totally wired

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia

Sandie Shaw - Unknown Reggae Song

Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving

Todd Rundgren

Shampoo Montage

one of the best films about california, ambition, and circumstance. my favorite warren beatty film and along with Being There my favorite Hal Ashby production. in the film warren beatty sleeps with a wife her husband's mistress and the wife's daughter. in real life he was sleeping with the mistress (julie christie) and the woman playing his fiaance in the film (goldie hawn). this is the fleetwood mac of american cinema. later after Being There hal ashby kind of lost it on drugs, perfectionism etc according to wikipedia: "Entering into a drug-induced spiral after Being There (his last film to achieve widespread attention), Ashby became notoriously reclusive and eccentric, retreating to his spartan beachfront abode in Malibu, where he smoked prodigious amounts of marijuana and frequently refused to eat in the presence of other people.
The productions of Second-Hand Hearts and Lookin' to Get Out − a Las Vegas caper film that reunited him with Voight and featured Voight's young daughter, Angelina Jolie − were plagued by the director's increasingly erratic behavior, such as pacifying former girlfriends by hiring them to edit Lookin' To Get Out. Studio executives grew less tolerant of his increasingly perfectionist editing techniques, exemplified by his laboring over a montage set to the Police's "Message in a Bottle" for nearly six months. Initially set to helm Tootsie after two years of laborious negotiations, reports of these bizarre tendencies resulted in his dismissal shortly before production commenced."

also:

'In the opinion of actor Bruce Dern, "What happened to Hal Ashby, both what he did to himself and what they did to him, was as repulsive as anything I've seen in my forty years of the industry".'

she lets me know

the little murders 3rd single she lets me know. the beautiful julie christie graces the video

Trailer: Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963)

this is one of my favorite movies and it features one of my absolute favorite actresses julie christie. based on james thurber's secret life of walter mitty. for anyone who has ever worked as a clerk and dreamed of moving to nyc or los angeles or london or paris. this film was actually filmed in cinemascope which i got to see a screening of in 1998/99 via the philly film forum. right before it i got in a raging argument with my soon to be ex girlfriend which added a certain context to the viewing. right before they also screened a cinemascope section of oklahoma! which was quite impressive.

Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free 1976

T.Rex Ride A White Swan Marc Bolan

showbiz version

What do you think of Jasper Johns?

sandwiches make the world go round

What do you think of Jasper Johns?

sandwiches make the world go round

Stone Roses - Waterfall - live on OSM

there is another edit of this clip that has tony wilson talking about how he wasnt convinced about the stone roses until ringo starr suggested he check out there new single. hence the introduction reading "the excellent stone roses" this edit has better sound. clem thinks the la's are better because they only made one record and werent compromised by club culture. in my book the la's run at most 3rd with the rose's second and the mondays on top. the stone roses could probably play the best but the mondays took a bag of influences swallowed them whole and completly made their own thing. the la's have too obvious of the velet underground via frankie valli vibe. which is fine i adore both those bands. but the mondays took sly and the family stone, the fall, the beatles, dancehall, whatever and made it cool. a harder bit i say. the stone roses fall similar to the la's too arch, too coifed. but they could really play and really if you only base it on one record. (their comeback ten years later was mostly abysmal) you could say with a straight face they made one of the greatest debut records ever. on par with the pistols and the velvet underground. the la's more on par with galaxie 500. good just not groundbreaking.

Tony Wilson Interview In Hulme, Manchester

it iseems like a nonstop deathwatch around ice station zebra lately. filmmakers, artists, journalists (tom snyder and now tony wilson)
rest in peace

Durutti Column - Sketch for Dawn

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol 01-2 (1966)

excerpt from jonas menkas film

Happy Mondays - Performance - OSM live

i posted this already on the willow house blog but i wanted to put it here too. problably right after the smiths broke up, but more from about late 1988 until 1990 the happy mondays were the greatest band in the world.

Happy Mondays - Brighton Pier- = In the Blood - Jellybean 07

Bez's Madchester Anthems - Non TV version

in the midst of my fever and cold the other day my friend will sent me the new happy mondays record. i think it is pretty good. i would prefer some more guitars but the only original members left are shaun bez and the drummer so you get what you get. will and i also broke each other up playing this bez clip over and ober. will even went and got a copy of the madchester anthems. "call the fookin cops!!"

this is from the film and record cowboy in sweden. i love this record.

blues control live at big jar books pt 4/5

the other day marked the anniversary of hiroshima and also lee hazelwood died. this past sunday i tried to go see the improv punk band called violent students. my friend max leads them, but i was late and only could hear from the street the crashing conclusion. i partyed afterwards real late at max's and got to hang deep with russ and lea who make up blues control. sometime that morning i awoke with a terrible cold. it has been two days on the couch and films ranging from sly stallone's remake of get carter to brian de palma's the black dahlia. i feel slightly recovered. i dont recommend that you watch the sly version of get carter. this clip is of a show i saw in philadelphia. rumor has it they will play again in philly on a boat late sept.

Jello Biafra/Dead Kennedys Interview

all you need is love

i tried to post this earlier but it didnt work so below is a link watch it that way. not only is all you need is love an uplifting anthem it was part of the first live global television broadcast. the ad industry can stuff it. david hinckley gets it right below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxTpsIVzzo

David Hinckley
Disposable income
Diaper ad uses Beatles' tune
Wednesday, August 1st 2007, 4:00 AM

A rash of diaper ads plays off the Fab Four's 'All You Need Is Love.'


I don't know how to put an exact value on the Beatles' 1967 song "All You Need Is Love."
I do know it's more than whatever Procter & Gamble paid to use it in an ad for Luvs diapers.
I also know popular songs have been rented by Madison Avenue for years because they can draw attention to a product.
And I know protesting against this practice is about as effective as protesting against the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. But using this song to sell diapers is, at best, annoying. More to the point, it's sad.
The commercial doesn't insult "All You Need Is Love" as much as it says the song didn't really matter, that it had no significance or context beyond creating a catchy tune that could be plucked from our collective memory and cashed in.
Yes, I understand how this game works, that leasing a song for an ad requires no effort beyond endorsing the check. It's as close as the music biz comes to money for nothing.
When Barenaked Ladies leased "If I Had a Million Dollars" to the New York lottery, where it ran forever, no one begrudged them the windfall.
The "ridiculous money" Bob Seger got from renting "Like a Rock" to Chevy might have been the cushion that ensured he could stay home for 10 years to raise his two children. No one will shoot him for that.
I also think a good song can survive selling cars, or orange juice, or financial institutions.
John Fogerty's "Fortunate Son" will always be a brilliant laser illuminating America's class divide. Its brief walkabout to sell Wrangler Jeans is a faint memory, as forgotten as Best Buy selling stuff with Sheryl Crow's anti-stuff song "Soak Up the Sun."
"All You Need Is Love" isn't in my Beatles top 10, or top 100. You could argue that both musically and culturally, it's a period piece.
But it was also a song that propelled the Beatles, and a big chunk of popular music, from where it had been to where it would go. Hippie-dippy and naive as its lyrics might sound, now or then, it was a cry for better instincts at a time when a bad war over there and bad blood over here had left love in short supply.
Using "All You Need Is Love" to sell diapers isn't quite as egregious as if, say, someone used "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to sell video games.
But it's the same sort of disregard for a song's place in its time, and in the end, it leaves you feeling the same sort of sad.
dhinckley@nydailynews.com

David Hinckley
dhinckley@edit.nydailynews.com
David Hinckley joined the Daily News in 1980 and for the last dozen years has been critic-at-large. From this floating position he tries to frame a context for modern American popular culture, though he sometimes has to settle for a reference to Bob Dylan or the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Roxy Music - Same Old Scene

cool