Antiques Rockshow

WFMU’s (perhaps the greatest radio station on the planet) annual record fair is right around the corner. October 24, 25 and 26th at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion to be exact. Here’s a little video for all you record nerds about last years fair.

Retro Kidz

Fashion goes in circles, everything old is new again etc. etc.

Meet the Retro Kidz, a bunch of youngsters who have a total crush on the late 80s early 90s. Besides the fact that their music is horrendous, all styler over substance, and bears no resemblance to the music of the era they love so much, this is one trend that I can whole heartily get behind.

I have a soft spot for the early 90s. I think I’m going to dust of my British Knights, strap on my 8-ball jacket, and watch the Love Connection tonight.

Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye, founding member of Minor Threat as well as Fugazi and owner of Dischord Records; is perhaps The Witch Fire’s biggest influence. He is currently doing a speaking tour through southern California.

Tue Oct 21
UC Irvine Humanities Hall 178
Irvine CA
A Question and Answer Speaking Engagement. $5,
8:00 PM All-Ages Welcome, click here for more info.

Wed Oct 22
Ventura Library
Ventura CA
A Question and Answer Speaking Engagement. $5,
7:30 PM All-Ages Welcome, click here for more info

Wed Oct 22
Mary Pickford Auditorium
Pitzer College
Claremont CA
A Question and Answer Speaking Engagement.
THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW, 12:00 Noon, free, All-Ages Welcome.

Thu Oct 23
Sunken City Skates
San Pedro CA
A Question and Answer Speaking Engagement. $5,
7:30 Doors All-Ages Welcome

Sun Oct 26
Hollywood High School
Hollywood CA
A Question and Answer Speaking Engagement. $5
(Hollywood High students free with i.d.),

6:30doors/7pm show, All-Ages Welcome 

dischordrecords.com

Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov

Far behind the Iron Curtain of cold war Russia Vladimir Demikhov was a pioneer in what he coined “transplantology”. He dealt in the transplants of organs and limbs in various animals. In 1954 he created his most notorious work. He grafted the head and forelegs of a puppy to the neck of an adult dog. With their windpipe and blood vessel’s connected this dog lived for 6 days with the puppy head displaying the behavior of a puppy and the adult dog displaying the behavior of an adult.

Christiaan Barnard who performed the world first human heart transplant cited Demikhov as one of his mentors.

Ballast

Rarely does a trailer make me want to see a film. I saw this trailer yesterday and immediately I knew I wanted to see it even though I didn’t know what the movie was about. The complete absence of Hollywood glam and soundtracking coupled with every shot beeing in natural light really appeals to me.

I did some poking around and here is what the movie is actually about:

“In the cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man’s suicide radically transforms three characters’ lives and throws off-balance what has long been a static arrangement among them. Marlee is a single mother struggling to scratch a living for herself and James, her 12-year-old son, who has begun to stumble under drug and violence pressures. So when the opportunity to seek safe harbor at a new home arises, she grabs it, though the property is shared by Lawrence, a man with whom Marlee has feuded bitterly since James’s birth.”

Decampment

Adult. is a band that makes claustrophobic, cold, synth heavy, “electroclash”, “cold-wave” ,whatever you want to call it music. Now, they’ve made a movie; a campy horror one from the looks of it. I like how it is a logical extension of Nicola Kuperus’ (one half of the band) no faced, highly staged photography.

There will be a screening of their film in Los Angeles on Nov. 18th at the Silent Movie Theatre. Adult. will be performing the soundtrack live to the film.

adultperiod.com

Bdelloid Rotifers

“Bdelloid Rotifers — small transparent animals that live in damp places such as puddles, or patches of moss. Among evolutionists, these animals have something of a cult following, because they have a lifestyle that is not supposed to exist. As far as anyone can tell, the bdelloid rotifers are ancient asexuals: they appear to have been living entirely without sex for more than 85 million years. And each time we learn more details of their lifestyle, the wackier it becomes.”

via NYTimes

Wyld File

Wyld File video collective. Made up of dudes from Paper Rad and the E*Rock.

Brilliant.

21:100:100

rad.

Only, it’s being held in Australia. Lets hope the exhibitions travels near us.