VFW: Lauren Vidali

This collection has an over use of the already over done Jersey knit, some great tailored skirts. Check out this womens collection for 2009 very Vancouver friendly, but does it all have to be grey?

The Gibson Guitar Party

Artists rockin out at Richards on Richards, for the exclusive Gibson Guitar party. Everyone from Loverboy, Hedley, Barenaked Ladies, and Robert Pattinson were in attendance.

Bandwidth is a piece of twit

We apologize if you are trying to listen to our latest and greatest show and can't! WE KNOW WE KNOW. As you can imagine posting all of our hour long podcasts and FREE MUSIC to this site takes up a lot of space. We are dealing with the issue and will be fully operational again very soon.

In the meantime here's a hilarious video that my friend, music producer genius Roger Swan, showed me about how pointless and lame Twitter is. 

Jay

Global Ghetto Organics

Vancouver Fashion Week, is on the enviro train too, bamboo tshirts by Global Ghetto Organics. Check it out, simple, clean and you do your part!

The Free Shit

We hit up the Artist Sanctuary at the Loeden Hotel, and watched the likes of Bedouin Sound Clash, Ill Scarlet, Serena Ryder amongst many others, get their hair did, pick up some sexy duds from Ben Sherman, freshen their minds at the oxygen bar and rock their ears with Some pimpin Skul Candy earbuds and headphones. And yes we did pick up a thing or two for ourselves, including some tasty yet dangerous Grey Goose Red Carpet Martini's that I guarantee will be the drink of the weekend.

The Mess Hit's The Junos

Yes we Can, Yes WE Can, Hotmess Crew is bringing you best of the best this Juno weekend in Vancouver, here we are looking cuter than chiclets at the Nettwerk records Pary

JUNO(s)! (read this with an internal valley girl voice)

What up Cana-merica! No this is not a post about the Michael Cera vehicle that made teenage pregnancy cool! This is a post about the Canadian music award show of the same name.
If you aren't aware of the Junos, well let me inform you!
It's like totally, like the only place where you can see some of Canada's best and brightest talent come together to win awards that look like Klingon weapons!
Sometimes really AWESOME artists like Cancer Bats or Wintersleep or The Stills or Feist or k-os get nominated and everyone goes- SHIT YE-AAWW!

Oh, but also sometimes grody bands like Nickelback win and people barf all over their TV screens. Eww. Like I know, right?

EITHER WAY IT'S LIKE TOTALLY ENTERTAINING!
So like check back here soon for pics from the events n' shit cuz like HOTMESS is gonna totally be all over it.
WE ALSO HAVE A LIVE RADIO SHOW TONIGHT IN VANCOUVER TUNE IN TO 101.9FM and listen without prejudice!!!
Jay

PS- I might barf.

Fashion! Turn to the left... Fashion! Turn to the right

Vancouver Fashion Week is the epicentre of the global couture industry, and Hot Mess went to check out the Cara Vetta / Vicinity show at the Chan Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts and Sciences in Vancouver, or whatever that building is now called. As you can see, this was a slice of Milan glamour in our little Pacific burg:

Check out the Microsoft Word toolbars on that screen. They left it that way for the whole show. With production values thus established, other details followed accordingly. This poor girl had to do her walk in silence, as the track that had been playing ended and they didn't have another song queued up. Look at the sad model:

There were a few highlights though. Andy Samberg made a surprise appearance, and, after doing his little turn on the catwalk, sang a song about premature ejaculation. Not really, but doesn't this guy sort of look like him?

Coherence was key, and what better way to establish a theme for your fashion show than to have the fellas wearing jeans and Chucks, and the ladies wearing evening gowns. I guess that's what will be hot for fall this year.

Stay tuned for further hot, messy coverage of Vancouver Fashion Week!

Photos by Graham Cook.

Live from The Junos it's Thursday Night

All while, Handsome and Jayson Awesome are sick as hell, Ready Eddy is running around the city with his head cut off, covering the Juno's the best he can. Tonight I bring you night 1 of the Juno Street Party, with Hot Hot Hot! The tent was cute, but stank of hot dogs, just wait until the weekend hits and some wet drunk party goers take solice in the dry steam box that giant plastic rooms turn into and then tell me what it smells like, just you wait. I also had the chance to check out Carly Rae Jepsen and the Latency at the Virgin Radio party. Fantastic performances, and the half naked people wandering around the event, made it even more enjoyable, everyone loves a Virgin. I promise to do my best to keep you all up to date, and in the loop, but exhaustion will soon set in and take over, so please forgive the spelling errors and worse than ususal Grammar. From Vancouver and the Junos's and Vancouver Fashion Week

Vintage OUT !

Desert Songs

Like Jim Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson and The Sand People from Star Wars I too recently spent some time in the scorching desert. It wasn't all lazy days in the sun by the pool, this adventure took me deep into the darkest reaches of Arizona's Superstition Mountains past crooked cactuses, to broken ghost towns built of dusty dead wood. 

I also drank my ass off at the greatest bar on the planet The Big Bang. It's a rock n roll piano bar featuring genius multi-instrumentalists who can play any song on a piano. No shit, like anything you can think of...and somehow they know all of the words.

Fuck it, I'll just say it THE DESERT ISN'T JUST FOR SNOWBIRDS AND BIKERS ANYMORE! GET THERE!

Here are some songs for your trip to the desert:

SEX ON FIRE- Kings of Leon (TENZIN REMIX)

Go With The Flow-Queens Of The Stone Age (Röyksopp's Night Out Version)

THANKS FOR VISITING.
JAY

Nifty and Thrifty

Holy Sugar Cane Batman, this is wicked cool. Tata motors from India has a funky little car for sale, big deal you say. True except for the fact that it costs only $2050.00 USD Thats what a Toyota Trecel Cost in the 70's. So if your in the market for a ride and you got's 2 grand kicking around, this bubble mobile might be worth looking into!

Check it out

Vintage

What in the Chicken Chow Mein is this??

Yo, so we just did our first Live on air show in a while, and you know what it's friggin wicked ! That's right I said it, Handsome rang in from an outdoor couch in the sunshine of East LA and Blondtron and Kay helped hold it down on nothing but gin and juice minus the gin. So for killer tracks and tasty ear snacks give it a whirl..... Oh yah, somehow I stumbled upon a track with Wale feat Lady Gaga where is this from? Regardless holy crack whores and mini donuts it makes me hard !

Love and sloppy kisses

E

Chillin with Wale and Lady GaGa

Hotmess is kicking your ass

The Fame

Lady Gaga brought the arena to the club. Hanging out waiting for Gaga my anticipation for the show was distracted by the nearly naked trashy bimboettes wandering around the Commodore. Normally, you would appreciate a delicately exposed pair of legs or a pumped up pair of breasts but tonight it wasn't exactly a dream. That all was quickly forgotten when the true princess of pop dropped the white curtain and exploded on to the stage with Love Game. Gaga's sense of artistic flair took this club show to a whole new level. LED screens, 30mm film, lights, costumes and video inspired by fashion and art brought you into a gallery come to life and beside all of that she sang every single song and danced her perfect little buns off. The only complaint I have is I wish she had taken the time to sing Future Love straight through from start to finish without stopping as it showcases her incredible voice. Gaga is a true pop pioneer and an experience not to be missed. Gagalicious.

I am the stimulus package

Well hello world, what time is it? What day is it? I don't know, who cares? I've been wearing my one-piece-satin-pajama suit all day. You want to know why? Because I quit my job, I quit my job to be a DJ.  Now I wear ridiculous things all the time and kiss whomever I'd like to whenever I feel like it. 

I am the stimulus package, so don't worry, all of your stocks are going up. Just call in sick and play these tracks really loud and dance your little tush off.

La Roux-In for the Kill (Hostage Remix)

Sia-Buttons (Chris Lake Remix)


Ludacris-Move Bitch (Disco Villains Remix)


Aquasky & The Ragga Twins- Let me see your hands

Das Pop - Fool for Love (Gaetan Remix)

AND THIS IS THE MOTHER OF ALL JOB QUITTING TRACKS, JUST TURN IT UP REALLY LOUD AND BUM RUSH LIFE.


The Hump Day Project - Real hot for Everyone


This video pretty much embodies how I feel....

Simian Mobile Disco

There comes a time when ravers grow up! This is Simian Mobile Disco!
Rub it all over yourself on a sleepy day!

Watchmen- watch more? watch less!

As in I wish there was less of it to watch. Seriously Watchmen could have been the best superhero movie ever made IF IT WANS'T THREE FUCKING HOURS LONG! And I DO NOT need to see that blue guy,the world's biggest smurf, get all pouty on planet Mars while owl-man is getting it on with his girlfriend in the giant floating metal fish blimp.
Furthermore I felt the storyline compromised the original prose and there were many glaring omissions.

In conclusion why does Hollywood feel it's necessary to remake The Neverending Story?

It could be the only perfect movie ever made.

Jay

PS-

Some of the Watchmen trailers have been cut to this epic tune by MUSE. Cherish this song. It's peeing your pantaloons good!

Muse - Take A Bow.mp3

BREAK SHIT

I realise that in these tough economical times it's not cost savy for bands to trash their equipment on stage, never the less it's awesome when they do. Few bands can compete with THE WHO (they basically invented rock n roll destruction) but here are some acts that really like the smashy smashy.
Nirvana


...and you will know us by the trail of dead


Muse

So this is what it's like when DOVES cry...tears of JOY!!

Sorry to interrupt Ed's lame-ass self help blog below but I think there are more important and pressing matters at hand, for example the DOVES ARE ABOUT TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM AND MAKE THEIR WAY TO MY NECK OF THE WOODS! They're probably coming to you too but I really couldn't give a shit.

Bottom line- they ooze liquid awesomeness out of every orifice (I know I once went camping with them...just kidding). Some of their songs make me want to suck my thumb and drift off to the land of nod while other songs make me jump around like a little kid in the pouch of a kangaroo riding a pogo stick on the moon.

Doves - Here It Comes.mp3


Doves - Firesuite.mp3

And here's their latest video!

Doves are so rad they're basically like a giant middle finger to all other acts from the UK.

Yeah, we're looking at you Chris Martin...you got something to say about it?!?!?!?

Didn't think so. Bitch.
JAY

Sleepy Slap

Ok minions of cool, we all just lost an hour of sleep as many of us across North America sprang forward this morning. It’s a great thing it means, brighter evenings, patio drinks, late night debauchery, and in many cases warmer weather although; for those of us living in the Pacific Northwest, today’s dump of snow makes that seem a little less believable. But more importantly for many it signals a season of lack of sleep. More fun shit to do, but the same amount of time to get it all done means a big fat sleep debt. So I have a list here of a few things you can do that will help you maximize the sleep that you can get, so that you don’t pay for it at school or the office through out the week.
• Exercise regularly. Some form of exercise for 20 to 30 minutes at least three days a week is ideal – but be sure not to exercise too close to bedtime.
• Cut down on stimulants. Consuming stimulants such as caffeine in the evening makes it harder to fall asleep. Stimulants also prevent deep sleep and increase nighttime awakenings.
• Sleep on a good bed. It's difficult to get deep, restful sleep on a mattress that's too small, too soft, too hard or too old. It won't provide the comfort and support you need to rest well.
• Don't smoke. Smokers take longer to fall asleep, awaken more often and spend less time in deep sleep.
• Unwind early in the evening. Try to deal with worries and distractions before going to bed.
• Don't go to bed stuffed or starved. A stomach that is either too full or too empty may cause physical discomfort, making it difficult to sleep through the night.
• Eat foods that can help you sleep. If you're hungry and can't get to sleep, try eating foods that contain the amino acid L-tryptophan, such as milk, eggs, tuna fish, cottage cheese and poultry.
• Develop a sleep ritual. Make the transition from nighttime to bedtime easier by doing the same things each night just before bed.
Some of them are a lot easier than others, I have my own little trick a good dose of melatonin from the health food store, gets you into a deep sleep faster, and getting regular doses of Bcomplex in pill or shot for keep your energy up! (but I am not a doctor I just know it works for me) so get out there have fun, and try and get a little sleep now and again.

Stop the Recession, Buy a Tshirt !

Sometimes I like to buy somthing new from time to time to put on my back or my lower half so that I don't get too cold. I really really hate being chilly. So I scour the online masses to find fun and exciting new places that are able to take my hard earned money and replace it with really fun, funky and cool new duds. Now, most site have this brand and that brand no, these folks at revolve have done it up right, they have it all.. And I haven't even gotten to the best part yet.... wait....wait.... FREESHIPPING ! ! Thats right I am not telling a lie free shipping.
So all you gear guys and gals out there go and get your shop on. Much Love to the revolveclothing.com And while your shopping enjoy some sappy tunes by James Morrison and Canadas Nelly Furtado.

You look mighty good in them jeans!

Levis is making limited jeans to suit your ass and your taste.
I remeber a simpler time when I used to wear my 501s down to the local fishing hole where I caught frogs and counted clouds. I'd saunter down the dirt road like the little scallywag I was with a piece of wheat in my mouth and a slingshot in my back pocket. Then me and my friends Pete and Ralph, and my dog Charles Worthington the 4th, well we'd swim the summer days away laughing and cavorting like a bunch of rascals. Especially Pete, the chubby one of the group, what a little scamp. We'd have a good ol time until Old Man Johnson would chase us away, but that didn't bother us much. See, back in them days we didn't have a care in the world and that's the way we liked it....

wait.... shit, sorry that's a Norman Rockwell painting, not a memory. Fuck.

Anywho, here's the greatest song ever written about jeans. JAY

Depeche Mode just took shit up a notch...

The bar has been raised again. Depeche Mode, the band that brought you Some Great Reward, Black Celebration, Violator and tons of other cool shit are releasing a new album on April 21 called Sounds of the Universe.
The first single is called WRONG and it's like a sexy nightmare that you have when you fall asleep in your industrial Gotham City loft alone on the eve of the apocalypse.
This video is amazing and horrific. JAY
Depeche Mode - "Wrong" (official music video)

You don't know jack if you don't know Jacknife Lee

I'm on a serious Jacknife Lee bender. When I first heard of this limey bastard I thought "ok, he's produced albums by U2 and R.E.M. and Snow Patrol and they've been successes and now he's trying to capitalize on that shit by putting out his own stuff. How good can it possibly be?" Uh, how about it's a fucking treat!
I feel like my inner ear just won an easter egg hunt every time I put his shit on. The Making Me Money Switch Remix is basically like the giant penis of songs.

Jay
Jacknife Lee-Making Me Money Remix

Oh yeah, here's a wicked remix of Cleaning Out My Closet by Eminem...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

The Answer is here

Yes it's true that debate of underwear or no underwear during a massage has been going on for sometime now, here amongst the hotmess crew. We finally have come to a conclusion, to hear the truth about baring your but cheeks check out our latest show available just to the right of this post or downloadable on itunes !

Eddy

The Oscars were ok but...

here are some Oscars I'd still rather spend my Sunday evening with.

OSCAR WILDE

OSCAR THE GROUCH

OSCAR DE LA RENTA

OSCAR STYLE FILET MIGNON

JAY

Handsome goes blonde for the Sake of Lick?

This is a messed up blurry picture of me in the "blonde off" competition at Blonde Ambition, our very own DJ Blondtrons party that she threw together to celebrate her favorite blonde peoples. I'm wearing a wig. I may have flashed my chest. I did not win. We put together an awesome podcast, which will be posted up Monday morning... and after that as per usual the crew hit the town... hard!

I love Saturday and Sunday mornings cuz I wake up to text from all my friends that go a little something like this:
"Ouch"
"What Happened"
"I will never drink again"
"I am no longer a man"

Keep you eyes and ears on HOTMESS.ORG for the latest podcast where we get down to the bottom of the serious massage debate that we have been having on the show for months.

Handsome

THIS IS HARD CORE

So we're doing a new podcast tonight. It will include an interview with legendary Canadian Director Bruce MacDonald. He made Hard Core Logo and a shitload of other rad films. He also co-directed this kick ass documentary about the band Metric. This is part 1.
Jay

Slick dudes who aren't even that slick

My friend Seem D. and I were having a chat a while ago about how many slick dudes there are and how they're not even that slick. She was of the opinion that although they think they're slick, they're really not and I was all like, yeah!

She added to the discussion by referring to exact moments when she had encountered a slick dude who was trying to be all slick to her and she had responded by telling said slick dude how slick he wasn't.

In closing I'd like to reiterate that, as a dude, your actual slickness is not proportional to how slick you think you are. You're not even that slick, dude!

Jay

Just when you thought you were sick of Kanye...

This insane video comes out and begs you to tolerate just a little bit more. FINE KANYE!!! YOU WIN! I WILL STILL KEEP SPINNING YOUR TRACKS AND WATCHING YOUR AWESOME HYPER COLOUR VIDEOS. But that is where I draw the line, if you take up acting it's OVER.


KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.



Kanye West-Welcome to Heartbreak (Robin da Hood Remix)



Kanye West Ft. Kid Cudi-Welcome to Heartbreak

I want you to caress me like a tropical priest

This brings tears to my eyes, real, genuine tears.... every time.

FAIL

We can laugh at other peoples failures because we have all failed ourselves. So let me introduce you to a great blog that makes us all feel a little bit better about ourselves failblog.org anyway its got some great fails for you to watch and their youtube channel has some pretty stellar content also. Happy increased self esteem bitch bags!

Vintage

My Bloody Valentine

In the aftermath of the sexiest of all the Hallmark holidays I find myself asking- why would someone decide to drink a bottle of $100 champagne and then proceed to eat McDonald's at 2am?
Do they taste good together? No. Does it make sense? No. Did I puke? Yes.
In fact I woke up feeling like one of the victims from the popular cult classic My Bloody Valentine.


The only thing that made me feel better was listening to this song by the band My Bloody Valentine.



Find me a dope My Bloody Valentine remix and make me smile again.

JAY AWESOME