UPDATE: From the For What It's Worth department -- Jodorowsky just sent Twitch Films 4 storyboards (3 black and white and 1 colored) for his new movie "King Shot". Nick Nolte and Marilyn Manson will star in this movie, being said to be a "metaphysical spaghetti gangster film".

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El Topo Soundtrack

The god that hangs over all weird movies is Alejandro Jodorowsky, a director whose work is so consistently weird and offbeat you can guarantee it will never be claimed by the mainstream. The personality of Jodorowsky himself hangs over and is inseparable from his films, he seems to exude the physical electricity and magnetism of a cult leader, while his biography is impossible to differentiate from his self-aggrandizing. His films are designed not as entertainment but as mystical, transcendental experiences.

Nicely researched post about El Topo and the soundtrack from the movie at the Dinosaur Gardens website. Listed are 7 songs in mp3 format. link. You will also find the soundtrack to the Holy Mountain film.

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Celebrity auctioneer and former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX), reportedly generated plenty of laughs Tuesday night... with a barrage of Beaver-related double-entendres, Roll Call reports.

At the annual Safari Club dinner, DeLay managed to bring in $1,400 for the sheared--or shaved, some say he called it--beaver fur vest.

Forget the beaver stuff. What kind of fucking troglodyte belongs to a Safari Club? Move up to the head of the class if you said Tom Delay.

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We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kanvar is a visualization of how the internet community feels. The program scours across blogs for phrases containing "I feel" and parses them into a field for analysis from many different angles. Brilliant!

I'm having lots of fun with this toy.

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Rush Limpdick's latest drug run-in: Viagra.

Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours for possible possession of illegal prescription drugs found in his luggage, including a bottle of Viagra.

I could have gone all damn day without hearing about Rush and his schlong problems. [/shudder]

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S o long, sweet Meg.

It saddens me to learn that our good friend, Michelle Goodrich, (Meg to the online community) passed away this weekend. I learned a lot from her web expertise and unbounded patience. Many of us bloggers did.

She ran the Mandarin Design site and lived in West Sacramento, CA. She was a sweet gentle spirit that I will miss deeply.

I'll continue to honor her with the CSS/HTML she taught me. And how to make boxes, padding, shadows, borders. How to make a picture opaque, add letters to the opacity, make the letter "S" in the beginning of this post, aka Drop Caps, and numerous other tweaks.

She just always took the time. Rest peacefully, dear one.

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Web Trail - Tom Robbins, Social Suicide, Acid Reduxe, Sedaris, Unhoused, Black Panthers, Juneteenth

* Not Just Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins reflects on his 44-year romance with the Blue Moon bar in Seattle. link

* Social Suicide - Tailored in Savile Row and styled for a civil row, this isn't your average shit. link

* ACID REDUX - The life and high times of Timothy Leary link

* WHAT I LEARNED - And what I said at Princeton by DAVID SEDARIS (his recent commencement speech) link

* Street blogging - Filmmaker Daniel Cross goes online to tell the stories of Canada’s street populace with Homelessnation.org. Here the "unhoused" maintain their blogs and podcasts and more. link

* Newsreel Film DVD on Black Panthers being compiled with appeal for donations. link

* At the annual Juneteenth festival comedian/activist Dick Gregory blasted the major television networks for hiding the truth in reporting a bloody and ugly war in Iraq. link

Carpe Scrotum - Grab life by the balls

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Summer of Love Redux

ASA IRONS of the Vermont musical collective Feathers is stroking his beard. It is formidable beard; a biblical beard. He and his band mates — who mainly operate out of a rural farmhouse without cellphones, Internet, manager or booking agent — are at WNYC radio to perform their enigmatic, pixie-ish folk-rock on the long-running show "Spinning on Air." Today their instruments include a lap harp, a toy xylophone, a Middle Eastern hand drum and an acoustic guitar hand-painted with animals and rainbows.

"I'm all about the old world, man," Mr. Irons says with a mischievous laugh.

Perhaps. But he and his band mates are also about a new world: one of the most creatively vigorous strains of underground music. Initially dubbed "freak folk," it looked like a trend of the moment a couple of years ago, when two California artists, Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart, attracted attention with charmingly shaggy, deceptively whimsical, largely acoustic albums.

But the scene they spearheaded has grown steadily and expanded sonically, getting less folkie and more, well, freaky. It has also gone international. And this season — the Summer of Love 2.0 — it comes into full, wild bloom with releases, tours and festival appearances that promise nothing less than a new age of Aquarius.

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Another Timewaster. Can You Spot The Band Name? is a picture full of hidden band names that's fun to play around with on your lunch break.

Here are a few I spotted:

Guns & Roses
Scissor Sisters
The Eels


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Friday Timewaster

This desktop is packed full of 100 cryptic film titles for you to find. I can see Napoleon Dynamite, Saw 1 & Saw 2, Green Eggs & Ham, Blazing Saddles....

What movies can you spot?

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Friday Random Ten - Shuffle 'em up and show us your ten. I'll show you mine...

1. Moon Occults The Sun - Espers
2. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
3. Waiting Phase One - Porcupine Tree
4. Hyper-Ballad - Bjork
5. Rejoicing in the Hands - Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart
6. Green Pasture - Growing
7. Winters Love - Animal Collective
8. Pandora - Cocteau Twins
9. Black Wall - Six Organs of Admittance
10. Monkey Man - Rolling Stones

Neo psychedelic music is garnering so much roar; not for pushing the envelope so much but for crawling up inside that envelope and mailing it back to 1969. Like the sounds I heard when I spent yards of time stoned in front of the 8-track. Go ahead. Jump in. (listen) You'll have a safe warm place to land.

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Espers II - Philadelphia trio Espers' first two releases-- 2004's Espers and 2005's The Weed Tree-- were inadvertently incorporated into the big freak-folk/New Weird America snowball that also tumbled over and swallowed up Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Faun Fables, and a mess of other psych- and folk-infused players.

Espers is now a sextet, and II is far darker, deeper, and more ominous than its predecessors, a rich, droning mix of guitars, vocals slathered on vocals, cello, assorted bells, flute, recorder, mini-Korg, Tibetan singing bowls, dulcimer, a bit of bass, organ, the occasional drum, and a cornucopia of effects. Listen

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From Maru


"What did we get ourselves into?"

"I've just pissed my pants - hold me!"

Showing us just how safe Iraq is: White House Press-tool Tony Snow and Counselor Dan Barlett look absolutely thrilled to be traveling with Preznit Flightsuit on his surprise photo-op to exciting Baghdad yesterday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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THE UNDERGROUND PRESS

Did you ever read/see any of the great underground newspapers of the late 1960's - mid 1970's in the US? There was The East Village Other (NY), The Great Speckled Bird (ATL), Black Panther, Berkeley Barb (Berkeley, CA), LA Free Press, The Paper, of East Lansing, Michigan, and many more?

I was a faithful Speckled Bird reader. We bought these most of the time from people on street corners in Atlanta; on the corner of 14th St, where all the other freaks hung out. As surely as you'd see a Bird vendor around there, you'd also see someone selling flowers for a small fee to wear in your hair or wherever. And you knew who was selling "what" "where". And someone was in a doorway playing guitar; a few bumming spare change passing by. All waiting for the next musical, sexual, or pharmaceutical experience.

Receiving The Last Whole Earth Catalog was a spiritual experience. Sort of a hippie Sears catalog and was one of the very few books we had at Peace Tree (a lakeside commune in Tennessee) when we first began. It was all about survival, metaphysics, learning to grow organic, live natural, how to build a shelter-- how to build or make just about anything. Stewart Brand (Burning Man) was the founder. We've still got one around the house someplace.

Many college libraries have some of these newspapers on Microfilm. Some are for sale on Ebay. Why are there no equivalent newspapers/websites? "Where is that one great progressive balls to the wall website that has it all?" Music, protest and boycott info, in-depth interviews, sex (& relationships), drugs, literature? more»

from the archives

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Sex (Circa 2006)

Is "oral" the new 2nd base? The "mostly" girls (as in mostly straight) keep on kissing girls. Do you have a friend "with privileges"? And the "bro job" has also arrived.

"So are you, like, gay now that Ernie sucked your wang?" "No! It was totally just a bro job. I loves the ladies."

No one is inhibited whatsoever. Everybody's "bi" or "mostly". My daughter is so free and uninhibited. We used to tell her to put some clothes ON. I never thought anything could compete with the sexual revolution of the sixties. What was once considered slutty-hoochie is now acceptable in dress and attitude and sexuality. I can't believe I'm saying it but pondering the evolution of today's sexual young adult is a mother's nightmare.

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Terrorism Quiz

By Lindy Greene

06/05/06 "Information Clearing House"

1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over twenty different countries since 1945?

2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt?

4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

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What about the new-ish Songbird? Songbird is the open-source iTunes/Windows Media Player replacement built from Firefox's browser engine. It sounds promising and I'm downloading it this very moment.

The Songbird graphics and buttons are adorable, even tho he appears to have a serious gas problem!

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A love letter to Ann Coulter from Henry Rollins



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From the Betty Bowers site: This week, sweet Ann Coulter released her latest in a series of pre-rehab books, entitled Godless. Naturally, the title led me to believe that it was an unexpectedly candid autobiography. Alas, she may be saving that book until after she's been strapped to a bed at Hazelden for a month. Instead of using this book to dabble in the bracing novelty of introspection, Miss Coulter turns her two-setting mind ("off" and "off her rocker") to hector us about religion.

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Zeek: Contemporary Psychedelia: From Transcendence to Immanence by Peter Bebergal - Really good article on Psychedelia that explores the mystical, medicinal and musical aspects -- then and now.

Zeek link via AlternativeApproaches, another nice collaborative effort where I found this quote.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
-- Salvador Dali

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From the website:

The Hippie Museuem's most cherished Fairy Godmother Alicia Bay Laurel, artist, musician, and author of "Living on the Earth", the more than famous Hippie "bible" of back to the land living, has just released a new cd, "What Living's All About". The description on the cover reads "Jazz, blues and other moist situations".. Read what Alicia has to say about it, and follow links to purchase it on her site, as well as listen to clips on cdbaby.com link

More News from the Hippie Museum...

What's Living in the Middle of America?
Hippie Museum member Alan SpringWind is about to embark on a 30 day bus trip to Ohio and elsewhere back towards the right side of Amerika. He used to hitch around the country back in the late 60's and early 70's. He's been in California most of the time since 1976., and is now going off to discover the current state of Amerika, from the perspective of his hippie roots and his anarchist-Christian perspective. He will be making regular reports here on the Hippie Museum. Stary Tuned! Check out Alan's blog ..... link

Shill Is A Shuck - A review by Pam Hanna
Some characters are undoubtedly modeled on real people, but even they are not fleshed out to resemble real human beings. I'm guessing that O'Bannon is Emmet Grogan, The Poet is Allen Ginsberg and the Riggers are most probably the Diggers. Tahiti was allowed to keep his own name but not developed as a character. I did recognize the man who lives near Silver City and makes his own beer but only because the author says it tastes like champagne and there could be only one such person. Otherwise, ... read more here: link

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Thank you Lt. Ehren Watada for standing up for international, US and military law by refusing to deploy to Iraq in support of the ongoing illegal war and occupation.

"I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to watch families torn apart, while the President tells us to "stay the course." ...I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. I wanted to be there for my fellow troops. But the best way was not to help drop artillery and cause more death and destruction. It is to help oppose this war and end it so that all soldiers can come home."
- LT, US Army officer

First U.S. military officer to publicly refuse orders in support of the illegal Iraq War at coordinated events in Tacoma, Washington and Honolulu, Hawaii on Wedensday, June 7th. Join this unprecedented political and legal support campaign today!

Thank You LT
Sign The Petition
Courage To Resist

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Repukes To-Do list re: Nov 2006 Elections

Stir up immigration issue?

Check.

Gay marriage issue?

Check.

Scare hell out of everyone with impending doom and terrorist attacks?

You betcha.

"These individuals are often hiding in plain sight in cities like Torrance and now Toledo."

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Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank, a 47-year-old loser junky whore high school freshman with lesbian tendencies. Got that? As one might guess, the movie plays off the temptation, as well as the prohibition, implied in its name. It is a brand of comedy that invites one's sense of humor to venture where it has not dared go before.

Strangers with Candy shows the onscreen relationship between co-screenwriters/co-stars Paul Dinello (The Colbert Report, and the SWC TV series) and Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report, The Daily Show). The two play schoolteachers Geoff and Chuck, who are also squabbling gay lovers who offer a cynically comic spoof of gay relationships. [Read More...]

ThinkFilm presents an Exclusive first look at the Strangers With Candy movie trailer. It opens nationwide in July.

Watch trailer

I've followed SWC since Comedy Central days and look forward to the movie. It was extremely raw for television and the writing is the best I've seen.

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Reminds me of the old classic, Trails In The Sand, by Dangling Dick. Actually, it's an ad for extra large condoms and one of many condom ads which happen to be safe for viewing at work (SFW). Beside being funny, it's effective.

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