http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYONDENtBjs
Maskers - Dracula
From the Netherlands. KILLER!
Great stages moves, Dutchies!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
C2C Today in Strangeness - 3/06
Today in Strangeness:
On this date in 1899, Bayer received a patent for their new pain reliever-- aspirin. Pharmacist Felix Hoffman was said to synthesize heroin and aspirin in the same month. In 1950, Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson. Packaged in plastic eggs, the one-ounce pieces of rubber-like material could be used to transfer colored ink from newsprint.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
LUX & IVY PHOTOS BY JOHNNY RAMONE
http://johnnyramone.com/
Lux Interior, frontman and founding member of the legendary garage-punk band the Cramps passed away suddenly on February 4th in California.
Lux formed the Cramps in New York in 1976 with his wife, guitarist and ultimate bad girl, Poison Ivy. The band put its own demented spin on punk, blending campy B-movie and exploitation film sensibilities with southern fried rockabilly roots and surf-music spawned from the black leather lagoon.
Lux and Ivy often visited Johnny Ramone and his wife Linda at their home in CA and shared common interests in music and cult film culture.
A memorial service is being planned for Lux that will be deeply private and at an undisclosed location. We must stress that respect for total privacy and undisturbed solitude is of the utmost importance during this extremely difficult time. Instead of flowers, a donation may be made in Lux’s honor to his favorite charity, Best Friends Animal Society.
Our thoughts go out to Ivy and the JRA salutes the inimitable Lux Interior, a true legend and punk pioneer that will never be forgotten.
http://johnnyramone.com/LuxInteriror.html
PHOTOS BY JOHNNY RAMONE
From the personal archives of the John Family Trust. © JRA LLC, All Rights Reserved.
L-to-R: Poison Ivy, Linda Ramone, Paul Zone and Lux Interior
L-to-R Lux Interior, John Frusciante and Eddie Vedder
L-to-R: Ivy & Lux
http://johnnyramone.com/LuxInteriror.html
Lux Interior, frontman and founding member of the legendary garage-punk band the Cramps passed away suddenly on February 4th in California.
Lux formed the Cramps in New York in 1976 with his wife, guitarist and ultimate bad girl, Poison Ivy. The band put its own demented spin on punk, blending campy B-movie and exploitation film sensibilities with southern fried rockabilly roots and surf-music spawned from the black leather lagoon.
Lux and Ivy often visited Johnny Ramone and his wife Linda at their home in CA and shared common interests in music and cult film culture.
A memorial service is being planned for Lux that will be deeply private and at an undisclosed location. We must stress that respect for total privacy and undisturbed solitude is of the utmost importance during this extremely difficult time. Instead of flowers, a donation may be made in Lux’s honor to his favorite charity, Best Friends Animal Society.
Our thoughts go out to Ivy and the JRA salutes the inimitable Lux Interior, a true legend and punk pioneer that will never be forgotten.
http://johnnyramone.com/LuxInteriror.html
PHOTOS BY JOHNNY RAMONE
From the personal archives of the John Family Trust. © JRA LLC, All Rights Reserved.
L-to-R: Poison Ivy, Linda Ramone, Paul Zone and Lux Interior
L-to-R Lux Interior, John Frusciante and Eddie Vedder
L-to-R: Ivy & Lux
http://johnnyramone.com/LuxInteriror.html
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Accept Your Fate: Post-mortem Ebay Finds (from COILHOUSE BLOG)
http://coilhouse.net/2009/03/02/accept-your-fate-post-mortem-ebay-finds/
Ebay has been a great source of vintage photos and daguerreotypes for years. A haven for those interested in ghostly figures gazing out of time-worm scenes from over a hundred years ago, it’s still got it! This listing features an interesting group portrait - an entire family gathered merrily around a dead girl curled up with her favorite toys. From the description:
This is one of the strangest photos I’ve ever seen. And I can’t believe it’s a post-mortem, what with the smiles on some of the family’s faces. I think it must be a joke of some kind. I really think they’re kind of mocking the post-mortem ritual of showing a deceased child with their beloved toys…but I could be wrong.
I’m not an expert, but I have done my share of googlative research, back when I was still in the stuffing-my-place-to-the-brim-with-vintage-ephemera phase. While this photo is a bit unusual in terms of how many people are gathered around the body, the rest adds up. Children were usually pictured with their toys and family members in post-mortem shots. Really, this photo weirds me out far less than, say, this one:
Imagine being 7 and asked to pose with your dead brother. Guhh.
While I find the Victorians’ acceptance of death as part of life healthy [even if forced by the high death rates of the time], the concept of propping up a corpse to look life-like still gives me the stomach-churnies. However, this doesn’t stop me from continuing to adore post-mortem photos, in all their absurdity!
Ebay has been a great source of vintage photos and daguerreotypes for years. A haven for those interested in ghostly figures gazing out of time-worm scenes from over a hundred years ago, it’s still got it! This listing features an interesting group portrait - an entire family gathered merrily around a dead girl curled up with her favorite toys. From the description:
This is one of the strangest photos I’ve ever seen. And I can’t believe it’s a post-mortem, what with the smiles on some of the family’s faces. I think it must be a joke of some kind. I really think they’re kind of mocking the post-mortem ritual of showing a deceased child with their beloved toys…but I could be wrong.
I’m not an expert, but I have done my share of googlative research, back when I was still in the stuffing-my-place-to-the-brim-with-vintage-ephemera phase. While this photo is a bit unusual in terms of how many people are gathered around the body, the rest adds up. Children were usually pictured with their toys and family members in post-mortem shots. Really, this photo weirds me out far less than, say, this one:
Imagine being 7 and asked to pose with your dead brother. Guhh.
While I find the Victorians’ acceptance of death as part of life healthy [even if forced by the high death rates of the time], the concept of propping up a corpse to look life-like still gives me the stomach-churnies. However, this doesn’t stop me from continuing to adore post-mortem photos, in all their absurdity!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Big D NERVEBREAKERS Show at Club Dada
Because of popular demand & a few threats, the Nervebreakers have added a show in our hometown of Dallas after the Austin shows. Yes, on Saturday night, April 11, we will be performing at Club Dada, 2720 Elm Street in Deep Ellum. Opening the show will be Sparrowbox, featuring Jery Dirkx (Telefones) & John "J.P." Painter (Quad Pi), plus youngsters, Spector 45. I hear there is a $10 cover charge to get in. This will be the Nervebreakers only Dallas appearance this spring, so come on down!
Monday, March 2, 2009
SO MANY RECORDS, SO LITTLE TIME: Jack Dupree
Click on this link:
SO MANY RECORDS, SO LITTLE TIME: Jack Dupree
Quote from: So Many Records, So Little Time Blog...
"This was a bizarre discovery from that very first pile of singles I blagged off WMCR, claiming to be from the Children's Hospital and needing donations. There were many greats in that stack of about 50 (The Others, The Pretty Things, Inez & Charlie Foxx, The Mickey Finn, The Hullaballoos, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Reed), but this earned an immediate spot. I played it for everyone - all as baffled as myself on first listen. We were feeling confidently hip to this blues music The Rolling Stones and The Kinks claimed as their influences, even though we simply were not. A true and pure slice had yet to be served up until that very first spin of 'Tongue Tied Blues'. Just listen and you'll understand."
Click on link to SMR/SLT blog to listen...
SO MANY RECORDS, SO LITTLE TIME: Jack Dupree
Quote from: So Many Records, So Little Time Blog..."This was a bizarre discovery from that very first pile of singles I blagged off WMCR, claiming to be from the Children's Hospital and needing donations. There were many greats in that stack of about 50 (The Others, The Pretty Things, Inez & Charlie Foxx, The Mickey Finn, The Hullaballoos, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Reed), but this earned an immediate spot. I played it for everyone - all as baffled as myself on first listen. We were feeling confidently hip to this blues music The Rolling Stones and The Kinks claimed as their influences, even though we simply were not. A true and pure slice had yet to be served up until that very first spin of 'Tongue Tied Blues'. Just listen and you'll understand."
Click on link to SMR/SLT blog to listen...
Iggy Pop to release jazz album indebted to French literature
NME News
http://www.nme.com/news/iggy-pop/43152
Iggy Pop has revealed that he has recorded a jazz album based on the French author Michel Houellebecq's novel 'La Possibilité D'une Ile' ('The Possibility Of An Island').
In a video interview originally posted on Iggypop.org, which you can watch below, Pop explains that he decided to record the album - called 'Preliminaires' - because he was "sick" of listening to guitar bands.
"It's a quieter album with some jazz overtones," he said. "That's because at one point I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music. And I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz."
Pop added that he was originally approached to contribute songs to a documentary about Houellebecq's attempts to get the novel turned into a film.
One song on the album, called 'Les Feuilles Mortes' ('Autumn Leaves'), is sung in French.
"I've made it really especially for France and people who speak French," the singer revealed.
At one point during the video Pop - who is seen sitting by a swimming pool - picks up a white dog and shows it to the camera. After he finishes speaking a song from the album named 'King Of The Dogs' plays. The singer said that the song is about "just how cool it is to be a dog and how much it beats human life".
http://www.nme.com/news/iggy-pop/43152
Iggy Pop has revealed that he has recorded a jazz album based on the French author Michel Houellebecq's novel 'La Possibilité D'une Ile' ('The Possibility Of An Island').
In a video interview originally posted on Iggypop.org, which you can watch below, Pop explains that he decided to record the album - called 'Preliminaires' - because he was "sick" of listening to guitar bands.
"It's a quieter album with some jazz overtones," he said. "That's because at one point I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music. And I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz."
Pop added that he was originally approached to contribute songs to a documentary about Houellebecq's attempts to get the novel turned into a film.
One song on the album, called 'Les Feuilles Mortes' ('Autumn Leaves'), is sung in French.
"I've made it really especially for France and people who speak French," the singer revealed.
At one point during the video Pop - who is seen sitting by a swimming pool - picks up a white dog and shows it to the camera. After he finishes speaking a song from the album named 'King Of The Dogs' plays. The singer said that the song is about "just how cool it is to be a dog and how much it beats human life".
NO RULES (from Bosnia) - "Drugi Zivot"
NO RULES (from Bosnia) - "Drugi Zivot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCfSmAscJ8
Drugi Zivot oficijelni video spot Tuzlanske grupe No Rules sa albuma "Probaj Me" 2007
My Bosnian pen-pal, Bojan, plays with this band.
I was kind of disappointed he wasn't wearing the 'Smitty' t-shirt I sent him in the video.
But then I noticed it was from 2007, I think it says.
Maybe in the next video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCfSmAscJ8
Drugi Zivot oficijelni video spot Tuzlanske grupe No Rules sa albuma "Probaj Me" 2007
My Bosnian pen-pal, Bojan, plays with this band.
I was kind of disappointed he wasn't wearing the 'Smitty' t-shirt I sent him in the video.
But then I noticed it was from 2007, I think it says.
Maybe in the next video...
Johnny Ramone's Grave in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Miss Ivy Blue (from whom the first four photos came from) at Johnny Ramone's grave in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood California...
One of the cemetery's black swans...
Photo of me at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery 1989 by PC Falk...
One of the cemetery's black swans...
Photo of me at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery 1989 by PC Falk...
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