Amusing clock by artist Chris Dimino:

Every hour Jack breaks through the door and the and the famous line ‘Here’s Johnny’ plays followed by the scream of Shelly Duvall.

(via Nerdcore )

 
I adore Meredith Monk. She has a voice like no one else. I finally got to see her live in a small recital hall in the Los Angeles Public Library six years ago. It was one of the strongest performances that I’d ever seen a single person give. She sang accompanying herself on piano or acapella. The highlight was when she did the magical Gotham Lullaby, which is probably her best known piece of music. (Bjork often performs it live; here at the Coachella Music Festival in 2002)

She also happens to stunningly beautiful, looking WAY younger than her 67 years.

Controversial director Peter Greenaway’s fantastic Meredith Monk documentary from his Four American Composers series, which also included Philip Glass, John Cage and Robert Ashley can be viewed on UbuWeb. It’s excellent. I most highly recommend it.

Below a clip from Monk’s 1988 film Book of Days. You can get a DVD at her website. There is also a new CD of her early work, including a phenomenal piece called Candy Bullets And Moon performed with Don Preston of the original Mothers of Invention out now called Meredith Monk: Beginnings
 

 
It’s Her Party: Four Decades of Meredith Monk: Underground music’s matriarch throws herself a live retrospective at the Whitney (Encore)

 
I was once in a sushi bar in Hollywood, a tiny little place on the Sunset Strip across from the Roxy Theater and at one point the topic topic of conversation turned to a particular Japanese delicacy, one rarely encountered, but served in this very same restaurant at certain times of the year, Fugu shirako or Blowfish semen sashimi. I was fairly blase about trying it, but the table consensus was “This stuff is super expensive. We’re on an expense account. They’ve got it. Let’s go for it” and so we did. I don’t remember that much more about it, but I do recall thinking it was pretty good at the time, I must say.

From the description of Natural Harvest on Lulu.com

Semen is not only nutritious, but it also has a wonderful texture and amazing cooking properties. Like fine wine and cheeses, the taste of semen is complex and dynamic. Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available in many, if not most, homes and restaurants. Despite all of these positive qualities, semen remains neglected as a food.

This book hopes to change that.

Once you overcome any initial hesitation, you will be surprised to learn how wonderful semen is in the kitchen. Semen is an exciting ingredient that can give every dish you make an interesting twist. If you are a passionate cook and are not afraid to experiment with new ingredients - you will love this cook book!

Some of the reviews are priceless. And did you hear about the chef in NYC who made cheese out of his wife’s breast milk?

Waste not, want not. Isn’t that what they said during the last Great Depression?

Thank you Paul Gallagher!

 
Yesterday when I was posting the Pulsallama video, not surprisingly, YouTube displayed several videos featuring Dangerous Minds pal, actress/singer Ann Magnuson and I played one of them (see below) and now I can’t get this song out of my head. Taken from the third studio album by Tindersticks, Curtains, this track Buried Bones is a duet between Ann and Tindersticks leader Stuart Staples. I think you’ll agree that it’s a memorable, moving, absolutely gorgeous piece of music. The lyrics remind me of just about every woman I’ve ever fallen for (but not all, thankfully). The fan made video, below, cut with scenes from Amelie works pretty well, I think.

I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the sole one of probably only two live performance of the duet, at the Mercury Lounge in New York City. Sublime! Afterwards, Ann and I went to a Moroccan-themed restaurant on 2nd Street with the entire band and the owner—someone Ann knew—insisted we try the house drink, which was delicious, but the insane hangover that resulted—there was tons of sugar in it—put both of us off alcohol, literally, for years.
 

Peter Christopherson is releasing the entirety of Coil’s studio and live output in a massive honking box set full of schwag, remix and karaoke versions, and fuzzy shit. (Sorry, that’s “fuzzy items.” I should be careful to be specific with language in this case.) The box contains:

1. an individually numbered disc (similar to those worn by dancers in go-go bars). Numbers in the Patron’s Edition (ie from #1 - 200) are in RED (as shown), numbers in the Official Pre-Order Edition are in BLUE (#201 - #however many are ordered in the next four weeks)...

2. Four hand-made cloth bags in the same (or similar) fabric Coil’s costumes were made from, each containing the dvds of concerts where those costumes were worn… FLUFFY, GLOWING, REFLECTIVE (mirrored) and SHROUDED…

3. The dvd collection itself, features 14 show dvds (of which the first two, being shorter and without extras, are very rare half-silvered dvds) plus a two dvd “COIL RECONSTRUCTION KIT” containing more than 4 hours of projection animations and processed footage PLUS the accompanying backing-tracks to all the songs in question, Karaoke-style (though without super-imposed lyrics). These are here released under a Creative Commons License, by which you are free to sample, re-loop and otherwise, “molest” or “interfere” with Coil’s music and animations to your hearts content (as long as its not for commercial gain)...

4. In addition the box contains a Collection of more than 100 postcards, 6” × 4” to fit the Patron’s Edition frame, in a velour bag. These pictures (almost all unseen till now) taken by Coil or our friends, are a very personal record of life on the road with Coil… Fortunately there is not a guitar to be seen, though there may be one picture of a a tour bus!

If there are any pictures of groupies, they may well be in uniform, carrying Kalashnikovs…

5. Lastly Colour Sound Oblivion also contains a couple of small printed pamphlets or booklets - One containing Sleazy’s thoughts, anecdotes, reflections on the being part of Coil Live, and thanks to everyone he can remember - The other a facsimile of the Order of Service of Geff’s (Jhonn Balance’s) Funeral, which took place a month pretty much to the day, after the last show in this Collection… This latter will only be included in the Patron’s and Pre-Order Editions.

This looks to be the definitive record of the band, similar to the “TG24” box set for Throbbing Gristle. Some of the most beautiful and damaged music ever recorded, enough to fuck your mind for good.

(Threshhold House: Colour Sound Oblivion)

Below: Coil on Hello Culture!

Somebody re-created the entire Wicker Man movie with the muppets, and made a flip-comic out of it. It’s about 500% better than the Nicholas Cage remake, I’ll give them that!

(Via Swen’s Weblog)

(The Wicker Man)

 
Delightful! How to torture a polar bear while wearing a polar bear hat. Why didn’t I think of this?
 
(via HYST)

 
Here’s a frightening photo blog dedicated to those creepy mall Easter bunnies.
 
Easter Bunnies Will Steal Your Soul
 
(via Yay! Everyday)

 
Xenorita Jardin of Boing Boing shares the musical spoils of her visit to Amoeba Records in Hollywood, probably the best record store I’ve ever been to. Believe me when I tell you, ‘cos I’ve shopped for records all over the world. Amoeba is a record collector’s heaven. I have spent many an afternoon (and paycheck!) there. (Dig the Alan Lomax in Haiti box set! Holy shit! First I’m hearing of this. Looks amazing.)

 
OK, so it wasn’t Adam Gadahn that they caught. Whatev. But within the brief ripple of time that “Azzam the American” was on the radar again (oooo be scared, kids) my wise old pal Ron Nachmann pointed me in the direction of this article from last year pointing out that Gadahn’s father is none other than Phil Pearlman, psych-folk private press LP maker extraordinaire under such guises as “The Beat of The Earth”, “The Electronic Hole” and the delightfully monikered “Relatively Clean Rivers”. Since most of the links to the music in the original article are now dead I have tracked down a bunch of samples of said music to peruse for the sake of the edutainment of us all. Really nice stuff, truth be told.