10/17/09
ANTEBELLUM HITS THE MAINSTREAM~AGAIN
antebellum was interviewed by wireless flash news.. this thread goes out on the AP and everyone in the media...
we're now waiting for jay leno to call.
friday, October 16, 2009
Ghosts Make Artists Horny
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) – The spirit world is a dark, sexy place.
Los Angeles’ Antebellum Gallery, the world’s only fetish art gallery, is celebrating the sexy side of spirits with their exhibit The Thin Veil, opening tomorrow (Oct. 17).
Supernatural themes are displayed through paintings, photos, drawings, and other media.
Curator Rick Castro says October is a time of year when the veil between the living world and the spirit world is at its thinnest, allowing spirits easy access to pass between both.
This tends to make artists feel frisky.
He explains, “Our spirits continue on with our sensuality intact, and that’s fetishized by people. It’s all about longing and unrequited passion when it comes to spirits.”
Castro says many artists claim to have “spirit lovers” – ghosts that they get busy with – or have late loved ones who visit them.
He adds, “There’s a longing for something you can’t quite touch or see. People are drawn to it and sensualize it.”
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THAT WAS NO DUMMY, THAT WAS MY DEAD HUSBAND
The body of 75-year-old man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was part of a Halloween display and didn't call police.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on the scene Thursday when authorities were alerted to the body.
Neighbors told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday "but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.
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Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on the scene Thursday when authorities were alerted to the body.
Neighbors told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday "but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.
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10/16/09
THE THIN VEIL
opens tonight @ 7pm! will you be there in RT, (real time) or in spirit? WILL YOU WEAR A COSTUME?
artist- SCOOTER LAFORGE.-Ectoplasm at the Beauty salon
36 x 36, oil on canvas, 2009, available @ www.antebellum.us.ms
come meet scooter in person!
artist- SCOOTER LAFORGE.-Ectoplasm at the Beauty salon
36 x 36, oil on canvas, 2009, available @ www.antebellum.us.ms
come meet scooter in person!
BABY GETS HIT BY TRAIN
this footage is horrific & amazing,
no worries.. the baby miraculously survived with minor bump on the head... the mother on the other-hand was distraught and traumatized for life as can well be imaged.
no worries.. the baby miraculously survived with minor bump on the head... the mother on the other-hand was distraught and traumatized for life as can well be imaged.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY~OSCAR WILDE~ 155 YRS~TODAY!
and he's looking damn good!
THE TOMBSTONE OF OSCAR WILDE
celebrate oscar's birthday over tea & film screening @ antebellum
10/15/09
FIRST GAYS COULDN'T MARRY, NOW INTERRACIAL COUPLES..
well it was just a matter of time before someone else would decide who should & should not get married.. check out this story from the huffington post.. hard to believe in 2009, but here it is-
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
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MICHAEL JACKSON AS THE GREAT PUMPKIN
MJ-AD-110
michael jackson was the inspiration for this pumpkin carving.
and for RINALDO HOPF's artwork- on display & available @ antebellum thru november 14th.
michael jackson was the inspiration for this pumpkin carving.
and for RINALDO HOPF's artwork- on display & available @ antebellum thru november 14th.
10/14/09
BELINDA CARLISLE'S MESSAGE FOR GAY RIGHTS
my former lunch buddy from back in the day has come out... for her son.
OSCAR WILDE~155 YEARS OLD & LOOKING DAMN GOOD
it's tea time @ ANTEBELLUM GALLERY!
~in honor of OSCAR WILDE's 155th birthday~
antebellum presents~
PORTRAIT OF OSCAR & DORIAN~ TOGETHER AT LAST~
birthday celebration of our literary icon~
~friday, september 16th~
please join us for high tea~5pm
~tea, cucumber sandwiches, sweeties & princess cake will be served~
followed by a screening of wilde's gothic horror fiction masterpiece~
PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, (1945)
screenplay & direction by albert lewin, featuring ANGELA LANDSBURY in her first role!
~$20 cover- includes parking~
antebellum
1643 n las palmas ave
hollywood, ca 90028
323 856-0667
www.antebellum.us.ms
antebellum@earthlink.net
for reservations~ antebellum@earthlink.net
GAY MARRIAGE...HERE'S WHERE WE'RE AT
October 14, 2009 | 1:44 pm
Judge refuses to dismiss challenge to Prop. 8
A federal judge refused today to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage raised legal and factual issues that required a trial.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, ruling after nearly two hours of arguments in San Francisco, rejected contentions by Proposition 8's proponents that precedent and tradition clearly showed last November's ballot measure permissible under the U.S. Constitution.
Walker previously ordered the Proposition 8 campaign to disclose its internal memorandums and communications to gay rights lawyers. The campaign is appealing that order to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on 1st Amendment grounds.
courtesy LAtimes-
Judge refuses to dismiss challenge to Prop. 8
A federal judge refused today to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage raised legal and factual issues that required a trial.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, ruling after nearly two hours of arguments in San Francisco, rejected contentions by Proposition 8's proponents that precedent and tradition clearly showed last November's ballot measure permissible under the U.S. Constitution.
Walker previously ordered the Proposition 8 campaign to disclose its internal memorandums and communications to gay rights lawyers. The campaign is appealing that order to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on 1st Amendment grounds.
courtesy LAtimes-
ANOTHER GAY BEATING
and yet another beating was caught on surveillance cameras, this time in norfolk, VA. these guys beat this man up while calling him faggot and numerous other slurs.
watch the horrific footage here, (from fox news, no less!)
ok, obama... have you seen this footage?... this is why we demand equal rights in all areas- NOW.
Shocking video of the brutal beating of Jack Price has been released just as news of a second arrest in the case was announced.
Daniel Rodriguez was taken into custody in Norfolk, VA Tuesday night. He had eluded police since his alleged partner in crime Daniel Aleman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault as a hate crime on Sunday.
Police say the suspects perpetrated the unconscionable beating early Friday morning after yelling anti-gay slurs at Price at a deli near his College Point home.
Price suffered a broken jaw, fractured ribs, a lacerated spleen, and the "collapse of both of his lungs." He identified his attackers before being placed in a medically-induced coma.
The video shows the men repeatedly punching and stomping Price as he tries to fend off his attackers. At one point in the video, a car that looks to be a livery taxi drives right by the assault without stopping.
After the suspects leave him bloodied in the middle of the street, the 5-foot-6, 130 pound Price can be seen miraculously stumbling away.
Aleman was being held on $20,000 bail Tuesday and charges are pending against Rodriguez.
this story courtesy THE HUFFINGTON POST
here's what a huffington post blogger wrote-
Gay men AND women need to arm themselves like Black Panthers, or even better. Buy tasers. Heck, buy Glocks. They need to have the attitude that no matter where they go, no matter what they do, no one is going to lay a finger on them and no one is going to hurt their friends. They need to have self-defense training classes and travel in groups and have committees for safety that constitute armed protection, not just whistles and mace. The only way you can stop getting bashed is to get together as a unit and say we are not going to take this anymore because it happens too often when the cameras aren't rolling. Enough is enough.
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watch the horrific footage here, (from fox news, no less!)
ok, obama... have you seen this footage?... this is why we demand equal rights in all areas- NOW.
Shocking video of the brutal beating of Jack Price has been released just as news of a second arrest in the case was announced.
Daniel Rodriguez was taken into custody in Norfolk, VA Tuesday night. He had eluded police since his alleged partner in crime Daniel Aleman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault as a hate crime on Sunday.
Police say the suspects perpetrated the unconscionable beating early Friday morning after yelling anti-gay slurs at Price at a deli near his College Point home.
Price suffered a broken jaw, fractured ribs, a lacerated spleen, and the "collapse of both of his lungs." He identified his attackers before being placed in a medically-induced coma.
The video shows the men repeatedly punching and stomping Price as he tries to fend off his attackers. At one point in the video, a car that looks to be a livery taxi drives right by the assault without stopping.
After the suspects leave him bloodied in the middle of the street, the 5-foot-6, 130 pound Price can be seen miraculously stumbling away.
Aleman was being held on $20,000 bail Tuesday and charges are pending against Rodriguez.
this story courtesy THE HUFFINGTON POST
here's what a huffington post blogger wrote-
Gay men AND women need to arm themselves like Black Panthers, or even better. Buy tasers. Heck, buy Glocks. They need to have the attitude that no matter where they go, no matter what they do, no one is going to lay a finger on them and no one is going to hurt their friends. They need to have self-defense training classes and travel in groups and have committees for safety that constitute armed protection, not just whistles and mace. The only way you can stop getting bashed is to get together as a unit and say we are not going to take this anymore because it happens too often when the cameras aren't rolling. Enough is enough.
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10/13/09
CARTOON BONDAGE!
ARTWORK BY NICK LOPEZ, to inquire about nick's work contact- antebellum@earthlink.net
BRENDAN MULLEN~ FOUNDER OF THE MASQUE IS DEAD
Brendan Mullen dies at 60; founder of influential Masque punk rock club
The Hollywood venue, which opened in 1977, quickly became a crucible for emerging, anarchic L.A. groups like the Weirdos and the Germs and later X and the Go-Go's.
i remember Brendan well from back in the day, (1977!) when he asked me to draw & create fliers for THE MASQUE. i gladly accepted the job... the first night @ the masque is now punk rock/music history... EVERYONE performed there- THE GERMS, THE GO-GOs, THE DICKIES, THE WEIRDOs, THE BAGES, THE SCREAMERS, X, THE ALLEY CATS, THE DILLS, if they had a band in 1977, they performed @ THE MASQUE.
After the Masque closed in 1978, Brandan Mullen booked an eclectic mix of acts -- punk, pop, jazz and blues -- at Club Lingerie for more than a decade.
Brendan Mullen, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke over the weekend. He was 60.
Mullen died at Ventura County Medical Center, said his companion of 16 years, Kateri Butler. The couple had been traveling through Santa Barbara and Ventura celebrating his 60th birthday, which was Friday. - READ MORE-
btw- THE MASQUE was located on cherokee ave in hollywood, one block east of antebellum gallery. it is now the basement/storeroom of world of wonder productions. all the original graffiti is still there.. HOW ABOUT CREATING A MUSEUM RANDY & FENTON?!
10/12/09
THE PIE FETISH IS GOING STRONG
watch our clown host- FROSTY, lead us into THE WORLD'S LARGEST PIE FIGHT according to the guinness book of world records.
what those dull commentators don't realize is that this is a fetish and all those clowns had hard-ons and were ejaculating during the fight!
here's a classic pie fight from the three stooges
and a fetishized version from luis drayton
and an updated gilligan's island version
of course i have to add a gay pie fetish combo
and then there's this kinky number
what those dull commentators don't realize is that this is a fetish and all those clowns had hard-ons and were ejaculating during the fight!
here's a classic pie fight from the three stooges
and a fetishized version from luis drayton
and an updated gilligan's island version
of course i have to add a gay pie fetish combo
and then there's this kinky number
THE THIN VEIL
Antebellum gallery presents~ THE THIN VEIL
OPENS ON OCTOBER 17TH~ 7- 9PM~ $5 cover
According to legend, the veil between worlds is the thinnest around
Halloween. Passages between the worlds draw wakes from one to the other.
Listen hard on Halloween; You'll hear the church clock strike
thirteen. You'll know the veil has now grown thin. Allowing the long
lost souls to step in. The moon will shine its silver glow, The
candlelit window lets them know. You welcome them back to your table.
Feeding them as well as you are able. Don't be afraid, for these
souls are lonely. Coming back to visit for reasons only. To let you
know what is to come. When your life upon this earth is done.
Celebrate this sacred night, with jack o' lanterns and candlelight.
Antebellum gallery, the only fetish art gallery in America continues
it’s tradition of unique events and presents~
THE THIN VEIL, the first erotic art exhibition in all mediums depicting~
SPIRITS~GHOSTS~PREMONITION~ECTOPLASM~PHANTOMS~
SHADOWS~DARKNESS~MELANCHOLY~SPIRITUALITY
live performance by the musical genius~
here are some samples of the art~
HENRY HINTERLAND
RAY WIGER
CHRISTOPHER LISSNER
RICK CASTRO
RINALDO HOPF
TO INQUIRE ABOUT ARTWORK & MORE INFO~ antebellum@earthlink.net
www.antebellum.us.ms
ON EXHIBIT THRU NOVEMBER 14TH
10/11/09
KINKY CAMERA CLUB~SUNDAY!
yes, it's coming to that monthly salon that we @ antebellum gallery like to call-
THE KINKY CAMERA CLUB!
the KCC is keeping in the tradition of irving klaw, (who used bettie page as a model), antebellum is proud to recreate the camera club of the 1950s! back in the day this was an illegal activity and got some people arrested, namely IRVING KLAW. but now fast-forward to 2009 and antebellum is proud to present THE KINKY CAMERA CLUB, hosted by me, RICK CASTRO.
open to photographers of all levels, from beginner's to pros, this is a great way to network with other photographers, and practice what you do best.. take photos of hot sexy guys!
please join us on OCTOBER 18TH- 1-3PM- $60 PREPAY, $70@ THE DOOR
our guest model will be- the very hot & sexy- AARON
for reservations contact-
ANTEBELLUM
1643 n las palmas ave
hollywood, ca 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
www.antebellum.us.ms
jANEANE GAROFALO CALLS OUT THE TEABAGGERS
on bill maher's REAL TIME- JANEANE GAROFALO hits the nail on the head in regards to the TEA BAGGER's movement
JOHN CARPENTER LIVE!
musician & heartthrob JOHN CARPENTER was @ ANTEBELLUM today to help me promote our new exhibition- THE THIN VEIL.
we had a live chat with melinda @ PIRATE CAT RADIO and then john gave us a thrill & treat by performing his live rendition of HAUNT MY HOME.
doesn't JOHN looks like a young GLEN CAMPBELL? he sounds like a living IAN CURTIS, crossed with PETER MURPHY
you can listen to the podcast here on- PIRATE CAT RADIO
JOHN CARPENTER will be performing live opening night OCTOBER 17TH @ ANTEBELLUM GALLERY.
THE THIN VEIL, ~ opening night~ OCTOBER 17TH- 7PM~ $5 cover @
ANTEBELLUM
1643 n las palmas ave,
hollywood, CA 90028
323 856-0667, antebellum@erthlink.net
we had a live chat with melinda @ PIRATE CAT RADIO and then john gave us a thrill & treat by performing his live rendition of HAUNT MY HOME.
doesn't JOHN looks like a young GLEN CAMPBELL? he sounds like a living IAN CURTIS, crossed with PETER MURPHY
you can listen to the podcast here on- PIRATE CAT RADIO
JOHN CARPENTER will be performing live opening night OCTOBER 17TH @ ANTEBELLUM GALLERY.
THE THIN VEIL, ~ opening night~ OCTOBER 17TH- 7PM~ $5 cover @
ANTEBELLUM
1643 n las palmas ave,
hollywood, CA 90028
323 856-0667, antebellum@erthlink.net
GORE VIDAL- AN AMERICAN TREASURE
i have always admired GORE VIDAL, ever since his debates with william buckley that started in the late 60s, continuing for the rest of their lives. GORE VIDAL is unfortunately one of the few american intellects left.
i had the pleasure of meeting and photographing GORE VIDAL back in 2004,-what a dream come true- after the shoot, we sat in his impeccably decorated living room and he chatted with me one on one.. no cameras.. he said to me, "do realize that only one thousand people run this country? ..... one thousand people make all the decisions."
RICK CASTRO photographing GORE VIDAL @ his hollywood hills home in 2004.
AMERICAN HISTORY AS TOLD BY GORE VIDAL
i had the pleasure of meeting and photographing GORE VIDAL back in 2004,-what a dream come true- after the shoot, we sat in his impeccably decorated living room and he chatted with me one on one.. no cameras.. he said to me, "do realize that only one thousand people run this country? ..... one thousand people make all the decisions."
RICK CASTRO photographing GORE VIDAL @ his hollywood hills home in 2004.
AMERICAN HISTORY AS TOLD BY GORE VIDAL