Cleaning Out My Inbox

It's the first Thursday of the WFMU summer schedule. You know what that means! The return of...

And just in time for me taking the summer off and not being able to play it on the air, another Linda Laurie "Ambrose" song has surfaced. This one's called Jose, He Say: [download mp3] Thanks Al!

Our own Irwin is posting on the Today's Inspiration blog each day this week about his latest obsession, the art of James Flora.

A mighty fine collection of blotter acid art from blotterbarn.

Check out these two fun music toys: the Pianolina and the Whitney Music Box (flash pages).

Listener Chris has hacked up his touring band e-mail alert site Tourfilter with WFMU realaudio archives. For example, typing in "Calexico" brings up their next date in the area as well as numerous WFMU realaudio links to their songs. So far, it's set up for New York City, Boston and Western Massachusetts.

Here's a video of the French Turntable Quartet Birdy Nam Nam winning 2002's DMC World Scratch-Off with their song Absesses: [download video, 26 megs, mpeg format, or stream it via youtube]

Now that the Federal Government has deemed it worth $325,000 a pop, here's a legal history of the word Fuck.

Trailer for the upcoming Os Mutantes documentary, via Sharpeworld.

Pay tribute to the bygone era of boomboxes and ribbon microphones.

I wanted to edit this down to the best parts, but the software didn't cooperate. Get past the intro and the  "America's Funniest Home Videos" production style and you'll get a  an 8-year old dressed up as Hitler making jokes that any adult comic would be vilified for: [download video, 12 megs, mpeg format, or youtube it]

For any designer who's ever wrestled software to the ground, Animator Vs Animation, flash page by Alan Becker.

Up With Proggy People (Youtube, via Brian)

Photographs of Alexandre Vitkine, from the incredible Hacklebury Image Gallery:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Hemaworstje, Sound Scavengers, Robot Wisdom, Fazed, Listeners Tom, Mike and Nick the Bard. Wanna stuff my inbox? Send links to ken at wfmu dot org.

Comments

[Gabriel]

That Os Mutantes trailer REALLY annoyed me. Obviously the filmmakers don't speak portuguese, or they wouldn't have cut up the song and reassembled it with such disregard for the lyrics.

[J Met]

The 'hitler kid' is courtesy of one of the funniest (and by funny I mean horribly offensive and disturbing) shows I've seen, the glorious: "Wondershowzen". It's shown late at night on MTV and MTV2, making it the only reason to watch either channel. I also highly recommend the Beat Kids segment where the little boy is equally rude whilst interviewing beauty pageant contestants. Good Times.