Flowers in December

From Mazzy Star’s final album, Among My Swan, 1996

Sphinx Without A Secret

A short story by Oscar Wilde
An etching
One afternoon I was sitting outside the Cafe de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard some one call my name. I turned round, […]

I’m too sad to tell you

Bas Jan Ader at his finest. I actually went to a video art show relatively recently at Telic in Chinatown, and they had a bunch of Ader’s more obscure video pieces. It just might have been one of the finer video shows I’ve seen?

Here’s a newly found Ader piece, which is supposedly posted […]

Flip flop rock

Whoa, check this dude out! It’s Ja Rule/TI’s spawn crooning in old school Japanese style!  Pretty effin’ amazing right? Okay, now check this out:

Yeah…not to be self loathing about my motherland’s culture, but somehow that just doesn’t come across as quite as amazing as the first video. Very entertaining though!! We […]

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Timeless and awe-inspiring.  Please watch and listen to your favorite tripped out music.

Maya Deren, Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946

Phantom Tenebrae

Where are we now?  Post-post-modernity? Post-post-post?  There may be an over-saturation and over-stimulation of saturations and stimuli, but it leads to many an interesting chop and screw of [re]appropriation.  What the hell am I talking about? I know this is old news, but I like.

Dario Argento’s Tenebrae, 1982

Justice’s Phantom, 2007
[Sorry, no visuals]

A Late/Early XMAS […]

Coloring the Void

M83 doin’ the damn thang.

 
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