Halo halo

file under Things That Work:  propaganda, hands

der-wanderer-uber-dem-nebelmeer:

“Have you ever thought about what hands can do?”

“This song is just something else, I mean, it’s a power ballad, kind of, with a ’80s vibe, ’90s production, and Jennifer’s just … like singing this primeval rock’n’roll thing, it just sounds like she’s on magick mushrooms just vomiting the whole time, like without it being this disgusting, you know, thing, it’s like this beautiful rock’n’roll vomit …  The words are illegible and it’s hilarious and beautiful and just strikes awe to hear this.  That’s one of the greats of the ages, I mean you hear this and you just think you’re in love, but with someone that is too dangerous to fool around with.”

— Ethan Miller of Howlin’ Rain (& Comets on Fire)

I was talking to a friend about it recently and I told him that the thing about making that film that upset me most was how cruel Lars is to the woman he is working with. Not that I can’t take it, because I’m pretty tough and completely capable of defending myself, but because my ideals of the ultimate creator were shattered. And my friend said, “What did you expect? All major directors are ‘sexist’, a maker is not necessarily an expert in human rights or female/male equality!”

My answer was that you can take quite sexist film directors like Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick and still they are the one[s] that provide the soul to their movies. In Lars von Trier’s case it is not so and he knows it. He needs a female to provide his work soul. And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming. And hide the evidence. What saves him as an artist, though, is that he is so painfully honest that even though he will manage to cover up his crime in the “real” world (he is a genius to set things up that everybody thinks it is just his female-actress-at-the-moment[’s] imagination, that she is just hysterical or pre-menstrual), his films become a documentation of this “soul-robbery”.

                — Björk

“For the first time in my life I was able to travel the world, hear different influences, see different types of dance and choreography and taste different types of food. It was important that I was able to digest everything.”

— Beyoncé Giselle Knowles on the year that led to her excessive new album

we’re one, but we’re not th same, we get to marry each other, marry each other

Mister Eden, this combines one of yr favourite things and one of yr  least favourite things.

disorganization:

from one of my favorite records

Carla Bozulich will always own my teenaged heart

short list of rockingest individuals of that era:  Jennifer Herrema, Neil Hagerty, Thalia Zedek, Rick Froberg, Billy Childish, Kurt Cobain, J Mascis, Bozulich

fallingandlaughing:

I had a dream about this clip last night. It has LITERALLY HAUNTED MY DREAMS. It would be painful/hilarious enough if only for this young man’s touchingly inept delivery of what can only be called anti-jokes. But it is the cartoonishly shifting eyes after the thudding impact of each line that vaults this clip into the 5-Star Stone Classics of YouTube Tragicomedy category.

I like him much better than the top-of-the-page Youtube commenter does:  “ARGHHHHHHH SHIT…..niggers cant comedy!!!”

T_T

disorganization:

LAST DAY AT METAL TOWER

hello, former co-workers

that guy Mike, th carpenter guy, worked there when I worked there 15 years ago

I had no idea EVERYBODY called it Metal Tower …!

some Filipinos invaded our party