VOODOO VILLAGE

Song For Bobby Smith

2012-01-29T11:12:00.001Z

TURNOVER

2012-01-20T13:02:00.000Z

Lightning Dust

2012-01-20T11:15:00.004Z

SOMETIME

2012-01-19T18:17:00.001Z

Featuring Harry Smith's Early Abstractions (1946)

For The Love Of Ivy

2012-01-11T19:15:00.000Z

ASHRA

2012-01-11T17:21:00.002Z

E2-E4

2012-01-11T17:11:00.000Z

HOENIG

2012-01-11T17:03:00.000Z

Heavy Pain

2012-01-10T12:17:00.000Z

COOL GUY

2012-01-09T17:33:00.000Z

MILO GREENE

2012-01-09T12:51:00.001Z

Jaco Pastorius

2011-12-28T05:00:00.003Z

TM Bass

In LA

2011-12-19T11:36:00.013Z

I stayed with my friend Simon in Silverlake. This is his living room.

I OD'd on tacos.

Steak'n'Eggs on Sunset Blvd.

Everyone has a prescription.

Took a train to San Diego.

Went to Sea World.

Hola, Tijuana.

Went to the world's most famous public court, but rain stopped play.

Saw a band called PAPA and they were so good that I bought their EP (see below).

PAPA

2011-12-18T03:09:00.003Z

Saw these last night in Echo Park...

RISE ABOVE

2011-12-15T19:25:00.000Z

HOOPS

2011-12-02T11:58:00.004Z

You Don't Know How Lucky You Are

2011-11-18T16:33:00.005Z

Crashingly heart-wrenching music/video.

Losers

2011-11-17T10:49:00.000Z

WINTER RAP

2011-11-16T01:09:00.003Z

Mobb Deep: Survival Of Fittest

Freeway: What We Do

Nas: It 'Aint Hard To Tell

Orgnaized Konfusion: Stress

Group Home: Suspended In Time

Robotics

2011-11-09T18:33:00.001Z

Skinemax

2011-11-04T14:42:00.001Z

THE FAMILY

2011-10-31T09:10:00.001Z

coursing + soaring

2011-10-14T12:35:00.007+01:00

2:54.

Desktop Cleaned Out

2011-10-10T22:48:00.005+01:00

Last post for a while. I got some typing to do.

Reblog on Tumblr.

Thelonious Monk

2011-10-10T14:40:00.005+01:00

Just cos today was his birthday...

Autumn Leaves

2011-10-10T12:57:00.008+01:00

2:54 - Scarlet

2011-10-07T10:25:00.001+01:00

Killer tune.

Hop-Skip-Jump

2011-10-06T10:33:00.000+01:00

The Flip-Flop Flop-Film Film-Club

Stratos Dance Club

2011-10-03T19:53:00.007+01:00

Just stumbled across the YouTube channel of Stratos Dance Club, one of San Diego's hottest clubs in the 1980s. They've uploaded a bunch of great videos from back in the days when New Romantics, punks and breakdancers bopped together.

The Rick James look-a-like contest. Only one guy in it.

The Prince Look-a-Like contests were super erotic.

The dancefloor footage is spectacular.

And a local news report on the scene.

Psycho Mike

2011-09-27T17:33:00.002+01:00

Via @sexypeople

The Same Thing

2011-09-26T15:56:00.001+01:00

New Cass McCombs. Download the MP3.

Wait for me

2011-09-26T14:54:00.001+01:00

3-minute documentary that will make you cry.

THE MARKET

2011-09-26T11:03:00.001+01:00

ANIMATED GIFS

2011-09-25T10:10:00.002+01:00

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-09-19T10:06:00.005+01:00

Photos of TV

2011-09-19T07:54:00.000+01:00

Requiem

2011-09-15T08:13:00.000+01:00

Accoutrements

2011-09-14T11:18:00.002+01:00

My Ma

2011-09-14T11:08:00.001+01:00

TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE

2011-09-13T13:52:00.000+01:00

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

- Jack Kerouac

Runnin' 'round lookin' for you

2011-09-07T10:06:00.005+01:00

I love Girls. I love San Francisco. I love night drives. I love the glorious gospel outro.

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-09-03T09:24:00.006+01:00

Zimmerman

2011-09-03T09:23:00.001+01:00

you tasted as many as you could

2011-09-01T12:32:00.000+01:00

❝ Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

— The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

We All Know That Feel...

2011-09-01T10:11:00.000+01:00

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-08-29T19:11:00.008+01:00

Takin' It Eazy

2011-08-29T16:50:00.000+01:00

An end of summer mix from Jiro. Download

Tracklist:
Ry Cooder - Theme from Southern Comfort
Gabor Szabo - Stormy
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
Sigi Schwab - Kassensturz
Macht der Schonheit - Paradiesvogel
Lucio Battisti - Il Nostro Caro Angelo
The Beatles - All I've Got To Do
Dexter Wansel - The Sweetest Pain
Peter Green - Man Of The World
MFSB - Tell Me Why
Beautiful Swimmers - Open Shadow

Dansa Serpentina

2011-08-27T11:41:00.000+01:00

Need these

2011-08-26T14:15:00.000+01:00

warm rain

2011-08-25T10:39:00.001+01:00

Irish fisticuffs

2011-08-25T06:42:00.004+01:00

Shot on shitty camcorders, Irish bare-knuckle boxing is a gritty, lo-fi affair featuring two big blokes with their shirts off and their dukes up in some rural siding. The only sounds you hear are fists hitting soft, flabby flesh, the scuffle of trainers on country lanes, and the barks of onlooking men, women and children, as well as the occasional dog ...

Everything We Do Is Secret

2011-08-23T06:53:00.003+01:00

"You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us.

"Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. It will be the stuff of legend, endless discussion and limitless inspiration for the brave of heart. It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection.

"I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know."

- Henry Rollins

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-08-22T19:51:00.007+01:00

Watch Me Move

2011-08-22T10:40:00.004+01:00

FYI, the animation exhibition at the Barbican is superb. Go see it. Tracing the history of animation over the past 150 years, the show brings together contemporary artists, popular favourites, and animators from the earliest days of moving pictures.

Here are two highlights...

Frank Film, 1972, by Frank and Caroline Mouris. The first ever mash-up.

The Skeleton Dance, 1929, by Disney.

ANIMATED GIFS

2011-08-22T07:33:00.000+01:00

roots & branches

2011-08-19T12:41:00.000+01:00

❝ Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.

— Osho

Wonderful Brit Abroad

2011-08-18T09:28:00.000+01:00

My friend Chris put this together. Hideous.

What's changed?

2011-08-16T10:27:00.005+01:00

A burned-out car in Hackney Downs in 2003.

Tales of the Unexpected

2011-08-15T20:23:00.000+01:00

Indecision - Sampha

2011-08-15T14:27:00.002+01:00

Sampha-Indecision by samphamusic

Blood Orange Redux

2011-08-15T13:29:00.000+01:00

Everything is a Remix

2011-08-15T10:50:00.000+01:00

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-08-13T16:31:00.009+01:00

Facial mapping

2011-08-13T16:19:00.002+01:00

Coffee houses of London

2011-08-12T16:44:00.002+01:00

The Laughing Heart

2011-08-11T13:07:00.001+01:00

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

@Charles Bukowski

lerry graham

2011-08-11T12:40:00.000+01:00

London's burning

2011-08-08T14:33:00.000+01:00

ICEAGE

2011-08-07T21:24:00.001+01:00

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-08-03T12:51:00.004+01:00

This is my proof

2011-08-02T17:20:00.002+01:00

“This Photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen. She did love me. Look see for yourself!” - Duane Michals 1974

Fuck Yeah Patti Smith

2011-08-02T17:01:00.005+01:00

http://fuckyeahpattismith.tumblr.com

Shredding Redux

2011-08-02T15:24:00.001+01:00

Only the best keytarist in the world. Not to mention her sweet dance moves! Via Patrick Johnson.

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-08-02T13:55:00.002+01:00

with all my little heart

2011-08-02T10:03:00.001+01:00

IDENTS

2011-08-01T15:42:00.001+01:00

BEST XXX EVER

2011-08-01T10:22:00.000+01:00

Soothing sounds

2011-07-29T08:32:00.000+01:00

done in

2011-07-27T18:58:00.000+01:00

SCREAMING FEMALES

2011-07-25T13:06:00.004+01:00

BONE JAM

2011-07-25T11:30:00.000+01:00

I like the part where they go "Woooo"

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-07-24T11:42:00.005+01:00

Go Eli!

2011-07-21T17:40:00.000+01:00

Pack of Black Dogs

2011-07-20T00:36:00.004+01:00

New one from crowd-sourcing midas Kutiman

Cache Rules Everything Around Me

2011-07-19T09:22:00.000+01:00

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-07-15T18:30:00.006+01:00

Might As Well Turn

2011-07-15T17:01:00.000+01:00

HEY, LITTLE DUDE

2011-07-14T17:25:00.002+01:00

Another one from the indomitable Christine Boepple.

ADJUST YOUR COLOR

2011-07-14T09:25:00.000+01:00

Larger than life, ex-convict Petey Greene burst onto the airwaves in the 1960s with raw and uncensored radio and TV shows on racism, poverty, sexuality and drug abuse, awakening Washington, D.C.’s African American community to the power of “telling it like it is.” ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene chronicles the life and times of America’s first shock jock, a man who spoke the truth to people in power and influenced a new generation of broadcast personalities.

Reactions of a calm man watching football

2011-07-11T21:04:00.003+01:00

- La Puta Que Me Pario: 31 Veces
- La Concha de tu Hermana o Madre: 19 Veces
- Boludo / Pelotudo: 10 Veces
- Hijo De Puta: 4 Veces
- Forro: 2 Veces
- Noooooooooooo: 7 Veces
- Carajo 2 Veces

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Synesthesia

2011-07-11T20:27:00.000+01:00

Unconscious Thought Control

2011-07-10T19:04:00.001+01:00

wilderness, wildlife, isolation and shelter

2011-07-10T10:27:00.000+01:00

Continuing its research mandate, the Acid Sweat Lodge presents a 3 minute and 17 second presentation of collected research images.

The moment that you want is coming if you give it time

2011-07-08T18:35:00.005+01:00

Update: LOVE THIS.

The stand-out track on the new album from one of my fave bands, who are growing old gracefully. The video's a bit meh though. I sorta wish they'd got Roe Ethridge to do some time-lapse photography of still life compositions - a bit like this or this - though maybe that's too literal? I dunno. I still like it.

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-07-06T06:24:00.008+01:00

SHREDDING

2011-07-06T05:37:00.001+01:00

Codex Seraphinianus

2011-07-06T04:41:00.000+01:00

Holy Ghost People

2011-07-03T17:10:00.003+01:00

On any given Sunday in Holiness Church, West Virgina, the congregation sing and dance, speak in tongues, and taunt poisonous snakes.

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten

2011-07-03T17:01:00.001+01:00

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten performs "Freight Train" at the grand ol' age of 90.

DESKTOP CLEANOUT

2011-07-01T20:53:00.006+01:00