EVERY MORNING I SEE THE WIND

This week's morning writings were OK. Nothing too great. But them's the breaks. Maybe next week. Today I thought i'd try more of a personal thoughts stream of consciousness rather than the absurdist silliness I usually do...

Thursday, January 29, 2015
EVERY MORNING I SEE THE WIND

Every morning I see the wind. I see it wrap itself around the leaves and dance with them. And every morning I think perhaps I will write about the wind, but I can't write about the wind every day. It makes me think of young lovers on the park bench like in that old Nolan Strong number. It makes me think of wicked winds a coming and evil carnivals coming with them. But mostly it makes me think of a certain woman and pictures of her riding a tram on a certain day and the way I felt watching the wind that day. Duke Ellington was drifting out loud and clear from the house and the sun was shining and I could feel a phantasmic current connecting us across the city and I felt buoyant and serene and on a plateau of pleasure and contentment that is rare indeed.



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CAB CALLOWAY - SKETCHES

This isn't a particularly great or in-depth documentary as far as they go, but it's a good introduction to the man and it's cool to see his kids, who are now quite elderly themselves, talking about him. Plus there's some cool footage of his sister Blanche, who was a pioneering black female bandleader and brought him into the game. Worth a watch!

Definitely worth watching are the actual old film shorts from the 30's like this one. Pure gold.

And if you can't get enough Cab, check the Hi De Ho Blog for all the Cab you could want...

http://www.thehidehoblog.com/

on the radio, in the world... 29/01/15

ON THE RADIO

I think we will have a bunch of girl group records. Maybe some wavy gravy new zealand LSD music. I did an interview with Nick Waterhouse during the week, so i'll probably play that (he's playing at womadelaide and golden plains). Probably a couple by Sugar Fed Leopards who have their LP launch on friday night. Other stuff too!

Also, don't forget next week is live music week on PBS! As usual i'll be doing an all live show with nary a record played. Will have sets from Primitive Calculators, Time For Dreams and Habits, plus several other guest appearances. If you wanna come and watch and drink some free coopers, follow these instructions:

You and a friend can come down to any (or all!) of the sessions during the week to see your favourite bands playing in the studios.

Send us an email at events@pbsfm.org.au with the subject line: NIGHT (Monday, Tuesday) plus YOUR NAME and MEMBERSHIP NUMBER in the body, whether you want to bring a friend, and we’ll put your name on the door.

IN THE WORLD

friday 30th i'll be Djing at howler for the Sugar fed Leopards Lp launch

And Sat the 31st is SLOW GRIND FEVER #21, upstairs at the tote

GIG GUIDE

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

Thurs 29th
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds @ Old Bar
palm springs @ long play
Fri 30th
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds @ NSC w/ w/ Harry Howard + The Pink Tiles SOLD OUT
sugar fed leopards LP launch @ howler
vulgagrad @ flying saucer club, elsternwick

sat 31st
SLOW GRIND FEVER #21 @ tote upstairs w/ richie1250, pierre baroni and simon laxton

ALSO:

Feb 6th
Chook Race @ South Australian Hotel (mt gambier) with Ross De Chene Hurricanes


Feb 27th
Stone Love live broadcast from The Immigration Museum
Feb 28th
Chook Race LP launch @ the tote w/ Pink Tiles, Wet Blankets, Roman Catholics and Juicy Lolster

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying: In Whiteville, North Carolina, a 70-year-old man was released from prison after serving 37 years for a double murder he has been proven not to have committed. "Going home. Relaxing. Sleeping in a real bed," he said of his plans upon release. "Probably get in a pool of water and swim for a little while."

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IF YOU'RE GONNA CUT SOMEBODY'S LEGS OFF AND GRIND THEM INTO A HAMBURGER AND SERVE IT TO THEM...

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 23 January 2015

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

ARIEL PINK - IMMUNE TO EMOTION
ARIEL PINK - BEVERLY KILLS
ARIEL PINK - KINSKI ASSASSIN
ARIEL PINK - DINOSAUR CAREBEARS

GOAT - THE LIGHT WITHIN
MUDLARK - TROY BUSWELL SNIFFING SEATS
CHOOK RACE - CLEVER
THE PINK TILES - IT'S DIFFICULT
IGGY POP - I'M BORED
JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS - ALMOST BLACK

JR WALKER & THE ALLSTARS - CLEO'S MOOD (talkover music)
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH - DEATH SOUND
THE COACHMEN - I'M A KING BEE
THE WETBACKS - JOSE JIMENEZ
THE DIAMONDS - THE STROLL
BOB MCFADDEN AND DOR - THE BEAT GENERATION
KUF-LINX FT JOHN JENNINGS - SERVICE WITH A SMILE

HERBIE MANN - COMIN' HOME BABY (talkover music)
HERBIE MANN - HERBIE MANN - NOT NOW-LATER ON
JACK MCDUFF - SCREAMIN'
NOTE & TOE & THE GRENADIERS - I GOT A COLD
BILLY STRANGE AND THE TELSTARS - A LOTTA LIMBO
SWITCHED ON NASHVILLE FT GIL TRYTHALL - FOLSOM PRISON BLUES

DON CARSON & THE CASUALS - JUNGLE BUNGALOW
NATURE BOY - SURFER JOHN
HULA RIOCK NROLL
DON CARSON AND THE CASUALS - YES MASTER!

THE MARQUIS - STRANGE IS LOVE (talkover music)
DAVID DEAN'S COMBO - DOUBLE FREEZE
JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON - WAIT A MINUTE BABY
LOU BEATTY - A WET PILLOW
THE DEACONS - SOCK IT TO ME BABY PT 1 (talkover music)

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS MADE OF SILK

Here's today's entry from WRITING EVERY MORNING , my improvised writing project.

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS MADE OF SILK 

The whole world was made of silk. White silk. People and trees and dogs and cars and the ground and the sky and the lights and the bikes. All slippery smooth silk rubbing pleasantly up against each other. All day long forever, everything would be constantly rubbing up against something else and saying, "ooooooh, that feels goooooooooooood." Then one day the ground began to split open and a huge split was rent in the world. Everybody and everything tumbled down into a place that was nought but craggy masses of denim. "Oh silken lord!" they wailed, gnashing theirs silken teeth together. "What have we done to forsake ye?"

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WRITING EVERY MORNING

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)

I reeeaaaaaly enjoyed this. It's a bit TOO cool, which makes it somewhat less cool, but all the same it IS pretty fuckin cool. And even though the director has said she's not really into Jim Jarmusch, the whole aesthetic is so reminiscent of his late 80s / early 90s movies and that general early 90s indie art film vibe that you can't help but feel a bit like "people already did this whole thing to death 20 years ago". But that aside, I think it's a pretty great movie, and the particular combination of elements makes it somewhat original in it's own way. If I was an Iranian teenager watching this on a bootleg DVD, I reckon i'd think it was the coolest thing of all time. And Arash Marandi, who plays the main guy, jesus what a heartthrob. If there's any justice in the world he should be a poster on every teenage girls wall this year. I thought all the actors were pretty great though. Oh yeah, I haven't really explained anything about the film. Anyway, it's an Iranian vampire western noir teen romance kinda thing. It's shot in California and the film-maker is Iranian / American (she grew up in England and America but her parents are Iranian), but the dialogue is all in farsi and it's set in a kind of fictional Iranian ghost town. It's on at ACMI almost every day for another couple weeks, so don't stooge yourself, go see it...

https://www.acmi.net.au/film/seasons-and-screenings/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/

on the radio, in the world... 23/01/15

ON THE RADIO

I recokons there will be stuff from GOAT, Herbie Mann, duke ellington, sugar fed leopards, chook race, bj morriszonkjle, ariel pink, SIXFTHICK and more more more more

IN THE WORLD

Fri the 23rd i'll be doing the late night DJing at yhaYahs from 12-5

friday 30th i'll be Djing at howler for the Sugar fed Leopards Lp launch

And Sat the 31st is SLOW GRIND FEVER #21, upstairs at the tote

GIG GUIDE

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

fri 23rd
BJ morriszonkle @ old bar
richier1250 late night DJing @ yahyahs

Sat 24th
Chook race @b barown Club geelong w. Ausmuteants, Living Eyes, Hierophants, Constant Mongrel, Wet Blankets, ORB, Kremlings, Sewercide and more
sugar mountain festival ft. ariel pink and other folks too @ melbourne uni
yard bounce dancehall party @ laundry bar w/ jesse i + more
pork chop party @ post office hotel 4pm

Sun 25th
"Shake the Tree" kid fiendly gig and bwling @ thornbury bowls club ft. the Breadmakers, toga Rock + Kiddy rock, 2pm
SIXFTHICK + The Nation Blue @ The Curtin
palm springs @ totwe front bar (arvo) w/ cool sounds

mon 26th
linda gail lewis @ the hungarian centre, wantirna, 2-10pm, w/ Lucky Seven Hank's Jalopy Demons Rusty Pinto's Shotdown from Sugartown The Lincolns Lady Voodoo Shades of Blue and the Memphis Suns..


Fri 30th
Kid Congo @ the Pink Monkey Birds @ NSC w/ w/ Harry Howard + The Pink Tiles
sugar fed leopards LP launch @ howler

sat 31st
SLOW GRIND FEVER #21 @ tote upstairs w/ richie1250, pierre baroni and simon laxton

ALSO:
Satyajit Ray’s The Big City tells the moving story of a mother (Madhabi Mukherjee, star of Ray’s Charulata) who is forced to leave her home to become a modern working woman. It screens exclusively at ACMI in a new digital restoration. Screens Tue 20 Jan – Fri 30 Jan

Feb 6th
Chook Race @ South Australian Hotel (mt gambier) with Ross De Chene Hurricanes


Feb 27th
Stone Love live broadcast from The Immigration Museum
Feb 28th
Chook Race LP launch @ the tote w/ Pink Tiles, Wet Blankets, Roman Catholics and Juicy Lolster

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying: Cuban state media reported that Fidel Castro, who had not been heard from for three months, broke his silence by writing a four-page letter to soccer star Diego Maradona to discuss global oil consumption and quash rumors of his death

OR

Analysis of a 700-year-old fecal sample revealed that a patron of Dante, who was also an Italian warlord, died from ingesting a poisonous "brew or foxglove decoction."

OR

In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim cleric issued a ruling that forbids Sunnis from building snowmen. "It is imitating the infidels," one supporter said. "It promotes lustiness and eroticism."

OR

It was reported that, in Folkestone, England, a father was sentenced to four years in prison after he dropped his three-year-old son off at nursery school with a lunchbox full of cocaine and knives

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LOVE IS STRANGE

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 16 January 2015

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

BO DIDDLEY - AZTEC (talkover)
THE ACCENTS FT SANDI - YOU BETTER WATCH OUT BOY
JOE TEX - NEXT TIME
JACKIE SHANE - IN MY TENEMENT
THE DRIFTERS - NOBODY BUT ME
THE JELLYBEANS - I WANNA LOVE HIM SO BAD

DUANE EDDY - STALKIN (talkover)
JAMES CARR - YOU GOT MY MIND MESSED UP
OTIS REDDING - STAND BY ME
JAMES HUNTER - HEARTBREAK
MARVIN GAYE - SANDMAN
SAM COOKE - NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN

WILSON PICKETT - RB SPECIAL (talkover)
LA MONT ANTHONY - JUST TO BE LOVED
BILLY MIRANDA - GO AHEAD
TARHEEL SLIM & LITTLE ANN - TWO TIME LOSER
RONNIE LOVE - FRAGILE LOVE
MICKEY & SYLVIA - LOVE IS STRANGE

CHUCK HOLDEN - MY LOST MELODY (talkover)
BUDDY HOLLY - LOVE IS STRANGE
BUDDY HOLLY - AIN'T GOT NO HOME
THE EVERLY BROTHERS - AIN'T THAT LOVIN YOU BABY
ADRIANO CELENTANO - PITA GORA
THE ROLLING STONES - THE UNDER ASSISTANT WEST COAST PROMO MAN
THE MOVING SIDEWALKS - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO

SUGAR FED LEOPARDS - SABINA
SUGAR FED LEOPARDS - THE BALLAD
LUCAS HEENAN - STOOD UP ON CHRISTMAS
BJ MORRISZONKLE - I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
ELVIS PRESLEY - HURT (DIRTY VERSION)

ROY ORBISON - DEVIL DOLL
STEVE KING & THE ECHELONS - SATAN IS HER NAME
FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL INTRO

THE WONDROUS SMELL OF A CENTIPEDE

Here's my favourite entry from the last weeks WRITING EVERY MORNING. I like it because it's creepy and gross...

THE WONDROUS SMELL OF A CENTIPEDE
The wondrous smell of a centipede drifted up from the garden into the little boy's nose, like that of a pie cooling on a window sill. The boy knew he must have this centipede in his fangs immediately, or the pent up need would cause him to murder his whole family and be dubbed "The Damien of Sherrybrook". But it wasn't true, he was no demon seed, just a plump young thing filled with desire, and he would not let his desires cause his family harm. Only the centipede. He vaulted over the windowsill and scurried face first into the garden, snout wiggling and snorting, fire in his eyes, his whole body twisting. To catch the centipede, he would become the centipede.