Film footage of the photo shoot for the record jacket of “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?” The film was released as a promo for the record.
The infamous photo was shot in 1966 by Jerry Schatzberg.
While the Kenneth Anger / Jimmy Page dustup has been reported ad nauseum, this clip is new to me.
Led Zeppelin guitarist and leader Jimmy Page has been fired as composer for the soundtrack of the film ‘Lucifer Rising’ by it’s director, Kenneth Anger. Speaking in London on Friday, Anger decried Page for time-wasting and a lack of dedication to the project, and claimed that Page’s personal problems had made him impossible to work with. Page has been working on the film for the past three years and has so far delivered some 28 minutes of completed tape. The story of the collaboration -and the ensuing rift- goes back to 1973 when Page first agreed to compose and perform the movie soundtrack. He and Anger first met at Sotheby’s, at an auction of boots by the English Occultist/Magician Aleister Crowley. Both Page and Anger are students of Crowley’s teachings. Anger is a practicing Magus (a priest/magician) and his films’of which ‘Scorpio Rising’ is perhaps the best known—- are replete with occult symbolism. Anger himself describes them as “Spells and Invocations”.
CNN (cannabis news network) for potheads, the Republic Of Rastafari’s Underground News Network and its master blaster newscaster Ek Balam (Black Jaguar) is the alternate surreality to Fox and MSNBC and probably just as reliable. Balam has uploaded close to 400 newscasts/manifestos to Youtube and his stream of consciousness raps are weirdly compelling. While toking on spliffs the size of a baby’s arm, Balam delivers disjointed (pun intended) mashups on the state of the modern world, the Mayan calendar, Hopi prophecies, conspiracy theories, Rastafarianism, Fortean pseudo-science, reggae, Islam, and a motherlode of other topics. In the thick haze of pot smoke, certain thoughts emerge with clarity while others flit around like stoned moths circulating the brushfire hanging from Balam’s lower lip. Edward R. Murrowjuana ina Babylon.
The out-of-synch audio adds to the overall strangeness of the experience.
The Black Jaguar on aliens from outerspace after the jump…
Strangely, despite the spectacle of under-18s cursing on camera, this lovely spot and campaign by political activist and nonprofit marketing consultant Luke “Sissyfag” Montgomery hasn’t made the outrage rounds on Fox after being posted 11 days ago.
Give it time, I guess. Meanwhile, Luke’s tactical approach here has come under a bit of discussion in some of the comments. But I’d think it’s immaterial since at this point it seems the play now is NOT to convert California voters since the issue of gay marriage is going to the Supreme Court, right?
Irish Elvis impersonator James “The King” Brown does a sultry version of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’. I was never a Nirvana fan, but I like this alot. Brown’s take on Nirvana was a hit in Europe back in 1999.
In 2001, Composer Ekkehard Ehlers
More beautiful befuddlement awaits you after the jump…
Punk hysteria on TV. Faux punkers Mayhem play ‘Choke’ on Quincy episode Next Stop, Nowhere.
This Quincy episode aired on December 1, 1982. Some actual albums that were released in 1982: Black Flag - ‘Damaged’ Bad Brains - ‘Bad Brains’ Flipper - ‘Generic’ Exploited - ‘Troops Of Tomorrow’ Fear - ‘The Record’ Husker Du - ‘Everything Falls Apart’ Crass - ‘Christ: The Album’ Minor Threat - ‘Minor Threat’ Replacements - ‘Stink’ Descendents - ‘Milo Goes To College’ Meat Puppets - Bad Religion - ‘How Could Hell Be Any Worse’ Social Distortion - ‘Mommy’s Little Monster’.” Reverend Dan
“I saw a blind man the other day / took his pencils and ran away”
I loved this cool photo of Punk/No Wave-era Los Angeles-based performance artist Johanna Went that Xeni posted at Boing Boing, a piece from Ann Summa’s photography show at the Track 16 gallery.
I met Johanna Went once at a party in Los Angeles about 15 years ago and was flabbergasted that the woman I’d seen do such weird, messy and downright inexplicable things on the New Wave Theater TV program when I was a kid was standing right in front of me. She was super sweet!
Below, a preview of Johanna Went’s Club Years DVD:
The Flaming Lips were absolutely stunning this past weekend at their Austin City Limits Show, at moments reaching cosmic heights. Along with ACL performances by Muse and Sonic Youth, the Lips reminded me that the best rock and roll is passionate, magic and mystical. A welcome antidote to the blah shoegazing mope rock of the past couple of decades.
The Flaming Lips’ lead singer Wayne Coyne made limited edition posters for the Austin City Limits show using some of his own blood.
The Flaming Lips performing ‘Do You Realize’ live after the jump…
