27/01/2008



Don't Need You




Really inspiring documentary directed by Kerri Koch.
Go to the youtube links below to watch it.
I barely knew about any of the bands before I saw this and I think you can get a lot from it and appreciate the energy without necessarily having to like the music.
http://urbancowgirlproductions.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kerri_koch

"don't need you" is a documentary film that tells the story of the origins of Riot Grrrl in the American independent music scene of the 1990s, and how this feminist movement evolved into a revolutionary underground network of education and self-awareness through music, writing, activism, and women-friendly community. The film gives audiences a chance to meet key figures in the development of Riot Grrrl and see for themselves how these women have changed the history of music and feminism forever. The film features one-on-one interviews interspersed with rare, archival materials, including original Riot Grrrl fanzines, flyers, and photographs, as well as seldom seen footage from pioneering Riot Grrrl bands like Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, and Bratmobile.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=V0hS7hA133w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9l12ZqbkyOM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iD_susiW4m4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5mUKn0_XJsE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sCuKP644Hk0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BbR6fYRE_HI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nyF1FI0caqM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5u9D6QCQG64
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vw3aIijPXws
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wu7ZIEYkwlg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VPFr1-USwxU




24/01/2008







Give up

There's no use

Everyday

Brings more abuse




21/01/2008


























































Possession
Directed by Andrzej Zulawski

18/01/2008






Show me your healing hands,

It's gone from me.

Patient doesn't feel too good,

Patient doesn't see the sunlight through the bandages.







Even when I close my eyes, it's all gone.




16/01/2008


At A Loss
















Photos by Annie Vallis
See more of her work and contact her at
http://www.myspace.com/_grace_face




15/01/2008


Perfectly Flawed










http://www.arthurrussellmovie.com/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/anotherthought







http://www.myspace.com/ssississpssk
http://home.earthlink.net/~johnwiese












http://www.4ad.com/thismortalcoil/
http://www.myspace.com/thismortalcoil666








http://inflatableboyclams.com/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/inflboyclams




http://www.myspace.com/acmarias





http://www.irscorner.com/s/sublawns.html
http://www.stdteco.ca/~rina/suburban_lawns.html







13/01/2008

Enjoy



Sissy Spacek


Harry Pussy


Purple Cobra


The Flying Luttenbachers







If It Feels Good It Must Be Right

The Art Of Laurie Lipton




Making Out in the Back Seat






Delusion Dwellers






The Fourth Horseman






The Sleep of Reason






Prime Time







Facing Up To Reality







Maskers






When Evening Hits the Suburbs






Leashed Passion






Melt







Collateral Damage






Death and the Maiden




See more of Laurie's work and contact her at
http://www.laurielipton.com
http://www.myspace.com/laurieliptondrawings

12/01/2008


Dying With Every Step I Take
But I Don't Look Back






"I'm a total stranger to myself, except sometimes when I get reminded".

A stranger to herself and to the rest of us. Of the thousands (millions?) who have been exposed to the influence of that first Velvet Underground album through the ages, only a fraction will have pursued the thread of Nico's subsequent adventures beyond that band. Possibly because her solo career involved just half a dozen seldom heard studio albums, all on separate labels, spread over two decades spent struggling to avoid total obscurity. Possibly because the tragedy of her personal life is no secret; from the glamour of being a fashion model in 50's Paris, and Andy Warhol's New York art scene in the 60's, to the mother addicted to heroin in 80's Manchester. But most likely because Nico's music is a forbidden forest, a no-go zone for those of weak spirit and frail soul. Like Lester Bangs once commented, "I don't know if I would classify it as oppressive or depressing, but I do know that Nico's music scares the shit out of me.




Born Christa Paffgen, she became Nico in her transformation to actress and model. Suprisingly she then left the comfortable world of fashion to join The Velvet Underground. A band whose subjects for songs were drugs and sado-masochism, in a time of flower children, peace and love, and all that other hippy bullshit. Not the last time Nico would go against the grain despite what people thought of her.
After splitting from them in 1967, Nico released her first solo record, Chelsea Girl, but later denounced it, unhappy with it's production.
At various times she was lovers with Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop. She did peyote with Jim Morrison in the desert outside LA, they sliced open their thumbs together and swapped blood. He encouraged her to record the music of her soul and she took this inspiration into her next album, The Marble Index.




The music now had no flowery decoration or 60's psychedelia but a timeless dramatic Wagnerian gothic bleakness, usually made by just her voice and the dischordant infinities of a harmonium she'd learnt to play. John Cale from VU helped direct the production and arrangement aswell as contributing noise and drones with Brian Eno sometimes. The results were songs burning with desire and despair.







The album was released with 8 of the 12 songs recorded. The record company thought that any longer than 30 minutes of Nico's music was too intense for anyone to listen to. "After it was finished, we genuinely thought people would kill themselves" says engineer Frazier Mohawk. "Marble Index isn't a record you listen to; it's a hole you fall into."







The albums Desertshore and The End followed.
Touring Germany in her later years, Nico would sing the banned national anthem and get bombarded with seat cushions.
“If I had a gun,” she said, “I would shoot you all.”



Then one day in 1988, aged just 45 and dressed in the dark fabrics that she favored, she went for a bicycle ride on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
Later, she was found by the side of the road, after suffering a brain haemorrage.



Taken from various sources.
http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/










sung by Nico's son Ari.