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THE CULTURAL GOOFBALLS ON WHICH I AM CURRENTLY HOPPED UP

Thursday, July 26, 2012

BRANDO: THE BIOGRAPHY (Peter Manso, 1994)









I bought this thing ten years ago, and have been putting off reading it for a decade due to the commitment of time and physical carryingaroundedness that comes with it's great girth (over a thousand chunky pages).

Having now finished it after some months, i'm not sure how i feel about the whole experience. As with many biographies of artists (though Brando would shudder at being called one), it's most enjoyable in the parts when they're going through their development and working their way up to their artistic peak, and then the last 30 or 40 years tends to be a bit of a slog. And in this case, reading about those youthful days of Brando in the broiling bohemian New York scene of the 1940's really does seem like a lifetime ago! But they was good days to read about...

It's an incredibly thorough biography, with over 700 people interviewed, and it starts with his grandparents and gives you a very good feel for what kind of people they and their children were before we get to Marlon being born. He comes across as being very "Brando-esque" from about the age of 6. Wounded, thoughtful, manipulative, sensual...

Some people would consider this biography something of a hatchet job, and though Manso does seem to have developed quite a distaste for the man over his seven years of research, it seems fairly evenhanded to me. Brando done just been a fucking jerk a whole lot of the time! At times you have to remind yourself that he had a certain magnetism and charm that kept people coming back to him even when he treated them so badly, because on face value it just doesn't seem plausible. You do start to get awful sick of the guy quite early on in the book, because he's so fucked up that he's never happy with anything even when he seems to have the world at his feet, but it's written in such a way that you have the background and you understand why he's that way and sympathize to a point. But it's still very frustrating...

In the end, i'm glad i read it. I'll never see Brando the same way again, but at the same time the deeper understanding I have of the guy lends an extra layer to watching his great performances, and I do like having a deeper understanding of things I love...







On The Radio, In The World... 26/7/12


ON THE RADIO

Lots of various records I has piled up! Got this beautiful vocal group one called 'sad face' i might start with...

IN THE WORLD


This week all my DJ dreams come true with THREE successive nights of DJ'ing down in The Grace Darling Dungeon! Thurs and Fri 26 and 27 i'll be down there for The frowning Clouds double 7" launch, and then Sat i'll be back again as a guest at Ready Steady GO. Then over to yahyahs till 5am sunday. 


Then I'll get up not much later on sunday and be a guest on the special live blue juice broadcast from The Lost and Found market. And i'll be having a stall selling some records there with Garry7 too. And then i'll be sleeping for a thousand years.


GIG GUIDE
(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)


Thurs 26th
Frowning Clouds @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ The Living Eyes & DJ Richie1250
Fri 27th
Frowning Clouds @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ The Murlocs & DJ Richie1250
Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions @ Bar Open
Tek tek Ensemble @ Open Studio
Ari roze late night DJ'ing @ yahyahs
Wrong Turn + Chris Russells Chicken Walk @ Retreat
Sat 28th
Ready Steady Go! Mod record party @ grace Darling Dungeon w/ DJs Emma Peel, Buddy Love and Richie1250
Richie1250 late night DJ'ing @ Yahyahs
Wet lips @ idgaff w/ messed up and cholesterollers
Sun 29th
One Man Band Bang @ Bar open ft.  MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS / BJ MORRIZONKLE / BUM FACE (ACT) / BACON CAKES (ACT)
Live PBS Broadcast From Lost And Found Brunswick Record and Vintage Fair from 11am

Wed August 1st
Justin Cusack LP launch @ Old Bar w/ nathan hollywood & roller one
Fri August 3rd
Gator Queen with jason Goodman (new orleans) @ The Lomond
Sat August 4th
SOUL A GO GO @ Bella Union trades Hall ft Vince Peach, miss Goldie, DJ Manchild, Zach Rampage, Richie1250 & Special Guest DJ Jason goodman (New Orleans)

COMING UP
Sunday 12th August
Puta Madre Bros @ Cherry, last show for the year
Thurs August 16th
Elvis Tribute Night @ Yahyahs w/ heaps of guest vocalists including Alex Gow (Oh Mercy), Alison Ferrier, Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, Jess McGuire (RRR), Liz Stringer, Loretta Miller, Peter McManus (the Go Set), Quincy McLean, Richie 1250, Rob Snarski (Blackeyed Susans), Rusty Berther (Scared Weird Little Guys), Sarah Carroll, Spencer P. Jones, The Ukeladies, Van Walker and a few more special guests still to be announced.


git on out there
lurve
richie1250

To get off this list, reply saying:  "A lot of sexual research went on there," Matthau recalled. "That's why people become actors. They want to get fucked from here to China."


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EXOTIC SHNITZEL



Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 20 July 2012

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTIBUTOR | COMMENTS
MARTIN DENNY - QUIET VILLAGE
SAMMY DAVIS JR - IN A PERSIAN MARKET
CATERINA VALENTE - SIMILAU
RAY MCKINLEY - SIMILAU
LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - SHIMMY SHIMMY KOKO BOP
DONALD & THE DELIGHTERS - ELEPHANT WALK
ARTHUR LYMAN - WAIKIKI SERENADE
THE WILDTONES - SHUTUPS
COMPAY QUINTO - EL DIABLO
LOS ROBINS - COPAN GALEL
THE CHAMPS - SOMBRERO
BIG BO & THE ARROWS - CANTINA
LANI KAI - MYSTIC MOON
CHARLIE FEATHERS - JUNGLE FEVER
MADMAN JONES - SNAKECHARMER
THE GLADIOLAS - LITTLE DARLING
THE MARINERS - ZINDY LOU
THE TERRIFICS - LOCO
THE PUNJABS - SITAR BLUES
SANTO & JOHNNY - CARAVAN
CHAMP BUTLER - KAWLIGA
JAMES PIANTA GUEST SELECTIONS:
EDEN AHBEZ - THE WANDERER
FRANCESCO DI MASI - INDIA
ARDI BERMAN - TIZRA MANZEL ?????
GIULIANO SORGINI - PERCUSSIONI IN CRESCENDO
SWAMP SALAD - THE BALLAD OF CREEPY CREEK
SVEN LEIBEK - INNER SPACE
ARTHUR LYMAN - MOON OVER A RUINED CASTLE
TINO CONTRERAS - ORBITA
ALICE COLTRANE - JOURNEY INTO SATCHIDANANDA
ART BLAKEY - MESSAGE FROM KENYA
OSCAR BROWN JR - AFRO BLUE
STANLEY BLACK AND HIS ORCHESTRA - BABALU
RAY STEVENS - AHAB THE ARAB
MARTIN DENNY - QUIET VILLAGE

Thursday, July 19, 2012

MOTHER OF ROCK: LILLIAN ROXON (Paul Clark, 2010)

Watched this real nice tribute to the life of Lillian Roxon, an Australian journalist and general wild broad who moved to new york in the early 60s and was all up in that Max's Kansas City scene till her untimely death in 1973. It gives you a real thorough feeling for her as a person and it's a nice evocation of the times, but it's kind of a weird unsettling feeling having this person you never really knew anything about's whole life laid out in front of you and then they just die. Or maybe I was just toasted and thinking about it too much. Thoroughly enjoyed anyway! Great quotes galore...


On The Radio, In The World 19/7/12


ON THE RADIO

We'll have a guest DJ slab of Exotica oddities from Votary Records' James Pianta at about 6pm, and various other somewhat exotic sounding business throughout!

IN THE WORLD

DJ'ing at The Lounge thursday night, 10-2. Then on saturday its My 30th birthday! I am gonna play all my slowest slow jams and dance real slooooooooooooow...

Then next week all my DJ dreams come true with THREE successive nights of DJ'ing down in The Grace Darling Dungeon! Thurs and Fri 26 and 27 i'll be down there for The frowning Clouds double 7" launch, and then Sat i'll be back again as a guest at 


GIG GUIDE
(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)


Thurs19th
Royal jelly Dixieland Band @ The Regal Ballroom
Fri 20th

Jo Kokomo Late night DJ'ing @ yahyahs
Harmony @ The Tote
Dynamo @ Dong Dong w/ Saskwatch
TABOO exotica festival @ Luwow


BEAST RECORDS FESTIVAL (NIGHT ONE) @ the Retreat w/
6Ft.Hick + The Spoils + The Holy Soul + Sonny Chiba + DJ Fergus

Sat 21st
Dr Ludwig Late night DJ'ing @ yahyahs
nation Blue @ the Tote

BEAST RECORDS FESTIVAL (NIGHT TWO) @ the retreat
6Ft.Hick +Spencer P. Jones & The Escape Committee + James McCann & The New Vindictives + The Horrortones + DJ Fanta Pants

Sun 22nd
Blue Velvet + Eraserhead @ The Astor

Mon 23rd
Lower Plenty @ NSC
Tues 24th
Sara Retallick @ Retreat (residency)
Wed 25th
Grindhouse (tarantino rodriguez) double @ The Astor
Thurs 26th
Frowning Clouds @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ The Living Eyes & DJ Richie1250
Fri 27th
Frowning Clouds @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ The Murlocs & DJ Richie1250
Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions @ Bar Open
Tek tek Ensemble @ Open Studio
Sat 28th
Ready Steady Go! Mod record party @ grace Darling Dungeon w/ DJs Emma Peel, Buddy Love and Richie1250
Sun 29th
One Man Band Bang @ Bar open ft.  MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS / BJ MORRIZONKLE / BUM FACE (ACT) / BACON CAKES (ACT)


COMING UP
Sunday 12th August
Puta Madre Bros @ Cherry, last show for the year


git on out there
lurve
richie1250

To get off this list, reply saying:  "You're such pests...now, what is it you want? In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Well, whatever it is you want, I can't deliver because I just don't see it."


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Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 13 July 2012
ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTIBUTOR | COMMENTS
BO & THE METROS - MOVING ON
JOHNNY JONES & THE KING CASUALS - PURPLE HAZE
BOB SEGER & THE LAST HEARD - SOCK IT TO ME SANTA
THE SEEDS - NO ESCAPE
THEE MIDNITERS - I FOUND A PEANUT
THE RUELETS - DO IT
THE CHAMPS - MIDNIGHTER
THE HONEYCOMBS - CAN'T GET THROUGH TO YOU
B BUMBLE & THE STINGERS - GREEN HORNET THEME
TAV FALCO'S UNAPPROACHABLE PANTHER BURNS - BUDAPEST
JOHNNY THUNDERS - COSA NOSTRA
ROYAL HEADACHE - TWO KINDS OF LOVE
LOWER PLENTY LIVE IN STUDIO 5
JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES - SHEBA
ARIEL PINK - EVERY NIGHT I DIE AT MIYAGIS
ARIEL PINK - CREDIT
TOMMY WRIGHT III - MEET YO MAKER
TOMMY WRIGHT III - COMING FOR 94
DR DRE - PUFFIN ON BLUNTS AND DRANKIN TANGUERAY
DR DRE - DEEP COVER
WU TANG CLAN - LET ME AT EM
BIG L - NO ENDZ NO SKINZ
JUNIOR MAFIA - GET MAFIA
YUNG WARRIORS - STANDING STRONG
YUNG WARRIORS - BLAZE IT UP
WARREN G - THIS IS THE SHACK
RODNEY DANGERFIELD - NO RESPECT

Friday, July 13, 2012

ARNOLD GOES TO CARNIVAL PLUS MORE FUNNIES

I was forced by situations beyond my control to spend most of Sunday curled up in bed groaning and watching youtube.  Here are some favourite things I sawed. Enjoy...


Arnold goes to Carnival in Rio




Orson Welles Frozen Peas


William Shatner "Sabataage"


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (Pt 1 of 6)


On The Radio, In The World...12/7/12


ON THE RADIO

Studio 5 live set from Lower Plenty at about 5:45, lotsa groovy records in the other bits...

IN THE WORLD

No gigs this weekend, recording with the brides! wish us luck...


GIG GUIDE
(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Thurs 12th
BJ Morriszonkle @ Bar Open w/ dear Plastic + Orisha
Fri 13th
Ken Eavel DJing @ the retreat
Yung Warriors @ Laundry w/ whitehouse
Orange St @ Luwow w/ DJ's Mohair Slim, Stryka D & Fez Puskas
Sat 14th
Bastille Day Party @ The Gem w/ DJ Fuzzbass
Bastille Day Party @ Luwow w/ Simon Laxton
Dj Johnny El pajero @ the Nash front Bar
Andrew young late night DJ'ing @ yahyahs
The royal jelly Dixieland band @ Open Studio
Straightjacket nation @ The Gasometer w/ flesh vs venom, useless children and dead boomers
Wed 18th
Angel Eyes @ Bar Open w/ Rites Wild
Thurs19th
Royal jelly Dixieland Band @ The Regal Ballroom

COMING UP
Sunday 12th August
Puta Madre Bros @ Cherry, last show for the year


git on out there
lurve
richie1250

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Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 6 July 2012

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTIBUTOR | COMMENTS
THE SUPREMES - STONED LOVE (ACCAPELLA)
GEORGE JACKSON - ARETHA, SING ONE FOR ME
D'ANGELO - GREATDAYINDAMORNING
THE COUP - HIP TO THE SCHEME
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - ROLL RIGHT
PRIMAL SCREAM - EXTERMINATOR
DAVID BOWIE - SOUL LOVE
THE SUPREMES - STONED LOVE
JANIT & THE JAYS - HURTING OVER YOU BOY
WENDY RENE - I WISH I WERE THAT GIRL
WENDY RENE - HE HASN'T FAILED ME YET
THE DRAPELLS - WONDERING WHEN MY LOVE IS COMING HOME
JAMES FRY - TUMBLING DOWN
TONY ASHLEY - I'LL GO CRAZY
WENDY RENE - AFTER LAUGHTER COMES TEARS
TIMMY SHAW - THUNDER IN MY HEART
THE TWILIGHT ZONE "BLACK LEATHER JACKETS" EDIT
THE PARKER CANARIES - BLUE DANUBE WALTZ
KEN NORDINE - I USED TO THINK MY RIGHT HAND WAS UGLIER THAN MY LEFT
KEN NORDINE - HUNGER IS FROM
ODYSSEY - NO ONE ELSE PT 1
THE WALLACE BROTHERS - AIRBORNE SHUFFLE
SYL JOHNSON - I FEEL AN URGE
GHOSTFACE KILLAH - THE CHAMP
CYPRESS HILL - PIGS
THE ALKAHOLICS - BULLSHIT

Thursday, July 5, 2012

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)


Having to sit through the previews of idiotic Chinese romance pictures and corny American indie things only made watching this piece of stellar film-making all the sweeter. So good to have a new film I can get behind all the way, seems like it's been a long time. There's a noticeable absence of bullshit here. It's a film about a murder, but there's no action to speak of. It's about a convoy of men in the mountains of turkey searching for a body.  It's shot beautifully, the characters are all interesting and believable and nuanced, and the way the night slowly turns to cold daylight to the next sleepless afternoon is executed so well you really feel as if you've been up all night with these men. It's quite long and takes something of an emotional toll on you (it did on me anyway), but i can't recommend enough taking the time to see this at the cinema. As Herb Morrison said, "OH, THE HUMANITY!"

On the Radio, in The World...6/6/12


ON THE RADIO

As requested by a luverly eliza doolitle listener in London we'll by playing all the intro songs in full, plus maybe some records from the alkaholics, charlie feathers and little anthony, some soul records to get us in soul a go go mood, some audio from a cool episode of the twilight zone, and some other stuff too...

IN THE WORLD

Will be playing the first hour down at Soul-A-Go-Go at trades hall with the gang this satdee, lemme know if ya wanna come, got a couple door spots...


GIG GUIDE
(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)


 friday july 6th
chook race last gig for the year @ liberty social w/ ausmutants, the fighting league andpopolice
Paintings of Handsome Steve's paintings exhibition @ St Heliers St Gallery, abbotsford convent, ft work from hand and matlok + others, 5-8pm
Eugene Holcombe @ Red Wheelbarrow Books, East bruns, 8pm
DJ Tasty cakes (phil g) @ yahyahs, 12-5am
Bowie night @ yahyahs upstairs from 11pm, all bowie and bowie related songs all night
Sat July 7th
Andy Balor Abum Launch @ Caravan Club Oakleigh
Soul A Go Go @ Bella Union, Trades Hall
Valley girls @ gorilla Bar, Thornbury
heartical Hi Fi Basement Session @ The Night Owl
Major Tom & the Atoms @ the espy w/ the bluebottles

Mon 9th
Angel Eyes @ NSC (free)
Tuesday 10th
Billy NcCabe solo show @ old bar
Thurs 12th
BJ Morriszonkle @ Bar Open

Next friday 13th
Ken Eavel DJing @ the retreat
Lower Plenty live in studio 5 on Stone Love
Next Sat 14th
Bastille Day Party @ The Gem w/ DJ Fuzzbass
Bastille Day Party @ Luwow w/ Simon Laxton
Dj Johnny El pajero @ the Nash front Bar

git on out there
lurve
richie1250

To get off this list, reply saying:  "Girls in dresses above their knees, anklets, high heel shoes. Boys with drapes starting six inches above their ankles and ending in a bunch of accordion pleats six inches below their necks! Everyone drunk and smoking, a girl swinging out alone, popping her fingers and imitating a crooked streak of lightning... everybody singing."


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KILLING FOR SATAN



Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 29 June 2012

PAUL WIBIER - SATAN
JESUS ALVAREZ & RIMSHOTS - WALKING DOWN THE HIGHWAY
BOB SEGER & THE LAST HEARD - HEAVY MUSIC PT 1
TIM TAM & THE TURN-ONS - WAIT A MINUTE
CAROLE KING - HE'S A BAD BOY
THE DUALS - STICK SHIFT
DENNY REED - HOT WATER
BOB CARLE - SHADRACHE
THE TENNESSE DRIFTER - CHINESE MAID
PAUL EVANS - MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
DALE HAWKINS - MY BABE
SANTO & JOHNNY - SUMMERTIME
BOB WILLIS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS - BOTTLE BABY BOOGIE
EMMET MILLER - THE BLUES SINGER FROM ALABAMA
DUKE ELLINGTON - HAPPY GO LOCAL LOCAL PT 1 & 2
BUD POWELL - UN POCO LOCO
THE MARK III TRIO - GWAN
THE MARK III TRIO - GOOD GRIEF
RUTH BROWN - PLEASE DON'T FREEZE
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON - SOMEBODY HELP ME
KENYON HOPKINS - BLUES FROM THE FUGITIVE KIND (LET ME OUT)
CHARLES BROWN & AMOS MILBURN - I WAN'T TO GO HOME
CL & THE PICTURES - I'M ASKING FORGIVENESS
LYNN MARTINI & THE JOLLY JAX - I WISH
INTERCIRCLE - THE PLAYERS
CA QUINTET - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
THE SEEDS - PICTURES & DESIGNS
ELECTRELANE - LOVE BUILDS UP
DEVASTATIONS - OH ME, OH MY
GRIMES - BE A BODY
GRIMES - COLOUR OF MOONLIGHT
CEE LO GREEN - SOMETIMES
EDAN - SAGITTARIUS RAPP