Thursday, November 01, 2012

Funk It

                            Eddie Harris, Get On Down

Zero posting until I figure out why I can't seem to write a word about how terrible Romney would be as president (because he would be a disaster)—water is wet, fire is hot.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Monday Soundtrack

                            The Hombres, Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)

Monday, October 01, 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thursday Soundtrack

                            Bootsy Collins, I'd Rather Be With You

Blue Games For The Guests...

         Richard Burton is a treasure...

Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday Soundtrack (47%)

              Curtis Mayfield, Diamond In The Back

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Friday, September 21, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wednesday Night Soundtrack

                              The Staple Singers, Respect Yourself

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tuesday Soundtrack

                         Frank Sinatra, I Get A Kick Out Of You

"Super Melanin Heightened Gang of Evildoers"








TBogg

Romney told the contributors that “women are open to supporting me,” but that “we are having a much harder time with Hispanic voters, and if the Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African American voting block has in the past, why, we’re in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation.”

Republicans just can't help themselves...

They know the grift is coming to an end in America, but instead of adopting a more inclusive set of policy positions, they'll go all in and try hard to believe their own xenophobic spin...just sad.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Monday Soundtrack (busy, busy)

             John Coltrane, Moment's Notice

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A Decade Of Corpses

                             Neil Young, Imagine 

In 2001, Neil Young courageously tried to temper the blood lust to follow...

Too Busy...No Fun

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Gary Oldham is fantastic—Keanu Reeves is ridiculous.

Sunday, September 09, 2012

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Tuesday Night Soundtrack

                              The Ohio Players, Fire

Always Be Closing

                        Brilliant!

Tuesday Soundtrack

                         Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come

Saturday, September 01, 2012

la vie est de merde (est vrai ?)

            The French Speaking Existentialist Cat wins The Golden Kitty Award at the Walker Art Center's inaugural cat video festival.

from here

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Hit Girl*

Kick Ass, 2009 (Joan Jett's Bad Reputation)

The politics of the RNC convention are awful, horrible and without question...terrrrible.

There is no amount of fact checking from our weakened press corps to prevent these guys from stealing the election with a dust storm of clever lies and half-truths—it is the most cynical thing I've ever seen.

*The most deeply wrongheaded, (and brilliant) bit of filmaking I've seen in a long time.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Rainy Tuesday Soundtrack

                Jazz In Paris, Chet Baker Quartet Plays Standards

Monday, August 27, 2012

Monday Night Soundtrack

                            Slave, Slide

I Hate Morning Joe...

But Chris Matthews' pointed challenge of Reince Priebus is a thing of beauty, and the discomfort of the other "villagers" on the stage is delicious.














Good for Chris Matthews.

She Does It

                           SCTV

The best comedy show on TV. 

Harvard Educated Asshole Has Serious Opinions About The Bewildering (And Scary) Vajayjay

Entirely lifted from the great TBogg.
















Shorter Ross Douthat:
"I will grudgingly agree to allow rape victims to terminate their pregnancies if you will allow me to incrementally restrict the reproductive rights of all of the other women, most of whom are willingly giving it away because they’re sluts. C’mon. I’m meeting you half way…"

Previous Douthat Vagina Monologues here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
And this because it explains so much


               .                              .                              .


I hate these fucking people—and especially the access they have to pump pure shit into the body politic.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Intellectual Capital: Who Needs It?

If science interferes with political goals, it must be undermined.

Friday, August 24, 2012

A Beggar Competing With Princes

Ulysses, 1954

Heavy on the Lust For Life Kirk Douglas, but Ulysses has always been a favorite of mine.

Friday Soundtrack

                           James Brown and the Famous Flames, Bewildered

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Thursday Soundtrack

                             Otis Redding, That's How Strong My Love Is

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Tuesday Soundtrack

                        Jane's Addiction, Been Caught Stealing

Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Poors

















Make everybody poor and then shame them all (by getting other poors to be self-righteously poorer).

This election will be super painful.

h/t Down With Tyranny

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Leave Us...

Neil Young. Helpless
Live At Massey Hall, 1971

Diane Arbus

                             Masters of Photography, Diane Arbus (doucumentary, 1972)                                           
Once past Doon Arbus' introduction, there is a good voice over of of Diane's words speaking directly about her photography and her subjects.

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life—they're aristocrats."
 "If you've ever spoken with someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't."

Saturday Soundtrack

                           Patti Smith, Pissing In A River

Should I pursue a path so twisted ?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted ?

h/t JL

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Thursday Soundtrack

            The Beatles, White Album 1968 (full)

A masterpiece.

also...the Walrus is Paul.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

BLR

Wednesday Soundtrack

                      Funkadelic, One Nation Under A Groove

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Tuesday Soundtrack

                           Buddy Rich on the Lenny Bruce Show, 1959

Sunday, August 12, 2012

"Take Douches And Make Them Douchier"


"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
Paul Ryan (R), Wisconsin

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Saturday Soundtrack

                            Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (full)

Mitt Romney Picks The Granny-Starver for VP

WMxDesign




















This election will now have to be about class, however coded—this guy wants to dismantle ALL entitlement programs (Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, etc.).

By virtue of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, Paul Ryan's budget will entirely break the non-military sector of the federal government—it's a feature not a bug.

also:

12 cogent reasons to not elect the crazy Ryan-Romney team.

also, a must read:
Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn't believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary institution of that commonwealth: our government. The first three words of the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he's ever given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can be channelled for the general welfare.
from Charles Pierce

Friday, August 10, 2012

Set The Bar Impossbly High—Insist That One's Cultural Identity Never Be Used To An Advantage (unless white)—Dare The Individual To Accurately Frame The Obstacles He or She Overcame To Succeed—Foster Resentment—Rinse and Repeat

Because he (Obama) is a black man, he has an obligation to be grateful to the white people who voted him into office. Because he is a black man, he has an obligation not to use the full powers of his office in such a way as to alienate any of the white people who so graciously voted him into office. Because he is a black man, he has an obligation not to use the full advantages of his office in his effort to get those white people to reelect him as their president for another four years. Because those white people voted him into office, his primary job as president is to make sure his entire presidency is a demonstration of how far we've come as a nation on race, and that means he is not allowed to do anything or say anything that the white people who elected him can perceive to be divisive, because his primary function is to make them feel good about themselves. In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
                              .                    .                    .

He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
from Charles Pierce

Great read and sadly true.

The right is terrified that Obama will be perceived as overcoming prejudice to become president..."What racial prejudice?"

Friday Soundtrack

                             Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street

Fantastic and raw.

Once long, long ago, I spent an entire summer drinking, driving and wanting to fight somebody while under the influence of this fucking album.

In the end, nothing was damaged (beyond my ridiculous psyche).

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Thursday Soundtrack

                           Stanley Clarke, Lopsy Lu

Mars! (bitches)














It may just be a dead sphere far, far away, but I can't get enough of these images.

(A) Pussy Riot


On February 21, 2012, as a part of a protest movement against re-election of Vladimir Putin, three women from the group came to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, crossed themselves and began to perform a song. After less than one minute, they were escorted outside the building by guards.[8] The film of the performance was later used to create a video clip for the song.
from here

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Saturday Soundtrack

              The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold as Love

I Hate These Fucking People/The Plutocracy Is Here/A wise person said: "We've Already Lost."



























This represents a top down effort (national office down to school council) to not only buy elections, but to also purchase and install a regressive political culture that will take generations to undo.

1,082 wealthy individuals are currently drinking our milkshakes.


from Mother Jones

Friday, August 03, 2012

I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire...

                                            Amazing live footage of the Talking Heads at CBGB's in 1975.

 h/t Dangerous Minds

Friday Soundtrack

                              The Kills, Blood Pressures (Full Album)

h/t magik spiral

The Road

                       Appropriate for this weekend—going to the city.

h/t Lawyers, Guns & Money

Thursday, August 02, 2012

More Soundtrack

Coz I've got nothin' to hate on today (emphasis is entirely mine).

Thursday Soundtrack

                            The Nipple Erectors (The Nips), Vengeance

For the H.E.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

RIP, Gore Vidal (updated)

[From Aaron Burr's journal]: [Thomas] Jefferson was a ruthless man who wanted to create a new kind of world, dominated by independent farmers each living on his own rich land, supported by slaves. It is amazing how beguilingly he could present this contradictory visions. But then in all his words if not deeds Jefferson was so beautifully human, so eminently vague, so entirely dishonest but not in any meretricious way. Rather it was a passionate form of self-delusion that rendered Jefferson as president and as man (not to mention as writer of tangled sentences and lunatic metaphors) confusing even to his admirers.
I read Burr, A Novel, when it was first published in 1973. I was 15 years old and not terribly interested in Aaron Burr, but I knew Gore Vidal from watching his eloquent and taciturn debate with William F. Buckley during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

It was delightful to watch because both men literally wanted to make the other catch fire...by sheer force of hatred.

                              

Updated: Talk about wanting someone to catch fire.

Wednesday (Work-life) Soundtrack

                            The Replacements, Treatment Bound

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Tell Me A Story And Maybe I'll Believe It...

                             Tuesday Soundtrack

RIP


La Jetée (Chris Marker) from Hype Not Hype on Vimeo.

Chris Marker was a giant (and recently became a personal favorite)—sad.

h/t (again) Dangerous Minds

Kolub And The Mormon Jesus

                                Yeah, I don't think it matters that a candidate for a national political office believes in something as fantastic as this...do you?

In fact, it would be unfair to point out the craziness of the Mormon faith.


h/t Dangerous Minds

Monday, July 30, 2012

Monday Soundtrack

                        Chambers Brothers, Time Has Come Today

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sunday Afternoon At The Movies


 Odd Man Out, 1947    Carol Reed, dir.

h/t JL

Beautiful, suspenseful, and James Mason is a god.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Saturday Soundtrack

                            John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (full album)

Friday, July 27, 2012

Art Break















This unique Day of the Dead Skull wallpaper was developed specially for Barrio Central and Barrio North, two popular Latin bars located in London.

This high quality wallpaper is screen printed by hand using metallic gold ink on peacock, charcoal, and raspberry. The gold ink allows for the pattern to shine brilliantly under a variety of lighting.

Designed by Emily Evans. Made in London, UK.
from here



















h/t Dangerous Minds

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Thursday Soundtrack

                               Body Count, There Goes The Neighborhood

"...Turning Away From Challenge Into Dreamy Narcosis"

                               h/t Dangerous Minds

A fear manufacturing machine.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Wednesday Soundtrack

                           Prince, Musicology

I Hate These Fucking People











He is, of course, referring to the reports that a number of men used their bodies to shield their loved ones during the Aurora massacre. Most of us thought of this as a noble and amazing sacrifice, but to the American Taliban, these may have been slutty slut sluts who use birth control (or even worse, vote for Democrats!) and make their own decisions, so whether or not they deserved to be saved is up to wingnut judgment.
from here
Also...James Taranto is a Dick

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Sonny Puts One's Work-life In Perspective...

           
"Kiss me man...kiss me...when I'm being fucked I like to be kissed..."

Genius.

Perspective...check...


Beautiful!

or...

Tuesday Soundtrack

                             David Bowie, Heroes

Monday, July 23, 2012

Police Punch Crying Children*

             from here

*Of course they didn't, but if you watch the video, it could have been much worse.
Shit is fucked up and bullshit.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Cheer Up

       Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz, 1998

Another in my continuing series of Cheer Up posts...here and here...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Saturday Soundtrack

              Zapp, More Bounce to the Ounce

Friday, July 20, 2012

Hate To Meet Hate

                              "The guilt complex of the American white man..."

An amazing conversation.

It occurs to me, that eventhough these journalists were wary and, in a couple of instances dickheads, we couldn't have this conversation now (47 years later)—maybe the 'guilt complex' has made it necessary to pretend that slavery and wholesale discrimination never happened.

Friday Soundtrack

                              Mozart, Sequentia Requiem

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Tuesday Afternoon Soundtrack

                                The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (full)

Pretend to work.

No Longer Quaint

                              Could make a Sheldon Adelson reference, but why bother, and besides Huston's Key Largo is a masterpiece.

Well, okay...

Monday, July 16, 2012

RIP

                             Kitty Wells, I Don't Claim To Be An Angel

Saturday, July 14, 2012

H.E.—Dormant, But Now Awake (my hate ethos)

Fucking David Brooks actually wrote the following in a widely read newspaper:

I’d say today’s meritocratic elites achieve and preserve their status not mainly by being corrupt but mainly by being ambitious and disciplined. They raise their kids in organized families. They spend enormous amounts of money and time on enrichment. They work much longer hours than people down the income scale, driving their kids to piano lessons and then taking part in conference calls from the waiting room.

from Why Our Elites Stink (which means they don't really stink I just wanted to say they stink in the headline of my insipid editorial to get people to read it and conclude as I have that our elites are wonderful and simply lack the courage to accept how fantastically wonderful they are...David Brooks pauses to wipe mouth and clean his glasses...)


Saturday Soundtrack

                            Johnny Thunders, I Can't Seem To Make You Mine

Poor Johnny...

Crisis Management (beige)














more

Steaks, Malt Liquor, and Horse Trailers...




















I'm having a lot of trouble getting worked up over Mitt. He's such a miss match for tea party Republicans (and such an incredibly bad liar), I just feel that he can't help but screw himself as the election nears.

I'm probably wrong, and anything is possible.

Updated, from Matt Taibbi:
Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes across like a scaly calculation. A guy who feels like he has to take a dump on the N.A.A.C.P. in Houston in order to connect with frustrated white yahoos everywhere else is a guy who has absolutely no social instincts at all. Someone like Jesse Helms at least had a genuine emotional connection with his crazy-mean-stupid audiences. But Mitt Romney has to think his way to the lowest common denominator, which is somehow so much worse.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Arrested New Guinea Cannibal Cultists Ate Raw Brains, Penis Soup

from here

I'm beginning to think I should stick with posting just soundtracks and movie clips.

Friday Soundtrack

                              Os Mutantes, Rolling Stone

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Work-life Movie Clip

"...ain't nothin' but a thing."
Oh...,"and me ticklin' the ivories."

Thursday Soundtrack

          Electric Guest, Awake

The hipster soul stuff is beginning to grow on me.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Wednesday Soundtrack

                           James Brown and the Famous Flames, Please, Please, Please

h/t vp

Art Break

Adam Batchelor, Pharmacopoeia






























from here

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Screwed
















EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney, “Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P.”
 
(Romney's) motorcade of Chevrolet Suburbans passing a gleaming line of Bentleys, Porsches and a Mercedes Benzes waiting to deposit guests who paid up to $25,000 a head to hear him speak.
from here

Is it ironic or just tragic that the so-called grassroots tea party will do anything to usher in this class of monsters.?

Tuesday Soundtrack

            Opium Jukebox, Paint It Black

Monday, July 09, 2012

Saturday, July 07, 2012

Saturday Soul Soundtrack

               Aloe Blacc, Loving You Is Killing Me

Friday, July 06, 2012

Old...But Like New














 h/t Wonkette

America - Fuck Yeah!

My iPhone kept me from posting this earlier.
from here

















Not entirely related, but it never get's old (for me).
h/t Driftglass

"You may not know this, but I'm also taller than Godzilla."

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Wednesday Soundtrack

Light posting...or rather a smattering of typo filled attempts to post with an iphone.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Monday, July 02, 2012

Monday Soundtrack

                               Chet Baker, Let's Get Lost

More Death Rattle

http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/06/white-people-bristol1.gif
catnip for wp
                                                                                                                                   Thank you TBogg

I'm just psyched the fucking gif pasted.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Playing A Guy Who Ain't Smart, But Thinks He Is...That's Tricky

               "You went full retard man."

Corollary: Playing for the votes of people who aren't smart, but think they are...that's tricky (and dangerous).

Sunday Soundtrack

            David Byrne & St. Vincent, Who

I "bumped" into David Byrne a couple of weeks ago at a museum. Strange slow motion recognition as he approached, he's looking at me realizing I'm just about to place him...I smile, let it pass, and he seems grateful.

What would I say anyway? Nice jumpsuit...(he was wearing red overalls).

Siksika (Blackfoot)

I'm blown away by these hand colored lantern slides at the Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Maunuscript site.

While only interpretations of the color of life within these villages, the decorations of the tepees and the firelight glow from within are both beautiful and profoundly sad...gone...gone...gone...

All images were taken by Walter McClintock, 1870-1949

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Art Break

Argentina-based artist Juan Molinet created a group of fake Japanese food product mascots. Good stuff from a cool site.

Hokaido Industrial Sushi Food Co




















I love sushi.

Saturday Soundtrack

                          1000 Homo DJs, Supernaut

Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday Soundtrack

                              Warp 69, LSD

This Makes Me Happy...

















...especially because Boehner is from a smugly conservative, slaveship of a city.

It's been 14 years since I lived there, but I still hate it with an unusually high level of passion.

Update: Soon to be former congresswoman, mean Jean Schmidt—from the same corner of hell as John Boehner—is laughlingly head faked.                                      

John Cole Is Right

For once in your lives turn a win into a win, just like the Republicans were able to do when I was a wingnut (and half the time they were able to turn a loss into a win). Don’t argue amongst yourselves about what would have been better- smash the Republicans around the head and neck with the cudgel you have been given. We’re not debating which Democratic plan would have been better, we’re debating the reality of what we have now versus the 18th century version of what Republicans would replace it with.
 Again, as a former wingnut and lifelong Republican until 2006 or 2007, I am fucking begging (Democrats) treat a win like a win and use it to your advantage. The most depressing thing about becoming a Democrat after being a Republican for so many years is just watching Democrats shit the bed whenever they win. Press the fucking advantage.

Please?
 from Balloon Juice

My 2 cents:

                                 I welcome any opportunity to post Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! clips (and yes, the guy in the plaid shorts is a Republican).

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Thursday Night Soundtrack

       Nobunny, Blow Dumb

Got Nothin'

from here




















Don't have much to say on the political front today. I'll wait for the SC to possibly overturn the Affordable Care Act.

If this very conservative Supreme Court does flip the law, it should happen now, and could help, if the Democrats are smart (ha), make a very strong case for the re-election of Obama.

Updated:
Wow...right wingers can suck it.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Wednesday Night Soundtrack

                              Meat Puppets, Attacked by Monsters

Have A Better Day (Than Elmer)

Wednesday Soundtrack

                               Sonic Youth, Goo

A monster.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

It's Tuesday, Be Careful Out There


Tuesday Soundtrack

     Radiohead, The Bends

I'm Sorry, But I Hate These Fucking People

Jon McNaughton
















There is something simmering deep inside the soul of all Americans. We want to know that our country belongs to the people; that the government acknowledges our individual rights; that fiscal responsibility is an absolute requirement. We want our presidents and politicians to mean what they say when they take the oath of office... "to defend the Constitution of the United States!"

A painting executed to celebrate the collapse of democracy, and the mass delusion that the working class will benefit from the coming austerity fueled oligharcy.

I guess this is how a coup d'etat works in the 21st century, but I have to say, the successful enlistment of working class rubes to stand squarely against their own self-interest is truly breathtaking.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Monday Soundtrack

           Sharon Van Etten, Save Yourself

Daniel Plainview Puts Work (Life) In Perspective On A Monday Morning

             There Will Be Blood 

Snark aside, a brutal and great film.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

American History Will Provide the Next Crop of Action Heroes

The Secret Histories of Other U.S. Presidents















Just this weekend, a friend and I discussed the raiding of American history for Hollywood's new crop of action heroes...although Thomas Jefferson was her choice for the next summer block-buster.

I'm kind of liking Andrew Jackson as an alien fighter...but he was such an asshole, I'd have to root for his violent death.

h/t Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Saturday Soundtrack

                                Big Star

Barbara Kruger




















Back in the 90s, when I was living in Cincinnati (a smugly conservative, slaveship of a city), I had this Kruger on a t-shirt—I wore it to a frazzle.

Looking back at Kruger's message, at that time, venal and retrograde social/political policies were largely generated by kooky religious organizations with money to give to the Republican Party—now it's the entire conservative game.

MONEY + CORPORATISM + GOD FOR THE RUBES = BOOM! 


We're so screwed.

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