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CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE NOIR AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE-BANGKOK NOIR BY ANTONIO PINEDA Once again in the guise of bespoke noir poet, I cross the threshold of the scene of many a literary crime, the Foriegn Correspondents Club in the noir heart of Bangkok. The venue is celebrating the book launch of, Bangkok Noir. Christopher G. Moore greets me and [...] A WRITER’S PERSPECTIVE ON DISNEY’S GRAND THEFT AUTO DARK CABARET-BOOK LAUNCH WARP STUDIO-BANGKOK The book launch for the Nouvelle Vague inspired photo-cinema book, Dark Cabaret, was celebrated at the Warp Studio in Bangkok. The venue is a converted warehouse hard by the Sheraton Riverside on the shores of the Chao Phraya river. It is situated in a cosy warren of art galleries, antique shops and [...] Boaz Zippor, celebrated Bangkok photographer and promoter of the arts greets me at the entrance to his art studio and private gallery. It is located in a multi level house, the patio grounds have been converted into a bar, the ground floor and upper tier house an eclectic collection of paintings, collages [...] The Thailand premiere of Carmen conducted by Somtow Sucharitkul, was performed with spoken dialogue in French, as was conceived by the composer Bizet. The venue was the Thailand Cultural Center. At the ticket queue I encounter film actor Krystal Vee, she is the star of The Lazarus Papers directed by Jeremiah [...] A NIGHT OF BUTOH, POETRY AND ART- BOKA GALLERY By Antonio Pineda Boaz Zippor greets me at the entrance to Boka Gallery in the Saphan-Kwai area of Bangkok. He lights up a cigarette, as he greets his guests and discourses at length on painting and photography. “My photographic art in this exhibition is as raw as you can [...] Mark Ebner Six Degrees of Paris Hilton SIX DEGREES OF PARIS HILTON I met author-journalist Mark Ebner in Bangkok in the wake of the David Carradine affair. He is a graduate of Bard College. Mark was once addicted to drugs and alcohol, but is now teetotal. His remaining vices are [...] BY ANTONIO PINEDA Boy George affects a spectacular entrance in the foyer of the Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Pratmnak hill in Pattaya, overlooking the cozy cove next to the Royal Cliff Hotel. The Boy is resplendent in makeup, lipstick and a pink hat on which a glam Jolly Roger flies embedded in rhinestones. He is [...] OLIVER STONE LIVE IN BANGKOK- Once again in the guise of bespoke poet, the lysergic pirate of Savile Row crosses the threshold of the Foreign Correspondents Club, to attend the gala event featuring 3 time Oscar winner Oliver Stone. Peter Rnic arrives with the film crew for Sawadee Pattaya TV and we set up [...] CHAMPAGNE X- THAI FILM GODDESS THE GOLDEN KINAREE AWARDS The Chatrium Suites, located hard by the Chao Phraya River, is the venue for the closing ceremonies of the Bangkok International Film Festival, The Golden Kinaree Awards. I take the lift to the fourth floor. Nicholas Snow and his associate Natalie are interviewing film actors Rachel Nichols, [...] THE ROLLING STONE CONNECTION The story all began back in the halcyon days of the British Invasion, in London at a bar, The Last Resort. It was situated on the Fulham Road, opposite Warwick Road, in SW3 hard by Saint Johns Wood. Nick Evans was a [...] Juan Antonio – Flamenco JUAN ANTONIO DE LOS REYES-FLAMENCO AMBASSADOR I met Juan Antonio De Los Reyes in Madrid. He was the only other dancer in the dance studio at El Amor De Dios with long hair. He was a hippie during the dictatorship of Genarilissimo Franco which took a lot of bottle. His [...] THE HEAVY The Heavy stars Gary Stretch The Heavy, stars the former glamour boy of British boxing, Gary Stretch. Written and directed by Marcus Warren, it is a thriller about the sibling conflict and betrayal between two brothers, set against the backdrop of the London underworld. Stretch [...] :: SEEKING :: AFTERMATH – DAVID CARRADINE MORGUE PIX Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread. I stride across the opulent lobby of the Swissotel Nailert Park, take the lift to the 5th floor, where investigative journalist Mark Ebner admits me to his suite. He has had dinner with Dr. Pornthip, the famous Thai forensic scientist [...] Ebner drops the bomb. He researched the scenario. His research brought him to an actor- film director in NYC. Here is the game plan. The dominatrix shows up at his fashionable penthouse on the Upper East Side. As the door closes behind the actor – director, the dominatrix punches him to the floor , and demands him to grovel before his lord and master. The sexual pathology is one of transference of power. The dominatrix binds him by rope in the same intricate fashion as Carradine. He is then taken to the bed where the dominatrix jams a wire up his urethra. The dominatrix engages him in wild aberrant sex, at the moment of orgasm, the erotic asphyxiation element is played out. In NYC an hour with the dominatrix costs 350 US D an hour. The same service can be had here all night for the same price. Ebner has done his research, and we are all in tune with his [...] Winters talked with Chuck and Tiffany, the agents for Carradine. The actor was lined up for work years in advance. People of a certain social class always have the obligatory gold Rolex watch, diamond ring and gold chain plus the mandatory roll of mad money in their billfold. No mention was made of this by police. David produces the wild card from the deck. He contends that a katoey, ie a ladyboy or transexual, could have easily possessed the strength to murder Carradine. Katoeys are part and parcel of the Bangkok scene. They blend into the fabric of the demimonde. They are often indistinguishable from the real [...] Just to the right you’ll see our twitter feed, if you want to get fast changing Bangkok and David Carradine news, click “auto update” and you’ll see it as it rolls in live. Right now, obviously, most of the news coming out of Bangkok, Thailand is all about David Carradine’s mysterious death in a luxury [...] excerpt from People Magazine After a maid found David Carradine’s body in a closet in his Bangkok hotel room, police called it a suspected suicide. But the actor’s manager refuses to believe it. “I can tell you 100 percent that he would have never committed suicide,” Tiffany Smith, who along with Chuck Binder managed the Kill Bill [...] David Carradine dies in Bangkok David Carradine, died in Bangkok on Wednesday, was a sly, devilish, and at times downright freaky, movie presence who, when he appeared onscreen, automatically made matters twice as interesting. Carradine’s dramatic skills were recognized by such directors as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Hal Ashby who cast him in, respectively, 1972’s [...] DIRECTED BY LAB KY MO Lab Ky Mo, director of Monks and Mamasans, strides impatiently and Brendan is an Irish-Brit whois [...] CONFESSIONS OF A DAY PLAYER PART 2 The Furama Hotel is the venue for the shoot for Dark Bridges, directed by Marcelo Von Schwartz. It is a boutique hotel situated next to the prestigios Siam Society in Bangkok. Attired in the guise of bespoke poet , I join my accomplices in [...] from the organizers of BarCamp Bangkok We still have a lot to do because we are making this Barcamp a truly awesome Barcamp. We need people to jump in and make things happen. Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009 Action [...] Just a quick note to let you know that Barcamp Bangkok 3 dates have been Barcamp Bangkok 3 will be held on May 23-24, 2009 at Sripatum University. We will have more details and open registration shortly. We will send another For more details on why Barcamp Bangkok 3 is going to be even [...] STRIPTEASE AS AN ART FORM Once upon a time in America, the striptease was elevated to an art form. Ecydiasts were trained in classical ballet. Their acts were superbly choreographed and contained elements of the theatre. Unlike the lap dancers of todaywho perform buck naked and leave little to the imagination, the strippers of [...] DREAMSCAPE THE LABYRINTH Attended barcamp Bangkok. As I entered faculty of engineering an arrow pointed to barcamp and undeneath were the words “geeks this way” I registered got a t-shirt . As always, my topic got 3 votes so i was not invited to speak . Lunch was bangup . [...] received from Richard Rubacher Rubacher has been studying people who have learned to “be alive, [...] Are You Ready for Barcamp Bangkok 2? This is a reminder that Barcamp Bangkok 2 is coming up this Saturday and Sunday August 30th and 31st. Register for this event and hear the author of this blog talk about “Blogging the Film and Nightlife Scene in Bangkok” A Few Things You Should Know: We have some awesome international guest [...] LE SALON DES TANGO The motorcycle taxi whips down soi 49, winds past Samitivej Hospital and deposits me at the entrance to a small sub-soi. A plaque against a wall marks the residence of His Excellency Don Felipe Frydman, Argentine Ambassador to Thailand. Felipe greets me at the door, a mirror by the entrance [...] Synopsis The death of the Spanish dictator Generalissimo Franco in 1975 ushered in extreme changes in society. The political compass swung from extreme right to left, and from the ashes of fascism emerged the phoenix of a new art movement, La Movida Madrilena. This glorious epoch intrioduced new faces and injected modern values in Spain. The premier [...] BY ANTONIO PINEDA I lord it up at the wrap party producer Raine Grady hosts at Ali Baba a hip venue in Pattaya. The shoot by award winning British director Lab Ky Mo has gone down a storm. Locations varied from the fashionable Peppermint A-Go Go to the Orchid Massage Parlour and the sexed up strets [...] Tony on flickr on SaffronSicko’s photostream. Bookmark, Share and Enjoy: HIGH ART AND UNDERGROUND BANGKOK RADIO Once again it is time to resume the guise of bespoke poet. I suss out my vestuary designed by my bespoke tailor in Bangkok Lucky Ricky. Black silk suit and shirt are complemented by blue tie. I am back in black, bespoke spake Zarathustra. quoth the poet evermore. [...] I am honored to announce that I have been invited to attend the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on June 27 to launch my own documentary produced by John Patrick Patti, and directed by Robert Dunlap: “Xaviera Hollander – the Happy Hooker, Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary”. From July 29th to August 1st this documentary will [...] XAVIERA HOLLANDER THE HAPPY HOOKER Last summer i was invited to read from my novel in progress by Mila Jansen at the Hemp Bar in Amsterdam. I crashed at the crib of my dear friend Michael Burke on the Johannes Verhuylstraat, not far from Leidseplein, in the heart of the city. Xaviera graciously invited [...] BY ANTONIO PINEDA Bangkok author Richard Rubacher and I roll off the BTS train at Siam Station and wend our way to La Scala, venue for the Bangkok International Film Festival. We go to a desk where Umberto, a charming bloke from the Italian Embassy, issues us VIP passes. La Scala is a marvelous piece of [...] THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Beware the dog days of summer She resides in the genetic lacunae Long ago, gallant lover on a black stallion UBRADIO.NET–UNDERGROUND MUSIQUE ELECTRONIQUE I contract a motorcycle taxi outside the Grace Hotel in Bangkok to take me to Khao San Road, the Bohemian sector of town. The motorcycle rages and swerves through traffic, it is a sultry eve , the rainclouds above dark, thunder booms signalling the advent of rain. [...] TANGO, TANGOING, POEMS AND ART Born in Saigon Mong Lan fled Vietnam on the last day of the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. She recieved her Mater of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. She was the recipient of a Wallace E Stegner Fellowshipfor two years at [...] Antonio may be attending DrupalCamp which will be held on Saturday May 24, 2008 from 9:00am to 6:00pm. 10:00 – Registration, Post topics There will also be an almost-all-day “Intro to Drupal” track for OCEAN FANTASIES AND DREAMS F-Stop gallery in Bangkok was the venue for an exhibit of underwater photo imagery by Alex Wu. A totally unique art form creates new sensations via a lense by combining water and modern imagery tecniques. Alex was born in Singapore, educated in Toronto and Vancouver and resides in Bangkok. He [...] The Coronation of King Naresuan By Antonio Pineda
Dawn flowers over the trees and bushes of the old military base in Kanchanaburi, site of the shoot for the motion picture King Naresuan 3. The minivan rumbles through the grounds, occupied by five gorgeous Thai actresses and myself. Khun [...] Sex and the City THAI STYLE By Richard Rubacher (From Rubacher’s Thai Touch, available thru Barnes & Noble bookstores, and Amazon.com) I was determined to find out why Thailand thrives on HBO’s chic chick show, Sex and the City. What is it about the series men and women? It’s obvious that men (Thai and [...] POP ART BY ALAN BERG The Tamarind Cafe was the venue for an exhibit of pop art by French artist Alan Berg. I am greeted by Cyrille and Ellen , they have just done a show of the works of Alan Berg at Bed Supper Club at which several paintings sold. The paintings on [...] ON LOCATION WITH KING NARESUAN BY ANTONIO PINERA AND GREG PEEK The taxi deposits me at the casting center for Naresuan 3 on the outskirts of Bangkok. It is 3 am. A young Thai dude named Eddie, who studied at Washington State greets me. A minivan awaits to transport us to Kanchanaburi for a two day film [...] Herod’s Law directed by Luis Estrada By Antonio Pineda and Jenny Bleccker The venue for the premier of Mr. Estrada’s film is the Foreign Correspondence Club. It promises to be an exciting night, half high culture, half hit TV. Series The Entourage. I consult my bespoke vestuary and select a sharp grey suit, crisp black shirt and [...] Maura Moynihan, an American renaissance woman
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