Monday, 12 August 2013


The Right Way to Make a Hollywood Movie About the Punk Scene

“No one,” Tony Abbott told a Melbourne gathering of Liberal Party faithful, “however smart, however well-educated, however experienced … is the suppository of all wisdom

♪♫ Todd Rundgren - Hello Its Me/I Saw The Light (1973)



Vinyl fans in spin over New York Public Library's record sale


'Hoarder's House' Full of Vinyl

Edie


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Strange that having lost most of my possessions over the years due to robberies and moving to the other side of the world that I still have a copy of that Neville Brody poster above

♪♫ Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison


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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American (2004)


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Scotland The Grave (Melody Maker 24/9/77)

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Yes that is a a 17 year old me from the Melody Maker in 1977 (at left). Good to see that I was still talking crap way back then too. I blame Mr Jones' amphetamine myself. Now, I have NO excuse!

♪♫ James King and The Lonewolves - A Step Away From Home (Angels & Wolves Mix)


Wolfman hasn't lost his bite...

 

 

♪♫ Walter White - My Way

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Matt Damon: Obama 'broke up with me'

♪♫ The Clash - London Calling/Train In Vain/Working For The Clampdown (Live at Fridays)



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They truly were one of THE great live bands!

Word: An interview with Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman

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'Mad as a' Katter sings his own praises


Just sayin...

 

The Cat Inside

Coil

A Well Regulated Militia

What does it really mean?

Buzzcocks promo for their debut album ‘Another Music in a Different Kitchen’ (1977)

Artwork by Linder Sterling
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BRILLIANT!

Wearing a shirt that says 'NO ONE CHOOSES TO BE AN ASYLUM SEEKER' at photo op with Turnbull and Abbott at yesterday's 'City 2 Surf' in Sydney. Kudos
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Sunday, 11 August 2013

Keith Richards: Life












♪♫ This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren


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Sorry but Tim wins out...

Obama’s Reassurances about Domestic Surveillance are not Reassuring

♪♫ Earl Sweatshirt - Burgundy (Live on Fallon)


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760-733-9969


The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back

Ah-Ah-AAAGH!

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Julian Assange interviewed on what the WikiLeaks Party will mean to Aboriginal peoples


Cigarettes & Fine White Wine: Asia Argento & Alan Bishop In Conversation

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Saturday, 10 August 2013

♪♫ The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Live)


Werner Herzog: From One Second To The Next

Xzavier, Chandler, Debbie, and Reggie all know the horrors of texting & driving firsthand. Watch their stories in this It Can Wait Documentary.
Visit http://www.itcanwait.com to take the pledge, and learn more about the dangers of texting while driving. As Herzog says, "In one second, entire lives are either wiped out or changed forever."

Gratuitous Dalek

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Lavabit's Ladar Levison: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

Ad Break: BUT WAIT!

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WikiLeaks’ Teenage Benedict Arnold (How the FBI used a baby-faced WikiLeaks volunteer to spy on Julian Assange)

At Press Conference on Surveillance, Obama Ignores Latest Snooping Revelations


Fourteen-Year-Old Girl’s Blistering Heavy Metal Performance of Vivaldi

Owen Jones: Not in our name - Dawkins dresses up bigotry as non-belief - he cannot be left to represent atheists

Early Soviet antireligious propaganda

♪♫ Tackhead/Gary Clail - Live @ I Beam SF (13/6/88)


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Eno (Zigzag 1982)

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House Of Harrington







Curtis Harrington began making films as a teenager in the 1940s, beginning with his take on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" on 8mm. During his fifty year career as a director, Harrington made many horror films dealing with the unseen and the macabre, featuring legendary Hollywood stars. "House of Harrington" profiles Curtis' fascinating career, which ended with a full-circle return to the work of Edgar Allan Poe in 2002
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Friday, 9 August 2013

Lower East Side NY NY (Late 1980's)

From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref GW10a
02:27:30 Lower East Side Manhattan, Gritty New York. Tracking POV from side car window past run down buildings, graffitied walls and cars. Shops with shutters down, rough area, ghetto. Streets are almost empty, looks a bit apocalyptic. Abandoned buildings and cars. Green area covered in rubbish, trash. LA POV from front of car past smoking burnt out van. Good 1970s and 1980s cars parked on the side of the road. Black man sprays water from fire hydrant straight at camera. Tenement buildings (look abandoned/ broken windows. More shots black man, worker opening fire hydrant and spraying water.
02:31:09 ENDS