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Waldo and I recently had an e-mail discussion about bass duos, and I mentioned Brotzmann and Laswell (on the "Low Life" LP, PB plays bass sax only) and Waldo mentioned Numbskull with Mike Zubal and Kevin Ries. Here is a clip of them from the olden days, courtesy of drummer John Scully:In the first appearance of the Epiphanies column in "The Wire" (or "Wire"; it's been both) magazine, Peter

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Not only was yesterday April Fools Day, it was also the birthday of Waldo Drogulus...(47th) We were recently conversing online about guitars and got onto the topic of Captain Sensible of The Damned, and his colourful nature:You can't see how colourful he is here, because it's black and white:Waldo also mentioned Caspar Brötzmann:

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John Cale, born March 9th, 1942, in Garnant, Wales...John Cale, "Gun" (1974) as a soundtrack to clips from Sam Peckinpah's "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" (1974)And a live 1976 version (you know, when Charles Palantine was running for President...)Cale in reflective mood with Terry Riley, from "Church of Anthrax" (rec. 1970, rel. 1971)

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Hello, everybody, I'm back from riding around a crazy ice floe with Frankenstein's monster. I'm posting this because Chris over at black2com/blogtocomm (click on the header) recently reviewed this classic album.Ellington/Mingus/Roach*Here is Vijay Iyer's version, from his recent album "Solo" (ACT 9497-2)A project with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd:Harlem Stage • Wed, Feb 10, 2010 • 7:30 pm • A

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A quick survey of covers of various Beefheart songs (and you can click on the header for Rhodri Marsden's "Christmas" version of the end section of "Veterans Day Poppy")...The wonderful Coati Mundi covers Captain Beefheart in this cut from his 1983 album "The Former 12 Year Old Genius.""Steal Softly Thru Snow"Gary Lucas, John French, Denny Walley, and Mark Boston a/k/a The Magic Band play this

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This tune has been lodged in my headspace lately (another version, though):Now you all can suffer along, whether you live near the banks of the Cuyahoga or not.This person has a not-so-charitable position on the vehicles that are often said to be Found On the Road, Dead:(Apparently there's some slop.)A van, not a pickup:

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Jarrell: looks like Jesse Johnson, sounds like Richard Hell.A tip of the hat to Questlove for this...hellkittenproduction says: "makes "Saw" look like a chick flick."

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Slow:"long walk nowhere" by frknl (Fred Lonberg-Holm's YouTube name)Fast:29funkies; music is "b2unit" by Ryuichi SakamotoShock:from Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" (1963)NOW with added corridors!Excerpt/intro from experimental short film "Corridor" by Standish Lawder.

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There sure are a lot of them1970s films...Compiled by oAROWANAo

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Mitchell and Durant show realpolitik in action...From the Shirley Temple movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"...now I won't have to track it down at the library. This is my favorite part of the movie.

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The new Susan Boyle album "The Gift" does not include a version of the Velvet Underground story-song about the guy who mails himself from PA to WI. Nor does it include other similar songs such as "Mother Upduff" by Can. It does, however, include the dreaded "Hallelujah" (not "Halleluwah" by Can); the popularity of which John Cale is partially culpable for. (Yeah, I ended that goofily

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"John Cale, a founding member of the Velvet Underground, also collected OBEs at Friday's investiture ceremony."Cale - who arrived at the palace with his hair - said it felt "strange.""Someone has decided that you have done, and it is your job," he said."It was coming. My mother would be very proud if she were alive today."Born in south Wales, Cale first began working with Lou Reed and the Velvet

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That image amuses me, as it's probably one of the smallest ones I've ever seen, or, at any rate, one of the smallest images I've ever pasted. In retrospect, my dream about the razorblade under my toenail was probably inspired by the copy on the packaging of the TopCare TOENAIL CLIP with file that I bought last night:"Strong, sharp blades.Swing-out nail file."(I think Swing-out Nail File was an

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it means you're embarassed," or so goes the song by Shockabilly. But what does it mean if you dream about Ron Metz, erstwhile drummer for the Human Switchboard, and Louis C.K., writer/director of "Pootie Tang," one of the finest surrealist works of the Noughties? I remember I was once in the office of the New Music Distribution Service on lower Broadway, which took ages to get up to, because

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49 guitars, 1 cup

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for the prolonged absence from posting, but I've just got a hand-me-down laptop ("Dude, I got a Dell!") from two ex-members of Johnny & the Dicks and X∅X...I've also been working on something else (click on the header for more info)...You’re watching Cee-Lo Green on 'The Colbert Report' 11/09/10 - TV Replay. See the Web's top videos on AOL VideoIf this copy-and-paste operation is successful, we

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American Spring - "Tennessee Waltz" / "Sweet Mountain" - 1972 The Fall - "Hard Life In Country" "Live (In A Hole)" The Beach Boys - "Fall Breaks and Back to Winter"Don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and CO detectors...

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What a strange world this would be without the saxophone...Sidney Bechet, "St.Louis Blues"Mike Watt + Steve Mackay + Gallucci Eric Dolphy w/ Mingus

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Seriously, I find this really pretty. It starts out in some sort of Love/Faust hybrid territory, and then proceeds from there...it is also sort of topical.Julian Cope, "Don't Call Me Mark Chapman," from his Album "Autogeddon"

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Iggy Pop: "I met John in Hong Kong in 1977. He was traveling with Sean, who was about two years old, and was on his way to meet Yoko in Japan. I was with David Bowie and Coco Schwab, his friend and PA, on our way back to Europe from Japan, after a rock tour of my stuff. David and John were friends and we learned en route to Hong Kong that he would be there, in our hotel, for the same few

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Last week: Ornette joins Sonny Rollins, Christian McBride, and Roy Haynes onstage:At Sonny Rollins' 80th birthday show at the Beacon Theater in New York City on Sept. 10, 2010.Thanks to RadioShoe for posting this; when not saluting giants of jazz, he puts up his renditions of songs by Tom Waits, Steely Dan, and Eno, and clips of Grand Prix races...Ornette leaves the Beacon:Courtesy of MrElsabroso

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What if the Velvet Underground were popular in the 60s, and mersh bands were compelled to play their songs? Wouldn't you like to hear Big A&M Herb, Chicago, or Blood, Sweat and Tears* dish out "Sister Ray"? This may be the closest we'll ever get: the NY band Puttin' On The Ritz, originally a duo of vocalist BJ Rubin and drummer Kevin Shea, also of People and Mostly Other People Do The Killing,

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(Sorry for not posting recently, but I've been sick...it's not Strep; the doctor at the MetroHealth Clinic over by Zosia's said so.)"F**K YOU" by Ceelo. This afternoon it was at 317 views; now it's at 37,174.

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"Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (Santo Amaro da Purificação, 7 de agosto de 1942) é um músico e escritor brasileiro.""Alegria, Alegria" festival de 1967Caetano e Gilberto Gil, "Haiti" - Tropicália 2 -São Paulo - 1993 "Nostalgia," from the album "Transa" (1972)

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3 days ago from west side story Bernardo is from Greece George Chakiris in Greek Γιωργος Τσακιρης (Tagged MORE DARK THAN SHARK)And what CAN'T Brian Eno do with a pack of cigarettes?(I'm in with the in-jokes, I go where the in-jokes go...)(Commercial Break)John Lurie & the Lounge Lizards, "Shark Drive" from "Fishing with John"

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they say...I walked over to the bakery this morning to buy some day-old bread*, and I saw their dishwasher reach into the bus-pan on the cart they have outside, and pull out a stack of plates and carry them inside (I held the door for her as I am a half-gentleman, at least) and then move more things in and out of bus-pans, instead of moving the pans in toto. It was exasperating to watch, so I

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"It's Deepwater...Deepwater."Colin Newman in rehearsal / soundcheck performing "LORRIES" at HURRAH, NYC. Produced and directed by Merrill Aldighieri. A full concert was later recorded, lit only by 2 flashlights taped to the two cameras on stage. Guitar -Desmond Simmons, Guitar and lead vocals-Colin Newman, Bass-Simon Gillham & unseen drummer Robert from Wire.

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You should probably watch this now, before it disappears like oil in the Gulf of Mexico...Grasshopper (Brief Description) Brooklyn, NY, 1991. © Ted Barron, 2010. music by Tom Verlaine, "Brief Description" from Around, 2006.Don't forget to check out http://dailypixeltwentyten.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

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I don't know, and you won't find out by watching these oddities, which aren't space oddities; they are more like Lakewood oddities...And I quote, "An absolutely, hilarious, back slappin', side pokin' video from the ranking raucous ruler of nihilist (and sociopathic) fun, John D. Morton!!"If that didn't cheer you up, try this:Jazz Destroyers - "Love Meant to Die"

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The Cut-Up Kid meets the Junkpile Genius uptown:Phlegmfluxmonkey live at the Cool Ranch in Cleveland, Ohio, 05/24/10Pascal Battus (France) : Objects, contact micsJack Wright : ReedsMichael Johnsen : original electronics04/21/10 at the Red Room, Baltimore, MD(Avenge the patriotic gore/ That filled the streets of Baltimore...)

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I think I'll try Buenos Aires, instead. (In all actuality, I doubt I'm leaving the country any time soon; I don't have a passport, and even though I do get my ass off of the couch now and again, it's usually to go over to the easy chair next to the computer...)It's Just Like Sister Ray Said from Lisa Wu on Vimeo.Buenos Aires Time Lapse from Lisa Wu on Vimeo.Damo Suzuki / Pez / ÜL / Honduras /

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"Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio — February 12, 2000, Paris, France), best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American musician, singer, and actor." What a way to go, eh?, Cleveland to Paris..."screamin' jay hawkings interview on art fein's poker party" Hawkings! That would be a different guy!"I Am The Cool"Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989):Steve Buscemi, Joe

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and the livin' is easy...Billie Holiday, 1936Renee Olstead, 2005John Fahey, 2003Albert Ayler, 1963Iggy Pop, "Girls"

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I was driving past a new condo development near my house, and on the sign was the line "A Walker's Paradise" (I'm not sure why; it's not very picturesque around there). Anyway, it reminded me of this song:Scott Walker, "Montague Terrace (in Blue)"Another interesting real estate opportunity:

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John Mellencamp and band, live on TV, 1983(If you don't like listening to this, you can add the vuvuzela sound-effect.)I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that the people who work at some high-rise aren't going to vacation at the Gulf of Mexico this year...The Kurt Hummel character on "Glee" (portrayed by Chris Colfer) performed it in a recent episode; the character is gay, but he

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Doug, I don't know if you still check in on this blog, but I was doing some shopping at the Dave's Market on Cedar today, and "98.6" by Keith played on the overhead music, and I thought of you...I got some chicken breasts, mustard potato salad, and some Stroh's* (the favored tipple of EYK, that band with all those WRUW DJs and me) (I don't think you can get Stoney's anymore)I don't know if you

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You'd think that a video with members of The Kinks, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Buzzcocks, and the, erm, Purple Hearts would have more than 841 views...Steve Diggle, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Mick Avory, & Bob Manton 100 Club, London, 07/26/09 "You Really Got Me"I don't know if this is any better than me playing "All Day and All of the Night" with the guys from Copper Faceplate at the K of C Hall in

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"The second single from Aloe Blacc's album Good Things is a cover of the Velvet Underground classic “Femme Fatale” b/w instrumental on heavy slab of 7-inch vinyl. Produced by Truth+Soul."Alex Chilton/Yo La Tengo - "Femme Fatale"Performed live at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, on the 4th night of Hanukkah, 12/07/07.

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or a present is the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of reciprocity, a gift is meant to be free. In many human societies, ゆらゆら帝国の午前３時のファズギターはたぶんヴェルベットのギフトのオマージュなのでわと思い混ぜてみました。the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics

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Pete Quaife, the original bassist of, and co-founder of The Kinks has passed away.Here is one of my favorite songs with him:What can I say, but Life Stinks and I like The Kinks...

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I'm not sure what led me to this, but:Sandra Bernhard, "Like a Rolling Stone"Recorded live at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, 11/09/06.And remember, Colin Newman has Sarah Bernhardt's hand in his bedroom, not Sandra Bernhard's...

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When I turned up this animation of Richard Hell and the Voidoids' "The Kid with the Replaceable Head," I thought "Oh, no," but it's really nice and sweet. It was done for a children's show called "Pancake Mountain" from Washington, D.C. The only quibble that I have with it is they show Robert Quine on the right, and I've only ever seen pictures or videos of him standing stage left. Wait! I

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For some reason this warm late Spring weather that we've been enjoying takes me back to the early days of the Drome record store, when it was located on Cedar in nuclear-free Cleveland Heights, where more fun, jokes, and tricks were begun than on just about any squid-jiggin' ground...when it was cold weather, I'd usually just go as far east as downtown (when I was a kid, I thought that Petula

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but there's never a bad time for "Cheree"...Suicide at the Hammersmith Apollo, 05/03/10:At Hurrah, 1980:A remix:Here it is at the end of "Downtown 81":And some Cinéma vérité of a recording session in San Francisco:

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said to the smoker: "I gotta see it, man. I gotta SEE it." Here is some "Chain Smoking" for everyone, courtesy of Vic Godard & the Subway Sect:At the Buffalo Bar, London, 05/14/10. Filmed by Lee McFadden. This is the original arrangement, before Godard changed it into a Cole Porter-type tune for the "T.R.O.U.B.L.E." album (added a grand piano, turned it into a love song, I don't know how).

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The Stooges, "Shake Appeal," Hammersmith Apollo, London, 05/03/10:You can click on the header to see Mike Watt's tour diary...The Three Stooges dance:

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"London's iconic double-decker buses are getting a design upgrade (and greener powerplants), as revealed today on the city of London's website. Scheduled to go into service in 2012, the new bus boasts a more "light and airy feel inside the bus" due to extensive use of glass, including along the staircases (there's two), and a "hop-on, hop-off" platform has been added to the rear."Well, when I was

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A gratuitous knife-fight:(David Bowie and Carl Perkins Knife-Fight to the Death)

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and music by Theo Parrish ("Heal Yourself & Move," 1998):Video by Eclektikman

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Just (nerve-)jangling rock from a founder of The Fall, Martin Bramah and his new combo Factory Star..."Stone Tumbling Stream""Rebellious Jukebox" (yeah)Factory Star live at The Plough, Cadishead, Friday, 02/26/10. Factory Star are Martin Bramah, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and John Paul Moran "Agents of Change" by Bramah's earlier band Blue Orchids, 1982

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I saw Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones being interviewed on TV the other night, and he was even coherent. The interviewer guy asked him for his favorite lesser-known Rolling Stones song, and he replied "The Connection." Good pick, and he got the name almost right...like the old joke about putting your name on a test: "I got 75% on that."Live, 11/11/06"Connection" as played by Peter Stampfel

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"Five Minutes of Funk," courtesy of Whodini:Twenty-Eight Minutes of Ikue Mori:Roulette TV: IKUE MORI from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

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One-armed graffiti artist Kase 2, a/k/a Case, salutes the recently departed artist Frank Frazetta, from the movie "Style Wars":You can stop watching, or not, at 0:45...

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Mary Halvorson/ guitar, Trevor Dunn/ bass, Ches Smith / drums, Music Unlimited Festival, Wels, 2005 This is Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant. He will most likely be plagued by the omission of that hyphen as much as James Joyce was (still is, actually) by the addition of an apostrophe to "Finnegans Wake"...(the linked record co. bio omits it).Here is Ches Smith five years later, in pre-sent time:

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Iggy and the Stooges do "Tight Pants" live in Detroit in '72. This song evolved into "Shake Appeal" later on.

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Fake Stooges:Real Stooges:

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Kenny Millions.Weasel Walter.Nondor Nevai.NO MOR MUSIK debut CD out on ugEXPLODE records, 05/15/10"Non Stop Working" DVD Trailer 2 YouTube Un clip de "Masculin Feminin," Jean-Luc Godard, 1966

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But, hey, Guru did bring Donald Byrd and Steve Williamson out on the road with him; that was pretty hip. Well, you know my steez...(Not safe for work)Neither is this, unless you work at an anarcho-syndicalist collective...Mr. Lif (no particular relation to Guru except that he is an MC from Boston):

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"I can read, it doesn't have to be read..."Mike DeCapite is in Cleveland to give a couple of readings of his father Raymond DeCapite's writing from his recently reissued novels "The Coming of Fabrizze" and "A Lost King." Tonight, Friday, April 16th, he is at Mac's Backs on Coventry at 7:00 p.m., and tomorrow, Saturday, April 17th at 8:00 p.m., he will be at the Literary Cafe on Literary Road in

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April 15th, as well as being the date that income taxes are due in the U.S., is also National Stupidity Day, according to a calendar produced by some old friends of mine way back when, and the day we had the funeral for another friend of ours, the musician, artist, and writer Keith Busch, also known as Dag Nabbit.That's him, at the beginning of the clip..."Nothing's funny anymore..."Maybe true,

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Yeah, he was illin'...World's Famous Supreme Team // "Hey DJ"Malcolm McLaren, 01/22/46-04/08/10, cause of death: Something jumping in his shirt?"Deep in Vogue"Lisa says "Really Beautiful"; Wendy says "Ooowugh!" (Spelling?)Like him or loathe him, he was one of the more visionary managers in the music biz, even when his visions were questionable, in the ranks of, say, Epstein, Oldham, and

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Judging by the music, and this fellow's hair and glasses, it's still the late 60s there.Shogun Kunitoki: "Riddarholmen"Directed and edited by Sami Sänpäkkilä Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light Kit (soldering guide)"Less tin is always better than too much."The Mystical Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light

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Robert Ashley, composer, turns 80..."She Was A Visitor" (1967)"The Wolfman" (1964) tape, voice and feedback

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John Cale recently performed the entire "Paris 1919" album as a program in London, but I haven't turned up any videos of the concert. Here are some others...Madrid 1985:Brussels 1992:France (Paris?) 1995:London 2003:Cardiff 2009:Prague 2008?:Snažím se napodobit Johna Calea. Hrál: Mikolas M. Točil: Honza M.

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Seriously. What a time we live in! What a country! Here he is as Popeye Doyle...by the way, I think the car chase in "The French Connection" kicks "Bullitt"'s ass...A Singer* of my acquaintance once invited me to see the motion picture "The Firm" with her strong endorsement of Gene as "America's greatest actor." Another time, I came home and my wife was watching a movie on TV: "This is a good

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A little seltzer down your pants...Kenny Larkin, techno artist/producer and stand-up comedian. Here he is on "Sprockets":Here he is DJing at the Awakenings Festival in 2008, a whole festival inspired by a Robin Williams movie:A special Sade mix:And at The Improv in Hollywood, in early 2003:"Man, is he funny...I feel so white!"

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...while looking for info on Stump. Here is Kev Hopper, Stump's bassist, playing musical saw on TV, maybe in 2004:And a short improv by Hopper and Richard Sanderson:Filmed by Rob Flint in Blurrovision.

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"a traditional but not very factual term that is commonly used among Irish communities to describe a dark brown/black hair phenotype appearing in Caucasian people of Irish descent. This can be distinguished in contrast""the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre

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"Stump were an Anglo-Irish indie/experimental/rock group featuring former Microdisney members Mick Lynch (vocals) and Rob McKahey (drums), along with Kev Hopper (bass) and Chris Salmon (guitar). They formed in London in 1983. The original"Here's a video with a handsome Gretsch guitar, maybe even more telegenic than the white guitar in the "True" video...If you can handle fretless bass, gratuitous

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Cathal Coughlan sings songs from the Auld Sod...(Starts Quietly.) "Westlin' Winds"Microdisney, "Gale Force Wind""Now sub-human and I don't know why..."Microdisney - "Everybody Is Dead"That was no strange hat. Back in Dec 1987, most umbrellas were still pretty primitive.

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According to Plutarch, Caesar was warned by a seer to be on his guard against a great peril on the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated) Caesar saw the seer and joked "Well, the Ides of March have come," to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone."Well, you win some, you lose some...

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We're gladThey putNew lemon-freshened BoraxIn you!

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Yeah, Pere Ubu played in town last night, at the Beachland Ballroom, performing their album "The Modern Dance," but I didn't get over there. Dan Rourke, however, did, and you can read his essay by clicking on the header. Good to hear that David Thomas is moving into Hackman territory (as long as he's not in a towel)...Here's a recent clip of the band:(No, sorry, they had it pulled.)Try this

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Mark E. Smith, writer, leader of men, born on 03/05/1957 (now a 53 Year Old Man):The Fall - "Cowboy 2" / "Psykick Dancehall" - at Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, 02/12/10Plus, he's also been collaborating with cartoon characters...Gorillaz, "Glitter Freeze" from "Plastic Beach"Hey, and Martin Bramah, co-founder of The Fall, has a new band with some other classic ex-Fall members, called Factory Star.

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Garrett Morgan, inventor (and Clevelander), born 03/04/1877:PLEASE, DON'T BE A JERK THAT ALWAYS INTERUPT OTHERS WHILE THEY ARE HAVING FUN. THANK YOU. Shemp Howard, my favorite of the Three Stooges, born 03/04/1895:James Ellroy, crazy-ass American author, born 03/04/1948, shown here in an interview with Conan O'Brien, whose hair is under control for once(plus Ellroy incites Dave Chappelle to bolt

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...in honor of the Roland TB-303:Phuture - "Acid Trax"

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But more than I've seen of it before:Edwyn Collins, "50 Shades Of Blue"

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"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" credits Bill Griffith and Zippy the Pinhead for the phrase "Are we having fun yet?" I reckon that I am. If you aren't, maybe you will be after hearing this peppy psychedelic version of The Stooges' "No Fun" from some Welsh band* (Hey, the first Stooges album was produced by a Welshman...):*I figured out that it's EctogramSaunders Lewis, the director, has more

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Black Sheep, members of the Native Tongues that people tend to forget...

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...that this is one of the remixes that Prince Paul's manager wanted him to do for the money, but I love it:This mix was on a 12", but not the FYC remix album.

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You feel as though you can do anything, like De La Soul:And..."Sometimes you have a burrito near your home at your favorite Mexican restaurant and you see this street clock. Your mother also painted a German Shepard bust gold. A hose then is disconnected from the sprayer. Water runs everywhere."Almost Certain Death, "Time for Masonry"

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Moment from Peter Jacobson on Vimeo.Vieo by Peter Jacobson, mix by Nguzunguzu...http://www.negrophonic.com/2010/moments-in-mixtape/

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I was recently in the hospital for a day and a night, and had four meals, but no peas...WFMU.org: Tuesday, February 16th, 3pm - 6pm: Yoko Ono At 77, Yoko Ono has just released one of her best records, "Between My Head and the Sky," a cosmic and kinetic set of songs featuring Daniel Carter, Yuka Honda, son Sean and others in what looks like a full resurrection of the Plastic Ono Band moniker. In

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Steve Kuhn - PianoAldo Romano - DrumsNiels Henning Orsted Pedersen - BassBerlin Jazztage (1969)

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Now that's a fun hospital!Dennis Potter's "The Singing Detective," 1986

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Jonathan Richman, Paris, October 2006

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Phil Manzanera, guitarist, 1951:John Lydon, ?, 1956:

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...or "zorr froat," as it sounds when I say it, for a few days, so it's been difficult to read bedtime stories to my daughter, so I found a couple online...Enjoy.

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Jackson Pollock, painter and driving enthusiast, born 1912:"Jackson! Jackson!"Claes Oldenburg, sculptor and Happenings artist, born 1929:Robert Wyatt, singer, songwriter, drummer, 'Pataphysician, born 1945:Rakim, rapper, born 1968:

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Johnnie Ray, singer, 1927:Sal Mineo, actor, 1939:Rod Stewart, singer, 1945:And me, I like to kick and stretch and kick, because I'm fifty, yeah, fifty...

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Vic Mizzy, composer, 1916:Scott Walker, composer, 1943:Daniel Dumile (MF Doom, etc.), 1971:

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Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, 1905, performed here by Christopher Coletti...Elvis Presley, 1935:David Bowie, 1947:

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It's Epiphany today, the end of Christmas, and Syd Barrett's birthday...

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The #1 video for the year:I'm pretty sure that the small explosions that I'm hearing outside are fireworks, and not gunshots; the incidence of celebratory gunfire is much less in this neighborhood than it is around E. 40th or in Tremont...actually it's already stopped. Apparently, the recession is having an ameliorating effect on irrational behavior...

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THE New Year's Eve movie...

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Here are some of the top bits from 2009...tomorrow I'll post the #1 video for the year, so be sure to check back!Budos Band playing "My Girl" in Antwerp...Warhol and Maciunas as filmed by Jonas Mekas, 1971.Nightingales - "Rocket Pool Via Rough Hills"Nightingales, from Birmingham UK, performing live at Cake Shop NYC on 11/05/08. Someone has compiled a Cleveland Memory Grenade...Canadians are

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