Sitting Side Saddle on The Golden Calf

New Track!!!! Cold War Kids- St. John. This one makes me want to chew tobacco, travel with a spittoon, carry a six shooter, and ride into towns on my horse where people know nothing about me other than what they've heard. Stomping your feet is acceptable right now.


Chant with me now.
FRINGE! FRINGE! FRINGE! FRINGE!:::::::



After spending much time in New York and Johannesburg S.A, talented director and close friend Patrick Young is gracing Toronto's Fringe Festival with another one of his genre-bending productions.

Patrick is directing Handel's Acis and Galatea, think Baroque opera meets avant-garde video art.

You can catch a performance on any one of these dates:

July 3: 8:15pm
July 6: 4:45pm
July 8: 10:30pm
July 10: Noon
July 12: 7:30pm

Factory Theatre Mainspace
125 Bathurst Street.
Tickets $10.

You have to come to see this show!!!! His last show was featured in Time Out New York! The guy is blowing up!

BATLAW was asked to do a photo shoot and put these images out into the real world.

Here's a taste of what you'll see in a few weeks:











B.

Throw backs.

Super quick post.


New track cause why not have a new song??????


Pulp- Common People


The 90s are officially in the house.


BATMAN
BATLAW..........

If looks could kill? ? ? They already do.

Websites should look like this.










This is the Trevor Jackson designed site for Love Commercial Production Company.


Visit hellolove.tv to see how the internet should look.


Trevor Jackson, former label head of the now defunkt London based independent Output Recordings, has one of our favorite design portfolios ranging from web design, art direction, company ID's, album art, inserts, T-shirts, and logos. Bring him into your life.


Oh ya and he's also the brains behind production/remix powerhouse Playground.



Eat his work up up up up up up.
















Show some love at www.trevor-jackson.com for full portfolio and archive!!!!!


B.A.T.L.A.W.

The Vodka Club.

I've come out of my post Strangers coma and am riding high again. I'm not affraid of that stupid mask anymore. It's just a burlap sac that the guy found in some haunted shed full of old radios and industrial lawn equiptment. pffft I see right through him.


NEW TRACK FOR YOUS: My Drive Thru- Pharrell feat. Santogold and Julian Casablancas.
This is what my weekend sounded like. Yours??

I didn't buy into the insane amount of hype that surrounded L.E.S. Artistes, but I CAN get into this one, or at least get into a car chase everytime I listen to it.



Question.....



Can you be famous for drinking vodka?

What if you drink it everywhere, all the time?

With your friends?

And people take lots of photos of you when drink it?

Answer: YES. VERY. BUT, you also have to be a DJ.


After seing way too many photos of all these guys on thecobrasnake and reading too many blog posts about them I finally saw Steve Aoki and MSTRKRTF at the MMVA afterparty at Ultra.

Every act needs a thing and their thing is drinking Vodka and crowd surfing. Can't be all that bad right? The music certainly lived up to the hype. MSTRKRFT dropped a few hammers, but the highlight track of the night was a remix of Sweet Dreams. Some of them want to be abused.


OPEN BARS + Rainn Wilson


Also known as.....


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= a good night.



BATLAW.

So now what?

It's always been true that life can be divided into two things: love and war.

Now life can be divided into two other things: your life before you see The Strangers and your life after you see The Strangers.

I'm suffering from the latter.

The Mike Myers(Halloween)mask that has haunted me for most of my life has been replaced with THIS:



This movie was 100% war- it grabs you by the heart strings and pulls until you think you're going to pass out....then the movie ends and you leave, short of breath.

Liv Tyler is amazing- she chain smokes, makes confused faces, and wears a plaid shirt.

Enough said.

The soundtrack is so good that I had to post two songs from it that I'll never be able to listen to again.

1. The Sprout and The Bean- (Joanna Newsom)
2. Mama Tried- (Mearl Haggard)



See the movie and you'll understand.

Here's the trailer in case you haven't seen it. I can't watch it anymore so enjoy it for me!

Hold the phone.

We're having some music issues here at BATLAW so hold tight and we'll get them sorted out. Most of the older posts won't have their matching song.....until....well we just don't know yet.

On the brighter side it's the weekend and I know you're going out to kill it. It's hot, sticky, and so legit so pump this song(in your head)(N.E.R.D Everybody Nose) all weekend and you're bound to have stories to tell.


Under rrrraps- DTI X BATLAW colabo. More details to come. No leaks allowed though.


ART, RIGHT? PART I

Jerry Hsu is the first artist we're featuring in the ART, RIGHT? column. While not necessarily an artist, Jerry Hsu is pure artist, turning skateboarding into art. Enough said.

No write up.
No talking.

Just watch.

VBS'S EPICLY LATER'D: Jerry Hsu


Jerry Hsu part 2 from Enjoi's Bag of Suck video




SO LOVE SO WAR SO LONG

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FfOoNnTtSsTtRrUuCcTt is the shit!!!!

If you're into fonts and typography, then today might be your lucky day. Well, do ya punk?

Even if you don't go to ilovetypography.com every day you'll still LOVE this site. The future is here and it wants to talk to you........adl;kfja d;slfk ja!!!!!


Fontstruct.com allows you to very simply design your own fonts, save them, share them, show them off in an embeddable widget, and DOWNLOAD THEM TO YOUR COMPUTER TO USE WHEREVER YOU WANT! Let me guess, your a graphic designer now?

Just sit and watch this ten minute vid explaining how you're going to spend the next week of your life.




Introduction to FontStruct from fontstruct on Vimeo.

'Fashions fade, style is eternal' -YSL

Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71. A visual homage:







Absolutely in the thousands! The true definition of French luxury.

So refreshing to hear designers say things like-
'Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?'

A fashion pillar and style icon.

YSL. 1936-2008

There's Half Way Crooks In Them Golden Hills - We're baaaaack

Dear BATLAW,

I'm sorry I left you alone for so long. I have no idea what you've been through, but I won't do that again. Glad to see you still look the same. I love you dearly.


WOW. Been so busy at love and war lately so let's get right into it. Let's hold hands, lean forward, and jet burst straight to the future.

First of all. NEW TRACK- Pet Shop Boys- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

I ended my weekend to this song and it was the icing on a cake made of love and war, but seriously....let's make lots of money. NOW.


Love and War revealed!!!!- further insights into just what this blog is searching for:

'It was like real life but more poetic, like truth but accentuated.'

-Harmony Korine

Such as....





Now that you're all excited, look up, way up, and to the right. See that Hype Machine widget?? That's the one. If your into MGMT and Justice then you might just like the NEW REMIX of Electric Feel. Click it and hit play on the window that pops up. Bounce around your house listening to this one!!!!!!! Peep it fast before it drops off the top 5.



So according to Bob Dylan and The Band...


'Too much of nothing can make a man ill at ease.
When there's too much of nothing it can cause a man to weep.
And too much of nothing can make a man a liar'


SO GET BUSY>>>LOVE>>>WAR>>>WHATEVER YOUR THING IS...

Here's mine-

Some photos of the past little while finally getting some light:






















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Rulers make bad lovers
Better put your kingdom up for sale