Category Archives: miscellaneity

“The Needle and the Damage Done”

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The Needle and the Damage Done (1972) Neil Young

“The Needle and the Damage Done” is a song by Neil Young that chronicles the descent of musicians he knew into heroin addiction. Neil has introduced the song thus:

“Ever since I left Canada, about five years ago or so.. and moved down south.. found out a lot of things that I didn’t know when I left. Some of ’em are good, and some of ’em are bad. Got to see a lot of great musicians before they happened… before they became famous.. y’know, when they were just gigging. Five and six sets a night… things like that. And I got to see a lot of, um , great musicians who nobody ever got to see. For one reason or another. But.. strangely enough, the real good ones… that you never got to see was.. ’cause of, ahhm, heroin. An’ that started happening over an’ over. Then it happened to someone that everyone knew about. So I just wrote a little song.”

This post is dedicated to my friends Walter and Dominique.

Introducing PCL Linkdump

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk via PCL Linkdump

Of course I am well aware that, to most of you regular readers, PCL Linkdump is a well known destination; it’s just that I’ve never officially introduced them and give them the shout-out they deserve. PCL Linkdump is run by a team of contributors among which I particularly appreciate the work of Mr. Dante Fontana, who has just posted James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti – It’s A Man’s World in remembrance of Luciano Pavarotti (1935 – 2007).

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Soldier, soldier

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Soldier, soldier (1979) – Spizz Energi

Dedicated to DJ Marieke from Antwerp, who usually plays this after Wire’s “I am the fly, the fly in the ointment.”

Youtube bricolage

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I love Youtube bricolage (the art of remixing “found” video clips and music) and while I’m not particular fond of the soundtrack to the clip above (a Brian Eno remix of the Lopez-track from 808 State’s album Don Solaris), I would still like to share it with you for the film snippets listed below. In case your wondering who 808 State are, here is a badly hissing clip from their best track: Pacific. (And here is a clip from The Beloved and “Sun Rising”, at the time a similar outfit to 808 State)

Film credits (not in chronological order): Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel La Sindrome Di Stendhal 1996 Dario Argento Merlin 1998 Steve Barron Lola Montes 1955 Max Ophüls Siren 2 2006 SCEI Discovery Channel La Frusta e il Corpo 1963 Mario Bava Les Yeux Sans Visage 1960 Georges Franju Pagan Poetry 2001 Nick Knight Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô Kumonosu Jô 1957 Akira Kurosawa Sennen Joyû 2001 Satoshi Kon Death Becomes Her 1992 Robert Zemeckis Die Büchse Der Pandora 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Tanin No Kao 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara Goh-Hime 1992 Hiroshi Teshigahara The Saddest Music In The World 2003 Guy Maddin Faraon 1966 Jerzy Kawalerowicz The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti Viy/Вий 1967 Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Yershov Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel La Reine Margot 1994 Patrice Chéreau Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch Hausu/House 1977 Nobuhiko Obayashi Inferno 1980 Dario Argento Profondo Rosso 1975 Dario Argento Yôkihi 1955 Kenji Mizoguchi

Ear candy

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A 1983 album by King Sunny Adé produced by Martin Meissonnier.

 

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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (song)

 

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Fonda Rae

 

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Stakker Humanoid

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Cassius 99

 

Introducing Isabella Santacroce

Isabella Santacroce & Maria Callas, a Youtube mix by FactoryB0y.

Introducing Isabella Santacroce.

Andrej, thanks for the links. Loved your post about the Kyrous (did not realize there was a second brother). I’ve made a stub for Ariel. I was intrigued by his reference to Shaolin Soccer, the term sounded so familiarly unfamiliar to my ears (is the film any good?). I would like to review Le Surréalisme au cinéma in greater depth but would just as rather publish its CAPs and SIPs analysis (in the style of what I am doing for Film as a Subversive Art), if that were possible.

For Santacroce: tip of the hat to Jaklien Teuwen.

Here is a film based on the work of Santacroce:

Luminal