NOBODY CANNA CROSS IT!

Thanks to youtube junkie Matlok Griffiths for putting me onto this one. The hypest damn dancehall thing i've heard in years!

On The Radio, In The World 30/06/11

ON THE RADIO

I has a new Johnny Brantley thing! it's good and messy. So i'll play that, and some other stuff too. And also Tommy Spender will come in to play some live in studio songs at about 5:45 ahead of his "Magic Man" single launch at the grace darling next thursday.

And Geelong heads, i will be down at Mr Hyde from 10pm friday, spinning some good ol late 80s-early 90's hip hop and some reggae and some disco and some Prince and such...

IN THE WORLD

(DISCLAIMER: I sometimes screw things up and say people are playing at the wrong venue or on the wrong day, so best to double check these listings before you go to the gig!)

Friday July 1st
Japan Disaster Benefit @ The Espy w/ Saskwatch, Deep Street Soul, The Cactus Channel + Ultravibralux + Th Charlies + DJ Chris Gill
the f100s @ the gem

Be Kind rewind screening @ ACMI

Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ the Retreat
Sat July 2nd
Brat Farrar 7" launch @ The tote w/ Midnight Woolf, Ocean Party + Bad AChes
Baptism Of Uzi @ Revolver w/ Mass Cult + Gunk
The vaudeville Smash @ NSC w/ The Box Rockets and Rosie and George

SOUL A GO GO @ The Trades Hall (bella union room)

Sun 3rd

Sinking Tins @ YahYahs w/ sweet jean + Gold Coats

Ganga Giri @ NSC w/ The Nomad

Wed 6th

Nicholas Ray double, they live by night / johnny guitar @ ACMI

Thurs 7th

Spender single launch @ grace darling w. midlife + timeshield
The jailbird Jokers (SL PATRONS) @ The ferntree gully hotel

Sat 9th
Ty Seagull @ the tote w/Super Wild Horses + chook race
Sun 10th
The Hondas @ Grace Darling w/ mass cult

git on out there

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richie1250

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Stone Love for Friday, 24 June 2011

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday, 24 June 2011

fatti frances live, simon grounds guests

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

COSMO - A LITTLE MIXED UP
OTIS RUSH - KEEP ON LOVIN ME BABY
MAYLON HUMPHRIES - WEEP NO MORE
BO DIDDLEY - CHEYENNE
BO DIDDLEY - DIDDLING
SLIM HARPO - STRANGE LOVE
THE WHEELS - BAD LITTLE WOMAN
THEE MIDNIGHTERS - HEY LITTLE GIRL
BETTY LAVETTE - FEEL GOOD ALL OVER
SYL JOHNSON - THE LOVE I FOUND IN YOU
TYRONE DAVIS - YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN
KOKO TAYLOR - INSANE ASYLUM
THE RADIANTS - PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME
LAMONT ANTHONY - JUST TO BE LOVED
D'ANGELO - ONE MO 'GIN
RZA & GHOST FACE - WHO'S THE CHAMPION
SKINNYMAN - FUCK THE HOOK
PERCEE P - THE LADY BEHIND ME
MISSY ELLIOT - SLIDE
NINO NARDINI - FRANTIQUE
GANG GANG DANCE - UNPRONOUNCABLE SONG
FATTI FRANCES - I'M ON WAY WAY

FATTI FRANCE LIVE IN STUDIO 3 SONGS

FATTI FRANCES - WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW
JAPAN - GHOSTS
TEETH AND TONGUE - ROT ON THE VINE

SIMON GROUNDS GUEST SELECTIONS

STRAY DOG (AKIRA KUSOSAWA, 1949)

This movie is the balls.

Reasons:

1. The intro is a whole minute of a dogs tongue wagging in the heat.

2. You get to see Mifune being clean shaven and super handsome while also being unusually young and callow and earnest and acting the motherfucker out of that shit.

3. It just drips with that peculiar feeling of immediately post war Japan, everything in dissaray, people all bitter and confused and the world changing and crime festering in the heat and discontent and so forth.

4. The long montage in the middle where he cruises the ghetto is totally awesome and makes the movie and anyone who says it's too long can go get fucked.

5. It has 1948 japanese burlesque dancers being all hot and sweaty in the summertime.

6. It has this great scene toward the end involving a piano that I won't spoil but I tell you it's a genius scene.

7. It has this other great scene earlier on where this hooker won't give Mifune the information he wants and being a desperate greenhorn detective he just follows her, like literally a foot away from her for about three days until she finally gets sick of him and gives up the goods....

Just watch the dang movie.

On the radio, in the world... 23/06/11

ON THE RADIO

Fatti Frances will be coming in to play a couple songs live in the studio ahead of her 12" launch at The Workers Club on satdee night at around 5:30, and around 7:00 legendary recording engineer and Shower Scene From Psycho sax maniac Simon Grounds will be coming in to guest select a mixed bag of oddities from the last seventy years or so...

Out in the world, I'll be doing the late late shift at yahyahs on friday night, taking over from mohair slim at about 2am, and Saturday night ill be doing the Saturday Night Fish Fry thing at The Gem, with Garry7 coming down to spin some good 'ol greasy southern soul and r''n'b with me. Get down early for the soul food specials: SWEET POTATO SALAD, PRAWN AND CHORIZO GUMBO, CREOLE SPICED PORK SPARE RIBS, SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN WINGS, MACARONI & CHEESE.

And I can't recommend highly enough getting down to ACMI next wednesday to see Nicholas Ray's "In A Lonely Place", my favourite Bogart film and right up there with my favourites of any kinda film. They doing a whole season of Nicholas Ray Doubles over the next three weeks (you gotta buy a four week ticket, but it's not too expensive)...

IN THE WORLD

(DISCLAIMER: I sometimes screw things up and say people are playing at the wrong venue or on the wrong day, so best to double check these listings before you go to the gig!)

Thurs 23rd
Bad Aches @ Yahyahs w/ beasticles + teenage mothers
Eugene Holcombe + Steph Brett @ Wesley Anne (9pm, 500 cents per person entry!)

Fri 24th

Buffy Presents 3CR's "Burning Vinyl" live from the old bar, 2 till 4pm
Midnight Woolf @ The retreat w/ The Yard Apes (free entry)
Twerps - double 7" Launch @ Grace Darling w/ Dick Diver + Full Ugly + Super Wild Horses DJ's
Baprism Of Uzi @ The Cornish Arms w/ The Orphanage + Mass Cult
Mohair Slim late night DJ'ing @ Yahyahs + Richie1250 late late night DJing at Yahyahs (takin over about 2 am)
Saturday 25th
"Fuckwalk" to protest the fines against swearing,
Warehouse clearance Sale @ Anytime Place! 9am till 2pm
PBS Present BOGANIC PLAGUE @ Pony, celebrating 10 years of Kene Lightfoot's "Burning Bitumen" program with 6 of his favourite metal bands

Fatti Frances 12" EP launch @ The Workers Club w/ Horse Mcguyver, Evelyn Morris + Bum Creek DJ's
Ready, Steady Go: Mod record party @ The Grace Darling Dungeon w/ dj's emma peel, mohair slim and buddy love
The Bowers @ YahYahs w/ Superwildhorses and Chook Race
Harmony Lp Launch @ The Tote w/ New War, Bitch prefect, BJ Morrisonkle and Gold Coats

SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The gem w/ Richie1250 + garry7 spinning southern soul and r'n'b records while the kitchen cooks up tasty southern soul food specials
SUn 26th
Patinka Cha Cha @ Grace Darling w/ w/ Francolin + Nick Huggins
Wed 29th
NICHOLAS RAY / BOGART DOUBLE @ ACMI: In A Lonely Place + Knock On any door (part of melbourne cinemateque)

Next Friday July 1st
Japan Disaster Benefit @ The Espy w/ Saskwatch, Deep Street Soul, The Cactus Channel + Ultravibralux + Th Charlies + DJ Chris Gill
Next Sat July 2nd
Brat Farrar 7" launch @ The tote w/ Midnight Woolf, Ocean Party + Bad AChes
Baptism Of Uzi @ Revolver w/ Mass Cult + Gunk

git on out there

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richie1250

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COASTERS BONANZA ORGY

Stone Love : Playlist for Saturday 18 June 2011

COASTERS BONANZA:

I Love Paris (as Robins)
Brazil
Down In Mexico
One Kiss Led To Another
Smokey Joes
Framed (As Robins)
(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes To Me (Alt Take)
Wrap It Up (as Robins)
Three Cool Cats
Three Cool Cats
The Shadow Knows
Shopping for Clothes
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
Besame Mucho (Pt 1)
Besame Mucho (Pt 2)
Poison Ivy
Thumbin' A Ride
Girls Girls Girls (Alt Vers)
I'm A Hog For You (Slow Vers)
I'm A Hog For You (''Yea Yea'' Vers)
I'm A Hog For You
My Babe
Lovey Dovey
Teach me How To Shimmy
Let's Go Get Stoned
Bad Blood
T'ain't Nothin' To Me
Speedo's Back In Town
Crazy Baby

THE FURYS - ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEART
THE GROUPIES - HOG
THE TAMRONS - WILDMAN
DION - BORN TO CRY
DION - LITTLE DIANE
LITTLE DIANE - LOST FOR SURE
DALE HAWKINS - EVERGLADES
RED SOVINE - 16 TONNES
JOHNNY BOND - THE HI JACKER
RED SOVINE & JOHNNY BOND - THE HOBO AND THE GEARJAMMER
THE DELMORE BROS - BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME
TERRY & JERRY - MAMA JULIE
CAMILLE HOWARD SHRINKIN UP FAST
FREDDIE MITCHELL - LATER GATOR
MARVIN GAYE - A FUNKY SPACE REINCARNATION
Q-TIP - DO YOU DIG YOU?
FATTI FRANCES - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
THE COUP - LAZYMUTHAFUCKA

THRONE OF BLOOD (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

I've started reading this great joint biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune called "The Emperor And The Wolf", and am concurrently having my own private Kurosawa film festival! I would invite you all to attend, but with me and the lady Lou and the whippet John Doggington in the bed, it's a little crowded already...

First rickshaw off the rank is Throne Of Blood (Spiders Web Castle was the Japanese title), Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth. He massages the story somewhat, and even though it features several elements of traditional japanese Noh theatre, what makes it so good is that it doesn't play stagey like most Shakespeare films, he makes a real movie out of it, and a fucking epic at that! When it rains, it buckets down like crazy, when it fogs the landscape is smothered, when an army storms a castle, there's a thousand of those motherfuckers shooting real arrows at you. And as you can see from the pics above, the more senior Samurai have some fabulous fancy headgear...

It looks incredible (the scene where they stumble across the witch in the forest is just pure spine tingling foggy night cinema gold), the pacing and constant sense of impending doom is just perfect, and of course Toshiro Mifune does his excellent Toshiro Mifune thing to the hilt as the tough samurai / henpecked husband / pawn of fate / guilty anxiety ridden freakout man Macbeth character. Isuzu Yamada is most excellent as his mask faced goading wife as well. Apparently later in his career when supervising a bunch of clips from his films being put together for an event honouring him, Mifune saw one of their scenes together and proclaimed "Forget about me, you should just show these scenes of Isuzu. Now THAT'S acting!"

Five stars out of 2!

EXTRA BONUS

The DVD I watched of it also had a commentary track by some scholar of japanese film who you expect to sound really nerdy but in fact sounds just like Steve Allen! He's really rather charming and seems to know everything about japanese film and film in general. There's plenty of "notice the very wide tree trunks, somewhat reminiscent of the 1912 german film Das Flinkenflocken, I don't know that Kurosawa had seen that particular picture but it is eminently possible he had..."

on the radio, in the world, 16/6/11

ON THE RADIO

Carl Gardner... dead! So will play a whole heap o' coasters, including a bunch of quite different alternate takes that didn't get burneded in the great atlantic tape fire...

And for all you geetroiters, I will be down at Mr Hyde for the first time in aaaaaages on friday night from 10-1am...

GIG GUIDE
Thurs 16th

The harpoons w/ the Pups @ Schoolhouse Studios

Fri 17th
Midnight Woolf @ Yahyahs w/ La Bastard + The Painkillers
Dereb The Ambassador @ The Corner w/ mista savona + the afrobiotics

Baptism Of Uzi @ the Grace darling w/ scull hazzards, infinite void and wicked city
Sat 18th
PETS W/ PETS lp LAUNCH @ the tote
Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ Open Studio
Teenage Shutdown 60's record party @ gertrudes brown couch
Sambrose Automobile EP launch @ the Nash

Tex perkins & The Dark Horses @ Basement discs, 1pm
Sun 19th
Toot toot toots @ Old bar w/ plague doctor + BJ morrisonkle

Next fri 24th

Midnight Woolf @ The retreat w/ The Yard Apes
Next Saturday 25th
PBS Present BOGANIC PLAGUE @ Pony, celebrating 10 years of Kene Lightfoot's "Burning Bitumen" program with 6 of his favourite metal bands

Fatti Frances 12" EP launch @ The Workers Club w/ Horse Mcguyver, Evelyn Morris + Bum Creek DJ's
Ready, Steady Go @ The Grace Darling Dungeon w/ dj's emma peel, mohair slim and buddy love
Harmony Lp Launch @ The Tote w/ New War, Bitch prefect + BJ Morrisonkle

SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The gem w/ Richie1250 + garry7

git on out there

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richie1250

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BROWN EYED GARAGE

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 10 June 2011

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

SLEEPWALKERS - MINISKIRT
THE PERFORMERS - MINISKIRT
THEE MIDNIGHTERS - WHITTIER BLVD
CHUBBY CHECKER - GYPSY
BILLY LAMONT - SWEET THANG
EUGENE BLACKNELL - JUMP BACK
LOS ROBINS - BRISAS DEL PICACHO
THE SON OF PM - HEY KLONG YAO
GANIMS ASIA MINORS - DADDY LOLO
BOOKER T & THE MG'S - RED BEANS AND RICE
HOLLYWOOD JILLS - HE MAKES ME MAD
NATHANIEL MAYER - I DONT WANT NO BALD HEADED WOMAN TELLING ME WHAT TO DO
GINO WASHINGTON - OUT OF THIS WORLD
THE PUTA MADRES BROS - MALAGUENA
REVEREND BEATMAN - CLOWN OF THE TOWN
THE EXOTICS - DOWN ON THE STREET
THE UV RACE - GORE ORPHANAGE (LIVE ON SL)
MOSCOW SCHOOLBOY - USE ME BACK (LIVE ON SL)
MOSCOW SCHOOLBOY - BLACK STOCKINGS AND BOOTS ? (LIVE AT THE TOTE)
TEETH AND TONGUE - COME FROM NOWHERE
TEETH AND TONGUE - STACEY COME OVER
THE STICKMEN - CITY IS DEAD
THE NATION BLUE - I'M INBRED
HARMONY - CACAPHONOUS VIBES
LEE MOSES - WHAT YOU DON'T WANT ME TO BE
LON ROGERS & THE SOUL BLENDERS -TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
SYL JOHNSON - THINGS AINT RIGHT
SYL JOHNSON - I WANNA KNOW
THE COASTERS - TAINT NOTHING TO ME
THE SLY FOX - ALLEY MUSIC
THE LAST POETS - GASHMAN
RALPH MCDONALD - THE PATH PT 1
BILL WITHERS - DREAMS
HALL & OATES - DIDDY DOO WOOP (I HEAR THE VOICES)
RODNEY DANGERFIELD - RAPPIN RODNEY
PHARRELL - FRONTIN
CAMRON - HEY MA FT JULEZ SANTANA
GHOSTFACE - CAMAY FT RAE AND CAPPADONNA
EL-P - STEPFATHER FACTORY
EL-P - INNOCENT LEADER
FATTI FRANCES - I'M ON MY WAY
WANG CHUNG - THE ORNAMENTAL ELEPHANT
ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI - ROUND AND ROUND
MEAT PUPPETS - LOST
THE THATCHED ROOF COTTAGERS - BOILING POT

SNOWTOWN (Justin Kurzel, 2011)

I saw the Snowtown movie about a month ago. While I was watching it I mostly felt bored and confused and heebie jeebied. "Who is that guy? Where did he come from? Why are they killing him? What's the point of all this?"

But I felt compelled to immediately go and read up on the real case (the sequence of events in the movie made a lot more sense after that), and I found myself haunted and disturbed by it for weeks after. I'd be having a shower or eating some eggs or doing something nice and suddenly i'd flash back to a scene from the movie and be all creeped out. It really started to piss me off! But now I kinda wanna see it again...

But should I? Is it just morbid curiousity? Being that the feelings it aroused in me were basically all negative and uncomfortable, is there any point to this movie at all (for me at least)?

Anybody else seen it?
Thoughts?