6.30.2009
You may have noticed that we love to catalog things here at YuppiePunk World HQ, particularly the outer edges of pop culture. From live TV streaking to rejected movie posters to TV theme songs sung by cast members, we’ve grouped a lot of things together over the years. We even do it in our podcasts…
6.27.2009
From Andy Warhol to Jackson Pollock to Jean-Michel Basquiat, there are a lot of great films about artists. Perhaps that’s why so many amazing actors are attracted to taking those roles. Plenty of A-listers would jump at the chance to play a dark and long-suffering complicated character — the general archetype of the artistic personality. It’s no surprise then that so many actors have tried their hand at painting…
6.22.2009
Virgil Dickerson is a busy dude. When he’s not running his indie label Suburban Home out of his Denver, Colorado office, he’s busy overseeing Vinyl Collective, the distro and online store he launched three years ago that specializes in — you guessed it — vinyl. And somewhere in between all that he also manages to make time for a wife and kid. Specializing in alt-country and tuneful punk rock, Suburban Home has released records from Drag the River…
6.15.2009
We love Dave Eggers here at YuppiePunk World HQ (just like Angelina does), and the San Francisco author/founder of McSweeneys and the non-profit 826 has recently made a couple of books available for pre-order. Out on October 1st is "The Wild Things," a sort-of hybrid adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild Things Are" and…