By Robert Ham Doc - Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Watch more on Network Awesome In his book Retromania , peerless cultural critic Simon Reynolds spends an entire chapter talking about a particularly "Japanese sensibility": "the way that [they] would curate, assimilate and reprocess Western popular culture. "According [journalist W. David] Marx, in Japan style is not personal, a [...]
FOOD is a short film directed by aritst/photographer Robert Frank about Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden's conceptual restaurant. Founded in 1972 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, FOOD brought together many factors of the local community, artists and otherwise, becoming a space for dialogue and conversation as well as a living piece in it of itself. (watch the film after the jump) The player will show in this paragraph Matta-Clark would commission artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage to create meals, many of which were unedible. [...]
Ronnie Hawkins - The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman (Let Him Live, Let Him Live, Let Him Live) Hoyle Miller - Twelve Years On Death Row Country Johnny Mathis - Caryl Chessman In July 1948, Caryl Chessman, also known as "The Red Light Bandit," was sentenced to die in the California gas chamber after being convicted on 17 charges of robbery, kidnapping [...]
"One never know, do one?" - Fats Waller Today's tape was intriguing enough when I heard the first six minutes of it. When I heard the remainder of the tape (which also indicated what that six minutes had been recorded over, I was even more fascinated. Recorded over the initial third of the tape, at 15 IPS (the speed often used at recording studios), in whole track mono, after some initial setting up sounds, were versions of two Rockabilly classics, the first being "Heartless Woman" (most often associated with Terry Noland ) and the second [...]
"I know you think I'm morbid when I say / I hope you die by my side / The two of us at the exact same time." The lyric above is from Stockholm artist Molly Nilsson's song "I Hope You Die," and while it may read like melodramatic Rome and Juliet- inspired high school scribblings, over washes of synthesizers, punches of keyboard, and a hip-loosening snap of snare, it becomes a Cure-quality fix of potent goth-styled pop music: introspective, occasionally lyrically dreary, and an absolute blast to pump over the stereo. Nilsson's atmospheric and [...]
Light Asylum equally appeal to hip adults with taste and teens going through their goth phase. We predict that they'll be massive.
The Super Bowl halftime show is, despite recent history, remarkably gay , according to Slate. The early shows may have featured old-fashioned university marching bands, but by Super Bowl V, Carol Channing was headlining. By Super Bowl XXVI, Brian Boitano was figure-skating onstage, with music by Gloria Estefan. There's still no excuse for the Black Eyed Peas, however.
Last week the web was wriggling with outrage over The Disney Store Corporation offering for sale a Mickey Mouse™ T-shirt in the graphic style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover -- not that the iconic white-on-black waveform image (plucked from the Cambidge Encyclopedia of Astronomy by drummer Stephen Morris) was any stranger to absurd marketing schemes . Punters pointed out the irony in Disney (prehaps innocently) associating their Family Friendly™ brand with Joy Division, whose lead singer hung [...]
Oldie but Goodie Collaboration between Glenn Beck and The Invisible Committee - - - Glenn Beck lives and works in Dallas, TX You can purchase The Coming Insurrection here
The Verge sat down with blogger and Stellar.io creator Jason Kottke . Most people linking to the interview are pulling the quote about how Kottke's able to do in 2-3 hours of blogging what it used to take him 6-8 hours. Here's the part that fascinates me: What's your primary browser? Firefox, I guess. I keep that, Safari, and Chrome running all the time...Safari is my blogging browser, Firefox is for development, and Chrome is for fun. Now that I think about it, [...]
The Tale Of Floyd Collins come to us from Arkansas native Ronnie Hawkins, who found success and fame after following Conway Twitty's advice and relocating to Canada. In 1960, Hawkins, a cousin of rockabilly pioneer Dale Hawkins, released this long-after-the fact topical song about the 1925 death of cave explorer Floyd Collins who became trapped 55 feet underground in what is now part of Mammoth Cave National Park just outside of Cave City, Kentucky. Collins got stuck while exploring and though rescue teams worked around the clock to try to [...]
The ghastly Spectres which were doomed at last To tell as true a tale of dangers past, As ever the dark annals of the deep Disclosed for man to dread or woman weep. -- The Island , Lord Byron In 1960, while on a scouting journey for locations for Mutiny On The Bounty , Marlon Brando visits the atoll Tetiaroa and falls in love with the former home of Tahitian royalty. Two years later, Brando marries his second Mutiny [...]
Double Tap, The Zombie Watch is our first line of defense against the undead scourge. Join us as we search for all things zombie and zombie-related, but don't forget to double tap. Safety first! The zombie has been described as either an urban legend, supernatural being, mythological creation, voodoo sorcery or just some absurd concept that American teenagers are obsessed with. However, just like everything else, the zombie has a story of its own. Zombie history is enigmatic at best but its cultural significance cannot be underplayed because the tale of zombies paints a dark picture [...]
Thank you to the Appalachian Trail Museum for posting another Appalachian Trail log from 1983. This time it's from Spring Mountain Shelter , located in Tennessee on the North Carolina border, just north of Hot Springs. The shelter is at 3,300 feet, 282.2 miles from Springer and 1898.2 from Katahdin. MP3: Henri Tixier - Les Là-Bas
As someone who loves old stuff, especially old musical instruments, this is hard to read: A massive cache of musical treasures that's grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for "The Green Hornet" radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn and now languish, rarely seen or heard, in a Michigan storage vault. That's the lede to a story detailing the fate of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Donated to the University of Michigan in [...]
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 I watched part of The Crow last night (yeah, just part...we had to turn it off it was so bad) and was struck by how much of a solidified, historical aesthetic the '90s already has, just as much as the '80s or the '70s are a static time capsule of cultural silliness. Yes, it was when I saw the faux-wet goth haircut of [...]
So: Bullriding. You get on the bull in a chute, and the gate opens, and the bull comes out and bucks, and you stay on as long as you can, and then you fall off. Or, if you manage to stay on for eight (8!) seconds, then they blow a horn and you can jump off. And then what happens? You're on the ground, in an enclosed area, with a pissed-off 2200-pound animal with big testicles, big horns, and also possibly 'roid rage. (There was a bull-doping steroids scandal in 2007.) For your protection, [...]
By Gabriella Arrigoni Collection: TV Party Watch more on Network Awesome Not always, actually quite seldom, is the distinction between art and absurdity a relevant one. And it certainly doesn't matter when in a TV show you combine live music, in-studio party, fancy dress, videotapes, punk, disco, anarchism, new wave, visual arts, rap, interviews, phone-in sessions, shaky camera angles, crude advertising and live drug taking. All this [...]
Ok so firstly two things to demonstrate how much I love this: a) usually I limit myself to one post a day so I don't burn all the stuff i find b) I really really need to be revising. But this needs to be heard. Originally broadcast in 2009 on BBC1Extra, this is an hour long mix celebrating hip hop since it's birth with Sugar Hill Gang. And what a journey it takes you on. It's nuts, you gotta listen to it from front to back. PARTY PEOPLE YOUR DREAM HAS NOW BEEN FULFILLED [...]
A rare, handwritten letter by composer Ludwig van Beethoven has revealed that he was just like everyone else. In the letter, he complained of his "low salary" and tons of other gripes. So, minus the musical genius legacy, he was just like you or I.
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