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.
Golden Circle Tropical Recipe Book 6 Mum also used to make the top one, jellied pineapple slices.
The recipe: 15oz (metric equivalent) can GOLDEN CIRCLE Pineapple Slices 1 pkt lime-flavoured jelly crystals boiling water
Drain syryup from pineapple and measure into saucepan. Add sufficient boiling water to make 1.5 cups liquid. Bring to boiling point, remove from stove and stir in jelly crystals until dissolved. Cool. Return pineapple slices to can pour cooled jelly into can around slices. Chill until firm. Run hot knife around sides of can and unmould onto serving plate. Serve sliced, with cream or ice cream. NOTE: if you set slices in the 30 oz Pineapple Juice can you will need two 15 oz cans of pineapple and two packets of jelly crystals. (via aspic and other delights)
Coney Island "LUNA": This single word was enough to signal to any early twentieth-century viewer that he was looking at an image of the mechanized wonder of Coney Island. The Russian-born Louis Lozowick was one of many modern artists drawn to the exciting light show of Coney Island's Luna Park, known as the Electric Eden. He combined cropped and abstracted elements of this leisure mecca's most famous attractions, including the Ferris wheel, the steeplechase ridge, and exotic illuminated minarets.
Artist: Louis Lozowick, American, born Russia, 1892-1973 Medium: Casein on paper Dates: 1935 Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (33.7 x 24.8cm)
Audrey Hepbern,New York, January, 1967. "A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon
JANUARY ‘10 SANZA AND GUITAR: MUSIC OF THE BENA LULUWA OF ANGOLA AND ZAIRE Field recordings by ethnomusicologist Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger and husband Wolfgang Schmid-Wrenger, recorded on a Stellavox and taken from between 1973 and 1976. Genuinely one of the most beautiful records I own. Superior recording technique meets amazing songs from the Sub-Sahara, featuring some instrumentals, but thriving mostly on choral workouts accompanied by various rhythm devices, including a type of gourd that serves as both a wind and percussive instrument (called an issanji - like a thumb piano - see cover). Additional hand clapping, rhythm sticks and some tongue singing offer a totally joyous non-stop groove machine. The “B” side hosts the only guitar tracks, specifically the last two - the final track “Kabwalala” is worth the whole trip. Try NOT playing this one over and over and over. From the liner notes: “The music of the Bena Luluwa differs markedly from that of their neighbors in Angola: the Batshokwe, Bapende and Balunda. Particularly impressive to the Western ear is the strong polyrhythmic component in their dances and choir songs, handclapping, rattles and drums are brought together in one piece of music, and form an intricate rhythmic webbing.” Lyrichord Stereo LLST 7313, 1977 Side One: 1. Festival Dance of the Bena Luluwa of Angola (3′02) 2. “Kabibobo” (4′28) 3. Birth Song (2′59) 4. “Issanji” Orchestra (2′09) 5. “Ntambwe mwalula” (2′10) 6. “Moya mae” (3′07) 7. “Bya mwenya” (2′40) 8. “Nadifwilabiani” (Death through Sickness) (1′53) Side Two: 1. Dance Command (0′37) 2. “Issanji” Orchestra (3′13) 3. “Melanda a nwambamba” (3′55) 4. “Kanuayi” (5′00) 5. “Kabwalala” (11′04) [.zip]
AFRICA WITCHCRAFT & RITUAL MUSIC: RECORDED IN KENYA AND TANZANIA BY DAVID FANSHAWE More tribal sounding than the above, but that makes sense given the ritual emphasis. Recorded by composer and ethnomusicologist David Fanshawe, the sounds here are unique variations in acoustic complexity, where the practice of spiritual healing and music are inextricably linked. I imagine as I listen what it must have been like to witness this stuff being performed, which according to Fanshawe, were nearly extinct traditions back in 1975 when this was released. From the liner notes: “In this recording, I have tried to capture the spirit of a musical heritage now nearly extinct. The music on this album comes form a part of East Africa whose musical traditions remain largely unknown to the rest of the world. Particularly fascinating is the manner in which music and medicine are combined in the indigenous practice of witchcraft; music takes on the power of medicine, and medicine becomes associated with the healing sound of drums, interwoven with beautiful threads of melody. Nonesuch Recrods, H-72066 (Stereo), 1975 Side One: 1. Ngoma ra mrongo (Taita, Kenya) (4′50) 2. Mwari Initiation (Taita, Kenya) (1′52) 3. Coconut Pickers Song (Lamu, Kenya) (3′05) 4. Matondoni Wedding (Lamu, Kenya) (2′07) 5. Marimba (Tanzania) (3′07) 6. Tuken Moral Songs (Kenya) (6′10) 7. Giriama Spirit Dance (Kenya) (2′18) Side Two: 1. Kayamba Dance: Giriama Wedding (Kenya) (4′35) 2. Alto Bung’o Horn (Kenya) (0′42) 3. Akamba Witch Doctor (Kenya) (4′07) 4. Pokot Witch Doctor (Kenya) (3′03) 5. Pokot Dance (Kenya) (1′34) 6. Song of Dawn (Kenya) (2′57) 7. Lukuji (Kenya) (2′57) 8. Nyatiti (Kenya) (3′06) 9. Funeral Dance (Kenya) (2′32) [.zip_pt.1] [zip_pt.2]
(Link to original TONAL BRIDE blogpost for download links)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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.'
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
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
Collages by Stephanie Davidson: http://www.stephd.biz/
Golden Circle Tropical Recipe Book 6
Diana Rigg/The Avengers (Touch of Brimstone) Postcard (via La Contessa)
Coney Island 
Audrey Hepbern,New York, January, 1967.
Karnak, Francis Frith
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.
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
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
Various Artists: Oh! No! Not Another... Midnight Christmas Mess Again!!
Addams Family Christmas
"Never Kill Santa Claus" from the February 1973 issue of The Witching Hour #28, followed by a xmas themed ouija board text tale 
Navidades con Chucha La Loca (Solo Para Adultos)
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:
Rene Magritte, Woman, 1923.
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)
'AL "Grandpa Munster" LEWIS signed this cool MUNSTERS CHRISTMAS photo for me back in 1989!' - PATRICK OWSLEY
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 
Holiday Grotesque #1 KRAMPUS! 1st in a new series of Holiday paintings in trading card size by Matthew Kirscht.
Another by Matthew Kirscht
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)
How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas
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.'
Hitler getting beat by Krampus
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.
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!
Publicity still of Joan Collins being terrorized by Oliver MacGreevy in 1972’s horror anthology Tales from the Crypt.
Art by Richard Sala (via death becomes her)
Babalon Babes Holidays 2009 by ~MicheleWitchipoo
