bah-humbug!

Here's a few of our favorite scenes from some of the classic "anti-Christmas" movies we love...

Gremlins (1984)


Black Christmas (1974)


Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)


Christmas Evil (1980)


He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special (1985)


Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)


Edward Scissorhands (1990)


Invasion USA (1985)




plus our X-mas playlist...

and check out this hilarious X-mas video by the naughty nasty girls from Avenue D (NSFW, watch out!)

alexander calder jewelry

Alexander Calder's jewelry collection is at the Met! This is the first time the collection will receive it's own extensive exhibit. The American born artist was more famously known for his many mobiles and paintings, frequently using a sunset orange color (below) that became known as "Calder Red." My personal fave of his creations is the mercury fountain (bottom pic) he created in 1937, commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the World Exhibition in Paris.

Calder Jewelry
December 9, 2008–March 1, 2009
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery,
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor

the music of sex

We're willing to wager our rent money that Malcolm McLaren is not shy about the birds and the bees. He changed the name of his 1970's London shop (opened with his partner Vivienne Westwood) to SEX, he named the band he managed the Sex Pistols, and now his recent feature-length film is all about (surprise, surprise) . . . sex!

Ok, ok there's more to it than that. As advertised by the Royal Academy of Arts, "A multimedia work, Malcolm McLaren's Musical Paintings (Shallow 1-21) is a series of original musical “cut-ups” composed by McLaren set to appropriated film and music clips selected and edited by McLaren. The films have been sliced, repeated, both slowed down and in real time. The result is hypnotic, layered and provocative."

The film is showing Tuesday Dec. 9th through Monday Jan 12th at the Royal Academy of Art in Burlington Gardens. Visit the Royal Academy of Art's website for tickets, showtimes, and to see a clip from the film.