Knuckledragger

Wales, MA. Console was made in the late 60's around mid 66' private bar in East London.

Crocheted cat couch. I didn't particularly like Obama and this got a chuckle out of me.

Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL, February 13, 1995. ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE. Once-in-a-lifetime shot. Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry jamming at Madison Square Garden. New York, 1972.

Last night's set is up:

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Absolutely cursed.

Apologies in advance. Personally, I blame Ben Shapiro. EDIT: Actually, I lame copyright strikes. #FuckDisney

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"It's been about 6 months since I put this on a welder at work and no one has said anything. It's a magnet with sharpie on it."

My sainted mother is visiting from Marthas Vineyard, so I've been showing her a few old films. Last night we watched The Black Cat (1934), which stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Both men were at the peak of their careers, coming off the huge success of Dracula and Frankenstein (both 1931) respectively. I saw The Black Cat many years ago because of ...well, me obsessing over electronic music. The Norwegian collective known as Neural Network in this case. Their second album Modernité is an unknown ambient classic. However, their first album Brain-State-In-A-Box is the one that sent me on the journey that lead me to The Black Cat. On the song "Under The Sun" there is a repeated sample "There are many things ...under the sun." The spoken sample is both used brilliantly in the song, but also said with such authority that I was intrigued enough to track down the original source. Flash forward a dozen or more years, and I developed a renewed interest in The Black Cat after learning that the director was Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer is a fascinating character who had a gift for turning out a masterpiece (or at least a mini-masterpiece) on a shoestring budget. He learned this skill after he fell in love with a producer's wife, ran off with her, and got blackballed in Hollywood for 10-15 years. (To be fair, he stayed married to her for decades.) The Black Cat is one of the films Ulmer produced before his exile, and was actually a huge hit at the time. Lugosi and Karloff were rivals, and Ulmer deftly used their adverse professional relationship to extract stellar performances from them. It's a horror film, but there isn't much in the way of death, monsters or gore. It's an early psychological thriller more than anything else. It's also quite a short film, clocking in at just over an hour (another trademark of Ulmer, getting things done quickly.) After watching The Black Cat, I explained the significance of Edgar G. UImer, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff to my mother. I also covered the career arcs of the two main stars. Lugosi's fizzled and he developed bad habits like morphine and working with Ed Wood. Karloff, meanwhile, sustained an admirable career for many years. She was quite taken with the film. It has stood the test of time and is well worth a watch even now. Side note: I also attempted to explain to her the renaissance in popularity Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood experienced in the 1980s and onward. I even went into the Bauhaus and their famous track named after Bela. I showed her a live video of the band performing at Coachella in 2005: She was so taken aback by Peter Murphy hanging upside down for the entire performance that the song was king of lost on her. She's a bit out of the post punk demographic anyway. So tonight, naturally, we watched Plan 9 From Outer Space. Unsurprisingly, she thought it was amazingly awful. I attempted to explain that the terribleness the film was the point of it, and how Ed Wood became so famous for his ineptitude. She did find some parts amusing, but in general thought it stunk. I think tomorrow night we'll watch Edgar Ulmer's famous 1945 noir film Detour to make up for it.

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' ' Big trucks always compensate for tiny wieners. $5000 Canadian after someone using the microwave to disinfect it.

The Irisih ambient composter Mick Chillage Gainford took a bunch of photos of the Irish coast and posted them to FB (I'm enough of a nerd to be FB friends with him.) I especially liked the look of one of them: I spent half an hour working it over in Photoshop (I finally upgraded from my ca. 2012 CS6 version) and came up with this: Look for Mick Chillage's new field recording and synth drone release "Sea Wall" later this month (not really.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-agrees-joe-rogan-debate-biden-2020-9 #NotTheOnion

Definitely not doing an RPAN broadcast tonight. I do have the infrastructure to do it with my phone, but ...I really don't want to. I "adulted" all day as the millennials say, and I'm tired and cranky. Also I ordered another Chinesium webcam off AMZN (different brand this time) and it's due to arrive tomorrow. I might give RPAN a shot midweek.

Assault on precinct 13 recording session. Moog 901s in full effect.

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