http://www.danielsiwek.com NihIli$tic Pop Ain't Go$$ip! (Music, Movies, Mixed Media Mishugas) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:41:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my favorite artists has died. Guy Peellaert is a notable figure in both rock and roll and the art worlds, his albums covers for the Stones and Bowie, as well as his book with Nik Cohn, ROCK DREAMS, are nothing less than classic. One part Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/11/23/guy-peellaert-dead-at-74-1934-2008/ Don't it feel good to be part of the American Dream? I mean, you exercise your right to vote and they give you COLA? It doesn't get much more American than that! I know I was a part of history today, and so I rushed to the PITFIRE PIZZA ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/11/04/yes-we-can-get-free-soda-if-we-vote-and-i-did-or-its-election-day/ Hollywood is experiencing an epidemic of OBAMA FEVER. Don't confuse this with Jungle Fever - where white guys fantasize about the silky smooth skin like creamy coffee skin of an African American girl and white chicks longing to be satisfied by the taboo of a  strong black man - this ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/11/03/hollywood-feels-the-heat-of-obama-fever-or-obama-and-shepard-fairey-and-fashion/   Check out how cool this DOTS bag is, If you're anything like me, you like ROCKTOBER much more than Christmas, and you hate it when the stores have all that tinsel and stuff out like everybody's just ready to kick the Halloween season to the curb. Not me. Don't you ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/29/dots-that-glow-in-the-dark/ THE HALLOWEEN MADNESS CONTINUES! Here's a scan of my Monster Cereals Trio jam, MONSTER ADVENTURES IN OUTER SPACE HAPPY HALLOWEEN! http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/26/monster-cereals-make-yummy-music/ How's this for a cut-out? I wanted to put this on my door of our apartment, but my girlfriend wouldn't let me. Party pooper! Anyway, this box is from 2006, and I think this style of Boo is much better than the mid-late-90s version. I'd say he's a more Cartoon ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/25/boo-berry-cereal-box-beware-haunted-room/ Before now, if you wanted to see an Andy Warhol film, you either had to go to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (which I did when it opened in '94), or another museum (like LACMA some years ago), or you had to rent/buy a bootleg somewhere. OK, so you can ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/24/andy-warhol-silver-screen-new-dvd-features-drellas-famous-screen-tests/ Reading PAGE SIX of the New York Post, I found this story that can very well be alternately called, "CAMPBELL'S VS. POP BURGER -ROUND 1":Who is right in this case? That's a tough one considering Warhol was all about confusing the line between the art and the brand, in fact, ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/21/pop-burgers-soup-can-has-campbells-seeing-red/ I refuse to believe it's just a coincidence. No way! I mean, forget the British, it's the Aussie's that are coming! First there is a new AC/DC album out called BLACK ICE. There's only a few places you can get this release today, WalMart being one of them, or you ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/20/the-thunder-from-down-under-or-the-day-australia-took-over-the-world-or-at-least-la/ While at Cal Arts, I hooked up with some cool people to make the follow-up to the The PETITION for BOO BERRYAside from all the other babble that will follow, if (Boo Berry's Casting Couch) BON BON BONDAGE say's one thing, it's that SUGAR IS A DRUG. You heard of ... http://www.danielsiwek.com/2008/10/19/boo-berry-sequel-boo-berrys-casting-couch-bon-bon-bondage/