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{votd} Knox Bronson ~ The Forever Spring
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in MusicI discovered this video, Regen (Rain), by a Dutch filmmaker, Joris Ivens from 1929. I thought it might work as the visual for my piece, “the forever spring,” from my album the seasons | remixed/remastered. They are both fifteen minutes long. I put them together and am happy with the result.
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{votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)
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I remember reading a review of Blow-Up in the very left-wing mid-Sixties magazine, Ramparts, edited by the madman Warren Hinkle, who was a good friend of my dad’s, although I didn’t know it at the time. The review was really strange, straining for meaning, overly verbose and enigmatic. I really couldn’t understand it, though I…
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{votd} 77 Sunset Strip—Episode S02E13, The Jukebox Caper
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Lots of crazy beatniks in this episode. And Edd “Kookie” Burns, one of my first heroes. Roger Smith playing guitar and singing, but he hits it! Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb.
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{votd} Boney M—Three Songs
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in MusicThis is the weirdest lip-syncing video I’ve ever seen. I can’t decide if it’s real or not. I first discovered it many many years ago. Endlessly watchable.
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Video of the Day—The City
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The 1939 Documentary that Predates Koyaanisqatsi by 43 Years, Scored by Aaron Copland From the YouTube notes: I’ve been reading a book called The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. There’s a section about music in the 1930’s where Ross describes the film score for a film documentary titled The…
