Russian Street Music

Toyama Koichi does NOT want your vote.

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the resuscitation to life of dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V. Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor J.B.S. Haldane.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

I can't believe I missed this one.. Shinya Tsukamoto returns to his roots to direct a full length re-imagining of his cult Tetsuo cyberpunk series. Yowzer!

Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Concent

Time to watch Manufacturing Consent again.

Action. Image. Exchange.

A Memoria (Daniele Ciprì & Franco Maresco, 1996, KINOTE) from jeanne dielman on Vimeo.

Homemade Helmets

Following on nicely from the last post to another lost kingdom of Africa, where recent revolution also gave birth to a new range of bizarre civilian battle gear including cooking utensils and baguettes.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa

The guy who posted this sounds like a religious nut and the host of this four part BBC doc is basically a gay Indiana Jones wannabe, but don't let that put you off.

This is currently showing in Finland, you may have caught it already on BBC 4 in the UK. I got a bit hooked into this after reading Robert Bauval's Black Genesis, an interesting (very opinionated) study of early African empires which stretched the length and breadth of the continent, and which were just as sophisticated as the Egyptians.. Some interesting stuff and amazing ancient architecture. Worth a look.

Buttonhead

Not an album post, but a post about an album, so this isn't going in the ghost box..Yet.
This is one I've been waiting for. Buttonhead's new release 3D Opera Whale is out in March, and ahead of that comes this impossibly good video.

The Don is Gone

The brave Captain has left the building.. In the time-honoured tradition of going down with the ship, he has decided to check-out just as human-kind reaches it's lowest ebb. Viddy this nice short from 1993 in which Don van Vliet shares some of his unique observations. Thanks to Spragg for the link.

Don van Vliet is currently co-writing a musical about the much-feared vegetarian wing of the National Rifle Association with Hunter Thompson entitled "Carrot Gun: The True Story of the Bean-Eating Bullet Beans".. It will probably take forever to finish.

Woe is a me bop.