Here’s some scary shit you might want to get into:

(via Flavor Pill)
Halloween Critical Mass NYC
Scary because: you might get arrested and have to spend the night in an NYC lockup wearing the Yeti suit you fashioned from all the hair leftover after your numerous haircuts this year.

Join the freakily costumed fixed-gear diehards, pimped-out cruiser clubs, and hardcore messengers taking over 6th Avenue today for an extra-surreal Critical Mass ride. (JAC). Fri 10.28 (7pm) Union Square Park (E 17th St at Union Sq W, but subject to change). Note: The afterparty is held at 49 E Houston St (8pm, $5).

Some Random DJ Gig
Scary because: the promo information makes reference to spanking the monkey.

If you wanna roll budget for Halloween, you can’t beat [oh, it was ‘beat’ not spank] the Monkey — five bucks, and masks are provided. Matt Edwards (aka Rekid, Radioslave) and Joel Martin in Quiet Village Project guise join residents Phil and Anton for a dirty underground party.

Fischer Spooner
Scary because: all the androgyny will make you feel like your stuck in a bad Bowie music video.

Electro-Glam Rock Fischerspooner Mon 10.31 (10pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) If there’s one band that knows how to play dress-up it’s Fischerspooner. Fresh from supporting their sophomore effort, Odyssey, in Europe, Casey and Warren invite you to their lavish tribute to All Hallows’ Eve.

(via Tonic Events)
Halloween Bash
Scary because: I once went to this place, arrived at around 10PM and was kicked out for being too early. The freaks come out [really late] at night!

Mon. Oct. 31st. The Mae-Shi plus Carla Bozulich’s The Night Porter at 9pm (don’t believe ‘em), $12. Plus a spooky film, black punch and orange cookies.

Bike Joust
Scary because: are you kidding me, it’s bicycle jousting!

(via street poster)
Black Label Bicycle Club presents Bike Kill. Sat 10.29 (12pm) Willoughby Ave at Sandford St, Bed-Stuy. I’ve seen these guys riding around my neighborhood. They have double-decker, low riders, Mad Max-looking BMXs and other mangled pieces of welded-together metal they call bikes. They smile in that cross-my-path-and-I’ll-rip-out-your-spleen kind of way as they pass by. I wanna be one of them.

The Tiger Lillies
Scary because: it costs 30 bucks.

(via clairvoyance)
St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY, 10/31/2005 - 20:00
“Profoundly funny songs about modern life as observed from the gutter… wittily blasphemous fun.” – Time Out New York. Stay for the Halloween Party after the concert, hosted be St Anns. The Tiger Lillies will be attending.

Or do your own thing. Rent a few horror flix, call up some friends, get bottles of Monster Ale from the Brooklyn Brewery, and call it a party.

Find young woman with amble bosom. Plaster her torso. Illustrate on result.

That’s the basic instruction for the artwork donated to the Keep A Breast Foundation. Celebrating its fifth year, the foundation has work donated by a great number of young artists and celebrities.

The casting is like a roll call of the young and hip.

Boobs donated by: Dita Von Tesse, Catherine D’lish, Maya Ford of The Donnas, Rosa Blasi of Strong Medicine, Kelly Hu of X2, Lisa Anderson, Layne Beachley, The Suicide Girls - Brie, Posh, Aiden, Xtine, Bee, and a bevy of beautiful, bold female volunteers from New York, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Artistic ability donated by: Foo Fighters, Dj Greyboy, Tom Delonge, Tom Dumont of No Doubt, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Tony Kanal of No Doubt, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, Dj Shadow, Switchfoot, Aaron of Guru Tattoo.

El Blogatisto suggests the following: pool with a group of friends, buy your favorite mold, then donated it to a park in your neighborhood. The next time you have a party you can invite friends over to see your boobs.

1) The Janet Jackson press machine knew how to deal with the rumors of a secret 18-year-old daughter (with former husband and DeBarge front man James). But the unflattering footage of her sunbathing that has been circulating on the Internet? That’s a whole nother matter. (via one website that hosts a streaming version of the ‘Janet Jackson Sunbathing Nude’ video) “I’m not sure if this is considered sexy, but it is Janet Jackson naked slapping her own ass”.

2) Fat Lip, ex-Pharcyde member and subject of Spike Jones’ hilarious documentary short What Up Fat Lip? Will be serving up some lip service in the form of a new album Theloneliest Punk to be released on Nov. 1. Judging from his previous solo single, the album will probably suck, but he gets an A for effort.

3) Bought your skeleton suit and Lindsay Lohan mask for Halloween yet? Well hurry, because she’s recovering as we ‘speak’. (via OK!) The actress says that she was simply going through “that phase that everyone goes through. I lost like 20 to 25 pounds. I was on IV drips.” Oky doky!

Shit, that’s only 3.

Well to fill out the list, here are a couple of things you should be interested in:

1) (via Reuters) “In his new novel released this week, The Scorpion’s Gate, [former national security advisory Richard A. Clarke] writes about a world pushed to the brink of a nuclear war as a corrupt U.S. Secretary of State tries to restore the deposed Saudi royal family to power.” Hmmm.

2) Feel the crisp air, see the leaves change. That can only mean one thing. It’s been a year since John Kerry lost his run for presidency. (via Cinematical) “Rumormongers are whispering about a new documentary on John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential campaign that may wreck any chance the Senator might have for running again in 2008.” Well the ‘whispering’ is over as the film by Steve Rosenbaum prepares for its nationwide release. See clips and official trailer here.

El Blogatisto: Unfair But Balanced Information

Living the messenger lifestyle sans the nuisance deliveries? Then the newly updated Pumaville website and contest is for you.

There’s also a guide for us not hip to the new fad. The Fixed-gear 101 booklet includes tips comments from hardcore fixed-gear oficionados such as this little ditty:

“It’s scary when you see someone who looks like they don’t know how to handle their bike. If it’s a fashion accessory, it could be a dangerous fashion accessory. Riding a bike is the best way to get around a city. It’s way faster than the subway, faster than a car. But, at the same time, it can be dangerous. If you’re riding a fixed-gear, you’ve gotta be dedicated, and you’ve got to understand that it can be dangerous out there.”

Oh, screw him. Expensive fixed-gear bikes are cool fashion accessories. They go right along with my bangs, minimal makeup, revealing top, ass-flattering pants, and then some basic nonsandal staples like high heels, Chucks, or even fucking cowboy boots… ha-ha-haw, NOT!

Anyway, visit the site and cop a free copy of the Cinecycle DVD.

There was much debate at the El Blogatisto home base as to whether or not a post should be made, adding to the numerous others, about Rosa Parks’ recent passing.

The main reason for contention was the question raised by the legacy she leaves behind: “Why Rosa Parks?” Weren’t there numerous other people of color staging acts of civil disobedience at the time?

The resolution we came to was that it is better to embrace Parks’ tenacity during those troubled times, rather than be skeptical about her political ties. Because what would have happened if she had simply gotten up?

(via The Economic Times under the headline Rosa Parks No More)
The “mother of the civil rights movement” died on Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side. She was 92.

El Blogatisto suggests blasting Outkast’s Rosa Parks in her honor, though she certainly would not have approved.

So you’re a freelance designer with a few hours of downtime. Well …

Nonviolent Peaceforce announces a campaign with long lasting effects on making our world more peaceful. The first ever Peace Bond design competition — open to adults and primary and secondary students worldwide — seeks original artwork, ideas, and designs that promote and advocate peace. Selected work will be featured on the 2006 series of Peace Bonds, and the winners will receive international recognition and a trip to Washington, DC for an award presentation and exhibition.

Power up the G4 laptop and get crack-a-lacking.

Creative Commons is an effin’ great concept.

Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. We’re a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.

The only problem I have with it is that the “stand on the shoulders of your peers” tag cheapens what Creative Commons is really about.

They’ve saved you from wallowing through what would amount to endless rambling in my attempts at explaining Creative Commons. All you have to do is watch this smart Flash film.

I don’t own an iPod, I don’t have a cell phone, so I guess the head honchos speaking at the annual ShowEast convention in Orlando would find in me a valued $10.50 ticket buying customer. Bribes welcome!

(via Reuters)
Running through various hot topics sure to be addressed in coming days — piracy, high ticket prices, shortened theatrical-to-DVD windows, young consumers’ demand for “instant gratification” and rowdiness that, along with cell phones, may keep many audiences away from theaters in favor of their improved home theater systems — Hanneman [executive VP Sales and Strategic Planning at 20th Century Fox International] asked if the industry is prepared for “the biggest issue we face,” the new video iPod.

The other big scary monster the film industry faces is pirated DVDs.

“Piracy is up 35% this year in Uruguay and 70% in Mexico,” [Marcio Goncalves] said, with an estimated loss of $500 million a year. “Pirated DVDs are being sold on the street or are on the Web even before their theatrical release,” he continued.

He proposed police involvement, statements on tickets, bag searches, signs in theaters and educating theater owners in the U.S. on camcorders as possible solutions.

It was quite bewildering though that these film strategists did not seem to discuss the connection between the new iPod and film piracy. It only has a 2.5 inch screen, but as MP3s did for the music industry, I’m positive the new iPod will trigger a drop in sales of portable DVD players, and spark a rise in .mov, .avi, .mpe, .mpg, and .mpeg file sharing via the Internet. Go ahead, quote me on that.

The movies feature above are the Paris Hilton Sex Tape, Chicken Little, and Get Rich Or Die Trying.

And while I was trawling Reuters:

Fox Broadcasting Co. has acquired the rights to turn THQ’s best-selling sci-fi video game “Destroy All Humans!” into a computer-animated comedy. It marks the first time a video game will be used as the basis for a primetime network television program.

Set in the second millennium 1950s, the third-person action game puts players into the bulbous gray head of President George W. Bush Crypto 137, a draft-dodging former governor of Texas an alien who has landed on Earth and is intent on destroying it. The game takes a comic approach and spoofs the current American presidency ’50s Hollywood B-movies.

“The goal is to make the show as good and as funny as the video game,” said former “King of the Hill” writer/co-executive producer Jim Dauterive, who will develop the project.

That was too easy.

War Child Music. Never heard of it?

One child dies every three minutes because of armed conflict. War Child believes children should never be affected by war. Full stop. Our campaigning seeks to address this gross injustice. Sanction action with us now.

Mad at any pop musician in particular lately? Or just always mad in general? Well don’t sit about your apartment and pout. Do something.

The White Lady [aka Snow Girl aka Ms. Candy Flakes].

Her secret weapons? Hidden razor blades.
Her signature move? Blinding adversaries with light reflected from her coke-splattered mirror.
Daytime identity? Model on the skids.
The villain she works for? Dr. Nose.
There is so much fun to be had with this.

Yes folks, it’s true that recovering from a bad-media induced coke binge, caused by a good-media induced coke binge is hard, but each step of recovery is a lot easier when there’s a million dollar movie deal waiting.

(via Fazed)
Kate Moss is rumoured to be starring in the next Bond film opposite ex-boyfriend Daniel Craig.

Bosses say the shamed supermodel, who is currently battling her cocaine addiction, would be a perfect Bond girl because of her stunning looks.

That must be the funniest PR line ever .

She will reportedly star alongside Sienna Miller, who has already landed a role in upcoming film ‘Casino Royale’.

A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “Film bosses are interested in giving Kate a fresh start in the movie.

“She’s stunning and already has chemistry with Daniel and Sienna, which would work well on screen.”

Shelved titles for the new Bond film include: From Colombia With Love, Speedball, Goldfingernail, and on, and on …

Intersection magazine takes the Card And Driver + Flaunt + Condé Nast Traveler concepts and mashes them together with fresh results. It’s too bad that, as with most UK imports, this magazine costs too much on US racks.

No worries, just check out the website. It features some funny little teasers for Intersection TV (Urban Aggressive Off-Roading) and a film short (Plane VS Car). The video quality isn’t great, but you might just have a laugh in between the blurred images and d n’ b soundtrack.

Annie has a new, interesting, and very diverse musical DJ Kicks mix. After a listen we have to agree with the guys at NME and the gals at Sugar:

“The Indie geek’s favourite pop star comes correct with an awesome and very female, punk-funk-pop mixtape, wasting ‘proper’ DJs in the process.” - NME

“Annie’s brilliant DJ Mix is quirky dance-floor coolness captured on CD!” - Sugar

(via !K7)
Hot off the heels of her debut “Anniemal” comes Norwegian pop-princess Annie’s installment of the DJ-Kicks series. The mix features an exclusive track entitled “The Wedding” and previously unreleased track “Gimme Your Money”.

But in true rock star fashion, the musician doesn’t get what all the fuss is about. Says Annie:

“Technically I suck, for me, the most important thing is to build [the DJ set] up and make it a good evening.”

Does that make us all at El Blogatisto “geeky”, “quirky” and “sucky”? Listen to a super-long (over an hour) and super-free (no sign-up) stream here.

A long time ago in a galaxy we call home, a people were persecuted…

(via the Baltimore Sun)
“Star Wars” director George Lucas has donated $1 million to build a memorial to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall, backers of the project announced.

“The ideals and principles for which Dr. King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago,” Lucas said Thursday, adding in a statement that a memorial ensures King’s message will endure for future generations.

Congress authorized the memorial in 1996, and groundbreaking is scheduled for late next year on a four-acre site near the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963.

(via San Francisco Chronicle)
Michael Jackson has decided to make the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain his permanent home, his attorney said Thursday.

“He’s looking much better. He’s with his children, and he’s moving on in life,” said Thomas Mesereau Jr., who won Jackson’s acquittal on child molestation charges in the summer. “He’s living permanently in Bahrain. He has friends there who have been very loyal and helpful to him in a difficult period of his life.”

Mesereau declined to comment on whether Jackson, 46, planned to sell his famous Neverland Ranch. But the move to Bahrain would end the pop music star’s presence in Santa Barbara County, where he built an estate complete with a zoo and Ferris wheel.

At least his kids have the veil thing down.