i pulled the head off elvis and filled fred up to his pelvis

i've had this stuck in my head all day.

-johnathon

don't worry

Yoko Ono - Fly (part one) (part two)

let's try and wash away the bad misogynist vibes from the last post, shall we?

if you say you don't like yoko ono you probably are dumb or need to get over your nostalgia or hate japanese people or women people or any people. but seioursly, she has never deserved all of the shit she has had to put with from all the ass holes crying cause they didn't get to hear a beatles do disco album.

that is all.

this is good.

-johnathon

a bad time to not have a penis

if this pissed you off you should contact mr. degraaf and let him know how you feel.

i understand that abortion is a tough issue for a lot of people and i can understand why people are opposed to it even if i think that ultimately it is not the governments place to control access to it. but this country's attitude towards rape is still ass backwards. this is the same country that uses human rights violations against women to defend military action against muslim populations and yet things like this happen in our own communities with little out cry.

stupid. stupid. stupid.

how the fuck can we expect our representatives to solve the huge issues we face when they get caught up on retarded things like this that they only pursue to polarize their constituents and earn votes?

also ben stein.

also egypt.

world: get your shit together.

-johnathon

meditation at lagunitas

All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases
the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-
faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk
of that black birch is, by his presence,
some tragic falling off from a first world
of undivided light. Or the other notion that,
because there is in this world no one thing
to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds,
a word is elegy to what it signifies.
We talked about it late last night and in the voice
of my friend, there was a thin wire of grief, a tone
almost querulous. After a while I understood that,
talking this way, everything dissolves: justice,
pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman
I made love to and I remembered how, holding
her small shoulders in my hands sometimes,
I felt a violent wonder at her presence
like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river
with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat,
muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish
called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her.
Longing, we say, because desire is full
of endless distances. I must have been the same to her.
But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread,
the thing her father said that hurt her, what
she dreamed. There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

- Robert Hass

Photo by Joao Canziani

you're just a little boy in my bath tub

Alexandre Desplat - Birth OST

my favorite soundtrack by mr. desplat for one of my favorite films from the 00s.

-johnathon

dance music for wheat fields

Alexandre Desplat - The Tree of Life OST

today will be a soundtrack day. listening to this as i count down the days til i get to bask in malick.

-johnathon

too crazy for boys town, too much of a boy for crazy town

The Chemical Brothers - Hanna OST

hanna:the movie - this was a very schizophrenic movie watching experience for me. on the one hand there were wonderful moments of stylization and technical prowess that had my inner cinephile tickled. on the other hand i cared little about what was actually happened in the movie, found most of the action sequences tedious, and found cate blanchett obnoxious (as usual). if you wanted to be positive you could say that as far as modern holywood action movies go, this was very good. but i'm not the positive type. the shallowness of a majority of the films shows even the better parts for what they really are, flashy bullshit and allusions to much better movies.

hanna:the soundtrack - the music is probably the most memorable thing about the movie and in parts i think it really lifts the material up. i've always been medium on the brothers o' chemical, but in this case they do a wonderful job of combining the fairy tale aspects of the movie with more traditional action movie music and in a sense create a microcosm for what the movie seems to be attempting that is much more successful.

-Johnathon

we're gonna kill the california girls

Sonic Youth - EVOL

to go along with the new thurston i thought i would share my favorite sonic youth album.

-johnathon

you know you stole his heart away

Thurston Moore - Benediction

new solo stuff produced by beck. light and lovely.

tigers play too rough

this is a recording of the radio show i did this week for the fun house.

it has good music and also me talking (which is not so good) and also a bit of talking from a friend (better).

-johnathon

so why don't you try to sing all the time

the flaming lips 2011 releases (so far)

Two Blobs Fucking

Flaming Lips & Neon Indian

Gummy Skull

Flaming Lips & Prefuse 73

if you wanna drop 150.00 the gummy skull is available here.

-Johnathon

Motions Makes it Hard to Write

Austra - Feel It Break

What we have here is a cross between minimalist Siouxee and the Banshees and Yaz. Austra is an electronic band from Toronto that will probably have 10 remixes of their single "Lose It" by the end of the summer. Katie Stalmanis' vocals are haunting in the best way possible. Simply put, it's 11 peanut butter cups for the ears.

-Megow

he's gonna puke

is it possible for a documentary film maker to be undeserving of their subject? Barry Blaustein's "beyond the mat" sure makes a compelling argument for this. in the film he seeks to flesh out the depiction of professional wrestlers to show that they are like everyone else. the only problem is that they aren't like everyone else. blaustein seems uninterested or maybe unable to truly get a grasp on even a hint of motivation behind the larger than life figures he encounters. the closest he comes to this is through "jake the snake" who has a penchent for a kind of self pitying rambling that is revealing, but which the film maker seems unsure what to do with. in a scene where jake has smoked crack after reuniting with his daughter blaustein seems hell bent to ruin all of the inherent drama with cheesy law and order music and trippy editing, but still somehow the vulnerability shines through. the whole film seems like a continual series of missed opportunities. never does what is shown in the film benefit from being in this context and so ultimately the best thing you can say about the director was that he was there and had a camera. certainly the "then X called me and we hung out" structuring adds nothing but a sense of monotony and overall lack of purpose. stories are set up as if they will matter and then forgotten just as quickly. again, these people and these situations are powerful and there is no doubt an amazing film could have and maybe still could be made in this world, but this is not it.

-Johnathon

she brings her liquid straight to me

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania

look at the cover and tell me you don't want this. cummon.

-Johnathon