KOSHi LUVS... Sophia Coppola

i concur! This Pitchfork Review pretty much sums up the way I feel about Sophia Coppola's movie soundtracks...

Marie Antoinette is a soundtrack as sovereign entity, married to the film but not dependent on it for meaning or listener enjoyment. Say what you want about Sofia Coppola the filmmaker, but Coppola the soundtrack auteur is uniquely intuitive and confidently complex (this soundtrack, like those for her previous films, is produced by Brian Reitzell, although it seems completely her own). Going into this review and coming out of it, I'd place her above even Wes Anderson and Todd Haynes in her ability to illuminate emotion with music. For her, pop songs aren't just the aural equivalent of mood lighting, but active agents of characterization.

KOSHi LUVS... Beck's Information

Beck's current website is a kick. So entertaining. Sexay freak-folk/rock-god Devendra Banhart even makes an appearance. Take your time looking around and then go out and buy his newest CD release, "The Information". It's brilliant. You will not be able to not dance. Plus, you get to design your own album art work by selecting and arranging some hip-n-groovy stickers from a pretty-good-size selection. It's enough to make my inner-child's head explode.

I'm a loser, baby. So, why don't you kill me.

New Sylvia Plath

I remember back when Meg Ryan was saying to the press that she wanted to make a movie about Sylvia Plath one day. I thought that showed there was a darkness in her that movies like "When Harry Met Sally" and "You've Got Mail" had managed to conceal completely. Gwyneth Paltrow ultimately played Plath, and her performance was so natural that it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role. As far as Plath as a writer goes... My favorite angry writer woman with suicidal tendencies is Dorothy Parker, with Fiona Apple running a close second, but Sylvia was no doubt my kinda girl. She wrote: "The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag."

Student Finds Unpublished Plath Poem: An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" will appear Wednesday in a Virginia online literary journal. What makes the discovery of any unpublished Plath poem noteworthy, Wagner-Martin said, is the groundbreaking expression of humor and anger by a female writer, and her works' lasting impact. "These were not voices you would hear in the '60s in women writers," she said. Plath's "The Bell Jar," which is considered by many as the first American feminist novel, was published in 1963 and was a precursor to decades of feminist writing. But Wagner-Martin said Plath never saw women adopt contemporary attitudes -- she killed herself two weeks after the book was published.

Fly Beak & Mommy Fly Beak

HAPPY HALLOWEENiE!!!

Stripes & Stones

Can you imagine? Jack White & Christina Aguilera w/The Stones? Being a New Yawker must rawk right now. Must search YouTube for live footage...

The White Stripes Jack White, Christina Aguilera and Buddy Guy all joined The Rolling Stones onstage at their New York City theatre show last night (October 29).


Marilyn Manson Art

Marilyn Manson not only made the most bad-ass version of "You Put A Spell On Me"(which works to electric effect back to back with Nina Simone's version), but he's also good with paint. If you already know that, this probably will not surprise you...

Marilyn Manson is due to launch his own art gallery in the US on Halloween. The goth rocker will unveil his collection entitled 'The Celebritarian Corporation Gallery Of Fine Art' at the 667 Melrose in Los Angeles.

Zooey Sings

Gena Rowlands = Cool. Janis Joplin = Cool. Zooey Deschanel = Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Gucci's association with Hollywood goes back decades, so it was fitting that, for the L.A. leg of its 85th birthday celebrations, the label underscored its commitment to film. On Wednesday, company execs, along with Gena Rowlands and Sydney Pollack, hosted a party to celebrate the restoration of the 1974 John Cassavetes classic A Woman Under the Influence. In the crowd were movie buffs Kyle MacLachlan, China Chow, and Camilla Belle. Zooey Deschanel, who will play Janis Joplin in the upcoming biopic, flexed her vocal chords with a trio of songs.

Masked Moss, Johansson & Jagger

Am I going to have to move to London to party like this?

Buoyed up on seas of champagne, a flotilla of decadents arrived at Nick Knight's Bal Masque to participate in the sort of surreal spectacle that is becoming a very London way of carrying on these days.

New Sonic Youth

My fiance took me to see Sonic Youth last month for my birthday, which was perfect because Kim Gordon was around my age when they formed and it was inspiring to see her rocking out in a gold mini dress some twenty years later. Thurston still looks & plays like a teenager too, and Rather Ripped is just a really great album. Now they have a collection of B-sides and such coming out & may be jumping labels to boot...

Speaking to Billboard.com, Kim Gordon intimated that the band would move to another label. "I don't really think they want us to stay,” she said. “They fired a few key people working on (the band's 2006 album Rather Ripped) a week before it came out. Our A&R person -- he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don't know."

KOSHi iS... narcissistic

Some people have nothing better to do...

Kate Moss + Pete Doherty

This is a pic I drew for WiLL WORK FOR FOOD : A COLORiNG BOOK FOR GROWNUPS. It's Pete Doherty tempting Kate Moss as The Madonna from the great beyond. LOL. Now that they're getting hitched and this love affair is bound to go down in the bowels of rock history, I'm glad to have contributed to this Fifteen Minutes Of Shame for all posterity.

Those crazy kids have gone and done it. Pete Doherty and Kate Moss have confirmed rumors that they’re engaged.

KOSHi LUVS... California Sound Control

Happy Birthday to the sexiest rock and roll recording engineer/guitar genius in Los Angeles.

Billy Gruber of California Sound Control

KOSHi iS... A Lil' Crazy

The Gold Box. Metallic & covered in hologram stars, a rescue mission from a bygone Christmas Eve at mom's, and wallpapered with more of my compulsive collage-ing, this is one of the rituals I use to manifest my dreams. I write down what I need on a slip of paper that I fold into a tiny square & keep in The Gold Box until the dream comes to fruition. This has gotten me more than a few snickers, but I say, "Let the eyes roll. It works!" Try it & see for yourself.

Cobain : Rich But Dead

Morbid Curiosity...

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was the highest earning dead celebrity last year. His top ranking is due to his widow Courtney Love selling a 25 per cent stake in the star's song catalogue to New York music publishing company PrimeWave.

KOSHi LUVS... Natalia Fabia

Natalia Fabia is one of L.A.'s current art queens. I love her work.

Just in time for Halloween, Los Angeles-based artist, Natalia Fabia shares her recipe for Halloween Hooker Cookies also known as Hookies. Complete with Pink Hooker Sparkle Sprinkles, these oatmeal and peanut butter gems are delicious and will have any john begging for more! When Natalia is not baking, she is busy working on her painting for Corey Helford Gallery’s group show, Mommy, Mommy There’s an Artist Under My Bed!, which opens on Saturday, October 28th.

Emily Haines Goes Solo

If you don't know Metric, you should at least know Emily Haines.

Watch the very cinematic video for "Dr. Blind"

Metric chanteuse Emily Haines is gearing up to take her solo show on the road. In January, Haines will support her debut Knives Don't Have Your Back with a few weeks of touring in the U.S. and Canada.

Zoom Zoom Zum

Hey... I'm in one of these pics! This was a great wedding (even worth missing The Kings Of Leon). There was a really cool photo booth for all the guests to enjoy, cookies shaped like the bride & groom's lab, Kona, (who participated in the ceremony), a beauuuuutiful sunset, and this crazy mashed potato bar where we got to build our own potato creation in a martini cup- mine involved salmon and goat cheese and garlic. My tongue had an orgasm.

Introducing... Mr. & Mrs. Zuma Press!