Here’s a fun space helmet collage. Now, can you name all the famous faces? 
 
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

 
A funny and clever student film from 1978, heavily influenced by Firesign Theater, about a paranoiac’s dream device which might actually be useful, if not extremely amusing to wear. This is somehow related to the Orchid Spangiafora LP (but I’m not quite sure how, exactly) which features in the 2nd installment of the Dangerous Minds Radio Hour, coming soon to an internet near you.

Wherever you go, there you are. Wherever you are, there you go… Follow yourself to unknown destinations. Chase after yourself on a mysterious voyage of self-discovery…

 
Anthony Bourdain and Nick Tosches discuss Nick’s book The Last Opium Den. Nick is one of my favorite writers, a dude who walks it like he talks it.

Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand to Cambodia, he hunts the Big Smoke…

This clip reminds me a bit of Richard’s wonderful interview with Mick Farren about speed, with some Guinness thrown in.
 

 
Bad acting (one of the puppets sounds Jerry Lewis), lousy jokes, a macrame space ship, cheesy special effects, what’s not to like? Join Moonshine, Lester and Solar on their exciting travels through incredibly bad stock footage.

 
Sorry for the further self-promo but I’m so stoked about this new remix by the wonderful Baths that I had to post it here too.

​For the uninitiated, it’s time to get right with L.A. music.

Brad Laner first rose to local and national prominence in the first half of the ‘90s with his group Medicine.

Those dream-pop beginnings led to countless hours of home tape experimentation that stretched into the aughts and through countless projects: Steaming Coils, Lusk, Savage Republic, Electric Company, the Internal Tulips, Amnesia.

The dude’s kept busy, which is why it’s a surprise that on August 24 he releases what’s only his second official solo album, Natural Selections, on the estimable Hometapes label.

It’s also a surprise that he hasn’t crossed paths with the extended L.A. beat scene family (Dublab, Alpha Pup, Low End Theory) yet. Until now, that is, as Chatsworth home-recorder Baths has given Laner’s already glitchy rock collage “Crawl Back In” the remix treatment.

And the video for the original tune:

Brad Laner - Crawl Back In from Josh Laner on Vimeo.

 
Beat Star Baths Remixes L.A. Underground Legend Brad Laner (L.A. Weekly)

 
I dunno, maybe I’m just a sucker for anything recorded in mid 70’s Germany with synthesizers and a disco beat. The name Mr. Walkie-Talkie doesn’t hurt, either ! The mind boggles…

 
The new Grinderman single, Heathen Child. Directed by John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition). This is excellent!

 
Stupidest? Meanest? Grumpiest? Racist? Jingoistic? Xenophobic? Most ignorant of history? Most likely to be married to a cousin?

Close, but the answer won’t come as a huge surprise: Oldest. From The Hollywood Reporter:

In a survey released by analyst Steve Sternberg, Fox News has the oldest audience among fully distributed cable networks. The network’s average viewer last season was 65 years old, according to Nielsen. Heck, it’s viewers are even older than viewers of Hallmark Channel, Military Channel and Golf Channel.

Perhaps the reason viewers tend to leave Fox News on all day racking up hours of big Nielsen numbers is they can’t actually change the channel?

 
Unfuckingbelievable live videos of Vanilla Fudge. Mark Stein, Tom Bogert, Vince Martel and Carmen Appice - heavy metal thunder.

Music critics hated them, but time has proved them wrong. This shit rocks!

Turn up the volume.