Wu Orleans

A woman, probably 60 years-old, came into the Fetus, and asked me about a Wu-tang Clan recording. I thought it was a little odd, but really, I've been wrong about people's music tastes before, so I guess it's not a good idea to pre-judge, but it's still kinda funny.
She asked me to find this song, she said, "Method Man & the Wu-tang Clan met up, and made some dixie land music. It's called When the Meth Comes Marching In, and it's about the New Orleans meth epidemic."
Ugh.
I'm not really sure that too much of this womans information is correct. I don't know that this song is addressing some drug problem in Nola, it could be, but I'm not sure because it sucks pretty bad, and I couldn't finish listening to it.

When the Meth Comes Marching In

Also, Has anyone seen this 1971 movie Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin?
I haven't, but some of my co-workers were telling me it's pretty great.

Not to be confused with pro wrestler Billy Jack Haynes

I just got a new computer, Derek says it's going to obvious to everyone, since I've been posting so much lately.


Russian X-Ray Records

...wtf?

The Return Of TV

The album still hasn't been released domestically, even though it has been out in the UK for two months now. September 12th is when it hits U.S. stores.
I think the reason behind all that is some big mess. I'll try to find out more, but for now, here are few songs from Tv On The Radio's new album Return To Cookie Mountain.
I Was A Lover
Province
Tonight

Runnin', Jumpin', Standin' Still

It's been a long time since I've posted anything on The Forest Heights, so I'm going to take things back. Back to the folk revival of the 60's.
Since getting a job at Red House Records, I have been introduced to a lot of Folk & Blues that I had never heard before. Most of which I have little interest in, for now, but fortunatly I have found some titles that I do like.
At the top of that list of titles appears Koerner, Ray & Glover.

These three met in the early sixties while attending the University of Minnesota. They played the local coffee shops with Bob Dylan, and were signed to Elektra Records in 1963, after they released an album titled Blues, Rags & Hollers on a independant Milwaukee label. In 1964 the trio released Lots More Blues, Rags & Hollers on Elektra Records.
Lots More is purely amazing.
Black Dog
Honey Bee
Keep Your Hands Off Her
Lady Day
A few years ago Rolling Stone Magazine published David Bowie's top 20 desert island records, and Lots More Blues, Rags & Hollers was one. I think I might would want to bring it along. I've listened to it over 100 times in the last month, or two, and I still throw it on whenever I don't know what else to listen to.

In 1969, Koerner & Willie Murphy released Running, Jumping, Standing Still, which isn't really country blues like the Koerner, Ray & Glover stuff, but more like goodtime saloon dittys, with a rock 'n' roll twist. Kinda reminds me of some music by the Doors. That's a good thing.
Though the two songs from Running, Jumping, Standing Still that I like most are I Ain't Blue & Friends & Lovers, and those two are a bit of a departure from the rest of the record.

Bonnie Raitt released a version of I Ain't Blue on her 1971 self-titled debut, but it doesn't match up to the original, and the original barely stands up to this live version "Spider" John recorded live at the World theater, which I was told from people at Red House is really the Fitzgerald theater. I like this live version because his 12-string sounds just amazing. I've been listening to it over, and over again. Very good.

"Spider" John Koerner still lives in Minneapolis, and still plays shows frequently. Everyone at the Red House label already knows him personally, except me. I think I'm going to offer him lunch.

RED, greend & blue.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer comissioned by Tsar Nicholas II to survey the Empire's eleven regions from 1909 to 1912.


























He invented his own color photography technique using three color filters [R,G,B] used individually exposing B&W glass plates. He then lit each negative plate (I assume again with color filters) with a seperate projector, focusing all three onto the same screen to reporduce color images during his lecutres.













It's quite striking to see color images from this period. Did you know people were in color before television? I didn't!



















The US Library of Congress bought up his thousands of slides in 1948 after his death. You can see some of them here.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Maybe you have seen PBF Comics. If not, enjoy!

You Tubular.

Jesus Christ - The Musical

YouTube is becoming a real problem in my life...
Fortunately there's the One True God to solve all my problems!

Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street

Those were the days...

boom boom boom boo-clap boom-boom...

I don't know about this Baltimore club. Maybe it's just the overuse of that Rob Bass 90's beat, that one from Kool & The Gang and sampled by every rap song of the golden age of hip hop. Soon Pharell will produce a Baltimore Club track and then everyone will like it. Discobelle posted this mix by Baltimore DJ SupaDave. Someone tell me what's so great about it

Then there's this mix by Playtrack. This stuff is so spastick. What are these crazy coots stuffing up their nostrils? It's like the music equivalent of a meth lab. But Spank Rock's remix of CSS Let's Make Love in the beginning is brain-piercingly good, so is Alan Braxe & Fred Falke's remix of Kelis' Bossy (@ 59 min).

boom clap, boom boom clap

Josh and I had the esteemed pleasure of seeing Diplo in action last night. Not to mention Bonde de Role and CSS. All three of which greatly exceeded my expectations. Even Diplo, the guy I have been toting as "best dj in the world" since hearing Hollertronix 3 years ago. Diplo was seemless, with bangers from start to finish. Also fun, he was mixing DVDs with audio. All of which we could see on a screen behind him. amazing. Tonight I am going to Dave Brubeck - suh wheat.