OK, America, here’s how it seems to be going down in Tuscon, AZ as of earlier today, despite the standing federal injunction against SB1070, the state of Arizona’s attempt to enforce national border laws.
Run a stop sign, get detained potentially by Border Patrol.
What now, America? What do we got?
Hat tip Charlie Bertsch.
I first heard the baroque folk group Pentangle’s song Light Flight on the British equivalent to TV Toons, a sprawling 2 CD set of 60s and early 70s television themes with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel on the cover. Because the songs were all so short, there were about 50 per CD, but one song stood out among them and it was the Pentangle track. The other day I stumbled across a clip of the group playing the song in front of a studio audience and I also found a clip of the show Light Flight was the theme for, a series called Take Three Girls, a 1969 BBC drama that followed the lives of three young women living together in a flat in London. It was the first series to be broadcast in color on the BBC. From the looks of things here, this appears to be a swinging 60s antecedent to Sex and the City. I’d really love to see this! It says on Wikipedia that of the 26 episodes all but ten of them are thought lost.
Does anyone out there have a copy? It doesn’t hurt to ask…
Derf Scratch, a founding member of Los Angele’s punk pioneers Fear, died on July 28. Derf (Frederich Milner) formed Fear with lead singer and vocalist Lee Ving in 1977.
Fear was one of the best punk bands to come out of L.A. They were musically solid, intense and had an outrageous sense of humor. Their songs were confrontational, nihilistic, lewd : throwing satirical jabs at the punk scene, political correctness, feminism, gays, Christians, anything that moved.
Derf left the band in 1982 shortly after Fear released their debut album on Slash Records. It was not an amicable split. He and Ving had fallen out over work habits, drugs, ego. He sold his Fender bass to Mike Watt of The Minuteman and dropped out of the music scene.
Derf died of an undisclosed illness.
For a thoroughly entertaining interview with Derf check out citizen mag
Take a look at this nonsense. Tamara Scott, a representative of the Concerned Women for America spoke at the NOM (National Organization for Marriage, well some people’s marriages at least) rally in Des Moines over the weekend. Scott believes that outlawing gay marriage will help revive the American economy!
This is not simply a party issue. It’s a Biblical issue. Now I expect somebody like SNL will come along and make fun. We’ll see the Church Lady revived. That’s okay. I’d rather have man mad at me than be a stench in the nostrils of the God almighty.”
“It costs you, the taxpayer, as high as $280 billion a year for fragmented families, that’s according to the Family Research Council, May 14, 2009. That’s three trillion a decade…If we would correct the breakdown of the family by one percent, we could save the taxpayer $3 billion a year. To sit back and do nothing — we become part of the problem. We all need to help out here. It’s too big for any of us. There’s plenty of evil to go around.”
She ought to know!
Mean people… Boy are there a lot of fuckin’ mean people around these days. Jesus? Remember him, the dude who hung with the whores and the lepers? That Jesus, right. You know the one. Does anyone reading this think that Jesus—you know, the ONE IN THE BIBLE—would want to ban two people who love each other from being able to marry and have the same protections in the eyes of the law as everyone else? I don’t think so, but I do think Jesus would tell an uptight hateful busybody shit like Tamara Scott where to get the fuck off—“Not in MY name, lady!” What a vile human being. She hates for sport and so people pay attention to her. That’s low. But she cloaks herself in Christianity. OF COURSE.
Bitch ought to find another hobby that doesn’t hurt people. Watch her spiteful, hateful—and nonsensical, anti-intellectual—bullshit below:
Via Towelroad
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Ramon Productions, a film company located in Uganda, is creating some of the wildest exploitation movies to hit the big screen since the heydays of Box Office Spectacular Films, Herschell Gordon Lewis’s company. On a shoe string budget these Ugandan auteurs are delivering maximum bang for the buck. It looks like Bollywood might have some competition.
Ramon’s business credo:
To carry on all or any business of proprietors, managers and renters of cinemas, theatres, opera house concert and dance halls, discotheques, clubs and other places of entertainment of every kind.
These guys can do it all.
Incredible and utterly frightening video of three men driving through a wildfire in Tamboles, Russia. What were they thinking?!
(via Doobybrain)
Over the weekend via that most wonderful invention known as Netflix Instant View I caught an excellent documentary on the making of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band LP
That they also touch…
I find this video compelling for a few reasons. Who is this band? I can’t find any info on them, other than the band’s name, The Sounds Of Time, and the words ‘San Antonio’ appearing in the clip. I’ve been googling and coming up with nada. Why does the singer appear to be sitting and is only shot in closeup? Is he crippled?
I love the song. It’s a fine slice of 60s lite psychedelia, but with a rather gloomy point of view. Which makes it all that much more interesting. Does anybody know anything about The Sounds Of Time?
Another groovy kid video. Stick with this. It takes about a half a minute for the happy juice to take effect.