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A little birdy in a strange land known as “the List” passed on this sweet tidbit to us along with a detailed explanation (after the jump). It’s new. It’s Jah Wobble. It’s awesome. These little one-off releases (like last year’s massive dub rendition of Get Carter) are making me want more of this heavy stuff. Word on the street is that the Blow Up track is one of 21 on the forthcoming LP called Welcome to My World. Jah Wobble makes his web home at 30 Hertz. A BCN music video featuring early electronics effects provided by Peter Barvoets. Performing are James Kopta, Jason Martin and myself. Song and video were recorded at the Schenectady Public Access studios. More information on the Radio Disease Killer quack medical device. It does have a switch that only goes ‘ping’.
You will go now to vote for Neon Knome to be on Adult Swim. Vote first, because this cartoon by Ben Jones/Paper Rad will melt your fucking brain forever. Now available to view online is J. F. Culhane’s Radio Free Blissville. It’s available in regular (above) or remix versions. nickname: Rebel contributed music to the soundtrack. Mr. Culhane also has a rather fine YouTube Channel and he holds it down on the interwebs primarily at glasscapsule.
By Marc Arsenault | February 15th, 2010 |
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Lady Starlight–Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder and infamous Lady Gaga collaborator–makes a cameo in the new eponymous video by Semi Precious Weapons (above – look for the two-tone hair and laser fingers) Sunday February 14 at 6:00 AM on KFJC Special edition of Stream of Consciousness! Cousin Mary will play the complete concert performed by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra that was recorded on June 13, 2009, featuring fognozzle. nickname: Rebel splinter faction Creature Comforts (formerly White Seizure) will perform their debut live gig on Sunday, February 21 at El Rio in San Francisco, CA. 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco, California 94112. Cost: $5 Also performing are: Zoo – Deeply weird, deeply awesome electro-psych folk, from ex-Little Teeth. and Smallhands – Skater Heartbreakers. By Marc Arsenault | February 13th, 2010 |
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Video, Wow Cool, music A Frank Budgen classic. From the James Kopta Memorial Concert. Valentine’s, Albany, New York, September 22, 2002. By Marc Arsenault | February 12th, 2010 |
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Categories: Video, Why We Do This, Wow Cool, music About the most insane musical moment on Saturday Night Live ever. This may top the Beastie Boys and Elvis Costello doing “Radio, Radio” or Natalie Portman’s rap. Punk. By Marc Arsenault | February 8th, 2010 |
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I was sent a link to iO9’s write-up of Alex Cox’s recent Non-Sequel to his classic Repo Man film today by my nickname: Rebel cohort Michael Keegan. It was too early in the day to absorb. This was the first I had heard of any such sort of venture. I sort of peeked at it a couple of times. I sent it to someone else. Her response was “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!” Which seems to be the general reaction. I’m gonna say that’s a good thing. I want to see this movie. Here’s the trailer: Alex Cox has a blog. He talks a bit about the development and making of Repo Chick, as well as his repo turf war with Universal. By Marc Arsenault | January 26th, 2010 |
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Categories: Andy's Chair, Upcoming Blasts, Video, Why We Do This, Wow Cool This is the video I was looking for a few days ago. A lesson for me in not relying on YouTube. Gumby puts the kibosh on the blockheads latest evil scheme, a pesticide protection racket, that has the worms up in arms and gasmasks, even. Available on the DVD of Gumby: the Movie By Marc Arsenault | January 17th, 2010 |
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, Video, Wow Cool I couldn’t find any clips on YouTube that really fit with what I would have liked to have shown in memory of the great Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, so I picked this video of Lightning Bolt’s 13 Monsters by Paper Rad. There’s a great bit in one of the old Gumby episodes that Brown Cuts Neighbors stole for one of our TV shows with Gumby’s band having a run in with some rustlers that has the classic line “Sorry we’re so dirty, ladies and gentlemen, but we were hijacked”. Sorry you don’t get that. You can just imagine. Rest in Peace Art. You are much missed.
American TV and movies have pretty much always sucked at getting punk right. This and an episode of Quincy tend be remembered as classic quotable examples of this from a certain era. As a side note, my brother had the nickname “After School Special” in high school. He wasn’t particularly punk. Now you can watch the whole thing online. (found a version with somewhat better sound) Share and enjoy. After School Special page on Wikipedia Thanks to C. Adam O’Toole for pointing this one out. By Marc Arsenault | January 6th, 2010 |
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Categories: Andy's Chair, Hearts and Minds, Video, Why We Do This, Wow Cool Now some 30 years old, Doctor Snuggles, in it’s 13 episodes, doesn’t hold up so great. The animation is maybe comparable to the Smurfs cartoons of the same era; and, it ups the surrealism quotient up by about a power of 10 from those. I’ve only watched the episodes co-written by Douglas Adams (yes, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author) so far, but expect to be dragged through others soon. There is a quirky quaintness to it all that is, really, actually, a bit icky. I don’t really know what to say. There is some important brain part that may require switching off to engage with even one of these episodes. My experience thus far does confirm, that, yes, this is some fucked up viewing shit, yo. I got to meet Doctor Snuggles’ voice and narrator Peter Ustinov once for about a minute. I think at the time I knew him only for being the old man in Logan’s Run who recites from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Anyway… no shit, Doctor Snuggles will eat your brain whole and then serve it at high tea. By Marc Arsenault | December 29th, 2009 |
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Categories: Video, Why We Do This, Wow Cool A little over a year ago, Oliver Postgate passed on at age 83. He left an astounding legacy, in just a few short series, that have had a lasting impact on generations of children. Despite only ever making thirteen episodes of Bagpuss, it remains one of the most popular of British childrens’ programs. The universal appeal of Clangers is undeniable. Your children will soon be running about the house whistling too after watching an episode or thirteen of these. We sat down as a family and watched a ton of them tonight. They remain extremely charming and delightful. My three-year-old son insists that I am the soup dragon; and, his attempts to whistle are beyond charming. Bottom line: each of us found something to laugh at or be amazed by. Oliver was a conscientious objector to the second world war and a very vocal opponent to the nuclear buildup in Europe in the 70’s and 80’s as well as being an opponent to the post 9-11 clampdown on personal freedoms and the selling of the myth of the global terror network by the far right. One of the last productions that Oliver worked on that received wide distribution was the narration to the documentary of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Alchemists of Sound, which I have watched at least once every year since it was released. Just recently BBC4 has aired Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films, an overview of his astounding life. Clangers Series One from Amazon.co.uk (cheap! not even 4 pounds!) By Marc Arsenault | December 28th, 2009 |
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This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1:
The Power of Nightmares page on the Internet Archive More Adam Curtis Films on Archive.org UPDATE: More Links! Buy The Power of Nightmares Robert Koehler interviews Adam Curtis about Power of Nightmares on CinemaScope Many Adam Curtis Links on Film Studies for Free By Marc Arsenault | December 25th, 2009 |
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Power Animals @ Bruce High Quality for Barefoot in the Head from Jason Martin on Vimeo. part of barefoot in the head: a futurological porety reading Recorded at NYU Open Studios, November 21, 2009. The hits keep coming! Third in the series of Captain Beefheart classics, rendered in 80s video game soundtrack style, from Japan’s mysterious barismanco. I so want to hear an entire NES style Beefheart record. If you need a US label for that ‘baris’ give a holler! Sugar’N'Spikes originally appeared on Trout Mask Replica Background on the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom): Wikipedia | Famicom World By Marc Arsenault | November 21st, 2009 |
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