Resurrection

I've decided to do this again, I had to stop due to my final year getting all serious and other real life shit that I wont go into. Basically doing this again for a place to document whatever I end up seeing in Norway when i go in a week and a bit. Back at home for a couple of months, stumbled across a few things...

 

Took this in Brighton about 4 and a bit years or so now, they flew down and started throwing fish heads around, hit a bunch of people trying to enjoy the 'sun'.

Prague about 2 years ago, don't what was going on here, just stumbled across it whilst hungover as shit.

THIS.

Seething with jealousy, but this has put me in a great mood too.

 

Apparently this is a legitimate company in Australia. I am going to start a sister company called Gro-Mags, sell plant fertilizer and shit.

Current rotation...

Forest Swords - Rattling Cage from ///NO PAIN IN POP\\\ on Vimeo.

Currently incredibly relevant to my interests. Listen to more here.

My mind.

Stolen from Sam Swift, this summer I want to start a band like this and play in gardens, garages and BBQ's ONLY.

Earsnot IRAK.

NECKFACE for Altamont from Altamont Apparel on Vimeo.

 

Still my favourite fucking video of all time, still the best live fucking video I've ever seen. DON'T STAND AT THE BACK LOOKING CUTE.

Nostalgia.

A lot of people will be unimpressed with this, but no one reads this shit anyway so who cares. I've just been listening to Death Cab For Cutie for the first time in many many years, say what you want about this band, they are a band I can track throughout my early, mid and late teens, and a band intensely important in my life. Plans reminds me of possibly the best times of my life, going on holiday to Cornwall with three of my best friends, 2 of which I don't talk to as much anymore and I really should do, waking up at 3am to go to a new skate park opened on the seafront, laying in Josh's garden after a party listening to this record and Transatlanticism, the list is endless. Now I'm 21, negative and clutching at straws for almost every aspect of my life, what I wouldn't give to go back to then, fuck...

 

 

TEAM ROBBO SOUTH AFRICA from Team Robbo SA on Vimeo.

New Iron Age.

The Saga Demos just released on Cyclopean Records today, said to be the final release from iron Age, which is an absolute shame. Iron Age have constantly been brilliant, what with Constant Struggle being a near perfect hardcore record, but I fucking LOVE the sound that they grew into with The Sleeping Eye and this tape. There are nods to Mercyful Fate on this tape, enough said.

If you're lucky there maybe a few left in the Cyclopean Records store (I doubt it now though, I got one, har har), or they are offering it to download for free at their band camp.

Had that bottom of the gut feeling for a solid week.

New Cold Cave.

 

The Great Pan is Dead is the first song taken from the upcoming album Cherish the Light Years. This is what Wes Eisold has said about the track (taken from the Cold Cave website.)

"This is the first song on the forthcoming full-length, Cherish the Light Years. It was also the first song I wrote after the group of songs that makes up Love Comes Close and it existed in some half-finished way in my head for almost two years. It had to be the first song on the album and serve as a declaration of everything I want to assert through Cold Cave.

When the album was announced a few weeks ago it was said that the record is a love letter to NYC. That’s not exactly true. It’s a love letter to the path that has lead me to where I am now, to loss and love and friends and enemies and the dizzied and blurred ways of the world. This song and record is about magic, preservation, youth and movement.

I spent the months before recording visiting old homes and record stores and small towns and cities I grew up in. I went to Boston, Philly, Portland and Brunswick Maine, Virginia Beach, San Diego, Monterey, and more to soak in the nostalgia, some version of research for the record.

I miss a lot of people. I used to deal with that by assuring myself I’d see them again. I know that can’t be true. This song is dedicated to all of them.
More soon..
WE"

LISTEN

Weekend Nachos / Subterranean from krzysztof bleszko on Vimeo.

Today is also about Iron Age.

Constant rotation.

I look forward to this, April 26th.

Thunderbird.

 

Last summer I went to a day festival with my mother and her boyfriend which had what looked like an already rigor mortised Bob Dylan headlining and some other absolutely forgettable bands/famous crackheads. However, what shone out like a pissed stained, whisky breathed beacon of hope was Seasick Steve, the only act of the day I was looking forward to seeing. He sings with a knowledge of the road, belonging to the 'other', basically being an absolute badass, and tells his stories with absolute sincerity and conviction. You know this man is real, and could probably beat you until you shit out your own face. 

After he played I walked around on my own, sat between the burrito van and the bar and spent all of my money between the two, got sunburnt, drunk and shouted 'play Ace of Spades' repeatedly whilst Bob Dylan played. Fuck your revolution.

Unreleased J-Dilla/Madlib collab.

Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme) by stonesthrow

Now playing.

I want knowledge, not faith.

 

"thank me when you are dressed all in leather wanking for eternity in hell."

No Talk are a punk rock from Texas all about leather and shit like that. Throw up on yourself and pretend you ride a bike or something. 

Download here.

 

Now playing.

MKULTRA

Project MKULTRA started in the early 1950's, which continued at least until the 1960's. A covert and illegal human research program that looked into the possibilities of mind control, a reaction to the alleged brain washing of American troops by Korean Communist soldiers. They used US and Canadian citizens as their guinea pigs.

The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse.

Focus was on the use of LSD due to it's ability to alter the subjects consciousness, and many experiments were undertaken on their the military and on general members of the public also. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions, almost always without their knowledge. 


Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, even though actual use of LSD was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966. In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, CA to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with two-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.