Sunn 0))) - Live @ Berlin, Volksbühne 3rd February 2006

Excellent quality. (Webcam)
Via 'Esoteric Sanctuary' here.
ONE MORE WEEK!

Adam Sky VS Mark Stewart - We Are All Prostitutes (Crookers Remix)

Video drawn, animated & directed by Angie Reed.

Amsterdamaged

'Going Dutch' by Russell Shorto (NY Times Magazine 29 April 2009)

"Picture me if you will as I settle at my desk to begin my workday, and feel free to use a Vermeer image as your template. The pale-yellow light that gives Dutch paintings their special glow suffuses the room. The interior is simple, with high walls and beams across the ceiling. The view through the windows of the 17th-century house in which I have my apartment is of similarly gabled buildings lining the other side of one of Amsterdam’s oldest canals. Only instead of a plump maid or a raffish soldier at the center of the canvas, you should substitute a sleep-rumpled writer squinting at a laptop.
For 18 months now I’ve been playing the part of the American in Holland, alternately settling into or bristling against the European way of life. Many of the features of that life are enriching. History echoes from every edifice as you move through your day. The bicycle is not a means of recreation but a genuine form of transportation. A nearby movie house sells not popcorn but demitasses of espresso and glasses of Dutch gin from behind a wood-paneled bar, which somehow makes you feel sane and adult and enfolded in civilization..."

Continue reading the article here.

Russell Shorto is a contributing writer for the 'New York Times' magazine. His most recent book is “Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason.”

Via 'The Netherlands Paradox - Beteween Capitalism & Socialism' @ 'Renegade Futurist' here.

"...This points up something that seems to be overlooked when Americans dismiss European-style social-welfare systems: they are not necessarily state-run or state-financed. Rather, these societies have chosen to combine the various entities that play a role in social well-being — individuals, corporations, government, nongovernmental entities like unions and churches — in different ways, in an effort to balance individual freedom and overall social security..."

Gong - Flying Teapot trilogy

Heppy! Are you alright? Yeah, I'm still gong...

From 'Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine'
Via 'thisisn'thappiness' here.

Fig. 65

From 'A Journey Round My Skull'
Via 'thisisn'thappiness' here.

Respect

Girlz With Gunz # 38

J.G. Ballard in RE/search 8/9 (reprint)

"The Science-Fiction films (in the 40's & 50's) were low budget films, and the directors had to make them out in the streets, so to speak - they couldn't afford to build fancy sets the way people like George Lucas can today. And in that way they maintained their contact with reality, as did film noir. It forces a certain relevance on you. Even...'Blue Velvet' was shot against a very stylised American suburb - but it's a real suburb and that lends a lot of power to that film. I think the lifeline to reality is all-important. - like the umbilical cord between the foetus and the mother."
J.G. Ballard in 'Rolling Stone' (1987)
Via J.G. Ballard - 'Quotes' (RE/search 2004)

Smoking # 8

The black & the red

C.N.T.
See here and here.

Hee-haw...that last post was funny!

My father was a record sleeve...

Label: India Navigation

Cat. #: IN 3026
Format: LP
Release date: 1982

Music by Phill Niblock

Influences

Oren Ambarchi
(Photo by TimN)

Where would you place Sunn O))) in terms of musical lineage?

“That's really a question for Greg and Stephen, but I do hear connections to everything from Black Sabbath to Indian music and minimalist music, especially composers such as Phill Niblock.”

Oren Ambarchi in 'The Wire'
More on Phill Niblock here.

David Simon - dead wrong dinosaur

David Simon (creator of 'The Wire') has certainly got it wrong concerning blogs and bloggers.
story at 'Gawker' here.
Via 'Renegade Futurist' here.