Hendrik Kerstens (photographs of his daughter)
The Kinks - Strangers
The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow
[from the record Lola versus Powerman and the Moneyground, also appeared recently in the trailer for The Darjeeling Limited]
Chubby Checker: Goes Psychedelic!
Chubby Checker - Goodbye Victoria: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Chubby Checker - Stoned in Bathroom [2:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Chubby Checker - He Died: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadFrom Chubby Checker Goes Psychedelic!, a 1971 album Checker recorded in Amsterdam.
Ghanaian Mixtape: This Hustling World
(Compiled during travels through Ghana by Frank from Voodoo Funk)
00:00 Gyedu-Blay Ambolley -This Hustling World
04:10 Marijata -Break Through
09:10 George Danquah -Just for a Moment
12:48 Rob -More
18:00 The Apostles - Black is Beautiful (this one from Nigeria)
22:30 Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu -Vctory
26:40 K. Frimpong -Kyenkyen Bi Adu M’awu
33:33 Ebo Taylor -Peace on Earth
41:10 Gyedu-Blay Ambolley -Fa no Dem Ara
45:45 George Danquah -Araba Soso Wo Ndzema
49:58 Bunzu Soundz -Zimabu (also Nigeria)
53:10 CK Mann -Ahejde
(some of the records on this mix drying after mold was washed off)
Historical Maps of Japan
from the UC Berkeley East Asian Library. The browser is a bit difficult to install, but worth it.
Apophenia Mixtape 003: Strawberry Sunday
The third.
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- Camino del Sol - Antena
- Knife - Grizzly Bear
- All is Loneliness - Moondog
- Weekend - Dr. Dog
- Peacebone - Animal Collective
- Heads of Sheeps - Robert Wyatt
- And I Love Her - Rita Lee
- Make It Wit Chu - Queens of the Stone Age
- Runnin’ Away - Sly & the Family Stone
- Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
- Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Donovan
- Octopus - Syd Barrett
- Everybody’s Got To Live - Love
- Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac
- Don’t Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Mihaly Vig
Mihaly Vig composes the scores to the films of Hungarian director Bela Tarr, and appeared in Satantango, which is the only movie I’ve seen by Tarr, though at 7 1/2 hours it felt like several. Satantango only contains around 150 cuts, most of the shots exceed 10 minutes. You can find some, though not all, of Tarr’s films on Netflix.
These are from the score of Werckmeister Harmonies:
Mihaly Vig - Valuska [4:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Mihaly Vig - Oreg [10:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis is the opening scene from Werckmeister Harmonies:
And a scene from Karhozat, one of his early films:
from SS Officer Karl Hoecker’s Auschwitz scrapbook
Normally I would refrain from posting something on the day that it appeared in the New York Times, but this site has the full collection of photographs, plus a helpful button to press in case you “Recognize someone?”
(thanks a.w.)
Hassan i-Sabbah
from Wikipedia:
A future assassin was subjected to rites very similar to those of other mystery cults in which the subject was made to believe that he was in imminent danger of death. But the twist of the assassins was that they drugged the person to simulate a “dying” to later have them awaken in a garden flowing with wine and served a sumptuous feast by virgins. The supplicant was then convinced he was in Heaven and that Sabbah was a representative of the divinity and that all of his orders should be followed, even to death. This legend derives from Marco Polo, who visited Alamut just after it fell to the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
Other accounts of the indoctrination attest that the future assassins were brought to Alamut at a young age and, while they matured, inhabited the aforementioned paradisaical gardens and were kept drugged with hashish; as in the previous version, Hassan occupied this garden as a divine emissary. At a certain point (when their initiation could be said to have begun) the drug was withdrawn from them, and they were removed from the gardens and flung into a dungeon. There they were informed that, if they wished to return to the paradise they had so recently enjoyed it would be at Sabbah’s discretion, and that they must therefore follow his directions exactly, up to and including murder and self-sacrifice.