Donald Duck: The Golden Mean (1959)

Contrast and compare with the crap on kid's TV these days

Honk if you're an 8THEIST: how forbidden vanity plates vary by US state

The mystery of the 'The Girls on the Negatives'

Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo - Hobo Blues (House concert @Sagginale Florence 31/05/16)

Got to say  that I was very impressed with Hugo and the True Spirit down at my local the other night. Michelangelo was there with his trumpet and harmonica and his array of fx boxes and man the rhythm section of Brett Poliness and Bryan Colechin were really tight and having heard a few Can covers over my gig going years I have to say that their version of Mushroom was probably the best yet. Bryan got as close to the gawdlike genius of Jaki Leibezeit as I have ever heard.

Do  catch them if you can as I really can't recommend them highly enough.
Do also check out Hugo's excellent book 'Road Series'. You can read a few essays by him at Overland here.

Marco Fusinato: Double Infinitives

A selection of images from the print media of the decisive moment in a riot in which a protagonist brandishes a rock against a backdrop of fire. Each image is from a different part of the world, from the early twenty-first century, and is blown up to history-painting scale using the latest commercial print technologies
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1966: 50 Years Ago Today (Arena BBC)

Based on Jon Savage's book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded, Arena marks the year pop music and popular culture ripped up the rule book in articulate, instinctive and radical new ways.
This was the year of Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland, Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment, and the year that Strawberry Fields Forever was recorded. Television was still in black and white, but the world outside was bursting with colour and controversy. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late 1950s reached boiling point. In popular culture and the mass media, 1966 was a year of restless experimentation and the search for new forms of expression - particularly in pop music.
Written by Savage and director Paul Tickell, Arena's film takes viewers back to that moment in a vivid celebration of the music, films and TV that shaped the 1960s

We are not amused

Jim Morin

Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin

#CensusFail is a failure to listen to ‘experts’ and it’s complicated...

Pronounced 'Yah-kee Leebeh-tsite'

Half man, half machine. That’s what they say about Jaki Liebezeit’s skills as a drummer and his metronome style of playing. The founding member of legendary krautrock outfit Can has been called “one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral” by Jeff Norman. Born in 1939 in Dresden, Liebezeit started out as a jazz musician. Spending the early sixties in Barcelona, he played with Chet Baker and Tete Montoliu, joined the Manfred Schoof Quintet a little bit later, shaped European free jazz and finally took a ride into the psychedelic realm with Can – a group that always stressed that they were anything but a rock band. The 1980s saw Liebezeit as a member of Phantomband, working with Jah Wobble, Depeche Mode or Brian Eno and forming drum ensembles such as Drums Off Chaos and Club Off Chaos. In recent years, most of all, his efforts with Burnt Friedman have been the center of attention
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Off to this NOW

At  the local pub 842 steps away...

Headline o'the day

Chemistry. Not an exact science eh?

LOL

New Leonard Cohen album coming

Oh that Leonard Cohen! Weeks away from his 82nd birthday and still working as hard as ever. In a handful of weeks he'll release a brand new album. It's called "You Want It Darker" [my answer: yes please]. It was produced by Adam Cohen, his son, and there are nine new songs. Here's the tracklist.
1. “You Want It Darker”
2. “Treaty”
3. “On the Level”
4. “Leaving the Table”
5. “If I Didn’t Have Your Love”
6. “Traveling Light”
7. “Seemed the Better Way”
8. “Steer Your Way”
9. String Reprise/ Treaty
And here he is on the front cover, hanging out of a picture frame, or a window - Leonard Cohen likes windows - with one of the occasional cigarettes he's smoked since he allowed himself to resume the habit on his 80th birthday
Sylvie Simmons