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Whitneyavalon, a youtube star? Makes a response to Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You” and I ROFL all over the floor. At first when I heard the song I was like, something here is not sitting well with me, not one bit. I listened, I listened and was still not able to place my finger on it because my mind was being clouded with such a catchy beat and vocals. Now this new video comes out and it all makes sense! I guess when I wrote that review about the video I found Cee-Lo funny for looking like a crazy dude who keeps hair in a bag. I think this comment from Jezebel summarizes it all up, “This woman rules. Because as much as I disliked the Cee Lo song, I didn’t go out …
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When I was a teenager, my friends and I would head down to LA’s Pan Pacific Park, a large green space in the Miracle Mile that doubled as a flood control system. We’d ride our chrome and alloy BMX bikes and sometimes catch up with this beast of a kid named Eric. The fearless teenager would propel his 20-inch bike at full speed then do stretched out tabletop dives down the side wall of the giant grass pit. He had balls the size of cantaloupe and we didn’t even attempt his stunts. Eric was a bad ass in his own league.
In some ways, BMX trick riding legend Mat Hoffman was that prototypical teenage rebel. From an early age in Oklahoma City, he combined aerial acrobatics with bone crunching grit. Playing at the LA stop of the Bicycle Film …
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Two nights ago, I was able to head over to Webster Hall for the first time to catch a set from one of the bigger buzz artists of the moment, Marina & The Diamonds. As I have only been a New Yorker for the past six days, the show had a ceremony-feel to it— almost as if Marina, who is in no way of New York descent, was inducting me into the concrete jungle with the night’s moving performance.
Marina graced the stage for the first time that evening with the pace of a star, dressed in a long, tight black velvet dress that was whimsically accessorized with a black cape and peace sign glasses. The hip (but talented), young band broke into “The Outsider”, and Marina began to cover all corners …
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