Friday, April 15, 2011

Ten Stages of Drunkenness

1. Witty & Charming
2. Rich and Powerful
3. Benevolent
4. Clairvoyant
5. Fuck Dinner
6. Patriotic
7. Crank up the David Bowie
8. Witty & Charming, Part II
9. Invisible
10. Bulletproof

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Peaking Lights mixtape

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aswad – hey jah children
mandril – kofijam
gabor szabo – krishna
bridget st. john – yep
dick schory – typee
the firebirds – reflections
the chieftones – i wonder
cappy lewis – bull fight
donald austin – crazy legs
david axelrod – the leading citizen pt.1
asiko – drums of asiko
seguida – afro rican suite
supergrupo magia – magico
paris – i choose you
ronnie mcneir – summertime
mel + tim – that’s the way i want to live my life
delegation – oh honey
rose royce – sunrise
sylvester – i need somebody to love tonight
alexander robotnik – problems d’amour
beetlejuice – version
tanto + devonte – version
L. smart – version
negus roots players – lost sheep dub
willy williams – armigedon time
third world all stars – version
janet kay – loving you

Take this gin and juice...

All Tomorrow's Parties



All Tomorrow’s Parties is a 2009 documentary film directed by All Tomorrow’s People and Jonathan Caouette covering the history of the long running All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival. Described as a “post-punk DIY bricolage”, the film was created using footage generated by the fans and musicians attending the events themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone. All Tomorrow’s People is a name representing the contributions of these attendees.

The film features music and performance from Belle And Sebastian, Grizzly Bear, Sonic Youth, Battles, Portishead, Daniel Johnston, Grinderman, Lightning Bolt, David Cross, Animal Collective, The Boredoms, Les Savy Fav, Mogwai, Octopus Project, Slint, The Dirty Three, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Gossip, GZA, Roscoe Mitchell, Seasick Steve, Iggy and the Stooges, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Fuck Buttons, Micah P Hinson, Two Gallants, The Mars Volta, Akron/Family, Jah Shaka, Saul Williams, Shellac, Patti Smith and John Cooper Clark. […]

Reviews have been positive, with LA Weekly making it their Critics Pick and calling it “Part concert film, part rebel manifesto…[it] pleasurably embodies the interactive generosity of talents whose confluence it describes.” Drew McWeeney (Moriarty) of Hitfix.com wrote that it was “A cascade of sound and fury…the range of what this movie covers exhausts me…The highest compliment I can pay the film is that it made me want to attend the festival for real…not just your average concert film, [it's] in a class by itself…One of the singular film experiences i’ve had so far this year.”

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

We’ll brick your soul apart!

His Holy Visage

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!

1. This is it.
2. There are no hidden meanings.
3. You can’t get there from here, and besides there is no place to go.
4. We are already dying, and we’ll be dead a long time.
5. Nothing lasts!
6. There is no way of getting all you want.
7. You can’t have anything unless you let go of it.
8. You only get to keep what you give away.
9. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
10. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there’s no compensation for misfortune.
11. You have the responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
12. It’s a random universe to which we bring meaning.
13. You really don’t control anything.
14. You can’t make anyone love you.
15. No one is any stronger or any weaker than anyone else.
16. Everyone is, in his own way, vulnerable.
17. There are no great men.
18. If you have a hero, look again; you have diminished yourself in some way.
19. Everyone lies, cheats, pretends. (yes, you too, and most certainly myself.)
20. All evil is potentially vitality in need of transformation.
21. All of you is worth something if you will only own it.
22. Progress is an illusion.
23. Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems.
24. Yet it is necessary to keep struggling toward solution.
25. Childhood is a nightmare.
26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up.
27. Each of us is ultimately alone.
28. The most important things each man must do for himself.
29. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.
30. We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much, but that’s all there is.
31. How strange, that so often, it all seems worth it.
32. We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power, and partial knowledge.
33. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.
34. Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
35. No excuses will be accepted.
36. You can run, but you can’t hide.
37. It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
38. We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
39. The only victory lies is in surrender to oneself.
40. All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.
42. What do you know for sure…anyway?
43. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again.