In 1970 Dock Ellis, who passed away last December, pitched a no hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while on acid. For part of the game he was convinced Nixon was the umpire and occasionally that Jimi Hendrix was at the plate. No Mas presents James Blagden‘s Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No.
Category Archives: Internet
My Parents Were Awesome
November 11, 2009 – 8:27 am
Heartwarming website of the day: My Parents Were Awesome. When I go home for the holidays I’m going to do my best to find a suitable photo of Jane and Jeff. Thanks to Erika Wall.
New jj Video and Salem Remix at Sincerely Yours
November 11, 2009 – 6:23 am
Gothenburg-based label Sincerely Yours has just added two beautiful works to their site. The first is a new video for the mysterious band jj directed by Marcus Söderlund (interviewed by Dossier a month ago). The second is a remix of Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane by Salem, who I enthused about here a few months ago.
Lightspeed Champion Watches the Worst Movies of All Time
November 10, 2009 – 7:59 pm
Throughout my adolescence I maintained that the worst movie I ever saw in the theaters was The Big Blue, which my mother made me see with her when I was eight. Today I realize that I wasn’t old enough to appreciate Luc Besson’s erotic (I remember it being erotic) tale of the rivalry between two free divers [...]
Zizek in today’s NY Times
November 9, 2009 – 8:01 am
There is an op-ed in today’s NY Times by Slavoj Zizek on the anniversary of the Berlin Wall entitled “20 Years of Collapse”. Zizek’s choice of Victor Kravchenko as emblem for our current cultural-political stasis is quiet bleak but his life story does seem to embody a certain zeitgeist. To crudely summarize a life: sickened [...]
Updates at This Long Century
November 8, 2009 – 7:15 pm
This Long Century has been steadily updating their collection of personal and poetic contributions from a wide variety of cultural producers “considered outstanding within their field of work.” A collaboration between Georgina Lim, Stefan Pietsch, Jason Evans and Kate Sennert, the site now features forty contributers. A recent update includes work by Alec Soth (pictured), Erik Parker, Don Bachardy and many [...]
Adam Curtis’ The Medium and the Message Blog
October 13, 2009 – 7:23 am
I don’t know what Adam Curtis transatlantic reputation stands at, my guess is rather low. I remember sending a copy of The Power Of Nightmares to an American cousin of mine, only to have it dismissed as inferior to Loose Change. Nevertheless, Curtis stands alongside someone like David Simon as a great reluctant reactionary, an [...]
Intergalactic FM
September 30, 2009 – 9:03 am
Online radio station Intergalactic FM pumps out four streams of astonishing electronic music 24-hours a day, every day. Founded last year and programmed by Dutch disco heavyweight I-F, a renowned DJ and producer named Ferenc Van Der Sluij, the station is a lifeline for thousands of listeners addicted to the myriad permutations of Italo-disco, electro, synth-wave, techno, house and disco. [...]
Breakfast at Sulimay’s
September 19, 2009 – 3:37 am
When you’re 15, you’re usually into one kind of music, exclusively – be it punk or hip hop or techno or zydeco. Somebody else likes another style of music? He or she is wrong and dumb and boring and mainstream. When you’re 18 and you look back at what you listened to three years earlier [...]
Interrupting Kanye Memes
September 18, 2009 – 3:39 am
From I’mma Let You Finish.com. Fun for about three minutes. Click “Read More” for more.
