Happy birthday Moira!!!

Not bad...after missing your last 30 birthdays, I am a day ahead of you now too and therefore behind!!!
Hey there is always next year!
Have a wee toetap on me.
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The Threshold HouseBoys Choir - A Time of Happening

Filmed at the GinJae (vegetarian) Festival held in Bangkok Thailand.
This was Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson's first musical venture since the untimely death of his Coil partner John Balance.

This video is incredibly hypnotic and is the first part of the Threshold HouseBoys Choir CD/DVD release 'Form Grows Rampant'.
All voices are from indigenous sources, completely re-styled, re-tuned and re-arranged.
The sound & vision on this release work perfectly together.
Would you expect anything else from someone who was part of the Hipgnosis design group for so long?

Sleazy is probably packing his bags at his compound in Thailand at this present time to go and 'wreck some civilisation' in America as Throbbing Gristle are about to perform there for the first time since 1981.

Boy am I jealous of the people going this time around, though I was lucky enough to have witnessed numerous performances by TG in London in the seventies and (very) early eighties.

(Use the search engine to the right as there is more TG scattered throughout this blog!)

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine*

This painting 'Christ of the St. John of the Cross' by Salvador Dali hangs in

Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow.
It was bought in 1951 for £8,200 although Dali initially asked the Glasgow Corporation for £12,000 for the painting. Unusually, Dali also signed away the copyright of the image.
The purchase proved controversial coming as it did just seven years after the end of the Second World War, with many suggesting the funds would be better spent elsewhere.
The Spanish government is said to have recently offered £80 million for the painting, an offer allegedly turned down.
In 1961 a visitor to the museum threw a brick at the painting seriously damaging it. His reason being that he objected to the fact that the viewer is looking down on Christ.
Kelvingrove Gallery is now the most popular free visitor attraction in Scotland and the 14th most popular major gallery in the world.

Growing up in Glasgow I used to wag, sorry (been in Australia so long) skive school (a lot) and take myself off to the gallery and I could (and did) spend hours just looking at this picture.
I really am not a fan of the majority of Dali's paintings but there is something about this picture that intrigues me.
When/If I ever work out what it is - I shall let you know I promise.

* Patti Smith

Brion Gysin's illustrations for 'Time' by William S. Burroughs (1965)

William S. Burroughs created his own version of Time magazine in 1965.
It included a cover taken from the authentic 'Time' (November 30, 1962) which was then collaged over by Burroughs with a reproduction of a drawing, four drawings by Brion Gysin and twenty-six pages of typescript comprised of cut up texts and various photographs serving as news items.
Time was bootlegged in 1972 by Roy Pennington as an 'Urgency Press Rip Off'.
According to Maynard & Miles, Pennington published this bootleg edition for sale at the Bickershaw Festival.

Note: There is a copy for sale at present here for $350 (US)

My late friend Mike Hart (from Compendium Bookshop in Camden Town London) had a copy of this as well as Burrough's
'Mayfair Academy Series More or Less' (also published by 'Urgency Press Rip Off').
I hope that after Mike passed away his amazing collection of books and records found a good home (tho' if his son Stephen is anything like his Father, they will be in safe hands).
Back in the 70's in London I had actually managed to collect most of the original issues of 'Mayfair' from the couple of years or so that contained Burrough's column.
Most (but not all) of them were collected in such anthologies as 'Port of Saints' & 'Exterminator!'

If there is anyone out there who has a copy of either of these and wouldn't mind photo-copying or scanning the contents...well I would be eternally grateful!

Full story & scans of 'Time' available at 'Reality Studio' here.

Paris nocturne

'Hyper-Photo'

Kanye's blog response to 'South Park'

"SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT'S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY EGO THOUGH. HAVING THE CRAZY EGO IS PLAYED OUT AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE AND CAREER. I USE TO USE IT TO BUILD UP MY ESTEEM WHEN NOBODY BELIEVED IN ME. NOW THAT PEOPLE DO BELIEVE AND SUPPORT MY MUSIC AND PRODUCTS THE BEST RESPONSE IS THANK YOU INSTEAD OF "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" IT'S COOL TO TALK SHIT WHEN YOU'RE RAPPING BUT NOT IN REAL LIFE. WHEN YOU MEET LITTLE WAYNE IN PERSON HE'S THE NICEST GUY FOR EXAMPLE. I JUST WANNA BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM. I NEED TO JUST GET PAST MYSELF. DROP THE BRAVADO AND JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT. EVERYTHING IS NOT THAT SERIOUS. AS LONG AS PEOPLE THINK I ACT LIKE A BITCH THIS TYPE OF SHIT WILL HAPPEN TO ME. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I'M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE. I'M SURE THE WRITERS AT SOUTH PARK ARE REALLY NICE PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DRAW MY CREW. THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY ALSO!! I'M SURE THERE'S GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THIS... THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW IT'S ME!"
(here)

The Black Angels - You On The Run

As featured in 'The Limits of Control'.

Boris: skateboards

Details here.

Boris: graphics

These graphics are affectionate pastiches of the Virgin Records logo (circa the mid seventies) designed by Roger Dean and of Nick Drake's classic 1970 album 'Bryter Layter' for the cover of 'Akuma no Uta'.

The original inspirations:

'The Limits of Control' soundtrack details

The soundtrack to the new Jim Jarmusch film 'The Limits of Control' will feature the following sounds:

01. Intro - Bad Rabbit*
02. Fuzzy Reactor - Boris with Michio Kurihara
03. Saeta - La Macarena
04. Sea Green Sea - Bad Rabbit
05. Feedbacker (TLOC Edit) - Boris
06. Por Compasión: Malaguenas - Manuel el Sevillano
07. Farewell - Boris
08. N.L.T. - Sunn O))) & Boris
09. El Que Se Tenga Por Grande - Carmen Linares
10. Dawn - Bad Rabbit
11. You On The Run - The Black Angels
12. Omens and Portents 1: The Driver (TLOC Edit) – Earth and Bill Frisell
13. El Que Se Tenga Por Grande - Talegón de Córdoba & Jorge Rodriguez Padilla
14. Blood Swamp (TLOC Edit) - Sunn O))) & Boris
15. Schubert 2. Adagio [String Quintet in C, D.956] (TLOC Edit) - Ensemble Villa Musica
16. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem
17. " " (TLOC Edit) - Boris

*Bad Rabbit is actually Jim Jarmusch's new band and they will also soon be releasing an EP thru' iTunes

"I have a file of the music that I think is appropriate atmospherically for each film, and that has inspired me even before shooting. I pick the music, so there's no music supervisor per se...When I was writing 'The Limits of Control,' I was already imagining using some things from Boris and Sunn O))), and Earth and The Black Angels. I made [director of photography] Chris Doyle CDs so he could listen to Boris; you could categorize Boris as a psychedelic/noise/metal band, but they're just so original."
- Jim Jarmusch

'Brooklyn Vegan'.

Boris - Statement

For HerrB.

Message:

Thank you.

Translation: "Welcome to our country Mr. President, I am an idiot!"

Turkish TV news anchor dons 'blackface' to report on Obama's visit.
(Thanx again to the 'hangover-helper'.)

Don't forget to send a postcard

One of my favourite destinations on the blogosphere is shutting up shop for a couple of weeks as the 'fucoid' explores the Carpathians.
Have fun, "bon-voyage" and stay safe.
PS: I suspect (hope) that your package will be awaiting you on your return.
(Just been a bit of a delay as my burner has decided to pack in!)

Always trust a policeman?

A video sheds new light on the death of Ian Tomlinson, a 47 year old newspaper seller who had been on his way home from work when he was confronted by lines of riot police near the Bank of England at the recent G.20 protest in London. The film (here) reveals that as he walks, with his hands in his pockets, he does not speak to the police or offer any resistance. A phalanx of officers, some with dogs and some in riot gear, are close behind him and try to urge him forward. A Metropolitan police officer appears to strike him with a baton, hitting him from behind on his upper thigh. Moments later, the same policeman rushes forward and, using both hands, pushes Tomlinson in the back and sends him flying to the ground, where he remonstrates with police who stand back, leaving bystanders to help him to his feet.The man who shot the footage, a fund manager from New York who was in London on business, said: "The primary reason for me coming forward is that it was clear the family were not getting any answers."

Story from 'The Guardian' here.

(Thanx to the 'hangover-helper' for pointing me in this direction.)

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Bloggers of the world unite # 2 (well most of us anyway...)

Girlz With Gunz # 29

Yesterday's Paul Haig posts on various blogs around the world (here) showed the camaraderie that can exist in this part of cyberspace and to me was an example of why I love doing this blog.
I have been an avid follower of blogs ever since I got a computer of my own, which was only about four years ago.
My two eldest boys are computer whizz-kids and have been since the year dot but it was only when I went back to 'school' for the first time in about thirty years that I realised the necessity of a computer in this day and age and was faced with a very steep learning curve as I had to have written instructions every time that I went to burn a CD for example. (See Luddite.)
Let's just say that technology and I are not the best of friends.
At the age of 49 I still cannot drive a car.
But being as obsessed with music as I am I soon discovered blogs and the wonders that they can contain. Soon the idea came into my head that maybe I should start my own blog and everytime I went to ask my sons if they could help me set up one I was invariably given the answer... "later".
Fast forward a number of years to the tail end of last September and I thought "bugger it, let's see if I can set one up without their help" and lo and behold five minutes later here was this blog.
Of course now I had a blog and no readers but after putting the word out to friends and leaving comments on other blogs my readership started to grow.
At this point I would like to mention Bumkuncha over at the 'Pathways To Unknown Worlds' blog (here) who linked back to a couple of posts of mine and also to the writer Dennis Cooper (here) both of whom were really instrumental in seeing me attract a large number of new readers, so much so that I just passed 50,000 visitors a couple of weeks ago.
As somebody who has been on a disability pension for over fifteen years you probably have no idea how much of a new lease of life this blog has given me, and there is no alterior motive - there are no advertisements on this blog.
Every day I wake up with absolutely no idea what it is that will be put on this blog for that day. It may be something that I have come across on the web or in the news or something that someone said or invariably something that rises up from my very over crowded brain (and believe me when I say that. You truly wouldn't want to live with it, trust me)!
So as I said before it was great that yesterday there we were, people from all around the world that in most cases don't know each other, all blogging about the same subject.
And it felt really good!
Doing this blog has also introduced me to a number of people that I otherwise would have never met and in some cases our relationship has moved from the comments section and on to facebook or private e-mail.

Just when you think it's all going good...

So last weekend I decided that I would start a new blog devoted purely to music that I like. It could be any style. There was just one other criteria and that was that it is not readily available all over the web, in other words hopefully pretty unique. So imagine my disappointment (and I am not sure if that is the word to describe the way I feel) when I discovered that another blog is just ripping off my content and putting it on their blog. Now I am not going to mention the name of the blog here and give them free publicity but guys that is NOT what blogging is about. I am of course not the only one they are ripping off but I can't even be bothered entering into a dialogue with them as I have seen where that has got the other people who have tried i.e. NOWHERE! It has been pointed out that at least they do credit where they are ripping off from and for that I suppose I should be grateful. Blogging is not hard work and hopefully mine will make you laugh or think or turn you onto something that you have not come across or...but it is all (mostly) my own work (and is fully credited if not).

Which brings me on to one last thing...

"Listen; I don’t want to include you to the degree of giving you unlimited access to my life or mental space, That's not what blogging is about. It is, or should be light, casual, offhand & your obsessive, almost stalkerish comments are spoiling it for me. I don’t feel it’s necessary yet to ban you outright either, since your interest is mildly flattering, but I will if you persist in this crap. What I want is for you to chill out & stop acting like some sadsack pathetic little puppy desperately seeking my attention and approval. I don't know you and I really don't want to. What I did nearly thirty years ago in terms of music is really of very little current interest to me & when & if I decide to write about it it'll be at a time and place of my choosing. So once more, just STOP."

(Eh?)

Yes that is reference to comment that I left at a blog.
What may you ask has prompted such a response?
Well here is the comment in question:

"Anyway I came across this:
http://kiwitapes.blogspot.com/2008/03/coming-april-1st.html
Any of your label releases on it?
Also picked up a really interesting Hip-hop and NZ book at the op shop the other day. A good read, just lent it to a friend to look out (sic) and can't remember the title.
Regards/"
M

To backtrack. I found out that this blog in New Zealand had very kindly put a blurb about mine calling it "interesting" (which hopefully it is) and I added it to my bloglist and would look at it once every couple of weeks and to be honest mostly enjoyed the author's 'pro-situ/anarchist' writings/links as well as his backstory gleaned from his blog about the fact that he had run a record label in NZ back in the 70's (hence the reference above. All I know about NZ music has been got via 'Flying Nun') and the fact that he had produced magazines as well as running an Anarchist bookshop in the city he lives in.
Sound like the sort of fellow that you would enjoy a beer and a natter with in the pub?
Yes I left some comments.
I would think that there were between 8-10 in the past six months and all were related to music. An example being that when he had mentioned that he couldn't unzip files (!) I even went to the trouble of uploading a couple of individual mp3 files of a band that I knew he liked (it was on his blog) and doubted that he would have as they were the 'B' side of their latest single.
So I apologise for that "crap" but if I may point out that my interest is in the music not in you, and don't worry-your blog has been taken out of my list and I will ban myself.
There, now we both feel better.
To the rest of you, please feel free to leave comments. I think it's nice to get some feedback and I am not in the slightest bit paranoid I can assure you and finally if you want to send me some mp3's could you please make it:
SHANKAR - 'SOUL SEARCHER'
(Received thanx to Burning Dervish.)
&/OR
SHIN E - 'LIGHT YEARS'
(Both are Bill Laswell productions that I have never heard.)
You can send them in zip format as
I DO know how to extract the mp3's.
Regards/

PS: Do grab that 4 CD Kiwi Tapes set. A great intro to NZ rock especially in conjunction with the 'Flying Nun' 25th Anniversary boxed set which is available if you look for it.

REPOST - Who is that masked man?

As we have been talking about Scottish musicians who deserve a wider audience (Paul Haig here).
I thought it was apt to repost one of the most 'bonkers' albums that you will ever hear in your life, from the man who is never seen in public without the full regalia below and who is now trying to get into political life in Scotland.
As an added bonus (which scared the shit out of me when I first heard it) the album starts off with the sound of my old gym teacher from school in Scotland.
Memo to Education Depts. - Never let professional sportsmen whose career have been curtailed thru injury teach gym at schools!
(NB - This album was engineered by Adrian Sherwood and features Tackhead amongst the musicians.)

Jesse Rae

"COMPRESSION"
The proudly-Scottish singer and songwriter, renowned for his fondness for traditional battle-dress, discusses his 1995 ISDN "Compression" album with Wendy E. Ball, recorded during his time of collaboration with Adrian Sherwood:
"How the idea started was that, coming from the Borders [***Ed.: ...of Scotland, specifically St. Boswells...***] and then going away and living abroad in the States for many years, I always wanted to come back, have a family and live here again. But I was concerned that there wasn’t a music industry in Scotland and I was hoping, twelve years ago, that there was at least the start. So I thought I'd come back having timed it right. Just shows you how wrong I was!
"So I had to figure away and was thinking, "How do I still hook up with my friends who were thousands of miles away?" I’d heard a story from a friend of mine, who was an engineer in New York, that Capitol Records in LA were doing a recording with Frank Sinatra in his house and he was having guest artists coming in through the telephone line. So I thought I’d find out more about it. I was really desperate to make this album with my friends before they all dispersed all over the place.
"I hadn’t the money to go back out and live there for six months to do it and I couldn’t get a record company to pay for it so I contacted BT [***Ed.: ...a big phone company in the UK...***] and I found a really good bloke called Ray Pritchard who was into my music and stuff. He said that they were trying to launch ISDN in 1992-3. I said to him "Look, I’ll make you a deal. You install the ISDN lines here and I’ll give you my music to promote so that you can show off what it’s capable of doing." That’s really how it came about."
So when did this, this come out?
"1995. It took about a year. The whole ISDN system was just up and running and so, for instance, we did the first [link] through to Africa and rhino and all sorts of things would run over the lines and they'd be out! So there were things that were kind of difficult to get back on line quickly. You know, until some, some wee lad goes out there with a pair of wire clippers and puts it back together again, you know? So, eventually I managed to install ISDN lines in a studio which I’d used in America called ‘House of Music’ in Orange, New Jersey. That’s the home of the P-Funk - the funkadelic lot of the top black musicians that inspired Prince and all that other stuff. They were my pals there and so it was easy for them to come in and do some stuff."
Would it not need a lot of logistical organisation, you know, when it’s sort of midnight in New York?
"I had a huge phone bill to begin with. Now ISDN is a penny a minute or something and it’s really cheap, you know. At the time it was quite expensive. It was like, a pound a minute and we were on-line for eight hours sometimes! They [BT] paid for that just 'til we got to the stage where we'd got the recordings done. After that, then I had to try and finance the thing myself.
"It was interesting to say the least that, you know, I could sing Umhlaba Jikelele with someone in Africa and they were singing with me. I also organised this live television shoot with ISDN as well, so that I had a TV monitor here and I had a cameraman running out with the long cable that went about fifty metres back to the studio. They had a PA out in the streets, and I was speaking in real time, telling him the shots I wanted and telling the girls to sing, when to come in on the beat and stuff. This was amazing. There was a real friendliness about the thing and that’s what really pleased me - because then I realised the potential of that and especially sound quality ... you could hear everything so clearly."
Has it been repeated, the experience?
"There was this group Future Sound Of London. They got a lot of glory for it but we were actually first because I put the ISDN lines into On-U Sound. On-U Sound with Adrian Sherwood was doing the big dub. They did a lot of reggae and they were a purist kind of dub funk lot that had a lot of respect in the industry but weren’t, like, the big commercial end of things. Future Sound Of London after we had done it brought out a record that they had done through ISDN but not to the extent we had."
You were talking about the track Braveheart?
"Yeh, Braveheart. I did a live ISDN show in Glasgow. I really don’t think people knew what the hell I was doing to be quite honest. But I had the video screen up, we had the video, we had Doug Wimbish from Living Colour, Skip McDonald from Tackhead and the heavy duty lads playing live in London."
What about the relationship between the audience and the performer? Is that not lacking a bit?
"Well, you see, what I did was to compensate for that. I stuck a mike up in the room and I stuck a mike up in Glasgow so the, the audience could shout along and, shout things to the bass player or the drummer and they could respond to it, which is really the whole point of communication doing a live gig. If the audience were just sitting and watching a screen and listening to incoming sound, and they weren’t actually able to participate, but if they whistled and they clapped and they shouted something for Keith LeBlanc, he'd lifted his drumstick and he waved it at them and he played something.
"It allowed that contact element that maybe might not have been there unless I’d done that. But I was aware of that and I thought, "Well, they’re just going to think they’re watching a tape. How are they going to know it’s live?", I mean one bloke was heckling away there and he was adamant about it, you know. And Doug just turned round and said, "What the hell’s wrong with you man. Sit doon!" You know. Well, he’s American but he said it in those terms and the guy was just sort of dumbfounded that he could see them in the club in Glasgow and was telling them to sit down!
So no, the potential of it is amazing and I’m glad I’ve done it."

(Re-edited extracts from an interview originally transcribed in the Scottish Borders Memory Bank)

Why GITMO accountability matters

Broadcast: April 3 2009 'The Rachel Maddow Show'
Thanx to Mike Nobody.

Public Image Ltd. - Rise

International Paul Haig Day (Bloggers of the World Unite!)

(Photo of Paul Haig @ the Edinburgh Festival 2008 by Sara Simmons.)

Blogs have been receiving ever more frequent DMCA take down notices from record industry bodies that clearly have no idea what they are doing.
Last year this blog had two posts taken down that in both cases linked to music at the archive.org where the music is legitimately available for free download.
Google themselves have said "that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims. "
Recently 'The Vinyl Villian' (see here) in Glasgow had a post pulled that contained a track by Paul Haig.
The artist and his management were appalled that it had been pulled from the blog as they see this as a legitimate way of Paul's music getting heard by more people.

PRESS RELEASE FROM PAUL HAIG'S MANAGEMENT
From: evanj.henderson@blueyonder.co.uk
To: thevinylvillain@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Paul Haig Day April 6
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:12:01 +0100

Basic premise: Blogs being targetted randomly by ISP’s to take down music where artists are happy about receiving the extra coverage. Paul Haig gave a free track ‘Reason’ to the vinyl villain to give away in support of the bloggers network and to test his theory abut random notices being served.

In thanks the bloggers have agreed to make April 6 Paul Haig Day. As many bloggers will make ‘Reason’ available on their blogs as possible.

Blogs are essential promo tools for all artists as music comes recommended.

Most artists express the view that as many people should be able to hear their music as possible by whatever means. The fan will then go to a concert or buy back catalogue get the vinyl or even the new cd. The Internet is just like radio was 20 years ago…kind of!

If you have a great track the best method of getting it heard is over the net – where word is spread by the real music fans - Hearing new music is based on recommendation not by mass advertising budgets….unless you are U2, blogs or free music on the net has got to be the future…

Evan Label Manager ROLinc

It has therefore been decided that today will see blogs around the world offer some music from Paul Haig (and if you don't know who he is, then please investigate Josef K or other work that Paul has done solo or with both Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine (from The Associates) or other collaborations with members of New Order, A Certain Ratio and Cabaret Voltaire.
For more information do check out the 'Vinyl Villian' and see how the day progresses.

AUDIO:
'REASON' by PAUL HAIG.
HERE.
This song is (c) Paul Haig and he is allowing anyone who wants to post this to do so.
Now let's see if any DMCA notices are issued!

Other blogs taking part today include:

The Vinyl Villian
Condemned To Rock'n'Roll

Tracklister
The World According To Davenelli
Acid Ted
Across The Kitchen Table
17 Seconds
Flippin Kids
Love Shack, Baby
Castles In Space
Blogger's Delite
How Does That One Go Again?
Aye Tunes
Sexy Loser
Armagideon Time
A Sweet Unrest
The Songs That People Sing
Sunset Over Slawit
Manic Pop Thrills
Song, By Toad
London Cafe : The Best Of UK Indie
Helpless Dancer
Jock'n'Roll
Scenesters & Mirror Kisses
The Hangover-Helper
Chicago is Mildly Interesting

Paul Haig - Reason

Last Exit - Destination Out (Live 1986)

"...a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." (Greg Kot)
Last Exit were one of the greatest bands ever.
No competition!
Bill Laswell on bass. Peter Brötzmann on sax. The incomparable Sonny Sharrock on guitar and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums.
Brad Nelson has put it better than I ever could here.

"It's the one to have when you are having more than one!"

70's beer advert with moog synthesizer.
Thanx to 'Boingboing'.

Still in the hunt

Fulham 0 VS Liverpool 1
Full story from the 'BBC' here.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Blogs have been receiving ever more frequent DMCA take down notices from record industry bodies that clearly have no idea what they are doing.
Just last week 'The Vinyl Villian' in Glasgow had a post pulled that contained a track by Paul Haig.
The track in question however was in this case owned by the artist and both him and his management were appalled that it had been pulled from the blog as they see this as a legitimate way of Paul's music getting heard by more people.
It has therefore been

Just what the world needs

A NEW BLOG!

(SON OF) EXILE ON MOAN STREET

First up is a couple of Bill Laswell related albums that I haven't seen in the blogosphere before.
'Operazone - The Redesign'
&
Russian Chants (The Ambient Mix) by Boris Feokistov and Bill Laswell.
I will be posting albums that I like regardless of their style on a semi regular basis.
Hope to see you there.

Will Oldham's double chocolate chess pie recipe

"… it’s beyond description. When you take a bite of it, it’s like… how you know… it helps you recognize how omnipotent and indescribable God is. Because this food, you know, goes beyond, and obviously God, you know, God would go beyond anything a Pope could tell you, or an imam could say about, or rabbis, you know? They can pretend that they can tell you about God, but it’s way fucking beyond their comprehension, no matter how many books they read or how much they whip their back or do whatever they do. It’s the same thing with the pies when you realize that the way things work is way beyond anything you could comprehend. We can put [the ingredients] together, but we can’t explain why, when you put them together, why they do what they do."

From 'Arthur Magazine' via 'When you Awake' here.

SPANK!!! (Update)

From 'Feasting On Roadkill' here.
UPDATE:
'The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster'
Go to 'Secret Identity' here.

Coming Soon: Bruno

"Can you tell me where we can find a locksmith?"

To see the trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie go here.

Most anticipated new release

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Absolutely the worst album I have heard for years

I can't stand 'Sgt. Peppers'. Don't understand why it is often (still) voted the best album of all time. Twee sentimentality, cod mysticism, music hall numbers and Ringo Starr. Jesus, I would have left home too.
So now the Easy Star All Stars (after full reggae versions of 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'OK Computer') have turned to this. Despite the calibre of some of the artists involved: Michael Rose, The Mighty Diamonds, Luciano, Max Romeo etc. this is just a complete aural abortion. And why do I find it hard to picture any of the artists rolling up a large number and settling down to listen to Sgt. Peppers at the end of a hard day in the studio?

So this begs the question who is this designed for? Blokes in their sixties who still think that punk was the end of good music or young college kids just discovering the joys of dope and how well reggae and it go together. There is some great reggae music out there but this is certainly not an example of it.

As for the Easy Star All Stars, 'Dub Side of the Moon' sort of worked and I am afraid I am not a fan of the original version of that either. It always struck me as the perfect album for the time as stereo moved into more and more homes. I feel that the Floyd worked more on the FX and stereo separation than the words and tunes of the songs, which I was under the impression had been more important until then.

'Radiodread', sort of OK. White guys with dreads who go to college probably like it much more than me!

The Easy Star All Stars are playing at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on April 11. I won't be there.

What's moving my world a quarter of the way into the year

Bill Laswell on Miles Davis (en Francais)