the west has a rich cultural history of psychotic hate/love w/ womenkind

boy did i end up on a long weird webtrail a few days ago

i started out looking for info on this picture (because i didn't recognize it, but it looks like some things i've enjoyed before)



turns out it's from Janguru wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu. Checked it out and it was alright. not good enough that i feel like explaining it.

the link "liminal being" on that page lead me to seemingly unrelated interesting shit:

i liked the painting i saw on the lamia article


so i searched the artist, Herbert James Draper, and found more like it:


(info and possible interpretations here)

a different branch of my wikitrail lead me to lilith, apparantly a mesopotamian diety possibly predating a lot of jewish history, in some interpretations said to be a part of adam, split off before the creation of eve, and in fact the serpent that gave the apple (she's often depicted as half-serpent) lillith through the years has a lot of associations with the same succubus themes that the above artist seems to focus on throughout his works.

which also brings me to lilli, the creation of a german cartoonist to fill space, turned dressable doll geared towards adults.. which got brought back to the US as the prototype for the first barbi. here's some of the original german cartoons. a lilli-lillith connection isn't explicit, but certainly ponderable~

this page, while one long unorganized rambling page, has all kinds of interesting stuff relating to the above. plus i like this image:



and finally, to comment on this western succubus psychosis, here's classic stretch animation sickNtwisted films, purdie the dirty birdie and..
(goddamit, i can't link directly to) the mousochist (you have to click 'works' on the bottom left first)

9th ace

got my 9th hole in one, no. 15 at brown deer ^_^

videos of the great blues musicians

i don't know why it never occurred to me to search youtube for such before, but WOW have they got some great stuff. i've googled these often enough, but even though google owns youtube now, it took me this long to find them. youtube is definetly the new napster in terms of unifying all possible user-clouds so that you can find even the most esoteric stuff. here's a few of the best stuff i found. it'd be easy for me to list 50 videos here, but i'll keep it brief; just search the artist's name for more.

i'll start out with the king of the blues, muddy waters:

muddy waters "you can't lose what you never had"


muddy waters and junior wells "got my mojo workin"



muddy was neck and neck with howlin' wolf for king of chicago at the height of chicago's scene. it's still hard to say who's best:

howlin' wolf "may i have a talk with you"


howlin' wolf "howlin' for my darling"



john lee hooker should be familiar to even you non-bluesfans.

john lee hooker "tupelo blues", about the 1929 mississippi flood i've mentioned before.


john lee hooker "i'm leaving"



bukka white was one of the original bluesmen along with charlie patton. according to this link, he even gave 9 year old bb king his first guitar. the link also tells of a bus driver who all but exploded when he learned he driving for bukka, after hearing this song:

bukka white "aberdeen blues"


a second-generation blues musicologist, Alan Lomax, was one with foresight enough to film some of the original bluesmen as they would play back in mississipppi, such as this:

bukka white plays "Alcohol Dance" while son house dances



and lastly, completely out of context with the others, i was also stunned to find fela kuti videos. it's tough to summarize fela, but here's a video, part music part not, that should get you interested.

fela kuti "music is the weapon"


if you ever had doubt the similarities between african and modern jazz/funk/blues based music's syncopation, call n response, polyrhythms, and the dancing's booty-shaking; fela doesn't show many lines between them here at all, likely the most african thing you'll see all year:

fela kuti "teachers don't teach me nonsense"

i made myself crack up in the shower this morning doin the coz

as long as i can remember, i've had a particular routine getting into the shower. i've never really thought about it before, but i'll bet i'm not close to alone in it. you know how in the morning, the air is cold, the water adjusted to what you know is nicely warm, but feels of course momentarily too hot for the first few seconds it hits you. well of course we wriggle around to eventually let the water get you everywhere and warm you up. well, this morning, for whatever reason, i subconsciously started humming the cosby theme song. when i realized what i was doing, and connected it to his goofy dance in the opening, i about laughed my ass off.

here's some dumbass whiteboys doin the coz, best i could find.

dixieland droopy

dixieland droopy (video link) is possibly one of the best examples for what makes a great cartoon. I could dissect it all for you and talk about the coordination of sound and sight (the tar scene), the sight gags (the monkey scene), or the silly, changing forms throughout.

its' song, the tiger rag (aka no. 2 blues) has been around for about a hundred years, and its' narrator's name (pee wee runt) is a play on the name of famous jazz/dixieland trombonist and band-leader Pee Wee Hunt.