Photos: Matthew Thurber at Family

In addition to his thriving career as a cartoonist, Matthew Thurber moonlights as a musician whose manic stage energy allows him to actually fly. Here he is at Family, performing a short set of bizarre and amazing vaudeville tunes about balloons, furniture and cats.

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Author Graham Kolbeins
Date October 10, 2011
Categories Comics, Los Angeles, Music

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Weird Butt Rash, 2013
by Mia Schwartz

Matt Furie

Always in tha Doghouse, 2013
Mix tape by Carlos Rosales-Silva
From his contribution to the online zine Image File Press

gaymanga:

Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎) expounds on the virtues of using sci-fi, fantasy and costume drama to create fictional worlds ruled by S&M!

From an interview with Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins at the cat café Die Katze in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Read more from that interview in The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: The Master of Gay Erotic Manga from PictureBox!

Check out my new NSFW video with Gengoroh Tagame!

“La Cara Infinita,” 2013
by Dorian Wood (feat. Eddika Organista)
video directed by Dorian Wood

Read L.A. Record’s great interview with Dorian:

[…] “La Cara Infinita” was born from my high regard and respect for all women and also inspired by this piece that was heavily publicized and took place at MOCA. It was spearheaded by Marina Abramović and I was one of the participants. The performance piece involved approximately a hundred artists incorporating themselves into this dinner gala filled with trustees and celebrities. It was a five-thousand dollar plate type of event, at the cheapest. All of the performers were placed in specific areas, almost as endurance pieces. One of the performance formats involved the invitees sitting around a table and in the middle was a lazy susan, and there was a naked woman on it slowly moving as these people watched. The piece was interesting and powerful. Then they questioned Marina Abramović as to why there were only naked women and the director of MOCA blatantly expressed, even at the event itself, that male nudity makes businessmen very uncomfortable.

Wow.

I was so horrified to hear that. So why are you having naked women? Because it makes them comfortable? It just totally ties in to my utter disgust for the way women are treated in media and have been portrayed for centuries. So many things are still socially acceptable. Anything that hints at femininity is seen as a form of weakness and submission. The song came from this fury.