Ugh, once again religion and superstition used to justify psychotic violence in Africa. Sad, sad story about children being accused of witchcraft by Christian ministers, who extort their parents for money to perform exorcisms. If they can’t pay up, look what happens… And what makes it even worse is that often the parents buy into it and harm their own children or abandon them.
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First the Beatles, next up The Rolling Stones—or at least Exile On Main St. Saw this weekend that Universal Music is giving Exile the deluxe packaging and remastering treatment for release later this year. Well, I’m of mixed emotions not sure how I feel about this. I do love, love immeasurably, that album’s sprawling, bluesy murk—is Exile something that can profit, really, from being cleaned up any further than it was in ‘94? Or are there sounds in those tracks—sounds as buried as they are essential—whose magic another scrubbing might forever eradicate?
While I/we have a few months to ponder that one, here’s something delightfully raw, circa Exile: little-seen rehearsal footage of that album’s “Loving Cup.” Similar footage has been floating around on YouTube, but this is a recent addition, with a clapboard opening and (often) excellent sound quality.
Previously on Dangerous Minds: You Never Give Me Your Money: Metzger on the Beatles Remasters
A young boy who has superpowers and is immortal battles to free his parents from the limbo where they are doing penance for their sins. Insane Filipino movie from 1983. Also known as Stone Boy and Roco, Ang Batang Bato:
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Last month, the NYT Magazine cover-featured an article about Carl Jung‘s infamous Red Book, or, as the Times called it, The Holy Grail of the Unconscious:
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say ‘Liber Novus,’ which is Latin for ‘New Book.’ Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn?
Vodka brand 42 Below is the creative sponsor behind One Dream Rush, a Beijing-based film festival of incredibly short films. 42 filmmakers from around the world were given 42 seconds. The results from David Lynch, Dream #7, and Kenneth Anger, Death, follow below:
A Russian armoured-car builder is boasting that its latest vehicle has seats covered with ?
Crazy how far we’ve come since this news report aired 30 odd years ago.
(via HYST )
Tom Waits is making eight tracks from his new album, “Glitter and Doom Live,” available here. Anti- records says:
As a special thank you for visiting tomwaits.com, we?
“When you are the moon, the best form you can be is a full moon. And then the half moon… he’s all right. But the full moon is the famous moon. And then three-quarters, eh, no one gives a shit about him. When does he come, two days in, to the calendar month? He’s useless. Full moon. The moon. The main moon.” - The Moon
(via Nerdcore)
