♪♫ Twink & The Fairies - Do It '77

John K - Weekend Pussy Hunt

This is every episode of John K's (Spumco's) groundbreaking flash serial, Weekend Pussy Hunt", originally shown in the late-nineties at Spumco.com. They're transferred from the 12 original SWF episodes and, for the first time, edited together as a complete cartoon (well, as complete as it gets). There are storyboards for the unfinished 13th episode available at Jim Smith's blog (Google it). It's a shame this cartoon was never completed. Story: George Liquor's new puppy is teased by a cat named Cigarettes. It's all innocent fun until it's revealed that George's dog is actually Dirty Dog, a maniacal non-stop killing machine. The story takes a twisted turn into a creepy film noir thriller similar to Night of the Hunter or Cape Fear. The story gets dark, real dark. ENJOY!

Davy Jones RIP

Davy Jones in Melbourne in 1980.

Monkees singer Davy Jones dies  at 66

 

...and to those that rubbish The Monkees, watch Head and listen to the album.

Norman Westberg's Brain

Several years ago I noticed a loss of hearing in my right ear and decided that it was high time that I had it checked out by a professional. The audiologist confirmed the uneven hearing loss and recommended an MRI. The purpose of the MRI was to make sure that there was not something other than my own aural misadventures causing the uneven loss. As I was checking out after the scan, the receptionist handed me a disc to give to my doctor. I went home and immediately plugged it into my computer and voila, over 100 scanned slices of my head.
Each of the 75 CDs in this limited edition is printed with one of these scans. No two are the same. Each CD is hand signed and numbered.
The track is a 15+ minute atmospheric guitar piece. I played my Telecaster into two amps with an array of delays and effects. Tracked onto a Porta 1 tape recorder, then manipulated in Sound Forge, 16bit, 44.1 Stereo Wave for the finish. This track is done as one pass.
This is homemade all the way.

Limited Edition of 75 - CD by Norman Westberg

(Thanx Martin!)

Deutsche Girls

Music by Adam & the Ants

How piracy built the U.S. publishing industry

♪♫ Gorillaz (featuring Andre 3000 and James Murphy) - DoYaThing

Bonus:

Soldiers raiding Palestinian homes: ‘We want peace’

(Thanx Dave!)

♪♫ Miles Davis - Heavy Metal Prelude (Live In Munich 1988)

Marilyn Mazur (percussionist) is the star here. She beats it to a pulp. Miles mostly just looks like a badass in this clip, with a few precious toots and a couple of keyboard hits.

Occupy LSX may be gone, but the movement won't be forgotten

Write something about it in your quality, ethical magazine The Sunday Sun old chap....

Rupert Murdoch ‏ @rupertmurdoch

Now they are complaining about R Brooks saving an old horse from the glue factory!

...tho personally speaking I think the glue factory is too good for Rebekah!

Left: A horse  Right: Rebekah

Police horse lent to Rebekah Brooks returned in 'poor condition'

HA!!!

Beirut: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Republicans could pay a heavy price for wooing the tough guy of immigration

Silent Sound

Silent Sound is an epic performance and installation project, first presented by A Foundation during the Liverpool Biennial in 2006.
It is a uniquely emotive experience which taps into the framework of Victorian public performance to explore the mind's susceptibility to subliminal suggestion.
The performance took place in the Small Concert Hall at St. George's Hall in Liverpool, where in 1865 The Davenport Brothers had performed their public seance act on the same stage. During Silent Sound the artists are seated inside a soundproof booth, inspired by the Davenport's 'Spirit Cabinet'. In unison, they repeat a secret phrase and using heir custom-made Silent Sound Machine this statement attempts to be subliminally embedded into a music recital. The original score for Silent Sound was composed by J. Spaceman (aka Jason Pierce from the band Spiritualized). The performance was introduced by parapsychologist Dr. Ciaran O'Keeffe.
Silent Sound was installed for Art Positions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 in a shipping container on the beach, and was described by the New York Times as "“one of the fair’s biggest word-of-mouth hits”.
More information about the performance: iainandjane.com/work/live-art/silent-sound-live/
More information about the installation: iainandjane.com/work/installation/silent-sound/

Primal Scream VS The Pop Group: Bobby Gillespie & Mark Stewart in conversation

Leader of the influential band The Pop Group, Mark Stewart is making his return with new solo album The Politics Of Envy on 26 March, boasting a host of collaborations including cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, punk pioneer Richard Hell, Factory Floor, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and more. Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie appears on first single Autonomia, and the pair sat down to discuss the music and politics that have influenced their outlook as artists and their lives. In Part I, Gillespie and Stewart chat about their early days and shared heroes.
In Part 2 they chat about bending genres, political activism and Donna Summer...