Of The Month – Issue 71

GIRLS MAKING GUN SOUNDS
For any of you guys who grew up with a brother, you know that brothers do terrible shit to each other; whether it’s getting kicked down the stairs, or having your pants pulled down at your birthday party. We also know that we did worse things to our sisters. We ignored them. Girls Making Gun Sounds reminds us that we were correct to exclude the weaker siblings. Why would I make a blanket fort with somebody who thinks an HK MP7 sounds like a kitten sneezing up a tribble?

[girlsmakinggunsounds.com]

MIKE DETECTIVE
Mike Detective, unlicensed and uninsured private eye, tries to save 14-year old twin sisters Tawny and Stephanie Client from his nemesis Kelsey Grammer, in a noir serial format. If that sounds like something you might be interested in, it’s because you probably share a sense of humour with writer Scott Aukerman (Comedy Death-Ray, Mr. Show), and lead performer Rob Huebel (Human Giant, Children’s Hospital). Occasional guests so far have included Jon Hamm, Rob Corddry and Zach Galifianakis. New episodes come out on Tuesdays and clock in well under 10 minutes, making it easy to catch up on the joke-dense adventure. To find it, just search ‘Mike Detective’ in iTunes. —Ian Urbanski

NORM MACDONALD on Twitter
Norm MacDonald was always too smart and self-aware to succeed on network television. After he got the boot from SNL and his solo sitcom was self-sabotaged by ABC execs, it looked like he’d get fat off the celebrity game show circuit and never deliver another dead pan cold opening again. But after establishing himself as a Twitter virtuoso by upstaging the Oscars with tweets like “oh finally. an old british guy”, Norm is back at doing what he does best: enraging idiots and making the rest of us snicker.

[@normmacdonald]

SOMEWHERE – ON DVD
Let’s talk about Sophia Coppola. Say whatever you want about the woman, there is one thing she absolutely nails; spoiled rich people. Lost in Translation was good, Marie Antoinette was, uhm, experimental… but they were both essentially about the existential pain of the rich and famous. Somewhere has solidified that topic as being her wheel-house. The film is about a fading action star trying to reconnect with his daughter. It’s not exactly ground-breaking for Coppola, but it’s a world that she knows well and she presents it with a cinematic subtlety that’s become her trademark. —Kellen Powell

STUSSY x DICKIES
Stussy has teamed up with the iconic American workwear label Dickies to produce a collaborative capsule collection for Spring/Summer 2011. Two of Dickies’ classic items, the 574 workpant and workshirt, have been subtly tweaked by Stussy with new fabrication and the addition of graphic elements, bringing a new vibe to the traditional workwear. Available at all Stussy stores in April.

TRON: LEGACY
The problem with putting base-jumping, light-cycles, spirituality, genocide, multiple Jeff Bridges, Daft Punk, vague theories about A.I., disc fighting, alternate realities, babes, lasers, father issues and business ethics all into a 3D lightshow, is that those things don’t all exactly go together. I had a hard time understanding what exactly I was supposed to care about when I watched TRON: Legacy, but you should probably watch it anyway, just so you believe me that those things are all in the same Disney 3D movie. —Kellen Powell

YOHJI YAMAMOTO
Recognized internationally for his radical innovations and craftsmanship, Yohji Yamamoto is a visionary. A man who is not generally interested in fashion, but more interested in how to cut clothing, we learn, is attracted to his dark side of life and finds harmony to be boring and conflict to be an exciting challenge. This is all captured as director, Theo Stanley follows Yamamoto and his team around New York City, Paris and Tokyo, creating an intimate documentary showing the designer going from the early to the final stages of putting together Y-3’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection.

The film turns an intimate eye on Yamamoto during fittings, model castings, guitar-playing, philosophical musings, and interactions with his staff and the global team bringing his ideas to life. 

YOHJI YAMAMOTO: THIS IS MY DREAM will be presented at small screenings around the world this Spring and the DVD will be available at all Y-3 stores and online at www.Y-3.com

View the trailer at www.thisismydreamthefilm.com