PART 1
PART 2
LA CABINA
Just been made aware of this brilliant short Spanish TV horror movie from the 70's called LA CABINA from LOOK AT THIS. The film is in Spanish with no subtitles, but you dont need them.
RICHARD DAWKINS + CHARLES DARWIN = I GET HAPPY
PART 1
PARTS 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Starting next week Channel 4 will be showing 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' where Richard Dawkins will present the ultimate guide to Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection, which means their should be no excuss for people to still believe in God and Religion anymore. In the mean time here is a talk by the great RICHARD DAWKINS for Channel 4 which I guess has some link to the new programme.
PARTS 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Starting next week Channel 4 will be showing 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' where Richard Dawkins will present the ultimate guide to Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection, which means their should be no excuss for people to still believe in God and Religion anymore. In the mean time here is a talk by the great RICHARD DAWKINS for Channel 4 which I guess has some link to the new programme.
MIKE TYSON'S ABANDONED MANSION
Supposedly their is an abandoned mansion somewhere in Ohio where Iron Mike once lived, and you can go there and walk around and take photos and stuff.
MIKE TYSON'S ABANDONED MANSION
FRISKY DOG
I love watching clips of weird European hidden camera shows with odd sound effects, why cant TV in England sometimes be more like this instead the endless celebrity chef crap we get, I could watch this all day.
UK VS US NATURE PROGRAMMES
UK
US
An interesting post on THE RANGER'S BLOG which shows something that I have always known, that Americans are quite simple and need their nature programmes to be designed for idiots, where as in Britain we actually make informative nature programmes based on science and presented by one of the most beautiful men on this planet, SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. Here are 2 clips, one from a US National Geographic programme and the other a David Attenborough/BBC programme, both explaining roughly the same story but presented completely differently.
US
An interesting post on THE RANGER'S BLOG which shows something that I have always known, that Americans are quite simple and need their nature programmes to be designed for idiots, where as in Britain we actually make informative nature programmes based on science and presented by one of the most beautiful men on this planet, SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. Here are 2 clips, one from a US National Geographic programme and the other a David Attenborough/BBC programme, both explaining roughly the same story but presented completely differently.
SIMON DAY
SIMON DAY is so underrated, everyone rightly goes on about how brilliant Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse are for creating The Fast Show, but alot of my favourite characters are Simon Day's, aswell as the videos above I've uploaded a great episode of DOWN THE LINE, the fake phone-in radio show on Radio 4 in which Simon Day plays reformed criminal Tony Beckton, genius!
DOWN THE LINE SERIES 01 EPISODE 04 - DOWNLOAD
THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
PAUL McCARTNEY - 1984
PARTS 1 / 2
WOODY ALLEN - 1994
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
J.G. BALLARD - 2006
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3
THE SMITHS - 1987
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
STEVE COOGAN - 2001
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
TIM BURTON - 2008
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
JARVIS COCKER - 2007
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
MANGA MANIA - 2006
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
PETER GABRIEL - 1982
PARTS 1 / 2
NICK CAVE - 2003
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
THE MAKING OF SGT PEPPERS - 1992
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
STEVE REICH - 2006
PARTS 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Apart from The Champions League and You've Been Framed, THE SOUTH BANK SHOW is the only thing on ITV that isn't a pile of crap, here are some episodes of The South Bank Show on YouTube that are worth watching, hopefully more will be put up soon.
PETER SCHMEICHEL
From 1991 to 1994 I wanted to be Peter Scmeichel, I only wore goalkeeper tops (my favourite was the Denmark Euro 92 Final top above), and I desperately wanted his special Reusch gloves but they were about £80 and they didnt do them for 10 year old kids. I remember I entered a competion in Match or Shoot to spend a day with Peter Schmeichel, I had the whole day planned out (I think my plan was just to knock on all my friends houses and show him off, but I doubt I would have been allowed) but I didnt win, and that was the biggest disapointment in my life.
ENDLESS EUROPE
Over at THE RED ROOM, they have just made a really good mixtape (more like a compilation) full of great stuff from the likes of Klaus Schulze, La Dusseldorf, Popol Vuh, Jean-Michel Jarre and of course Kraftwerk. Get it HERE
BLACK PANTHER COLORING BOOK
In the 60's the FBI were growing increasingly concerned with the Black Panthers and certain campaigns that they were involved in including their "Breakfast for Children" program, which the FBI felt may potentially be successful in teaching children to hate police and to spread anti-white propaganda. In response the FBI decided to spread their own anti-white propaganda as a pre-emptive strike and produced a fake 24 page Black Panther Coloring Book for children that was made to look like it had been created by the Black Panthers themselves.
BLACK PANTHER COLORING BOOK
COCADISCO THIS FRIDAY
It's the summer, the weather's hot, people are feeling sexy so come to Cocadisco this Friday at Visions Video Bar in Dalston where me and Pete (GEMINI) will be DJing, get there early it'll be fully of sexy people dancing to sexy music, probably abit like this scene in the film SUMMER LOVERS.
PUSHA T IS ANDERSON
Ever noticed how you never see Clipse rapper Pusha T and Manchester United's Anderson in the same room at the same time? All is revealed in the new video for "Fast Life" below...
IT CANNOT GET WORSE
Hey Middle England! Well done! Congrats for winning the crappiest demographic in the world award. You've succeeded in inspiring the most abhorrent advert the world ever seen. To appeal to your cringingly lame-ass tastes, DFS chose the vilest song in recent memory, assembled a cast of cunts, and got them to perform some vomit-inducing choreography. I've had to stop watching TV in fear of glimpsing a second of this audio-visual excrement.
EINE KLEINE TONITE MUSIC
Fergadelic has allowed his buddy Riton to go through his extensive record collection and make an exclusively German label only mix tape called Eine Kleine Tonite Music, I had to actually set up and use iTunes store for the first time ever to listen to it, you can get it HERE. It's got Holger Czukay's Persian Love on it followed by the Tangerine Dream song from Risky Business which means it's gonna be great.
TRACKLIST
Eroc- Zimperlein
Edgar Froese- Pinnacles
Intence- Jump On Velvet Paws
Kraftwerk- Boing Boom Tschak
Kraftwerk- Neonlicht
Tone Band- This Is Germany Calling
Toy Planet- Two Dophins Go Dancing
Faust- It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
Guru Guru- Globetrotter
Conrad Schnitzler- Das Teir
Peter Bauman- The Third State
Cluster- Caramel
Cluster- Grosses Vasses
Holger Czukay- On The Way To The Peak Of Normal
Die Grune Reise- Ich Bin
Baffo Banfi- Indian
Rheingold- Drieklangsdimensionen
Canaxis 5 -Boat Woman Song
Amon Duul II- Burning Sister
Uberfallig- Puls
Neu- Hallogallo
Eloy- Impressions
Holger Czukay- Persian Love
Tangerine Dream- Love On a Real Train
Segius Golowin- Die Weibe Aim
END OF THE TRAIL
I got my END OF THE TRAIL pin in the post today, and my friend Andy wanted one too so I've just bought him one, here are a couple of great SURF'S UP era footage.
MUTANT SOUNDS
MUTANT SOUNDS is a great music blog with far too much music to download, and I havent heard of the majority of it which is always great especially when you have really enthusiastic write ups of each album. I'm gonna be spending alot of time on here. There wasn't a specific album I thought of putting up so instead I've put up some brilliant Ariel Pink artwork that I've never seen before that is also available from Mutant Sounds.
THE REST OF FISHING WITH JOHN
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
I posted episode 1 of FISHING WITH JOHN a couple months ago, now someone on YouTube has uploaded ALL 6 EPISODES, above I've put up my favourite episode where John Lurie goes ice fishing with Willem Defore (I just found out he was born William, Willem is just a nickname!), but things dont go so well. Why aren't their more programmes like this anymore, supposedly RICHARD HALL (who Moe Sizlack was based on) had a similar show on BBC4. Also, I bet you're thinking, the title music to Fishing With John is so incredibly awesome I wish I could get a copy of the soundtrack, well here it is for you to listen to forever and ever.
S/T-FISHING WITH JOHN
PART 2
PART 3
I posted episode 1 of FISHING WITH JOHN a couple months ago, now someone on YouTube has uploaded ALL 6 EPISODES, above I've put up my favourite episode where John Lurie goes ice fishing with Willem Defore (I just found out he was born William, Willem is just a nickname!), but things dont go so well. Why aren't their more programmes like this anymore, supposedly RICHARD HALL (who Moe Sizlack was based on) had a similar show on BBC4. Also, I bet you're thinking, the title music to Fishing With John is so incredibly awesome I wish I could get a copy of the soundtrack, well here it is for you to listen to forever and ever.
S/T-FISHING WITH JOHN
SOUNDTRACKS TO WILLIAM FRIEDKIN FILMS
S/T-SCORCERER - DOWNLOAD
S/T-CRUISING - DOWNLOAD
S/T-TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. - DOWNLOAD
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN makes awesome films, especially cop films, and pretty much all his films have great, really diverse soundtracks so I thought I'd upload some for you to enjoy. Tangerine Dream's eerie electronic score for SCORCERER, the P-Funk, Germs and Mink DeVille filled soundtrack to CRUISING and Wang Chungs very 80's synth pop soundtrack to TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (which also has the most disturbing and unnecessary sex scene in a film ever, when you see the silhouette of William Petersen's penis as he lifts the girl from the bed). I'm not gonna bother with The Exorcist because everyone has Tubular Bells don't they.
WENDY CARLOS
I love WENDY CARLOS, she's great, she did the music for the soundtracks to A Clockwork Orange, Tron, The Shining as well as aload of great synth interpretations of classical music, but I only just realised that she was also Walter Carlos and had a sex change during the 70's, I've got a few songs by Walter Carlos and just assumed it was a coincidence that he had a similar name and their music was pretty much the same, I guess I'm just stupid, anyway Wendy Carlos gave an interview to Playboy not long after her sex reassignment surgery talking about it which you can read HERE,
I've uploaded the main theme form The Shining which I think is the scariest piece of music ever.
WENDY CARLOS & RACHEL ELKIND - MAIN TITLE "THE SHINING"
SPATZ / MIKE & ANGELO
SPATZ
MIKE & ANGELO
I was never a big fan of CITV as a kid, apart from maybe FUN HOUSE, ART ATTACK, KNIGHTMARE, WOOF!, COUNT DUCKULA and T. BAG it was just filled with American rubbish unlike CBBC. The 2 shows that made me hate CITV the most were Mike & Angelo and Spatz, they were both made during the early 90's and I guess because kids love all things American, the people who made these 2 English shows decided to try and fool us by making it look and feel like a 'cool' American kids shows by setting it in places like fast food shops, adding canned laughter, having Americans in it and most annoying of all having a really cheese American style intro with each character smiling at the camera with their names below, pure evil!
MIKE & ANGELO
I was never a big fan of CITV as a kid, apart from maybe FUN HOUSE, ART ATTACK, KNIGHTMARE, WOOF!, COUNT DUCKULA and T. BAG it was just filled with American rubbish unlike CBBC. The 2 shows that made me hate CITV the most were Mike & Angelo and Spatz, they were both made during the early 90's and I guess because kids love all things American, the people who made these 2 English shows decided to try and fool us by making it look and feel like a 'cool' American kids shows by setting it in places like fast food shops, adding canned laughter, having Americans in it and most annoying of all having a really cheese American style intro with each character smiling at the camera with their names below, pure evil!
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU IS ALOT BETTER THAN THE DAILY SHOW
PART 1
PARTS 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Political comedy shows are hard to do, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JOHN STEWART isn't funny, im sorry, ive tried liking it, but it just isn't funny, in fact it's a pile of shit, the only reason people say its funny is because they probably read so in The Guardian. Everytime I've watched it all I get is John Stewart starring at the camera pulling funny faces while not saying anything, I guess the main problem is that you cant make a 30 minute show every day about politics and actually make it funny and informative, maybe Americans like it because everthing else they make is for idiots. HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU on the other hand is brilliant, it's basically a weekly TV round-up of PRIVATE EYE that has been going on for the past 18 years without ever being crap, the other week BRIAN BLESSED hosted the show and it was one of the best episodes in a long time and some nice person has uploaded it onto YouTube.
PARTS 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Political comedy shows are hard to do, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JOHN STEWART isn't funny, im sorry, ive tried liking it, but it just isn't funny, in fact it's a pile of shit, the only reason people say its funny is because they probably read so in The Guardian. Everytime I've watched it all I get is John Stewart starring at the camera pulling funny faces while not saying anything, I guess the main problem is that you cant make a 30 minute show every day about politics and actually make it funny and informative, maybe Americans like it because everthing else they make is for idiots. HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU on the other hand is brilliant, it's basically a weekly TV round-up of PRIVATE EYE that has been going on for the past 18 years without ever being crap, the other week BRIAN BLESSED hosted the show and it was one of the best episodes in a long time and some nice person has uploaded it onto YouTube.
ITALO DISCO HEAVEN
THIS website is incredible, it has 1000's of Italo Disco/Hi-NRG songs for you to listen AND download, the quality isn't great, but you cant really complain, it has everyone, The Flirts, Ken Lazlo, Grant Miller, Koto, Lime, Den Harrow, Gazebo, Kano, Bobby O, Scotch, Fancy and Fun Fun as well as lots and lots of stuff I've never even heard, you could spend days listening to this. It is just a section of probably the best website on Italo Disco, with loads of record covers, lyrics, interviews, clips and photos (like THIS).
ALEN'S ITALO DISCO UNIVERSE
CULT HEROES RADIO
Pete played me these great mixes a few years ago and I completely forgot about them until now. Their are 10 mixes so far and they are mainly Italo Disco stuff but also abit of Hi-NRG, New Wave and Electro.
CULT HEROES RADIO
NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET
PART 1 / 2 / 3
Classic TWILIGHT ZONE episode, NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET from 1963 starring William Shatner and a plane munching gremlin.
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE
When our friend LELE SAVERI isnt hanging out in coffee shops drinking expressos and chatting to hot chicks he's busy taking photographs and organising a collective called I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE featuring aload of great photographers including our buddies JAMES PEARSON-HOWES, BEN RAYNER and JONNIE CRAIG. Tonight is the opening night for their first show at DREAM BAGS JAGUAR SHOES, so if you're around east London pop in and have some free booze and look at some lovely photos, but if you cant make it tonight dont worry, the show will be up for a few weeks.
CELINE DION - MIRACLE
A few years ago I was in W H Smiths and I saw a Celine Dion book called Miracle, its a collection of photos of Celine holding babies, and babies made to look like flowers, it's disgusting.
MIHIR BOSE IS A STUPID IDIOT
MIHIR BOSE if you dont know is the BBC sports editor who regularly writes the most boring, pointless and factually incorrect articles that can be found on the net about football, he also has the most annoying smug little face on his blog. I often comment on how crap he is on his blog but my comments are always removed, I know I'm not the only person who finds this man really annoying as the majority of the comments left on his articles are about how pointless he is, yet he still comes out with the same shit. Today he told us the ground breaking news that Uefa have extended the number of teams entering Euro '12 from 16 to 24 and that he has personally been told by Uefa that their is no plan B incase the host arent ready in time, he also talks about MICHAEL Platini (not Michel). Please feel free to visit his blog and tell him how crap he is.
IN COLD BLOOD
The electricity cut out in the small Nigerian town of Ikorodu so Mrs Afolabi sent her son Afolabi to the local shop to buy a candle. On his way home the six-year-old boy disappeared. His worried parents quickly raised the alarm. After a massive local manhunt the boy was discovered in their neighbour's freezer. Blood oozing from his nose had frozen solid. It is widely assumed that the boy was killed in some black magic ritual. Fucked. Up. Shit.
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