DJ Screw – Do You Remember Me? (2009)

Its a 4 CD DJ Screw Box Set.. need I say more?

The David Foster Wallace Archive

Big Time

Koons is famous for a public persona of relentlessly smiley, Amway-salesman unctuousness. But “Skin Fruit” makes clear to me that his deepest passion is anger, provoked by situations over which he has no control. The object of that anger, like the proverbial aim of standup comedians, is to “kill.”

Koons’s recourse to an air of collegiality and aesthetic assault is dictated by a distinct vulnerability in his position. His career and the plutocratic culture that it has adorned represent an epoch-making collusion of mega-collectors and leading artists, which has overridden the former gatekeeping roles of critics and curators and sidelined the traditional gallerists who work with artists on a long-term basis of mutual loyalty. With numbing regularity, newly hot artists have abandoned such nurture for gaudy, precarious deals with corporate-style dealers like Larry Gagosian, Pace-Wildenstein, and David Zwirner. In the boom era, buzz about the opportunistic exhibitions of such dealers and the latest sales figures from art fairs and auction houses were what passed for critical discourse. The situation mesmerized newcomers, by flashing promises of ascension to the starry feeding trough. Now that such promises can no longer be made, the posturing of “Skin Fruit”—roughly, noblesse oblige, laced with a left-libertarian raciness—cannot long deflect the mounting potency of class resentment. People are going to notice that the defensive elements, in this particular scrimmage of sensibilities, are members of the putatively vanguard aristocracy of wealth and social clout. The future of art, and the corresponding character of cultured society, seem bound to be determined by some smart, talented, as yet unidentified parties among the howling sansculottes...

thanks Chris

Waterboarding for dummies

The documents also lay out exactly what should occur in each two-hour waterboarding "session." Interrogators were instructed to start pouring water right after a detainee exhaled, to ensure he inhaled water, not air, in his next breath. They could use their hands to "dam the runoff" and prevent water from spilling out of a detainee's mouth. They were allowed six separate 40-second "applications" of liquid in each two-hour session – and could dump water over a detainee's nose and mouth for a total of 12 minutes a day. Finally, to keep detainees alive even if they inhaled their own vomit during a session – a not-uncommon side effect of waterboarding – the prisoners were kept on a liquid diet. The agency recommended Ensure Plus...

lots of nice old school music at Lonesome Lefty's Scratchy Attic including a lot of Canadian stuff...

7.

Something
you had once
is why there's
a past tense.

Anyone
can say please
that's been hurtin'
tell it to the second person.

Vicodin country
by funicular entry
Rancho Relaxo
by appointment to the gentry.

Vestigial barb
on a red branch
plausible to pollen
but otherwise not often.

Some days
the heat's off
& spring goes out
the open window.

Talismanic
ordinary chalices
huddled masses
take their chances.

Advancing thought
like they ought
the moon trails its coat
across their throat.

David Thomson on the (don't miss) British TV film trilogy RED RIDING

Call that a movie? you say, as if you believed in pictures with a beginning, a middle, and an end. But haven’t you noticed that no one has that trick or the heart to do it that way now? So many movie stories are humiliated by their tellers’ lack of faith, or by our carelessness—why watch if you can’t follow it? There is a struggle going on in the best filmmaking, and it has to do with this anxiety or suspicion: Do films cheat life any more persistently than by insisting on story? Suppose there are just the years passing and the burial ground of all our forlorn attempts at progress...

They have something of a love-hate relationship with their neighbors in Dumbo, appreciating the many services and stores now ensconced next door, but disturbed by increasing traffic, by the shadows of new condo towers and, it must be said, by unwelcome evidence that Dumboites are walking their dogs in Vinegar Hill...

NYT piece on lovely Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn where I once happily spent a week...

Vinegar Hill Historic District

Vancouver Report: The Remains of the Olympiad has a brief interview with Ken Lum, whose magnificent Monument for East Vancouver (above) was my recent visit's happiest surprise, appearing magically out of the sky while I was being driven back to the East End from downtown last Saturday...

Jackie Gleason Manipulating Space and Time

definitive 9 minute version of the greatest song ever!! Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Thrice)

check out this awesome video by handsome Vancouver synthpoppers "Christine", who I shared the stage with at the Candahar Bar on Saturday night! & thanks everyone for making it such a blast!

YouTube - Christine - Bad Doo Wop

Art on the Tracks

Yesterday, driving down Airport Way South, this little art parlor appeared in my peripheral vision. It's just sitting there, next to the train tracks, up against and on the I-5 retaining wall...

YouTube - Alice in Wonderland (1903)

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years...

Weaponizing Mozart

Britain might not make steel anymore, or cars, or pop music worth listening to, but, boy, are we world-beaters when it comes to tyranny. And now classical music, which was once taught to young people as a way of elevating their minds and tingling their souls, is being mined for its potential as a deterrent against bad behavior...

fine Basil Bunting birthday celebration over at ::: wood s lot :::

come on out & here me DJ tomorrow night!


The Candahar Bar

Flashes (february)    2:24    Hal Blaine
Steppin'    5:55    Lee Oskar
I'm Movin' On    2:28    Taste
Riot in Cell Block #9    2:29    Wanda Jackson
The Train Kept A-Rollin    2:17    Johnny Burnette
Click Clack    3:31    Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
One Two Brown Eyes    2:35    Van Morrison/ Them
Chick-A-Boom    3:46    Joe Bataan
Fabian - Turn Me Loose    2:27   
Jailbreak    4:06    Thin Lizzy
Have Not Been The Same   3:22    Slow
Beckton Dumps    3:16    Humble Pie
Cherry Red    5:46    The Groundhogs
Nite Flights    4:25    The Walker Brothers
Dreams    4:53    Buddy Miles
Ode To Billie Joe    4:16    Bobbie Gentry
Walk on gilded splinters   5:51    Johnny Jenkins
The Indian Summer of Benazir Bhutto 9:22    Muslimgauze
House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own   7:09    Terre Thaemlitz
Cowbells Shakin’    1:06    Walker, Scott
Tell Me When the Whistle Blows   4:21    Elton John
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice    3:14    Triste Janero
When You Walk In The Room    3:07    Jackie De Shannon
Sun Goddess     8:31    Ramsey Lewis
Funkentelchy    10:59    Parliament
Stoned Out Of My Mind    3:06    Chi-Lites
Angola Anthem    17: 32  Dr. John
&c &c.

visiting the Richard Prince Library

“Basically, my collection is about sex, drugs, Beats, hippies, punks.” Imagine a long, thoughtful pause here. “And great reads...”

link for two great out-of print albums by Jennifer Warnes including JENNIFER (Reprise 1972) which I found it in a junk store on Powell Street ca. 1980 (produced by John Cale scrawled on masking tape in felt-tip on its front cover)...contains definitive versions of songs by Free, Procol Harum, Jimmy Webb, The Brothers Gibb, Jackson Browne, John Cale (the song Empty Bottles was written for this) w/ an original by Warnes...

Our 'Olympic dessert' gets more attention

"The Nanaimo Bar is a popular treat that helped put us on the map," she said....