BrokeWorld

October 20, 2020

Movie cameras can be brutal machines. They pick up everything, like a marriage falling apart, an icy chill within a family, or a human being fraying at the edges. I think when they planned this TV movie, it was supposed to be a fun little celebrity travelogue…

I enjoyed THIS MIX by Fingerman.

Disco and funk radiate the positive energy the world needs right now. Never been to Atlanta’s Pride, but if THIS MIX is any indication, it’s glorious!

THIS ARTICLE in The baffler is a good rundown of some scary shit happening in law enforcement/surveillance right now. It also has some good links within the piece.

October 13, 2020

Lee Scratch Perry is resplendent in THIS DOCUMENTARY. He’s talking about excalibur!

We need the positive energy in THIS MIX right now!

THIS MIX is a FREE DISCO DOWNLOAD! It would be physically impossible for someone to listen to this mix and then vote for Trump. Disco is our only hope!!!

Nothing really happens in this ‘accidental documentary,’ but somehow it manages to sum up something about adolescence. If you stick with it till the end, it has an emotional gut-punch somehow. This is why I’m on Letterboxd –I’d probably never have found this movie otherwise.

GIRLS AT THE CARNIVAL

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

October 6, 2020

Don’t get me wrong, I love Vincent Price as a mustache-twirling villain, but the first time I saw Masque of the Red Death I thought his character was too evil to be believable. He plays a rich fuck who lets his followers get infected with a deadly virus and believes himself to be immune because he’s pledged his loyalty to satan… I mean… I guess Poe really knew what he was talking about huh?

Meanwhile, in China:

THIS hip-hop mix took me back…

These tracks were on François K’s Bump’N Boogie Mix on Soundcloud:

September 29, 2020

Bruce Dern exudes sick-fuckery (sick-fuckedness?) in THIS hair raising motorcycle picture…

Dub music has healing powers, THIS is a brand new dub track from Holy Tongue…

I love the downtempo trippy shit on THIS MIX by Succubass:

Disco might just be our only hope. THIS is an excellent disco mix by Eva Crystaltips:

More disco??? Okay! THIS is a fun mix by DJ SCM:

September 22, 2020

THESE little kitty cats:

Is it really a surprise to learn that major banks are laundering money for cartels and kleptocrats all over the world? The FinCEN leak comes from the organization that was supposed to be policing this activity (but wasn’t). Our institutions are broken and corrupt and the evidence is incontrovertible.

HERE is a nice deep house mix from Andrey Pushkarev for Ubiyu:

And THIS MIX is a bit more on the tech-house side of things… Courtesy of Deeprhythms from Finland.

Eugene Levy has been doing great work on TV for a long time, as this episode of Ray Bradbury Theater proves:

September 15, 2020

This movie has a truly crazy low-altitude air chase, Elliot Guild trying to sleep with Karen Black, James Brolin eating rattlesnake raw, and that high-budget institutional cynicism that only 70s conspiracy thrillers can deliver…

I really want to hear Ghostface Killah rap over this beat…

THIS is a ravey electro-acid mix from Josh Caffé:

THIS mix from Josh Caffé is a FREE DOWNLOAD:

ART HERO Katie Kaplan:

September 8, 2020

I’m a sucker for any movie that involves consciousness migration… This is “The Mephisto Waltz.” Alan Alda is always great. “Eternal Evil” (also known as The Blue Man) is similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUh96tDysg&list=WL&index=93&t=0s

Here’s a beautiful animated short by Gabriella Marsh. You can visit her website HERE.

Dance of the Ages is a wild little film from 1913. It survives because it features modern dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. I wonder what they thought of the depiction of the entire history of humanity’s physical artistic expression being laid out for the enjoyment of a bunch of beer-swilling freemasons:

Thanks to Public Domain Review for sharing this on Instagram.

I love the illustrations in THIS article about the French werewolf epidemic over on dangerousminds.net

And here are two house music mixes that are FREE DOWNLOADS over on soundcloud. One is from Tin Man and the other is from Big Pack. Just because we’re living through breakdown of the medical, justice, climate, political, and social systems doesn’t mean we can’t listen to some good music!

September 1, 2020

Double creepy dream movie…

FREE DOWNLOAD –some nice chill house…

https://soundcloud.com/bigpack/big-pack-play-underground-56

Good vibes:

https://soundcloud.com/levisiteuronline/lv-creator-series-005-the-checkup-madhouse

THIS is an incredible story of disaster capitalism. I’m not sure how they thought they could get away with this? A California dream house changes hands multiple times to hide a payoff.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-mystery-house-how-a-suspicious-multimillion-dollar-real-estate-deal-is-connected-to-californias-deadliest-fire

THIS collection of photographs of roadside attractions is sublime.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america

August 25, 2020

Here’s a silent creepfest –THIS is the prototypical ‘old dark house’ movie. I like it better than Old Dark House. It would probably pair well with one of the deep house mixes below!

https://archive.org/details/UniversalStudiosMonsters1927TheCatAndTheCanary

FREE DOWNLOAD! THIS is two back to back fantastic mixes courtesy of As You Like It.

https://soundcloud.com/sutrofm/ayli-radio-002-tin-man-dj-ra-soul

Here in PA we’ve been getting FAKE ATTACK ADS against Trump. They’re supposedly attacking Trump’s healthcare policy as being too generous and too socialist. WOW. Clearly these are targeted to a suburban audience who favors the democrats when it comes to healthcare. It’s still August and things are getting pretty weird already…

HERE‘s a back-to-basics Latin house track I heard in a mix this week.

DJ Ra-Soul put THIS Simian Mobile Disco track in the mix above. I missed this track the first time around.

WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS! OUR CRIMINAL ‘JUSTICE’ SYSTEM IS BROKEN!!!

August 18, 2020

This flick is a greasy, sleazy ride through 70s country-music ‘stardom.’ Rip Torn is bananas!

Here’s three songs/artists François K included in his Brazilian mix on Soundcloud:

and if I ever make a movie where someone tries heroin for the first time, this song will be the needle drop:

I really liked Mynarski Death Plummet, and this short is also by Matthew Rankin. He uses a very unusual and hypnotic animation style…

August 11, 2020

“I believe that the moment is near when the procedure of active paranoid thought will make it possible to systamatize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.”

~Salvador Dali