All Hail Discordia. Midnite Movies- KLF

"the KLF have now left the Music Business." With a hail of blank bullets and Extreme Noise Terror, the millionaires in the dance powerhouse duo KLF left the music biz until "peace is declared all over the world," deleting their entire back catalog so as not to be mistaken for a marketing gimmick, and entered into the art world where they began to burn (literally) a lot of the money that had accumulated. All Hail Discordia!

Midnacht Movies: Sun City Girls

Sun City Girls- Cloven Theater. Vintage Great Bizzareness. Thanks for reminding me Carl.

Midnite Movies: Brakhage- Comingled Containers

I watched some Brakhage for the first time in a long while earlier tonight. This tiny youtube video is a far cry from how these should be watched, but even so, it remains a beautiful piece of work. You can't watch Brakhage like you would anything else. His films are paths in and around our minds. You have to open yourself up to the "experience." Many many things have been said about his work much more eloquently than the job I am doing right now, but he remains a singular inspiration.

He made over 400 films in his lifetime. The first film I ever saw of his was his last; just weeks before he died. I come back to him every once in a while, and I find that on each return I can see deeper. If this is you first encounter, I hope it finds you well.

Complaints Choirs

The Chicago Complaints Choir has just finished up. The first official Complaint Choir in the US, we got together just under a month ago. Last night we performed the the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Empty Bottle. Today we we bussed all over town, and sang in front of the Clod Gate at Millennium, a Whole Foods Parking lot, and yes, another parking lot. It was a good time. Lots of official video and documentation will soon appear, but for now, here is a sampling of some of the other Complaints Choirs around the world.

Crispin Glover at Sundance, Everything is Fine!

Crispin Glover in and around Sundance promoting his new movie, "It is Fine, Everything is Fine!" You cna find out even more about Crispin and his new film at {firebreather} because I talked to Crispin Glover about it the other week. It's a singularly arresting and moving film, and he's touring around with it right now, so if he comes to your town, watch out!

Link to Crispin Glover Interview

Midnite Movies: Pere Ubu- Birdies

In honor of having just seen them live (they were great by the way). Here's an old clip of Pere Ubu playing "Birdies" from the film Ugh! A Music War. See as many of the old guard as you can. I can't believe I can still see a band like that.

John Cage- Water Walk

Fantastic 1960 Appearance by John Cage on a TV Game Show call "I've Got a Secret." The performance is entitled Water walk.

Something Came Over Me -TG

Got TG's new disc Part Two in the mail today. It's fucking fantastic! Somethings age well, and others never age. TG is the latter.

Midnite Movies: Thirteen to Centarus

A JG Ballard story adapted for a British Twilight Zone-esque show calle Out of the Unknown. Great sci-fi from a great mind.

Everything is Permissable...

I don't even know how to react to this ad. Mostly with horror, but it affects me on a number of other levels beyond that.

the Shock Doctrine

With Alfon Cuaron, director of "Children of Men" and Naomi Klein, comes this delightfully terrifying little film.

the Colbert Factor (or The O' Reily Report)

Vote!

Vote you goddamned fucking pieces of shit who are classified in the same generation as me. And all the rest of you too. If I hear "don't blame me, I didn't vote." one more time in the entirety of the rest of my life, I am seriously going to lose it. You deserve no protection of a government (functioning or otherwise) if you do not participate.



Here's two candidates worth taking a look at if you're as sock as I am of posturing, payoffs, and pundits. Mike Gravel and Ron Paul. Get registered, vote in the primaries, and maybe, just maybe, we'll get the opportunity to vote for someone worthwhile. Stop voting lesser of two evils, vote with your mind.

Africa Addio

I just found out that one of the most brutal, intense, and powerful documentaries ever made (in my humble opinion) is up in it's entirety on google video. The film is Jacopetti and Prosperi's harrowing Africa Addio (Goodbye Africa). And it appears in it's entire 2hr and 18 minute European cut. The American cut by compare is vulgar and insulting, whereas the full film is one of the most intense, terrifying, and complex films I have ever found. It is NOT AT ALL for the squeamish. THIS MOVIES IS ROUGH. One of the roughest I've seen. The directors went to Africa right as the British were pulling out. They simply chronicle the chaos that ensued all over the continent. From poaching, to genocide, they captured it on film. The documentary was harshly criticized for racism, but I can find no case in the official cut. The exploitative American cut however, is another story entirely, and and unfortunate blemish on two incredibly intelligent and highly respectable filmmakers.

15 Minute Excerpt:


Entire Film:

Uh-oh!

Some Czech pranksters injected this clip of a nuclear explosion into otherwise peaceful panning shots of daily weather forecasts. The group is called Initiative Ztohoven. They may have a website and some documentation on them, but I sure as hell can't read it. Try and learn English next time guys! Just kidding. Czechoslovakia is a beautiful place. Too bad it got nuked.

The Strange Case of Charlie Ours

For THIS, these kids have been expelled (later reinstated) and now sued by a teacher who they allegedly parody in the film. You can read all about the story here(s):
IndyStar
BoingBoing
Muzzie Award
ABC News
Fox News
MSNBC

This case is of particular interest to me because I grew up with Charlie Ours' brother, Joey Ours. He has sadly passed away, but we were the best of friend and play in the rocking and way ahead of their time punk band the Koaskies when we were about 13. We also made many movies almost EXACTLY this stupid! They never broke the 10 minute mark, whereas this one is supposed to be over an hour, and we never got into any trouble, so good for Charlie. He's already much further along than Joey or I ever made it. Give em hell kids. Now that you've got the Blogosphere at your back, that teacher is probably going to be in a world of trouble he never could have imagined.

Circuit Friending

C'mon. You know all the cool geeky kids are doing it. You know you wanna do it. Bend that circuit.

Midnite Movies: Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys have always been one of my all time favorite bands. These videos were a great find. From a lost recording session. All of these songs eventually ended up on the excellent Plastic Surgery Disasters EP.

Moral Majority


Nazi Punks Fuck Off


Hyperactive Child

:Mysteriam: Dancing ManMan

This is the Dancing ManMan an associate of the group :Mysteriam: that I am doing some live video work with. If you are in Chicago, you might consider going to Martyr's on Tuesday the 8th. I'll be there anyway. I have to. I'm doing stuff with this band :Mysteriam:

Z'EV

This is some footage from the same tour that I just saw Z'EV on. I conducted an interview with him at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.

Thanks Pullybulpit.

Here is the interview with Z'EV that I did for Thirsty Media

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