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Super freaky promotional video for Sub Pop recording artists No Age
08.31.2010
03:51 am
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This promo created by Randy Randall for Everything In Between, the new album from No Age, is everything an ad should be…attention getting.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.31.2010
03:51 am
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The incredibly strange life of rock and roll alchemist Joe Meek
08.31.2010
01:00 am
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Joe Meek was a brilliant, innovative and influential British record producer whose short life was filled with bizarre and ultimately tragic drama.

Meek produced several hit records in the 1960s and was often referred to as the English Phil Spector. His experimentation with electronic effects, including reverb, echo, distortion, compression, close-up miking, filters and multi-tracking, resulted in the distinctive “Meek sound.” Telestar Telstar, a spacy instrumental by The Tornadoes was his biggest hit and still sounds as excitingly fresh as it did 50 years ago. His other big international smash (and a personal favorite of mine) was the hard driving, percussive Have I The Right by The Honeycombs. The rhythm track of the song was augmented by Meek using a bunch of microphones clipped to banisters while the band stomped it’s feet on the recording studio stairs and beat a tambourine directly into a microphone.

Sadly, like Spector, Meek’s life became a tabloid nightmare that has to a great degree overshadowed his musical legacy.

Meek was gay at a time when being gay was illegal in the United Kingdom. His sexuality was the source of extreme mental conflict for Meek, he actually thought he could be cured of his homosexuality. Fear of incrimination pushed him into an increasing sense of isolation. Perhaps in an effort to seek some kind of cosmic sexual healing, he became obsessed with magic, the occult, extraterrestrials, and conspiracies of all sorts. He claimed to communicate with the ghost of Buddy Holly via ouija board and in seances. He reputedly placed microphones in graveyards to record the voices of the dead.

After a series of devastating personal and financial catastophes, Meek eventually became a paranoid recluse. His life ended at the young age of 37 in murder and suicide.

Joe Meek’s brief ascension into the heavens of pop stardom and crushing descent into a hell of circumstance and social pressure, as well as one of his own making, is a story as compelling and offbeat as any in the annals of rock and roll’s dark side. This hour long documentary tells that story in riveting fashion while also providing fascinating insight to his particular musical genius. The Very Strange Story of The Legendary Joe Meek.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.31.2010
01:00 am
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Stonewall Uprising: New documentary about the birthplace of the gay rights movement
08.30.2010
11:24 pm
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For seven years I had an apartment on Christopher St. and Bleecker in New York’s West Village just one and a half blocks from the historic Stonewall Inn, site of the first riots for gay rights and birthplace of the Gay Liberation Front. Although there was a pretty good drama (Stonewall) that came out 15-years ago, it’s great that a proper documentary finally got these stories on tape to set the record straight. I really look forward to seeing this film.

“It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement.

Told by Stonewall patrons, reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall Uprising recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history.

—Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum

 

 
The Stonewall Uprising website

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.30.2010
11:24 pm
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Hey 4chan, we need your help: Find this vile, puppy-drowning woman (and her cameraman)
08.30.2010
09:18 pm
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Last week, thanks to the efforts of the Internet’s “collective id”—otherwise known as the 4chan BBS—Mary Bale, the evil woman from Coventry, England who was caught on tape mistreating a cat, was brought to justice (or at least a public shaming she is unlikely to ever fully recover from in this lifetime).

Well boys… here’s another job for you: If you think the CC video footage that caused Bale’s epic feline fail was bad, this is ten times worse and it involves an accomplice! That’s right, this footage—which you should not watch if you are easily upset (or a normal human being) because it is THAT BAD—was not captured by a passive CC camera, but by a human being who not only DIDN’T STOP IT FROM HAPPENING, but who thought it would be funny to videotape it and post it on the Internet? Yuck.

Mary Bale currently is under police protection, but if this woman can be identified, she should be taken into police custody. How could someone do something like this to tiny, crying, helpless newborn puppies?!?! As I type this, there is a tiny 5-month-old puppy playing happily beside me who I am madly in love with. It’s hard to conceive of someone doing this kind of thing. This woman who can kill a bunch of puppies so cruelly should be shamed, do some jail time and spend the rest of her sad shitty life with this videotape following her dumb ass around anytime a prospective employer (or boyfriend) would like some more information about her and types her name into a Google search.

People of 4chan, you know what to do!

Via Doobybrain

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.30.2010
09:18 pm
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Mziuri: Early 70s Georgian pre-teen girl electric folk rocking
08.30.2010
07:29 pm
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From what I can gather, these beautifully odd clips are from the early 70s Soviet era Georgian film Mziuri which appears to be some sort of showcase for electric folk tunes performed soley by pre-teen girls. On a cruise ship. Can a Georgian DM reader perhaps tell me more about what’s going on here? I love the overdriven sound especially. Toasty good !
 

 
more great clips after the jump

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Posted by Brad Laner
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08.30.2010
07:29 pm
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Beautiful Failure on Film: Fanny Kaplan’s Unsuccessful Assassination Attempt on Lenin
08.30.2010
07:24 pm
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“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” That common platitude seems entirely apropos today, on the 92nd anniversary of the attempted assassination of Communist Russian leader Vladimir Lenin by young Fanya Yefimovna “Fanni” Kaplan.

The Ukranian-born Kaplan was born in 1890 to a Jewish family and joined the Socialist Revolutionaries (or Esers) early on in life. At 16, she was busted for her involvement in a terrorist bomb plot and sent to one of Tsar Nicolas II’s Siberian prison for 11 years. Kaplan’s brutal tenure there was cut short after the February Revolution led by Lenin.

But her disillusionment with the leader came hard and fast, as Lenin’s Bolsheviks sought and succeeded to dissolve the elected Constituent Assembly, a key instrument of democracy during the revolution. Lenin’s move in 1917 to put all power in the hands of the workers councils—or Soviets—convinced Kaplan to take matters into her own hands.

As portrayed in the clip below from Mikhail Romm’s 1939 propaganda film Lenin in 1918, Kaplan got three or so shots off after the leader spoke at a Moscow factory. Lenin, who was 48 years old at the time, was hit in the shoulder and jaw—he survived, but the injuries were thought to contribute to his death by stroke 6 years later.

Fanny was shot dead five days after the attempt at age 28, and within a few hours the Red Terror—a four-year program of mass arrest and execution of counterrevolutionary enemies of the state—had begun.
 

 

Posted by Ron Nachmann
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08.30.2010
07:24 pm
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Album Tacos: Tacos on your favorite album covers
08.30.2010
06:25 pm
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It’s about TIME Internet! I can finally die a happy woman.

Album Tacos

(Thanks again, Nerdcore!)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.30.2010
06:25 pm
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George W. Bush may very well have a head fetish
08.30.2010
04:41 pm
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Very interesting… Apparently Bush likes a little head every now and then.

More Bush-head-rubbing-madness after the jump…

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.30.2010
04:41 pm
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Aphex Twin uses live interactive face mapping on audience
08.30.2010
02:40 pm
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Wow! This is pretty crazy, unexpected and a wee bit creepy. Watch.

At this weekend London Electronic Festival (LED) Aphex Twin used live facial recognition to map the audience and overlay images of his own, trademark distorted face. Mesmerising and disturbing in equal measure!

(via Nerdcore)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.30.2010
02:40 pm
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AGENDA: Grinding America Down (new wingnut documentary)
08.30.2010
12:52 pm
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Why is it that no one on the Right can make a decent political documentary? Name one (serious) contender for the title “Michael Moore of the Right.” You can’t because that person doesn’t exist. Are conservatives congenitally incapable of constructing a coherent and convincing narrative in documentary form? Something that might actually sway some people their way? Or is their philosophy just so bankrupt that it falls apart onscreen and screams false to our bullshit detectors? Or is their stuff just boring? The main reason that Hollywood is dominated by Liberals is because conservatives tend to be not very entertaining. (Hollywood even tolerated Mel Gibson up to a point because he made money. He’s one of the few conservatives to do so in recent memory).

Ask almost anyone and you’ll hear, “Communism is dead! The Berlin Wall came down.” And though the word communism isn’t used anymore, this film will show the ideas behind it are alive and well. 
Join Bowers for a fascinating look at the people and groups that have successfully targeted America’s morality and freedom in their effort to grind America down. It’s not just another conspiracy theory. It’s a well documented agenda. 



I’m Curtis Bowers and I made this film because I hoped that once you saw the facts you would realize what I did after researching this topic… what has happened to America hasn’t been an accident. Now is the time to get involved before the “Left” accomplishes their goal of destroying the greatest country in ALL world history!

Remind of why the Left is out to destroy America, again?

This filmmaker behind AGENDA: Grinding America Down, Idaho legislator Curtis Bowers, comes off as an earnest, but extremely unhip, Republican weenie beating the same old dead horse John Birch Society conspiracy theories that no one takes seriously anymore. I mean, how could anyone really expect a person under the age of 50 to know who Alger Hiss was or care what anyone has to say about him, or Joseph McCarthy, for that matter. in 2010? Phyllis Schlafly might care (she’s interviewed in AGENDA: Grinding America Down) but she’s nearly ninety. And a crackpot.

This trailer is almost not insane for the first five minutes and then all of a sudden it weirds out until the end like a demented action flick. Without any action. Or point.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.30.2010
12:52 pm
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