WHY ERIC WAREHEIM IS A GOOD DIRECTOR: SEX IS FUNNY

lar_import — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:50:15 +0000

Eric Wareheim’s sense of humor allows him to push buttons others sometimes only caress. He hasn’t gotten too bloody, but perhaps that’s not his aesthetic…as we watch his music videos develop from dance jam to, well, busting animated nuts.

He had us at Flying Lotus—that video’s amazing but we have to take you off-site to get the full version. It’s the most dirty. YAY!

Things keep going in a good weird direction with this feller’s directorial pursuits.

He seems to have a thing for tongue kissing.

And humping in animated landscapes. Lots of funny faces.

And Tearist’s Yasmine Kittle’s vagina.

This one’s incredibly tame compared to the rest. There are some lasers shooting from nipples though.

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW @ THE TROUBADOUR

lar_import — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:05:40 +0000

It was easy to forget that there was a band onstage during tonight’s Troubadour set by Black Moth Super Rainbow. With what may be best described as a half-man, half-ape prancing around in the foreground and an array of absurd videos projecting on a screen behind them, the four players seemed content to labor in relative obscurity. Their fuzzy riffs, heavy beats and vocoder-ized vocals were a fitting—although perhaps a bit homogeneous—soundtrack to the psychedelic sideshows that competed for the audience’s attention. When he wasn’t inexplicably waving around an Axis & Allies box, the ape-man was pulling young women onto the stage to dance, crowd-surfing, or climbing the rigging. More intriguing was the video accompaniment, which included a man engaging in some heavy petting with a mannequin, Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric fame arguing that Black Moth Super Rainbow are not douches, and a dead-animal cleanup crew. In School of Seven Bells’ opening set, twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza harmonized gorgeously and chanted hypnotically over primal beats and shoegazing guitars. Even if the prerecorded bass was a tad too loud, the overall sound was thick and enrapturing, prompting at least one listener to close his eyes and imagine soaring over those jagged, snowy mountain peaks on the cover of the band’s debut, Alpinisms. For two groups with such wordy monikers (the tickets labeled the show simply “BMSR/SOSB”), both refreshingly refrained from talking in between songs, perhaps to not distract from the music. That was the ape-man’s job.

—Thomas McMahon

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WHY ERIC WAREHEIM IS A GOOD DIRECTOR: SEX IS FUNNY

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW @ THE TROUBADOUR