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Monday, April 5, 2010

DIG!

http://www.web420.com/videos/62_Robert/369-DiG

DIG!

The story of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. One of the greatest rockumentaries of all time!

Posted via web from ttexed's posterous

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Volumes 1-3

Twilightzone! is one of my favorite music blogs because we have similar tastes and they come up with the goodies. Stuff I have old vinyls of, stuff I have on ancient homemade cassettes, stuff I've been looking for, and new-to-me cool stuff that enlightens or makes me laugh. An example of of several facets are these Italian Spaghetti Western volumes I'm re-posting and sharing today. Thanks Twilight Zone!

From: http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2010/02/spaghetti-westerns-classic-italian.html

"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 1 - 1995

"Hi Ryp, Just uploaded this fantastic compilation of Spaghetti Westerns for you. I've uploaded Volumes 1, 2 and 3. There are other volumes out there so I'm kind of hoping that someone out there has this and wouldn't mind uploading it! Cheers" - Russ

Composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone, Pino Donaggio, Riz Ortolani, and others. Vocals by Katina Ranieri. Among the 28 films represented are "Duck You Sucker," "A Fist Goes West," "Wanted Johnny Texas," "Night of the Snakes."
I have a very extensive music collection, and was looking for something missing: that beautiful but haunted and lonely sound of Ennio Morricone's music: spaghetti westerns!
I was simply looking for all the soundtracks from those countless obscure Italian Westerns that where made in the 60s and 70s. But how to find them, or worse, the titles?
This collection, as well as Part 2, 3, and 4, hosts them probably all. It also has an extensive booklet with very good info on the music, as well as the movies that made them, or is it the other way around? This set is simply the best Italian Western music money can buy, and should be famous and sold-out! I recommend to buy all 4 sets! - By Martijn13Maart1970 (Husavik Iceland)

trax disc 1:
01 Jeff Bloom [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 02 Fiesta, Fiesta! [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 03 Pistole Che Scottano [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 04 Quanto Costa Morire [From Quanto Costa Morire] 05 Una Colt Bruciata [From Quanto Costa Morire] 06 C'E Sempre Una Vita [From Quanto Costa Morire] 07 Tema Di Clayton [From Amore Piombo E Furore] 08 Tema d'Amore [From Amore Piombo E Furore] 09 Just a Coward [From Ed Ora Raccomanda L'anima A Dio] 10 Just a Coward [#][From Ed Ora Raccomanda L'anima A Dio][Instrumental] 11 Main Titles [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 12 M 22 [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 13 Finale [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 14 Tema Per Una Vendetta [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di] 15 Oltre Il Confine [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano di Sudore E di Mor] 16 Tema Per un Amore [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano di Sudore E di Mor] 17 Cento Cavalleggeri [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di Mor] 18 Black Jack [From Kid Il Monello del West] 19 Main Titles [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 20 Ombre Sulla Sabbia [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 21 Finale [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 22 Main Titles [#][From Carambola] 23 Mexican Cantina [#][From Carambola] 24 Finale [#][From Carambola] 25 Tema Principale [#][From Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca] 26 Funny Town [#][From Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca] 27 Let It Rain, Let It Pour [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 28 Un Passaggio Per Red Rock [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 29 Sensazioni [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 30 Ridendo E Scherzando [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 31 Addio, Sarah [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 32 Controluce [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 33 Giù la Testa [From Giu' La Testa]

trax disc 2:
01 Main Titles [From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 02 Main Titles [From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 03 Main Titles [#][From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 04 Main Titles [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 05 M 26 III [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 06 M 9 V [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 07 Main Titles Xiii [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 08 Canzone VI [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 09 M2 I [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 10 M 38 XI [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 11 M 3 I [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 12 M 25_Xvii and M 42 II [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 13 Sandstorm [From Requiem per en Gringo] 14 Twilight [From Requiem per en Gringo] 15 The Moon and You [From Requiem per en Gringo] 16 Pistols Galore [From Requiem per en Gringo] 17 Vado Vedo E Sparo [From Vado Vedo E Sparo] 18 Galoppa Susanna! [From Vado Vedo E Sparo] 19 Disco Western III [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 20 M 4 III and M 6 I [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 21 M 21 I and M 65 III [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 22 Finale [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 23 Suite [#][From Roy Colt & Winchester Jack] 24 M 6, M 7, and M 8 [#][From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 25 A King for a Day [From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 26 M 18 V [#][From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 27 M 5, M 9, M 15 and M33 III [#][From Ancora Dollari Per I Mcgregors] 28 M 9 and M 15 V [#][From La Collera del Vento] 29 M 34 [#][From Sella D'argento] 30 Fantasia Western [From Franco E Ciccio Sul Sentiero Di Guerra] 31 Main Titles [From I Quattro Dell'ave Maria] 32 Suite [From La Collina Degli Stivali] 33 Slow Violence [From I 4 Dell'apocalisse] 34 L' Estasi del Miracolo [From Occhio Alla Penna]
...served by Russ...
(see the comments at Twilightzone!'s original blogposting for each compilation for further instructions & links)

From: http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2010/02/spaghetti-westerns-classic-italian_04.html

"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 2 - 1995

While the first album contained lots and lots of great tracks, coupled with some merely pretty good ones, this album has almost only really great ones! There is hardly a single "pretty good" track here! This continues the tradition of a few better known tracks, such as the theme to Django and the Hellbenders, as well as plenty of lesser known film scores, in U.S.
For those of you keeping score, this is my second purchase in an attempt to locate music from Red Dead Revolver; I am happy to say that music from "A Man Called King" and "Death on High Hill" fit that bill.
This is a needed item for any kind of Spaghetti Western Music Collector. Any kind of fan of the Italian film genre will apreciate this album. This contains all the components for a quintessential spaghetti western CD: songs with the high, hauntingly beautiful backgrounds, clumsily translated lyrics, and of course, the inescapable Ennio Morricone. And, at the reasonable price, how could you resist? - By Colin "The Ninja Guy" (LA, CA)

trax disc 1:
01 100,00 for Ringo (Suite) [From 100.000 Dollari Per Ringo] 02 Main Titles [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 03 M 11 [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 04 M 54 [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 05 Main Titles [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 06 M 13 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 07 M 14 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 08 M 43 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 09 Can Be Done [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!] 10 M 27 [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!] 11 Can Be Done [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!][#][Instrumental] 12 Viva la Revolucion [From Tepepa] 13 Main Titles [From Vamos A Matar, Companeros] 14 Main Titles [From Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire] 15 Main Titles [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 16 M 28 [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 17 M 29 [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 18 Main Titles [From Killer, Adios!] 19 M 26 [From Killer, Adios!] 20 M 27 [From Killer, Adios!] 21 Theme Song [From Killer, Adios!] 22 Hellbenders [From I Crudeli] 23 What Am I Doing_ [From Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione_] 24 Greatest Robbery in the West [From La Piu' Grande Rapina del West] 25 Main Titles [From L'oro Dei Bravados] 26 A [From Il Grande Duello] 27 M 10 [From Il Grande Duello] 28 Main Titles- M 1 [From Nel Nome del Padre, del Figlio E Della Colt] 29 Alternate Main Titles [Beat Version] 30 Main Titles [From I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta]

trax disc 2:
01 My Name Is Nobody [From Il Mio Nome E' Nessuno] 02 Main Titles [From Quien Sabe_] 03 Texas Addio [From Texas Addio] 04 Seven Men [From Sette Winchester Per Un Massacro] 05 Main Titles [From Sugar Colt] 06 Main Titles [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 07 M 33 [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 08 M 20, M 43, M 24, and M 22 [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 09 Professional Killers (Suite) [From Professionisti Per Un Massacro] 10 M 19 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 11 M 3 and M 12 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 12 M 34 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 13 M 40 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 14 Main Titles (Theme Song) [From Lo Chiamavano King] 15 Man Called King (Suite) [From Lo Chiamavano King] 16 M 11 [From La Morte Sull'alta Collina] 17 M 33 [From La Morte Sull'alta Collina] 18 Blue Eggs and Ham [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono Curati] 19 M-23 [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono Curati] 20 Blue Eggs and Ham [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono [From Partirono Pre 21 M 1 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 22 M2 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 23 M 15 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 24 M 17 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 25 M 20 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 26 M 24, M 25 and M 27 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 27 Crying (Main Theme) [From Un Buco in Fronte] 28 Main Titles [From Una Colt in Mano Al Diavolo] 29 M 16 [From Una Colt in Mano Al Diavolo] 30 Django [From Django] 31 Main Titles [From Se Incontri Sartana, Prega Per La Tua Morte] 32 Main Titles [Alternate Version] 33 Man Called Noon [From Lo Chiamavano Mezzogiorno]
...served by Russ...
(see the comments at Twilightzone!'s original blogposting for each compilation for further instructions & links)

From: http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2010/02/spaghetti-westerns-classic-italian_05.html

"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 3

This addition to DRG's Classic Italian Soundtracks series captures spaghetti Westerns at their eeriest and funniest. Ennio Morricone is predominant, of course, with tracks to such films as A Pistol for Ringo and Blood and Guns, and vocal themes to The Return of Ringo and Death Rides a Horse. A rarely heard voice-free version of "My Name Is Nobody" has the virtue of sounding like a soda pop commercial. Other pasta-and-pistols maestros such as Piero Piccioni ("I Don't Forget... I Kill"), Carlo Savina ("The Two Ringos from Texas"), and Luis Bacalov ("Gold of the Proud Ones") make an impressive showing, though there are some dull moments. In contrast to our domesticated Tiomkin-style Hollywood clichés, these eccentric to melancholy flourishes represent fantasies of the American West nurtured by a pastry-crazed European imagination. - Joseph Lanza

trax:
1. Gunfight at Red Sands [A Gringo Like Me] 2. Pistol for Ringo (Main Titles) 3. Seven Guns for the Mac Gregors [Santa Fé Express] 4. Return of Ringo [The Return of Ringo] 5. Death Rides a Horse [From Death Rides a Horse] 6. Days of Violence (Finale) [The Days of Violence] 7. I Don't Foget...I Kill [I Don't Forget...I Kill] 8. Two Ringos From Texas [The Two Ringos from Texas] 9. Seven Guns for a Killing 10. Sugar Colt: Sugar Colt [Orchestal Suite] 11. Blood and Guns [Alternate Version] 12. Rose [Alternative Version][Alternate Take] 13. Professional Gun (Main Titles) 14. Face to Face (Main Titles) 15. Gold of the Proud Ones 16. Companeros (Main Titles) [Alternative Version] 17. Life Is Tough, Eh Provodence? (Main Titles) 18. My Name Is Shanghai Joe (Departure) 19. Man Called Noon (Suite) 20. My Name Is Nobody [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
...served by Russ...
(see the comments at Twilightzone!'s original blogposting for each compilation for further instructions & links)

Monday, January 25, 2010

PRIVILEGE (1967) starring Paul Jones

I saw the film "Privilege" when I was a teenager & then later found the soundtrack album in the cutouts at Woolco & bought it for only .99 cents. This was during the time period when the Alice Cooper Group were releasing their early albums & I noticed some similarities in their show & scenes from the film, both musically & visually. In the late 1970's, Patti Smith later did a credible cover of 'Set Me Free', a song from the film. I'd been thinking of "Privilege" occasionally, now & then, during the last couple of years. Then I noticed a DVD of it was being released in Great Britain last year. Maybe an American DVD release will happen soon & I can re-see the film from a different perspective 40 years later. But probably much like the Scott Walker documentary, "30th Century Man", the big screen might be required for the full effect & creepiness factor. A friend recently posted a YouTube clip from the film on his Facebook page (thanks Tim) & I checked & found a number of clips on YouTube. Here's what I found there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UtT4pIF5VU

Anticipating punk rock, Peter Watkins' semi-documentary study of a future society using music to enslave the masses appropriates some unauthorized reenactments from the National Film Board of Canada's groundbreaking Paul Anka docu "Lonely Boy". How Universal ended up distributing this is a mystery even they couldn't solve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46zw_qn_ZiI

Steven Shorter / Paul Jones "Privilege" (1967)
Steven Shorter's 1st performance in Peter Watkins's 1967 "Privilege," an obvious piss take on Beatlemania and the cult of celebrity worship, but carefully staged for manipulative ends in this scene. Although the police present as bad guys for the fans, Shorter, singing here (Paul Jones) is actually a govt.-manufactured pop icon and later the same police are seen protecting the icon as he retires to his dressing room. By the end of the film Shorter is making Church & State-approved nationalist Christian rock that encourages fans to embrace a new type of Christo-fascism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsH-vFTTtjU

Privilege (1967) "a fruitful conformity" Paul Jones
one of my favorite scenes from the Peter Watkins film PRIVILEGE (1967 UK) After directing several extraordinary documentaries for the BBC, including the award-winning The War Game and Culloden, Peter Watkins made his first dramatic feature with this flawed but striking film about Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), a pop singer in a future society where entertainment is controlled by a totalitarian government. Shorter's music and image are used to channel the impulses of rebellious youth; in one concert sequence, the crowd watches him sing a plaintive plea for love and understanding while locked in a cage surrounded by police officers armed with clubs. While Shorter is remarkably popular, he's also living a life created for him by the government, which Steven knows is a sham. When Shorter's handlers decide to revamp his image into that of an obedient, religious boy, he rebels, to his peril. Model Jean Shrimpton made her film debut here as an artist commissioned to paint a portrait of Shorter. Privilege later became something of a cult film; one of the film's admirers was rock poet Patti Smith, who recorded one of "Steven Shorter"'s songs, 'Set Me Free', on her 1978 album Easter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_20Vikpwyg

'Jerusalem' from the 1967 film "Privilege".
This song, sung by the George Bean Group, is taken from the 1967 Peter Watkins film ''Privilege'' starring Paul Jones. In this film Jones plays Steven Shorter, Britain's most loved pop star, whose career is carefully managed and manipulated. Eventually his popularity is used to launch a new form of Nationalism dominated by the church who demand that the youth of Britain swear an allegiance to flag and country with the promise 'I will conform'. Anyone who has seen the famous Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the will" by Leni Riefenstahl will probably notice some close similarities between some of the images in that film and this extract from ''Privilege''.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Re3ACvnh_g

Steven Shorter / Paul Jones 'Privilege' (1967)
From Peter Watkins's 1967 film 'Privilege,' Watkins's subtly satirical take on Beatlemania and a vision of a totalitarian future in which the Church & State use pop icons to induce conformity in the public. In this clip, official govt. pop icon Steven Shorter performs a newly Christianized version of a song seen earlier in the movie, and attempts a laying on of hands to cure the infirm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwpj0fOZoXQ

Privilege (1967) "hot chocolate for everyone" Paul Jones Jean Shrimpton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqD0syVRKfg
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PRIVILEGE / Paul Jones (Audio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzUVc2l1fk

FREE ME / PAUL JONES

From: http://www.electricroulette.com/2010/01/dvd-review-privilege-1967.html

Here's a review of the DVD a blog called Electric Roulette ran a while back:

DVD Review: Privilege (1967)

Some movies gain a reputation by being seen, others, like Peter Watkins' Privilege, are noted for exactiy the opposite reason. Thankfully we can now view this 60s cult classic for all the right reasons with the BFI offshoot Flipside kicking off 2010 with a long-overdue reissue.

It got a right old kicking from the critics in '67, but time has been kind to Privilege since. As has the world we live in. Set at a time of a coalition government (Labour and Conservative polices are so similar, they simply run the country together), we discover that the biggest name in the country is pop star Steven Shorter (Paul Jones). His stage act, which sees him imprisoned and abused onstage, is designed to create anger amongst his audience - taking away their anger from the wider world around them and indeed, the government.

On the back of this public adoration, Shorter is a commercial and political tool. Run by committee (with government backing), his music is played on every station, he fronts a chain of Steven Shorter discos UK-wide and dominates consumption of everything from dog food to fridge freezers. If the country's leaders want to sell something, they stick Steven's face on it. Indeed, when the UK has an apple glut, Shorter is brought in to front an ad campaign encouraging us all to eat 6-a-day.

But the ruling elite wants more of Shorter - they want him to bring the public back to the church. Using an all-new stage act where the pop star 'repents' and finds faith at a rally at the national stadium, Shorter fronts the 'Christian Crusade' backed by funky versions of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and 'Jerusalem' by a house band, some faith healing and fighting words by the church. It's all reminiscent of Nazi Germany - a world where everyone conforms for the 'common good' and intolerance is not accepted.

But that's exactly what's coming from Steven Shorter. In his spare time, he's being painted by artist Vanessa Ritchie (Jean Shrimpton). But not only that - she's asking questions of him and about him, questions that, over time, put doubts into Shorter's head. And on live television, during an awards ceremony, it all comes crashing down as he shows his anger at being unable to live his own life.

As I mentioned earlier, Privilege was hammered by critics back in the day, partly due to its anti-establishment theme, partly because few thought the scenario was even vaguely believable and partly because of the ineffectiveness of the leads. For me, none of that holds up watching this reissue.

Indeed, the scenario is all too real in 2010 - the X Factor's dominance on TV and across the media, the Prime Minister making a point of commenting on the state of Susan Boyle's mental state - entertainment in the modern-era does have the ability to take our minds away from the real problems and concerns of the world. And of course, as the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand incident of last year showed, the media is capable of generating a public backlash against the biggest of names. A coalition government through a lack of policy difference isn't all that far-fetched either.

As for the leads, well, they work too. Up to a point. Jones perhaps lacks the charisma the pop star role needs, but he certainly has the fragility required for the latter stages of the movie. Shrimpton quite obviously isn't a big screen natural - you struggle to even hear her at times. But she's a scene stealer everytime she appears. She wasn't the face of the 1960s by chance you know.

But the biggest plus of Privilege is Peter Watkins. A controversial figure, he had come to the movie business after his most prominent work, The War Game, was banned by the BBC. He wasn't willing to pull any punches for the big screen either.

The film is part mock documentary and part movie. Slightly disconcerting at first, but very effective in getting across the scenario, the world of Privilege and the succession of shady figures that run it. Everyone from Shorter's minder and anarchist music arranger to the businessmen with the 'real' power sitting on the 'committee' have their own (less than likeable) personalities and quotable lines. There's a real attention to detail here, which means Privilege is the kind of movies that can take repeated viewing.

Of course, there are holes in the movie - Shorter's act for a start, Vanessa's ability to convince 'break' Shorter in such a brief time and to some extent, the idea that the entire population will buy into one pop star. But let's be honest, since when did a movie have to completely conform to logic?

Overall, Privilege is a fine film and one that's ripe for reappraisal. Unlikely ever to shake off the words 'cult classic', it's a movie that has blossomed with age despite being still very much of its age. If you love leftfield movies of that particular decade, you'll love Privilege. And if you don't...well, why are you reading this site?

Finally, a word about the extras. As ever, some fine articles in the booklet, along with the trailer on the disc and some tasty bonus material for fans of the director - early shorts of The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) and The Forgotten Faces (1961). Good work once again Flipside - and good work Amazon, which is selling this for just £7.98 right now on pre-order.

Find out more about the DVD at the Amazon website

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ADDENDUM - Feb 1, 2010
From: Hipsters, Flipsters & Finger-Poppin’ Daddies By Stewart Home at: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hipsters-flipsters-finger-poppin-daddies/

...Moving on to our next Flipside reissue, many people will be familiar with Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967) by reputation at least. It’s a movie that I first saw on British TV back in the days when I was still a teenager. Privilege is a faux documentary set in the near future with a fascistic British establishment exploiting pop singer Steven Shorter (Paul Jones) to manipulate public opinion and behaviour. Johnny Speight who created the original story seems to have taken Bernard Kops’ novel Awake For Mourning (1958) as his starting point. In his full-length fictional debut, Kops depicts teddy boys being manipulated by a fascistic youth party fronted by a pop singer. Privilege takes this idea but really runs with it. The Watkins film is an immediate precursor to The Monkees auto-critique of themselves as plastic pop icons in their countercultural film Head (dir. Bob Rafelson, 1968). The use of Shorter to promote Christianity and national unity at revivalist rallies in Privilege also looks like it influenced, among many other things, the adulation accorded to the Pinball Wizard in the cinematic realisation of Pete Townshend’s rock opera Tommy (dir. Ken Russell, 1975), and some of the musical choices in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee (1978). Since the leading lady in Privilege is none other than top Sixties model Jean Shrimpton in her only fully-fledged film role, this could still prove essential viewing even to those who have no interest in the history of cinema or youth culture...

Monday, December 28, 2009

wewantnothing tumblr blog: Image supplementation to t.tex's hexes

wewantnothing tumblr blog: Image supplementation to t.tex's hexes

Re-bloging images & videos is kind of a pain on the blogspot blogs, so I am adding a tumblr blog called wewantnothing for all the good borrowed images I re-blog from others.

Please check it out at this link:

http://wewantnothing.tumblr.com/

Tumblr blogs are subscribe-able on the time-saving Google Reader, my recommended & chosen method of keeping up with the numerous blogs I follow...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Dark Side of Christmas - The Cramps, Evil Santas, Krampus & XXXmas Sleaze

From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/12/black-christmas.html

Black Christmas - Here is a cd compiled by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach of The Cramps. Artwork care of Lux himself. This was originally put together for some magazine, but I can't recall which.

Have a BLACK_Christmas!: http://www.rockndog.com/Black_Christmas/
http://www.mediafire.com/?dtdyhzbwgzy

From: Chuck Miller's The Cramps Blog:
http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/

From: http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-cramps.html

The three drawings below are by Benjamin Marra, who says: "These were sketches for an assignment that didn't pan out. It was a cool one: to illustrate a Cramps Christmas album cover. I think my friend and colleague Ted McGrath ended up getting the gig. Dems da breaks ..."
http://benjaminmarra.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

From: http://brainsteakbikini.blogspot.com/2009/12/congo-christmas.html

Congo Christmas "Kid send me this letter from L.A. on December 28, 1981. Artwork : Kris Guidio" -Krom at Brain Steak Bikini - Far out with The Cramps

From: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-and-happy-new-decade.html

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new decade, compliments of myself and Krampus, St. Nicholas' cloven-hooved, chain-swinging, lolling-toungued, child-punishing Eastern-European sidekick.

If what you see interests you, then you might want to check out The Devil in Design: The Krampus Postcards, which you can purchase from The Morbid Anatomy Bookstore by clicking here: http://astore.amazon.com/morbanat-20/detail/1560975423

From: http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-oh-no-not-another.html

Various Artists: Oh! No! Not Another... Midnight Christmas Mess Again!!

1. Hazy Shades of Winter - The Slickee Boys
2. Christmas I'll Be Home - The Vipers
3. Star - The Cheepskates
4. Santa is Comin' Down Again - The Psycho Daisies
5. Santa Ain't Santa - Woofing Cookies
6. Jesus Christ - The Love Pushers
7. O Tannenbaum Now - Das Furlines
8. Blue Christmas - The Ravens
9. Wreck These Halls - Howard & Jag's X-mas Vacation
10. Sleighbell Bop - The Holidays
11. Coal in My Stocking - The Backbones
12. Christmas Eve at KNL (Kansas Neurological Institute) - The Iguanas
13. Snow is Falling - Dementia 13

http://rapidshare.com/files/323806337/02-xmess.zip

Two more volumes of Midnight Christmas Mess:
http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-midnight-christmas-mess.html
http://weirdtownstuff.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-artists-its-midnight-xmess-part.html

From: ???

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298523373/addams-family-christmas

Addams Family Christmas

From: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ja0u9vcxkW0/SzLLyLKwkpI/AAAAAAAARS4/EIEglKv36bI/s1600-h/ouija.jpg

"Never Kill Santa Claus" from the February 1973 issue of The Witching Hour #28, followed by a xmas themed ouija board text tale

From: http://therealbigrockcandymountain.blogspot.com/2009/12/boogaloo-santa.html

From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/12/have-you-been-good-or-bad/

Navidades con Chucha La Loca (Solo Para Adultos)

From: http://snakeoilblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/greatest-story-ever-told.html

Santa Claus versus The Devil

I first saw K. Gordon Murray's Santa Claus at the 25th Street Theatre in Waco, TX in 1966. It's impossible to overstate the profound effect this film had on my life. Of course, it was the English dubbed version I saw, but nowadays I'm partial to the original spanish. Here is the classic scene where the Devil tempts Lupe to steal the doll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e63yPs5uB8

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/292025519/rene-magritte-woman-1923

Rene Magritte, Woman, 1923.

From: http://crookiesblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-2010.html

Happy 2010 - "How terrible do I feel about using the same image I painted from last year?! I think I can squeeze a few more years out of this one." - MATTHEW CRUICKSHANK (via death becomes her)

From: http://powsley.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-munsters.html

'AL "Grandpa Munster" LEWIS signed this cool MUNSTERS CHRISTMAS photo for me back in 1989!' - PATRICK OWSLEY

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/sets/72157594429321748/

Vintage Christmas Krampus Postcards

Men about to be punished by lady Krampus

Vintage Christmas Postcard - Krampus and Saint Nick

Girl with her favorite Krampus Figure (Dated 1906)

Krampus stealing babies and taking them to Spain

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73902814@N00/3016951354/in/set-72157608818462424/

Holiday Grotesque #1 KRAMPUS! 1st in a new series of Holiday paintings in trading card size by Matthew Kirscht.

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/298466738/the-best-new-years-postcard-ever-via

Another by Matthew Kirscht

From: http://sundayblues.org/archives/233

Rev. A.W. Nix was one of the great singing preachers whose fiery, earthshaking sermons are enough to send any sinner running for salvation. Nix made his mark with his first coupling, the incredibly intense “Black Diamond Express to Hell Pts. I & II” in 1927. This was one of the best known and popular sermons with Parts 3 and 4 issued in 1929 and parts 5 and 6 in 1930. He cut fifty sermons for Vocalion through 1931, railing against sinners in sermons with provocative titles like “Goin’ To Hell And Who Cares”, “The Fat Life Will Bring You Down”, “Jack The Ripper” and “Hot Shot Mamas And Teasing Browns.” He had a special affinity for the holidays as evidenced in recordings like “Death Might Be Your Christmas Gift”, “That Little Thing May Kill You Yet (Christmas Sermon)”, “Begin A New Life On Christmas Day – Part 1 & 2″ and “How Will You Spend Christmas?” (via PCL LinkDump/Donna Lethal)
Listen & download here: http://www.baddogblues.org/clips/nix-present.mp3

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-daily-hitler.html

How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas
(From the Daily Mail)

Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, 'Germanic' cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown. The way the celebration was gradually taken over and exploited for propaganda purposes by Hitler's Nazis is detailed in a new exhibition. Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments. She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration. Selected objects from the family's enormous collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne. 'Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.' The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals. The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin. The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees. Civilians were encouraged to send patriotic Christmas cards to soldiers at the front. The Iron Cross shaped Christmas tree decorations commemorate the start of World War One. 'Either it was a six-pointed star, which was a symbol of the Jews, or it was a five-pointed star, which represented the Soviets,' Breuer said. It had to go. In the 1930s, the Nazis tried to change the ideology of Christmas. But when World War II started, the focus became more practical. There were also tips on how to make Christmas cookies in the face of food shortages.

In 1944-1945, the Nazis tried to reinvent the festival once again as a day to commemorate the dead, in particular fallen soldiers. 'By then nobody felt like celebrating,' Breuer explained. Happily, the German people mostly ignored the clumsy propaganda efforts and continued with the same traditions as before. The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol 'Unto us a time has come' is still sung. 'The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,' Breuer said. Surprisingly, German churches put up little opposition to the Nazification of Christmas. 'You would have expected them to protest loudly and insist that it was a Christian festival,' said Breuer. 'But instead they largely kept quiet, out of fear.'

From: http://dailyhitler.blogspot.com/2009/12/hitler-getting-beat-by-krampus.html

Hitler getting beat by Krampus

From: http://gmtplus9.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-with-satan.html

James Chance... Christmas With Satan (2002, Tiger Style TS-038 .mp3 audio 06:14). Christmas With Satan was originally released by James White on A Christmas Record (1981, ZE Records ILPS 7017). It was replaced by No More Christmas Blues by Alan Vega on the 1982 edition.
Listen & Download: http://www.box.net/shared/static/y7e6huh0x9.mp3

From: http://texaspunktreasurechest.blogspot.com/2009/12/culturcide-santa-claus-was-my.html

Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7"

A Christmas time classic from Houstons own Culturcide... Especially the b-side. Merry Christmas (or whatever you're into) from the Texas Punk Treasure Chest!
1. Santa Claus Was My Lover
2. Depressed Christmas

DL: Culturcide "Santa Claus Was My Lover/Depressed Christmas" 7": http://www.mediafire.com/?khymmgjcjjn

From: http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Publicity-photo-of-Joan-Collins.html