this blog is a visual notebook of inspirations for a group of bandit bloggers. we post things we see and like. our lives don’t revolve around singular topics and neither does our blog. sorry! nothing is in-or-out of context here. enjoy xx
all video shot captured cut and projected by swisscolorvision
glass candy – crystal castles : i don’t know, when i see something. i say something…
pure gold
glass candy raw – early days before switching to their synth pop genre
here vocalist ida no and multi instrumentalist johnny jewel are seen attempting (sort of) to mash up no wave, art punk, and glam rock and trying to make something out of nothing
they became a band we regularly played in the TS offices but man they had a rough start. still good energy and inspiration. go glass candy. by ar
around the time of beastie boys in NY, MAARS, consisting of 4 kids from UK, released “pump up the volume”. it was a mega hit in the clubs! MARRS started in 1987 as an intended collaboration between the groups A.R. kane and colourbox, with additional input from DJs chris “c.j.” mackintosh and dave dorrell. (basically nobodies)
however, instead of working together, the two groups ended up recording a track each, then turning it over to the other for additional input. this was a propulsive martyn young track constructed largely of samples, including one of A.R. kane’s guitars. the track was released on 4th & b’way/island records in the US. because of legal issues, some of the samples used in the original UK release of the song were removed and replaced in the US release. the song was nominated for grammys in the US… but it lost out and it remained MAARS one hit wonder… that said the baseline is catchy as hell, some one pick it up.
* MAARS derived from the forenames of the five 4AD artists involved in the project: (M)artyn young (from Colourbox), (A)lex ayuli and (R)udy tambala (from A.R. kane), (R)ussell smith (an associate A.R. kane member), and (S)teven young (from colourbox). by uh
documentary on louise the XVI and his wife marie antoinette
the really bad sex life (and reign) of marie antoinette & louis XVI
she was no angel but like her husband louis the XVI she wanted more equality, and for the rich to pay their fair share of taxes – that never happened.
when they told the french king “the people have no bread to eat”, marie antoinette famously said “let them eat cake” …which is untrue ….and this she never did say. but like today, the press of the time and the rich oligarchs who ran them, made every half-decent person the enemy of the people…
the king and her young wife met their end, with the unfortunate guillotine, after being hated by the elite and the oligarchs and then the people who blamed them for their inadequacies…
“when louis XVI and marie antoinette took the helm of france’s monarchy, versailles had been the home to the most powerful family in europe for over a century. a place of artistic brilliance, lavish entertainment, passionate love affairs, and outrageous scandals. but while a lucky few danced, feasted, and flirted their days away, the state was on the brink of collapse. now Louis XVI and his wife marie antoinette would face the biggest challenge in the history of their illustrious family.” good documentary worth a watch, with many parallels to what is going on today…by pp
jeffrey epstein “financier” – donald trump, evanka trump, jeffrey epstein, ghislaine maxwell – epstein most likely had dirt on donald trump
robert maxwell “news mogul” (foreign spy) and her daughter ghislaine
robert maxwell (ghislaine maxwell’s father) henry kissinger
eric weinstein reveals the terrifying story of meeting jeffrey epstein
“what dark secrets lie beneath efjfrey epstein’s web of influence? from intelligence connections to political protection, this episode peels back layers of one of america’s most disturbing scandals.” – judge napolitano
interesting take on who the “disgraced financier” jeffrey epstein really was. a financier who worked with no one (but wexler) and had no trace of investment documents. he was a supposed billionaire who’s wealth vanished after his mysterious death, very much like robert maxwell (ghislaine maxwell’s father) whos wealth disappeared after his mysterious death. he mingled with royalty and elite and documented dirt (honey traps) on each to use as collateral but for what?
eric weinstein (not related to harvery weistein) received his phd in mathematical physics from harvard university in 1992 under the supervision of raoul bott. weinstein left academia after stints at the massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) and the hebrew university of jerusalem. weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician marcus du sautoy at oxford university’s clarendon laboratory in may 2013. you can listen to the full interview here. by xy
for jr. not the official video but damn good lyrics indeed.
well, did you hear, there’s a natural order those most deserving will end up with the most that the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top well i say, “shit floats”
if you thought things had changed friend, you better think again bluntly put, in the fewest of words cunts are still running the world cunts are still running the world
now the working classes are obsolete they are surplus to society’s needs so let ’em all kill each other and get it made overseas
that’s the word, don’t you know from the guys that’s running the show let’s be perfectly clear, boys and girls cunts are still running the world cunts are still running the world
ah yeah oh yeah
well, feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails find a school near the top of the league
in theory i respect your right to exist i will kill ya if ya move in next to me
love this song and it been the track of the day, all day.by dd
one of most widely praised american avant-garde films of the late 70s
james benning’s 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences void of conversations.
directed by james benning… a great film worth a watch. no dialogue just a visual feast…
“cinema can tell stories or just evoke them depending on the imagination of the spectator. between this very simple statement there are numberless shades of grey. in the forum-program (the festival presented a restored version blown up on a 35 millimetre print) one can read: “11×14 is film theory in images. the more films we see the more books on film we read, over the years a certain accumulation about cinema is approached.” watch it and see what it does for you… by uh
a better bowie? maybe not, but i loved these guys growing up. maybe because no one else did? life in tokyo was recorded in march 1979 in los angeles by david sylvian and none-other-than giorgio moroder. japan originally wanted to record “european son” with the producer but moroder preferred to work on a backing track he had already prepared. he gave sylvian four demo songs, and then went for a long lunch. while out to lunch, sylvian had fitted some lyric ideas he had gathered on the plane to one of moroder’s pieces and re-arranged the chosen track. later on the same week, the rest of japan arrived and recorded the entire piece. at this time, two distinct full length versions were prepared. one was timed at 6min 18sec and was not released until 1982 when it came out on the UK special edition cassette of “assemblage” and on the japanese vinyl LP. by kl
rene burri photograph of ernesto che-guevara 1963 havana
lisa howard and fidel castro first meeting havana riviera hotel april 21 1963. in the early 1960s, lisa howard became ABC news’s first woman reporter, and was the first woman to have her own national network television news show (insert: mole). howard developed a relationship with cuba’s fidel castro, whom she met to interview, and was a go-between for a time between castro and the american white house.
blue bird production “the faces of che” and the cuban revolution
a very good and rare documentary (watch it before this bootleg is taken down) on cuba and its revolution with some details about the relationship of che and castro that i didn’t know. worth a watch for any history buff. by xy
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