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Krent Able: Comics Exhibition

2011-09-23T21:00:00.000+01:00

Krent Able: Comics Exhibition

Ink, Blood, and Magic: Sylvia Ji

2011-08-18T16:14:00.000+01:00

Ink, Blood, and Magic: Sylvia Ji: A native of San Francisco, Sylvia Ji has been producing amazing paintings for years now, and frankly, it's disappointing how little national...

Inspire Bohemia: The Beatles: Lyrical Art and Graffiti

2011-08-18T04:31:00.000+01:00

Inspire Bohemia: The Beatles: Lyrical Art and Graffiti: "The Beatles by Richard Avedon Hello all, I know I've been missing in action this week and I'm sorry! To be honest I just haven't had the j..."

The Tetragrammatron LSD Blotter

2011-06-28T18:12:00.003+01:00

full imagedetailTetragrammaton -this print depicts a four-way hit that was originally issued circa 1977. Iso series*.Mark's remarks: These pre-perfed beauties may be the first sigil on blotter. Magical!* Iso Series, when a perfed print has been "dipped" there remains on the paper a chemical residue that appears as a brownish stain after the paper has aged and been exposed to daylight. We use the

THE DIVINE EMACULATION OF J.R. "BOB" DOBBS!!

2011-06-22T00:19:00.002+01:00

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First Day of Summer. Doodle by Takashi Murakami, 2011.

2011-06-21T00:42:00.002+01:00

Shepard Fairey creates the cover of Woodstock Experience

2009-07-11T16:13:00.002+01:00

This is a pretty dope box set produced by Genesis Publications that even features an original ticket to Woodstock. Limited to 1000. Available now: limited to 1,000 numbered and signed copies. The historic contents will be of fascination for years to come and first class craftsmanship ensures longevity. Over 65 artists and luminaries are taking part in this endorsed publication. Volume 1

Chernobyl offers a holiday in hell

2009-07-11T13:57:00.000+01:00

Chernobyl’s tragic secrets are open to anyone. Just watch out for the wild boar and wolves From The Times WASHINGTON — Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest

The Dead Weather Glastonbury 2009

2009-06-30T12:26:00.007+01:00

The latest rock supergroup from the house of Jack White treat a British festival audience to their first taste of Dead Weather with a surprise Park stage performance. This time The Kills' Alison Mosshart and Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita have joined regular White collaborator Jack Lawrence for a sharp mix of psych-rock and blues rhythms.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Glastonbury 2009

2009-06-30T12:13:00.002+01:00

The New York trio returned this February with a fresh sound and host of new crowd pleasers on third album It's Blitz. Not that Karen O ever had a problem with her audience. The most vivacious woman in rock is sure to steal a few hearts and a few more plaudits with her high-energy performance on Sunday's Other stage.

The Messengers - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2009-06-24T22:47:00.004+01:00

Article from 1967The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe MessengersThe cover on a new LP album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Liston, and eight Beatles.Eight? Well, four of

Thousands gather to welcome Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

2009-06-22T13:30:00.006+01:00

Thousands of visitors were present for the dawn of the Summer Solstice yesterday at Stonehenge.The event, which celebrates the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere, involved around 36,500 people gathering at the reputedly mystical South England landmark before sunrise, which occurred at 0458 BST.Turnout at Summer Solstice has grown year on year at Stonehenge since a four mile exclusion zone

Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic

2009-06-12T19:34:00.002+01:00

PhD's have been searching for a solution to the plastic waste problem, and this 16 year old finds the answer. Photo: Samuel Mann/Flickr It's not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last month's Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate

Canadian inventor creates Halo suit

2009-06-11T09:56:00.001+01:00

People seem to think that this guy who's developed a real-life suit of the kind worn by Halo protagonist Master Chief has gone slightly bonkers . I couldn't disagree more: Troy Hurtubise, you sir, are a genius . The Trojan suit can reputedly withstand knives, bullets, clubs, light explosives and an elephant gun. Who couldn't use one of these things? Best of all, he claims he could produce them

Happy Birthday Tetris! Love, Google

2009-06-06T02:38:00.002+01:00

25 years ago - June 6th, 1984 to be exact - Alexey Pajitnov created a simple puzzle video game where you moved blocks around (called tetrominoes) to create horizontal lines of blocks to eliminate rows and gain points. Know what game I’m talking about yet? I’m referring to Tetris, one of the world’s most popular and best-selling video games of all time. This classic game has been a

David Carradine RIP

2009-06-05T16:06:00.001+01:00

'Kill Bill' star David Carradine found dead in Thai capital BANGKOK - The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," was found in a hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation, Thai police said Friday. Much like the character that made him famous, David Carradine was always

James Burke: Connections, Episode 1

2009-05-31T10:37:00.001+01:00

Watch Entire Show: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...Episode 1 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "

Bong! Big Ben still rings out 150 years on

2009-05-31T10:24:00.005+01:00

Building ‘the king of clocks’ was a triumph over adversity and it moves with the times “There is no reason,” said Mike McCann, the man in charge of Big Ben, as he made his way down the 334 steps from the belfry at the top of the tower, “why it should not last forever.” As the world’s most famous timepiece celebrates its 150th anniversary, that is a forthright statement of faith in a

Trees - On the Shore (1970/2007 Remaster)

2009-05-23T18:20:00.001+01:00

This is an exceptional album and a remastered and expanded version is truly an exciting event! The original version of 'On The Shore' was released a year after Fairport's Liege and Lief, which was recently voted the most infuential folk album of all time. I've listened to both albums many times over the years but I think I return more often to Trees than Fairport. Sure, there's no Richard

Leonard Cohen: Beacon Theatre New York

2009-05-23T18:03:00.001+01:00

Leonard Cohen: Beacon Theatre New York Feb. 19 2009 This is from an FM broadcast, but it's not the entire show, unfortunately. Although beggars can't be choosers, now can they?The concert is now available only as a zip file... get it HERE. Enjoy the show.

Khalil Gibran

2009-05-22T20:16:00.001+01:00

Sketch for Jesus the Son of Man, ca. 1923Gibran Khalil Gibran (American, born Lebanon, 1883–1931)Pencil and watercolor on paper 3 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (9.2 x 8.2 cm)Gift of Mary H. Minis, 1932 (32.45.5) Artist, poet, novelist, and philosopher, Gibran Khalil Gibran emigrated from Lebanon to the United States in 1895. In 1904, he had his first exhibit in Boston and by 1908 he was attending the

"Missing Link" Human Skull Found in Africa

2009-05-20T11:43:00.002+01:00

Scientists working in Africa have discovered a Stone Age skull that could be a link between the extinct Homo erectus species and modern humans. The face and cranium of the fossil have features found in both early and modern human species. The skull is believed to be between 250,000 and 500,000 years old.

Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull

2009-05-19T11:15:00.002+01:00

Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull

DJ SHADOW - SIX DAYS

2009-05-19T10:15:00.001+01:00

DJ SHADOW - SIX DAYS

Dark Night of The Soul Now Streaming, Release Scrapped Due To EMI Dispute

2009-05-17T15:41:00.003+01:00

Dark Night of the Soul the collaborative project between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch with other guests has been scrapped due a dispute between Danger Mouse and EMI. The CD of the album may never be released because EMI may take legal action. An unnamed spokeperson for Danger Mouse said that the CD will not be released "due to an ongoing dispute with EMI". The book featuring photgraphs

Musgle

2009-05-16T17:59:00.002+01:00

Musgle originates from the idea of combining words Music and Google. The idea is simple yet very powerful. To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit 'Enter' - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results. Click on one of those results, and you will have a chance to directly download the song you are

The Dead Weather - Hang You from the Heavens

2009-05-16T14:19:00.005+01:00

The Dead Weather - Hang You from the HeavensWhite Stripes and Raconteurs frontman Jack White unveiled his two latest projects Wednesday night in his adopted hometown of Nashville: A new downtown office for Third Man Records, the imprint that’s offered his White Stripes and Raconteurs releases, and a new band called the Dead Weather. (Track White’s many guises onstage, onscreen and behind the

Japanese Prostitutes of the 19th Century

2009-05-16T00:24:00.000+01:00

Images posted on Flickr by "Okinawa Soba," with extensive comments:This ca.1890s image of caged prostitutes being gawked at does not exist in Japan anymore. However, there are PLENTY of places in Japan today where, like Amsterdam in Holland, the women willingly put themselves on decorative display in whole districts dedicated to their trade. However, the circumstances surrounding the entry of

Kickin’ It Ol’ School

2009-05-14T03:20:00.002+01:00

The Triumph of Bullshit strikes again. Here’s Abe kickin’ it ol’ school. Everyone knows Abe was an amazing orator. But, it is a little know fact that he has madd beat-boxing skillz too… honest. Via A Blinkin Blog

The Cure for Information Overload

2009-05-14T00:13:00.001+01:00

Here we find The Cure for Information Overload.

The Cabinet Of Curiosities

2009-05-11T14:12:00.001+01:00

The Cabinet Of Curiosities

The Kinks - Kinda Kinks

2009-05-09T00:53:00.002+01:00

The Kinks - Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ Bout That GirlKinda Kinks Posted: October 6th, 2008 Author: John Ballon Date: 1965Release: Essential #483Cover Art: view / downloadBuy the Album Mod-rockers from the mid-60s, the Kinks understood how to crank out three-minute pop songs that were as catchy as Beatlemania. While the Davies Brothers were no match for Lennon

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate - Songbook PDF

2009-05-09T00:11:00.004+01:00

Full scan of the Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate songbook.DOWNLOADFamous Blue Raincoat

I Put a Spell on You

2009-05-07T09:36:00.002+01:00

Alfred C. Kinsey and Kenneth Anger at Thelema Abbey in Cefalu In 1955, Kenneth Anger made a voyage to Cefalu in Sicily to shoot a documentary about Aleister Crowley’s erotic frescos, Thelema Abbey.“The film was made for Houlton Television which was a branch of Picture Post an extinct British Magazine. They lost it. I tried to find it and it’s untraceable. I lived in Crowley’s house, alone, but

Moray McLaren

2009-05-07T00:48:00.003+01:00

Moray McLaren is a Scottish singer-songwriter, born and raised in Edinburgh. When a disk of Moray’s rough recordings fell into the hands of producer Jonathan Shakhovskoy (U2, Patrick Wolf), he suggested they make an album together. The pair are currently in the studio recording. Moray’s debut album will be released on Lash Records this summer.Visit Moray on MySpace

The Gossip

2009-05-06T13:32:00.005+01:00

Wanna learn a thing or two about attitude, return to Beth Ditto for reference - plus size model and shameless fashionista & fellow band mates push The Gossip deeper into the DIY indie-rock territory by toning down the polish. Taking on an über cliché subject for a concept, their new Rick Rubins produced album Music For Men revolves around love & Beth Ditto's favorite song is called Men In

Sex appeal of Action Man scars revealed

2009-05-06T12:08:00.000+01:00

Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian, Wednesday 19 November 2008 Article history Action Man: incorporating scar and 6% extra sex appeal. Photograph: Darren

Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno "Starless and Bible Black Sabbath"

2009-05-06T11:08:00.002+01:00

Acid Mothers Temple have no shame, and that's not such a bad thing. They've taken aim at their idols before by approximating the album covers or titles of Hendrix, Zappa, and King Crimson, among others, and have paid tribute to the likes of Hawkwind and Gong. This time they set their sights on Black Sabbath, even going so far as to reenact the cover of Sabbath's first album, with Acid Mother guru

Ulysses - James Joyce

2009-05-06T11:04:00.002+01:00

Bronze by gold heard the hoofrons,steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn.Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.Horrid! And gold flushed more.A husky fifenote blew.Blew. Blue bloom is on theGold pinnacled hair.A jumping rose on satiny breasts of satin,rose of Castille.Trilling, trilling: I dolores.Peep! Who's in the... peepofgold?Tink cried to bronze in pity.And a call, pure, long and

Peter Greenaway & Tom Phillips - A TV Dante

2009-05-02T10:28:00.004+01:00

Peter Greenaway & Tom Phillips - A TV Dante (1983)This ambitious program, produced by the award-winning film director Peter Greenaway and internationally-known artist Tom Phillips, brings to life the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno. Featuring a cast that includes Sir John Gielgud as Virgil, the cantos are not conventionally dramatized. Instead, the feeling of Dante's poem is conveyed

Philip Glass "Mad Rush"

2009-05-02T09:27:00.002+01:00

Philip Glass "Mad Rush" from The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July

Warning: media reports on suicide can be fatal

2009-05-02T08:49:00.002+01:00

* Bad science/frankenstein/boris karloff*o Ben Goldacreo The Guardian, Saturday 28 March 2009o Article historyThis week, in my crescendoing tirade against journalism, we shall review the evidence that the media actually kills people. The suicide of Sylvia Plath's son has filled the news. The media obsessed - understandably - over genetics, when mental illness is probably the single biggest risk

THE AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS

2009-05-02T06:21:00.001+01:00

The Peppermint Tree And Seeds of Superconsciousness

Moondog - All Is Loneliness

2009-05-01T16:44:00.008+01:00

Moondog - All Is Loneliness

I Monster - Daydream In Blue

2009-05-01T15:04:00.003+01:00

Daydream In Blue by I MONSTER has become a part of the soundtrack to our lives through huge presence on TV in adverts and through being sampled by artists such as Lupe Fiasco. It's a great record by a great band. For the original uncensored video version check out www.redemption-records.com

Ballardian: R.I.P. J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009

2009-05-01T14:08:00.004+01:00

J.G. Ballard - Shanghai JimFollowing J.G. Ballard from Shepperton to Shanghai and back, looking at the scenes of his life which inspired his autobiographical novels. This is a BBC original production which aired in 1991, directed by James Runcie. It chronicles J.G. Ballard's first trip to Shanghai after he first left it in 1946. He discusses his ilfe and his work especially his two

Lemon Jelly

2009-04-30T16:16:00.003+01:00

Lemon Jelly (formed in 1998) is a British electronica duo from London, UK consisting of Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin.Franglen and Deakin initially released

Scrapiteria

2009-04-30T15:52:00.000+01:00

Scrapiteria is made up of collagists who work in the traditional cut and paste method. Each week, one of the members posts a new theme which they all intrepret in their own way.Scrapiteria

The Reactable

2009-04-30T15:21:00.005+01:00

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

2009-04-30T15:13:00.000+01:00

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, where it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane appears in the film's introduction and narrates the film, which contains Russian text with English applied next to, or over the top

Keitai Girl

2009-04-30T14:56:00.009+01:00

Yamaguchi Noriko is Under Our Skin Emerging Japanese artist Yamaguchi Noriko gets under our skin thanks to what covers hers. Currently in her last year of an MFA program at the Kyoto City University of the Arts, this 22-year-old artist from Kobe tackles issues as diverse as technology, mythology and feminism through bodily transformation and endurance. Yamaguchi uses her body to challenge

Dick Raaijmakers

2009-04-30T13:50:00.003+01:00

• Dick Raaijmakers, [co]inventor of common things like: Chorus, Delay, Echo, Reverb, Ambiophonics, Surround, the sample, and already working with reversed tapeloops, reversable echo's and playing rhythm-tapes backwards, years before, The Beatles first discovered it in 1966, placing it on their newest album "Revolver". Besides that Dick Raaijmakers composed, arranged and released the first

Norwegian Woo: The Beatles / Lebowski connection

2009-04-30T13:03:00.002+01:00

by Brian McCloskey Did you know that The Beatles wrote a song about The Big Lebowski in 1965? I once had a girl, or should i say, she once had me This obviously refers to the Dude’s seduction by Maude. It can also refer to the Big Lebowski’s tenuous hold on Bunny. Or to the Knudsens’ failure to keep her down on the farm. Or to Walter’s inability to hold onto Cynthia. (And Cynthia was the

Led Zepellin -The Song Remains the Same 1976

2009-04-30T04:38:00.002+01:00

The Song Remains the Same (also known as TSRTS) is a concert film by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The recording of the film took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during the band's 1973 concert tour of the United States. The film premiered on 20 October 1976, at Cinema I in New York and at Warner West End Cinema in London two weeks later.It

I Monster - A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars

2009-04-30T02:34:00.007+01:00

I Monster are a British music group comprising of Sheffield, England-based musicians and producers Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling. They formed in 1997 and released their debut album ‘These Are Our Children’. In 2001 they signed to Instant Karma/Sony Records and released the single ‘Daydream In Blue’ which became a UK top 20 hit. The song has since been used on numerous TV ad campaigns and in 2007

Luxury Stranger

2009-04-30T02:24:00.005+01:00

“Dreams of slavery and masturbation…”“Perverse, passionate and dark lyrics matched with disparate, agonisingly powerful music.”“Perverse, passionate and dark lyrics matched with disparate, agonisingly powerful music.”Luxury Stranger is a three piece, dickensian mod band based in Nottingham, UK and is the ‘brain child’ of Simon York. As from December 2008, Luxury Stranger are signed to Major

Leafcutter John

2009-04-30T01:03:00.003+01:00

Since his first release on Planet-Mu records in 2000, London-based Leafcutter John (aka John Burton) has developed a strong musical identity using processed instrumental and environmental recordings. His third album The Housebound Spirit (Planet-Mu, 2003) won an Honorary Mention at the 2004 Ars Electronica Awards and was featured on The Wire Magazine’s top 50 records of 2003.He writes his own

Generative design in 4096 bytes or less

2009-04-29T18:04:00.003+01:00

A byte is the basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing, most often consisting of eight bits. A kilobyte (KB) is made up of 1,024 bytes. A megabyte (MB) is made up of 1,024 × 1,024 i.e. 1,048,576 bytes… ByteWill Wright's Spore game was finally released 3 weeks ago and I still need to find some time trying

Leonard Cohen

2009-04-29T11:19:00.001+01:00

Dress Rehearsal Rag - Leonard Cohen

Pink

2009-04-29T10:53:00.002+01:00

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band - Home & Studio

2009-04-28T14:02:00.003+01:00

Working Class Hero John Lennon - 1970 - Plastic Ono Band - Home & Studio (Green Grape) The definitive collection of Plastic Ono Band outtakes. download

Jimmy Page- Lucifer Rising (1973)

2009-04-28T12:26:00.010+01:00

Here's a rare item, recorded under interesting circumstances by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, but never officially released until recently.During the early 70's, Page's well-known interest in occultist Aleister Crowley led him into the trajectory of avant garde filmmaker and fellow Crowley devotee Kenneth Anger. At the time, Anger was usually recognized as a former child actor and author of the

Jimmy Page on Lucifer Rising

2009-04-28T11:39:00.002+01:00

When did you first meet Kenneth Anger?"I'm trying to think. I can tell you when I first became aware of him. I was already aware of Anger as an avant-garde filmmaker. I remember seeing two of his films at a film society in Kent. It was Scorpio Rising and Invocation Of My Demon Brother, and I think the other half of the evening was taken up with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; it was rather a fun

Boleskine House

2009-04-28T11:12:00.008+01:00

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Although Boleskine House was only Aleister Crowley's for a relatively short time, it may forever be considered his house and the Mecca for Thelemites as well as aspirants and students of the works of the Beast 666.Boleskine House, front and looking down across Loch Ness.At one time Boleskine House was owned by Jimmy Page, lead guitarist of

The Boathouse - Where Led Zeppelin was formed

2009-04-28T10:54:00.004+01:00

Jimmy Page bought the Boathouse in Pangbourne in 1967 when he was just 23 years of age and played as the lead guitarist in the band The Yardbirds.It was only a year later when Jimmy decided that he wanted to split from the band and form a new one of his own.It was later in 1968 when he was introduced to Robert Plant, an up and coming vocalist from the Midlands. After hearing Robert sing at the

Lingchi (Death by a thousand cuts)

2009-04-27T17:27:00.006+01:00

Lingchi, or slow slicing, involved the public dismemberment of the victim. As such, it became iconic to westerners as an image of exotic Chinese cruelty — albeit iconic in a mythicized form, the accounts conflicting, undependable, Orientalist. (Many different ones are collected at the Wikipedia page.) Lingchi is especially notable — apart from fathering the phrase “death by a thousand cuts” in

Klaus Schulze

2009-04-27T11:44:00.002+01:00

Klaus Schulze Born in Berlin on August 4th 1947, Klaus Schulze is one of the most important and prolific electronic artists from the 70’s and a true pioneer in the use of the synthesizers. Klaus Schulze started playing guitar and drums in rock bands during the 60’s. In 1968, he joined the avant-garde free rock trio Psy Free, which was influenced by Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and the

Samuel F.B. Morse

2009-04-27T00:36:00.000+01:00

Samuel Finley Breeze Morse was born in Charlestown, Mass. on 27th April 1791. He was not a scientist - he was a professional artist. Educated at Phillip’s Academy at Andover, he graduated from Yale in 1810 and he lived in England from 1811 to 1815, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1813. He spent the next ten years as an itinerant artist with a particular interest in portraiture.

The Bojangles Diaries

2009-04-24T15:44:00.004+01:00

The following exerts are from a recently discovered "jailhouse diary" kept by a Freedom Rider named Judson Fawley. While a valuable source of information on the Civil Rights Era, they also offer a tantalizing insight into the personality of the individual know as Mr. Bojangles who would later be immortalized in song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt band. May 26th, 1967: For the fourth day in a row, I,

Judy Fox

2009-04-22T11:05:00.003+01:00

The hand-painted terra cotta sculptures in Snow White and the Seven Sins mark a new level of mastery by artist Judy Fox. Slumbering Snow White is surrounded by seven anthropomorphic “dwarves,” each representing one of the seven sins. At P.P.O.W. through November 24th. (Judy Fox, left: Envy, center: Snow White, right: Anger. All three: terra cotta and casein, 2007. Both Images Courtesy:

Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill (1971)[LP]

2009-04-22T06:52:00.002+01:00

I've been looking around the music blogs for a while now and I don't remember seeing Brainticket available anywhere so I figured I'd oblige and provide what I've got of this singularly unique psychedelic outfit. Cottonwood Hill (sometimes referred to as Brainticket as if it were a self titled album although as you can see above the title clearly appears on all the cover art I've seen) from 1972

Princess (1969)

2009-04-21T14:06:00.002+01:00

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222299/IMDB Rating: 5.8/10Director: Herman WuytsCast:Jan BauwensPolly GeertsHerman JacobsAnnie LaurieVirginia Mailer… Margie / PrincessFranz Marijnen… WalterAlice ToenMariette Van Arkkels… DameJan Van BroeckhovenBob Van der Veken… President SextraCara Van WerschHerman van Veen… MarkManuel WaughGwynne WhitbyFanny Winkler…

Maureeny Wishfull

2009-04-21T03:43:00.001+01:00

Imagine if Jimmy Page never joined Led Zeppelin. Then imagine if, instead, he struck off into the English countryside with a few friends to make a folk record that sounded like a combination of early Donovan and The Incredible String Band with sitar thrown in for good measure. It’d be pretty rad. It’d probably sound a lot like Maureeny Wishfull because, well, that’s exactly what Maureeny

Eden Ahbez

2009-04-21T02:02:00.005+01:00

How about a refreshing dish of trendsetting hippie beatnik hermit? Alright then.Eden Ahbez' (born George Aberle) biggest claim to fame was writing the hit song Nature Boy, loosely based the old Yiddish ditty Schwieg Mein Hertz, for Nat King Cole in 1948. Frank Sinatra later recorded a more well-known verison.He was ahead of his time in terms of both appearance and lifestyle, he beat the hippies

Anne Briggs

2009-04-20T23:34:00.005+01:00

Anne Patricia Briggs (born 1944), known as Anne Briggs, is an English folk singer. Although she travelled widely, in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgement of her music. However, she was a highly influential figure in the English folk music revival, being a source

Olivier Messiaen

2009-04-18T13:26:00.000+01:00

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen’s music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen’s own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed “the marvellous

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

2009-04-12T00:04:00.004+01:00

John Lennon » Rock 'n' Roll

2009-04-11T23:54:00.003+01:00

Diamanda Galás

2009-04-11T23:26:00.003+01:00

Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955) is an American avant-garde performance artist, vocalist, and composer. Galás was born and raised in San Diego, California. She was classically trained in jazz piano from an early age, training which reveals itself consistently throughout all her work. Known for her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Galás has been

Sean Lennon

2009-04-11T23:07:00.002+01:00

Born October 9, 1975, Sean Taro Ono Lennon is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. After Sean’s birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his murder in 1980. Sean was educated at the exclusive private boarding school, Institut Le Rosey (which Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, King Albert II of

Alvin Lucier

2009-04-11T22:53:00.000+01:00

Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. As a self-acknowledged composer of experimental music, Lucier’s compositions sometimes deal with elements of indeterminacy. Much of his work is

Phill Niblock

2009-04-11T22:49:00.000+01:00

Phill Niblock (born 2 October 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) is a minimalist composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York.Phill Niblock’s music usually consists of simultaneous drones created from tape (later computer) manipulations of recorded pitches performed by instrumentalists such as Rafael Toral, David First,

Charlemagne Palestine: Searching for the Golden Sound

2009-04-11T22:37:00.002+01:00

Charlemagne Palestine: Searching for the Golden Sound Interview by Marcus Boon Palestine at the Beth David Cemetary in Long Island, NY in 1996. Photo by Irene Nordkamp. I spoke to Charlemagne Palestine by telephone, he in Belgium, in New York in the summer of 2001, after his return from a trip to Iceland. Palestine, as he himself says, met Pandit Pran Nath outside of the circle of

My Cocaine Museum

2009-04-11T22:19:00.001+01:00

An excerpt fromMy Cocaine MuseumMichael Taussig chapter 2my cocaine museum I ask a friend upriver in Santa María what happens to the gold he mines and sells. He says it goes to the Banco de la República in Bogotá, which sells it to other countries. "What happens to it then?" "I really don't know. They put it in museums…" His speech fades. Lilia shrugs. It's for jewelry, she thinks. And

Peter Wyngarde

2009-04-11T21:23:00.007+01:00

Salut, I am Peter Wyngarde...welcome. Why don’t you make yourselves comfortable. Kick off your shoes, relax and let the soothing sound of my voice lead you into a frenzy of psychedelic vintage suits and ties. Many of you will remember me most as the lovable debonair playboy ’Jason King’ in my own long running series of the same name, others from the big screen in Night of the Eagle or more

Lau Nau

2009-04-11T20:53:00.004+01:00

Lau Nau’s abstract folk is a mosaic of a myriad of instruments that fall where they may, with free open structures, balancing on a thin wire of logical evolution, with surprising harmonies. Still, the songs have strong backbones. Melody is suggested through the contours of a wandering and warm voice. Lau Nau’s debut album is released by the Chicago-based label Locust and is an amazing slice of

Supervert

2009-04-06T13:35:00.001+01:00

Supervert is an alias — a nom de plume — a moniker for an individual — a corporation — a brand name. Supervert offers you a unique combination of intellect and deviance. Perversity for your brain. Vanguard aesthetics, novel pathologies.

El Topo Soundtrack

2009-04-05T00:46:00.000+01:00

Following up on the previous Holy Mountain soundtrack post by Brakhage, I humbly present the entire Douglas 6 reissued vinyl soundtrack to Alexandro Jodorowsky’s motion picture, El Topo (aka The Mole), often referred to as “the first midnight movie”. Based on brief online searching, it appears neither the original Apple label release nor the Douglas 6 release are on CD yet but

Maureen Tucker: Playin’ Possum

2009-04-04T22:15:00.001+01:00

Maureen “Moe” Tucker, the Velvet Underground’s drummer, was notable in that even people who don’t pay a lot of attention to drummer styles can immediately pick her out. Her style — mallets, not sticks; no snares on the drums; very few cymbals; all to a Bo Diddley–influenced beat — was even more vital to the VU’s sound than John Cale’s viola, and it’s no coincidence that

Dudley Moore: Bedazzled

2009-04-04T22:13:00.002+01:00

Dudley Moore is known as the piano-playing drunk millionaire Arthur on this side of the Atlantic, but in England he’ll always be known as one half of a comedy duo with Peter Cook, who wrote and co-starred in Bedazzled along with Moore, who wrote the music for it in 1967. (It was remade in 2000 with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley.) They’d come fresh from success after success in the UK for

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension

2009-04-04T22:09:00.001+01:00

So much has been written and said already about the infamous and influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop that I start this post at a loss. I mean, they deserve the praise — their legendary status is well-deserved — but with so many articles, a great documentary, and other dissections of their career and influence, I think I’ll take the easy way out and stick to a short obituary of their

Conquer the Video Craze

2009-04-04T19:27:00.003+01:00

Conquer the Video Craze was issued in 1982, at the height of arcade games’ popularity. Over a background of ambient arcade noise, Curtis Hoard, “Atari Champion finalist”, reads convoluted game tips in a slow nasal monotone. I’ve not been able to find out much about Hoard; most of the search results point to articles about a different Curtis Hoard, a sculptor of some reknown at the University of

Barack Obama action figure

2009-04-04T00:52:00.001+01:00

Obama action figure

Georges Bataille Electronic Library

2009-04-03T18:49:00.001+01:00

Free etexts by 20th century French theorist and writer Georges Bataille. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was

Michael Caine

2009-04-02T10:26:00.003+01:00

Michael Caine's career has not only established him as one of Britain's most revered actors, but as a distinguished style icon. Classic films such as the Italian Job and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels made him synonymous with sharp dressing - and more recently he's adopted an immaculate butler's uniform as Alfred in the latest Batman movies. His love of fine tailoring extends offscreen and he's a Dougie

Connery, Anthony Sinclair and the Conduit Cut

2009-04-02T10:23:00.001+01:00

Terence Young, the director of Dr No, is credited more than anyone else in establishing the look of Bond in the early film years. Essentially he took the cues from Fleming, substituting his own tailor and shirtmaker. Connery was not used to wearing suits at the time and it is said that in order to have him feel totally natural when filming began, Young had him wear them around the clock, even to

James Bond style guide

2009-04-02T10:14:00.002+01:00

Licence to dress to kill: the sartorial highs and lows of 007For many, nobody does it better than Connery, and sartorially at least it's hard to disagree. His effortlessly stylish suits were done by Anthony Sinclair, who was based not at Savile Row, as the actor erroneously claimed in Dr No, but on nearby Conduit Street - hence the style became known as the "Conduit cut". The notable exception

Granny Takes A Trip

2009-04-02T09:53:00.001+01:00

60s boutique Granny Takes a Trip was a brand of renegade tailoring that did exactly what it said on the tin. Taking the gaudy upholstery, lace and brightly patterned wall coverings that typified geriatric chic, designers twisted them into messed-up takes on the tailoring tradition. With journalist Nigel Waymouth, the shop was originally intended to sell Sheila Cohen's collection of antique

Top 10 stylish protesters

2009-04-02T09:42:00.002+01:00

Russell Brand’s appearance at the G20 protests today (yesterday) brought a sartorial edge to the event, as he exercised his democratic rights in trademark man leggings and a natty jacket. Brand’s outfit may have distinguished him from the traditional hoodie and combat trousers look favoured by agitators, but he’s not the first to march in style. Here’s our top ten fashionable protesters.More here