The Constorium of Greater Minds

see his work [ here ]
[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/MqOcqq_f0bM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]an interesting video of the artist speed painting live to the music of capposela

So, after much hype and anticipation, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to thegreaterminds.com 2.0. Welcome to a place where intellectual thought and earnest discussion rule over meaningless posturing. Think of this site as a way station in a bleak ocean of whackness, a small outpost of sorts, in a vast and different world.

Please bear with us as we work out the kinks. You can expect even more functionality in the coming weeks. If you see something that needs addressing (design issues, broken links, constructive suggestions, etc.) leave them in the comments. Although if you don’t like the new design or the blog, you’re dead to me; this shit just doesn’t appear one day. I completely redesigned the site from scratch after many, many hours. It’s a labor of love but I detest the labor. I’m not going to shout out all the people’s work I straight jacked, hacked, or racked, but please visit the credits.

Big thangs poppin. The Consortium of Greaterminds – still brining that real conversation for your ass.

along comes a surprise. this time it’s arthur russell who sparks my love and passion for music. i came across this cat in xlr8r of all places – i was so disappointed in my subscription but now i suppose it’s paid off. here’s a brief quote from the article – please go out and discover arthur’s music for yourself. so good and it’s amazing how his sound seems so modern.

“a classically trained cellist from oskaloosa, iowa, russell moved to new york at age 21 in the early ’70s, and took the city’s avant-garde, rock, and disco scenes by storm. by day he was the music director at experimental art space the kitchen, at night he produced disco classics like ‘is it all over my face’ and ‘go bang’ under the names loose joints and dinosaur l.”

here are a couple of tracks to get you started:
you and me both

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[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/PjzsnNkL-7o" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]this is how we walk on the moon

amazing!

[kml_flashembed movie="http://fr.youtube.com/v/aql0wgpVXzQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]short tokyo montage by Dorothée Perkins via jean touitou and the honeyee blog

Sometimes my mind wanders. I can’t move and I am connected rigidly to my chair – staring out the window at the apartments and the hills and the train track winding through the houses and disappearing behind the strip mine traveling down the peninsula. Ennui and bland contentment, a feeling of stagnation – nothing is happening. I pick up a book and read a few pages before tossing it down. I listen to my music – I feel as if I’ve heard each song a thousand times before. I pick up a different book – it bores me and I toss it to the floor. Moving to the couch I look out the window. A different view – more apartments but now I can see the bay and down the coast of the peninsula. Jetties and concrete piers and small fishing huts and phone towers. My mind is tired and my thoughts, languid, make me drowsy. This is the sickness I must fight. I change the song – I’ve heard it before. My mind wanders. I have seen the empty ocean and gazed upon the biggest sky you have ever seen, the Milky Way a brilliant streak across a canvas of midnight. I have in no way felt so marvelously alone as when I am on the sea with the black salt spray on my face and lips, the night never as immense and consuming as it is hundreds of miles from the closest human creation. I know what it is to feel insignificant, naked on Mother Nature’s blue canvas. Now I sit alone in my apartment a thousand miles away – a thousand miles away from what? I am only half the story, a man in suspended animation and I am slowly coming to terms with my longing. I need you woman. I need you to make me feel alone with you because I am tired of feeling alone without you. The city can mask my aching heart for only so long.

pat metheney’s new offering daytrip is a simple and beautiful jazz record featuring breezy guitar solos by pat, strong bass solos from his collaborator christian mcbride and smooth drumming by antonio sanchez. jazz for guitar lovers. put this on and it’s a lazy spring day in new york or whatever city you love. i love how jazz can transport me away to the city. highly recommend the tracks is this america? and dreaming trees. peace

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/omuTyyulHAs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]terry richardson takes photos of kermit for a new supreme t shirt featuring a photo of kermit – out now in the s/s 08 line…pure hype and that’s not hype meaning good that’s hype meaning kind-of-good-kind-of-rediculous

via the [FUCT blog] and i quote
“Perhaps one of the best true rock n roll documentaries ever made, The Rolling Stones COCKSUCKER BLUES, by Robert Frank.

I bought a boot-leg copy of this film years ago, and just came across it recently; I mention boot-leg because the film was never officially released due to the explicit content and subject matter; that combined with Keiths drug bust in Toronto; Representatives for the Stones advised them not to release the film, thus it was shelved.

“COCKSUCKER BLUES” was the title of a song Mick Jagger wrote to be the Stones’ final single for Decca Records, as per their contract. Its context and language was chosen specifically to anger Decca executives.”

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“Though supportive of the project as individuals, as an organisation the Rolling Stones were perhaps always going to have problems with Cocksucker Blues. Containing scenes where the band are surrounded by heavy drug use (in the credits, Danny Seymour is billed as “Junkie Soundman”), as well as heavily implying their own drug use, whatever the film was. What did the Rolling Stones expect when they hired Robert Frank to make a film about their 1972 North American tour?There are scenes of groupie sex in private jets, Keith tells Mick it’s best to snort coke through a rolled up dollar bill. Bobby Keyes and Keith toss a TV off their hotel balcony, and even a masturbation scene in which Jagger reveals himself to be the cameraman in a reflected image.”

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/PEFhuvg1SEA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]cocksucker blues (the song)

just got back from sailing around south korea. here are some final shots from the hokkaido trip

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[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/22ltlLZkFlE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]q lazzarus – goodbye horses

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/omx7u0ZWUAY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]pretty poison – catch me i’m falling

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/STQwf2a7taA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]naked eyes – promises promises