Brooksie. The camera has never loved anyone in the same way that it loved Louise Brooks, and it more than likely never will. Sure, there's Setsuko Hara with her girl-next-door appeal, and Antonioni's muse, Monica Vitti. And one can't forget Catherine Deneuve. Fuck. Now I've lost my train of thought. Ohhhhhh... Louise Brooks. My point: There's only one Brooksie.Here's the beguiling Louise Brooks in her first German film with director G.W. Pabst. Their second undertaking would be a little film ca...
It's all about transitions...The Survivors' Suite takes the listener on a journey that begins with the calmest of Asian influences, then 3/4 of the way through the trip, one finds themselves stuck in an Albert Aylers Trio-like session that can only be likened to a very dissonant cat being strangled, that devolves into the coolest of cool jazz, parking the listener calmly at its last stop, the conclusion, which so happens to be the name of the last track. What an album. I have an odd feeling you...
What is the secret of Wendel Samson? And why is he trapped inside a giant spider web? Find out in Mike Kuchar's 1966 follow-up to his classic, Sins of the Fleshapoids. Starker and more sombre than Fleshapoids, The Secret of Wendel Samson nevertheless has the unmistakable melodrama of a Kuchar film and a musical score by the extremely talented and lovely Bob Cowan. Excerpt from an interview with Stop Smiling:SS: I was really impressed by The Secret of Wendel Samson (1966) and how touching that po...
The Craven Sluck tells a sordid tale of unhappy marriages and infidelity and stars Kuchar fan favourites Bob Cowan (in drag), Florain Connors (in way way too much make-up) and, of course, George Kuchar (with a Mod hair-do that puts Roger Daltrey to shame). Though it may be unclear what exactly a 'sluck' is, this movie is worth a watch. I promised more Kuchar and here it is in all its campy, soap-operatic glory!Excerpt from an interview with Stop Smiling:SS: The Craven Sluck (1967), with its tra...
Here is a wonderful Ella video from 1965.Technical Information:Artist: Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan TrioDate: March 23, 1965Location: Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, FinlandSource: DVB-C capture from 2009 'YLE Teema' rebroadcastPro-shot: YesDVD Format: PALDVD Size: DVD5Container: VIDEO_TSSize: 624 MBLength: 0:33:14Programs used: unknownResolution: 720x576Aspect Ratio: 4:3Video: MPEG 2 @ ~2200 kb/sFrame Rate: 25 fpsAudio: mp3 English @ 224 kb/sSubtitles: noneMenu: noneVideo: untouchedDVD extras...
Man, this is a next-to-impossible find. Uptown Top Ranking in lossless. Yes! One or two of you may have noticed that this album was posted awhile back in mp3, but L&S and I have been tirelessy working in the background cleaning up the redheaded step-child posts that only a mother could love, and this was one of them. But enough of the Lord's work. On to Althea and Donna...Uptown Top Ranking, the song, was crazy big. It hit #1 on both the Jamaican and British pop charts in '78, and everyone lov...
After the debacle of Cut the Crap, Joe Strummer went on a walkabout for a few years. His only musical output was a stint sitting in and touring with The Pogues, and a 12' single, Love Kills, made for Alex Cox's then-upcoming Sid and Nancy film. Other than that, nothing. Rumor had it Joe was hanging out with Cox and company in Central and South America, more than likely trying to screw his head on straight. This must have worked, because Mr. Strummer made a beautiful album in Earthquake Weather,...
Let me start off by saying that I'm not much of an R.E.M. fan, but I've been a big fan of two of their albums: Fables of the Reconstruction and Monster. What follows are the demos from the Fables recording sessions, and they seem to encompass everything I dislike and really love about the band. My biggest gripe concerning R.E.M. is that so many of their songs seem interchangable: Peter Buck's jingly-jangly Byrds riffs in the foreground competing with Michael Stipes drawly, unintelligable vocal...
We apologize. The staff at ForTheDishwasher (who am I kidding. There is no staff...) put up the most God-awful Strange Circus post when we were first starting out. It was an XviD, and I really f'ing hate XviD, and to make things worse it was split into two sections and rar'd into a zillion parts. I wish I could blame this faux pas on drunkeness or a horrid crack cocaine addiction, but the bottom line is that it was pure and unadulterated stupidity on our (my) part.Sooooooooo...Here's the Strang...
Oldskool Prince and the Revolution in all their funkified glory. This liberated bootleg is a great companion piece to the James Brown show that I posted earlier- a pristine soundboard from the Dirty Mind tour of '81. I tell you...this guy's guitar playing borders on nuts. An amazing show from an amazing tour of an amazing band. It's too damn good to pass up.From the original uploader:The Dirty Mind Tour was the second concert tour by Prince, and supported his third album Dirty Mind. The tour la...