Building Projection

Nigel Nolan

Wall Parade

(via Haoshi Design Studio)

Super Mario Bros assault cabbie

R.I.P. Jerry Fuchs

Beloved friend, brother, son, and inspired drummer, you are missed for so many reasons.  You were a gift.

Immortalized Book Covers

Found on Spike Jonze's Wild Things' influence blog, we love you so, which is cool in and of itself.

For more about Olympia Le-Tan and her book-bags, click here.

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

Red Krayola - War Sucks

Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed

Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed
by DwightFrye

Headsplode

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

Canal+ short movie

WHERE THE HELL IS MATT?

http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

Lou Reed & John Cale - Waiting for the Man - Bataclan '72

William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Speech

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work--a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed--love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, and victories without hope and worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.

Until he learns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Masaaki Yuasa

Masaaki Yuasa
by early21

Mind Game - Masaaki Yuasa - Trailer
by k-chan

Father Guido Sarducci on art school

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Anyone get to see Big Man Japan yet?

Lego Wu Tang

Wu-Tang Lego: Da Mystery of Chessboxin' from davo on Vimeo.

Uh ty - Govorjashaja Ryba

This is an incredible Armenian aniamtion I saw recently

Ice People

World Wildlife Federation commisions artist Nele Azevedo to make 1000 ice people sculptures to illustrate climate change.

Obama Action Figures

Diskjockey-Jiří Barta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBgJhNW3jEI

Humming Bird Song

Things and stuff from Maya

Why aren't you posting on here?

david lynch

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com

Banksy Vs Bristol Museum

Lasciatemi Cantare - Toto Cutugno

The Conet Project

For fans of--Boards of Canada, William Basinski, field recording, etcetcetc



From http://www.irdial.com -

For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.

Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.

These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.
The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child's voice!

One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official “end of the cold war”, but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.

Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of Numbers Stations has gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why does the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice?
These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered.

Now you will be able to hear this unique and extraordinary phenomenon for yourself, as Irdial-Discs releases THE CONET PROJECT: the first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.

And Wiki -
Recordings of numbers stations sometimes find their way onto records by other musicians via sampling, such as Stereolab's song "Pause", Porcupine Tree's "Even Less", Chroma Key's "Even the Waves", or various songs by Wilco, whose album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is named after a message sampled on it. Pere Ubu's drummer Scott Krauss is an avid fan of numbers stations, and has featured recordings in several of the group's songs. The track "On the Lamb" by 310, from the album Aug 56 lasts almost half an hour, and features samples from a numbers station throughout.

The Kraftwerk song "Numbers" is influenced by number station transmissions.

The reclusive Scottish duo Boards of Canada were influenced by numbers stations at an early age. The track "Gyroscope" on the Geogaddi album is thought to contain a sample of a child counting provided by the Conet Project.

The UK based group 65daysofstatic sample "The Lincolnshire Poacher" along with several other stations on the song "No Station."

The UK group Cinerama released a cover of The Smiths song "London" as a b-side to their single "Manhattan", in 2000. The track contains a couple of numbers station samples.

Project Natal: Meet Milo

ultra thing digital booth

Child robot

Martha Graham Night Journey Clip

I just heard about the kade? where the hell have I been!?

http://arthurkade.com/


"my journey to stardom." the winning excerpt from aurthurs personal diary:

With the amazing connects I have made in Hollywood, it is now getting to a point where I get to hang out with the important people in “The Biz”, and I may be bigger than most of them already, and will end up in tabloids like Us Weekly and People soon, and some feel that I am single handedly transforming the face of this area into a new celebrity mecca. I was talking to a friend tonight who said, “It’s crazy what’s happening here, you’re what everyone talks about all the time. It’s like an obsession, you must bring work productivity down in this city so much.” I laughed, and said, “Everyone wants a piece of me, and the funny thing is that I am only getting started. I am taking this thing to a level that’s never been seen at warp speed”. Even celebrities are in awe of what I have accomplished, and are constantly trying to meet me and take pics as I saw in KA, and I realize it’s only getting worse.

Doo Dooettes - Live At The Brand, Live at Century City

"The unearthing of the LAFMS recordings is experimental rock history at it's most historical and hysterical - a completely bizarro and further-out counterpart to the L.A. punk scene." -- THURSTON MOORE



Gets its point across more than words could ever hope for...

Download here

About LAFMS

Los Angeles Free Music Society - The Lowest Form of Music 10-CD Box Set reviewed by Edwin Pouncey, The WIRE

The early 70s were lean years for American music, which was still suffering from the aftershock of Altamont, Manson and the death of the Love Generation. In California the airwaves were spewing forth commercial rock and disco, while punk was only in its infancy on the East Coast, and the Midwest and had yet to make its mark across the nation. Any avant garde activity around this time was limited, although the first tentative stabs at FM rock's soft white underbelly were being plotted. In San Francisco, The Residents pressed up their debut album Meet The Residents on their own Ralph Records label, which had a cover that scurrilously defaced Meet The Beatles in a shameless attempt to gain some underground notoriety. Years later it worked.

Further along, brothers Jad and David Fair would unleash their own, equally outrageous debut EP as Half Japanese, a noise classic that many would blindly ignore, but later pay serious money to own a copy.

In the middle of all this rose the awe-inspiring spectre of The Los Angeles Free Music Society, a happy band of musical oddballs who had grown up on the collected works of The Mothers Of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra and composer Harry Partch (to name a few) and were eager to let their own creative demons loose on the world. This Californian collective were well versed in the room-clearing power of free jazz and improvised music in general, but they were also aware that something new and revolutionary was required if music on a challenging level was to progress and survive.

Listening to this astonishing, lovingly packaged ten-CD set (which contains all the important LAFMS records plus a batch of unreleased material) it is the versatility of the groups concerned that causes the jaw to drop. Pluck any CD from the concertina styled plastic folder that contains them, and prepare to be astonished as Le Forte Four reinvent musique concrete American style and come up with a tribute to "Japanese Super Heros" that predates The Boredoms by a couple of decades. Elsewhere The Doo-Dooettes (featuring drummer Dennis Duck, who much later would join Steve Wynn's The Dream Syndicate) twist the pop song's neck with devastating results, while Smegma lock on to the greasy Dada teenage outrage element of Freak Out-era Mothers and mutate it still further. As well as producing records, LAFMS held Fluxus-style concerts and happenings, published a magazine called Light Bulb, and under the direction of Ace Farren Ford, released three volumes of a compilation entitled Blorp Essette, original copies of which are today highly desired because of a rare Residents track on the first volume and for the cover art which was drawn by Ford's hero Captain Beefheart.

As all of the LAFMS catalogue was originally available only in limited quantities and mostly by mail order this brave venture is to be applauded and admired. By dragging together the original team of Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck, Fredrik Nilsen, Kevin Laffey, Jerry Bishop, and Joe and Rick Potts, compilers Ron Lessard and Gary Todd have returned to the planet a slab of 70's American musical history which was in danger of being trampled underfoot and forgotten. That would have been a tragedy, as everything squeezed into this box is, once heard, an unforgettable experience.

Edwin Pouncy


"A bunch of hoodlums"
-Artistic Director for the Pilot Theater, LA, 1977, upon cancelling a show by Airway and the Doo-Dooettes

"LAFMS people have hybridized avant-garde, experimental, improvisational, punk, pop and even humorous stuffs. For Japanese fans, LAFMS has become a legend"
-Takuya Sakaguchi, Osaka

"Free ears and minds are one thing, but what about aesthetics?"
-Hal Clark, 1974, Electronic Music Festival Hovikkoden Norway, with regard to an L-44 piece

"I knew Varese personally and I know that you can control your dynamics, therefore you will play acoustically or not at all"
-Theater Owner

"Twenty some odd years later this music has a pre-technological poignance that accidentally imbeds it in history"
-Dennis Cooper

"It could be argued that some examples within this brown card box are the lowest forms of music. Personally I would make the counter claim"
-David Toop THE WIRE, UK

Get the LAFMS box at - http://www.cortical.org/spores/LAFMS10CD.html

The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje

After shooting Gregory
this is what happened

I'd shot him well and careful
made it explode under his heart
so it wouldnt last long and
was about to walk away
when this chicken paddles out to him
and as he was falling hops on his neck
digs the beak into his throat
straightens legs and heaves
a red and blue vein out

Meanwhile he fell
and the chicken walked away

still tugging at the vein
till it was 12 yards long
as if it held that body like a kite
Gregory's last words being

get away from me yer stupid chicken

Syd Barrett, You make me want to Raise Kids

The most obvious asset of this track is how pleasant it is to listen to. Like many of Barrett's songs, the awkward structuring and phrasing just serve to enhance the childlike appeal - its beautiful to listen to, and pretty soon you'll find yourself humming a chorus about....a gigolo aunt


Grooving around in a trench coat
with the satin entrail
Seems to be all around in tin and lead pail, we pale
Jiving on down to the beach
to see the blue and the gray
seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!

Will you please keep on the track
'cause I almost want you back
'cause I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
Yes I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!

Heading down with the light, the dust in your way
she was angrier than, than her watershell male
life to this love to me - heading me down to me
thunderbird shale
seems to be all and it's rosy - it's a beautiful day!
will you please keep on the track
'cause I almost want you back
'cause I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt

Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day
some wish she move and just as she can move jiving away
she made the scene should have been-superlative day
everything's all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day
will you please keep on the track
'cause I almost want you back
'cause I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt...

In the Mood for Love

This came on the radio this morning, as we were playing Transformers on Wii with the television muted. Amazing. The entire score is beautiful, but this song really got me.



from the Chinese film, In the mood for Love.

How cool can you get?

From the film Jammin' the Blues

I wept and wept, from start to finish by Nick Cave

A review of the film Mother and Son
by Aleksandr Sokurov.

A FRIEND of mine invited me to attend an advance screen of a Russian film in Soho. I asked him what it was like and he said, "Well, nothing really happens and then someone dies. Come along. You'll love it." My friend was releasing the film in this country, so I felt obliged. Sitting through a Russian film is the kind of thing friends do for each other.

I arrived late and made my way to the front row just as the opening credits were ending. Ten minutes in, I started quietly crying and continued to do so for the 73-minute duration of the film. Now, I've cried in films before but I can't remember crying quite so hard, without pause, all the way through. When the film ended and the lights came on, a red-eyed woman sitting behind me pushed a Kleenex in my direction and asked me if I would write something about it for one of the newspapers.

The film is called Mother and Son, and is directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. It explores the final day in the life of a dying mother (Gudrun Geyer) and her adult son (Alexei Anaishnov). It is morning. The mother wants the son to take her for a "walk", which involves carrying her through a series of dreamlike landscapes, whereupon he returns to their bare, isolated home, feeds her, and puts her to bed. The son then leaves the house to walk on his own and returns to find that she has died. All this takes 76 minutes. But what we witness in that time is a thing of such beauty, such sadness, that to cry, for me, was the only adequate response.

Mother and Son is a film about Death and about Love and about Grace. the love, between a mother and her son, transcends ordinary love in that it is purified by the imminence of death. Death awaits them both with absolute certainty: the mother who will die, the son who will be left alone. Time seems respectfully to have slowed to a pace at which the careful motion of love has room to play itself through: no action is rushed, for that would simply hurry death on. The characters have achieved a state of emotional and spiritual grace. They seem cut adrift from their histories, alien to their environment, and unaffected by the world beyond their own. all that exists are gestures of comfort, of care, of tenderness. The son brushes the mother's hair, wraps her blanket more tightly around her, feeds her with a teated bottle. The mother responds with strokes and caresses: all that her failing strength will allow.

It is a relationship, in a sense, that is not meant to be seen. It is sacred, religious, uncomplicated by any prurient intrusions of 20th-century analysis. It is a view of humanity that has truly become transcendent; yet Sokurov makes no bones about the tragic nature of death. Death hangs heavy over everything, saddening each gesture, weighing down each action. Even the landscape appears to be in mourning for the mother's imminent demise. here we see the Passion, shown in tableaux, occasionally reflecting the Christ story: the Passion not of the ailing mother but of the son, not of the dying but of the one who is left behind.

The dialogue, too, seems strangely ineffectual, as if the protagonists' love and understanding has rendered language unnecessary. When they do converse, their words seem to lack any true purpose. They neither comfort or clarify, for all is said in the knowledge that exists within each gesture. There is psychology in words, there is complication and pain. This is no better evinced than in their final conversation, in which they discuss reasons to die and reasons to live. The dialogue is futile and cruel, and serves only to reopen the feelings of grief.

Says the mother: "It's so sad. Anyway, you will still have to go through all that I have suffered."
"Have a little nap, mother," says the son. "Have a sleep, I will be back soon."
The son leaves the house and moves into the exquisite landscape that surrounds it. It is in these long, lingering, nearly motionless scenes that the film rises to heights of the most breathtaking beauty. Sokurov's landscapes are not burdened by any desire for realism. His scenes are transformed into cinematic canvases, far closer to painting than to film, awash with artificial, opalescent light. These dream-born vistas recall the work of the German Romantic painters of the early 19th century: in particular those of Caspar David Friedrich, in which everything is softened by a milky lustre. The vastness and mystery of this heightened nature creates a spirituality not dependent on any formula of traditional Christianity. And the care Sokurov applies to these fastidiously crafted scenes echoes the care with which his characters treat each other - the devotion to detail, the unhurried tenderness, the love.

All of this beauty is given a pace, a timescale dictated by the encroachment of death. Each piec of action, each gesture - slow, plangent, important, sacred - allows the viewer the time to fall under its spell and to be seduced by its powerful and very serious impulses. Watching this film, we are forced to confront the inevitability of our own mortality, and the mortality of others. Emotiona are awakened within us of a sort that cinema hasn't dealt with for a long time.

My inital response to this film was to shed tears for the sadness of things. And its unique pulse has reverberated through me ever since.

Power of Katsu

Jimmy - Hope to have you and your urban sensibilities posting here soon

Marco Brambilla

Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell. - youtube

FULL SCREEN HQ, AMAZING, AGAIN, THANKS JOE

The Beatles: Rock Band intro (Cinematic Trailer - Animated Promo)

Literally brought tears to my girlfriends eyes.
THANKS JOE

WONDERLAND Love's a Murder

ZOMBY - MERCURY'S RAINBOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eagkV6aU3II

授業中の電話にぶちギレて生徒の携帯を破壊する先生

Slowdive - Alison

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Entering the Faustonian universe

"Augmented-reality"

"As yet unseen footage of the first stable version of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial-memory game by Julian Oliver."

Sachiko Kodama: When I Met This Material

First Bike trick ever recorded by Thomas Edison

Ghetto-Sing For ME (Official Video)

Moondog

A very profound 1:44



From Wiki-----

Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes,[citation needed] all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".[1]

Toru Takemitsu Film Music

Many nights this song floats in my head - its quite a nice feeling



"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. "

"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."

Cadbury Commercial

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"-Section II

Movies

Putney Swope
Color of Pomegranates
Army of Shadows
Come and See
Mindgame
Spirit of the Beehive
Sweet Movie
In a Year of 13 Moons
The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner
A State of Mind
Schizopolis
For All Mankind
Performance
Harder They Come
Woman in the Dunes
American Graffiti

For Stewart - Thanks for the many many amazing movie suggestions

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey

Edgard Varêse and Le Corbusier

ubu.com

Jah Wobble Interview

"I wouldn't say I'm a sackcloth and ashes kind of a feller," he says in broadest Bethnal Greenese. "But I'm not interested in promotion of the ego by spending a year on an album. For better or for worse, my way of seeing is very medieval. I want to get the granite from the quarry and build the fucking cathedral, and feel connected to God by doing it."

HERE

Serge Gainsbourg - Cannabis

If I needed a wrestling theme song, I certainly wouldn't have to search far...

Esquivel

Talk Talk - Happiness is Easy

If you're a fan of this band you've got quite a few different camps to fall in with - the pop oriented Duran Duran or there outer atmospheric post-rock. This, I think, is such an exceptional song in the catalog - first time I heard it I was floored completely.......and if that's not enough to convince you, I'm still really floored when I hear it. True story



Except for the occasional cover of there older songs, I've always been surprised how little attention this band gets....





Happiness Is Easy (6 31)

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)
Makes you feel much older
Sublime the blind parade
It wrecks me how they justify their acts of war
They assemble, they pray
Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
Little sheep don't let your feet stray
Happiness is easy
Joy be written upon the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love
Guilt upon their shoulders
How well the cause evades
Infecting your religions, claiming pacts
It's easy to shoulder the blame
Happiness is easy
Little ships of Galilee
Happiness is easy
Standing on the sea
Happiness is easy
Jesus tried to love us all
Happiness is easy
Be a friend to me
Happiness is easy
Try to teach my children
To recognise excuse before it acts
>From love and conviction to pray
Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
Little sheep don't let your feet stray
Happiness is easy
Little ships of Galilee
Standing on the sea
Jesus tried to love us all
Be
a friend to me
Joy be written upon the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love

Cat Soup - Masaaki Yuasa (1 of 3)

Like your animation in a soup of surrealism

movies

funny bones
they shoot horses don't they?
miami blues
small change
the party
rita, sue and bob too
vernon, florida
der todesking
the wild blue yonder
gloria

Will Wright & Brian Eno - "Spores"

Brian Eno and Will Wright wax poetic about life, space, music, games, and human civilization - Must see!!!

Spores is video game collaborative featuring Brian Eno's music - from the looks of it, it's quite a head trip

The Pop Group - She is Beyond Good & Evil

Hello brothers and sisters, I know I've lately been scrounging the mud with these youtube clips, but soon - soon I'll have something posted with a little more effort.

TAKE CARE

porter

get the new bill callahan

Failblog

wasting my life away through months and months of posts on failblog.org









http://failblog.org/2009/01/29/high-five-fail/

http://failblog.org/2009/01/28/luminous-life-fail/

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Canyons Of Your Mind

w/ the 'worlds worst guitar solo'! Great!!


BONZO DOG BAND "The Sound of Music"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gWQzqd6Bh0

Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck (Live on WDR TV in 1970)

Super-amazing performance from when kraftwerk hadn't yet exchanged flutes for macs

Lars von Trier's Anti-Christ

Captain Beefheart-Lick my decals off, baby

Peter Funch

He stakes out with his camera in New York set in the same place taking pictures of different random people for days on end.

He then photoshops groups of people that have similarities or where themes exist into one final image – kind of like a moving portrait of an area of a city 11:57

http://www.v1gallery.com/artist/show/3

steve young

karen dalton

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head

Thanks Mark!

tim exile

Be kind to your guitar

Buffalo Daughters - Cyclic

Kenji Yanobe

starkey

clark

SPIN

I don't know if watching this was mandatory for freshman at all colleges, but this is one of the most significant film/video memories I've kept with me over the years from ACA. (Other than William Wegman's fondling of his weimaraner video.) 18 years old, sitting in a cold dark video screening room, and having no idea what kind of satisfaction awaited me, I watched one American suited archetype after another stutter and slur. It was the start of a long and ugly bout of "the Noam Chomsky disorder". I knew it all, thanks to Spin and a series of many other college propaganda videos.

Actually not much has changed, give or take a few elections. I'm still as politically green as I was at 18, but less inclined to fool myself into thinking otherwise (after only watching a handful of videos at least).

Regardless of your political bend, I think you'll still find this collection of uninterrupted satellite feed funny, shocking (and yet somewhat predictable, if that's possible), and bothersome. For the full story on Brian Springer click here. And for more about how he *edited Spin click here.

*In my opinion, editing can be one of the most powerful means to an end. In all his nonobjectiveness (with the raw feed), the way in which he edits the unedited is to be taken into consideration when watching too. After all, Jerry Fallwell? C'mon. Easy peasy, Brian.

Thomas Edison Kino/MOMA DVD Boxset

With this and the new magma box set, my wallet's busted

Arcade Fire - Black Mirror

http://www.rorrimkcalb.com/



dyslexic computer program & fun finger pressing fun

Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列 ,Bara no Sōretsu)

Crystal Stilting

Jamie Hewlett Olympics 2008

Leif Inge

Such a vivid memory of when I first heard this, standing outside with bobby waiting for a show to start, and all the sudden our ears catch to this incredibly intense droning. There were people meditating all around, which seemed absurd but was actually befitting. We searched around to see who was djing this incredible music, and all that turned up was a pitiful looking Ipod laying on the ground with the magnificently huge sound coming from some speakers. The song was a composition by Norwegian artist Leif Inge, in which he literally stretches Beethoven's 9th symphony into.....24 hours

Profound Sounds, indeed

http://www.opsound.org/opsound/pool/inge.html

Soft Machine

Original lineup Feat. Robert Wyatt Kevin Ayers & Mike Ratledge

Gong - Live

Super-amazing performance by the one and only Gong. Check it out!!!!!

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Paranoid Park Soundtrack

Download Here

Lord Buckley & Groucho Marx

Fred Neil

The criminally underrated & undermentioned Fred Neil - here's a collection to revive your faith....for fans of Lee Hazlewood, Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, Phil Ochs, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan....




Download HERE

From Wiki (Link)

Fred Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American blues and folk singer and songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "Candy Man" by Roy Orbison and "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson, as well as the rock standard "The Other Side of This Life", most famously covered by Jefferson Airplane.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, Neil was one of the songwriters who for a time worked out of New York City's famous Brill Building. He has often been called a pioneer of the Folk rock & Singer-songwriter musical genres; his most frequently cited disciples are Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, and Jefferson Airplane, but his most prominent descendants have been Stephen Stills, David Crosby, James Taylor, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell. In concert appearances, as well as the liner notes for his 2003 album, Meet Me In Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett called Neil "one of my heroes." Some of Neil's early compositions were recorded by Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison; he played as a session guitarist on hits by Bobby Darin and Paul Anka. In 1968, Nilsson recorded a cover version of Neil's song "Everybody's Talkin'," which became a huge hit a year later when it was featured in the film Midnight Cowboy.

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Juana Molina - Un Día

As strange and enticing as it's record cover...

The Complete Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples

Here's an interesting one I ran into through the Newness Begins Here Blog - a colab between NWW listers Smegma, Guided by Voices Robert Pollard, and lyricist for Blue Oyster Cult Richard Meltzer. Definitely worth a listen for the more adventures ears.

Take a look HERE

Magma

And here we are...the Behemoth that ultimately inspired me to create this blog...Magma's "Theusz Hamtaahk" from the Retropspektiw album. This song is a 36 minute journey into the belly of the beast in an epic almost typical of Magma.

The song seemingly begins at the end, a few seconds of cathartic glory which quickly cuts to that stalking suspicious keyboard. Two singers then adjoin into a curious waltz of falsetto. Then, schleuse, and we're off to the races...
Those sinister keyboards arrive once again, and we all partake in it's dance with death. You hear the church bells announcing your arrival, Christian Vanders the motor behind the boat.

And the ride - those macabre rhythms.....

It's the listeners participation in Vander's Divine Comedy which seemingly spiral downwards towards bottoming out until an ultimate redemption at the end of the song...which could be debatable, for the band literally kills it's audience near the end in a war of the worlds-type fashion. I've listened to this many many times and don't think it takes a musician to appreciate the humongous density of this composition.
Take it!!!



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the clean and tall dwarfs

Brian Eno - And Then So Clear

The Monks

Greatest Simultaneous Guitar Solo



From Wiki--

The Monks are a garage rock band, primarily active in Germany in the mid to late sixties. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made. The Monks stood out from the music of the time, and have developed a cult following amongst many musicians and music fans.

Artists to have acknowledged the Monks as an influence include Henry Rollins, the Beastie Boys and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, as well as The Fall. The latter covered both "I Hate You" and "Oh, How to Do Now" on their 1990 album Extricate (under the titles "Black Monk Theme Part I" and "Black Monk Theme Part II", respectively), as well as the song "Shut Up!" on their 1994 album Middle Class Revolt. The Fall have also covered "Higgledy-Piggledy" for the Monks tribute CD Silver Monk Time.

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Peter Lorre

Louis Jordan and The Tympany Five - Beans and Cornbread

Buddy Sarkissian and His Mecca Four with Fred Elias - Soul of the East

Hello All....-----I invite you to divulge yourself into the far east magic of american born Buddy Sarkissian, whose rhythm and shakes bring the joy back into life. I've had a great time with this one - no pretensions, truly MOVING sounds guaranteed to shuffle those lifeless feet.





So SHUFFLE HERE

Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl

Ukulele Orchestra of GB

good bad ugly


life on mars

Everything Will Be OK - Don Hertzfeld

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From Wiki -

Everything Will Be OK is a 2006 animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is the first chapter of a planned three-part story about Bill, the main character. Hertzfeldt is currently in production on the second film in the series, titled I Am So Proud of You, which is due for theatrical release in 2008.

Everything Will Be OK won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in Short Filmmaking, a prize rarely bestowed on an animated film. To date it has won 36 awards, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Film at the London International Animation Festival and the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Narrative Film from the Ann Arbor Film Festival. [1]

Despite the film's short running length, "Variety" film critic Robert Koehler named Everything Will Be OK one of the "Best Films of 2007". [2] The film was extremely well received by critics, describing it as "essential viewing" and, "simply one of the finest shorts produced over the past few years, be it animated or not." [3] [4] The Boston Globe called the film a "masterpiece" with the Boston Phoenix declaring Hertzfeldt a "genius." [5] The short film was a cover story on the Chicago Reader, receiving four stars from critic J.R. Jones.

Outside of theaters, the movie is currently available as a limited edition DVD "single", exclusively from Hertzfeldt's website, http://www.bitterfilms.com . The DVD features an extensive archival area of deleted scenes, Don's production notes, sketches, and layouts, as well as a hidden Easter Egg that plays an alternate, narration-free version of the film.

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Another Message to the Homeless: Fuck You, Eat Shit, Etc..

"Hello, Bad Idea? Meet my good friend, No Idea. I expect you two will hit it off real good-like."

Some might already be well familiar with this gem of a gem, but to me it's a fresh of breath air. So before taking me for a complete lout, please try to make it to the very end of this train wreck:



If this ages as well as doo-wop, we're in for an astonishing treat 50 years from now.

But now, not so much.

I'm sure you elitists reading this are thanking the Gods of Irony above for blessing you and only you with the finest of discernments, and I can't blame you...Not. So. Fast.

It doesn't take a cross of the legs and a dash of a scarf to find this music retched -which it most certainly is - but if you shut your eyes it's really no more foul than something that would stir the heart of a normal suburban 11 year old girl. Or some variation of a psychotic Orlando-area stage mother.

So the disaster lies not just with the music itself, big surprise. There are actually bigger issues with the picture.

This is what one gleans, if you're stupid enough to glean from a music video:

1. Hobos still look like they did in the 40's.
2. Orange skin, Anime hair, and scratching tha mahfuckin dope outta air-turntables will most def woo "the bitches", yo.
   
3. Here lies a vision of a place where near-lethal doses of recreational drugs will put your head, gestures, ideas, wardrobe, et al....
4. Some people find madness perversely interesting. Here is sad proof that alot times it is not.
5. The vague implication that middle class black kids in Old Navy sweaters stalk babes (babes that return his glances)on a beach (with a bizarre addition of the shiny body builder?)could be mistaken for yet another case of Children Raping Adults.
6. Women love a man who know how fight for camera time.
   
7. That this video was pitched not by a living, breathing, my-children-could-go-hungry-any-day now human being, but by some sort of random script generating application on B4-4's manager's fingerprint-stained laptop, after being dropped and marinated in a New Jersey pool polluted with semen, steroids, MDMA and Rohypnols. And then fished out right before the big meeting with the suits.
8. Leave it to the Yukon to give the world Gay Wiggers. Gee, thanks again Canada.
   
9. Magical Viewfinders are usually in the garbage for a reason. If your sadistic goals at addressing homelessness have evolved from setting them on fire to now to merely inspiring them with utter despair, then by all means hand them said Magical Viewfinder That Transports You To Shittier Places. Sunny climes where attractive women go for clueless dipshits that resemble not one, but two, versions of the bully from The Karate Kid and Marisa Tomei graced with a five o'clock shadow and enormous shoulders...
   

..so, it must be asked:

Who's idea of a fantasy is this anyway?

Escapism is intended to take one's mind away from the realities of their awful situation. Not make it worse.

With all that said, I find the REAL tragedy in not being able to see what ensues after TMV is generously handed off.


Lovingly,

Terrence

Gérard Grisey - Partiels

Not sure if I should like this as much as I do....

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