Johnny Thunders Documentary In The Works!

Go HERE to learn how you can contribute to the film.

Directed by Danny Garcia (The Rise and Fall of The Clash), Looking For Johnny is the first ever documentary on New York legendary guitar player Johnny Thunders.

 

In 90 minutes, this film covers Johnny Thunders career from his beginning in the early 70's to his demise in New Orleans, where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1991. 

What We Need & What You Get

$25,000 is the minimum we need to finish filming the interviews and license a bit of footage, a bit of music and a bit of photography that will help us start putting the documentary together.

We're still shooting the interviews at the moment. We recently did a few in New York (Leee Black Childers, Alison Gordy, Marcia Resnick, Luigi Scorcia, Jill Wisoff, etc) where we will return shortly to continue with Walter Lure, Marky Ramone, Sami Yaffa, etc. In London we'll be interviewing people like Tony James, Kris Needs, Nina Antonia, Peter Perret, etc. And we still have pending interviews with Stevie Klasson and Susanne Blomqvist in Stockholm, Henri Paul in Paris and Nasty Suicide in Helsinki amongst others.

As we all know, more money than those $25,000 will be required to finalize the film BUT once it starts looking good it will be a lot easier to get potential executive producers interested in order to finalize it and put it out.

In return for your contributions, I'm offering a range of perks - your name on the end credits and on the website, a cool T-shirt, tickets to the premiere in New York City and even an Associate Producer credit!

If we reach our target, your contribution will have helped ensure this film is made. If we surpass our target I may be able to include more Johnny Thunders songs in the soundtrack!

Other Ways You Can Help

Spread the word amongst all Thunders' fans!

Tell 'em to contribute directing them to: www.indiegogo.com/thundersfilm

Dark Dance Party In DC!

My wife picked up this advert in a bar recently so I could post it here!

Female US Olympians Are Mmm...Mmm Good!

Some news outlets wanna criticize this video for being "sexist," but all I can say is that it is "sexy."  So screw ya!

U.S. female Olympians had earned their country 51 medals as of August 9th, and are on track to surpass the 53 medals secured by U.S. women in Beijing in 2008. Given that achievement -- and the countless others by female Olympians of other nations -- this seems like the moment to finally appreciate female athletes for their athletic prowess, not just their sex appeal, right? Unfortunately, a video NBC created and posted on the web this week suggests otherwise.

The video, titled "Bodies In Motion," depicts select female Olympic athletes in slow motion. The first two shots are of one woman taking off her shorts and another licking her lips. The women selected are overwhelmingly white, thin and wearing uniforms that are varying degrees of revealing, and the footage is set to what Jezebel's Erin Gloria Ryan describes as "soft core porn music." The mashup, which was originally posted on NBCOlympics.com, NBC's official Olympics website, elicited a swift wave of criticism from media outlets such as Jezebel and ThinkProgress. 

Stuff White People Like

How about a game of White People Travel Bingo?  It's funny because it's true.

Joel Gion Demystifies the Tambourine

Anton Newcomb Teaches You How To Cook!

Anton Newcombe, the leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, shows you how he makes stew!

Watch This Movie - "Synth Britannia"

While Synthpop was birthed and evolved primarily in the UK beginning in the late 70s, we Americans didn't experience the full breadth of the movement until the early 80s.  What started as interesting synthesizer-driven Rock music, a la Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, and others, rapidly degenerated into what us Yanks often refer to as "The British Infection."  Thompson Twins, Howard Jones, and a tidal wave of middling commercial Pop garbage, pushed down our throats by an infant Music Television.

What I love about this documentary is that the majority of it is a revelation for those of us who were part of the first MTV Generation - too young to buy the records or read the music rags in the 70s and came of age at the dawn of MTV.  

So many of these bands are brand new to me!  Great interviews, great music clips, and really well done - as are all BBC 4 docs that I've seen.  Watch and enjoy.

New DEVO Tune About Mitt Romney's Dog

Mitt Romney once took a long vacation with his family, but there was no room for his dog, Seamus, in the car.  What did he do?  Strapped him to the top of the car in a roof rack, a la National Lampoon's Vacation.  Not really a big deal - and this is old news - however, it makes for good music I suppose.

Bike Owner Busts Punk Thief

Jake Gillum had his secured, $2,500 custom bike stolen in Portland, Oregon. Five days later, he saw the bike listed on Craigslist — in Seattle, Washington, about 160 miles away.

He said he contacted the poster under the alias "Simon Jackson" and set up a meeting, which he filmed using his cell phone and later put on YouTube.

"Now me and a couple of friends are gonna go up there and hopefully get my bike back, and get this guy busted by the cops," Gillum said. "I don't think he stands a chance."

When he got to their meeting place — a Starbucks in Seattle — Gillum said he saw his bike around the corner. His original plan was to talk to the alleged thief and stall him until the cops arrived.

After more than 40 minutes, though, the cops hadn't arrived, and Gillum felt like he was running out of options. He asked the man, reportedly named Craig, why he had stolen the bike.

"I don't know what you want me to say," Craig said. 

The man was arrested for trafficking stolen goods, a class B felony.

Tom Morello Vs. Paul Ryan

This article was pulled from Rolling Stone Magazine online:

By Tom Morello - August 16, 2012 6:44 PM ET

Last week, Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, the Republican architect of Congress's radical right-wing budget plan, as his running mate. Ryan has previously cited Rage Against the Machine as one of his favorite bands. Rage guitarist Tom Morello responds in this exclusive op-ed.

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Ryan claims that he likes Rage's sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!

Don't mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

You see, the super rich must rationalize having more than they could ever spend while millions of children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night. So, when they look themselves in the mirror, they convince themselves that "Those people are undeserving. They're . . . lesser." Some of these guys on the extreme right are more cynical than Paul Ryan, but he seems to really believe in this stuff. This unbridled rage against those who have the least is a cornerstone of the Romney-Ryan ticket.

But Rage's music affects people in different ways. Some tune out what the band stands for and concentrate on the moshing and throwing elbows in the pit. For others, Rage has changed their minds and their lives. Many activists around the world, including organizers of the global occupy movement, were radicalized by Rage Against the Machine and work tirelessly for a more humane and just planet. Perhaps Paul Ryan was moshing when he should have been listening.

My hope is that maybe Paul Ryan is a mole. Maybe Rage did plant some sensible ideas in this extreme fringe right wing nut job. Maybe if elected, he'll pardon Leonard Peltier.  Maybe he'll throw U.S. military support behind the Zapatistas. Maybe he'll fill Guantanamo Bay with the corporate criminals that are funding his campaign – and then torture them with Rage music 24/7. That's one possibility. But I'm not betting on it.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-20120816#ixzz23pw1IaV6

Download An Album Of...Terror...

They just don't make stuff like this anymore.  Used to be that you could find dozens of novelty records at the local record store...scary stories, sound effects, cartoon story books, etc.  There just isn't money in it anymore, I suppose.  However, you're in luck!  Some guys with some time on their hands have been posting this stuff online to share all over again!

Today, for your listening pleasure I am posting stories of Terror, narrated by Richard Taylor.  This was originally posted on the still-available but un-updated Scar Stuff blog, which was one of the best blogs of its kind...up until late 2009 when Mr. Scar Stuff stopped updating.

Major/Random Records M-38, 1962

From Scar Stuff:

These LPs were initially issued under the “Major Records” name (here’s an early ad), but over the years could be more commonly found with the “Random Records” logo attached to a generic cover design (hand stamped in the upper left corner with the word “Nightmare”, “Horror”, “Terror” or “Fright”). While these dime store sounding recordings got their start in life at the beginning of the “Monster Kid” boom in the early 1960′s (they were heavily advertised mainstays in pages of Famous Monsters, Horror Monsters, Mad Monsters, Monster World and probably 50 other magazines with the word “monster” in the title), amazingly enough as late as 1981 you could still pick them up in the back of FM for only $1 each.

OK, now go download HERE...IF YOU DARE!

Webcam Girl Nina: God Forgot About Her

This is a video that has been making the rounds recently.  Nina is an online prostitute, trying to make some cash by virtually whoring herself out.  It doesn't look like she is very happy with her life.  Come to think of it, the tears in her dead eyes say it all.  No, Nina...God didn't forget about you.  He just doesn't give a shit.

Buy This Movie - "Punk's Not Dead"

Here's what the Punk's Not Dead website has to say:

Punk’s Not Dead is more than just a tribute documentary.  It takes you on an era-by-era journey that puts punk rock’s non-conformist reputation under the knife.  Officially sanctioned by the bands in the film who donated personal photos, fliers and home videos, Punk’s Not Dead follows the evolution of punk music from its anarchic roots, to its use as a corporate marketing tool and acceptance into popular culture, to its reinvention in today’s underground scene.  Director Susan Dynner’s first-hand experience of Washington DC’s punk scene in the Eighties and her continued love of punk music spurred the making of this self-financed, independent documentary true to the D.I.Y. spirit of punk culture.  Punk’s Not Dead combines intelligent, insightful commentary with live performances, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and a killer soundtrack.

And here is what the London Cowboys' Barry Jones has to say about the (in)famous London club, The Roxy:

So support some filmmakers that are doing something we can all appreciate and buy the DVD!  Head on over to the Punk's Not Dead store and buy the damn DVD - it's only $10!!!

Hip Hop Moment: Special Ed - "I Got It Made"

Fucking incredible cut.  He could never again reach the heights of his rookie LP.  I'd write more here, but I need to go make a potater'd alligator souflet.