Hot Hot Hot

Wikipedia - "'Hot Hot Hot' is a song by Montserrat musician Arrow featured on his 1982 studio album Hot Hot Hot. Written by Arrow himself, the song became an instant dance floor hit and was later covered by artists around the world, most notably in 1987 by American singer David Johansen under the name Buster Poindexter."
Wikipedia, Repeating Islands, YouTube - Hot Hot Hot, Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot

Arena - Robert Mapplethorpe (1988)

"Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects."
UbuWeb

Soft Cell

Wikipedia - "Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of 'Tainted Love'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Tainted Love, Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s

Mulholland Drive

Wikipedia - "Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Director."
Wikipedia, Film Comment, September/October 2001, YouTube

Greater New York

"Greater New York, the third iteration of the quinquennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan New York area, will open at MoMA PS1 on May 23 and run through October 18, 2010. The 2010 exhibition will not only present recent work made within the past five years, but also will foster a productive workshop where artists are invited to experiment with new ideas within MoMA PS1’s building for the duration of the exhibition."
PS1, MoMA, (1), WNYC, Village Voice, DLK Collection, YouTube - Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1, YouTube - Greater New York at PS1 RUSHES, YouTube - Greater New York at P.S.1 Part I, Part II

Jimi Hendrix

Wikipedia - "James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres." Sept 18, 40th anniversary.
Wikipedia, Jimi Hendrix, last.fm, YouTube - Purple Haze, All Along The Watch Tower, Voodoo Chile, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, Killing Floor, Foxy Lady, Fire, Spanish Castle Magic, Red House, Rock me baby, Band of Gypsys

Fresh Stuff From BR1 in Berlin

"More from BR1 here."
Wooster Collective, flickr

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Wikipedia - "Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 - July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Goin Down to the River, Shake Em On Down, John Henry, Spike Driver Blues, You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley, Blues Maker, 1969 - Part 1, Part 2, When I Lay My Burden Down

Cyberpunk

Shibuya crossing
Wikipedia - "Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on 'high tech and low life'. The name is a blend of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story 'Cyberpunk', published in 1983. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature."
Wikipedia, The Cyberpunk Project, Cyberpunk Review, Mirrorshades

The Music Machine

Wikipedia - "The Music Machine (1965–1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles. The band sound was often defined by fuzzy guitars and a Farfisa organ. Their original look consisted of all-black clothing, (dyed) black moptop hairstyles and a single black glove."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Talk Talk, Trouble, Masculine Intuition

Eclipse

"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."
Eclipse, Tottel's Magazine, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, THIS Magazine, Space - Clark Coolidge, Men In Aida - David Melnick, Silliman's Blog

The Long Take: Lucy Raven, Thom Andersen

Lucy Raven, China Town
"How do you show what’s not there anymore—or what’s not there yet? Answers run throughout the work of both Lucy Raven and Thom Andersen, who trace processes and places that are gone, hidden, or changing so rapidly that we can hardly keep pace."
ARTFORUM

Ephemeral New York

Union Square
"Union Square has been around since 1839, when it opened with a large central fountain, according to the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. But when Union Square was ripped up during subway construction in the 1920s, the fountain went with it. This postmarked, stamped 1910, doesn’t indicate what we’re looking at, but I think it’s Union Square West."
Ephemeral New York

The Directors: Martin Scorsese (2000)

"The American Film Institute's Directors: Martin Scorsese profiles the great director and offers insight into Scorsese's working methods, philosophies, and intentions. ... ~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide"
NYT, amazon, YouTube - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Risk

Wikipedia - "Risk is a strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde ('The Conquest of the World'), in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players attempt to capture territories from other players by rolling higher die numbers. The game is won when one player has managed to occupy every territory."
Wikipedia, Risk, Total Diplomacy, YouTube

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates

"Drawing 2002, in two parts. 38 X 244 cm. and 106,6 X 244 cm. (15" X 96" and 42" X 96"). Pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, aerial photograph, fabric sample and hand-drawn technical data."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, amazon, YouTube - The Gates, YouTube - The artists behind The Gates Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936

"Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century."
Guggenheim, amazon, New York TimeOut

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

"Remember back in 2006 when Werner Herzog heroically rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a wrecked car?"
Coilhouse, Report: Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix doc a fake

Amrita Sher-Gil

Three Girls, 1935
Wikipedia - "Amrita Sher-Gil ... (January 30, 1913, – December 5, 1941), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important women painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India."
Wikipedia, Tate, Kamat, Guardian, YouTube

K. Leimer

"The music of Lesser Epitomes is derived from the aleatoric reordering of discreet, compatible components in relationships that emulate typical theme and variation. The end results were reprocessed into deliberately modified versions or left as is. The three principal pieces are indexed for random shuffle during replay — and reordering is recommended."
palace of lights, Melliflua, cdbaby. emusic

An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry

"The one Irish poet people used to know was Yeats. More recently it has been Seamus Heaney. And yet 'the standing army of Irish poets never falls below 20,000,' proclaimed Patrick Kavanagh, who was one of them. An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, running to almost a thousand pages, comes from a country with a population roughly equal to that of Tennessee. The book includes upwards of 50 poets— and there's not a dull page in it. Editor Wes Davis's selection is judicious, while his introduction and notes are as informative as they are brief."
WSJ, Eyewear, Wooing the clay, amazon

Rufus Thomas

Wikipedia - "Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 27, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Walking the Dog, Jump Back, Do the funky penguin, The Memphis Train, All Night Worker

BBC - 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year

"From back-garden enthusiasts to professional photographers - the Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
BBC

The Clash - Rudie can’t fail

"Okay, I went to the market to realise my soul
Cos what I need I just don’t have, oh no
First they cursed then they pressed me ‘till I hurt
They say Rudie can’t fail"
YouTube - Rudie can’t fail, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

AVC: Art & Literature Gallery

"As a community that presented itself to the known world over two thousand years ago, may we always continue to keep our Macedonian heritage strong by promoting our history, our traditions and our Democratic spirit throughout the world. We owe it to Eordea our Beloved and Sacred Mother Earth, Aristotle the Philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander the Invincible of Pella, Ptolemy I Soter of Eordea, his descendent Cleopatra VII Pharaoh of Alexandria, and all our great Macedonian ancestors for bestowing on to us, such a priceless inheritance."
AVC Media

Charles Olson: The Art of Poetry No. 12

"INTERVIEWER: Do you enjoy telling young poets what they ought to do? OLSON: Oh, Jesus, God, if I ever did, may the Lord of the whole of the seven saints of India and China Buddhaland, Gangestown, and all takers this side of where the Tartars went—may they forgive me because like I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. I mean, wow, I’ve been very lucky, very lucky. I’m sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head."
The Paris Review

2009, January. Wikipedia, EPC, Modern American Poetry, The Charles Olson Research Collection, Other Poets, YouTube, Polis Is This
2010, September. Literary History, amazon, Townsend Humanities Lab, OlsonNow, Smithsonian Institution - Charles Olson Reads from Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, Google - Selected Poems, Google - The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems, Google - Collected prose, RealityStudio - A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester, PEPC LIBRARY: Robin Blaser. The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead

Detroit Lives

"Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America—some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. We put our boots on and went exploring."
Palladium Boots

Einstürzende Neubauten

Wikipedia - "Einstürzende Neubauten (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪnˌʃtʏɐtsəndə ˈnɔʏˌbaʊtən], Collapsing New Buildings) is a German experimental band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... One of their 'trademarks' is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments."
Wikipedia, Einstürzende Neubauten, last.fm, YouTube - Stella Maris, The Garden, Was Ist Ist, Nagorny Karabach, Haus der Lüge, Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy, Blume, Ein Seltener Vogel, 1/2 Mensch

Cid Corman

Wikipedia - "Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation, Flash Point Mag, Longhouse Poetry

Martha and the Vandellas

Wikipedia - "Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were among the most successful groups of the Motown roster during the period 1963-1967. In contrast to other Motown groups such as The Supremes and The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas were known for a harder, R&B sound, typified by '(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave', 'Nowhere to Run', 'Jimmy Mack' and, their signature song, 'Dancing in the Street'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Heatwave, Dancing in the Streets, Nowhere To Run, Jimmy Mack

Venice Film Festival 2010

"One of Europe’s most prestigious film festivals, the Venice Film Festival is an opportunity not only to see cinema in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but also to catch exciting new films fresh before they go on to play at the Toronto Film Festival in September."
MUBI

Robert Fisk

Wikipedia - "Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. Middle East correspondent of the The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States's attack on Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq."
Wikipedia, The Independent - Robert Fisk.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Tarantula

Wikipedia - "Tarantula is an experimental novel by Bob Dylan, written between 1965 and 1966. It employs stream of consciousness writing, somewhat in the style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. One section of the book parodies the Leadbelly song 'Black Betty'. Reviews of the book liken it to his self-penned liner notes to two of his albums recorded around the same time, Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited."
Wikipedia, Google, Tommy Devine's Cosmos Report

2001: A Space Odyssey

Wikipedia - "2001: A Space Odyssey (often referred to simply as 2001) is a 1968 epic science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue."
Wikipedia, W - Comics, Uncyclopedia, YouTube - TRAILER, Stanley Kubrick: The Prophecy of 2001 Part 1, Part 2

Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell - The Wonder Ring,1955

"The gentle The Wonder Ring (1955) is an important early film by Stan Brakhage, which Cornell commissioned as a record of New York's Third Avenue el before it was torn down. Curiously lacking in people, the film focuses on the rhythms of the ride and reflections in train windows, finding a real-world version of the superimpositions Brakhage would later create in the lab."
Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell - The Wonder Ring,1955