Hip-Hop History Volume 4: 1982

"The Treacherous Three – Yes We Can-Can
Fearless Four – Rockin’ It
Fearless Four – It’s Magic
Cold Crush Brother – Weekend
Disco Four – We’re At The Party
Crash Crew – Breaking Bells (Take Me To The Mardi Gras)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – The Message
Pieces of A Dream – Mt. Airy Groove
Star Quality & Class – Betcha Got A Dude On The Side
Funky 4 + 1 More – Do You Want To Rock
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Flash To The Beat (Live)
Jimmy Spicer – The Bubble Bunch
Malcolm Mclaren – Buffalo Gals
Just Four – Jam To Remember
Super 3 – Standing on the Top
South Bronx – Bottom Line
Nairobe & the Awesome Foursome – Funky Soul Makossa
Africa Bambaataa – Looking For The Perfect Beat
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Scorpio
Africa Bambaataa The Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock"
The Rub

Astral Weeks

Wikipedia - "Astral Weeks is the second solo album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records. It was Morrison's first album after Warner Bros. had been able to free him from his contract with Bang Records. ... Employing a mixture of folk, blues, jazz, and classical music, Astral Weeks received critical acclaim immediately upon its first release and subsequently has been placed on numerous widely-circulated lists of best albums of all time."
Wikipedia, W - Astral Weeks, W - Beside_You, W - Sweet Thing, W - Cyprus_Avenue, W - The Way Young Lovers Do, W - Madame George, W - Ballerina, W - Slim Slow Slider

Astral Weeks by Lester Bangs from "Stranded" (1979), npr

YouTube - 1973.07.27 - Old Grey Whistle Test Interview, Van Morrison on Astral Weeks: why I had to go back to my soul classic, YouTube - TIME Magazine Interviews: Van Morrison

YouTube - Cyprus Avenue, live 1970, Cyprus Avenue (1), Beside You, Ballerina - Live

Propaganda goes exploring the Rough Guide To Graphic Novels

"It’s pretty obvious what this book is all about. The Rough Guide series is a universally recognisable brand. After years of travel guides, they’ve expanded into other areas, providing reference books for various subjects. I suppose the Rough Guide To Graphic Novels, given the increasing popularity of such books, was practically inevitable."
forbidden planet, amazon

Landscape with Philip Glass (1975)

"Landscape with Philip Glass. The Music of Philip Glass - Music in 12 Parts; Part 2; Act 1, Scene 1; Einstein on the Beach"
UbuWeb

stylus (2010) - Ann Hamilton

"As a visual artist whose contributions to contemporary art span three decades, Ann Hamilton's installations are notable in part for their capacity to weave a broad palette of media into engaging sensory environments. Conceived in response to the Pulitzer's mission to be both sanctuary and laboratory, stylus is structured around live acoustic elements. The sound design was developed in collaboration with composer and sound designer Shahrokh Yadegari."
e-flux, Ann Hamilton - stylus, AFC, minimal exposition, Saint Louis Art Map, michael salcman's posterous, Department of Art, YouTube - In Your Own Words: Opening of stylus: a project by ann hamilton, stylus: The Bell Speakers, stylus: The Disklaviers, stylus: Lila and the Voice

Roots, Rock, Reggae. A Documentary

"Documentary about Roots Reggae(1977)"
YouTube - Roots, Rock, Reggae. A Documentary part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

Bumper sticker

Wikipedia - "A bumper sticker is an adhesive label or sticker with a message, intended to be attached to the bumper of an automobile and to be read by the occupants of other vehicles - although they are often stuck onto other objects."
Wikipedia

The Chocolate Watch Band

Wikipedia - "The Chocolate Watch Band, was a psychedelic rock and garage rock band formed in San Jose, California in 1965. The band had finally broken up indefinitely by 1970 but then reunited in 1999 at a 66/99 show Mike Stax organized in San Diego. They continue to play today at garage rock shows in Europe as well as the States with Little Steven and the Electric Prunes." Wikipedia, The Chocolate Watchband, Sitting There Standing, Don't Need Your Lovin', Misty Lane, In the past, Dark side of the mushroom, Let's talk about girls

John Cage In Norway

"CD in 64-page hardcover book with photos, interviews with the musicans and a transcription of Cage’s Q&A at the Oslo Art Academy."
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Wikipedia - "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is a 2007 documentary film directed by Julien Temple about Joe Strummer, the lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash, that went on to win the British Independent Film Awards as Best British Documentary 2007."
Wikipedia, amazon, YouTube - THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN 1 of 11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Art Machines Machine Art at Museum Tinguely

"Starting with Jean Tinguely's drawing machines from the 1950s, the exhibition jointly organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Tinguely presents art machines from different ages and contexts through to the present day."
Art Machines Machine Art at Museum Tinguely part 1, part 2

5 Poems by Jack Spicer

"Jack Spicer was born in Los Angeles on January 30, 1925. Both of his parents were from the Midwest. He met Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser at the University of California at Berkeley. Spicer considered his meeting of Duncan so important he would refer to 1946, the year they met, as his real birth date."
YouTube - 5 Poems by Jack Spicer, amazon - "Collected Books of Jack Spicer", amazon - "The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer", amazon - "My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer"

November 2007: EPC/Spicer, PENNSOUND
February 2010: PoemTalk
April 2010: Mimeo Mimeo, Jacket 7 — April 1999
November 2010: The Sienese Shredder

Holding Patterns

Nathan Harger, Untitled (Holding Patterns), Brooklyn, New York
"This the graphic answer to living in a city like New York. It’s an environment where I see the same objects and structures repeating themselves everywhere: They are somewhat different, yet still they look interchangeable."
The Paris Review

Skip Blumberg - Nam June Paik: Lessons from the video master (2006)

"Nam June Paik was the first video artist and did almost everything in video art first. His work broke the rules of art, television, graphics, and, because TV can use all possible art and information, practically everything else, too."
UbuWeb

Marlene Dietrich - Falling in love again (1930)

"In 1929, Dietrich landed the breakthrough role of Lola-Lola, a cabaret singer who causes the downfall of a hitherto respected schoolmaster, in UFA's production, The Blue Angel (1930)."
YouTube

Banjo Spirits

"Banjo Spirits explores the legacy of the banjo through the eyes of Don Stover and Stephen Wade. Don Stover learned to play the banjo from his mother in Artie, West Virginia, where he was born in 1928. Don grew up and worked in the local coal mines, but the banjo proved to be his ticket out of the area. Don played with Buzz Buzby, the Lilly Brothers, and Bill Monroe."
folkstreams

Zeena Parkins

Wikipedia - "Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion."
Wikipedia, Zeena Parkins, vimeo - Roulette TV: JANENE HIGGINS & ZEENA PARKINS, YouTube - ZEENA PARKINS + BOBBY PREVITE DUO, Matmos & Zenna Parkins, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins / sound. at REDCAT pt. 1/4, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins / sound. at REDCAT pt. 2/4, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins / sound. at REDCAT pt. 3/4, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins / sound. at REDCAT pt. 4/4, ZEENA PARKINS / IKUE MORI - PHANTOM ORCHARD - Teatro Fondamenta Nuove Venezia

The Fool

Wikipedia - "The Fool or The Jester is one of the 78 cards in a Tarot deck; one of the 22 Trump cards that make up the Major Arcana. The Fool is unnumbered (sometime represented as 0--the first—or XXII--the last—Major Arcana in decks). It is used in divination as well as in game playing."
Wikipedia

Let them eat cake

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Wikipedia - "'Let them eat cake' is the traditional translation of the French phrase Qu'ils mangent de la brioche, supposedly spoken by a great princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine. Although they are commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her."
Wikipedia

Exit Through the Gift Shop

"The film is relentlessly entertaining, a fascinating document of work whose life span is commonly determined by city councils and cleanup crews. New York Times - Jeannette Catsoulis"
Banksy

Magnum Opus

"I am besotted with a new book that is also an old book. This is The H.D. Book, by Robert Duncan, a wild, dazzling, idiosyncratic magnum opus that the poet composed between 1959 and 1964 and that is only now being published in its complete form, by the University of California Press. What began with a request for a brief birthday homage to the American poet known as H.D.—she had been born Hilda Doolittle—morphed into one of the greatest of all meditations on the nature not only of modern poetry but of the modern artistic imagination in its bewitching complexity."
TNR, amazon, Google - The H.D. Book By Robert Duncan, Michael Boughn, Victor Coleman

DJ Handi's Archive Picks: Captian Beefheart 1941-2010

"Hi: I'm DJ Handi: Each week, I’ll be picking an archive, or aspects of shows I found compelling and hope you also do. This week is about how different WFMU DJs handled Captain Beefheart’s death at age 69. If you are new to Beefheart, learn about his importance in this article."
WFMU

The Ventures

Wikipedia - "The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two masonry workers, has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling instrumental band of all time."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - The Ventures Live 1966. Pipeline, Diamond Head (1/1), The Cruel Sea, Walk Don't Run'64, Apache (2/2), Slaughter On 10th Avenue, Bumble Bee Rock, Bulldog (3/3), Wipe Out, House of The Rising Sun, Telstar (4/4). Hawaii Five-0, Perfidia

Peak Oil and a Changing Climate

"The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs out?" Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other scientists, researchers and writers interviewed
The Nation - Peak Oil and a Changing Climate, The Nation - Video

Calvin and Hobbes

"Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher."
Wikipedia, Go Comics, amazona, 25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips, Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine, Google - The complete Calvin and Hobbes, Volumes 1-3 By Bill Watterson

Streets Against The War

"The video above was shot on 294 walls in four different Turkish cities."
Wooster Collective

Woodberry Poetry Room Oral History Initiative: Charles Olson, Gloucester, MA, October 9, 2010

"During the Charles Olson Centennial celebration in Gloucester, in October 9, 2010, a group of Olson’s Massachusetts friends, NYC acquaintances and Black Mountain contemporaries---including Ammiel Alcalay, Peter Anastas, Chuck Stein, Ingeborg Lauterstein and Ed Sanders---congregated in a local café and communed about the Maximus poet with the staff of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University."
PennSound

Hip-Hop History Volume 3: 1981

"Treacherous 3 – Heartbeat Rap
Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde – Genius Rap
Just Four – Girls of the World
Afrika Bambaataa & Jazzy 5 -Jazzy Sensation (Bronx Mix)
T-Ski Valley – Never Let Go
Mean Machine – Disco Dream
Troy Rainey – Tricky T Rap
Solo Sound – Get the Party Jumpin
Crash Crew – We Want To Rock
Disco Four – Do It, Do It
Loose Joints – Shoot the Pump
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
Cold Crush Brothers (Live)
Busy B vs. Kool Moe Dee (Live)"
The Rub

Toy piano

John Cage
Wikipedia - "The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument. The present form of the toy piano was invented in Philadelphia by a 17-year-old German immigrant named Albert Schoenhut. He worked as a repairman at Wanamaker's department store, repairing broken glass sounding pieces in German toy pianos damaged in shipping. Schoenhut conceived of the toy piano as it is known today in 1872, when he substituted durable steel plates for the traditional fragile glass bars."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Suite for Toy Piano, John Cage, John Cage, YouTube - John Cage : Suite for Toy Piano (in Zen style?)

D.A.F.

Wiokipedia - "Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft ... is an influential German electropunk/NDW band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel 'Gabi' Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt 'Pyrolator' Dahlke (electronic instruments), Michael Kemner (bass-guitar) and Wolfgang Spelmans (guitar). Kurt Dahlke was replaced by Chrislo Haas (electronic instruments, bass-guitar, saxophone) in 1979."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Der Mussolini, Der Raeuber und der Prinz, Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick, Ich und die Wirklichkeit, Greif nach den Sternen, Der sheriff

Aimé Césaire - Five Poems

"The glade today happily presents five poems by Aimé Césaire, as translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman from the great Martinican poet’s unexpurgated 1948 first edition of Soleil cou coupe (front cover pictured above). These translations are previously unpublished and will appear in Solar Throat Slashed (Wesleyan University Press, announced for May 2011, front cover also pictured above), the first full edition in English of Césaire’s book."
the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica

Robert Nighthawk

Wikipedia - "Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band. A particular influence during this period was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learnt to play slide guitar, and with whom he appeared on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi."
Wikipedia, Bricks In My Pillow: The Robert Nighthawk Story, YouTube - Maxwell Street, My Sweet Lovin' Woman, Sweet Black Angel, Anna Lee, Murderin' Blues, Blues Before Sunrise, You Missed A Good Man, Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down, Return Mail Blues

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Wikipedia - "Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir, adapted from the novel of the same name. ... The film centres on a party of schoolgirls who mysteriously vanish after being drawn towards a mysterious rock formation in Australia in 1900. It is known for its dreamlike aura, eerie soundtrack and mysterious, unresolved story; for the debate over its meaning, see the article on the novel."
Wikipedia, Roger Ebert, Criterion - video, YouTube

Kerry James Marshall

Muralists on scaffolding. SFMOMA.
Wikipedia - "Kerry James Marshall (b. October 17, 1955) is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
Wikipedia, PBS - art21, CI:99/00, Callaloo, Vol. 21 No. 1, YouTube - On Museums, Being an Artist, Otis Visiting Artist

Luis Camnitzer

Wikipedia - "Luis Camnitzer (born 1937) is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who works in the media of printmaking and sculpture."
Wikipedia, e-flux, Luis Camnitzer: Retrospective Exhibition, 1966-1990, The Legacy Project, YouTube - Interview with conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer, Muestra Antológica, Behind the Scenes: On Line