don't let them do that to you

los angeles weather sucks

Okay, so last week was fucking cold enough to rain and have me wishing for a warm lover to cuddle up with at night. Café Society's Somebody To Love swept through my mind while I froze my lonely soul. I say that now until I get fed up with you and throw you off the bed - I'm a bit selfish like that.
Julius Brown's Party is the perfect soundtrack for what I am feeling at the moment. The weather is hot (mostly unpredictable) and my inbox is full of party invitations, advance screenings, factory sales, and an occasional threatening note. All I want to do is DANCE and forgot about it all! Is it shallow to attend the least attractive event just because I "know" the music will be decent?

Sure you've heard The Ultimate Warlord by The Immortals but you must hear this version:
Little Casper and The MX's - The Ultimate Warlord

It's a lot sexier with the female vocals

and FINALLY,

a new ZOOT WOMAN track for all you Stuart Price bitches, though I don't think he's in the band anymore - yes, it's been that long.

Zoot Woman - We Won't Break

A Love Song

Un Chant d'Amour is French writer Jean Genet's only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned and was also disowned by Genet later in his life.
The plot is set in a French prison, where a prison guard takes voyeuristic pleasure in observing the prisoners perform masturbatory sexual acts. In two adjacent cells, there are an older Algerian-looking man and a handsome convict in his twenties. The older man is in love with the younger one, rubbing himself against the wall and sharing his cigarette smoke with his beloved through a straw.
The prison guard, apparently jealous of the prisoner's relationship, enters the older convict's cell, beats him, and makes him suck on his gun in an unmistakably sexual fashion. However, the inmate drifts off into a fantasy where he and his object of desire roam the countryside. In the final scene, it becomes clear that the guard's power is no match for the intensity of attraction between the prisoners, even though their relationship is not consummated.
Genet does not use sound in his film, forcing the viewer to focus only on closeups of faces, armpits, and semi-erect penises. The film's highly sexualized atmosphere has been recognized as a formative factor for works such as the films of Andy Warhol.


Jean Genet - Un Chant d'Amour 1950

slippery when wet

So I've been sick these last couple of days. I'm feeling better now. But during my bed-ridden naps, I noticed the sky was starting to cry. It hasn't rained in Los Angeles for a very long time and when it does, it seems everyone forgets how to drive. All the oils collecting over the months gives southland motorist a different "feel" of the road. That means more car accidents and longer travel times. Now I know why it took me nearly an hour to get my medicine.

WHATEVER!

Here is some rolling-drum disco from 1979. It's the flipside of Gimme Some Lovin':

Uranium - Car Crash

Double Stuffing

gobble gobble bitches! i'll be working my fat-ass out at this:

Dong Chim

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I've known for a while that Thom Yorke's ultimate favorite song is Björk's melodramatic, Unravel, from the "Homogenic" album. It's one of mine as well. There was a time in my life where I couldn't hear this song without shedding a tear - I was some really good drugs and at my thinest. Yet this song doesn't conjure of images of my low-points but brings back warm emotions that were honest and sincere. Mostly directed to my closets friends, R, J, and D.



Radiohead - Unravel (Björk Cover) mp3

Okay, enough of this emotional crap. I'm disco dancing tonight:

days days, modular nights

I meant to post this last week for the Halloween festivities but I thought it was going to be another washed-up mix to get over. After a few listens I'm still keen:

Trashs' Theme - SSQ
Binary - Kazino
Fatal Error - Fatal Error
House Arrest - Krush
Run Away - Int. Music System
Coach Me (Cinematic Mix) - Black Devil VS In Flagranti
Romance - Ian North
Jet Town - SSQ
There is a Light (Josh Patrick mix) - The Smiths
Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
Big Business - David Byrne
The Duke Arrives - John Carpenter
Micks Broadcast-Attack - Harold Faltermeyer
Regulate - Warren G + Nate Dogg
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Candy Castle - Glass Candy
The Waiting Game - Scary Thieves
Sexy Style (Dub) - Egyptian Lover
No UFOs - Model 500
Crimewave - Crystal Castles
Money - Mozzart
Open your eyes - Samuel & Safire
Simon Says - Secession
Baby Judy - The Hawaiian Pups

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Clap, Clap

After the underground success of chola-disco hit, "Wake Up", The latin hi-nrg act Stop dropped three other singles on the Damabi International label. Two of which you can find here. Who does better chola-disco/hr-nrg than someone by the name of Rodriguez?? no one!

This is undeniably Stop, the clapping gives it away:
Stop - Come On Dance (Ahora) 1986
Stop - Rendezvous 1986

Make it clap, bitch!

My Love is Sensitive

Seems like a while since I updated this blog. Let's just say that I've been "busy"

Yet, I leave you with this Bobby O production which captures what we all feel sometimes. You know: when he beats you senseless, smokes all your drugs, drinks all your alcohol, fucks your sister, and still you return. Yes, we all get a little "sensitive"


Band of South - Sensitive 1989

GUNS~BABES~LEMONADE

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Magic Fly

I think sometimes we take ourselves too seriously, even when we're ill.
Take the common cold: sure, there are countless medications to make you "feel" better but it is your own body putting up the fight.
Voltaire said it best, "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." So I take my vitamin c and ehinacea to convince myself I don't need psuedoephedrine.
But don't take this too seriously. We live in an age where escapism IS medicine.



Kebekelektrik - Magic Fly 1977

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Running Up That Hill

Chromatics have come a long way, changing members, changing sounds but always remaining ever so cool. Their "Night Drive" cd is out now on mail-order after putting their final touches during a lunar eclipse - talk about a sign from the heavens. Ruth's voice is angelic and not to mention she's a tall, beautiful woman. She conjures up images of a modern day Nico (at least to me) for I already have a handful of glam queens begging to differ, though they've yet to hear Chromatics.
Make sure to catch one of their shows and dance dance dance the night away. And if you do attend one of their shows, make sure to grab as much merchandise as possible for you'll regret it later.

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Chromatics - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover) 2007

FAAAAAAABUULOUS !

one the gayest songs ever! perfect for any sleazy set. the beat goes along with a story of a self-proclaimed "butch" but with a hit of poppers and a "p-lease, miss thang" here and there, it's safe to say she's a big power-bottom. hide your quaaludes and cock rings cause this bitch is on it!

first released in 1983 and according to john hedges, only a 1000 were pressed, and a few hundred of those came up defective. then later resurrected by the boys over at panama records.

which makes me question the attraction of hardcore san francisco queen disco to straight euro deejays. i guess it's the aesthetic.

Danny Boy And The Serious Party Gods - Castro Boy 1983

Come On

i know i said i was going to try to keep this blog up to date but i've been lagging as of late. i've been going out mostly every night and i hardly sleep in my own bed.

i wish i was in new york for this:


fuck it, here's some music:

Jules Tropicana - Come On 1983

Guess Who ??

Which "hot" bimbo last night was stumbling around foreign land outside a club in town for a festival, loudly exclaiming her love to everyone clearly delusional to attention she wasn't getting, shortly before dancing on some speakers and totting off to the bathroom to do a few lines of coke, whilst a bouncer kept watch?

source: two canadian girls.

Con Limon y Sal

Sure, Environ resurrected it from the grave and put a spin on it but have you heard the vocal? The vocal version stands on it's own but it is the instrumental that causes the place to catch on fire.
Picture this: It's the summer of '79 in Saragossa, Spain. You've just escaped the deadly hotel fire by the skin of your teeth with your Balenciaga scarf still in tact. You stop by a sleazy bar to count how many lives you have left while sipping on your freshly made margarita and this song starts to play. You raise your glass to Pancho Morales and Pino Massara for this sublime moment.

Too bad the song is about a whore.

Massara - Margherita (vocal)

Massara - Margherita (instrumental)

Gravity Will Get You Every Time

Before I even heard of Hard-Fi, Editors, and amidst the Interpol wave, I was keen on this low key Northampton band by the name of, The Departure. With "All Mapped Out", "Be My Enemy", "Arms Around Me", and "Lump In My Throat" videos under their belt, I simply cannot wait what they have in store. Not to mention a visit to the States would be ideal. I've been meaning to see this band.
It's not disco but I can sure dance to it.

Here is a taste of what's to come:
The Departure - Seven Years

I miss this band. So many memories.