Well, I say in full, but this is actually the shorter US edit, which cuts out twenty odd minutes of the film. Gone are most of the scenes between David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi, which are actually quite sweet and charming, and add to whatever vague arc these characters are meant to have. This isn’t a great transfer (with a fair amount of color loss) but if you haven’t seen this before it’s worth a watch. The brutality is intact, and most importantly so is the soundtrack by Goblin. It’s one of those films that is worth watching just for the music.
The Profondo Rosso score is as good as any score that came out in the 70s. Yes, that’s saying a lot, as the mid-to-late 70s were a golden age of soundtracks—from Blaxploitation to John Williams to big commercial hits like The Exorcist/Tubular Bells, Grease and Saturday Night Fever—but with its combination of horror-atmospherics and tightly woven sleuth-funk it’s truly brilliant.
If Dario Argento is anything, he’s a master of atmosphere, and it seems obvious to say that he was at his zenith when he worked with Goblin. Profondo Rosso is the first fruits of that collaboration, and while they may have topped it with their work together on Suspiria, this is still a filmic landmark.
Goblin’s Profondo Rosso - The Complete Edition is available to buy on CD.
Deep Red has just been released on Blu-Ray, you can find it here.
ActBlue has posted this letter on their website. Click here to add your name.
Gov. Walker has threatened to call out the National Guard against workers who protest his radical plan to cut benefits of middle class workers and strip them of their rights.
Stand in solidarity with tens of thousands of workers who have been protesting:
Members of the Wisconsin Legislature,
The Associated Press reports, “Gov. Scott Walker says the Wisconsin National Guard is prepared to respond if there is any unrest among state employees in the wake of his announcement that he wants to take away nearly all collective bargaining rights.”
The Governor’s decision to ask the Wisconsin National Guard to be prepared for a fight against nurses, teachers, and other public employees puts Wisconsin firmly on the wrong side of history. The idea that a governor can use the military to impose his personal, political will on the people he governs is a primitive relic of the past – one that resulted in almost a century of bloodshed in this country. It must not be repeated again.
Trying to ram through cuts to the health care and pensions of Wisconsin nurses and teachers – and take away their right to negotiate for fair benefits – is already unacceptable. But the Governor’s threat of military force against Wisconsin citizens who serve their state proudly is even more shameful.
We say “no” to the Governor’s budget—and “no” to the use of the National Guard against the people of Wisconsin. And we ask you to join us.
Sincerely,
I wonder if it’s occurred to Gov. Walker, yet, just how bad of an idea it was to piss on this wasp’s nest and in Wisconsin of all places??? Like their brave union forefathers, these 21st century Badger heroes seem to love a good fight. Something tells me this is just the beginning.
One way or another Walker is political toast and I think he must know it. He was Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers in his own mind, but he sure looks like Gray Davis to me.
We win in Wisconsin, and we’ll win in every other Republican controlled statehouse. What’s going on there is THAT IMPORTANT. One way or another history will be made in Wisconsin. Which side are you on?
A Redditor spotted this awesome quote in his dad’s yearbook from 1981.
(via reddit)
At least we’re still waking up on the west coast…
The Wisconsin state Assembly on Friday passed a Republican plan to curb public sector union power over the fierce objections of protesters, setting the stage for a showdown with Senate Democrats who fled the state last week to prevent a vote in that chamber.
After two all-night debating sessions and an eleventh hour Democratic bid for a compromise, the Republican-dominated Assembly abruptly ended all debate early Friday morning and approved the bill by a vote of 51 to 17.The outcome of the vote, which was taken so fast many Democratic lawmakers who were outside the chamber when it was called were unable to participate, was greeted by chants of “it’s not over yet” and “we are here to stay” from more than a thousand protesters who stayed to watch in the capitol rotunda overnight.
Here’s the reaction from pro labor demonstrators in the gallery:
This is video from the gallery of the WI Assembly past 1 AM in the morning on 2/25/2011. The Democrats have just been told by the speaker pro tempore there will be no more debate before the vote, even though there were more than a dozen Democrats in the queue to speak. They shout “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
The public citizens in the gallery were shortly told to leave by police. None of the public were allowed in the gallery at the time of the vote.
Today’s gonna be interesting!
Via Joe. My.God
The New York Dolls are playing two nights in an “exclusive London venue” on the 30 and 31 March 2011, to promote their new album Dancing Backwards in High Heels.
MOF Artist and Events ltd have teamed up with the Old Vic to produce a series of events “in a raw and outstanding space below London’s Waterloo station.” The events will take place in the Old Vic Tunnels, a series of red brick tunnels running underneath the main railway station. From here, MOF and the Old Vic will be showcasing a range of “profile artists, with one off shows, album releases, secret gigs & afterparties.”
To launch our unique event series, we are excited to present, original punk/glam instigators The New York Dolls promoting the UK release of their new album: Dancing Backwards in High Heels (produced by Jason Hill of the Killers, released Monday, March 14th)
These intimate shows are the only London dates of their short UK tour. (their last small venue show in London’s 100 Club sold out in 4 minutes)
Legendary guitarist Earl Slick, best known for his spectacular guitar work on David Bowie’s albums David Live (1974), Young Americans (1975) and Station To Station (1976), has officially joined the New York Dolls as the bands new guitarist on their exclusive London shows.
The New York Dolls’ fifth studio album, Dancing Backward In High Heels has received some very positive reviews:
New York Dolls are back on fantastic creative form with their wonderful new album, Dancing Backward In High Heels, which was recorded and mixed in sunny Newcastle – miles from their home in New York City…
The Dolls have proved that they can still produce an enjoyable, rocking album that does not show off their age at all. In comparison, they make their younger counterparts sound dull and dreary. With an upcoming UK tour, there is no stopping the original New York punk band.
Here are four tracks from the new album, and one golden oldie. For more information on The Dolls’ London gigs, check here.
New York Dolls - “Streetcake” (2011)
New York Dolls - “Round and Round She Goes” (2011)
New York Dolls - “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman” (2011)
New York Dolls - “Baby Tell Me What I’m On” (2011)
New York Dolls - “Jet Boy” (1973)
Previously on DM
All Dolled Up with The New York Dolls
Whether you plan to become a pot grower, improve your skills as a grower or simply are curious about agriculture, this is a fascinating documentary on marijuana cultivation. Ganja growing wizard and High Times columnist Jorge Cervantes gives you the step by step info you need to become a pot farmer.
Of course, we here at Dangerous Minds are providing this video for entertainment purposes only. Personally, I found this particularly entertaining stoned.
Via See Of Sound
These video paintings were created in 1984 by Brian Eno with friend, photographer and actress Christine Alcino as his subject. The soundtrack is from Eno’s Thursday Afternoon album which he produced with Daniel Lanois.
The visuals are as ambient as Eno’s music and move with a kind of meditative pace and therefore are best appreciated when you can pay close attention to them.
In a 2007 campaign stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina, then-candidate Barack Obama told a crowd:
“f American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States.”
Then it’s time to get your shoes on, Mr. President! What are you waiting for?
Get a move on (so to speak). Times a’wastin’ and Scott Walker thinks this is “his moment” to play act like he’s Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers and you are doing… exactly… what about it? Who do you think your base is, anyway? Who do you think put you in office? (Hint: It probably wasn’t the type of person who favors union-busting who voted for you!).
Hell, forget about whether or not Obama was born in the USA, I want some some proof that he’s a fucking Democrat!
Inspired by the book, Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus, In the Realm of the Hackers focuses on two Melbourne teenage hackers known as Electron and Phoenix, who in 1989, hacked into some of the most secure computer networks in the world, including the US Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (a government lab charged with the security of the US nuclear stockpile), and NASA.
In the late 1980s, Melbourne was the hub of the computer underground in Australia, if not the world. The hackers who formed the underground were not disgruntled computer professionals or gangs of organised criminals. They were disaffected teenagers who used their basic home computers to explore the embryonic Internet from inside their locked, suburban bedrooms. From this shadowy world emerged two elite hackers known as Electron and Phoenix, who formed part of an alliance called The Realm.
Together, Electron and Phoenix stole a restricted computer security list and used it to break into some of the world’s most classified and supposedly secure computer systems. So fast and widespread was the attack, people assumed it was an automated program, until Phoenix called The New York Times to brag. Soon the US Secret Service and the FBI were on their trail and, within months, the Australian Federal Police had raided their homes.
Using a combination of interviews and dramatic reconstructions, In the Realm of the Hackers charts Electron’s journey from his initial innocent explorations to his ultimate obsession. It vividly recreates the climate of the 1980s, before there was public access to the Internet.
In the Realm of the Hackers takes us headlong into the clandestine, risky but intoxicating world of the computer underground to uncover not only how the hackers did it but why.
In an interview 2003, the film’s writer and director, Kevin Anderson explained the background to his film:
I initially became aware of the story of the Melbourne computer underground after reading Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Melbourne-based author and journalist Suelette Dreyfus.
During my three-year involvement with the project, I had to immerse myself in the computer underground and acquaint myself with terms and concepts I was completely unfamiliar with. Suelette was to become my main conduit to various members of the underground, both past and present.
The story represented a number of “firsts”- the new crime called computer hacking, the first computer crime case to be prosecuted in Australia, the introduction of federal computer crime laws, the establishment of a computer crime unit within the Australian Federal Police, and the first time computer data had been recorded and used as evidence in Australia.
Forming the spine of the story was also the development of the Internet in Australia. Here was an opportunity to show the role that computer hackers played in this and ironically how they were responsible for the creation of the computer security industry, something that wasn’t needed in the early open days of the Internet.
An interesting footnote, Julian Assange helped research Suelette Dreyfus’ book Underground.
