Are you contemplating cosmetic surgery? If yes, where? Do you know anyone with rhinoplasty? According to the statistics from 2009, it is a ten billion dollar market. I look forward to 2010′s total expenditures. Truly, I wish this infographic was available when I published The Push Episode. It would have been a great addition! Readers, to purchase our latest magazine, kindly click here to order 3/3 magazines!

Modern medical science has afforded us the ability to change nearly anything we don’t like about our appearances. Americans are taking advantage is larger and larger numbers. In fact, more than 12 million people had some form of cosmetic surgery in 2009. This is a look that the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures in the country.

Infographic by GOOD

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Photo: Florence + The Machines

Blurb from YAMS:

A few months back, “Kiss with a Fist” [video below] by Florence and the Machine was posted here as Video of the Moment and dedicated to my lover. Today, whilst web browsing I came across a great mix by that I needed to share with you. Please take the time out to get into Florence and the Machine!

Blurb from YAMS:

Ze! we need more dialogue from you next time. You have a cute voice!

Although we wish there was more dialogue from Ze! cause her [talking] voice is cute, we really enjoyed this video. Our favourite looks are of Ze! in her red bra and when she wore the pink tutu. We love your choice, honey. We would have chosen the man with the Ze! thunderbolt, too! (Sticks tongue out)

About Boys I Like:

July 30th 2010, Brussels – Malaysian electropop singer Ze! premieres new music video “Boys I Like” simultaneously in 5 different cities around the globe at midnight tonight.

“Boys I Like” was shot in Hollywood last April by a team of new and upcoming film directors collectively known as Schlub Films. Ze! met director Eugene Lee back in 2008 when she was participating in an Asian Talent Show called, Sutasi in which Lee was a host. The two decided to work together on this music video when Ze! visited LA, stayed in Lee’s apartment and met his friendly group of actor-friends.

“Working with the Schlubs was a lot of fun,” says Ze!. “They’re a hyperactive bunch with an eternity of ideas. They’ve done a few really good short films but it was their first time producing a music video, which was maybe what made the process even more exciting.”

“Hanging out with Eugene’s friends was a great experience as it gave me an insight as to what life is really like as actors. The annoying thing is they’re all amazing actors which only made me feel like a goofball on set. They were at least nice enough not to laugh at me.”

‘Boys I Like’ is written by ZE! and producer Ruben Debusschere; a track taken off of ZE!’s new electro-pop album I Am Glam and was the first single released in 2007 along with 3 remixes. I Am Glam is distributed worldwide by Believe Digital and now available for download via all major digital music stores including iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Napster, Nokia Music Store and more.

Peter Hadar singing at Marf Music

Blurb from YAMS:

Yesterday, Wednesday July 28, 2010, GrungeCake Magazine presented Burlesque Yes! to the New York City music scene. Burlesques Yes! consists of a sensual live show with Peter Hadar & Long Kiss In Public, a burlesque photo booth shoot, and the sweet sweet flavours of Bite Me!’s sample cheesecake. We are thinking about having another. Will you attend? Enjoy the slideshow below and become a contact. If you’ve missed the promo video for Peter Hadar‘s previous show, kindly watch video below.

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About “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated”:

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history’s most beloved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her character—and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.

In Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of Little House: Michael Landon’s “unsaintly” habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie’s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch cover

Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life’s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the “secret” her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her “Little House husband” and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.

Blurb from YAMS:

I know it’s been available for awhile, but if you haven’t heard, Alison Arngrim has a new book entitled, “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch” and I am buying it. Oh yeah, I am buying it. I read the Village Voice interview early this morning on the train coming home from Burlesque Yes! and honey, Ms. Arngrim is a trip-and-a-half!

Here are some quotes from the interview:
Musto: Congrats on the book, Alison. It’s so real.”
Arngrim: “I laid shit out.”

Musto: In other scandalous developments, was your real-life father really gay?
Arngrim: It was a deal between he and my mother. They were madly in love, yet there was always some third party, some guy, hanging around a lot. Then, two years later, it would be some other guy.

Musto: I guess Mom was as malleable as Gumby. And you’re very brave to talk about how your brother incested you. Did you read Mackenzie Phillips’s book about consensual incest?

Arngrim: Yes. Being drugged into a stupor and waking out of a coma to find someone on top of you with his pants around his ankles is not my idea of consensual. I sent Mackenzie a message on Facebook saying, “This sounds as consensual as being hit on the head with a brick.” Then I read the book, and she makes it sort of clear that he was the one who called it consensual.

Please read the full article here. I feel Gusto asked all of the right questions to get me interested, although Little House on the Prairie is a bit before my time. Gusto, you are a flipping doll-baby <3

Picture this
There is a man who plays piano like it’s his job
Not like
It’s his job to make some money to feed his kids to maintain a socially acceptable home life slash cocaine habit
But like it’s his job
To remind everyone else that music is brutal and real love makes you sick
To keep people guessing when all they really really want is the whole world’s cheat sheet
To warm a room with his hands and to hand out chills to the few who deserve them.
This man plays piano like it’s his lover
Like he
Keeps his face so close to the elephant to be sure it won’t walk out on him
Like black and white bleed and he writes stories on a minor chord because the major ones
They don’t end happy like he grew up thinking they would.

You can bet
His piano fingers
Grip tight to the things he needs to stay awake
For Saturday night jazz and Sunday afternoon blues
And you can tell by the way his wrists bend,
Like he’s about to break into eighty eight pieces of black and white beautiful
That he needs it.
Like he’s got a girl back home with a middle C painted right in the center of her back and
You can bet
That when he loves her, he watches her real close to be sure she ain’t about to walk out on him
Oh, he is cool.
Like black turtleneck sweatshirt black baret because he’s not French but hell, he’ll sure smoke like it COOL.
He’s hoping hard for a cancer to eat him away because
He just has too much
And no one to play it to and
He only sees in colour on the days he speaks in greys.

He is the man who wakes up like an earthquake
And goes to sleep every once in a while.
He plays to the moon to serenade her down to his level
So he can whisper waltzes in her ears
And he pronounces “nightmare”
Like Toccata and Fugue
Mr. Piano man holds keys like they’re all he needs to breathe
Plays like it makes him cry and
God Damn, I wanna love something that much.

Now, Picture this:
There is me
And you.
Standing on bridges on fire and we don’t move
We need more heat
Because summertime will never be enough to just live for.
So for now
You be water. I’ll be air
And we’ll make those waves like we never knew the color blue and salt
Were something to be sad for
Or
You be that fire, just make me some of your air
And we will shine
We’ll have background symphonies
Because we shine
And damn, Baby, when we go toe to toe to toe with the angels
To sky and back
We’ll wear shades because that’s just how bright we SHINE
And Dear God, my dear God won’t know what hit him.

But beneath everything else
I’m taking chances you don’t want to know a thing about
Because I am brittle
And my fingers aren’t long like an elephant needs them to be.
And you have hands that make my face too small and my bed too big
Those piano hands, but you don’t play
And you are walking ivory irony and
You don’t believe in ghosts in quarter notes.
But you don’t run away from a bad sound and
I appreciate your appetite and those greys you play when it rains
Because I know
That music is brutal
And real love Hurts. Like. Hell.
So just give me little black answers
And I won’t mind their sharp edges cause I don’t need to know you mean it
I just need it.
Because beneath everything else
There is a man who plays the piano
Like the sky’s collapsing underneath him
Like its all he needs to inhale
And there is me
And you,
And when your shine runs out, mine will remain
And I wont forget those waltzes you danced with the moon.
So play me, Mr. Piano Man
Make me your beast.
Because, pale or not, your fingers are just strong enough
To measure the ivory sliding down MY back and
God Damn, I want something to love me that much

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The Birth of Us by Anders Krisár

Blurb from YAMS:

Who doesn’t have a thing for skin? We’ll wait. Artist Anders Krisár is a Swedish sculptor, photographer, and contemporary artist who captures the “touch” so nicely. This work is on sale for 20-30,000 dollars; created in 2005. To view his most popular work, kindly visit this link. Above (l-r) “The Birth of Us (Boy)” and “The Birth of Us (Girl)”.

Anders Krisár

Cuirass by Anders Krisá

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GrumCake

Blurb from YAMS:

Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Grum since watching the music video for “Can’t Shake This Feeling” (see below). “Heartbeart” filled with big-beat synths, (all that other music jargon that I cannot make my own) and good-time head nods has to be my favourite on my Grum playlist. It sounds like a new wave [La] “Macarena” that you want to chronically-vogue-to and-end-your-routine-with-a-running-man-split! I also hear he is a Scotsman. (winks) For more about Grum, click here.

MP3: “Heartbeats” by Grum

About Grum

The best artists in the world start from the ground up. You see a tiny review, you hear about them from your friends, then you see something in the street. A flyer, sticker, poster, something; connections are made.

That was fine when there was a record store on every High Street. When an artist connected, picking up their record was as simple as buying a loaf of bread. The internet has completely changed all that. It might be far easier to get hold of your new favourite single but some of the connections have been lost. Who even knows what most single covers look like? Who remembers the flyer when they’re browsing the blogs?

Grum, the UK’s most important new dance producer is the first artist to change all that, revolutionising the way the public interact with music.

The artwork is a pioneering design, developed by David Ross, the artistic and creative brains behind Mylo’s ‘Destroy Rock N Roll’ poster and artwork campaigns. For Grum he has incorporated a unique 2-D Barcode into the artwork, which when photographed by your mobile phone (using the appropriate application) takes you directly to the music where you can hear great quality streamed versions of the track, with an option to buy there and then. A fully interactive experience for fans to get the music they want, when they want it. See the poster on the street or an advert in a mag, snap the logo, and get direct to the music. There’s already massive interest with mobile phone providers and software programmers to develop this idea, but Grum got there first. The revolution starts here!

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Blurb from YAMS:

Since the phenomenon with Chyna and the scenes from Napoleon Dynamite including Rex Kwon Do’s wife, I’ve taken a liking to muscular, woman who are cut-the-fuck-up! A few years ago, I had the opportunity to shoot with a muscular woman who goes by the moniker SuperFrench, but Miss French has nothing on these babes! I wish I took these photos. Photographers unknown.

Kindly take a look at my photography of SuperFrench by clicking here and watch the video below!

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Blurb from YAMS:

My brother Fulvio, founder and CEO of ReddArmy presented his new music video to me and immediately I fell in love with the fun visuals. Though, the lyrics aren’t in English, I am sure the melody will keep you interested and watching. We are already singing the hook over here. Hahahah. Click for more Madrac.

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MP3: Solo Lei by Madrac (feat. Smania Uagliuns) by Madrac

About Madrac:

A four man combo dealing with funk, hip hop, electronics somewhere between Outkast, Daft Punk, and some unsuspectable rockish attitude for an electronic band.

Madrac has made two albums in Furlan, a local minoritarian language, which had very good reviews on a national basis despite the uncomprehensible language. Were the first ReddArmy band to be aired on national TV.

‘Having been closed in the studio from 2007 to now for “that difficult third album”, named “L’esercito del sole” (the army of the sun), possibly the biggest effort in the whole ReddArmy, and will feature some (yet undisclosed) major italian artists and two international artists from the caribbean seas.

Founded by ReddKaa, ReddArmy’s founder and CEO, they include MattiaC, a keyboard player that sounds like a solo guitarist, Kappah, which deals with twisted electronics and wonky beats as his “twin brother” Railster does, and young rock singer Zanna, that substituted ReddKaa on vocals.

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