Mark Leckey “Fiorucci made me hardcore”

What a great art video… “Fiorucci made me hardcore” by Mark Leckey, as seen in the great Chicago MCA show, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, a show which includes some original full-scale versions Pedro Bell’s Funkadelic art, Raymond Pettibone’s Black Flag/SST art, rock art by assume vivid [...]

Magical Power Mako–Japanese psych rock/heavy/krautrock?

Man, this is great stuff, Magical Power Mako–krautrock, classic rock, psych rock, lots of guitar solos, whatever you want to call it, from the 1970s. Sort of like a Japanese Amon Duul?
Check out Magical Power Mako, on the Kosmik Radiation Radio show, showcasing some Julian Cope “Japrock Sampler” book -era music, rock from the [...]

Original Emo

Yah boy! O.E… original emo!
Before emo meant what it does now it was really just underground postpunk, not whiny teenage mall music–kind of a mix between Joy Division and Black Flag.
I’ll have to dig up Moss Icon’s Kick the Can, Divinity Cove, or Cricketty Rise…here’s “As Afterwards the Words Still” (an acoustic song but [...]

Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow - Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun - Fusion!

So I’m listening to the similar artists channel on last.fm for the awesome Japanese jazz guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It’s fun because I’m getting a lot of good jazz fusion music, including the awesome song “Diamond Dust” off of Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow. I’m going to have to get the whole album now…
Another [...]

Francis Lai

 
Francis Lai is one of my favorite musicians ever…up there with Arthur Verocai.  Funk, jazz, soul, soundtrack, library music.  Great background music for work or studying!  Sort of like Bill Conti, Brian Bennett, etc.
http://itscomingoutofyourspeaker.blogspot.com/2007/08/francis-lai-laventure-cest-laventure.html

Definition/Word-Use Only and Story Scrabble

I like to think of word definitions, words in context, roots and semantic meanings. It’s like how pro chess players, when faced with a board that’s not a real game/out of context, have no more meaningful of a response than a chess novice; when I look at a scrabble board, when I play scrabble [...]

Golden Compass

This movie, Golden Compass, rocks! I liked some fantasy growing up…actually didn’t like the Lord of the Rings movies–but this is quite a fantastic! A lot of fun, amazing sets and scenery, the plot and pacing and action are all very well done, I can’t wait for the sequels. Iorek Byrnison is like [...]

Captain Beefheart-Hot Head

Now this is awesome–I hope there are more Captain Beefheart videos with this picture and sound quality!

Legos!

Now you know what to get me for Christmas!  Look at that beautiful Lego Cafe Corner set!
Check out this guys awesome lego pictures!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/holgrove/
More crazy lego stuff:
http://www.mechahub.com/
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/home.php?union_id=LegoRus
http://okfuture.net/category/legos/
http://www.baronsat.net/
http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets

Amon Amarth

These guys sure love to shake their heads/hair around.  I wonder how it is on their necks–is this exercise, or do they have high chiropractor bills?  Maybe this is their gimmick instead of scary makeup–viking /black metal from Stockholm.