I often wonder which corporation Manson would be CEO of, had he been born into a wealthy family.

A new book about Manson says a prison course in Carnegie's self-help program helped the infamous cult leader learn how to manipulate people

Birdemic: Shock and Terror is on Netflix Instant and is being pulled on Monday 7/22. If you haven't seen it yet, it may be one of the worst movies ever made. Just terrible. The first half of the movie is an exercise in how many ways you can execute moviemaking wrong, from acting, editing, sound, scriptwriting. From then on, after the 'action' starts, it's just a clusterfuck of cinematic horribleness.
It makes anything by Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau (The Room - which I also recommend) look like a Criterion Edition by comparison.

Weird, old live improv mix from my old show, when I was between stations, streaming live on UStream. I barely even remember doing it!

Live improv over Ustream using Ableton Live and Karlheinz Essl's RePlayer. I used some processed guitar loops, frogs, movie soundbites from Andy Warhol's Bad, a few really small isolated moments fr...

I'm so glad Helen Thomas outlived that living department store mannequin inhabited by the soul of Chauncy Gardiner who was Ronald Reagan.

Simple, minimal set-up of midi film scorer Cliff Martinez.

The biggest story in this week's Film section is on Only God Forgives, the latest from Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn; as with Drive, the film's score is by Cliff Martinez, a dude who used to be the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and has become one of the best composers working in film&...

I've been digging these Dennis Eichorn Real Stuff entries lately:

"I was fighting a fire in Alaska, putting out hot spots with my friend E.J. and a squad of Indians. I remember that we were in a clearing, and I mentioned that I had some blisters on my hands." From Real Stuff #3 (Fantagraphics, May 1991).

Atención, brandinistas, graphics folks:

Nerd fight, pt. 2!
Theoretical vs empirical thinking:

Earlier this month we posted an excerpt from an interview in which linguist Noam Chomsky slams the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, along with the late French theorists Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, for cloaking trivial ideas in obscure and inflated language to make them…

Hergé & Lovecraft
I'll bet Rick Mackley would enjoy this...

Fascinating story about a fearless Russian aviatrix who would swoop out of the night sky to kill Nazis.

Ms. Popova helped lead the “Night Witches,” female pilots who terrorized the Nazis during World War II.

I'll bet his casket sounds incredible!

Acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corp. , known for the rich sound of its small tabletop radios and its noise-canceling headphones, has died. He was 83.

Show tonight!
It'll be daunting. Only one working turntable in the air-room and I packed almost nothing but records.
Do tune in though. It'll be CRAZY!

RIP Alan Whicker

Sketch de Monty Python "Whicker's World", con subtítulos en español. Flying Circus Show

Radiohead and fake chain franchise Mexican food.
Is there supposed to be some cognitive dissonance moment presented in this article? I don't get it.

Nothing to see here. Just Mudhoney playing on top of the Space Needle.

Burroughs reading his novel Junkie set to the classic Drugs Are Like That classroom drug scare film.

William S. Burroughs Junkie

Don't forget! Live Theremin music, then the documentary on Leon Theremin tonight at Clinton Street Theatre!