Sounds: Solvent - Think Like Us

This is good:

Sounds: Jonzun Crew - Ground Control

Time to get back to sharing good musics that I've picked up along the way. This one was a great find. If you know anything about my current band, Face Tat, you'll hear obvious similarities. I certainly did. Caught this track at an underground show in Oakland right after getting off tour and I was pissed. "Who's stealing my sound?" When I asked the DJ she said it was the Jonzun Crew, from 1983. I was blown away. Never heard of them. And when I saw their look, I was blown away:

Fuck yeah!

Apparently they were a Afrofuturistic take on the Parliment Funkadelic. You think? Anyhow, this track just slays. Love the vocoder. Can't believe this is a band that time almost forgot. Except one of the crew went on to help produce the New Kids on the Block. Yeah.

Give an ear: 

Cool Cat I Met On The Street The Other Day

I met this cool cat on the street the other day. So I made a video of our encounter. This is it. I was listening to the Album Leaf at the time. Thus:

Music - The Album Leaf - the Outer Banks

Hark! Er, Behold! New Face Tat Release, It's Your Funeral:

Hey, Hey, Hey Kiddies,

Well, it looks like we got ourselves a new batch of music from our favorite crime-fighting duo: FACE TAT!

It's Your Funeral, has dropped and you should have a listen, here.

And to make matters worse, they also released an album length video at the same time! Don't worry, it's only a three song EP, so it's not too long. Also, you don't have to stare at it the whole time. You can put it on in the background while you work or clean your toilet and dutifully ignore it while fulfilling your role as a supportive friend. Thanks, guys! Actually, on the real, I dare you to watch and not get mesmerized.

The video is pretty cool. What starts as a screen saver turns into... well, something more. It's computer graphics from 1968 I got off the Internet Archive. There's a linky on the Youtube info section. Check it out. Better yet, check it out, then buy it, then tweet it, then let the world know! Or just watch below.

Sounds: Eff Yeah! Tears For Fears covers Animal Collective - My Girls

Today just got gooder:

Music Video: Snake Plissken - Face Tat, Dungeon Mistress

Just a lil' something I cooked up for our track "Snake Plissken," off of Dungeon Mistress. Enjoy. Or don't. I don't really care.

I'm lying. I really do care.

Talented Cat Singing Banana Phone

Did I stutter?

"...And it was free."

Warning: This Video Contains Flashing Lights - Dance Floor Dale

Behold: Face Tat - Face Tat, Dungeon Mistress

Here's a little video I rustled up for my latest musical project: Face Tat. It's a remix of the Public Domain film Gamera vs. Viras (US - Destroy All Planets). Enjoy:

London. 1927. Color.

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Sounds: Modern Skirts - Under Bridges and Overpasses

I like this song. Modern Skirts:

Sounds: Goat - Goatman

This was too easy, cause this song is just too good:

Three Years of the Sun in Three Minutes

Three years of video, taken every 12 seconds, condensed into three minutes. From NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory in three minutes. What more do you need to know? Watch!

M. Night Shyamalan's Real Genius

Coming in August of '85, M. Night's latest twisty thriller, Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and remixed by dondrapersayswhat.

Zoochosis: Case 5 - Fate

I like the original title better: Mousocracy. But Patrick Scott ended up using rats. Rats! I'd like to take more credit for co-writing this, but in truth Patrick came up with most of this on his own. And even more in post production. The whole Mouse Kingdom? That was Patrick. Bomber that turns into a croissant (favorite part!). Patrick. In fact, the only thing I wrote that ended up in the final cut was the scientists taking notes. I wrote that. And I'll gladly take an oscar for that, thankyouverymuch.

Check out the rest of his crazy work here.

National Crystal Meth Hallucination League

From the Comedy Central and the Onion.

Langer: 562  Snakes: 1



Totally awesome.

That's Nature: Ever Seen An Actual Meteor Strike?

Me neither. But here's a comp of the meteor that struck Russia. This is totally amazing/scary/beautiful:



Not to make light, mind you. More than a 1000 people were injured from the impact. More here.

Woman Has Orgasm In Restaurant For No Reason

You may remember the befuddling little film I mentioned previously, called UFO: Target Earth (1974). Well, what I didn't mention then was that about half-way through the film this scene happens:

Now, what first got me was the music. Right off the bat, that tune, "Country Love" caught my ear. Probably because I can't believe anyone would let themselves be recorded singing like that. Second, the lyrics. Let's review:

I wish I had a hundred dollar bill
Just one for ever'day
I would spend them all aw'my true love
But their not send her away
Cause it's that Country Love
Country Love, get while you can
It's only Saturday Night in the country, boy
And it's Christmas everyday for the city man.

Those people pretending to act are yapping over this classic song, so that's as close as I can get the lyrics. There's something in there like "Whatchu going do when the well runs dry?" But that's enough for our discussion, which is: This Fucking Song Rules.

A hundred dollar bill. Really? Just a hundred dollar bill? That's all you wish for? I know, it's 1974. That's a lot of money back then. My little online inflation calculator says that $100 is about equal to $488 in 1974. But, still, not a $1K? Or a $1M? And I have no idea what "But their not send her away means." I mean, I might have heard it wrong, but take a listen, you tell me.

And why exactly is it Christmas everyday for the city man? Cause, as a city man lemme tell you: it's not Christmas everyday.

Now, after all that, this woman has an orgasm, which three onlooking dudes apparently can sense a mile away. They're just gawking at her! And let me state: I didn't edit this in the least. The music, the dudes gawking, the painful acting, the inexplicable orgasm, the little boy crying out for no reason, it's all just as it was presented in the film. I even kept the cut to the next scene in there just so y'all could see the craziness. 

Anyhow, enjoy. 

'The Directors' - Conversations from a Boy-Hole

Curious that The Hollywood Reporter's round-table interview with 'The Directors' includes not a single woman. Mimi Leder? Kathryn Bigelow? Jane Campion? Sofia Coppola? Julie Taymor? A single A-List female director would have been nice. I don't know how much contrast that would have produced, but at times this conversation feels like a good ol' boys club, like bunch of dudes hanging out in a man-cave Boy-Hole. Sexist much Hollywood? Shocking! And all white dudes, but for Ang Lee. 

That being said, much of the conversation about work and art and time and motivation are pretty universal concepts, and pretty interesting to listen to/watch. And, of course, Tarantino steals the show by shouting, "I have to keep their dick hard!"

Check it:

Ps- note to Affleck, cause I know you're reading: tuning forks don't go out of tune. I know that wasn't your analogy, but I just want to point out to you that it's flawed and that you might not want to be associated with such fallacious ideas. Tuning forks don't go out of tune. That's the whole point of the tuning fork. That's why people use them. They stay in tune. They do, however, fade away...