movies

92 in the shade
two lane blacktop
o.c. and stiggs
brewster mccloud
gap toothed women
cockfighter
the night of the iguana
blue collar
bring me the head of alfredo garcia
brewster mccloud
cisco pike
the killing of a chinese bookie
the last detail
sorcerer
the fearless vampire killers

roky erickson

coloured balls

Brian Eno - "Cindy Tells Me" Tab

I bet this shot you back to learning guitar in middle school. I know it did for me. For some random reason I've listened to Brian Eno's "Cindy Tells Me" and "Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch one-hundred times this week. I cannot stop listening to them.

It felt really great to type in those songs into Google +tab and break out the old acoustic. Man, I really miss my useless-pitch. Screw you and your perfect-pitch, Josh.

Give it a whirl if you haven't pick up your instrument recently.

Strum the actual tabbed chords here.

Nagisa Oshima

Also, been meaning to post a link to an article on auteurs.com about Nagisa Oshima - I've personally never seen any films by him, but after watching this trailer and reading this, I feel like I'm missing something...



Check out the article HERE

Tadanori Yokoo

From Wiki:::

Tadanori Yokoo (横尾忠則, Yokoo Tadanori) (born 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.

Tadanori Yokoo, (pronounced "yoko-o") born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences.

In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol" or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organized by Mildred Constantine.[1] Yokoo collaborated extensively with Shuji Terayama and his theater Tenjo Sajiki. He has also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief.

In 1981 he unexpectedly "retired" from commercial work and took up painting. His career as a fine artist continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year, but alongside this he remains fully engaged and prolific as a graphic designer.

Microsoft Songsmith Remixes

Amazing...
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/148560

gbv

just in case...

Youtube

I don't know if this video makes me hate youtube or reinforce my love of it. Does it seem like this twelve year-old has already had a stroke, or is it just me?

THANK GOD youtube wasn't around when I was 12.

'Labyrinth' by Jan Leniča

Radiolab - "Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters"

I've been a huge fan of WNYC's Radiolab for quite some time now. My dad first exposed me to the NPR podcast a couple years ago and I spent many hours listening to they unbelievably deep and arresting ventures into seemingly tired themes and subjects.

Radiolab is endlessly entertaining mainly for the topics covered and the innovative/creative ways to explore said themes, but I also truly enjoy the production value. The stories are narrated by specialists or told via first-hand accounts. There is an intrinsically personal aspect that I love in these people (whether botanists in Africa or an adopted child yurning for their long lost father). It also doesn't hurt that they've tapped such talented artists (such as Taylor Deupree of 12k) to create compelling background music.

This particular episode covers questions of patterns in nature and inevitable occurrences in the physical world. Several unique selections are featured, starting with the origins of the Periodic Table of the Elements and ending with a cringe-worthy story of a bot fly burrowing into a mans head.

If you've heard Radiolab before, enjoy this one as I'm sure you've enjoyed the others. If this is your first time, turn off your cell phone, don't do any chores and set aside the next hour for full immersion...

Dive in here.

-bp

pretty great


http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Sparks #2

Also, here's a Sparks video directed by David Lynch

Sparks

I never understood why these guys didn't catch on in America and are generally not mentioned as being influential under any genre - among their fans counted are Bjork, whose first album she ever bought was Kimono My House ("The hippies didn't really like it, they thought it was too pop, it didn't have cred," she lamented. "They thought it was too comical. That was the first time I was like 'I've got a record and I'm going to play it and now you've all got to listen to what I like." - from Bjork's bio "Wow and Flutter") Joey Ramone, Morrissey, Bette Midler, Madonna, and tons of other widely varying figures. It's also not hard to imagine that Queen once toured behind the Sparks and took quite a few notes from the Mael Brothers.

To get an idea of how clever and amazing they really are, here's the lyrics to "Here in Heaven" from Kimono My House, a song sung by Romeo if Juliet had decided to go on living...

Here, there are lots of things to do
And a panoramic view
Of the universe completely surrounding you and me
You cannot buy souvenirs
You're never going back, never, never
Basically, I guess it could be worse
Yes, I do suppose it could be worse

Here, there are many, many sheep
And the people only sleep
And awake to tell how gory and gruesome was their end
And I don't have many friends
And it's really very clean and I'm thinking
Juliet, you broke our little pact
Juliet, I'm never coming back

Up here in Heaven without you
I'm here in Heaven without you
Up here in Heaven without you
It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For years and years and years

Dear, do you often think of me
As you overlook the sea
Co I qualify as dearly departed or am I
That sucker in the sky
The fall guy for the first and the last time
Juliet, I thought we had agreed
Now I know why you let me take the lead

Up here in Heaven without you
I'm here in Heaven without you
Up here in Heaven without you
It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For many, many years

Second thoughts, is that what you had?
Second thoughts, first I broke my back
Second thoughts, as I hit the sea
Second thoughts, for eternity, for eternity, for eternity

Up here in Heaven without you
I'm here in Heaven without you
Up here in Heaven without you
It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For years and years and years

They've got a new record out which I haven't had a chance to listen to but is probably really good - they are the most consistent band I've probably ever heard.
Buy their records!















And here's a song from when they gave disco a swift kick....

Magical Power Mako - 'I Bought An Extraordinarily Big Eye In The Town...."

“One day, I bought an extremely big eye in the town, very cheaply,
When I saw the world through the eye,
Extremely small people were making noise,
Making a fuss about winning or losing,
What pathetic people who only have small eyes,
And they think the universe is the end of this world,
Not knowing that there is another world,
One Day I bought an extraordinarily big eye for a cheap bargain price.”

- ‘I Bought An Extraordinarily Big Eye In The Town One Day For A Good Bargain Price

From Julian Cope's Japrocksampler

Hear it....LAST FM

DJ Dexta of The Avalanches

Never thought I'd be so impressed - This DJ is a-m-a-zing

The Alps - "A Path Through the Moon" and "A Path Through The Sun"

The Alps released one of my favorite albums of 2008. Their album "III" is a fantastic mix of kraut, psych rock and space rock influences to make one of the most listenable jams in a while. The Alps consist of members of Tarentel, Colophon, and Expanding Head Band and these EPs are released on Tarentel's own Root Strata label. Limited to only 100 copies each, I don't feel bad posting the releases in their entirety. ESPECIALLY since they're both mega-sold out already.

If you heard "III" and dug it, check these out. All of the music contained was culled from the recording sessions that didn't make the final cut. I personally enjoy "A Path Through the Sun" more, but they're both great. Lemme know what you think!

Follow this link to grab it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/veh8tn

-bp

J Spaceman & Matthew Shipp - "SpaceShipp"

J Spaceman returns with even more out-there material. The living legend of Spacemen 3 and (still) Spiritualized fame collaborates with Matthew Shipp, a pianist, to create a 40+minute long piece of treated organ drones. It's actually a lot better than I was expecting too!

Since it is Spaceman, the organ is heavily utilized to create a long, vibrating, pulsing, fading and actually enjoyable drone album. I listened to the entire thing at work today and just spaced out for a while. Pretty rad. The album is split into two tracks. The first tracks is the 44-minute long drone track, and the second is a more forward/abstract song which plays more toward Shipp's background.

The Treader label handled this one (as they did for J Spaceman's "Guitar Loops" a couple years ago) and the packaging is this beautiful embossed gold-foil sea-dweller you see above. Definitely worth the extra-bones for purchase.

Enjoy it while this link lasts. (or message me to email it to you again.)

-bp

omar souleyman

mask 500 (skam)

and tommy seebach reminded me of this...

and more...


and because I can't seem to stop...


Check out Snuff Box.

covers and originals I LIKE

APACHE

the Shadows


Tommy Seebach