Thursday, January 29, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

New Tattoo



I found this advertisement in the subway. The kid in this tattoo is so bad ass I want to get this tattoo myself. If this tattoo could talk, it would sound something like the way the Clay Davis character says "sheeeeeiiitttttt" on The Wire.  



Tuesday, January 20, 2009

D.J. Jimi-I'm Back! I'm Back!



Ok, so the album is not nearly as good as the picture, but that is some serious cover art. 

Judging by D.J. Jimi's eyes, I would guess he is "back" from the corner store where he went to buy a chocolate Dutch.
 
Tracks
(My spell check almost exploded, but I managed to maintain the D.J. Jimi's unique spelling of the songs' titles.)
1. Inhale 
2. Still Goin' On
3. Swing
4. Bonus Beat
5. Titties, Tongues and Dicks
6. Hoz' Ain't Nut'n But Hoz'
7. Jivin'
8. Sumt' In Missing
9. Krooked Kops 
(Since the words crooked and cops both begin with c, why would you change the first letters of each word to a k? If the title of the track was "Killer Kops", the change would make sense. "Krooked Kops" just looks weird. Ok, D.J. Jimi, I get it-You spell things "krazy" because that's street, but you are getting a little out of control here. Unless, of course, you  think crooked and cops are spelled supposed to begin with a letter k. In that case, the education system has failed you, and I am deeply sorry.)
10. Yeah (Fuckin' Right) 
(The "Fuckin' Right" is not my addition. It is part of the song title)
11. A Little Sumt' In Sumt' In
12. Must Be The Music
13. Big Bird
14. Nigga Rigged
15. Yeah Instrumental 
(Come on D.J. Jimi, if you can spell instrumental, you know how to spell crooked and cops. You are losing some serious cred points here with your obvious book learnin'.)
16. Exhale
Bonus Tracks
17. Something's Missing   
 (D.J. Jimi, you just lost it here. If you are going to intentionally misspell the words of your songs' titles, you need to follow a method. You can't switch between correct and incorrect spellings of the same word. You can't misspell simple words and then correctly spell longer, more complicated words. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way.)
18.Still Goin' On
19. A Little Sumt' In Sumt' In

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HB704NRU

The Skinhead World

Channel 4 documentary about skinheads that does a good job of focusing on the original "Spirit of '69" skins as opposed to their National Front racist brethren 

Lots of nice threads and great reggae tunes


Saturday, January 17, 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

Read Hard or Die



Very cool little piece of amateur anthropology published in Jamaica in 1976. Owens, a white Catholic priest, lived and worked in Kingston, and over time he was able to gain the trust of several Rastafarian groups throughout the city. These Rastas then began to share with him the tenets of their faith. Although he does provide a small amount of commentary about the historical and sociological background of the religion, Owens generally allows the Rastas to explain their beliefs in their own words with a minimum of authorial intrusion. Since the Rastas' language is so coded and oblique, the book sometimes becomes almost like a religious text. Although not a great source for a clear overview of Rastafarianism, the book excellently conveys the religion's blunted mysticism.

Record Nerd Erotica

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/16/ces.luxury.turntable/index.html

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults




Audio recording of a 1984 religious service of The Church Universal and Triumphant, an American based cult once led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Originally a mix of eastern religion, Christianity, and new age beliefs, during the 1980's Prophet began predicting a nuclear war was  going to break out between the U.S. and Russia, and as a result, the cult began to move more and more towards survivalism. The group eventually purchased a tract of land in Montana which they developed into a compound complete with underground shelters that the cult members believed would allow them to survive the coming nuclear holocaust. The followers had all sorts of wacky beliefs involving UFOs and something called "the international capitalist communist conspiracy", but by far the two funniest things about the cult are the way that they talk really, really fast like the guy who used to do the old Micro Machines commercials when they pray and their firm belief in the evils of rock music. The list of musicians/bands that the group prays will see the light and quit their wicked ways is so completely all over the map that it is astounding. 


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V49KTK2I

Les Rallizes Denudes-Live 1972

















Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Yay! Free Movies

As the world slowly slips into a real life Mad Max 2 situation (Pray to God that it doesn't reach Thunderdome level), you are probably hoarding all your money Scrooge McDuck style or you have lost your job and thus have a lot of free time on your hands. Well, today is your lucky day. Check out www.filmhill.com and watch high quality copies (i.e. none of the shot on camcorder shit that all the little Chinese women try to sell you in NYC) of all the recent movies that you were too cheap to see in the theater this year. There is no download or registration required. Enjoy! 

(If neither of these situations apply to you, you are probably really rich. In that case you should be doing cocaine laced with flecks of pure gold off of the ass of the ass of the Brazilian super model that you just bought, not reading a stupid blog. What is wrong with you?)