Runway

"In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment."
— THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

Runway (55:32)

Hajime Tachibana "Theme from Nihon No Sugao"
Sting "Be Still My Beating Heart"
Rita e Roberto "Vitima"
David Sylvian "Red Guitar"
Ryuichi Sakamoto "Risky"
Sade "Hang On To Your Love"
Linda Di Franco "TV Scene"
Playgroup "Going Overdrawn"
Jah Wobble "East"
David Sylvian "Bamboo Houses"

Runway on Soundcloud
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Keep 'Em Dancing

Because there isn't a video for "Sexy Eiffel Tower" and so you know why the McLaren Supreme Vans looked the way they did.

Version City II

With some unconscious forethought, I saved a note of the tracklisting for Version City II. In case you were wondering. Only now do I realize that I put two Lenny White cuts on it - it's worth mentioning, the guy was quite stylish, rarely photographed without his signature hat. Of course, Gil Scott Heron wasn't half bad himself.

A Silent Flute - Version City II (60:46)

Flash and The Pan "Waiting for a Train"
The Rivits "Future Soon"
Phil Manzanera "Diamond Head"
Lenny White "Prince of The Sea"
Space "Running In the City"
Mick Fleetwood "Super Brains"
Edwin Birdsong "Kunta Dance"
Chaka Khan "All Night’s All Right"
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson "Late Last Night"
Lenny White "Night Games"
Osamu "Yesterday & Karma"

You Know More Than Me

They say Europeans use Dailymotion more than YouTube. I've been looking around for this music video for Linda Di Franco "TV Scene" for many summers, so maybe "they're right and maybe there's a whole stash of Euro vids to be found. While it's not the more dance floor friendly classic 12" mix, I'll live; the sax solo and "how does it feel" ad lib are both intact. In related news, I managed to stuff this tune on a new mix, forthcoming. Look for it. It's the one with the piano bridge.

Torture Taxi by CTRL+W33D

20 minutes of w33d jams: CTRL+W33D's Torture Taxi

Weekend Reads | Mazes, Minds, Menswear and Man

• Labyrinth Discovered Under The Bosnian Pyramids by Sam Semir Osmanagich on LVL39
  
  
• The Harvard Psychedelic Club by M.J. Stephey on Time
  
  
• The Nifty 50 | Patrik Ervell, Designer by Laird Borrelli-Persson on T Magazine
  
  
• Was Neanderthal Man the Original Metrosexual? in The Daily Mail

You Can Dance

HELL FEATURING BRYAN FERRY 'U CAN DANCE' from Gigolo Records on Vimeo.

Read all about it on T Magazine.

Reflections, They Say

"A young girl in leather jeans and a jersey which did not make it to the top of her jeans began to sing. She was extraordinarily good. They all sat at the table to listen to her." - CARIOCA FLETCH

Reflections, They Say (55:51)

Bobby Caldwell "Kalimba Song"
Bobby Caldwell "What You Won't Do For Love"
Quincy Jones "Somethin' Special"
Chaka Khan "What Am I Missing"
Daniele Baldelli & T.B.C. "Cosmic Voice"
Graham Central Station "Mr. Friend"
Atmosfear "Creator's Dream"
Delegation "Darlin' (I Think About You)"
Dexter Wansel "I Will Never Forget (My Favorite Disco)"
Chaka Khan "Best In The West"
Sister Sledge "You Fooled Around"
The Limit "Could This Be Love"
David Joseph "I'm So In Love"

Fraulein

Ellen von Unwerth at Staley Wise, through January 30th.

Mount Fuji, Miyajima and Iwate

(autumn) from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. via Pink Tentacle

Did someone say chill-out room?

Lick It Up

via Franki Chan

All Black | Jungle Fever

"Jungle is a London sumting." Take this 1994 BBC2 documentary for a spin. Look for a young Fab and Bukem, Shy FX in the bedroom days, Rap & Trace at the record shop and UK Apache on stage in Wolverhampton. Heavy.

Pyramid Over Moscow

The Stooper

Freddy Peguero, 53, a short-order cook from Manhattan, rooted for Mr. Leonardo to scan a winner one recent afternoon.

“Everybody in here loves Jesus,” he said. “When Jesus wins, we all eat, and we all drink. Jesus is a very generous man.”

Weekend Reads | Hard Bottoms, Political Correctness and Radicals

• Brogue Bros by Douglas Hart in Vice
• Words That Think For Us by Edward Skidelsky in Prospect
• Ji-Hobbyists by Ben Schott on The New York Times

'92 Thing

Bad Romance - Just Another Grandma's Boy Rip-Off?

The footage speaks for itself.

High as a Georgia Pine

In 1970 Dock Ellis threw a no hitter while tripping on acid. Using the audio from an Ellis interview conducted by writer Donnell Alexander, No Mas and James Blagden put together this animated short illustrating Ellis' zeitgeistic trip to the fifth base, and beyond. If you're interested in more No Mas, I did a somewhat-lengthy interview with them a few years back.

Thirsty Thursdays

The guy that cuts my hair sent me this. Needless to say he is not a hairdresser.

Shusei Nagaoka

Take a retrospective look at the commercial illustration work of Japanese sci-fi illustrator Shusei Nagaoka on Pink Tintacle. This particular piece is the cover art for Caldera's Sky Island, an awesome funky-fusion album.

Baltimore Ends With an E

via Deep in the Game

DJ Mark Brown's ravin' kru remix of Picture Plane's "Trance Doll." Big up, xtra extazy vibez.

Weekend Reads | Rags, Grands, Cliches and Other Nonsense

• True Tabloid Headlines -- Or Are They? by John Allen Paulos on ABC News
• Roll Over, Beethoven by Chris Wilson on Slate
• Let us now praise... the cliché by James Parker in The Boston Globe
• How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect by Benedict Carey in The New York Times

Universal Dress Rehearsal

Universal Dress Rehearsal (60:20)

Since my earliest mixes on the site were posted without track listings, I'd like to now go back through and re-post them with the listings. I've probably gotten the most ID requests for Universal Dress Rehearsal, so if you were ever wondering, now you know. Glad to scratch that itch, my friends from around the universe.

Synergy "Delta Four"
Eberhard Schoener "Trans Am"
Automatic Man "What's Done"
FM "One O' Clock Tomorrow"
Jan Hammer "Peaceful Sundown"
Alain Markusfeld "Contemporous, 2nd Movement"
Jimmie Spheeris "Sighs in a Shell"
Michel Magne "Voyage en Eau Profonde"
Passport "Loco-Motive"
Tony Williams "Eris"
Lenny White "Rapid Transit"
Billy Cobham "Total Eclipse"
Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer "Night"
Bill Bruford "Age of Information"

We Will Never Stop

via CTRL+W33D

Genetic Bomb

Andrew J. Offutt and D. Bruce Berry's Genetic Bomb is the story of a futuristic space-pimp called Wesley Harmon, quickly entangled in a centuries deep metaphysical mouse-trap. By the end of the book he's woo-ed a lesbian. One character's name is Roland Balearic. I shit you not. Alternately confusing and softcore, Genetic Bomb strikes a chord that could best be describe as Season 2 Star Trek with a weed boner.

Jamie Livingston's Photo of The Day

Between March, '79 and October, '97, photographer, film-maker and circus performer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid each day of his life. Altogether there are 6,697 photos - some have been lost or misplaced through the years. The collection does the web rounds every six months or so (take a look at Chris Higgins' post on Mental Floss as a cross-reference), for reasons obvious. At the end of his life Livingston tangled with cancer, documented in detail - while a life cut short is a terrible thing, Livingston seems to have (inadvertently?) finagled his way into a new life e-ternal, celebrated by total strangers sharing his life with more people than I'm sure he could have imagined would ever see his photos.

Special Thanks

Are most definitely in order to Angelo Baque. Click 'n Spark on the scans.

Happy Birthday to Me

Man. And to think, I just went online to look at some J Crew chinos. Sheesh.

Seth Rogan

LA shoot with Kenneth Capello.

Opera Nocte

“When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that you are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head. Well, no not gay. But she will know exactly what you mean.” – BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY

A Silent Flute - Opera Nocte (72:56)

Eric Serra “Song To Xavier”
Startled Insects “Thunk”
Paul Haig “Trust”
Eloy “Cha-Shoen”
Phil Manzanera “City of Light”
Tom Scott “Burundi Bump”
Ashford & Simpson “Babies”
Ronnie Laws “Rolling”
Norman Salant “Kiyo”
Bill Laswell “Work Song”
Vladimir Cosma “Metro Police”
Chakk “Years I Worked”
Steve Hillage “Serotonin”
Alain Markusfeld “Atlantis Rock”

photo by Uncle Geez