Further On..

"She-Bang what? Absolutely not." Ricky Martin has twins via a surrogate. - link

Coilhouse Magazine, Issue 01 is finally here! link

"Christmas on Mars" is the first feature film from the Flaming Lips - link | Trailer

Project Runway Challenge: Dressing drag queens is no small feat. That do-me red dress really stood out. link

Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon The Brain!" - just out on DVD - link

"Didn't you used to hate Walt Disney above all others?" "Yes. But now it's Spielberg. I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky - link

Tell me-- do you trust the FDA? link

DNC protesters would be locked up in a city-owned warehouse in a building that includes barbed wire-topped cages and signs warning of stun-gun use. - link

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Prada Rehab Rock - Damien Hirst and his ex-junkie friend Antony Genn team up to rock out Fashion Week (soberly). link

Stripes, Harlequin, Rubber, Vinyl are themes of Designer Gareth Pugh. His creations are more akin to fetishwear than fashion, but that's a bad thing, why? The old guard aren't sure whether to salute him or shoot him. Fall/Winter 2007 collection hereand Spring 2007 here.

Big City Orchestrae will be heading to Europe in September for their first tour overseas in six years! Great news, Ninah Pixie! link

Dave Nitsche - Conceptual Photography link

This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of hustle and bustle.

Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown. And she advertises on Craigslist and rents out rooms for $380 a month. Really. link

Fuck the DNA - The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV link

Revenge of the Weirdos? The decidedly nonconformist Animal Collective takes New York. link

The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. --Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)

***UPDATE: Wow! I had the title (W E B TR A I L) set on font 150 instead of 150%; hope I didn't make anyone go blind.

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Revelation is showing at the Fuse Gallery from July 21 through August 11, 2007 in New York. It is curated by Erik Foss and features various artists' paintings; some of which can be seen online.

Rob Brezney's Free Will Astrology is a weekly must-read on our astrology that many of us are familiar with, but another good read is his book on Pronoia, "PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings". It is a blessing to have Rob Brezney to read. His website if full of his love and light and beliefs.

T R A N S F O R M U S was this past weekend (Deerfield's near Asheville, NC) and everyone is still de-burning. I'd been waiting on more pictures before posting. Here's one of the burning bamboozler. Photo | Tribe.net. (So where are Ashevillians going when Bele Chere comes rolling into town this weekend? Or will you be going to the party?)

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Click to see Birth Of A New Anti-Christ by Chet Zar. Visit Supertouch for explicit photos of the event on opening night. *Some are NSFW.

GET MORTIFIED - Where else can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their... first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Bon Jovi?

"Haunted Pussy ...is soooo the right name for this band." Yeah? Anybody see cobwebs? via

come sit by me. i'll put on a pot of bourbon.

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* Tickets for a stretch of shows by alt-rock band Smashing Pumpkins at The Orange Peel sold out in just five minutes last night (Monday). See detailed article on the Around Asheville website. link

* The newly wide-ish release of "For Catherine", Ethan Hunter's first truly independent film, is available today on Netflix among other places. With a budget of just 5K it was shot entirely in Asheville, NC. Well done, Ethan Hunter and 207 Pictures, and I wish much success to you. view trailer on You Tube

x-posted to Around Asheville


* "Come in, it's a beast out there." With those words, Johnny Depp swings open the door to his sleek air-conditioned trailer and offers blessed relief from the brutal California heat wave. Read the interview with Keith Richards and Johnny Depp. Couldn't you just wrap all fours around him? link

* A small film about a short-lived rock star is making a big splash at Cannes. "Control," the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide at 23," marks the feature-film directing debut of rock photographer Anton Corbijn. link

* A feast of phalluses, a plethora of public place peckers. New book, Bus Stop Knobs, brings together the world's well, best bus stop knobs. Hastily drawn for a moment of amusement and now immortalized forever in the most talked about coffee table book released this year. link

Today's Quote:
Regard your neighbour's gain as your gain, and your neighbour's loss as your own loss. --Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien

Mon Petite Webtrail

* Command to open fire heard on Kent State tape. Guard troops killed 4 students during a Vietnam war demonstration on May 2, 1970. I'll always remember that date. link

* Divine Interventions - The cosmic rock of Young Gods, still working with anthropologist Jeremy Narby. Treichler talks about his several voyages into the jungle with Narby and is asked, "Does he do the full shamanic trip every time?" "Yes, yes. Different people, different places". link

* Coachella was broadcast for those of us who aren't near the left coast. And noone had anything but praise for Bjork's performance. She was magical on SNL the week before, but that was just a glimmer of the Coachella performance, it appears. e-Blips has pictures and perspective and reminds us that the blog at Bjork's website is also documenting the event and tour.

* Penises - Definitely NSFW - X-rated, but beautifully done photos. Click here and here to see the work of Cary Kwok. (via: tableforsicks)

* Poets - Somebody has really pissed a poet off. link

* Pranks - She lost her nipples when she became a corporate giant. link

On Saturday, April 28th, tens of thousands of Americans will be making their voices heard by putting the word IMPEACH! in front of the public eye. (see www.A28.org).

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 14-hour Technicolour Dream, a marathon of 1960s films, 'full-on' lightshows, avant-garde theatre, Q&A sessions, and bands old and new. The line-up includes The Pretty Things, Circulus, Mick Farren, and The Amazing World of Arthur Brown. link

Fillmore East is now the Fillmore New York of Irving Plaza and opened last week with Lily Allen. Will that hippie feeling shine through at the new venue? It's doubtful. Livenation, monster concert conglom, has taken over the rebranding of all venues Fillmore. link

Sober Companion - Once they figure out the trigger, "It’s over." "It" is the drug craving. The businessman is a drug addict, and Mr. Kaplan is a sober companion, a combination big brother, baby sitter and spiritual guide who uses motivation, prayer and exercise to keep his clients away from alcohol and drugs. link

The Lizard Club by Steve Abbott, Released: 2007-04-16, "tells all" about the birth of San Francisco's underground club scene. But who's real and who's not? Abbott's novel suggests that in the '90s, we can no longer tell fact from fantasy. William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, Robert Gluck, and Sarah Schulman praised the late Steve Abbott's first novel, Holy Terror. link

Germs drummer Don Bolles will be cleared of all charges after additional testing of his suspect bottle of liquid peppermint soap came up clean. link

Cheese kills. And I ain't talking grilled here. Cheese (or Cheeze) is a recreational drug that surfaced in the United States in 2005; predominantly in Texas. Cheese is formed by combining heroin and crushed tablets of certain over-the-counter common cold medication. Several young people have sadly overdosed and died in Texas from Cheese. wikipedia | link

W E B T R A I L | peppermint. wendy-o. pancakes. crabs. zappa. alt-refer. penis ice cream.

* 'Germ' Wrongly Jailed Over Soap; Absurd GHB Drug Charges for Don Bolles, Drummer of the 'The Germs,' Stem From a Bottle of Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap - I've followed this story for days for authenticity and now it looks like it's not a hoax. Hearing Friday, April 13.
LATimes | Dr Bronner Release

* Cover Freak has some wild and crazy covers. They keep their links up a few weeks but just took down an mp3 of Wendy O Williams and Motorhead's Lemmy doing "Stand By Your Man" (Tammy Wynette). Also, here's Wendy in Reform School Girls on YouTube. (Wendy died April 6, 1998)

* Cooking up in your spoon - it's not just for heroin anymore. link

* What's that? "It's much more affordable just to make the crabs disappear." link

* The Frank Zappa Primers - Lots of FZ links, graphics, and mp3s.

* Citizendium looks like fun. Supposed to be the alternative version of Wikipedia. I'm all for that.

* Davezilla has a link for penis ice cream. I'm all for that, too. NSFW: see it here