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Chevy Chase on LSD as Chamaeleon Church (and a brief stint in Steely Dan)
03.13.2010
04:51 pm
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Before finding fame as Clark Griswald, a 24 year-old Chevy Chase was living his rock n’ roll dream as the keyboardist/drummer for Boston psychedelic band Chamaeleon Church.  Their sole album appeared on the MGM label in 1968 and was marketed as part of the Bosstown Sound that included other lysergic warriors from the area Ultimate Spinach, Orpheus, Beacon Street Union, Phulph, Eden’s Children, and Puff. 

Although the marketing plan back-fired, as the press deemed the whole scene as nothing more than record label hype, the albums made by the Bosstown groups contain many gems including this harmony-laden winner Camillia is Changing.  Produced by the ultra-prolific Alan Lorber, who also master-minded the whole Bosstown gimmick, the song has the usual 1968 flourishes and some killer harmonies, which I am sure Chase’s perfect pitch lent to extensively.

Before playing with the Church, Chase jammed with school friends Walter Becker and Donald Fagan in The Leather Canaries, who of course would find fame sans Chevy as Steely Dan.  Although his music career didn’t quite pan out, Chase simultaneously worked with an underground comedian gang called Channel One that would lead to his eventual TV and comedy career.
 

 

Posted by Elvin Estela
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03.13.2010
04:51 pm
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Born to run… at the mouth: Glenn Beck calls The Boss un-American.
03.12.2010
07:32 pm
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There are American icons and then there are American icons. And Bruce Springsteen is surely one of them. The kind you don’t mess with if you know what’s good for you. He’s the Boss and… you’re not, OK? Get it? Got it? Good.

Apparently Glenn Beck never got that memo because on his radio show Thursday, the Joseph McCarthy-loving, blubbering Fox News personality decided to read the lyrics to “Born in the U.S.A.” in a monotone voice similar to how William Shatner infamously declaimed Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” This is a tune Ronald Reagan tried to commandeer for his 1984 reelection campaign, a move rebuffed by Springsteen, the son of a union member.

According to Beck, the song is un-American.

“Born down in a dead man’s town,” read Beck to the listeners of his March 11 radio program. “The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much. ‘Til you spend half your life just covering up.”

Here’s what Beck had to say about the famous song afterward:

That’s what it’s all about.That’s what America’s all about, according to Springsteen…. It’s time for us to wake, wake up, out of our, um, dream state. Wake up out of the propaganda. The, you know, this is the thing that, people who come from the Soviet-bloc or Cuba, they’re all saying, “How do you guys not hear this? How do you not see this?” Well, that’s ‘cause we don’t ever expect it.

The Boss… un-American? Bruce Springsteen? Is that what Beck is trying to say? Now I could offer some snarky commentary—that’s my job, I’m a blogger after all—but it’s totally pointless when discussing Beck, someone I could call “nuts” and the copy desk at the Los Angeles Times will probably let it sail right past because it’s not like it’s an opinion!

And that’s not all. In January, Beck “analyzed” the Utopian lyrics of the Beatles’ “Revolution” and concluded that the song illustrated Liberal plans to slowly bring Marxism to America.

Glenn, wouldn’t that have been, uh, Lennonism? And I hate to remind you that Charles Manson saw hidden messages in Beatle songs too.

Cross posting this from Brand X

Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.12.2010
07:32 pm
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Aleister Crowley Action Figure!
03.12.2010
05:25 pm
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03.12.2010
05:25 pm
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Tim Weiner: Dark Secrets of the CIA
03.12.2010
04:03 pm
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Tim Weiner on the dark history of the CIA, including the recent revelation of CIA suicide agents.

(Via Fora.tv)

(Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion)

Posted by Jason Louv
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03.12.2010
04:03 pm
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Reggie Watts in F*ck Shit Stack
03.12.2010
02:20 pm
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Who doesn’t want a fuck-shit-stack? I do! Obviously NSFW.
 
Thank you Taylor Jessen!

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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03.12.2010
02:20 pm
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Butoh: Dance Of Darkness
03.12.2010
12:42 pm
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Edin Velez‘s “Butoh: Dance of Darkness” is a mind-altering must-see film about the modern Japanese dance form. I can’t in any way profess to understand
exactly what’s happening here, but I do know that it hits me on a visceral level like no other form of dance I’ve ever encountered. It certainly works as a wonderful antidote to the ennui caused by viewing the contrived, over-cooked bullshit spectacle of that new Lady Gaga vid (gee Brad, how do you really feel about that?). See the whole film here.
 

Posted by Brad Laner
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03.12.2010
12:42 pm
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Another Trippy Tech Take On Lesage
03.12.2010
12:01 pm
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via Max Hattler

1925 (aka Hell) is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. 1925 is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1925.
The second loop, 1923 (aka Heaven), is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1923 and can be found here

 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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03.12.2010
12:01 pm
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Lady Gaga/Beyonce: Telephone
03.11.2010
11:55 pm
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This premiered just now. Please, Dangerous Minds readers, please—explain to me what I just saw!?!?!?

(Watch big here.)

(The Fame Monster [Deluxe Edition])

(Special Bonus: 4chan thread on video here, while it lasts!)

Posted by Jason Louv
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03.11.2010
11:55 pm
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Public Option Now!
03.11.2010
10:34 pm
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Please retweet this and share on Facebook if you feel strongly about this issue. As someone living in California who has an individual policy with the evil Anthem Blue Cross—apparently my premiums are going to go up 44%—I do feel strongly that America needs a public option. Just like Canada and Australia and England and France, etc, etc, etc have!!! I haven’t been in a hospital since I was born and my health insurance is going to double? WTF?

That the richest nation on earth doesn’t have universal health care, but there can be hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money used to bail out the fucking bankers—indeed to give them bonuses!—is a travesty. A cosmic joke on Americans, some of them so stupid they believe the Fox News version of this issue. Sad. I’m reminded of the Onion parody where the redneck says that no black president is going to pay for his dialysis.

Democrats, where there is a will there is a way to pass the public option. Why let the MINORITY rule? PUBLIC OPTION NOW!!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.11.2010
10:34 pm
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Odd Chess Set
03.11.2010
10:28 pm
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“Chess Set” by Jack Jake and Dinos Chapman
 
(via Design Boom)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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03.11.2010
10:28 pm
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