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TOMORROW AT DAWN: Cex concludes Warscape Meet up at 5:57AM in the empty lot across from the Copycat...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:15:49 -0400

TOMORROW AT DAWN:

Cex concludes Warscape

Meet up at 5:57AM in the empty lot across from the Copycat Annex (where the Sunday PM show is held)

Bring a battery-operated tape or cd player if you can

DEAR HOLLYWOOD:

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:21:15 -0400

First one to make a movie about the Findlays wins.

From da wik:

The film started out as a low-budget gore film titled Slaughter which was written and directed by the husband-and-wife grindhouse filmmaking team of Michael Findlay and Roberta Findlay. Filmed in Argentina in 1971 it depicted the actions of a Manson-esque murder cult.

In 1976, the Findlays’ distributor, Allan Shackleton, a low grade filmmaker and sometimes pornographer specializing in sadomasochism, added a new ending in which a woman is brutally murdered by a film crew, supposedly the Slaughter crew. Filmed in a vérité style, the new ending purported to show an actual murder. The new footage was spliced onto the end of Slaughter with an abrupt cut that suggested that the footage was unplanned and authentic, and the new version released under the title Snuff.

This was done as a marketing ploy so that the fake on-camera death could be promoted as being genuine. Shackleton even went so far as to hire fake protesters to picket the movie theaters showing the film. Soon this became moot, as the group Women Against Pornography began staging real protests, which received coverage by such outlets as the CBS Evening News.

The new ending was not organised nor shot by the Findlays. After realising that their film Slaughter was being reused they threatened to sue Shackleton, later accepting an out-of-court settlement. Shortly thereafter, Roberta Findlay left her husband for Alan Shackleton, who taught her to make hardcore pornography.

Can that amazing twist ending really be true??? (God, the people who made 8mm really missed the real story, didn’t they?) But if that weren’t enough…

On May 16th, 1977 Michael Findlay was killed by decapitation in a helicopter accident on the roof of the Pan Am Building in New York City. The New York Airways helicopter Findlay and three other passengers were in the process of boarding tipped on its side while the rotors were still running.

Twenty abandoned cities from around the world

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:37:18 -0400

Twenty abandoned cities from around the world: via grinding.be

"Less album listening means that people aren’t forced to listen to things that don’t turn..."

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:09:00 -0400

“Less album listening means that people aren’t forced to listen to things that don’t turn them on right away, and as a result, tastes change less.”

- Barry Schwartz in this article

"As long as I can get angry, then I play well. If I play well, I can beat everybody. I am happy..."

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:19:53 -0400

“As long as I can get angry, then I play well. If I play well, I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.”

- Ilie Năstase

"You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained..."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:00 -0400

“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, nor for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests at the bottom of time— though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them. And you know, or you should know, that those to whom they sold those things, who were the creations of their own hands, hated them in their hearts. And truly they had hearts, though the men who had made them never reckoned with that. Anyway, they resolved to ruin their makers, and they did it by returning, when mankind had spread to a thousand suns, all that had been left with them long before.”

- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of The Lictor 1981

"Nowhere, no doubt, from one end to the other of the regions inhabited by the bourgeoisie, is there..."

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:22:54 -0400

“Nowhere, no doubt, from one end to the other of the regions inhabited by the bourgeoisie, is there anything going on that is noticeably different from the rest, from the past, from political traditions, from literary traditions; nevertheless, and moreover without attaching any other importance to it, I can say that from now on it is impossible to retreat and hide in the “wonderland” of Poetry without being publicly condemned as a coward.”

- Georges Bataille, “The Lugubrious Game” from Documents 7, 1929

DANNiBAL ViNYL @ JUNO RECS

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:37:48 -0400

DANNiBAL ViNYL @ JUNO RECS: Euro heads might want to know: Juno records is carrying the DANNIBAL 12’— and they’ve got mp3 samples up of every track.

ericlodwick: joshuatuscan: via s.buzzfeed.com Iran...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:30:11 -0400

ericlodwick:

joshuatuscan:

via s.buzzfeed.com

Iran photoshopped their missile launch and the NYTimes and LATimes ran it on their front page.

Did “Iran” do the photoshopping, or did someone who wants to exacerbate tensions with Iran do it? Last I heard, it was a French press agency who proliferated this image, not Ahmadinejad or some anthropormophized version of his country. From that article: “So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance.”

Video

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:00 -0400

vids via WATMM

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:48:56 -0400

vids via WATMM

JiLARiOUS HOAX

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:01:54 -0400

The seven rock bands who have released three “#1” albums in a row:

VAN HALEN
U2
METALLICA
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
STAIND
DISTURBED

Bombs over Baghdad: Who cares?

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:22:00 -0400

Bombs over Baghdad: Who cares?:

jaydub:

When, in April 1937, the German Condor Legion dropped 45,000 kilograms of explosives on the Spanish town of Guernica, international outrage followed, and Pablo Picasso was inspired to paint his now famous Guernica. When the US Air Force recently loosed 45,000 kilograms of bombs on a small Sunni farming district in Iraq, there was hardly a peep. These days, only “insurgent” suicide bombings warrant media attention, while the US’s air “surge” is politely played down.

"…art doesn’t have to mean anything to be good… and sometimes it’s better..."

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:50:18 -0400

“…art doesn’t have to mean anything to be good… and sometimes it’s better when it doesn’t, but I feel like there is a greater issue at hand given that much of the nowish art I see seems to aspire to not just “no meaning” but to being meaning-proof, which is foreboding, to put it mildly.”

- Jessica Hopper 7/4/8

"Again, there is the illusion of “increased command over Nature,” meaning that cotton is..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:10:46 -0400

“Again, there is the illusion of “increased command over Nature,” meaning that cotton is cheap and that ten miles of country road on a bicycle have replaced four on foot. But even if man’s increased command over Nature included any increased command over himself (the only sort of command relevant to his evolution into a higher being), the fact remains that it is only by running away from the increased command over Nature to country places where Nature is still in primitive command over Man that he can recover from the effects of the smoke, the stench, the foul air, the overcrowding, the racket, the ugliness, the dirt which the cheap cotton costs us.”

- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar & Cleopatra 1898

jjaacckkssoonn: yes . Kate Bush . late seventies . not...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:56 -0400

jjaacckkssoonn:

yes . Kate Bush . late seventies . not an American Apparel logo in sight .

Now I know where Beverly Crusher got her steez..

Photo

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:48:46 -0400

Video

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:31:50 -0400

BACK ISSUES

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:02:00 -0400

BACK ISSUES:

Now available from MUST M-F’N FINISH: assorted early Cex discs, both compact and vinyl, priced to help you slyly fill the gaps in your Cex stack.

Coming in a day or two: new shirt.

IMHO, of course. I know it might seem suspicious that...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:27:00 -0400

IMHO, of course. I know it might seem suspicious that I’ve ranked the rarest of the pile as the best— but trust me, it’s the track lengths on “Versions” that nail it for me, not the preciousness. Not that I haven’t played Quadrange twice as many times—- that’s the superior edition if you primarily listen to music while you read (easily) but if you throw in traveling, going towards, doing chores, etc., I think “Versions” is very possibly Ae’s best album ever. (This is coming from a guy who got on the train at ENVANE and initially hated CONFIELD, in case that’s pertinent.)