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Incredible String Band
Poetry Out Loud, Couples Rock, Policeband And America's Never Ending Font Of Unrecognized Genius
Clint of De Stijl Records hipped me to Poetry Out Loud, a series of LPs made by two American couples in the 1960-70s documenting their group experiments in "taking poetry off the page." -- and I can see why -- the recordings, wilth all manner of voices male and female, chanting, wailing, moanin...
My fascination is not Pitt's long, blond wig but those Hollywood wigs that give a more 'dignified' look, maybe salt-and-pepper with a receding hairline.
Oscar Hangover And The Great Whatsit
Perhaps the only remarkable thing about the 2012 Oscars™ telecast was that it featured no 'Illuminati' symbolism whatsover. Not that it didn't have a chance. With this year's passing of Elizabeth Taylor, we could have had Cirque de Soleil perform a tribute to the spectacular entrance of the scr...
Didn't know Phoenix was in the Pentagon, Professor! Guess I missed the blackface stuck in blimp traffic, but that's less lizard overlord and more shabby mummer, but what's the dif? Bigger question is what kind of vocoder did they use in Kiss Me Deadly in 1955? I feel like I should ask the military industrial complex ...
Oscar Hangover And The Great Whatsit
Perhaps the only remarkable thing about the 2012 Oscars™ telecast was that it featured no 'Illuminati' symbolism whatsover. Not that it didn't have a chance. With this year's passing of Elizabeth Taylor, we could have had Cirque de Soleil perform a tribute to the spectacular entrance of the scr...
To say nothing of Bo's second cousin, Little John, the Conqueror Root.
Several versions of Say Man out there; at least one Bo-Jerome cap rap per LP.
The Only Way You Can Get Relief Is To Get A Shot Of Diddley
Apropos of nothing but to get the police off the streets by nine o'clock, here's sixty-six minutes of The Originator, Bo Diddley, seen here with friends Jerome Green, The Duchess, Chuck Berry and himself, Bo Diddley:
I remembered to forget to remember so many ...
Roots Train Number One
Watch The Closing Doors
Crazy Train
and sadly, The Shangri-La's "Train From Kansas City" is not on Youtube...
Elvis To KLF: The Train I Ride Is Sixteen Coaches Long
Life with a three-year-old can find you focusing on on forms and representations of transportation you wouldn't otherwise. Trains, for example, hold a particular resonance with the developing mind that challenge their relative rarity compared to cars and airplanes. We've found ourselves meeting...
I think Antony and and the Johnsons show incredible restraint by not doing this song.
To The Song To The Siren
Caught this Tim Buckley performance from the non-stop-excellent media feed of master drummer Hamish Robert Kilgour, whose brother once asked the immortal question, "Is it wrong or is right to be a beatnik?" Pulled from the final episode of The Monkees, in which the Pre Fab Four tussle with a se...
Brenden Mullen and Don Bolles' must-read book _Lexicon Devil_ goes into detail on how Darby (and lots of other LA punk legends) attended an alternative high school that practiced Scientology-based mind control (or brainwashing) techniques. All part the great California experiment.
Speaking of Philip K Dick, dig this photo on the flickr account of former Germs manager Nicole Panter chilling with the man himself (along with then-husband cartoon artist Gary Panter, whose Jimbo seemed part modeled after Crash's persona):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/npanter/2542787126/
A Germs Whisky Christmas: Cruising For Oki-Dogs
December 23, 1979, Germs play the Masque Christmas Ball at Whisky-Au-Go-Go, performing what would be dubbed on-stage "art" by singer Darby Crash, self-proclaimed "Manimal" and possessor of "television and supervision," who read "every Bible story," and was educated in mind-control by public sc...
A-ha: Youth Gone Mad vid is hidden in the Oki Dog playlist up there.
What We Do Is Secret is indeed flawed for not being flawed enough -- needs more dirty.
A Germs Whisky Christmas: Cruising For Oki-Dogs
December 23, 1979, Germs play the Masque Christmas Ball at Whisky-Au-Go-Go, performing what would be dubbed on-stage "art" by singer Darby Crash, self-proclaimed "Manimal" and possessor of "television and supervision," who read "every Bible story," and was educated in mind-control by public sc...
Pretty sure Mok Jagger was modelled after Peter Murphy, but did you noticed Bowie's diet of milk and red pepper made the news recently as 99% Riot antidotes to each other. Like the videofilms we saw.
The Year Of The Diamond Dog
Last week's post on satanic animation found the specter of David Bowie waiting in the wings, The Thin White Duke serving as model for the rock star villan of Rock & Rule; and as a commentor noted, a sample of Beelzebub from The Devil & Daniel Mouse turns up on the b-side to the Bauhaus "Ziggy S...
Just routine maintenance ... should be back on soon.
The Year Of The Diamond Dog
Last week's post on satanic animation found the specter of David Bowie waiting in the wings, The Thin White Duke serving as model for the rock star villan of Rock & Rule; and as a commentor noted, a sample of Beelzebub from The Devil & Daniel Mouse turns up on the b-side to the Bauhaus "Ziggy S...
NELVANA HOLIDAY BONUS TRACKS
Thanksgiving Special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70228761n0
Christmas Special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkjwQyo6Lc
The Faustian Contracts Of Cartoon Bands
A bit of quicksilver dislodged by last week's run-through with the Panavision camera reminded me to finally get down and find the title of The-Weird-Cartoon-Special-Seen-Once-In-Early-Childhood, which a simple search for keywords “Faustian, Animated” would have produced fairly instantly, had on...
And here's a pic of 1949 Mercury mentioned in "Mercury Blues"
http://www.seriouswheels.com/1940-1949/1949-Mercury-Yellow-FA.htm
We all live in a yellow submarine...
California Wander Report: Mercury Blues and The Great God Pan
Rainy Sunday in Hollywood. Dropping the family off to seek enlightenment in the hills of Echo Park, took the hour off to cash in pop-in-law birthday scrip at local Rockaway Records, an old school music collectibles mart where two-weeks-previous I'd seen the complete collection of Yellow Submari...
A-ha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8uj4S-BBc
And its scene in the "Revolution" film barely features motor vehicles at all but a band of merry SF hippies walking out of the city and climbing trees ...
"You know in your brain you must leave the Capitol"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBRD2b7ZZ2M
Io Pan!
http://greatgardenstatues.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/the-great-god-pan-in-my-secret-garden/
California Wander Report: Mercury Blues and The Great God Pan
Rainy Sunday in Hollywood. Dropping the family off to seek enlightenment in the hills of Echo Park, took the hour off to cash in pop-in-law birthday scrip at local Rockaway Records, an old school music collectibles mart where two-weeks-previous I'd seen the complete collection of Yellow Submari...
But to fan the flames, may I point out there are two "Pauls" in the complete collection of "Yellow Submarine" toys released in 1999: http://www.mybeatles.net/imagesmemnew/mcfarlane_1999.html
Reality just can't help it ... The PID myth is too catchy!
We'll All Be Magick Supermen: The “Paul is Dead” Videos of Iamaphoney
The “Paul is Dead” hoax/conspiracy/legend/myth/mystery, certainly one one of the stranger tales in the annals of rock 'n' roll, only gets weirder as time goes by. Rumors that Beatle Paul McCartney died in 1966 in a car crash and replaced by a lookalike “William Campbell” began circulating among...
It's a glaring question if The Beatles & Co really did commit this conspiracy, why they would purposely leave all these "clues." If they wanted to keep Paul's replacement a secret, wouldn't it be better to leave no hints at all? But by following a logical line of inquiry into the Paul Is Dead mystery, we'll already fallen into "their" trap, by assuming that the plot is real. The interesting thing about the Paul is Dead myth is not what really happened, but what people find themselves believing may have happened, despite all better judgement. Whether the "plot" was perpetrated by The Beatles, the "Illuminati," stoned college kids, all or none of the above is immaterial: the phenomenon exists with or without you. The essence of a grand mystery is not the solving of a crime, but the unraveling of the layers of reality, exposing what we might call the cosmic consciousness.
To paraphrase Pogo, "They is us."
We'll All Be Magick Supermen: The “Paul is Dead” Videos of Iamaphoney
The “Paul is Dead” hoax/conspiracy/legend/myth/mystery, certainly one one of the stranger tales in the annals of rock 'n' roll, only gets weirder as time goes by. Rumors that Beatle Paul McCartney died in 1966 in a car crash and replaced by a lookalike “William Campbell” began circulating among...
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