CRYSTAL JAPAN

David Bowie - Crystal Japan



See colour of version here.

FELLINI'S CASANOVA

Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini) 1976 is a film of Italian director Federico Fellini, adapted from the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th century adventurer and writer.



Filmed entirely at Cinecittà in Rome, the film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, with the intention of Oscar Danilo Donati.





Nino Rota - L'Uccello Magico A Parigi

RUBY

Gratitudes of plenty to the carrioncart.



Kenny Rogers and The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

FALLIN' IN LOVE

The Beach Boys - Fallin' In Love (Lady)

From 'Summer Love Songs'.

RITE OF SPRING

Spring in New York. With the help of two events, I have again been filled with the life affirming breath that winter threatens to take away, just in the nick of time.

Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Hanami: the viewing, the celebration of the Sakura

"Sakura no ki no shita ni wa shitai ga umatte iru
(dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees)"- Motojirō Kaji





featuring Cosplay beauties

and Jonathan Schipper Irreversibility at Pierogi May 15 - June 28



cars collide and a bottle shatters overhead



See more of Schippers works in action at
Opposition Art

BOYD RICE + DANIEL MILLER

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Secret/ive mastermind behind Canadia's finest musique label of the synthesized variety, Mute Records, Daniel Miller's wanderings thru the worlds of weird with musical comrade Boyd Rice result in a most hypnagogic state of perception when bent upon the formation of Cleanliness and Order. All minimal kiddie key tones overlayed with repetitive suggestion, this moment in listening time space imbues the listener with traces of deep seated desire along the keeping it clean and minding manners lines of consciousness. The mind behind dance prance floor favorites Warm Leatherette and T.V.O.D. taking a dip in the proverbial pool of irregularity with the proudest member of the Partridge Family Temple.



Boyd Rice and Daniel Miller - Cleanliness And Order

Released on Los Angeles Free Music Society label in the confines of year 1900 and 80 in conjunction with a number of other mind benders > download full compilation here.

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SEVEN DEADLY FINNS

Between his first two solo brilliant recordings, Eno released the single, 'Seven Deadly Finns'. Like bodies in heavenly align a line of thought this Martian music is drawn to the world of uncanny constellations from fiery sphere known as Planet Mondo:

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"Eno is a genuine genius we all knows that – but because of his colossal catalogue of influence and output, Eno’s fizzy inventiveness as a lyricist is often overlooked. Weighty, worthy and well crafted wordplay is all well and good (Andy Partridge and Ian Dury being two personal faves) but it takes a unique skill to join the dots in a rhyming dictionary with lyrical skits that scan, bubble and bounce like a Gilbert and Sullivan set piece.

'Seven Deadly Finns' is a single only release from 1974, with a guitar solo that that sounds like a prototype for Bowie's 'Boys Keep Swinging'. There's a great piece on 'Seven Deadly Finns' here."

Eno - Seven Deadly Finns

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Oblique Strategies (over a hundred subtitles valid dilemmas) is a card game published by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt first in 1975 now in a fifth edition. Each card makes a phrase or cryptic which is be done to break the deadlocks dilemma situation.

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