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beef sweet feet peas cream heat
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1971-1977

Not only was The Electric Company a hugely successful show aimed at improving kid's reading skills, with a stellar cast including Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, and Rita Moreno, psychedelic early video effects, and funky music, but it was a program in love with letters. Every episode was filled with various type and lettering, and I believe it planted a seed in my mind that would flourish years later as a love of lettering and found typography. Enjoy!

The Creation of Butthead - Beavis and Butthead

The Creation of Butthead - Beavis and Butthead
Originally uploaded by pantufla.

Cansei de Ser Sexy - Alala (live)

Stephen Colbert - The Radical Write

The Power of Nightmares: Baby It's Cold Outside (Part 1)

Cibo Matto - Sugarwater (on mtv's oddville, 1996)

Cibo Matto-Sugarwater


Nice performance of Cibo Matto on Mtv's defunct program Oddville. I used to watch this show--they had interesting weird guests, but I remember the host was really annoying and self conscious...somewhere between pee wee herman and "Pat".

Rock N' Manson Simpsons Show #4 - Kurt Cobain Special (PT 2)

Rock N' Manson Simpsons Show #4 - Kurt Cobain Special (PT 2)


Public access gem: nice early lo-tech mashups of strange video clips. The visual equivalent to tasting a battery.

Kraftwerk - Truckstop Gondolero (1971)

BBC - Arts - The Secret of Drawing

Here's the info on The Secret of Drawing again. Anyone got BBC & Tivo?


BBC - Arts - The Secret of Drawing: "This four part series, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, explores how drawing has shaped our lives.
Join him to discover the history of drawing and its relevance to the modern world."

Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Home | PBS

Above: Vasari: Cosimo I consults battle plans

First part of a great docudrama on pbs last night called "Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance". Sumptous period pieces and dramatizations of
a 15th century Sopranos-style clan--that is, if the Sopranos supported people like Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Boticelli, and Donatello as well as making deals and bumping off rivals. This family had major ups and downs, assassinations, triumphs, papal power, exile, and still found time to pour extravagant cash on the tender shoots of the Renaissance. There are lots of interesting historical details included, like how one of the Medici was fed a mixture of crushed jewels and pearls on his deathbed, or how the painter Boticelli, despite his sensual depictions of pagan mythology and physical beauty, succumbed to religious fanaticism and consigned some of his work to a bonfire. Even though the narrator strays a bit into Burgess Meredith territory with his breathy delivery, this show is an inspiring example of how history can be brought to stunning life. Highly recommended!

Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Home | PBS

YouTube - The Cat Came Back (1988) Cordell Barker Vhs

Cute animation by Cordell Barker about a cat that just won't stay away. I first saw this at the Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted animation festival in NY around 1990. The song is pretty catchy too!

YouTube - The Cat Came Back (1988) Cordell Barker Vhs

Typography of the Electric Company - a photoset on Flickr

My flickr set of the Typography of the Electric Company, part 1.

Not only was The Electric Company (1971-1977) a hugely successful show aimed at improving kid's reading skills, with a stellar cast including Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, and Rita Moreno, psychedelic early video effects, and funky music, but it was a program in love with letters. Every episode was filled with various type and lettering, and I believe it planted a seed in my mind that would flourish years later as a love of lettering and found typography. Enjoy!

Typography of the Electric Company - a photoset on Flickr

YouTube - Dictator Octopus

who needs drugs when you have this??!??
I think this explains why Octopi should not be allowed to become
dictators.

YouTube - Dictator Octopus

YouTube - Maakies Drinky The Crow

One of 6 animations of the amazing "Maakies" cartoon on you tube.
see Maakies website for more insanity.

YouTube - Maakies Drinky The Crow

The Soft Machine "We Know What You Mean" 22/9/1967, Vitus Studio, Bussum, Holland, Hoepla TV Filming video

Above: Soft Machine at Hoepla: Marc Boyle, Mike, Kevin, unknown, Robert (aka Graham Chapman)

Today's obscure video comes from the Soft Machine. They are another one of those bands that you will hear about, but not actually hear much of. Others in this category include DNA, The Swell Maps, and the Residents. This is the first Soft Machine song I've heard, and I like it. Sounds a lot like Pink Floyd. The song is "We Know What You Mean" and they're performing it live in a tv studio in Holland in 1967. There are some cool oil lamp effects on this one, as well as interesting shots of hipsters dancing, including drummer Robert, who reminds me of Graham Chapman of Monty Python with a little Montgomery Burns thrown in. The audio is a bit hissy, so I didn't post an .mp3, but it shouldn't bother you while watching the video. Enjoy!

The Soft Machine "We Know What You Mean" 28 MB .mpg video

Screen caps on flickr

WE KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN
Words and Music
by Kevin Ayers


What do you know about nothing people?
You sell yourself so you can buy more
What do you care about bluffing people?
Does it make you want to try more?

We know what you mean
We know what you've seen
We understand

What do you care about bluffing people
Throwing sparrows from the treetops
What do you care about nothing people?
When you're waiting at the bus stop

I'm very glad to hear that
We understand the sky will be visible soon
We understand the sky will be visible soon

Soon soon soon you will be obliged to try
Soon soon soon to reach your moon and die

What do you care about nothing people?
You sell yourself so you can buy more
What do you care about nothing people?
And does it make you want to try more?

It's very nice to know

Everybody sing now
An optimistic future

Magazine "Definitive Gaze" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1978 video and .mp3

Above: "I like your nerve/I like watching you"

1978 week continues here at Audium with another cool video.
Magazine were a great post punk band fronted by Howard Devoto of the immortal Buzzcocks. They lasted a scant 4 years (77-81) but left some nice recordings. Here is a not great video quality, but certainly watchable clip of them performing the song "Definitive Gaze", which is one of my favorites. Thanks to gibby299 at the fantastic Dimeadozen.org
for the video. Dime a dozen is a site filled with amazing unreleased music and music videos, and I highly encourage you to join or get on their waiting list. Thanks also to for the vid caps.

Note to video conversion software programmers: you guys really need to get on the ball standardizing things. It took me hours to convert this file. We don't need 54 various similiary named codecs!

Magazine "Definitive Gaze" 16.6 MB .mp4 video file
Magazine "Definitive Gaze" 5.4 MB .mp3 file


Lyrics

Definitive Gaze

I've got this bird's eye view
and it's in my brain
clarity has reared
its ugly head again
so this is real life
you're telling me
and everything
is where it ought to be

I like your nerve
I like watching you
but I don't watch what I'm doing
got better things to do
so this is real life
you're telling me
now I'm lost in shock
your face fits perfectly

Japanese TV Meat Helmet Morning Musume show

Above: Beware the Lizard!

Ok, let me get this straight: Let's put a bunch of jpop gals under a platform, with only their heads sticking out, with meat attached to their heads, and then have a lizard run around and nip at the meat. Right. Oh, and we'll also have Christmas decorations on the set? Sounds like a winner! And it is!

"That's not a gameshow, it's a segment from a music/entertainmenment show. all those girls are in one girl band, with a bunch of members, called morning musume. they're the same girls from the clip of the group of girls getting scared and crying when a girl jumps out from under the t.v. when they're watching 'the ring'.

if you think japanese t.v. is insane, you should watch some of their music videos. morning musume is a group of girls with an ever changing cast run by a single producer, named tsunku, who used to be in a ginormous boy band himself. morning musume are all over in japan. you can watch their t.v. shows, shop at their stores, go see the touring childs subgroup (mini moni), watch them in gazillions of commercials (they have an especially catchy pocky jingle), and even play their ps2 and gba video games. they're insane." - John Morley

Watch the Morning Musume Clip


via Boing Boing

Secos e Molhados: TV appearances 1973-4 mp3s

Above: Ney Matogrosso rockin the house on TV Tupi, 1973

Soon after pinaxos uploaded the Os Mutantes video that you all are diggin, he uploaded an even more obscure gem: a video of tv appearances by the Brasilian band Secos e Molhados (Dry and Wet). I had never heard of the group. When I first watched the video I was stunned. Standing on a red carpet with a blue curtain backdrop, three men stood. The singer's face is painted with a white and black tribal pattern. He's wearing bird feathers, no shirt, a star on his arm, and elaborate looking pants. Behind him two men strum guitars. Both are wearing satin suits, have full beards, and have half of their faces painted white. They look corpse-like. This charismatic singer struts around and begins to sing in a soprano voice. It is 1973 and Secos e Molhados are performing "Sangue Latino" (Latin Blood). The singer, Ney Matogrosso, is a fascinating mix of Perry Farrell, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, a shaman, and a cabaret singer. He also sticks his tongue out in a grimace at the end of some songs. Before you say that they ripped off Kiss--apparently it's the other way around. Secos e Molhados had the elaborate stage makeup long before the boys from the Bronx.

The video includes several versions of 5 songs, from a tv studio to color and b&w footage. The music is glam and soul through a Brasilian lens. The song "Flores Astrais" (Astral Flowers) sounds like an Eno track. Anyway, listen for yourself:

TV appearances/Aparências da tevê (1973-1974)

01_Sangue_Latino_orig_on_TV_Tupi_Sempre_aos_domingos_1973.mp3
02_Vira_orig_on_TV_Tupi_Sempre_aos_domingos_1973.mp3
03_Vira_orig_on_TV_Tupi_1974_talkover.mp3
04_Flores_Astrais_orig_on_TV_Tupi_1974_announcer.mp3
05_vira_ed_orig_on_TV_1974_talkover.mp3
06_Rosa_de_Hiroshima_Sangue_Latino_Maracanazinho_talkover.mp3
07_Amor_orig_on_TV_Tupi_Programa_Hebe_1974.mp3
08_Rosa_de_Hiroshima_Maracanazinho.mp3
09_Sangue_Latino_Maracanazinho_announcer.mp3
10_Vira_Maracanazinho_announcer.mp3

The audio quality of these tracks is pretty good. Some tracks have announcers speaking over the music, so if anyone can translate what the announcers are saying, I'd be grateful. I'd also like to hear what you think of them. Enjoy! Boa Noite!

The video is on dime a dozen torrents-you need to be a member to download

Buy Secos e Molhados cds
History and Discography (Portuguese) Secos e Molhados
Ney Matogrosso Bio and Discography (Portuguese)
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Os Mutantes Live on TV mp3 set

Above: Os Mutantes performing at Som Pop - TV Cultura
(originally recorded at TV TUPI, 1969).

Today I have a nice slice of Brasilian Psychedelic pop rock--Os Mutantes!
I grabbed all the audio from the aforementioned video (see below) and
cleaned up the sound. The sound is pretty good considering the recording is 36 years old and from (black and white) tv. The performances are great.This should get your week started on the right foot.

Os Mutantes　　Live On TV 1969/Viva na Tevê 1969

1. TV Intro (Shell commercial?)
2. Panis et Circensis
3. Fuga No. 2
4. Quem Tem Medo de Brincar de Amor
5. Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar Um Amigo
6. Domingo no Parque (w/Gilberto Gil)
7. Dois Mil e Um