Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Jonas Mekas: Scenes from Allen Ginsberg's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit, 1997 (excerpt)

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close friends; and the wrapping up and removal of Allen's body from the apartment. You hear Jonas' description of his last conversation with Allen, three days earlier. You see the final farewell at the Buddhist temple, 118 West 22nd Street, New York City, and some of his close friends: Patti Smith, Gregory Corso, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Hiro Yamagata, Anne Waldman, and many others.
Bonus:
This Side of Paradise, 1999 (excerpt)

Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You + Pyramids (LIVE on Saturday Night Live)

Bonus:
Pyramids

The music video for the 10 minute single Pyramids by Frank Ocean spontaneously debuts tonight, shortly after his performance on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Nabil, Australian director and frequent collaborator with Frank Ocean helms the production once more and follows Mr. Ocean’s drunken stumble across desert scenes, a strip club, and a final encounter with John Mayer to conclude the visuals. Listen closely and you’ll hear snippets of other songs from Channel Orange scattered across the video.
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Ironic eh?
Much of Romney’s View on Taxes Conflicts With Longtime G.O.P. Stand

The 47%: Who They Are, Where They Live, How They Vote, and Why They Matter

Spaceboy: We are gonna have some fun with the metal detector :)

XXX

Isn't Mitt Romney a Member of the 47 Percent?

Poverty Tour 2.0 Hits the Battleground States

Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West recently launched "Poverty Tour 2.0" to elevate poverty as a pressing national issue and push a substantive conversation about it into the presidential campaign. The tour is visiting four battleground states this week, including Virginia, where it arrived yesterday at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, just outside of the nation's capital.
The Nation's Greg Kaufmann attended the event—a town hall meeting that included not only Smiley and Dr. West, but inspiring interviews with iconic figures like Peter Edelman, Dolores Huerta, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, and other passionate antipoverty advocates and thinkers.
Watch the full video to hear from some of the high school students in attendance about their own experiences dealing with poverty, and visit TheNation.com for more videos.
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Remembering Lol Coxhill (Cecil Sharp House London) *TONIGHT

What a line up. Remember a great, great man. Only ten quid!

Eyes Without Pupils

Jesus's Wife

Zwölftonwerbung

Kenneth Anger: Elliott’s Suicide, 2007 (excerpt)

Elliott’s Suicide (2007, 15 min, video)
A homage to the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Elliott’s Suicide is a sentimental 15 minute tribute, lacking Anger’s usual irony for obvious reasons. The film begins with shots of friends’ and fans’ last words written on Smith’s memorial on Sunset Boulevard, then to footage of a Macy’s parade, focusing closely on the oddly outfitted participants, some in renaissance attire, cowboys with lassos, and beauty queens. The film is scored with Smith’s music, resulting in a melancholy effect, especially in the segment that follows Smith through the woods and films him as he digs up a guitar, then plays a song. This footage is repeated in the end of the film, but in a negative reversal print, suggesting pretty damn clearly that the subject matter has moved beyond the veil.
excerpt from "New Films from Kenneth Anger" by Mary Hanlon (The Brooklyn Rail, Inc.)
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