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For Sale : : Richard Neutra’s Kun House

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In 2007,  Gerald Casale of DEVO purchased  Neutra’s Kun House in the Hollywood Hills for 2 million dollars.  He has spent the last 7 years restoring the 1,732 square feet of living space on three-and-a-half stories, keeping to many of the original details, but adding modern conveniences.

Located in Hollywood Hills West the property boasts tons of windows, fabulous views and even an outdoor meditation area.  It’s listed at 3.5 million and is presented by Aaron Kirman of Aaroe Estates, the luxury properties division of John Aaroe Group.

~images by Berlyn Photography via la times

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AMERICAN HARDCORE

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The Vinyl Factory and The Mott Collection announce a new exhibition and publication: American Hardcore, 1978-1990.

The exhibition brings together 50 American Hardcore records spanning the apex of the genre from the late 70s up to the 90s, and takes place at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea from 11 April to 4 May 2013. 

The collection showcases the subtle shifts and changes, and finally the overall unification of what began as a disparate musical style that developed into a rigid set of fixed codes, sounds, and political beliefs.

From the raw stripped down sounds of Black Flag to the spasmodic reggae influenced Bad Brains, Hardcore emerged as a puritanical suburban rely to the decadence of big city Punk Rock outfits such as the Ramones or the New York Dolls. ~vfeditions

Ah, I can smell my youth just by looking at these images.

 

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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

 

Go see The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The *“Exciting and Bold, Multisensory” Musical at La Jolla Playhouse is playing now until Dec. 16th.   Story by Wayne Coyne & Des McAnuff.

We went this last weekend and really loved it.  And of course the music was incredible. I don’t want to say much more about it so you’ll be as surprised as I was.  TIP: Bring Kleenex.   It’s H E A V Y.   Special pricing on Tickets for shows thru Nov. 25th available here.

*sdcitybeat

 

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PUNK: Chaos to Couture

Zandra Rhodes, 1977 Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith for Zandra Rhodes Archive 

John Lydon, 1976  Photograph by Ray Stevenson/Rex USA 

***SAVE THE DATE***

PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition will be on view from May 9 through August 11, 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute will examine punk’s impact from the 1970s to its continuing influence on high fashion now.

The exhibition will feature approximately one hundred designs for men and women. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent fashion to show how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s symbols, with the traditional paillettes being replaced with safety pins, feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs. Punk’s “do-it-yourself” concepts will be contrasted with couture’s “made-to-measure” mindset. Visitors will see the materials and techniques of PUNK in an immersive multimedia gallery experience where the clothes will be animated with music videos and soundscaping.~metmuseum

~images Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Down Time

Things have been a little crazed over here and will be until my husband’s 50th birthday which is next week and Christmas is over.  I’m looking forward to a little down time and hopefully squeezing in a few movies that have been on my list.

Can you recommend any others I should see?
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LIMELIGHT @ FREAK CITY

As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1980s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York. Then years of legal battles and police pressure spearheaded by Mayor Giuliani’s determined crackdown on nightlife in the mid-’90s led to Gatien’s eventual deportation to Canada, and the shuttering of his glitzy kingdom. Featuring insider interviews with famous players in the club scene as well as key informants in Gatien’s high-profile trial, Billy Corben’s (Cocaine Cowboys) exuberant documentary aims to set the record straight about Gatien’s life as it charts his rise and fall against the transformation of New York, offering a wild ride through a now-closed chapter in the history of the city’s nightlife.