pecanne log ::: ladyblogging atlanta

Show & Tell is this Sunday at Eyedrum from 1 to 6 p.m. Show & Tell is an opportunity for artists to meet and present work to members of the Eyedrum Art Committee. This event is considered an alternative to submitting a formal proposal for a show, and artists who participate will be considered for future art exhibits at Eyedrum. Many artists who have attended previous Show & Tells were awarded solo shows in our Small Gallery. Others are being considered for group exhibits. All you have to do is bring in your work and talk about it. If you are shy, don’t even fret: you will only be talking to one person at a time, and I promise we are not intimidating in the slightest. You probably made fun of us in high school.

SuperDeluxe is apparently being absorbed into Adult Swim! It’s nothing like when Nike bought Converse, NYU took over CBGBs, or Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace - first of all, SuperDeluxe and Adult Swim are bffs under Turner so it does make sense for them to combine powers (like some other Turner alums, the Planeteers). And basically, comedy sites seem popular but don’t generate enough revenue to stay up for long.

From the internal memo (via Washington Post):

Super Deluxe.com and Adult Swim.com, we have businesses whose potential for individual growth is limited by their increasingly complementary content. Rather than position them as competitors for the same audience, the smarter move is to consolidate the two brands to create a richer, stronger platform that builds on Adult Swim’s number-one position with young adults.

Meanwhile, Videogum has up the 10 best SuperDeluxe videos of all time (including my SD fave, Chelsea Peretti’s “All My Exes”) in memory of the hilarious times we all shared, alone in our bathrobes, watching comedy videos on our computers.
from www.superdeluxe.com posted with vodpod
from www.superdeluxe.com posted with vodpod

I just heard on WABE this morning that good old Sonny signed a bill into law that makes it illegal for Atlanta retailers to sell marijuana flavored candies to minors, since lawmakers are sure it will convince little kids to want to use the real thing. Here’s a little blog from the AJC, and it’s dated February 2007. How have I missed this for so long??? It’s hilarious! The candy is called “Chronic Candy” or “Pot Suckers” and comes in several delightful options, like lollipops and gum drops. Going down on my Google search results, (lets hope the clear private data function is really effective on my work PC) there is an MSN article from 2005 is all about the same topic. That article is much better. It explains that the candy gets its flavor from hemp oil, like what they use in those lame expensive beauty treatments for fake hippies. It also looks like there is more than one company making these things. Points to California company Chronic Candy for their slogan: “Every lick is like taking a hit.”

Unfortunately, the Atlanta-based company Hydro Blunts doesn’t have a slogan listed. But they market their lollipops as Kronic Kandy. Kudos for the klever use of the “k.”

So if you are a minor and crazy about your Pot Suckers, you should go buy them before July 1. After that, it will be illegal.

P.S. It looks like Junkman’s Daughter is a safe bet if you are looking for where to pick some of these up.

P.P.S. Sorry Christa, I hotlinked again. But I refuse to download the photo of the pot lollipop onto my computer at work just for Pecannelog. Especially when I know you’ll come behind me and fix it.

Don’t go outside if you have bad lungs!

It’s college graduation time and the list of commencement speakers at colleges and universities around the state is, as usual, super boring. EXCEPT! At Savannah College of Art and Design they get André Leon Talley, editor-at-large for American Vogue and famous for being forced by Anna Wintour to lose weight. In turn, he forced Jennifer Hudson and Mariah Carey to lose weight. That’s fashion!

If we have any SCAD almost-grads reading, please report back after the Atlanta or Savannah graduations on May 31 with a detailed description of André Leon Talley’s commencement costume and accessories (including how many fur garments he is flaunting in Atlanta summer) and a transcript of his speech. I’m sure it will be INSPIRING!

Music blogs across the nation are a-buzz! WHO IS WHITNEY PETTY, DEERHUNTER’S NEW GUITARIST? Is she a real person or a hot suburban stoner cheerleader guitarbot built by Bradford Cox out of his magic “blog” technology? How will she reconcile her love for Aerosmith with Deerhunter’s ambient musical autism? Does Thomas Wheatley know her since they share an alma mater? More importantly, do Thomas and Whitney realize they may have more in common than they thought? And why was she at a party four years ago with two other hippies?

Details are still coming in! The intrepid bloggers at Pitchfork got their hands on her last name so who knows what other deep dark secrets they will dig up!

Grant Park, Little 5 Points

There are so many things going on this weekend! Youngblood Boutique and Gallery is grand re-opening in Poncey-Highland, Criminal Records is hosting Free Comic Book Day, Highland Row Antiques is having its first of the month sidewalk sale, there’s a pug meet-up in Piedmont Park, and some other stuff I’ve forgotten already.

But here’s one thing you won’t be able to do: attend Mr. V’s Figure 8 Disco in the Westgate Shopping Center. ‘Cause it’s closed now. Sorry, guys.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, I am mad with power because I have a blog and can command you to do things! Things that you will undoubtedly not do, but whatevs! I SAID WHATEVS!

Anyway, next Monday, May 5 go see my high school friend’s band the XYZ Affair perform at the EARL. This could be your ONE CHANCE IN LIFE to see/hear an ACTUAL REAL-LIFE INDIE POP BAND FROM BROOKLYN, NEW YORK play.

Maybe you have seen the XYZ Affair’s famous video that was all the rage on the internet for a couple of weeks last summer STARRING EVEN MORE OF MY HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE FRIENDS! More importantly (to some), it features a bunch of old Nickelodeon stars.

Spoiler alert: Ferguson from Clarissa Explains It All is bald now. Yeah, that’s right, I’m two degrees of separation from MELISSA JOAN HART and you can be too.

They’re opening for Morning State (Atlanta) and Jukebox the Ghost (D.C.). $8, 9 PM.

Aaaaah, it’s that time of the year when white frat boys across the U.S. finally recover from their St. Patrick’s Day hangovers and get wasted all over again on Cinco de Mayo. Kirkwood Aces is starting the celebration early by hosting their annual Cinco de Moustache this Friday and Saturday. I guess you have to grow or otherwise acquire a moustache if you really want to be in on the fun, which includes $1.50 tacos, $2 Tecate cans and $3 margaritas. And:

As always, there will be prizes for the best real and fake moustaches, moustache movies, moustache decorations and the infamous PERVERSE PINATA on Saturday night. And, make sure you ask us about out moustache ride special. Now reduced to only 10 cents!

1992 Hosea Williams Drive

In 1969, a piece of technology was released that would help propel America into previously-unknown worlds of visual psychedelia and television-induced ADD: the video mixer.

So along came Atlanta’s very own pre-MTV The Now Explosion (which is one of the most ’70s names ever). First on channel 36, then channel 17 (it was only about 2 years old at this point and not yet called TBS), then national syndication, The Now Explosion was basically hours and hours of amateur local performers dancing and singing to the Top 40 hits of the day with lots of crazy video effects that had never been seen before, like cuts and dissolves. In other words, the WORLD’S FIRST MUSIC VIDEOS.

The Now Explosion website details (with many pictures and videos) the show’s history, production, cutting-edge (and really expensive) editing techniques, personalities, and how it was lost and then found by media archivists at UGA.

My favorite is at 2:31 when three shirtless guys dance to “If I Had a Hammer” like they are in Jesus Christ Superstar. Check out Now Explosion medley #2 that excerpts some fantastic choreography (with matching turtlenecks!) to “Light My Fire” at 2:03, and a creepy game of Simon Says at 3:41 in medley #3.

Previously: How do you say Decatur? How do you say Dacula?

If you’ve been bored since One Punk Under God left Atlanta for Brooklyn (okay, HOW was someone who preaches at the Masquerade able to afford a condo on Ponce overlooking the Fox?), then you haven’t been watching the current reality tv show in filmed Atlanta - BET’s College Hill: Atlanta. The episodes are online, but if you can’t pay attention to anything for 17 minutes, Videogum is filling us in on all the dramatic nuggets - which basically just revolve around one guy, Dru, being slutty and at one point holding a table knife at Maggiano’s. Oh, and once a guy cried because he was so excited to meet Ludacris in person.

Also, there are two Ashleys on the show, which is an accurate ratio when you have any assemblage of Gen Y-ers (50% of all females must be named Ashley). The Ashleys are awesome because they are morally outraged by Dru’s failure to change his sheets between one-night stands instead of by his actual one-night stands. Ashley L also has a shirt that says, “I LOVE MY CRAZY FRIENDS.”

Unlike the Real World, where the roommates have “jobs” like promoting bars or running a spray-tan salon, the College Hill kids are volunteering with the Ludacris Foundation. Still - maybe you will see a girl you know come home with Dru one night! OR MAYBE IT WILL BE YOU!

Atlanta’s Winecoff Hotel fire in 1946 was the deadliest hotel fire in history, killing 119 guests (out of 280). Arnold Hardy, a Georgia Tech student, snapped this photo of a woman leaping to her death from the burning building. He later won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for this image, and was the first amateur to win the award. (The building is now the Ellis Hotel. More on the Winecoff fire here.)

This photo is from a 1952 issue of Jet. (via vieilles annonces’ Flickr)

Spotted on April 19, 2008 at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. He’s going to take pollution down to zero. He needs to do something about his legs though. The tights are looking a little saggy.

Atlantic Station’s developers lobbied to get a ZIP code that would roll off the tongue and be a symbol of prestige and power, but no one knew about this until AJC told us. They got what they wanted - 30363 - which should be easy to remember, I guess, because it has so many threes.

“That was very deliberate,” says Brian Leary, vice president of AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp., the Atlantic Station developer. “We’ve been using that ZIP code as a lifestyle statement. We want them to think ‘I am 30363.’”

The Atlantic Station people are not-so-secretly jealous of 30307, because the code that includes Inman Park, L5P, and Candler park has bumper stickers proclaiming 30307 is “not just a ZIP code, it’s a lifestyle,” as well as calendars commanding us to “OBSERVE THE CODE” above photos of an old hippie dressed as Uncle Sam and a pair of golden retrievers wearing tie-dye shirts.

’80s hc punk mohawk = (photo by: bill hallman, atlanta)

I stumbled across the Flickr of Tonya, a girl who was totally into the Atlanta punk scene in the ’80s. She lives in San Francisco now but plans to dig through more old B&W negatives of punk shows at Metroplex et al and eventually add them to Flickr.

L5P punk scene (1984?), Atlanta: Brian Goodman, Little 5 Pts, Atlanta.

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Overheard in Bill Hallman dressing rooms:

“Mooooooom, I don’t want Woodward kids to get their hands on TOMS. They just want J. Crew and Lacoste. They are so unoriginal. This would blow their minds.”

Okay, so I did not make it to the Inman Park Parade after hyping it here. Instead I went to a wedding and at the reception I enjoyed the sizzling sounds of THE BEST WEDDING BAND IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Flavor. I have the giant blister on my heel to prove it. I strongly recommend Flavor for any special event, even those where alcohol is not served in abundance.

For all of you that couldn’t quite get behind Ms Tyler and her vagina power, I hope this will bring tears to your eyes. Make sure to pay attention when Eli tries to rhyme something with cripple.

Tonight Beep Beep Gallery is having the opening reception for Zarlacc and Harrison Keys from 8-11 p.m. Their pen and ink drawings have a distinctly doodlesque aesthetic, but with a hint of mature nods to the graphic novel greats.

On the Dekalb Avenue side of the Cabbagetown Krog Street Bridge there will be a one hour exhibition tonight. It might be cut short if the authorities arrive, but stop by between 11 and 12 if you are in the neighborhood.

Tonight is also the closing reception for Sopo’s Bike Frame Show. If you haven’t seen the custom painted frames yet, this could give you some ideas for how to pimp your fixed gear.

Foundation One Gallery is having an opening for Groundwork II. This will be the last opportunity to see an exhibit in the current space on East College Avenue. Groundwork II will feature over 60 works by more than 30 emerging artists.

Last but not least, Mint Gallery is having their Yart Sale today. Great opportunity to get some cheap work by local artists who are cleaning out their studios. One man’s flop is anothers masterpiece, or something like that. The sale will be going until 3pm today, so you still have 4 hours to make it out.