From performing in a
concert for Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, to serving as background music for the shock-and-awe bombing of Baghdad,
Lionel Richie is much beloved throught the Arab world. A
Nightline piece, and an upcoming GQ magazine article
(via NPR) examine the Lionel of Arabia phenomenon.
posted by jaimev
on Dec 4, 2006 -
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"Sloppiness is my palette." Neal Medlyn is the self-proclaimed
"Paris Hilton of Performance Art" who looked for "bits and pieces of coolness in normal things or in anything" when he was growing up in small-town Texas.
Now performing regularly in New York City, Medlyn played a nude Dubya shacking up with
Karen Finley's nude Martha Stewart in
George and Martha (here's
a review and
another review; photos NSFW). According to the 2000
Austin Chronicle profile (written by his
future wife) Medlyn came off as a lunatic in his early performances, many of which were sparsely attended, and involved "music, little routines, and group activities, like having everyone sit in the dark and listen very closely to a song he likes." Medlyn has performed, with
Kenny Mellmann, a
show of R. Kelly songs (
watch him performing one; Google Video); he
loves (NSFW) Lionel Richie (whose songs he finds strange and beautiful;
watch mpg here); and he wrote a book inspired by
his own buttocks (NSFW). Medlyn is currently doing, with
Carmine Covelli, a somewhat Peewee Herman-ish video series for
Nerve called
Neal Medlyn's Land of Make-Believe (NSFW; videos depict group sex, performed by various animal puppets). Here is
a 2004 interview with Medlyn. And Medlyn has a
Myspace profile.
posted by jayder
on Jun 17, 2006 -
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