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Funk and Grind: Deep grooves and vintage nudes, NSFW
04.15.2011
12:31 am
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Funk and soul grooves from the USA, Europe and Jamaica provide the soundtrack for vintage film footage of old school strippers, hippie chicks, biker broads and wild jungle women. XX-rated.

Russ Meyer meets James Ellroy on a street named Hot Buttered Soul.

01. Ninety Eight Cents Plus Tax - Detroit City Limits
02. Gang Train - Bernard Estardy
03. Jungle Trumpet - Pierre Dutour
04. Pepper Drums - P.A Dahan & Mat Camison
05. Chocolate Cherry - The Joe Tex Band
06. The Cat Walk - Gerry And Paul And The Soul Emissaries
07. Bongo Ring -  Bernard Estary
08. Africadelic - Manu Dibango
09. My Sweet Baby - The Puzzles
10. Thing - Lowell Fulsom
11. Put Your Weight on It Pt. 1 - Filmore Street Soul Rebellion
12. Indian Pop Bass -  Guy Pederson
13. Wake The Monster - Big Jullien & His All Stars
14. Rythmiques No. 2 - Pierre-Alain Dahan
15. Bullitt - Louis Jordan
16. Herm - San Francisco TKOs
17. Groovin` - The Killer Bees With Cyril Neville
18. LSD - Lee Scratch Perry
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.15.2011
12:31 am
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Video of Persis Khambatta getting head shaved for ‘Star Trek’ role (1979)
04.14.2011
07:41 pm
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Emotional footage of Indian actress Persis Khambatta getting her head shaved for the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. If you recall, Persis Khambatta played the beautiful Lieutenant Ilia.

I think she looks quite fetching without hair. Then again, how do you go wrong with a face like that?  

 
(via Everlasting Blort)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.14.2011
07:41 pm
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Raymond Scott celebration on Network Awesome
04.14.2011
02:53 pm
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Our pals at Network Awesome bring together the varied and disparate artifacts of your favorite geniuses for your trouble-free enrichment. Here’s a swell multi-pronged tribute to visionary composer and inventor Raymond Scott including an interview with Jeff Winner of the Raymond Scott Archives
 

Jeff Winner is one of the chairmen of the Raymond Scott Archives, founder of raymondscott.com and co-producer of Manhattan Research, Inc., a 2-CD & book set of Scott’s early electronic work. That makes him totally the dude to talk to about Raymond Scott himself. And on top of being a total badass on Raymond Scott-ology, he was a nice enough guy to answer a few of our questions. The conversation goes everywhere - from Looney Tunes to Benny Goodman to Mark Mothersbaugh.

 
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The Raymond Scott Quintette - War Dance For Wooden Indians
The Philharmonicas - Powerhouse
The Raymond Scott Quintette  - Ali Baba Goes To Town (1937)
The Raymond Scott Quintette - Night and Day
Raymond Scott’s Electronium: The Restoration
Designs in Music - Dorothy Collins, Raymond Scott on the Bell Telephone Hour
Raymond Scott: On To Something (trailer)
 

 
The Sound of Surreal: Interview with Jeff Winner on Raymond Scott

Posted by Brad Laner
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04.14.2011
02:53 pm
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Andy Warhol Sued for Child Porn, Torture
04.14.2011
03:17 am
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Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey are accused of violating child pornography laws in a 1964 film directed by Morrissey called All Aboard The Dreamland Choo Choo. The suit was filed in 2009 against Warhol’s Estate and Morrissey by a lawyer representing the grown children of Richard Toelk. Toelk appeared in the film when he was 14, rolling and smoking what might or might not be a joint, giving himself electrical shocks and plunging a small knife into his leg. It is strong stuff, but how much of it was staged? Toelk died in 1990 so he’s not telling.

Morrissey has said that All Aboard The Dreamland Choo Choo was intended to send an anti-drug message and it was made a year before he met Warhol. The title of the film came from a Shirley Temple song that he would play during the silent film’s screening.

Emily Larish of The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law doesn’t think Toelk’s children have much of a case and may actually be exploiting their father more than Warhol and Morrissey ever did:

Assuming the depiction of Toelk in All Aboard The Dreamland Choo Choo can be considered sexual exploitation, if the footage was filmed in 1964, then it could not have been in violation of federal child pornography laws; the first federal laws aimed at child pornography were not enacted until the late 1970s. As for the claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress for damaging the family’s image, it is hard to imagine that many people have even seen the film, certainly not in recent years. Moreover, even out of those who have seen the film, I doubt that many would be able to identify the young boy smoking pot as Richard Toelk, the father of the plaintiffs.

It seems that this family is attempting to do the very thing for which they are accusing the defendants: exploiting the images of a young Richard Toelk for financial gain.

You can read the complaint here

Watch the rarely seen All Aboard The Dreamland Choo Choo and make up your own mind…or don’t. In my opinion the self-torture looks no more real than what you’d see in a mainstream horror movie. The film seems to want to dramatize a young man’s desperate need to feel something, anything, some kind of kick. It’s certainly not porn. And the young actor doesn’t appear to be suffering the kind of pain you’d feel after plunging an Exacto knife in your leg. It looks like theater to me.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.14.2011
03:17 am
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‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ documentary for your viewing pleasure
04.14.2011
01:46 am
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Professional and amateur footage captured with cell phones, camcorders and Super 8 from over 200 sources combine to create the kinetic documentary All Tomorrow’s Parties. Compiled by director by Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation), ATP is a tightly edited collage of live performances, interviews and archival movies which captures the D.I.Y. spirit of one of the best and most fiercely independent music fests on the planet.

With performances by Grinderman, Dirty Three , Sonic Youth, Animal Collective, Lightning Bolt, Patti Smith, Portishead, Slint, Mogwai, Grizzly Bear, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Iggy and The Stooges.

And for our Spanish speaking friends, it has Spanish subtitles.
 

 
Parts two through six after the jump…

READ ON
Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.14.2011
01:46 am
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‘Pink Flamingos’ on acid
04.13.2011
02:40 am
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Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.13.2011
02:40 am
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TV On The Radio present ‘Nine Types Of Light,’ the movie: Watch it here!
04.12.2011
07:24 pm
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TV On The Radio’s new album Nine Types Of Light was released today and it’s the most accessible collection they’ve made to date and will undoubtedly attract a shitload of new fans. And it deserves it. The band has created an album of lush surfaces underpinned by deep grooves and beautiful hooks. I started listening last night and it’s that rare album that hangs together as a whole satisfying work, capturing you immediately and revealing new pleasures with each listening. This sucker has legs.

The band put together a film for Nine Types Of Light.

The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future. Tunde also directed the music video for Forgotten.”

This when the Internet and music coalesce in a way that rocks my world. What a blessing.

Adebimpe’s take on the film: “We as a band always have so many ideas for things that aren’t just musical… And for less than the price of a Maroon 5 video, you can make a full-length feature.”

Watch it and listen.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.12.2011
07:24 pm
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Ball Busting Women of Cinema
04.11.2011
08:21 pm
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My testicles are cowering behind the couch. I’m trying to coax them out with a cup of warm milk.

Ladies, this may be therapeutic for some of you.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.11.2011
08:21 pm
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A birthday message from the planet Tuffington
04.11.2011
07:32 pm
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Butch Tuffington made this short video using “Happy Birthday” by electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire.

As usual, Mr.Tuffington delivers something both cosmic and comic. Zen montage with a lysergic twist.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.11.2011
07:32 pm
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Spellbinding animatronics reel by John Nolan
04.11.2011
03:05 pm
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Simply put, John Nolan‘s 2010 reel for his animatronic creations is amazing. You may recognize some of John’s work from Clash of the Titans, Where the Wild Things Are and the television series Being Human.

BTW, there’s a blobby thing with lips that’s rather disturbing in this video. Just wait for it.

 
(via Nerdcore)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.11.2011
03:05 pm
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