July 30, 2007
July 29, 2007
July 26, 2007
The Birds - That's All I Need You For
Awesome clip of Ron Woods' The Birds in the movie "The Deadly Bees"
July 25, 2007
Dental Orthopedics Series part 3
Remember Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe, by Whale? What the fuck? This makes me wonder how much information my brain contains that I will never actually gain access to, ever again. By the way, Dan Schank appears 34 seconds from the end of the video.
a couple slow jams for you guys...
the boys next door: shivers
johnny thunders: you can't put your arms around a memory
July 24, 2007
The Pogues - Yeah Yeah Yeah
I know most think this is The Pogues lowest point...but there is something really appealing about drunk toothless dudes gettin' all Shindig.
July 23, 2007
Japan - Quiet Life
I always felt Simon LeBon should just send a yearly check to David Sylvian in payment for biting the look and sound so so hard.
July 22, 2007
caetano veloso, "alegria, alegria"
the quality on this clip is a little rough... still, if that crowd singing along doesn't bring a smile to your face, check your pulse...
July 21, 2007
Cheney is our president.
Woke up this morning to the radio saying that Cheney is our current president.
It's true. Bush transferred powers to him while a colonoscopy is performed.
The only thing that can go wrong during this 20 minute proceedure is that ones butt is sore
afterwards.
July 20, 2007
Lionel Hampton drum solo
This is probably one of the greatest drum solos ever.....and considering it's with a floor tom only thats pretty fucking amazing. It's executed with the finesse and showmanship of a master magician. My mind is officially blown.
July 19, 2007
July 17, 2007
July 16, 2007
July 15, 2007
I make Blog
Hey All.
I started a blog. www.aaronwexler.blogspot.com
My first ongoing series of entries are about my childhood relationship to vegetables.
July 13, 2007
Divine - Shake it Up
i am perpetually working on my band (bubbles inc) i can assure you that when it does come together it will include a divine vibe
MAGIK MARKERS- LIVE @ HALL MALL
many of you know my childhood friend/former roommate/funniest (and strongest) man alive steve gunn. if you dont he is the standing guitarist in the blue shirt. this is from last summer when he toured as a member of magik markers. this clip is from iowa, i saw the nyc date on this tour and steve played his guitar faster than i had ever seen him play before. his main band is with pete (the drummer from magik markers) and former philadelphian marcia bassett (also un and double leopards) they are called ghq and they have a new record out called crystal healing, it is really good.
(from pitchfork)
GHQ
Crystal Healing
[Three-Lobed; 2007]
Rating: 7.6
Since ancient times, the mystical healing powers of crystals and charmstones have been used by shamanistic cultures around the globe. But most modern scientists and physicians would credit whatever benefits might be attained by their use to a placebo effect or the power of suggestion. A similarly powerful, suggestive aura surrounds the work of psych-drone trio GHQ, and their latest small-batch document Crystal Healing. As with their rest of their output, the album is dense with tantalizing drone figures and ghostly melodies that hang mirage-like in the hovering mist, with a transportive effect that feels far too potent for any placebo.
Comprised of the prolific trio of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu, Zaimph), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Spectre Folk, Vanishing Voice) and Steve Gunn (Magik Markers, Moongang), the discography of GHQ seems now to have progressed them beyond the status of a mere offshoot or side project. Crystal Healing is the second GHQ full-length offering on Three-Lobed, following 2006's excellent live set Heavy Elements, and it finds the group further developing its shared private vocabulary. Though still frequently driven by acoustic instruments, there seems a marginal increase here in overall electricity, and as a result it feels slightly less like stumbling upon the fire circle of some obscure beachside cult. Filled with darting firefly guitar leads and shadowy effects, the album's slow-moving acid clouds can at points resemble those that handsomely billowed from the earliest trio versions of Charalambides.
Despite the continued simplicity of GHQ's general approach, Crystal Healing contains a surprising breadth and variety within its sun-damaged drones. "Asphalt Rainbows" could almost pass for Jewelled Antler folk at its most hallucinatory, with Nolan's zoned vocals constantly threatening to actually shape themselves into a coherent lyric. Elsewhere, however, on such amorphous tracks as "Invitation In" and "Varunani Night Wave" the trio strays much closer to the thick, seamless noise frequencies of Double Leopards. Throughout the album GHQ purposefully keep their exact sound sources and methods rather blurred, so that when an untreated acoustic guitar climbs to the forefront on "Purple Sun for Exalted Ones", or when what sounds to be a fuzzed-out electric bass threads its way through "Radiance Illuminate", the effect can be as that of catching the briefest glimpse of a lost city or forgotten civilization through the overgrown canopied forest.
The album reaches its ceremonial apex on the nine-minute closing title track, a piece that masterfully incorporates all of GHQ's various strands into a boundless, transfixing whole. Over a lo-fi Tony Conrad/Henry Flynt scraping drone, Gunn's guitar moves in elliptical patterns, dropping single notes like tiny lanterns floated onto a glassy, unlit pond. Early copies of Crystal Healing arrived with an extra disc that feature two extended bonus tracks, but the album on its own feels complete and self-contained as it again illustrates GHQ's considerable restorative powers. Placebo? If the final curative result is the same, what's the difference?
-Matthew Murphy, July 09, 2007
Jan Pehechan-Ho
OK, everyone's heard the song they used in Ghost World, but have you seen the complete video? Fucking brilliant shit, already. My eyeballs just fainted.
July 12, 2007
July 11, 2007
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
I love Terry Gross. Funny thing is, I didn't listen to Fresh Air when I lived in Philly.
I'm a late bloomer I guess. For some reason the online Fresh Air archieves broadcast clearer in my studio then
any others do. When I'm not sweat'n to the oldies I'm an NPR junkie I'm recommending some of my favorite interviews
on Fresh Air for good times. Some of them have been really provacative... or evocative.
Just type these tags in to the search box:
Robert Crumb, Iggy Pop, Chris Rock, Father Greg Boyle, Steve Martin, Thelma Schoonmaker, Bill "spaceman" Lee,
Richard Pryor, Matt Groening, Paul Auster, David Rackoff, Triumph the insult comedy dog/Robert Smigel, 20th anniversary
show, David Cronenberg.
If anyone knows of some other goodies, let me know.
July 10, 2007
winsor mc cay's "sinking of the lusitania"
i was happy to discover today that there are a number of extremely early winsor mc cay animations available on youtube. here's my personal fave, the sinking of the lusitania... the content is a little gung-ho patriotic and the quality isn't great, but it's still totally beautiful. this is, like, the real-deal earliest animation shit folks:
mc cay is also famous for the turn of the century comic-strip little nemo in slumberland, which is probably one of the most beautiful things on earth. some more info, if you're unfamiliar:
http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/winsor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay
Kids Incorporated:
I am so bummed when I was in high school one of the first copies of art forum I bought had a special insert all about Richard Prince's First House. The article really made an impression on me and I wrote about Richard Prince for my freshman year art history term paper. I had really wanted to visit Second House. Damn you lightning why don't you just bother Walter DeMaria? he's at least asking for it!
PRINCE’S SECOND HOUSE DESTROYED
An act of nature has destroyed Richard Prince’s Second House, an art installation located near the artist’s home in Rensselaerville, N.Y. On June 28, 2007, lightning hit the building, sparking a fire that reduced the wood structure to ashes. The House, along with the 80-acres surrounding it, had been acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2005, which had committed to keep the unique project open to the public 10 years before transferring its contents to its own collection.
Prince, known for his use of appropriated imagery, had purchased the four-room shack as an example of "found architecture" that was an "ersatz slice of Americana," as the Guggenheim described it at the time of its purchase. The building had been abandoned for 12 years prior to the artist’s acquisition, and he remodeled the interior to create what New York Times art scribe Carol Vogel described as the centerpiece of a "private, rural theme park."
One notable component of the work was a suite of 11 Prince sculptures made as casts of actual car hoods, but they were not in the building at the time of the fire, according to the Guggenheim press office. However, all the other items in the installation, which included a joke painting, planters made from old tires, a table made from a basketball backboard, a jewelry cabinet displaying a necklace fashioned from bread fasteners, and a selection of first-edition books about Woodstock from Prince’s library, are presumed to have been lost to the flames. The Guggenheim had described this collection of works as a "definitive example of Prince’s practice."
Second House was the sequel to First House, an installation the artist created in Los Angeles in 1993. First House was destroyed to make way for new property after Prince’s three-month lease on the L.A. space had ended. A retrospective of the artist’s work, "Richard Prince: Spiritual America," opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York later this year.
http://siteimages.guggenheim.org/gpc_work_midsize_955.jpg
July 9, 2007
The New Colony Six on Kiddie A-Go-Go
Why can't there be a show where bands like The White Stripes play while kids freak the hell out?
sonic youth - goo (hyper)
it also would have been cool to have been an 8 yr old nephew of thurston moore and he could make a rad video of me rocking out with my sisters and my cool guitar i got for christmas
The Smiths Charlie's Bus Complete From Master
i wish i had gone on such chic field trips in my youth. special version of jeane included.
Fa mi ly Je wel s?
By the way, any thoughts on the C.I.A.'s recently declassified documents from last week? I mean, I don't want to just preach to the choir here, but what does this mean? Is this meant to paint a picture that this is all in the past? Is it meant to direct scrutiny toward current policy? What's going on here? Some unflattering bits about Robert F. K. and assassination attempts on Castro as well as mind control experiments that make the manchurian candidate scenario seem like at least a plausible goal of the agency.
http://www.washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102434_pf.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Family_jewels_%28Central_Intelligence_Agency%29
Wangechi Mutu?
I'm liking this new series better than her older colorful-splattery work. any thoughts? 
July 8, 2007
Sandie Shaw, Hand in Glove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S9AR9S3p0
sorry the embedding was disabled. TC, this looks right up your alley.
July 6, 2007
Mixtape 3
Luda & Shawnna - P-poppin'
The Trotters - Ice Ice Bacon
Cock & Pussy - Dead Buddy
Roedelius - Sonntags
Vashti Bunyan - Pink Sugar Elephants
Kim Hiorthoy - Den Fula Skogen Bakom Koket
Mr. Pacman - Pacman Dansu
Hosono & Yokoo - Hum Ghar Sajan
Mu - Stop Bothering Michael Jackson
Throbbing Gristle - Hometime
Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest the President
The Upsetters - No Peace Dub
Muslimgauze - Hand of Fatima
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Lennington Shewell - Lover Come Back To Me
Squeeze - Goodbye Girl
Speed Stacking - Nearly World Record
speed stacking has recently become part of public school physical education curriculim
July 5, 2007
Kirsty MacColl - Theres A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop
the secret weapon behind the smiths the pogues and one of my favorite singers (also a muse for my own artwork) rest in peace kirsty maccoll they now know about us
July 4, 2007
July 3, 2007
July 2, 2007
halloweenie, fuck fuck fuck...
... from the "christian clown ministry," apparently. i swear one of these days i'm gonna post something of value around here...
July 1, 2007
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