“Madwoman of the Sacred Heart.” Graphic novel by by Moebius and Jodorowsky.

On the heels of sharing The Holy Mountain with DM readers, I thought an Alejandro Jodorowsky documentary might be timely and this is a good one.

In 1994 French film maker Louis Mouchet interviewed Jodorowsky and a bunch of his friends and collaborators, including director Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Marcel Marcea and artist Moebius.

Jodorowsky is witty and wise as he discusses his masterpieces El Topo and The Holy Mountain, his failed Dune project, the Tarot, his role as a teacher and reluctant new age guru. He’s kind of like Freud on psychotropics.

I hope you enjoy this fascinating look into the mind of a modern magician and trickster who is constantly evolving and adapting to new technologies and formulating new philosophies. 

“As soon as I define myself I’m dead.” ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Alejandro Jodorowsky- Constellation 1/4 by zindabad7
 
Parts two, three and four here.

 
As a filmmaker who’s shot documentaries on both Lil’ Wayne and Lee “Scratch” Perry, Adam Bhala Lough thought it a good idea to cross wires a bit and let the eccentric 76-year-old dub master bestow a bit of mellow wisdom upon the drank-sippin’ 30-year-old rap supastar.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Rubber Dubber: Lee “Scratch” Perry action figure
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Classic dub album Blackboard Jungle
Surreal Lee “Scratch” Perry beer commercials

 
Happy birthday Eric Burdon, 71 years old today (May 11).

I vividly remember the day I heard The Animals’ “The House Of The Rising’ for the first time. It was one of those life-changing moments, of which rock n’ roll has figured into many. The song came on the radio and practically lunged at me. It WAS an animal - a ferocious beast with glinting eyes and blood on its fangs. It gobbled up everything in its path as it clawed its way into my brain and fucked with my head forever. The year was 1964 - the year The Beatles released their teenybop ditty “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” In contrast to the Fab Four’s mop-topped innocence, The Animals mournful dirge seemed to have originated in a universe where the heads of Beatles and Monkees and Beach Boys were held aloft on gore-drenched spears as flames licked around the cloven feet of Eric Burdon and Mick Jagger. Yes, Jagger! For in that same year, The Rolling Stones too unleashed a beast into my suburban rec room - “Not Fade Away” - a record I played until I was abandoned by friends and family and left to my own dark devices. This was the dawning of my nefarious age.

Here are some performances that appeared on Canadian TV in 1968 featuring Eric Burden and The (New) Animals. This was Burden in his psychedelic period and The Animals were Danny McCulloch, John Weider, Barry Jenkins and Vic Briggs. I saw this version of the Animals at the Fillmore West in 1968. They were using the lightshow effects and film footage you see in the following video. It was the most dramatic use of film in tandem with music I had seen at a live show. My 17-year-old mind was blown.
 

 
Bo Diddley + moped =  Boped.

 
Sam Dunn’s Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey is a fanboy’s/girl’s dream come true.

An inside look at the Rodney Dangerfield of music, metal finally gets some respect in Dunn’s throughly entertaining and well-researched 2005 documentary.  

In addition to being a hardcore metal head, Dunn has a degree in anthropology, so he not only brings a fan’s enthusiasm to the mix, he brings a scholar’s insight to a genre of rock that is often shunted-off as being music for dummies. Dunn sees more in the metal than just heavy thunder as he explores the social, sexual and religious aspects of the music’s culture. And as serious as that sounds, the movie manages to be smart without being plodding or pretentious.              

Featuring interviews with Alice Cooper, Bruce Dickinson, Ronnie James Dio, Lemmy Kilmister, Dee Snider, Tom Araya, Pamela Des Barres, Donna Gaines, Chuck Klosterman, John Kay, Geddy Lee, Vince Neil, Rob Zombie.

This is some good shit!

 
Einstürzende Neubauten front-man Blixa Bargeld demonstrating his recipe for an ink-black calamari risotto.

About midway through, the conversation turns to memory and the sensual pleasures of cooking.

And look, not a single broken dish!
 

 
Via Nicole Panter

 
Screw Cornhole (god I love saying that word) and play some Vinyl Throw instead.

You couldn’t do this with MP3s now could you?
 

 
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Happy Birthday Lee Brilleaux, the unforgettable lead singer of R&B band Dr Feelgood.

Born sixty years ago today, Brilleaux was raised in Canvey Island the hard-living, oil refinery community on the Thames Estuary. It was a perfect backdrop for Brilleaux to develop his taste for working class R&B, and in 1971, he co-founded Dr. Feelgood with guitarist and song-writer, Wilko Johnson. Together they became the twin poles to one of Britain’s most dynamic R&B bands.

DM’s Marc Campbell notes that last month a CD boxset All Through The City was released, and is a definite must-have for all Feelgood fans.

Meantime, here to remember Lee Brilleaux and Dr Feelgood is “15 minutes of magic in 4 songs” taken from the film Going Back Home from 1975.
 

 
Bonus clip of Dr. Feelgood on ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’, after the jump…
 

 
This sloppy, yet powerful set from The Jimi Hendrix Experience was recorded live at the Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden on January 9th, 1969.

Killing Floor
Spanish Castle Magic
Magic Fire
Hey Joe
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Red House
Sunshine of Your Love

Hendrix dedicates the performance to the American military deserters.
 

 
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard this one. I stumbled upon it quite by accident while meandering through the musical maze of YouTube.

“Fallin’” is a perfect collaboration between three groups separated by multiple miles of geographic space but inhabiting the same lysergically-tinged musical universe.

Tom Petty provides the sample and Teenage Fanclub provide the jangly guitar and background vocals as De La Soul spin 70s pop culture references into the weave of this ditty from the sound track of 1993 action film Judgment Night.

...remember when I used to be dope, (yeah!)
I owned a pocket full of fame
(But look what you’re doing now), Well I know, I know
I lost touch with reality, now my personality
Is an unwanted commodity (believe it)
Can’t believe I used to be Mr Steve Austin on the mic
(Six million ways) I used to run it
I guess Oscar Goldman got mad
Cause I got loose circuits (so loose, so loose)
I be the mother goose with the eggs that seemed to be
Fallin’...