out the glossy for yourself!
P.S. - also coming soon to Skylight Books in Los Angeles! Check out full stockists: here.
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This interview is a repost from our new sister-swap site, Sadie Magazine!
Smells Like TEEN Spirit
Written by Cassie J. Sneider
Photos by Jason Rodgers
Hair and Makeup by Ahbi NishmanVoted one of the “11 Great Bands You Don’t Know (But Should)” by Time magazine last year, TEEN is hardly the bubblegum girl group you’d expect from their band name. TEEN was formed in 2010 by Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, when she rallied her sisters Katherine and Lizzie and their friend Jane Herships to form a lo-fi pop group whose sound ranges from dance-punk jams to psychedelic, hypnotic tracks reminiscent of another era.
The band dropped their digital-only EP Little Doods in 2011, but it was the release and emphatically positive reviews of their debut album In Limbothat really put TEEN on the map this August. They are currently in the middle of a national tour, which included a recent show in New York with Ariel Pink. Teeny took a few minutes to chat with Cassie J. Sneider via email about what’s up and what’s next.Cassie: How did you all meet?
Teeny: We’re sisters and we met Jane by playing in a band called Amazing Baby.
Cassie: What was the first record, tape, or CD you ever got?I have been actually quite shocked and disappointed in the amount of misogyny that still exists. It feels a little passé to be quite frank.
Teeny: TLC’s Ooooooohhh…On the TLC Tip or the Beatles Anthology. The blue one.
Cassie: How does being an actual signed rock star in the year 2012 compare to the rock star dream a lot of us grew up believing in? (The one where a guy with a cigar and a ponytail says, “Kid, you got what it takes!” then hands you a contract, and the next day a dump truck delivers cash and babes to your door.)Teeny: I think that might still happen for some people, but not us. YET. Record number three.
Cassie: As a band of awesome women, what sort of challenges has gender presented? And how do you combat creepy dudes at shows?
Teeny: Luckily, we haven’t really encountered too many creepy dudes. They have been pretty awesome. But with press and blogs, I definitely had to stop reading comments because some of the feedback is so negative, and it was always about the way we looked and not about the music. Going into this project I was aware of the fact that women in the public eye have do deal with this all the time. But experiencing it, I have been actually quite shocked and disappointed in the amount of misogyny that still exists. It feels a little passé to be quite frank.
Cassie: What was your Plan B if you hadn’t made it in music? Farmer? Neuroscientist? Dental hygienist?
Teeny: I wish I could say there’s a Plan B, but there’s not. I would consider farming though.
Cassie: OK, so there’s a van accident on tour. Everybody lives, but each of you is melted to one other person in the band. Who do you choose to be conjoined to, and what sort of mutant ability will this bandmate bring to the table?
Teeny: Jane so she can cook us beef stew.Cassie: What can we expect from TEEN in the future? And what’s going to happen in your episode of VH1 Behind the Music?
Teeny: The future: more records, loads of touring. Behind the Music: Everyone will be happily married and pregnant, and I will be a hermit living in the woods building synths. -
Got a Girl Crush On: Princess, Maya Rudolph’s Prince cover band
Just when you thought Maya Rudolph couldn’t get any cooler.
Princess — that is, Rudolph and friend/collaborator Gretchen Lieberum — have played a few gigs in LA (see their performance of “Darling Nikki” at the Troubadour, above), and tomorrow night, Thursday, September 20, they’re bringing their sultry sounds to Brooklyn Bowl. ?uestlove and The Roots will accompany their night-long ode to the Purple One.
Advance tickets are sold out (weep!) but if you don’t have to be up early on Friday morning, you can try to snag a seat at the door. I recommend that you do, ‘cause these Sexy M.F.s are a real Peach, and I just know they’re gonna turn Brooklyn into an Erotic City.
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: New York City Council Member, Letitia James
I finally got to see the documentary Battle For Brooklyn (which follows the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project—the densest real estate development in U.S. history SEE IT IF IT’S SCREENING SOON NEAR YOU OR ORGANIZE A SCREENING IN YOUR CITY) on Tuesday night at Brooklyn Skillshare’s day of free classes in solidarity with Occupy Wallstreet’s General Strike. It saddened me greatly to bare witness to corporate greed that values dollars over denizens and corrupt politicians who do not fairly represent their constituencies. But through the grimness of this story shone a woman whom I’m proud to say represents my neighborhood, Letitia James.
Going against Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Borough President Marty Markowitz and developer Bruce Ratner, James opposed the use of eminent domain to evict her constituents, selling the MTA’s Atlantic Yardsproperty below the market value, and keeping the planning of the project out of the New York City Council.
Tish is also lawyer, activist and politician in the Working Families Party. She puts her career on the line for her work for what she believes is fair and true. She is certainly one to be admired.
(photo by mokksha on flickr)
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Got a Girl Crush On: our newest contributors, Cassie & Brooke!
Cassie works to help folks fund their dreams, likes to make random rad one-off zines, be a badass cook more than she lets on, and travels on the fly.
Brooke is a librarian with a penchant for old-timey badass babes, embracing the idiosyncrasies of Elaine Benes, and organizing philanthropic community-oriented art parties.
Couldn’t be more stoked about these ladies help spreading the love about more awesome babes!
Be sure to check out their crush-worthy blogs:
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High ResolutionGot a Girl Crush On: Hey Girlfriend!: Girls’ Lena Dunham Curates BAM Film Series
BAMcinématek presents Hey Girlfriend! Lena Dunham Selects, an eight-film series centered on the theme of female friendships. Coming to BAM between April 2-8, the series is curated byDunham, the creator and star of Tiny Furniture as well asHBO’s forthcoming series Girls (and an occasional PAPERcontributor). Both of Dunham’s projects, which examine post-college life in New York through the lens of the director and her cohorts, draw from female relationship movies like The Last Days of Disco (1998), Girlfriends (1978) and This is My Life (1992), which will all be screened throughout the week.
(via bbook)
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