bike kill

this is why i want to live in nyc.
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life and times of jefron, child prodigy: 10.07.08

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playlist:
01. Amon Duul ii - Wir Wollen
02. Amon Duul ii - Wilhelm Wilhelm
..."Originally released in 1975, Made In Germany is considered to be the last absolute classic in the Amon Düül II catalogue. The band wished to follow up the last release, Hijack , with a recording that was more distinctive and not just a combination of random tracks splashed together with little in common. What they really wanted to do was a rather unusual survey of German history, even if brief, in a pretty crazy story, which was supposed to form the framework. In her book Ingeborg Schober writes: In the beginning of June 1975 several musicians of Amon Düül II came to see me for discussing the concept of the new record, whose title was Made in Germany . As expected, the project had already dwindled away and the only option left was to fix a story, at least to some extend coherent, from the already available text material. Actually, the plot was based on Chris Karrer s song lyrics Mr. Kraut s Jinx , which already comprised one of the record s meanings . And what we end up with is a Düülesque distillation of Acid Rock, Space Rock and Krautrock that shows the band's knowledge of their own history. The record was recorded in Munich at Studio 70 with Jürgen Korduletsch as producer and David Siddle as sound engineer with writing credits to all members of the Klassic Kollective...."

03. Ash Ra Tempel - Ooze Away Live 1973
This is from the private tapes. released in 2006, a six cd compilation of previously unreleased material. A short bio from wikipedia is below.
The group was originally founded by guitarist Manuel Göttsching, keyboardist/drummer Klaus Schulze, and bassist Hartmut Enke in 1971. All three founding members had previously played together as part of the short-lived group Eruption founded by Conrad Schnitzler. Prior to that Schnitzler and Schulze had worked together in Tangerine Dream.
Ash Ra Tempel released its self-titled debut album in June of 1971. This release is considered by critics to be a classic of the genre; Schulze temporarily departed for a solo career shortly after its release. Schwingungen (1972), Seven Up (w/ Timothy Leary) (1972), and Join Inn (1973) are all considered key works from the band. Pop-oriented 1973 album Starring Rosi was thusly named because it featured lead vocals by Rosi Mueller.
Their music is widely characterized as cosmic and atmospheric. The early albums were more psychedelic-oriented and all had one lengthy track per side: one more powerful and dramatic, the other of a more atmospheric nature.
ART's last concert performance took place in Cologne in February 1973.
Later, after recording the soundtrack Le Berceau de Cristal (1975; unreleased until the 90's) Ash Ra Tempel shortened its name to Ashra, making a more melodic, synthesizer-based music.

04. Dirty Three - Alice Wading
from AMG:
On She Has No Strings Apollo, the Dirty Three again offer up the sounds of their hearts and inner landscapes to the skies and whoever's listening. The band's tendency to start a song quiet, loose, and lovely and then slowly sweat it into a faster, intensified crescendo is familiar by now, but somehow remains vividly evocative. The emotional road from heartbreak and regret, expressed through beating music with wailing violin ("Alice Wading"), to feeling lost, heard in a song's slow unraveling ("She Lifted the Net"), and back again is part of humanity's oldest story, and is a tale that violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner, and drummer Jim White are good at telling. If you are a fan of the Dirty Three's past expressions, you'll be moved by their sound again as they relay new wordless tales of woe, sadness, and things past. Worth noting: The quieter, reflective pieces like "Long Way to Go With No Punch" deliver moments of reprieve, and bass guitar (played by Turner) is heard for the first time on a Dirty Three album since 1994's Sad & Dangerous.

06. Magic Lantern - Deathshead Hawkmoth
06. Magic Lantern - Cactus Raga
full on psyche bliss. from insound:
After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC's most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML's oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band's wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like 'Deathshead Hawkmoth' and 'Vampires In Heat' through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers ('Feasting On Energy') and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie ('Cactus Raga'). These are all of the Lanterns' classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def, thanks to Bobb Bruno's attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light.

07. Rainbow Arabia - Omar K
08. Rainbow Arabia - See No Hear No
09. Rainbow Arabia - I Know I See I Love I Go
10. Rainbow Arabia - Tiny Tiny Man
I decided that Rainbow Arabia was my new favorite band. Then I found out that they were on tour. Then I found out that they were going to be in iowa city in a few days. Then i went to see them and they ruled. Then they decided to come back to fairfield with us. Then they slept in my living room. Then we went out to breakfast. Then we went to the golden domes. Then we went to the vedic observatory. Then they went to Kansas City and I went home. Awesome.
Adventuring on a dark star safari, Rainbow Arabia wearing their kaleidoscopic militia uniforms, and armed with unforgiving jet-black machine guns adorned with rainbows of ribbons, stampede into town on crystal war elephants, painted red with Nubian scrawl and decorated in chains of silver plated animal skulls, firing bullets into the sky to announce their arrival, creating the kind of noise you could imagine the DFA might make had they ever decided to throw a party in the underground ruins of Egypt, the ghosts of the Pyramids shaken into action by the sinuous rhythms and earth quaking basslines.
11. Burning Star Core & Zaimph - Live @ No Fun Fest 2007
Zaimph is the solo project of Marcia Bassett from Hotogisu, GHQ and Double Leopards (three of the best noise outfits around), how she manages to put out so much music of this quality I don't know.
Burning Star Core: A student of La Monte Young and Terry Riley's unorthodox school of scathing minimalism, Midwestern noise sculptor C. Spencer Yeh stands at the epicenter of the region's burgeoning noisecore underground. Like most of his noisenik peers, Yeh cut his teeth on a series of limited-edition CDRs and short-run LPs, collaborating with the likes of Thurston Moore, the Sunburned Hand of Man and Deerhoof in a career that is already well over a decade old. Over the past few years he has gained momentum, if not necessarily mainstream acceptance, and his current high standing among middle America's noisy tykes is certainly well deserved. While each of the album's four compositions is built upon layers of mind-melting drone and descending arpeggios, Yeh is careful never to bore his haywire vessels into the ground, adding layers of molten feedback and carefully chosen (if utterly demented) melody lines to weave their way through the debris.

12. Nishinihon - Super Station (Hell in a Call Version)
All-man hard rock group obsessed with the good old rock music of the sixties and seventies. that exploded into life at the very end of the 20th century. This was the first ever group to be led rockin' leader of the pack Tsuyama Atsushi.
The group's name, Nishinihon, refers to the west of Japan. The language and culture of this area is very different to that of Tokyo (which is in eastern Japan). Nishinihon's members are all from the west of Japan, and they all loath Tokyo with a vengeance.
Tight, tight trousers. Hot and sweaty performances. Massive volume, of course. Stoopid lyrics. Hot and sweaty vocals. Extended guitar solos. Explosive bass. Full-on drums. All of these qualities that rock used to possess back in the good old days are fully (and miracously) present in Nishinihon -- that rarest of beasts, an art rock band. (When records by Cream, Zep, King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Soft Machine first arrived in Japan in the early seventies, they were known in general as art rock bands).
In order to renaimate the rock fantasy, the group's creed is to play old-fashioned, ugly rock n roll. They dream of one day creating an art rock youth movement.



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picture of the day: beauty

holy fuck. this is fucking gorgeous. oh my god.

patty shakes

hells yes.

life and times of jefron, child prodigy: 9.23.08

playlist:

01. DJ Chaos X - Live Mixxx Happy Set 12
02. DJ Chaos X - Live Mixxx Happy Set 13
DJ Chaos X is Yamantaka Eye. From the Boredoms. The difference between this set and his DJ Pica Pica Pica stuff is that, umm.. this is really hard to find, and it's a lot more pop and punk samples than world stuffs.

03. Michael Flower Band - Balinese Falsehood
Michael Flower Band is Mick Flower from Vibracathedral Orchestra and John Moloney from Sunburned Hand of the Man. This song is fucking killer. recorded in november/december 2006.

04. A.M. - Halls and Malls
Off the album Red Rag Reverie.
"...full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Miltons A.M project. With beats! Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones and pounding beats through electric guitar lined red hot into an ancient tape recorder to produce a riff driven avant-party album... With its endless driving riffs and noise incursions ascending to ever higher levels of intensity the sudden free falls into sudden deep ambient bliss are like the first glimpses of dawn on a mountain top on acid.."

05. Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Communications part 1
06. Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Communications part 2
"34-minute, two-part composition, a concerto for Cecil Taylor and orchestra, that finds the pianist at the height of his powers, just beginning to enter the third phase of his development where he fused ultra-high energy playing with rigorous logic and heartbreaking beauty. The breadth of this piece, its expansiveness, and its tension between order and chaos is one of the single high watermarks of avant-garde jazz."

07. Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End.
off the album 1990. this song is wonderful. daniel johnston is wonderful. yes.

08. King Crimson - Starless
off the album "Red"
"Starless", a piece in two movements. The first is a mellotron-string driven ballad with brilliant liquid-tone guitar playing from Fripp, a lovely soprano sax solo from former Crim Mel Collins, and a passioned vocal from John Wetton. This melts into a building section, highlighting Bruford's percussion again as Fripp plays repeated figures over and over again until the guitar and distorted bass echo each other and the piece explodes-- McDonald plays another brilliant alto solo, full of fire and passion before the two saxes restate the theme and the piece erupts like never before and comes to a conclusion. Its one of those magic moments on record, definitely a moment of pure brilliance.

This was unfortunately the last work of the '70s band-- McDonald was supposed to rejoin, but in a surprising move (given band history), Fripp left, which effectively ended Crimson for a further six years.

09. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Mouth of Ghosts.
"The Dillinger Escape Plan create maniacally intense, crushingly metallic, and decidedly hardcore punk-infused jazz-time-signature-invoking compositions displaying an unparalleled musical bravery, precision musicianship, meticulously thought-out, and complex structuring, and rigorous physical endurance. The band's guitarists and drummer are regular features in publications geared toward the guitar- and drum-playing set. The depth of extremity and mental challenge presented by their music virtually defies description, at once recalling the mind-wandering spirit of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the complex heavy metal of latter-day Death, Cynic's solitary death metal achievement, and the progressive hard rock of Rush. Their performances bring to mind the anarchic charge of early Guns N' Roses shows, and the sophistication that drives their craft should awe fans of classy art rock bands like Radiohead."
summary: this song will blow your head off.

10. Bill Fay - I Hear You Calling
"..."Enigmatic" was the tag oft-times tossed 'round Bill Fay, whose loyal cult following grew significantly over the years. Signed to Decca, the singer/songwriter and pianist released two albums in the late '60s and early '70s; their haunting, darkly shadowed songs were never meant to appeal to the masses, even at the height of the psychedelia-streaked introspection sparked by the soul-searching of the day. While the Beatles flew off to meet the Maharishi, Fay fell under the spell of a 19th century compendium of commentaries on the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelations, which would inspire his second album, Time of the Last Persecution. But before the born-agains jump on to the Fay bandwagon, they should be warned that the artist was equally influenced by the ravaging events of the day. The title track, "Time of the Last Persecution," was written in an immediate and visceral response to the killings of four students at Kent State. Even in 1971, the intensity of Fay's lyrics -- reflecting his commentaries in their poetical language, their highly introspective nature, the brooding quality of the music, all exquisitely enhanced by Ray Russell's evocative blues guitar work -- left most reviewers cold and confused. In truth, the album would have slotted much more neatly into the coming firestorm that descended on Britain later in the decade, and would have provided a surprisingly supple bridge between the apocalyptic visions of roots reggae and the political polemics of punk. The set certainly contains all the fire and fury of the latter movement, as well as the deeply dread atmospheres of the former. By 2005, with the rise of evangelicalism and Christian rock, Persecution no longer sounds so obscure or out of place; it is, however, a personal journey of spirituality, not a platform from which to proselytize. For all its dark vision, it's the possibility of peace and hope that shines through the gloom, and as for all the seeming quietude of the music, it thunders, too, with a power and emotion that speak in volumes as loudly as Fay's striking lyrics...."

11. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
..." In 2006, the release of Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped brought a lot of the band's ex-fans-- people who'd either gotten over them with the help of 2000's NYC Ghosts & Flowers, or just thought they'd finally aged out-- back to the fold. The more tuneful record was different from anything they'd done this decade, re-establishing the direct line many of us had to the Sonic Youth of our teenage years. At the Pitchfork Music Festival this summer, Sonic Youth played a well-received Daydream Nation, but a bunch of people I talked to after their set thought the group sounded even better during the encore, when they tore through a handful of newer songs.

As a separate entity from Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore's reputation as a basement icon precedes him. Where it was once surprising to find him at Connecticut noise shows, Brooklyn No Fun fests, and Western Massachusetts DIY open mic nights, his recent role as mentor to (and collaborator with) young rock dynamos has since made his presence in the underground a constant. Given these feedback showdowns-- not to mention the solo work of his distant past-- it came as a mild shock when his Ecstatic Peace label recently announced that not only was there a new Thurston Moore solo album in the works (his first formal LP since 1995's Psychic Hearts), but that it would also feature actual songs.

Trees Outside the Academy is, in fact, a song-based album-- and they're good songs, too. Rather Ripped had whistle-clean guitar lines and minimal melodies-- the noise had lifted to reveal Sonic Youth still picking out sharp hooks, with songcraft as sparkling as ever. Those pop songs were a good place for them to return to for inspiration-- they gave the band a form (rather than void) to play around with-- and Trees takes up a similar challenge: What can a guy like Thurston Moore do with the bare, noiseless architecture of an acoustic guitar and verse-chorus-verse structures?..."

12. Sun City Girls - Blue Mambo
From the album, Torch of the Mystics.
Torch of the Mystics represents the pinnacle of the first phase of the Sun City Girls. A concise, pinwheeling album that captures the band's pure commitment to emotional transcendence through music, the 11 songs here fly off into the netherworld of ethnic avant-garage rock with startling clarity. The band had never fully explored the Middle Eastern tones accumulating in their brains as they did on this 1990 masterpiece, nor had they been as clearly and smartly recorded as they are here: guitarist Rick Bishop's tone slices, drummer Charlie Gocher is wider than he has ever been, and bassist Alan Bishop rumbles with an ominous ferocity. Songs like the pile-driving "Esoterica of Abyssynia" sound like your radio has leapt into a dreamy foreign astral plane of its own volition. "Space Prophet Dogon" is a dance of the seven veils as played by the freaked-out Mothers of Invention, while "Radar 1941" crash-lands in the middle of Egyptian Top 40 as imagined by "Count Five." Every track contains a shimmering melodic phrase or haunting undertone that the Girls mine like pure manna, and the occasional bursts of delirious chanting still summon goosebumps on the listener's skin. Every argument made for the greatness of the Sun City Girls has its roots in this platter, and if you have never understood what the fuss is all about or if you ever needed something to convince you of their (deservedly) sterling underground reputation, this is the original testament.

13. Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth.
Brits Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power formed the group in 2004 with the goal of creating pain-inducing noise music, but soon became curious about mixing in prettier sounds, and adding structure and melody to their brutal tracks. Still, they never lost the aggression and abstraction of their noise leanings: They're not afraid to let a beat pound forever, or let a drone wash slowly, or let a pedal loop endlessly. Where more traditional groups might worry that a part goes on too long, Fuck Buttons seem fascinated by what will happen if it does, riding it just past the point of expectation before hitting you with the next big switch-up. It's a trick that gives Street Horrrsing a sense of constant tension, with another surprise detonation always looming around the corner.

14. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
If not for the Mahavishnu Orchestra's first album, The Inner Mounting Flame, this second, 1973 outing might well be considered the greatest of all jazz-fusion essays. Both are staggering calls to celestial coursing and reckoning, and to resolution. All is breathtakingly purposeful and assured, with vast group cohesion, and phenomenal contributions by keyboardist Jan Hammer, violinist Jerry Goodman, bassist Rick Laird, torrential drummer Billy Cobham, and foremost, by the leader, guitarist John McLaughlin. One hears all the elements of his musical makeup: Tal Farlow; Django Reinhart's stunning single-note runs; flamenco guitar; sophisticated Delta blues; way-over-the-top arena-rock distortion, feedback, and power amplification; and Indian classical and folk music. All that, plus childhood lessons in classical piano and violin and recent studies with spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, set the cosmic stew to boil.
and for those not familiar with jan hammer, he went on to make the theme music for miami vice! fuck yea!

15. That's Rockefeller - Stimulan
This is live at the star deli in jakarta, indonesia,.
don't google this band or you might see them on youtube. and their music is a lot better if you turn it up really loud and jump around. to see them actually play it takes out some of the awesomeness. they need a little work on their stage presence. or i dunno, maybe i've been jaded by rammstien's giant flamethrower dildos and keith flynt from prodigy.

16. Ben Reynolds - Gravity Never Wins
Glasgow, Scotland guitarist Ben Reynolds has been a prominent player in and contributor to the United Kingdom's fertile underground psych/drone scene for many years. A current member of the long-running and highly influential Ashtray Navigations, Reynolds appears on numerous recordings in the tight-knit UK drone cabal, including those by the venerable Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof, and is also active via his duo project Motor Ghost with Directing Hand's Alex Neilsen. A cascade of solo excursions documenting a fractal of avant-thinking themes are available in limited DIY fashion, while proper pressings are available through Last Visible Dog, Digitalis Industries and Time-Lag. Although Reynolds has touched on acoustic elements in the past, it has mainly been as a textural layer to his psychedelic whirlpools, at which he is so adept. Reynolds puts his electric guitars aside in favor of exploring expressionist acoustic steel string terrain on his astonishing new solo recording Two Wings.


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the life and times of jefron, child prodigy.

so...
in the last few months i've started a radioshow.
and in the last few days i've began to archive it online so that i can share it with everyone who isn't able to listen.
here's the first show i've archived.
it's from... umm.. i think 9.23.08.

BARACK EATS BABIES!!!

RARARARARRAARARARA!!!!
this is fucking fantastic.
"oh gosh!"
"feed me!"
"MORE!!!"

it's alive. again.

thanks to sadie. i've reopened this blog.

adidas torsion bank shot

i want i want i want.

louis vuitton post 10,000: camo

so fueling the louis vuitton obsession of mine is the new japanese Numero.

they're having some sort of contest (that i don't know the details of cuz i don't read japanese) where the winner gets one of these dope camo louis vuitton prints done by takashi murakami.

i think the print is rad. but umm.. it's a fucking mousepad. who has a mouse these days?
does anyone actually have a real computer? i feel like it's a laptop world these days....
also- on the murakami tip...
here's the video he did for "good morning" by kanye.

pistol cam

blow someones head off and take a photo at the same time.
pistol cam.
you can go read all about it at like... pistolcam.com or at wired or something
we're more interested here in the shit we're going to start seeing on flickr.

han cholo x puma

bling bling motherfucking bling!!!
so the new han cholo and puma collab is illin'
han cholo is illin'.
check out his website while listening to some shit off the valerie blog.
but this shit.. this shit is "the goldie han"





check the han cholo store in echo park if you want them. $300 bucks.
that's like, a tank of gas for all you kids living out in lalala

Pagan prisoners win right to have 'magic wand' twigs in cells under new religious freedom rules

Prison bosses have been instructed to let pagan inmates keep twigs in their cells...to use as wands.
Officers have been told to allow prisoners to collect and decorate the twigs which they need for their rituals.

It is the latest in a series of rulings to protect convicts' rights and ensure equality among different faiths.

Followers of other faiths are allowed items such as a prayer mat to allow them to worship.

The policy regarding pagans was announced by Justice Reform Minister Maria Eagle in a parliamentary answer.

She said: "Prison service policy is to enable prisoners of different faith traditions, including paganism, to practise their religion.

"Religious artefacts are allowed for relevant faiths within the constraints of good order and discipline. The religious artefacts for pagan prisoners include a flexible twig for a wand."

Tory prisons spokesman Edward Garnier said: "This sounds like an April Fool's Day joke. But there's genuine concern prisoners are taking the system for a ride."

Conservative MP Andrew Turner, who uncovered the new ruling, added: "This strikes me as bizarre. A lot of people would be worried about equating paganism with Christianity."

three year old has never slept.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A 3-year-old Florida boy with a rare condition has not slept in three years.
hett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night.
"(My husband) has the day shift and I kind of have the afternoon shift," mother Shannon Lamb said. "We share the night shift because no one can sleep in the house when he is up anyway."
Lamb said she is working extra to pay for Rhett's large medical bills. She also said her husband, David, has given up his job to care for their child.
"I would give anything for Rhett to be this normal little boy who plays and has a good time," Lamb said. "If it takes going to every single solitary doctor, I will do it."
According to the May Clinic, chiari malformation is a rare abnormality where brain tissue protrudes in the spinal canal.
Part of the skull is abnormally small and puts pressure on the brain.
Rhett checked into a hospital for an experimental surgery Thursday.

Chiari malformations (CMs) are structural defects in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance. When the indented bony space at the lower rear of the skull is smaller than normal, the cerebellum and brainstem can be pushed downward. The resulting pressure on the cerebellum can block the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (the liquid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord) and can cause a range of symptoms including dizziness, muscle weakness, numbness, vision problems, headache, and problems with balance and coordination. There are three primary types of CM. The most common is Type I, which may not cause symptoms and is often found by accident during an examination for another condition. Type II (also called Arnold-Chiari malformation) is usually accompanied by a myelomeningocele-a form of spina bifida that occurs when the spinal canal and backbone do not close before birth, causing the spinal cord to protrude through an opening in the back. This can cause partial or complete paralysis below the spinal opening. Type III is the most serious form of CM, and causes severe neurological defects. Other conditions sometimes associated with CM include hydrocephalus, syringomyelia, and spinal curvature.

dog carpets!!!!!

ondrej brody

holy shit!

Gunman shoots at police, jumps park fence, robs dad and kids, sheds ankle bracelet, escapes police dogs, carjacks pregnant lady and surrenders to police ... wait for it ... completely naked!!!!!


HOUSTON—A gunman who prompted an evacuation at the Mercer Arboretum Saturday was arrested naked after leading cops on a wild chase.
The whole thing started when Precinct 4 deputies responded to a call about a domestic disturbance near the park.
When they arrived, they saw Raphael Jones, 19, in the street with a gun.
Jones was a parolee, and he had removed his ankle bracelet.
He ran from police, hopping fences and tearing through backyards in an attempt to lose them.
At one point, he shot at the deputies, but no one was hit.
When Jones climbed over the fence into the Arboretum, deputies evacuated the area and surrounded the park.
Once in the park, Jones robbed a dad and his kids of their cell phone and car keys and later carjacked a pregnant woman.
Deputies pursued Jones in the stolen car until he finally stopped and exited the vehicle with no clothes on.
It was unclear why he had removed them.
Jones is reportedly wanted in Louisiana for aggravated assault and kidnapping.

city scape combs

by out of office collective

jay-z

so i guess that somehow i totally like, misinterpreted something or other?
i thought jay-z retired.
wasn't he all like, i'm over rapping//i'm a business man now?
and then he came out with this shitty american ganster album.
and now he just signed with live nation for one gazillion dollars over ten years and three albums and a million tshirts and tours and basketball shoes.
and he owes def jam one more album too.
oh, and he referred to himself as "the rolling stones of hip hop"

false delusions.

I have reported one such case that occurred in Oxford... The patient, a 43-year-old man, was brought into the Accident and Emergency Department following an overdose. He had tried to kill himself because he was afraid he was going to be "locked up". However, this fear was secondary to a paranoid system at the heart of which was the hypochondriacal delusion that he was "mentally ill".

He was seen by the duty psychiatrist and by the consultant psychiatrist on call, neither of whom were in any doubt that he was deluded. Indeed, both were ready on the strength of their diagnosis to admit him as an involuntary patient.

Yet had their diagnosis depended on the falsity of the patient's belief, as in the standard definition, they would have been presented with a paradox: if the patient's belief that he was mentally ill was false, then (by the standard definition) he could have been deluded, but this would have made his belief true after all.

Equally, if his belief was true, then he was not deluded (by the standard definition), but this would have made his belief false after all. By the standard definition of delusion, then, his belief, is false, was true and, if true, was false.

-Bill Fulford in the book Philosophical Psychopathology.

nazi sex scandal

Max Mosley, president of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, F1’s governing body, is facing intense pressure to resign from his post after being implicated in a Nazi role-playing orgy according to British tabloid News of the World.

The report detailed a five-hour “Nazi-style” orgy between Mosley and five prostitutes at a house in Chelsea. In a video on the newspaper’s Web site, it shows a man identified as Mosley arriving at an apartment. The man is then greeted by a woman playing the role of a Nazi prison guard, checking his hair to see if he has been kept free of lice “at the other facility.”
"Hurry up! Lie face down! Don't look at me!" Mosley meekly obeyed and was chained and manacled before another blonde dominatrix, wearing only a jacket, shirt and knee-length boots, entered the room.
Later, another woman in mock death camp garb enters the video and the man said to be Mosley is heard speaking German.

At one point during the video, the man yells “she needs more of ze punishment!” while brandishing a leather strap over a woman’s bottom before striking her with it and counting in German, as other women in Nazi-style uniforms look on.

He ends up having sex with several of them and of course, this being Britain, he shares a cup of tea with the women after sex.

While the Nazi concept is not unusual in sadomasochistic circles, playing both sides in such a kinky ritual is unusual, say sex experts.
"In most cases, they play one role or the other," said Judy Kuriansky, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Teacher's College and member of the American Association of Sex Educators. "It's not as usual to play both roles. These are complicated psychodynamics."

Such practices have less to do with sex and more with power, she explains.

"Beating women and being beaten, it's not about the sex but about the power dynamics," Kuriansky said. "For people who are into S&M, the Nazi angle is one of the most typical out-there extreme examples. After all, they're always wearing leather and boots and latex clothing. It's in line with the concept of domination and submission."

marilyn minter

Marilyn Minter was born in Louisiana and raised in Florida in an upper middle class household. Her father was an alcoholic, compulsive gambler, and occasional boxing promoter while her mom was a drug addict. When she was an undergrad at the University of Florida she took some photos of her mother which Diane Arbus, a visiting instructor at the time, saw the proof sheet and proclaimed it to be the only student work she gave a damn about that year. and so mortified her classmates with the end results that she didn’t show them again for nearly thirty years.

Minter moved to New York City in 1978, after finishing an MFA at Syracuse, and promptly entered what she calls a “coma”: nights touring the clubs of late 70’s-early 80’s downtown Manhattan, marathon boozing, and narcotic picnics back in an era when blow wasn’t supposed to be addictive. It was the perfect time to have a job teaching in a Catholic boy’s school, where she would chug Cokes and catch up on sleep in the minutes between classes. She’d been getting wasted since childhood, “on anything I could get my hands on,” and finally discovered in 1985 that the drugs had stopped working. Minter began the long, torturous task of cleaning up.
In 1989, after experimenting with dot screens and Pop Art, Minter felt compelled to do something completely new. “I thought, ‘I know—I’ll do pornography. I’ll do hardcore pornography!” If other women artists were exploring the erotics of objects, the erotics of consumption, then why not investigate the erotic itself? Scouring New York’s sex shops and adult bookstores for inspiration, Minter carefully selected and painted a series of close-ups that were compelling or funny to her. Three women croon over an erect penis in one painting titled The Supremes, which, with the exception of the solid white streaks projecting from the “microphone” onto willing fingers and tongues, is painted in seedy benday-dot fashion, as if seized from the back pages of a newsweekly, and presented on a bulky metal first-aid kit.

“I did these cumshots and thought they were really funny. I thought, ‘What’s the big deal?’ but people went nuts. Everybody likes to look at porn. I mean, the Internet’s there because of pornography. Let’s get real.”
Minter had no interest in the polite or tame. She zoomed in on blowjobs and masturbating women. She obscured faces, fragmented bodies, and made sexual anatomies seem like contraband, as if welcoming the charges of hegemony and objectification they would produce. Surely people would see the humor and irony behind them.

Minter’s 40-year career has only recently reached its zenith. After winning back the admiration of critics, the artist has had a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a much-envied spot in the 2006 Whitney Biennial in which her work was the invitation image. In 2007, her first retrospective monograph was published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., and she had shows in Sweden, the U.K., Spain, and France. Her photos of Pamela Anderson were commissioned by the art quarterly Parkett, later featured on the cover of Zoetrope: All-Story, which she guest-designed, and following that were used in paintings.

Supreme will release a series of limited edition skateboard decks designed by Marilyn Minter. The series will consist of three decks designed by Ms. Minter.
Available at the NY and LA stores on April 10th and online April 17th.
Japan will release the project on April 12th.

olga gromova

Ukrainian fashion week is the future.

rich girls

park avenue peerage is a blog that consists of pictures of hot society girls.
you cannot afford them.

oh, no no no more mosquitoes!

southeast asia blog has appeared here: no more mosquitoes

bollywood

this is amazing. i need to start making music videos.

meats.

well, in celebration of eating tons of deer this last week.
here is some meats.


more here.

return of a clockwork orange

Documentary about the controversy surrounding Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

"Almost 30 years ago, Stanley Kubrick imposed his own ... all » censorship on one of cinema's most controversial films, A Clockwork Orange, refusing to allow it to be shown in public.

FilmFour looks at the furor that surrounded the film's initial release and offers a re-appraisal through the eyes of Alexander Walker, Mark Kermode, Camille Paglia, Tony Kaye and Steven Soderbergh."

from wikipedia:
United States censorship

The film was rated X on its original release in the United States. Later, Kubrick voluntarily replaced roughly 30 seconds of footage from two scenes with less bawdy action for a 1973 re-release, rated R. It is a common myth that only the R-rated version can be seen nowadays, but in fact the opposite is true: all DVDs present the original X-rated form, and only some of the early 80s VHS editions are in the R-rated form.[5]

The film was rated C (for "condemned") by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting because of its explicit sexual and violent content; such a rating conceptually forbade Catholics from seeing the film. The "condemned" rating was abolished in 1982, and since then films deemed by the conference to have unacceptable levels of sex and/or violence have been rated O, meaning "morally offensive".

[edit] British withdrawal

In the United Kingdom, the sexual violence in the film was considered extreme. Furthermore, it was claimed that the film had inspired copycat behaviour. In March 1972, a prosecutor at a trial of a 14-year-old boy accused of the manslaughter of one of his classmates referred to A Clockwork Orange, telling the judge that the case had a macabre relevance to the film.[6]

The attacker, a boy age 16 from Bletchley, pleaded guilty after telling police that his friends had told him of the film "and the beating up of an old boy like this one"; defence counsel told the trial "the link between this crime and sensational literature, particularly A Clockwork Orange, is established beyond reasonable doubt".[7] The press also blamed the influence of the film for a rape in which the attackers sang "Singin' in the Rain". Kubrick subsequently requested that Warner Brothers withdraw the film from UK distribution.

At the time, it was widely believed that the copycat attacks were what led Kubrick to withdraw the film from distribution in the United Kingdom. However, in a television documentary made after Kubrick's death, his widow Christiane confirmed rumours that Kubrick had withdrawn A Clockwork Orange on police advice after threats were made against Kubrick and his family (the source of the threats was not discussed). That Warner Bros. acceded to Kubrick's request to withdraw the film is an indication of the remarkable relationship Kubrick had with the studio, particularly the executive Terry Semel.

The ban was vigorously pursued during Kubrick's lifetime. One art house cinema that defied the ban in 1993, and was sued and lost, was the Scala cinema at Kings Cross, London, on the same premises as the present-day Scala nightclub. Unable to meet the cost of the defence, the cinema club was forced into receivership. [8]

Whatever the reason for the film's withdrawal, it could not easily be seen in the United Kingdom for some 27 years. The first VHS and DVD releases followed shortly after Kubrick's death. It was also shown in many UK cinemas.

david bowie

so i'm thinking he's 16 or 17 here..
this is before he became david bowie.
"the mask"

and then we have life on mars? directed by mick rock.
this is unbelievable. look at that hair. and that fucking make up.

nations who have not yet joined the metric system

louis vuitton madness

louis vuitton pig!!!
by wim delvoye. an artist out of belgium who likes tattooing pigs. he does it at a place called the art farm in china. cuz the animal rights laws aren't quite as strict there... sneaky.
while we're on the louis vuitton kick.. we can add some li'l kim.. who got the LV treatment from dave lachapelle.

then we got the latest in louis vuitton disposable luxury:


and then.. we'll save the wildest for last....

An ad campaign for LOUIS VUITTON by Mamoru Hosoda (of Digimon fame). an updated alice in wonderland, in which a girl, searching for her lost cell phone, floats in a dizzying world of the company’s logos. While waiting to meet her friends outside of a Louis Vuitton store, Aya’s cell phone is eaten by the LV Panda, who then promptly swallows Aya - but the inside of his stomach is gateway to a psychadelic wonderland. Based on characters created by famed superflat artist Takashi Murakami.

flying hotel

French designer Jean-Marie Massaud's dreams of opening a large flying hotel look to be coming true. Technical design is underway for Massaud's "Manned Cloud," which will carry 40 guests and 15 employees and house a restaurant, library, bar, fitness center and a rooftop sun deck. The big blimp-tel is being billed as an eco-friendly sightseeing destination.

kate moss statue for sale

Artist Marc Quinn has agreed to donate Red Sphinx, a white-bronze sculpture of supermodel Kate Moss in a "heart-shaped yoga pose with red lips," to an auction on February 14 for Red, the brand created by U2 star Bono to raise money to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa, reports the Wall Street Journal. Another Quinn sculpture, Sphinx (not sure what the difference is between "Red Sphinx" and "Sphinx"), depicting Moss in what looks like Dwi Pada Sirsasana, received controversial coverage when it was unveiled in 2006 because Moss doesn't do yoga (a model posed for the artist) nor does she lead a very yogic lifestyle. Says Quinn, "Kate is a mirror of ourselves, a twisted Venus of our age."

In his exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery, Quinn lionizes Moss by portraying her in goddess form. However, with one exception -- which I'll get to later -- she isn't made to resemble any particular deity. Quinn's parenthetical titles are the only obvious indicators of the goddess implication. Each sculpture is called 'Sphinx' followed by a goddess's name: 'Sphinx (Venus),' 'Sphinx (Victory),' 'Sphinx (Nike).' Coated in a snow-white semi-gloss paint, the bronzes look more like marble than metal (Quinn likens their appearance to "egg shells" or "cinema screens") and show the bikini-clad model bending her body into implausible human-pretzel positions. The legs arch over the shoulders, backwards and forwards, and the pelvis always aligns with the head, so the viewer finds duel focal points -- the crotch and the borehole eyes.

Marc Quinn, previously a constituent of the Young British Artists, is known as something of a body artist. His signal piece is the 1991 self-portrait, 'Self,' molded in nine pints of his own frozen blood. The following decade, he cast a portrait of his newborn son in frozen liquefied placenta. More similar to the Sphinxes are the marble portraits of limbless heroes, such as his monument to the very pregnant and armless artist Alison Lapper, in London's Trafalgar Square. At first, the Sphinxes seem a deviation from the Lapper portrait -- extreme limberness versus underdeveloped limbs -- but both examples manifest a Hellenistic affinity for sculpting the human figure exerted beyond presumed limits.

In reality, Moss lacks the flexibility needed to achieve the knotty feats demonstrated by the Sphinxes (While the sculptor used Moss's proportions, he found a more elastic sitter to strike the yoga poses). Though, that's the point; the Sphinxes are mythical. Moss has long been criticized for setting unattainable standards of female body image. Quinn exaggerates this perception by casting the waif as an expert contortionist who can twist into tantric stances that the viewer could only dream of executing. "Let's see you try, you stiff-jointed fatty," the Sphinxes seem to mock. On top of it all, the model's thirty-something-year-old features have been smoothed to perfection, making her appear even more childish; the only wrinkles reside in the svelte fingers and ballerina toes -- life casts of Moss's real hands and feet -- and in the kissable lips. Likewise, the face of each sculpture is jarringly symmetrical. If not a goddess, she's certainly superhuman.

The conceptual taunt referencing ungraspable beauty is not entirely clear upon first encountering the bronzes. Rather, they look like slick, misogynistic throwbacks from the 1980s. Far more striking than the concept is the craftsmanship: the subtle feline smirk, the detailed digits, the stretched bellybutton, the convoluted compositions. Quinn seems to enjoy the challenges posited by the yoga postures.

teens scream against sex

from gawker:
Were you alarmed by an unruly crowd of hundreds of screaming adolescents in the Times Square vicinity today? Don't worry. It was just the TEEN MANIA teens holding their RECREATE '08 rally, taking a vocal stand against those things young adults hate: "substance abuse, violence, premature sexuality, Internet porn and more." Least. Fun. Rally. Ever. Beware of New Jersey's Izod Center this weekend, where 10,000 more religious A students will gather maniacally. The press release explains their crusade of sobriety:

Hundreds of Teens Rally in Times Square to Change Pop Culture as We Know It, Feb. 8

While Presidential Candidates Promise "Change," Thousands of Teens Are Enacting Change and Asking the Candidates to Help

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2008--Representing a movement of more than 400,000 teens, hundreds of teenagers will rally on Military Island in TIMES SQUARE, FEB. 8, 3:30 p.m. ET.

The rally will highlight teens' concerns about the toll today's pop culture is taking on their generation--the largest generation of teens in U.S. history.* The teens oppose the "cool factor" pop culture entertainment associates with substance abuse, violence, premature sexuality, Internet porn and more. The rally, called RECREATE '08, will showcase the thousands of TEEN MANIA teens who are out to RE-create entertainment, fashion, the arts, and the Web into products that build up, not tear down, their generation.

"I want to use film and television to give this generation hope that they can break free from depression, substance abuse and hopelessness in their lives," says 19-year-old Katherine Haller of Baltimore. Haller, an organizer of the RECREATE '08 rally, is currently receiving film and television production experience through Teen Mania's Center for Creative Media.

Fueled by their faith, these Teen Mania teens have sparked a movement of more than 400,000 like-minded teenagers who have gathered at arena events from coast to coast over the past two years to impact pop culture for the good of their generation.

The RECREATE '08 rally in Times Square will feature teens in the act of RE-creating some of their generation's favorite products including:

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MTV videos
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Teen-produced TV shows and movie-shorts running on the Panasonic jumbo-tron in Times Square
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Tag/Graffiti artists
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Dance and more . . .

CALLING ON THE CANDIDATES
The teens will also issue a list of 8 QUESTIONS for the presidential candidates that reflect their top concerns including: youth exposure to Internet pornography, media glamorization of drugs, sex and alcohol, and the AIDS pandemic.

Following the rally, more than 10,000 teens will gather at New Jersey's Izod Center for a two day RECREATE '08 event featuring: New York Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera, six-time GRAMMY® Award winner Kirk Franklin, the David Crowder Band, Bishop T.D. Jakes, and TEEN MANIA founder, Ron Luce.

picture of the day: powerglove

norway vs sweden

one piece at a time by johnny cash

"one piece at a time" was written by Wayne Kemp and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1976. It tells a story from the point of view of a Detroit auto worker who watches Cadillacs roll by day after day on the assembly line, all the while knowing that he will never be able to afford one on his salary. Envious, he decides to steal a Cadillac, avoiding getting caught by taking parts from the factory, as the title suggests, one piece at a time (presumably one part per day). The worker takes the small parts by hiding them in his large lunchbox, while larger parts are smuggled out via his friend's mobile home. Many years later, he finally achieves his goal, albeit with a very odd-looking vehicle: it was created from parts of many different models (years 1949 to 1973), requiring extensive effort to make all the parts fit together. The vehicle title weighed 60 pounds, requiring the entire staff at the courthouse to type it.

Bruce Fitzpatrick, owner of Abernathy Auto Parts and Hilltop Auto Salvage in Nashville, TN, was asked by the promoters of the song to build the vehicle for international promotion. Bruce had all the different models of Cadillacs mentioned in the song when it was released, and built a Cadillac using the song as a model. The car was presented to Cash in April of 1976. It was parked for a few weeks outside The House Of Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee, until someone could find a place to store it.


Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

CHORUS
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

CHORUS
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile.

maharishi died.

jai guru dev

aya takano

Aya Takano's drawings and paintings reminds us the delicious souvenirs of game and innocence with a disarming sincerity and without ever sink into nostalgia. Although her universe is filled with mythic and cultural references, specifically japanese, she attains to make this universe strangely familiar and intimate. The immediate, the sensuality of her drawings address a message to the living and to the imaginative part of each of us, whatever his age or his origin. Once discovered, her work provokea a profound, and almost affectionate, attachment for the characters she brings to life. The use of diluted paint ( gouache, acrylic) as principal medium reinforces the sensual simplicity of her images which combines the febrility of a child's drawing and the virtuosity of the remarkable drawer she has become.
that umm.. was translated from japanese.
link to gallery

charles simic

I was stolen by the gypsies. My parents stole me right back. Then the gypsies stole me again. This went on for some time. One minute I was in the caravan suckling the dark teat of my new mother, the next I sat at the long dining room table eating my breakfast with a silver spoon.
It was the first day of spring. One of my fathers was singing in the bathtub; the other one was painting a live sparrow the colors of a tropical bird.


photo by me. gypsy children in pushkar, rajasthan, india.

new joke

g: knock knock.

p: who's there?

g: tom brady.

p: tom brady who?

g: EXACTLY!

japanese vinyl toys!!!

so this dude has been collecting bandai ultra kaiju toys since 1981 and he's taken picture of them all.
they look totally rad. i want japanese monsters....

check out his flickr set here.