French TV host and provocateur Yves Mourousi interviews Iggy Pop in 1977.
The exceedingly hip Mourousi and Mr. Osterberg seem to be on the same wavelength in this totally charming clip.
Mousousi abandoned the constraints of television when he quit his TV gig and opened up “Look,” a Parisian nightclub where he was able to actualize his own rock and roll dreams.
My Best Friend’s Birthday is the first film directed by Quentin Tarantino. Shot in 1984 for $5000, the rough cut was 70 minutes long before a fire at the processing lab destroyed all but 36 minutes of the film. It’s never been officially released.
Co-written with Craig Hamaan and photographed by Roger Avery, My Best Friend’s Birthday stars a motley collection of Tarantino’s video store co-workers and friends from acting class.
The stylistic foundations upon which Quentin built his career -Scorsese, Godard, Cassavetes, blaxpoitation and rock and roll - are evident in this clumsy but fun little flick. And the dialog is unmistakably what was later to become known as Tarantinoesque.
In 1921, while attending a church service in Missouri, 14-year-old Kathryn Kuhlman had her first religious epiphany. The Holy Spirit shook up her world and she would never be the same. A committed soldier in God’s army, she wasted no time in spreading the teachings of her beloved Christ. When most teenage girls were wooing neighborhood boys, Kuhlman was traveling with evangelistic tent ministries and preaching in pool halls. Jesus was her boyfriend.
By the time she was 28, Kuhlman was fronting her own revival show in a tabernacle in Denver, Colorado. But a romance with an older married minister (whom she eventually married) brought her budding religious empire crashing to the ground. It took several years and the selling of the tabernacle before she regained her mojo. When she came back, she came back strong.
Kuhlman ended up in the mining town of Franklin, Pennsylvania where the pulpit of the 1500 seat Gospel Tabernacle seem designed expressly for her. The crowds grew and Kuhlman’s Denver karma evaporated like holy water in the desert. It was in Franklin that Kuhlman discovered she had the divine ability to heal people.
As word spread of Kathryn Kuhlman’s miraculous ability to make the crippled walk and blind see, thousands upon thousands of true believers flocked to Franklin to be healed. In 1950, Kuhlman’s ministry went worldwide via radio and television and she became a huge attraction, appearing in Vegas and on television programs like Dinah Shore’s and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Through the 1960s and 70s, Kuhlman was a superstar for Jesus. And “star” is an apt description of Kathryn Kuhlman. She possessed the presence and grandeur of a great stage or film actress. And this is what I find fascinating about her.
Whether healer or charlatan, whether divinely intoxicated or just plain nuts, it matters little to me. It is Kathryn Kuhlman’s amazing flair for the dramatic, the flamboyant gesture and larger than life emotions she manifests that compels my conversion. Recalling Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, Kuhlman seems to be in a constant state of readiness for her close-up. Gesticulating like a silent movie star or drama-queening with the extravagant campiness of Bette Davis in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, the divine Ms.Kuhlman gnaws the scenery like a pitbull tearing at the leg of a drunken priest.
Living much of her private life in Garbo-like secrecy, Kathryn Kuhlman revealed little about herself until she got up in front an audience and it was there, on the stage, that she unleashed the diva within. Joan Crawford meets Joan of Arc on some purgatorial film set overseen by the ghosts of Douglas Sirk and R.W. Fassbinder.
On Friday, February 20th, 1976 Kathryn Kuhlman died. “Oral and Evelyn Roberts were among the few visitors permitted to see her. As they walked into her room and began to pray for her healing, Kathryn recognized what they were doing and put her hands out like a barrier and then pointed toward heaven.” She was ready for her close-up.
The world called me a fool for having given my entire life to One whom I’ve never seen. I know exactly what I’m going to say when I stand in His presence. When I look upon that wonderful face of Jesus, I’ll have just one thing to say: ‘I tried.’ I gave of myself the best I knew how. My redemption will have been perfected when I stand and see Him who made it all possible.
Here’s a compilation of some of Kathryn’s most dazzling performances.
Previously on DM: Kathryn Kuhlman
Here’s an interesting curiosity of Soviet animation called Interplanetary Revolution. It was written and directed by Zenon Komisarenko, Youry Merkulov and Nikolai Khodataev in 1924, as a piece of propaganda showing how the Soviet revolution drives “blood sucking international capitalists to desperation.” The film’s subtitle is a prediction to an “event very likely to happen in 1929”. Hm. The Wall Street Crash, anyone?
Interplanetary Revolution. A tale about Comrade Cominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet!
Made with stop motion and cell animation, it has been described by one reviewer on imdb as “More a curiosity than a work of art.” I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Previously on DM
With thanks to Zé Manel Pinheiro
Here’s a fun way to get your message across - The Julian Assange Coloring Book:
Love him or loathe him, hero or villain, Julian Assange is probably the most talked about person alive today.
WikiLeaks, with Julian as editor-in-chief, has caused quite the stir, and with mirror sites sprouting up around the globe, they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.“Collateral murder”, “Cablegate”, sexual misconduct charges against Julian in Sweden, calls for his assassination by the CIA, intrigue, suspense, and conspiracy theories - it all makes for pretty serious stuff.
So where does the Julian Assange Coloring Book fit in?
Well, simply put, it’s not “serious stuff”. It’s a coloring book about Julian Assange (with the occasional WikiLeaks page for good measure).
Coloring in is fun and relaxing - try it and see!
If you fancy coloring in Julian Assange, then try your hand here.
With thanks to Maria Guimil
More coloring book pics of Mr Assange after the jump…
Walking the fine line between clever and stupid, Klaus Manzert’s Silicon Dream was German synthpop with the calorie content of Italo disco. While Kraftwerk envisioned a world overrun by sophisticated robots, computers, and autobahns, Silicon Dream’s universe resembles the set from Zsa Zsa Gabor’s The Queen Of Outerspace and Manzert, looking like David Lochary in Female Trouble, plays Liberace to his boy toy dancers Angelo and Danny. Plan 9 crash lands in Las Vegas.
Here’s two fun tunes from Silicon Dream: “Andromeda” and “Marcello The Mastroianni .”
If hell has a honky tonk, James “Rebel” O’Leary is on the jukebox.
O’Leary and his band were one big happy family from York, Pennsylvania who played anywhere that had an electrical outlet, from county fairs to shopping malls. According to locals, they were as ubiquitous as fleas in a dog pound.
These folks managed to appear at damn near every public function imaginable, from the annual York, PA Halloween Parade, to almost any public holiday celebration that had a place to plug in their un-tuned electric guitars. Not that they were hired to be there. I’d imagine most of their gigs were done “gratis” since I can’t imagine any person even allowing them to perform for free, so bad were they. The O’Learys had a van, painted with their name and a poorly-rendered red/white/blue/stars/stripes color scheme, that could be spotted traversing all over the York County, PA area.
They were truly, truly, a “legend in their own mind.” I recall that they made trips to the annual “Fanfest” event in Nashville, bringing back photos of themselves arm-in-arm with various legitimate country music stars. Fact was, many of their pictures were that of posing with lifesize cardboard cut-outs of the celebrities!
Combining the musical chops of The Shaggs, the hairdos of The Stooges (Moe not Iggy) and the fashion sense of a Sedona medicine man, O’Leary and his brood are to country music what pork rinds are to fine dining. Enjoy.
Thanks to Irwin Chusid.
David Bowie sings “Drive-in Saturday” and is interviewed by British TV host, Russell Harty, from 1973.
Jared Lee Loughner is identified as the man responsible for a shooting this morning, in Tuscon, Arizona, which left 10 people injured, 5 critically, and six confirmed dead, including a 9-year-old girl and Judge John Roll.
Amongst the injured is Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot at allegedly point blank range - the bullet going “through-and-through her head.”
Loughner is a 22-year-old native of Arizona, who allegedly has his own You Tube Channel “classitup10” that contains very strange and disturbing messages, including his Final Thoughts, in which he writes:
I’m a sleepwalker - who turns off the alarm clock.
Jared also writes about terrorism, grammar, the value of money and the Bible in a rather cryptic fashion, and attacks the US government for implying “mind control” and “brainwash”. In conclusion, Jared writes:
I can’t trust the current government because of the ratification: The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.
No! I won’t pay debt with a currency that’s not backed by gold and silver!
No! I won’t trust in God!
What’s government if words don’t have meaning?
Under interests, Jared writes in past tense:
My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
He lists as his favorite books, again in the past tense:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver’s Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
No doubt Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto will be highlighted for agenda-pushing. But there are also books by Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, Lewis Carroll, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Ray Bradbury, Plato, Homer, Norton Juster, Jonathan Swift, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and J M Barrie. If anything is notable is the mix of children’s fantasy and parable.
With thanks to Aulde Holborne
This shit isn’t cute, never was. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and at least 15 others were shot at point blank range today. Is it a coincidence that she happens to be in Sarah Palin’s cross-hairs ?
Twenty House Dems from districts that McCain carried in 2008 voted for the health care bill, and Sarah Palin has a target on every single one.
The targets were released on the six month anniversary of Obamacare, and include a lot of familiar names such as John Boccieri (OH), Chris Carney (P N) Gabrielle Giffords (AZ) and Ann Kirpatrick (AZ). The site invites donations, social networking, and the unbeatable Sarah love that has led to a 26:11 win/loss record of candidates in GOP primaries. Granted, some of those were in safe districts, but she’s also pulled off massive upsets that probably outshadow her less successful picks.
Regardless, this site should go a long way towards knocking off the politicians who put their party affiliation ahead of their constituent’s demands. It was announced via a tweet from SarahPalinUSA: “Lies, Damned Lies – Obamacare 6 Months Later; It’s Time to Take Back the 20!”
tweet from Palin: “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!” Pls see my Facebook page.”
Metaphor, no more…
via Tbogg@FDL
The Clash perform “Clash City Rockers” on the BBC’s Something Else, from January 1978.
The song is a bit of self-mythologizing from Messrs. Strummer and Jones, with nods to David Bowie, The Move, Prince Far I and Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter? What were they thinking?
Icelandic singer Bjork is hosting a three-day karaoke marathon to draw attention to her country’s natural resources and a possible takeover by a Canadian energy company, the Toronto Sun reports.
The off-beat singer has launched a petition to call for a referendum to stop the takeover of HS Orka by Vancouver-based Magma Energy.
HS Oka produces geothermal and thermal power.
Concerns raised last summer after the sale was made public were put to rest in September, Magma Energy said, after a special committee appointed by the Icelandic government “concluded that Magma acted in full compliance with Icelandic law.”
Even though Magma Energy announced on its website in December is has completed obligations for the purchase of 98.53% of HS Orka, the wire service AFP reported Bjork said “the fight to keep it in the hands of the Icelandic people is not over,” during a press conference Thursday.
On her website, Bjork encouraged people to come to the event and sing their favourite songs.
“Elves, hidden people, sports people, hobby musicians and professionals ... everyone who cares for Iceland, come and join forces and perform a powerful ode to the nature of Iceland,” a press release for the event said, the Iceland Review reported. “Let’s bring our natural resources back to us with song.”
Bjork was set to perform along with other well-known Icelandic musicians.
For more information about the campaign, check here and click English version. Now, here’s a video, via Icelandic Chronicles, of Bjork singing Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” at the karaoke, from 6 January 2011.
With thanks to Norn Cutson
Love hurts in this 1968 Scopitone for French chanteur Georges De Giafferi’s song “Sado-Maso.”
Et brûle moi le bout des seins (And burns my nipples ...)
Au tison de ta cigarette ! (In your brand of cigarette!)
Ça sent l’cochon grillé ! (It smells of roasted pig!)
Tant pis allons nous recoucher (Too bad we’re going back to bed ..).
Parmi nos tessons de bouteilles! (Among our broken bottles!)
Laisse moi taillader ton dos (Let me slash your back ...)
Avec un épluche légume! (With a vegetable peeler!)
If this is a parody of Serge Gainsbourg, it’s brilliant. The Bardot look-alike is perfect. If it’s not a parody, it’s still brilliant.
If anyone has the skills to make a trite Boomer pop cliché like the Turtles’ “Happy Together” relevant to the hip-hop generation, it’s a guy like Brownsville, Brooklyn’s Brian Daniel Carenard a.k.a. the rhymer Saigon.
As part of their REWIND series for rap tunes that deserved but never got visual treatment, director Court Dunn’s Restless Films crew has provided a surprisingly Brady Bunch-y visual treatment for Sai’s early-‘00s tune “Together (Dear Black America)”.
Saigon’s new album The Greatest Story Never Told (which doesn’t include this tune) drops on February 15th on Suburban Noize Records.
Via 2dopeboyz
