i’ve been pretty much indifferent about up until now. but holy crap — this video is off the fucking chain!

a little halloween treat courtesy of . this one comes off the classic scratchcratchratchatch mixtape. he recently released the followup to scratchcratchratchatch, and is kicking off a this week in support of it. koala’s easily one of my favorite performers around and i definitely recommend checking him out – even non-scratch fans will have their pants charmed right off them!

listen to

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listen to from , which is one of those “cool” and “edgy” anti-drug ad campaigns aimed at teens.

(ridiculously great drawing stolen from .)
(thanks, marc)

want to hear a track by the great (and greatly-named) german band ? ok, here’s one called “hoodoo man,” from the 1972 album of the same name.

my favorite book from growing up, star travel from 1979. describes the history and future of transportation, with a focus on awesome things like rocketbelts, mag-lev tubes, and hollowed out asteroids. it has some wear and tear, but the illustrations still give me that thrilling feel i had as a kid.

i made a pdf for you to download.

i started watching on tonight, somehow its not as creepy edited for tv and with commercials. has been showing some great classic horror movies this week including , & . one movie that has always scared me is probably because it came out around the time i played around with a . maybe its the spirit of but the intrigue returned, however this didn’t seem to work for me, or make me poop my pants.

i had completely forgotten about this show until today, when it was mention on in the context of one of the all time greatest network flops. believe it or not this show was exported across the pond, i remember watching it on sunday nights as a kid.

david bowie on the dick cavett show and on coke circa 1974.

for more halloween goodness, peep these selections from the ost of . if it was released on cd ever, it certainly is not readily availble. so scary!

wendy carlos & rachel elkind “the shining (main theme)”
krzysztof penderecki “polymorphia”
krzysztof penderecki “de natura sonoris #2″

it isn’t so much that i think it’s the best album ever, just that i had to have ice-t-like fortitude in to hunt down ini’s “center of attention” online. it wasn’t so much that i really wanted it, either, just that we were talking about it at work and how the album survives despite it’s just-above-mediocre mc’s and writing. all the production is amazing, but many amazing sounding albums have fallen flat due to vocals. in fact, center of attention was released as part of a dual-disc “underground soul classics,” and the second disc, was deda’s, “the original baby pa,” remembered for its beat-detracting vocals. one internet note said, and probably should be discounted, “harsh, at times irritating….” what a bummer. to have an unreleased set come out, one a classic and the other a dud. what does that remind you of? you got it. ooh, or these except both of them are classics.