My Halloween Costume

3 days is totally enough time to pull this off

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Soul Collection

Is it just this panda, or is it weird that a car company has a site called "Soul Collective" on which they feature various artists that are really cool?
Just heard the new Janelle Monae, and saw a video of the making of her new song, Come Alive (The War of The Roses) at Wonderland. But then at the end of the video there's this weird part where she, uncomfortably thanks Kia for being so cool to create this collective. The collective though just seems to be a random group of popular and fashionable people who don't even know each other. Is that really a collective?
Maybe it's this panda's hippy upbringing but I always thought that collectives were for artists who all worked at the same venue. Or at least they all worked together. Or something like that.
Also they seem to give away free concert tickets when you test drive their cars.
They're so hip.

Excitement

October 16th.
Will you be there?
I will.
Not only is this one of my favorite kids books (OK, saying that is not so complimentary. I have about 100 of those), but the movie looks rad. The wild things look how I would imagine them to look. And Spike Jonez, with the help of Dave Eggers, is just the type of director to get it right. I think. I hope. (Apparently some of the techniques used to inspire Max Records, the 12-year-old who plays Max, included dressing up in various costumes and at one point Catherine Keener covered herself in fake blood to elicit surprise and fright.)

Second point of interest. Original soundtrack by Karen O and the Kids. !!! Not that I want to rave about the movie before I've seen it, but I kinda want to get WAY TOO EXCITED! Just caught the YYY's concert at the new Fox Theater.
Tangent Alert: The Fox is rad! Peep the site.
Also, the YYY's have amazing concert shirts. Here are some examples:
About Karen O:
Performance: yoga/mick jagger as my brother said, she's hapa (half Korean) and she has amazing fashion.



Third thing: (good things always come in threes, I like to say.)
Opening Ceremony has a jewelry and faux-fur line based on the movie and has, according to the WSJ, already sold out (90 adult-sized unisex wolf suits" priced at $610 a pop. Oh to be one of the lucky few...
OK, I promised three points of interest, but who can be mad about a fourth?
VICE has asked 24 artists to recreate their favorite moments from the book.

Mad Mad Mad Mad Men

Help! There's A She-Wolf In My Closet!

Apparently Shakira uses an Spanish-English dictionary to translate all of her songs personally. This explains why we are graced with gems like:

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains

and

As every voice is hanging from the silence
Lamps are hanging from the ceiling
Like a lady tied to her manners
I'm tied up to this feeling

But it doesn't explain why this video is so amazing. I've never seen so many quasi-belly-dancing moves, ice-skating moves and exorcism moves in the same place at the same time!

Here's a translation for all you non-hispanoparlantes: