TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000)

It is nigh on impossible for me to convey to you the degree to which this movie completely rules. It's a Thai epic western melodrama tragedy with super eye frying colours and painted backdrops and fabulous hammy villains and pencil thin moustaches and also big handlebar moustaches and beautiful ladies and handsome men and tearjerking thai oldies numbers and the kind of super dramatic sentimental dialogue / monologues that would be terrible in a western movie but that in Asian movie with subtitles just tears me apart!

I saw this about 10 years ago and finally watched it again last night. It still fuckin' rules! The guy with the pencil thin moustache who plays Mahesuan has that old style overacting down SO hard, he was my hero of this one along with classic 60s / 70s thai action film star Sombat Metanee who was perfect as the gang boss Fai (especially when he had that bad ass older guy in a singlet charles bronson look going on, as seen above), but everything about it is great.

Twelve stars!

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Oh yeah, and I love this quote from the writer / director Wisit Sasanatieng about the old thai films of the 50s that inspired him: "Whenever the Film Archive screened an old film, I'd be there. Usually, I'd be the only one there", Wisit said in an interview at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2000. "Most Thai audiences dislike Thai movies, especially the old ones, which they consider nam nao", he said, using the Thai language euphemism for the old films, which are viewed as stagnant and cliched. Literally, nam nao means "stinky water."

on the radio, in the world... 26/09/13

ON THE RADIO

I bought 29 new LPs at the Northcote record fair on sunday, so this weeks show we'll def her some of that swag. Lots of 20's to 40s stuff, jelly roll morton library of congress recording, duke ellington live at the cotton club, texas hillbilly field recordings, great vocalists of the 20s and so forth, plus some mexico via cuba jump from the 50s, some tahitian music from the 60s, some Zydeco, and some other stuff too!

ALso we'll have Chook Race in for an interview and a spot of guest selecting plus playing some demos at about 5:45, and at about 6:30 Jacky Winter gonna come in and play some rough mixes of his new record and talk about the big grand final breakfast show he putting on at the tote satdee morning...

IN THE WORLD

Sat the 28th, The BRIDES will be playing at Phil G's champagne and chicken grand final breakfast at the tote alongside legends of motorsport and the debut performance of the new jacky winter band (doors at 9am!)

And on the evening of the 28th i'll be DJ'ing at TOMBOY HOSTS KERALA, a pop up bar and curry house on smith st, 356 smith st in fact. I'll be on from 9 till 12 or 1, should be something, I don't what, but something!

Thurs 3rd Brides is playing at Bar Open w/ Stella Angelico & The Reprobettes, starts at 930 and its FREE

Fri the 4th of Oct I'll be doing the late night DJ thing at yahyahs, 12-5am

GIG GUIDE

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

thurs 26th
"A glimpse Of Camp Elsewhere" photography exhibition of shots from camp elsewhere @ la Niche, 67 smith st collingwood, 7pm

Fri 27th
Steph Brett @ Danes Magic Theatre w/ jess Ribeiero
hipshaker @ luwow w/ dj's simon laxton and susie wong + shantytown live
Mighty Boys @ the Tote upstairs w/ ripsnorter + tiprats
Montero LP launch @ howler w/ andres fox + prudence reese lees
Sat 28th
Phil G's champagne and chicken grand final breakfast @ the tote ft. legends of motorsport, the debut performance of the new jacky winter band, richie1250 & the brides of christ (doors at 9am!)

Johnny El Pajero DJin @ YahYahs 12-5
Richie1250 DJ'ing at TOMBOY HOSTS KERALA, pop up bar and curry house at 356 smith st in, 9 till 12

ANGEL EYES @ GASOMETER UPSATIRS
Potato Cake @ Public Bar w/ Stella Angelico + White Knuckle fever

Thurs 3rd

Stella Angelico @ Bar Open w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + the Reprobettes, FREE

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NEW JAMES HUNTER, WEIRD JAZZ IN THE MIDDLE, ROCKERS AT THE END

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 20 September 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

JR WALKER AND THE ALL STARS - CLEO'S MOOD (talkover instrumental)
JAMES HUNTER - LOOK OUT
JAMES HUNTER - AIN'T GOING NOWHERE
JAMES HUNTER - THE GYPSY
JAMES HUNTER - CLASS ACT
JAMES HUNTER - LET THE MONKEY RIDE
JAMES HUNTER - JACQUELINE

DAN PENN - POWER OF LOVE
LOWELL FULSOM - LADY IN THE RAIN
UNKNOWN MALE - GOT TO GET OVER
PRINCE PHILLIP - FOOL FOR A WOMAN
DAN PENN - I DO

RODD - KEITH - HOW CAN A MAN OVERCOME HIS HEARTBROKEN PAIN
RON DAVIS - WATCH JOHNNY CARSON
DICK KENT - THE IMMORTAL DANNY MOSE
TERI SUMMERS AND THE LIBRETTOS - CITY HOSPITAL PATIENTS

PERCY FAITH - CHOMPIN (talkover instrumental)
LINCOLN CHASE - FISH SPECIE
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES - PUT A CURSE ON YOU
SAROFF AND THE COOL ONES - BLUE PRELUDE
BUD POWELL - A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (ALTERNATE MASTER)
DON CARSON AND THE CASUALS - JUNGLE BUNGALOW
LONNIE SATIN - I THINK I GO, I THINK I STAY
KALYANJI - ANANDJI - BLUFF MASTER TITLE MUSIC
MONTY NORMAN - JAMAICAN ROCK

THE PLAYBOYS - THE CAT WALK (talkover instrumental)
CHAINO - GUA GUA
BILL DOGGET - HOLD IT
BENNIE BUNN - ROCK AND ROLL LUAU
ELLIOT SHAVERS - UGLY IN LAWS
YVONNE FAIR & THE JAMES BROWN BAND - IT HURTS TO BE IN LOVE

NOBLE WATTS - JOHN FRIDAY'S SON (talkover instrumental)
BOBBY LONG & THE CHEERIOS - STATION HURT
EARL BOSTIC - FAST TRACK

RODD KEITH - HOW CAN A MAN OVERCOME HIS HEARTBROKEN PAIN (Preview, 196?)

My favourite song poem this week. Rodd really lights into it toward the end!

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Rodd+Keith+How+Can+a+Man+Overcome+His+Heartbroken+Pain

ON THE RADIO, IN THE WORLD... 20/09/13

ON THE RADIO

Some good ones for sure! gGot great one about a radio station called Station H.U.R.T. And some beatnik jazz. And the Dr No soundtrack. And other stufft too...

IN THE WORLD

Friday september 20th is Mighty Boys @ Tote Upstairs (slow club) w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Rayon Moon

Sat arvo of the 21st, I'll be making an appearance in this live radio play thing at the northcote town hall called "DICK AND FANNY MAKE THE ROCK", from 2pm, free entry, kid friendly

Sun Sept 22nd is Northcote Record Fair at northcote Town Hall from 12 till 5 (i'll be selling some)

Next Sat the 28th, The BRIDES will be playing at Phil G's champagne and chicken grand final breakfast at the tote alongside legends of motorsport and jacky winter band (doors at 9am!)

And on the evening of the 28th i'll be DJ'ing at TOMBOY HOST KERALA, a pop up bar and curry house on smith st, 356 smith st in fact. I'll be on from 9 till 12 or 1, should be something, I don't what, but something!

GIG GUIDE

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

Friday 20th
Queens of the beat 2@ strange wolf
Mighty Boys @ Tote Upstairs (slow club) w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Rayon Moon
sat 21st
"DICK AND FANNY MAKE THE ROCK" @ northcote town hall from 2pm, free entry, kid friendly
Sun 22nd
Northcote Record fair @ Northcote town hall

Fri 27th
Steph Brett @ Danes Magic Theatre w/ jess Ribeiero

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CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT IN STUDIO, DIRTY OLD GEAR AT START

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 13 September 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

JELLY ROLL MORTON - SMOKE HOUSE BLUES (talkover instrumental)
LUCILLE BOGAN - SHAVE 'EM DRY
LIZZIE MILES - MY MAN O' WAR
JELLY ROLL MORTON - THE DIRTY DOZEN
JELLY ROLL MORTON - SIDEWALK BLUES
SUNNYLAND SLIM - SHAKE IT BABY

JOE LOCO - WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT (talkover instrumental)
GEORGE KELLY & ORCH - AIN'T THAT GOOD
ELLIOT SHAVERS - YON HE GO
THE NUGGETS - CAP SNAPPER
PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS - THE GREAT AIRPLANE STRIKE
LAURIE ALLEN & BOBBIE BRIGHT - I BELONG WITH YOU
THANH MAI - LONG UNEVEN HAIR

CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT INTERVIEW AND UNRELEASED TRACKS

ANDRE WILLIAMS - LET ME PUT IT IN

STOMPY & THE HEAT - THE LAST WAVE (talkover instrumental)
JIMI HENDRIX - LET THE GOD SING
GENE MARSHALL - JIMMY CARTER SAYS "YES"
EDDIE MITCHELL - DOCTEUR
GILLIAN HILLS - TUT TUT TUT
THE SPRINGFIELD RIFLE - BEARS

FRANK FROST - HARP AND SOUL (talkover instrumental)
SHADY WALL - THE NEW RAUNCHY
ROD FOLEY - BLUES IN MY RED WAGON BLUES
TIMMY WELCH - GYPSY WOMAN
CHAINO - AFRICAN THUNDER (talkover instrumental)

CON AIR (Simon West, 1997)

I just watched Con Air for the first time since 1997. And it was awesome. Non stop super high octane cheese. Within the first 2 minutes, there's a montage of glorious american military honour (there's this great voice over that says, "we thank you, AMERICA thanks you"), a massive super celine dion style power ballad accompanying a slow dance and kiss, and spot of deadly hand to hand combat in the rain. And that's not even mentioning the appearance of Nicholas Cage's awful southern accent...

And it just keeps on like that. There's no chance to get bored when everything moves so fast and everybody hams so hard. I wish all dumb movies were this much fun. There's this hilarious bit where Nicholas Cage's buddy has been shot (early on we see that his best buddy is a black dude so we know he isn't one of those racist southerners) and as he lays there bleeding he says "i'm getting to feel like God doesn't exist". Nicholas Cage replies "i'm gonna show you that God exists...", which he does by promptly beating up and killing a whole bunch of people.

The Villians have really great names too. John Malkovic is Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. And it has an early appearance by Dave Chappelle! His name is Pinball.

I should be heading into the station to do my show now, but I think I'll stay home and watch The Rock instead. As i remember, in that one Nicholas Cage is some kind of beatles loving record collector desk jockey for a government agency who somehow gets caught up in an exciting action situation involving Sean Connery. On Alcatraz. And Sean Conner says, "Losers give up, Winners go home and fuck the prom queen". Or something like that...

on the radio, in the world... 12/09/13

ON THE RADIO

Gaaaaargh, i am overloaded with new records and I don't know which ones i'll get to play. I've got a heap of old timey stuff from the 20s and 30s lately so maybe a bunch of that. I got an LP of great unreleased "jungle rock" type stuff from this bongo player named "Chaino", so probably some of that. It has this one killer cut called "African Thunder", but it's all pretty great. I got this thing called "the new raunchy" i'm pretty into. Plus a great country thing written by our loverboy lincoln chase, and a great dark southern ov wright type thing written by our other loverboy dan penn. Plus some more song poem things probably. Many things!

Oh yeah, and we should have Cambodian Space project in the studio at some point, playing a few of their new cuts recorded in detroit with Dennis Coffey! And maybe some live in studio songs too...

IN THE WORLD

Friday the 13th Brides is playing at YahYahs with the mighty CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT (direct from phnom penh), plus Les Minijupes, and i'll be doing the late night DJing after till 5am

Then Sat the 14th is SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The Gem, where my guest will be Simon Laxton

Then next friday september 20th is Mighty Boys @ Tote Upstairs (slow club) w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Rayon Moon

Sun Sept 22nd is Northcote Record Fair (i'll be selling some)

GIG GUIDE

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

Thurs 12th
Psychedelic Coven presnts BEACHES + KIKAGAKU + MOYO + DREAMTIME @ Gasometer
Friday September 13th 
Cambodian Space Project @ YahYahs w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Les Minijupes
The Drones @ the HiFi Bar w/ Harmony
Garage a go go @ Luwow ft. Los Tones + Wrong Turn + DJs Sye Saxon & Barbara Blaze
Living Eyes 7" launch @ workers club w/ heirophants, bits of shit and pronto
major tom & the atoms single launch @ cherry
grouse party @ bendigo
Sat Sept 14th
SNFF @ The Gem w/ richie120 + Simon Laxton
The Drones @ the HiFi Bar w/ Harmony
Chant Down "More Fire" reggae dancehall night @ Deep 11
DJ PG and Bobby Brazuka @ Ferdydurke
Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions @ bar Open
Los Tones 2 old bar w/ mightiest of guns
Darling Downs @ the Cornish Arms
Shifteee 90s rap party @ Strange Wolf

wed 18th
Hail to The King! elvis show ft. Kira Puru, Mojo JuJu, Stella Angelico, Simone Page Jones, Abbie Cardwell and Nancy Dancer (Hayley of Twincest) @ Northcote town hall 1st SHOW
Thurs 19th
Hail to The King! elvis show ft. Kira Puru, Mojo JuJu, Stella Angelico, Simone Page Jones, Abbie Cardwell and Nancy Dancer (Hayley of Twincest) @ Northcote town hall 2nd SHOW

Friday 20th
Mighty Boys @ Tote Upstairs (slow club) w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Rayon Moon



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LAST WEEKS SHOW


Zach Rampage filled in! I don't know what he played, but you can listen back here:

http://pbsfm.org.au/taxonomy/term/176/2013-09-06

JACQUELINE TAIEB - 7:00 AM (Fontana,1966)

I've been listening to lots of frenchies lately, and this one with it's boss twangy guitar, cute lyrics and even cuter french accented english has me raaaaaaaaaaaaather tittilated...

on the radio, in the world... 06/06/13

ON THE RADIO

Zach Rampage will be filling in for me! And he'll be doing a giveaway for the yahyahs 5th bday gig on sunday...

IN THE WORLD

Sat the 8th Brides is playing at the Launceston Arts Festival in launceston

Sun the 9th Brides playing at the yahyahs 5th bday bash at yahyahs

Wed the 11th i'll be doing some DJ'ing at Boney (used to be Pony) with Mohair Slim from 8 till 1

And friday the 13th Brides is playing at YahYahs with the mighty CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT (direct from phnom penh), plus Les Minijupes, and i'll be doing the late night DJing after till 5am

Then Sat the 14th is SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The Gem, where my guest will be Simon Laxton

GIG GUIDE

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

Fri 6th
Full Ugly 7" launch @ Tote w/ Milk teddy, the clits, going swimming, chook race, wet lips, pink yiles and MORE
Sat 7th
Soul A Go Go @ Workers Club
Brides @ Launceston arts festival
Sun 8th
YAHYAHSS 5TH BDAY FT. CLINKERFIELD SLOCOMBE'S PUSSY PLAGUE DOCTOR THE GRAND RAPIDS RICHIE 1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST THE WARDENS THE BOMBING ANGELS JEMMA & HER AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN THE SOLICITORS MUFASA & THE PROPHETS MADAME BUTTONS (burlesque)
The Third Man @ the Astor
Scott Wilson @ Elwood Blues Club, Greyhound hotel 5pm

Friday September 13th 
Cambodian Space Project @ YahYahs
Sat Sept 14th
SNFF @ The Gem w/ richie120 + Simon Laxton

git on out there
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HOW LONG ARE YOU STAYING

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 30 August 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

TOUSAN - PO BOY WALK (talkover music)
OTIS CLAY - THAT'S HOW IT IS WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE
OTIS CLAY - HARD WORKING WOMAN
OTIS CLAY - THE WOMAN DON'T LIVE HERE NO MORE
O.V. WRIGHT - WITHOUT YOU
EDDIE KENDRICKS - DATE WITH THE RAIN
21ST CREATION - TAILGATE

THE WHATNAUTS - SOUL WALKING (talkover music)
BILL JOY - HOW LONG ARE YOU STAYING
PRINCE - ANNIE CHRISTIAN
KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO - CARS
SIR MIX A LOT - I GOT GAME
STEADY B - SERIOUS
KRS ONE - BLACK COP
SEAN PAUL - GIMMIE THE LIGHT

PABLO & FAY - BEDROOM MAZURKA (talkover music)
MAX ROMEO - WET DREAM
THE SKATALITES - COCONUT ROCK
ROLAND ALPHONSO - JAZZ SKA
DON DRUMMOND - SMILING
JACK COSTANZO - CATWALK
THE NOVAS - THE CRUSHER
THE ANGIDS - C'MERE WOMAN

BO DIDDLEY - SHANK (talkover music)
THE NIGHT PARTY - NICE SHOES
THE PINK TILES - DON'T BE SHY
THE BREEDERS - DIVINE HAMMER
BLOODS - INTO MY ARMS

ROYAL HEADACHE - WILSON ST (talkover music)
MAC DE MARCO - FREAKING OUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD
SALVIA PLATH - STRANDED
LOVERS OF THE BLACK BIRD - TONIGHT WE SAY GOODBYE
ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI - I CAN'T SEE MY EYES

ISAAC AND HIS DOODADS - THE BIG DIPPER (talkover music)
NEIL DIAMOND - DIG IN
BOY (ARTHUR ALEXANDER) - I HOPE THEY GET THEIR EYES FULL
DAN PENN - KEEP ON TALKING