Confessions of a Fuck-Up Artist!

Savannah hipped me to this little number a while back and i've been hooked since. The Man In Black's Children Go Where I Send Thee - it's kinda become the opening credits to my black coffee mornings here on the Cube Farm. A gospel rockabilly whirlwind of infectous energy that just kickstarts my mood straight into overdrive. With its rousing chorus, driving beat and the best use of a countdown since the Femmes "Took one, one, cause you left me" - this folks is as close to a church as my heathen ass is likely to get*!

*-This doesn't include urban archaeological research, kitsch value or hiding from demonic entities that cannot enter holy ground.

Now let's leave Monster Island for a quick visit to sunny Racoon City. Much thanks to the always lovely retrofatale!

5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen


Meanwhile a little synthlicious action music by Goblin!

You know ever since I saw them live years and years ago down in Miami, I always imagined that The Joker would look a lot like Nik Fiend in real life. When I first saw him (Nik) he just had this electrified stage presence that came off with the intensity of a bad acid trip at the circus with just a touch of that unique sex appeal that serial killers and nomadic preachers exude thrown in for good measure.
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While searching for one of my favorite Misfits songs ever (followed only by "Bullet" & "Astro-Zombies"), I found this little video montage of the Legendary B-Movie Monster Muse, Maila Nurmi aka the legendary Vampira. Check out her page here for autographs, memoribilla and a kick ass gallery. But enough from me, take it away Glenn & Jerry...

"Black dress moves in a blue movie
Graverobbers from outer space
Well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm
Tremble so wicked

Two inch nails
Micro waist
With a pale white feline face
Inclination eyebrows to there

Mistress to the horror kid
Cemetary of the white love ghoul, well
Take off your shabby dress
Come and lay beside me"

The original Vampira TV Show Opening from 1954 - Atomic Age Goth Hotness!

Haven't been able to post much due to a massive influx of work related... ummm work actually.

"Are you experienced"
Psychic TV w/Caresse p-orridge

This is a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Are you experienced" as done by PTV, with vocals by Genesis P's daughter, Caresse.

Way back in the 20th century I had a copy of this on a VHS (this was a primitive video recording device that was powered by a talking prehistoric dinosaur, just like in the Flintstones... then the future came with digital and we had to euthanize all our appliances... sad really when you think about it, but I digress). Well naturally I lost the tape, but what was odd was that I could find no record of the song anywhere. Unless I had shown them the video when I had the tape no I had asked had even heard of a PTV Hendrix cover.

Eventually I forgot all about the mystery video/song that eluded me for so long.

Then last year, while working on The Invisible College with CW, we were slated to make our third episode the "psychedelic one" (which turned into a metaphor for Shamanism and Dante's Inferno... but that's another story) and were looking for a song number that could be incorporated into the play. I immediately remembered the PTV-Hendrix cover and thought that surely with the power of the interwebs and the popularity of youtube, that someone, out there in the ether must've posted it!

No, no one did and every permutation of engine search came up with nothing, not even a mention of it. If our companys resident Science-Pirate couldn't find it... then most likely it never existed!

Then, today, while searching Youtube for a completely different song by a completely different band, I saw the video scroll up in the related column. Well lo and behold... there it was, and thank god too because I was starting to believe my memory had made up the entire cover, video and song (I did this once to myself when I thought there was a version of the Damned's Alone again or covered by Johnny Cash... I don't know if I thought it was a good idea so my brain just filled in the details or if I really heard it... who knows?)

Anyway, enjoy...

Okay heading home for a three day weekend.

Later!

... and bring on the German House remixes of Conan the Barbarian!

That's one thing I miss about going out clubbing, hearing those crazy Teutonic-Techno Epic dance tracks that usually sampled a creppy guy spraching der kraut, Vincent Price laughter and heavy doses of Gregorian chanting all layered carefully over some speed freak going apeshit on his 808 somewhere in the wilds of Berlin!

Sure I could listen to it at home... but it lacks the Wagnerian Uber-drama of hitting the floor at two in the morning while having to dodge a dozen or so drunk rivetheads, each of whom are doing their own unique interpertive dance outlining the rise and fall of the SS.

Good times, good times...

You know one of the most frequent questions I receive here on the world wide interwebs would have to be "Jack, what would happen if proto-industrial legends Einstürzende Neubauten got really, really shitfaced one night and somehow gang banged HBO's comedy folk-duo The Flight of the Conchords?" Yes, I get asked a lot of seriously screwed up questions but more importantly than that, I have now have an answer: Meet Hurra Torpedo who are without a doubt the definitive Norwegian kitchen appliance band. Think of it as hot blooded Viking-Dada from the Scandinavian Peninsula. Here's their cover of the Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Bonus round: Here's the previously mentioned Einstürzende Neubauten reminding the world why the Germans remain some of the scariest mother fuckers in all of Europe.

"They're years ahead of us"~Homer Simpson

In America we have monkey cowboys that ride on the backs of dogs at rodeos. Which is not only an apt metaphor for American foriegn policy but also a lot of fun to watch! Meanwhile the Japanese have gone one better, they have trained chimpanzee's in the forbidden arts of the Iron-Chef (watch as this chimpanzee makes a noodle dish from scratch... meanwhile i'm baffled by anything that doesn't fit in a microwave). Also the chimpanzee enjoys walking his dog.

The line in Black Rain about how Japan "lost the war, but won the peace!" has never been so apt.

Two from Amon Tobin.

The first one is a personal favorite of mine, "El-Wraith" off Out From Out Where. A lone Spanish guitar emerges out of a science fiction soundtrack and segues into a creepy bass crawl that always reminds me of robot monsters crawling out of the sand. I tend to think of this track as the shadow of Delerium's classic Silence... if songs could cast shadows I guess. The video itself is an amazing piece of stop motion animation depicting visions from a mysterious Chronopolis ruled by what looks like golem pharaohs of some kind.

Next up is "Keep Your Distance" from his latest album Foley Room. A delightfully sinister track made all the better by some clever video editing from the opening of the proto-rivethead cult classic Hardware. A movie that profoundly influenced my sense of aesthetics for over a decade (when I began working for my friend at his fetish club over at 688 I always had this movie in the back of my head). To this day I still wish I had the whole cowboy duster/gas mask get up so I could dress like an apocalyptic gunslinger or a member of Fields of the Nephilim.

But I digress. On with the video...

Flyentology
EL-P w/Trent Reznor

Another Definitive Jux artist. I'll admit there's not much hip-hop i'm into but I really dig the 'what' behind the mans lyrics (while remaining impressed with the wordflow acrobatics of the 'how'). Some favorites include No Such Thing As Accidents, Step Father Factory & Deep Space 9mm. This though is my favorite video of his so far... off the album I'll sleep when you're dead.