Monthly Archives: July 2007

Little Caesar 7

Little Caesar 7

Dennis Cooper says:

“I think most of you know I used to edit a literary/ art/ music zine back in the late 70s and early 80s called Little Caesar. Issue #7 was a kind of unofficial Andy Warhol themed issue. I got Warhol superstar Gerard Malanga to give me a little interview he’d done with Warhol in the 60s and write something about Nico. Lou Reed gave me a long poem he’d written. Taylor Mead gave a long piece of writing. I did a special section on my all time favorite Warhol superstar Eric Emerson, who’d died not long before I put the issue together. The section on him included pix, writings, excerpts from his diary, and a transcript of his amazing scene in ‘Chelsea Girls‘ Below I’ve posted scans of select pages from the issue. This will be the first of a series of posts concentrating on various Little Caesar products.” Dennis Cooper in 30 pages of Little Caesar # 7

Nu Groove

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Via Woebot comes this Nu Groove documentary. Pretty representative for the Nu Groove sound is Bobby Konders: The Poem.

Woebot also points us to this Lee Perry interview. From that interview:

Viceland: What are your thoughts on the war in Iraq?

Lee Perry: The war in Iraq was ordained to be and Iraq was supposed to be Babylon, but Mr Bush don’t want Iraq to have the power to know that Iraq is Babylon. Nothing go wrong, it ordained to be so. Otherwise Saddam Hussein will end up being the destruction and Bush would prefer to be the destruction. Babylon was in Iraq, now Babylon in America.

Eno on Can

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Although once described as not requiring real effort in a Curt (Groovy Age) interview, the practice of choosing Youtube clips requires knowledge and patience. So it is with great pleasure I present you this brilliant clip of musician/artist/theorist Brian Eno on German Krautrock band Can. The source of this clip is as of yet unestablished.

Speaking of Groovy Age, guest editor Jaakko is doing a series of posts on Terror Blu, a previously unknown (to me at least) Italian fumetti series. Jaakko has also what appears to be the largest online collection of fumetti available.

Who is Andrea Maula?

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Disco Magic Theatre – Andrea Maula

Andrea Maula is an Italian film director who contributed a vignette to the 1994 DeGenerazione. There is nothing more I can tell you about the clip above, except that I like it which proves that the horror genre can be exciting outside of the groovy seventies to which it sometimes seems to be confined. Could it be that Maulamaster is the nick for Andrea Maula?

O yes, I found this clip by googling for Alberto Cavallone + Youtube. And I discovered Cavallone via Esotika.

Rare films

If you like the writing of Mike over at Esotika, please help him locate the following films. There’s one film, Hyper Erotic Art: Hayashi, on the list so rare that it’s not even listed at IMDb, I’ve been lucky enough to see it and Hayashi has been one of my top 10 erotomaniacs ever since.

Another item on Mike’s list are the films of Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes, reviewed at this at first site excellent blog hands-tied. More from that blog here. Related to hands-tied are nitrato-lirico and visionary-film.

Les Vampires (1915)

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As per request of Cliff.

Les Vampires is a 1915 10-part silent film serial. It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as “Irma Vep” a femme fatale whose name is a suspicious anagram of “vampire.” The serial is set in Paris, France and contrary to the title, the Les Vampires were not actually about vampires, but about a gang of master criminals cum secret society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang.

There are 10 episodes, averaging around 40 minutes each; it is about 6 and a half hours total.

The story of the 1996 movie Irma Vep features an attempt to remake Les Vampires.

Le Vampire (1945) – Jean Painlevé

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I’ve mentioned Painlevé (who died 18 years ago today) here. Le Vampire features footage of Murnau’s classic Nosferatu, which eventually leads to discussion about what vampire bats are like, illustrated with a live guinea pig. Unidentified jazz music reminds of the New Orleans voodoo tradition of vampires. A strange mix of fact and fiction.