Wednesday, 23 November 2011

The Ally From Hell

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No nuance from Newt tonight. He apparently wants to run every American through a nude body scanner and bomb everyone else. #CNNDebate

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson Memorial Day 24th November 2011

In memory of our dearest Sleazy who departed this world a year ago, we will be remembering him with deepest love by playing his wonderful music and enjoying the many crazy, fond and funny memories we have of his extraordinary uniqueness. If you feel so moved to do the same then please join us in your own way.
Blessed be Sleazy
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Ken Russell: A House in Bayswater (1960)

"But buried in the middle of 1960 is a film called A House in Bayswater, which is interesting for a number of reasons. At nearly half an hour, it was double the length of a typical Monitor item, and it was also the first of his BBC films not made for Monitor -- he produced it himself during the programme's summer break. It was also by far his most personal film to date -- as the title implies, it's a portrait of a house in Bayswater, but what it doesn't tell you is that Russell himself lived there in the 1950s. Most of the film is straightforward reportage -- we meet the eccentric landlady Mrs Collings and her current tenants, who include the photographer David Hurn, later the subject of Russell's 1963 film Watch the Birdie -- but at the very end there's this extraordinary dreamlike coda, which is quite unlike anything Russell had done up to then. The house is about to be demolished, but just before it vanishes from the map, there's a montage of its occupants and their defining characteristics, seamlessly dissolving into one another as if to cram as many of their memories as possible into what time is left to them before they're irretrievably lost in the rubble." Michael Brooke
http://michaelbrooke.wordpress.com/auteur-of-the-arts-ken-russell-at-the-bbc/
Oh it was such a different time then...(the year I was born!)

Databending using Audacity

Thanks to some help on the Audacity forum I finally know out how to use Audacity to databend. Previously I’d been using mhWavEdit, which has its limitations and just doesn’t feel as familiar as Audacity. From talk on the various databending discussion boards I found that people would often use tools like Cool Edit/Adobe Audition for their bends. Being on Linux and restricting myself to things that run natively (i.e. not under Wine) presented a new challenge. Part of my task was to replicate the methods others have found but under Linux. My ongoing quest is to find things that only Linux can do, which I’m sure I’ll find when I eventually figure out how to pipe data through one program into another!
Here’s some of my current results using Audacity...

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Shelagh Delaney RIP

Huysmans' Benevolent Malice

It was Richard Hell in a Melody Maker interview back in probably 1977 that turned me on to the wonderful Huysmans book À Rebours . A word of advice try and read the translation entitled 'Against The Grain' as opposed to the more common Penguin edition 'Against Nature'.

Those of you who know the Dim Stars cover of the precious stone encrusted tortoise will find its sorry tale in this novel also.

Finally I do seem to recall reading that Oscar Wilde based his character Dorian Gray on his idea of who Huysmans could have been when in fact all the time he was a lowly civil servant in 19th Century France.

Desertshore ft. Mark Kozelek - Diana

Israel's government press adviser quits over eroding journalistic freedom

Sex Pistols' Drawings As Important as Paleolithic Art?

A series of crude graffiti drawn on the walls of a London flat are the "Lascaux of Punk," according to a controversial claim made by two British archaeologists who compared the rude markings to Paleolithic cave art.
Found behind cupboards in the upper room of a two-storey 19th-century house at 6 Denmark Street in London, the intact graffiti was drawn by the Sex Pistols' John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten). The Sex Pistols ushered in an era of punk in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
According to John Schofield, of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, and independent researcher Dr Paul Graves-Brown, the Pistols "cave art" is worthy of being reviewed in the same way archaeologists examine prehistoric art. While Lydon drew the pictures, other members of the band wrote some text on the walls.
"Why should graffiti and interior spaces from 1975 not be approached with the same seriousness as those from a thousand years earlier?" The authors make the point in the current issue of the journal Antiquity.
Presenting a "layering of time and of changing relations over time," the Pistol graffiti reveals "feelings and relationships, personal and political," said the researchers.
"Whilst some of this is documented in published biographies and captured in films and documentary, this very archaeological record offers something visceral and immediate and generates unique insight," they said...

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Rossella Lorenzi @'DiscoveryNews'

Leonard Cohen - Show Me The Place

Leonard Cohen's new album Old Ideas will be released January 31 on Columbia. His first studio album since 2004's Dear Heather, it is "arguably the most overtly spiritual" Leonard Cohen album, according to a press release. "The album's ten songs poetically address some of the most profound quandaries of human existence - the relationship to a transcendent being, love, sexuality, loss and death."
Cohen himself designed the cover, above.
Old Ideas:
01 Going Home
02 Amen
03 Show Me the Place
04 The Darkness
05 Anyhow
06 Crazy to Love You
07 Come Healing
08 Banjo
09 Lullaby
10 Different Sides
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helen_bop Helen G
Living in a post-society, post-dubstep, post-modern, post-baked-potato, pre-coffee world. #nomorelabels

Marc Hype & DJ Uri - Bollykraut

Tracklist:
Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy Indian Stylee
Orchestra Gus Brendel – Night Clipper
Berry Lipman – Exotic Drums
The Poets Of Rhythm – Plus Plus
Charlie Antolinie’s Power Dozen – Marabuena
Siegfried Schwab – High Snobiety
Nina Hagen – Komm Komm
James last – Love For Sale
F Weyer – No Lady
Malcolm’s Locks – Get Up Stand Up
Veronika Fischer & Band – Kirschblüte
Dieter Reith
Bollywood Freaks – Very 1,2,3,4 (Remix)
Rahul Dev Burman – Shalamar
Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai – Psych Funk Sa Re Ga
Ultimate Breaks & Beats – Funky Penguin Inst.
Kalyanji & Anandji – Hemlata
J.J. Johnson – Willie Chase
Apollis – What It Is (Part 1)
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