GET DOWN! (3MP3Z+PIX)

KARTELL ♡♡♡ GET DOWN
removed by request ➤ available soon on a new Shiny Disco Club EP

since i'm in the mood for KARTELL's sumptuous retro filter house, which bubbles over with disco flavor and dancefloor happiness, i'm getting down at Full Frontal Disco this Saturday. Get Down captures the Full Frontal Disco vibe pretty well, samples the king of latin R&B Joe Bataan's Mestizo, and comes with a very helpful tutorial!!! see you on the dancefloor:

here's the skinny on the melodic ♡ NU-DISCO TRACK ♡ that follows Kartell's, and the ♡ LAST TEASER ♡ of this month's playlist (to be uploaded entirely & posted soon) is a fun remix of one of last year's favourites; the video is at the tail of this entry, and another remix is in here... listen to all 3 MP3Z & you'll be set to come celebrate Full Frontal's one year anniversary!
to get an idea of what's in store, check out these pics of another one i went to earlier this year & this LA Weekly write up. lastly, these recent pics feature dancers who are putting up a show for the event... dress up & jump on the dancefloor!

my two baby brothers flew in earlier this month. Eric Alexandre "Huggy Bear" from Washington DC to celebrate his birthday on March 21st; Jonathan Nikolaï "Chouchou" from Miami to run the LA marathon on the same day. aside from some light sightseeing, shopping & whatnot, we hit the Joshua Tree National Park & drove up Route 66 from Victorville all the way up to Vegas. Route 66 was amazing. it's kinda like Cuba, where everything was arrested in the 50s or 60s. the main difference is most Cubans stayed on their island & are basically stuck on it; whereas most settlers along the small outposts of Route 66 fled & even completely abandoned the area for greener pastures... thank God for freedom!

Chouchou & Huggy Bear:


a few more:




















here are all of my 139 MOBILE SHOTS taken during their visit

green happiness

i don't have an irish bone in my body, but i live in America the beautiful. Saint Patrick's Day is a big deal here. while for many it's an excuse to get shit faced on guinness, for me, it's a good reason to go green... here's how we do it. first, find a song with some green in it; here's mine:

Marianne Faithfull ♣ Green Are Your Eyes

then indulge in the custom of wearing some green, which i do from time to time anyway. a little touch of emerald is enough! if green isn't your thing, cut the crap & don't do the green underwear stunt... unless you're totally hot & will walk around in nothing else all day! that's totally acceptable... another way to sport green without really wearing it is to have someone pretty in green hang on to you all day, as the ultimate accessory. it's simple, let me demonstrate...

wear green on you:

wear miss pretty in green:

fun fact: the green items in these pictures from last week are both Andean. my pretty in green lady is wearing a traditional Peruvian jacket; i'm wearing a green v-neck made of alpaca wool in Ecuador. my dear mother stocked up on those when we lived in Quito & i still get a new one every year around the holidays... by the way, these were pulled from the worst & rolling blackouts... GO RAIBH MAITH AGAIBH!

...another blogger busted us sharing a decadent grilled cheese:

it's been a while since i've posted a video. french collective Megaforce's ZERO GRAVITY VIDEO for Kid Cudi's Pursuit Of Happiness just became official. i love it!

...THE BEST:

music + pictures

here's a fun song i have been playing on repeat, by a band i'm looking forward to know more about. the rest of my new playlist will soon be posted... el niño storms have come & gone & it already feels like summer before spring. i love LA!
"go outside" makes for a pleasant soundtrack to my low-fi pics from last week & beyond, taken at the e.p.i.c. opening where i indulged in some refined sweets & then fingered (last friday), at el cid for rhonda (last saturday), at the troubadour for taken by trees (a week or two ago), and then at woofstock (this past sunday), where chicho met a few pooches even bigger than herself while i worked as a volunteer... here we go:

...mark your calendars: