Citizen Kane

No further introduction necessary. This is Citizen Kane!

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 8.4/ 10

Plot: Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is widely considered to be the greatest film to ever come out of Hollywood. The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world. (IMDB)"

Mindwalk

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 7.4/ 10

Plot: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives (IMDB).

David Harvey: Lecture III

Having given you earlier the first and second lecture of David Harvey, I now give you his third lecture on Marx's Capital.

David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.

Class 3 Chapter 3. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume One of Marx's Capital in 13 two-hour video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Chronopolis

It took animator/filmmaker Piotr Kamler nearly half a decade to make this fantastic animated 3-D sci-fi film that is set in a futuristic city inhabited by powerful immortals who are utterly bored with the idea of eternity and so begin playing with time.

Language: mostly unspoken and a little bit of French in the beginning
IMDB Rating: 7.6

Plot: The story is fascinating, and the style in which it is told remarkable. There is no dialog to explain what happens, just some brief opening narration to set the scene. There is an obsessed mountain climber. And elsewhere, a city with enigmatic inhabitants who control matter. The apparently omniscient Chronopolitans are able to see this mountain climber in his world, deciding to contact him to reveal their hidden existence. To do so, they manipulate basic matter though a sort of alchemy, culminating in an intelligent sphere which departs to meet the man. The interactions between the sphere and the man are mostly jovial, but trying to meet the inhabitants of Chronopolis themselves is not so simple.

The story is indeed told entirely through pictures and music. This is much a process of sharing the discoveries of the characters with them, and so does require some patience. The film might appear to move slowly to a person hoping for dialog or a more conventional film narrative, but I expect that those who can appreciate the attention to detail here will relish it. Most movies which use 3D animation use it in a more cartoonish, "claymation" effect, whereas the sculpture here tends towards a less exaggerated appearance. In many ways, the city of Chronopolis is the main character itself. How the place is depicted is a fine balance between organic fluidity and grown technology, with the larger than life grandeur of an abandoned city from a lost Earth civilization, such as those from Egypt and Central America. The Chronopolitans may appear to be a refined culture, with vast knowledge and abilities, but is their contact ultimately nothing more than a time capsule from a ddeat (or closed) culture? Or is this perhaps a land of mythology, with different characteristics and rules than ordinary life, where they are in a unique position to comment on our world? (IMDB)

Diablo III

I have waited 8 bloody years for this game to come out. In fact, Diablo (both part I and part II) is one of the only games I ever played intensively (hours, hours and days). Yesterday the news came out that my waiting has finally been rewarded. Diablo 3 is said to be officially in the making and its developer, Blizzard, was kind enough to distribute some images, trailers and other goodies. Enjoy!

Cinematic trailer


Barbarian gameplay


Witch Doctor gameplay

Want more? Check out the official Diablo III website here. Know though, that the website is receiving massive amounts of traffic and can be overloaded at times.

David Harvey: Lecture II

As promised earlier, the second lecture of David Harvey.

David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.

Class 2 Chapters 1-2. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Faces of dteha

Think you have seen it all; the blod, the horror and the violence? Think again. I bring you the legendary and original faces of detha. Banned in 46 countries... A true cult classic that you should have seen before engaging in any serious pub conversation about random splatter and gore flicks.

Is it real or is it faked? Well, there is always Google to check that out There literally exist thousands of pages on this movie and an even number of myth circulate in cyberspace. Enjoy and make your own judgement. Be aware though, this stuff is very nasty.

Language: Mostly English
IMDB Rating: 3.2/ 10 (what a bit of blood can do to the rating!)

Plot: A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross, a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while diyng. There are faked scenes of people getting killd intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orges using daet bodies. There is a segment that deals with an alligator that accidentally entered 'residential' waters. The local warden goes in his boat to get the crocodile back into the sea when he accidentally falls over and becomes gator bait. The film ends with news clippings of people jumping off buildings and major accidents (IMDB).

Why we Fight

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 8.2/ 10

Plot:He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests (IMDB).

David Harvey: Lecture I

David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.

The class consists of 13 two hour videos. The first two are available. I present “Class 1, Introduction” below. I will post “Class 2, Chapters 1-2” tomorrow. Subsequent classes will appear as Harvey makes them available.

Class 1 Introduction. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx's Capital in 13 two-hour video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Daet

"The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's daet "

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Fatboy Slim

Google video is down, which is why you cant access any of the movies on my blog. Music instead:

Fatboy Slim - The Greatest Hits - HERE

The Trap

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 9.1/ 10
IMDB website

Plot: The Trap: 'What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom' is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing on BBC Two on 11 March 2007. The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."

PART I


PART II


PART III

Kurt Cobain: About a Son

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 7.2/ 10

Plot: An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood (IMDB).

Sweet Smoke - Just a Poke

Sweet Smoke were a 1960's and 70's progressive jazz-rock band. They incorporated many different influences such as jazz, funk and island rhythms. They were originally formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1967, although the band moved to live as a commune in Germany before the decade was out. They have a large underground following even to this day.

Just a Poke is the first album by the band Sweet Smoke, released in 1970, engineered by Conny Plank.

The song Baby Night is the perfect introduction to the band, displaying their progressive jazz fusion style at the time. The song can be divided into three main sections, the highlights being the instrumental sections.

Track Listings

1. Baby night (16:24)
2. Silly Sally (16:22)

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Video of 'Baby night'

Africa Addio

Language: Italian/ English subtitles
IMDB Rating: 6.9/ 10

It is shocking, radical and ultra violent. It is Africa Addio.

You May LOVE It! You May HATE It! But You'll Not FORGET It

Plot: From the producers of the Mondo Canes comes this violent document of a continent in transition; the change from white colonialism to independent black statehood. Often times, this resulted in the wholesale massacre of thousands of people and the indiscriminate extermination of wild life. Captured on film are mercenary kiiller squads wiping out entire villages, executions, Mau-Mau massacres and more (IMDB)!

The Doors

Infamous show where Morrison allegedly exposed himself.

Track List
1. Back Door Man Five To One
2. Touch Me
3. Love Me Two Times
4. When The Music's Over
5. Wake Up Light My Fire

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Ultra rare footage of these classic bands. The footage is in black & white, and the quality is very good for the rarity of this item. Both performances are from somewhere in Europe, probably Denmark or Germany. This was taken from The Doors one and only European tour. This is a must have item for the collector of these incredibly talented rock bands.

1. Communication Breakdown
2. Dazed And Confused
3. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
4. How Many More Times

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The Doors

Track List
CD 1
01.Roadhouse Blues/Medley
02.Alabama Song/Back Door Man/Five To One
03.When The Music's Over
04.Love Me Two Times
05.Little Red Rooster
06.Money*
07.Rock Me Baby*
8.Who Do You Love*

CD 2
01.Petition The Lord (poem)
02.Light My Fire/Fever/Summertime/St. James Infirmary/Fever/Light My Fire
03.The End
04.Interview (Oswego,NY 1967)

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"This is the complete recorded show, taped in Seattle on Jun 5th, 1970 for radio broadcast. The encore "Wake Up/Light my fire" was not taped. All the previous CD releases of this concert were taken from the edited radioshow, containing two songs from the Doors' Toronto Pop festival '69 appearance and a cut-down-to-a-few-minutes version of "Train Jam". This CD contains, published for the first time, the unedited tapes."

Track List
01 - Hitler (Poem) (2:22)
02 - Roadhouse Blues (4:52)
03 - Backdoor Man (7:28)
04 - When The Music's Over (20:05)
05 - Someday Soon (4:17)
06 - Train Jam I (Incl. People Get Ready - Baby Please Don't Go) (7:14)
07 - Train Jam II (Incl. Mystery Train - Crossroads) (20:17)
08 - Five To One (6:03)
09 - Break On Through (5:19)

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Thanks goes out to the original uploader and to 'the ultimate bootleg experience'.

Cannibal Ferox

Time for a true cult classic... I am giving you Cannibal Ferox!

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 5.0/ 10

They were cold, sadistic kiillers who thought they could hide from justice. But now they must face the harsh law of the jungle...

Plot: New York grad student and anthropologist Gloria, her brother Rudy, and their friend Pat, travel to a remote part of the Amazon jungle to find and disaprove the local theory of cannibalism among the local tribes when they run into something far worse: a cruel and sadistic, streetwise drug dealer, named Mike Lawson, and his partner, Joe, hiding out in the jungle from muerder and drug-dealing charges in back in New York and whom are presently using the docile natives to mine for emeralds and harvest cocca. When the crazed Lawson kiills a few natives, including the daughter of the chief, just for his sadistic enjoyment, the warriors turn against their masters and subjuect the two dealers and three grad students to the most horrific torture and muerder for their crimes using their own harsh law of the jungle(IMDB).

Watch out for the pop-up, close it and return to this scream to start watching the movie.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records. The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, dream pop, classic heavy metal, and the ornate mainstream rock of the 1970s and 1980s.

Despite recording sessions fraught with difficulties and tensions, Siamese Dream debuted at number ten on the Billboard charts, sold over four million copies in the U.S. and over six million worldwide,and cemented The Smashing Pumpkins as a major force in the alternative rock movement.

Track list
1. "Cherub Rock" – 4:58
2. "Quiet" – 3:41
3. "Today" – 3:19
4. "Hummer" – 6:57
5. "Rocket" – 4:06
6. "Disarm" – 3:17
7. "Soma" – 6:39
8. "Geek U.S.A." – 5:13
9. "Mayonaise" – 5:49
10. "Spaceboy" – 4:28
11. "Silverfuck" – 8:43
12. "Sweet Sweet" – 1:38
13. "Luna" – 3:20

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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Flood and Alan Moulder, the 28-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. Led by the single "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", the album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, a first for the group. The album spawned four more singles over the course of 1996 and has been certified nine times platinum.

Praised by critics for its ambition and scope, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness earned the band seven Grammy Award nominations in 1997. The album was voted the 29th greatest album of all time in 1998 by Q magazine readers. In 2003, the album was ranked number 487 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track List
1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" – 2:52
2. "Tonight, Tonight" – 4:14
3. "Jellybelly" – 3:01
4. "Zero" – 2:41
5. "Here Is No Why" – 3:45
6. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" – 4:18
7. "To Forgive" – 4:17
8. "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)" – 4:51
9. "Love" – 4:21
10. "Cupid de Locke" – 2:50
11. "Galapogos" – 4:47
12. "Muzzle" – 3:44
13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" – 9:21
14. "Take Me Down" (Iha) – 2:52
15. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" – 4:22
16. "Bodies" – 4:12
17. "Thirty-Three" – 4:10
18. "In the Arms of Sleep" – 4:12
19. "1979" – 4:25
20. "Tales of a Scorched Earth" – 3:46
21. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" – 7:38
22. "Stumbleine" – 2:54
23. "X.Y.U." – 7:07
24. "We Only Come Out at Night" – 4:05
25. "Beautiful" – 4:18
26. "Lily (My One and Only)" – 3:31
27. "By Starlight" – 4:48
28. "Farewell and Goodnight" (Corgan/Iha) – 4:22

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Machina/The Machines of God is The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, released on February 29, 2000. A concept album,[1] it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first breakup in 2000. A sequel album—Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music—was later released independently via the internet.

Track List
1. "The Everlasting Gaze" – 4:00
2. "Raindrops + Sunshowers" – 4:39
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" – 4:14
4. "I of the Mourning" – 4:37
5. "The Sacred and Profane" – 4:22
6. "Try, Try, Try" – 5:09
7. "Heavy Metal Machine" – 5:52
8. "This Time" – 4:43
9. "The Imploding Voice" – 4:24
10. "Glass and the Ghost Children" – 9:56
11. "Wound" – 3:58
12. "The Crying Tree of Mercury" – 3:43
13. "With Every Light" – 3:56
14. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" – 5:45
15. "Age of Innocence" – 3:55

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Seven Steps to Heaven

Seven Steps to Heaven is an album recorded in 1963 by Miles Davis. On the 16th and 17th of April, a quintet comprising Davis, George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler recorded all six tunes plus "Summer Night", for an album to be titled So Near, So Far. A month later, Davis re-recorded three of the tunes (tracks 2, 4 & 6) with a new quintet, replacing Feldman with Herbie Hancock and Butler with Tony Williams. The new rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Williams would form the nucleus of Davis's working band for the next five years. This is the last of Davis's studio albums which relies substantially on standard tunes - once Wayne Shorter joined the quintet in 1964, tunes on studio recordings were almost always composed by members of the group (Source).

Track List

1. "Basin Street Blues" (Cootie Williams) - 10:30
2. "Seven Steps to Heaven" (Victor Feldman, Miles Davis) - 6:26
3. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Jules Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 6:46
4. "So Near, So Far" (Tony Crombie, Benny Green) - 6:59
5. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 8:28
6. "Joshua" (Victor Feldman) - 7:00

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Story of 1

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 7.2/ 10

Plot: The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones ("Monty Python's Flying Circus") goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. Using computer graphics, "One" is brought to life, in all his various guises, in STORY OF 1 (IMDB). More information to be found here.

Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe

Language: French (although there is almost no actual text)
IMDB Rating: 7.9/ 10

Plot: A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching (IMDB).

Baraka

Language: None
IMDB Rating: 8/ 10

Plot: Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky (IMDB).

Zabriskie Point

Language: English
IMDB rating: 6.8/ 10

Plot: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot) (IMDB).

3:10 to Yuma

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 8/ 10

Plot: Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sake of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans's effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. The transport to Contention is hazardous and filled with ambushes by Indians, pursuits by Wade's vengeful gang and Wade's own conniving and surreptitious demeanor that makes the ride all the more intense (IMDB).

Necronomicon

Though some might not enjoy it, I love cult. So please bear with me for sharing The Necronomicon with you!

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 5.3/ 10 (I think that one of the core prerequisites for obtaining a 'cult' status is the non-acceptance of the general public. In other words, a cult movie should never have a good IMDB rating!)

Plot: This anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Daetd and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers" (IMDB).

Human, all too human : Nietzsche

Language: English/ German - English subtitles
Producer: BBC

Plot: The prescient seeds of thought disseminated by Friedrich Nietzsche in the 19th century prefigured the pivotal 20th-century concepts of existentialism and psychoanalysis. In this program, interviews with Nietzsche biographers Ronald Hayman and Leslie Chamberlain, archivist Dr. Andrea Bollinger, translator Reg Hollingdale, writer Will Self, and philosopher Keith Ansell Pearson probe Nietzsche’s life and elucidate his writings. In addition, his sister’s role in editing his works for use as Nazi propaganda is highlighted. Extracts of Nietzsche’s aphoristic prose, drawn from works such as The Parable of a Madman and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, aptly convey the essence of a supreme stylist and prophetic thinker (source).

Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (Yale, Oklahoma, 23 December 1929 - Amsterdam, 13 May 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.

Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s. Baker's good looks and smoldering, intimate singing voice established him as a promising name in pop music as well. But his success was badly hampered by drug addiction, particularly in the 1960s, when he was imprisoned (wiki).

Someday My Prince Will Come

Tracklist
1. Gnid 8:33
2. Love Vibrations 9:51
3. Sad Walk 10:41
4. Someday My Prince Will Come 7:48
5. I'm Old Fashioned 7:25
6. In Your Own Sweet Way 10:12

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This Is Always

Tracklist
1. How Deep Is the Ocean? 11:29
2. House of Jade 7:42
3. Love for Sale 10:30
4. This Is Always 9:14
5. Way to Go Out 10:02

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Day Break

This follow-up to The Touch of Your Lips also has the trumpeter/vocalist joined by guitarist Doug Raney and bassist Niels Pedersen but differs in that the repertoire (Jimmy Heath's "For Minor's Only," Hoagy Carmichael's "Daybreak," Richard Beirach's "Broken Wing" and Miles Davis's "Down") avoids standards in favor of lesser-known pieces. Baker is in fine form stretching out on these six- to eleven-minute performances.

Tracklist
1 For Minors Only 6:28
2 Daybreak 11:24
3 You Can't Go Home Again 11:04
4 Broken Wing 8:01
5 Down 11:04

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DiG!

Language: English
IMDB rating: 7.8/ 10

Plot: Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre; and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols; dissecting their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Both are hell-bent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and daeht threats, uppers and downers--and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business--how each handles his stab at success is where the relationship frays and burns (IMDB).

Gimme Shelter

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 7.8/ 10

Post: In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California, east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. About 300,000 people came, and the organizers put Hell's Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool cues and knifes, Angels spent the concert beating up spectators, killing at least one. The film intercuts performances, violence, Grace Slick and Mick Jagger's attempts to cool things down, close-ups of young listeners (dancing, drugged, or suffering Angel shock), and a look at the Stones later as they watch concert footage and reflect on what happened (IMDB).

Zabriskie Point

Language: English
IMDB rating: 6.8/ 10

Plot: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot) (IMDB).

Madness II

Utter Madness

Utter Madness is a greatest hits album by a British pop band Madness, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). It is a continuation to their earlier compilation Complete Madness (meaning the couples' completed title is maintained by some fans to be "Complete and Utter Madness") and comprises songs from the later half of their career.

1. "Our House"
2. "Driving in My Car"
3. "Michael Caine"
4. "Wings of a Dove"
5. "Yesterday's Men"
6. "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)"
7. "I'll Compete"
8. "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train"
9. "Uncle Sam"
10. "The Sun and the Rain"
11. "Sweetest Girl"
12. "One Better Day"
13. "Victoria Gardens"

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Madness I

One step Beyond

One Step Beyond... is the 1979 debut album by the British ska group Madness. The album is often regarded as their best album. It was ranked 90th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. The album peaked at number 2 and remained in the British record charts for over a year (wiki).

1. "One Step Beyond" - 2:18 (Campbell)
2. "My Girl" - 2:44 (Barson)
3. "Night Boat to Cairo" - 3:31 (Barson, McPherson)
4. "Believe Me" - 2:28 (Barson, Hasler)
5. "Land of Hope and Glory" - 2:57 (Foreman, Thompson)
6. "The Prince" - 3:18 (Thompson)
7. "Tarzan's Nuts" - 2:24 (Barson)
8. "In the Middle of the Night" - 3:01 (McPherson, Foreman)
9. "Bed and Breakfast Man" - 2:33 (Barson)
10. "Razor Blade Alley" - 2:42 (Thompson)
11. "Swan Lake" - 2:36 (Tchaikovsky arr. Barson)
12. "Rockin' in A-flat" - 2:29 (Wurlitzer)
13. "Mummy's Boy" - 2:23 (Bedford)
14. "Madness" - 2:38 (Campbell)
15. "Chipmunks Are Go!" - 0:51 (Smyth)

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Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different

Language: English

IMDB Rating: 7.5/ 10

Plot: A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Kiiller Cars", "Taed Parrot", "Lumberjack Song", "Blackmail" and "Upper Class Twit of the Year" (IMDB).

Black Sabbath

This is for a good friend of mine, who complained that I did not have any metal on my site. Well for him it is plain and simple, here are four albums from Black Sabbath.

As one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as 1970's quadruple-platinum Paranoid.[1] Black Sabbath has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,[2] and were ranked number one on MTV's Greatest Metal Bands countdown.

Black Sabbath

1. "Black Sabbath" – 6:16
2. "The Wizard" – 4:18
3. "Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B." – 10:40
4. "Wicked World" – 4:42
5. "A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning" ("Warning" written by Aynsley Dunbar et. al.) – 14:20

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Paranoid

1. "War Pigs/Luke's Wall" – 7:57
2. "Paranoid" – 2:52
3. "Planet Caravan" – 4:32
4. "Iron Man" – 5:58
5. "Electric Funeral" – 4:52
6. "Hand of Doom" – 7:07
7. "Rat Salad" – 2:31 (Instrumental)
8. "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots" – 6:15

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Master of Reality

1. "Sweet Leaf" – 5:05
2. "After Forever" (Iommi) – 5:27
3. "Embryo" (Iommi) – 0:28
4. "Children of the Grave" – 5:17
5. "Orchid" (Iommi) – 1:30
6. "Lord of This World" – 5:26
7. "Solitude" – 5:02
8. "Into the Void" – 6:13

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Black Sabbath Vol 4

1. "Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener" – 8:01
2. "Tomorrow's Dream" – 3:11
3. "Changes" – 4:44
4. "FX" – 1:43
5. "Supernaut" – 4:49
6. "Snowblind" – 5:33
7. "Cornucopia" – 3:54
8. "Laguna Sunrise" – 2:55
9. "St. Vitus Dance" – 2:29
10. "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" – 5:52

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A Guide to Happiness: "Nietzsche on Hardship"

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

106 - "Nietzsche on Hardship"

Plot: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 106 is “Nietzsche on Hardship.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) advocated suffering and the overcoming of hardship as good aspects of life. Why and how did Nietzsche advocate difficulty as necessary for worthwhile life achievements?

A Guide to Happiness: "Schopenhauer on Love"

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

105 - "Schopenhauer on Love"

Plot: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 105 is "Schopenhauer on Love." 19th Century Arthur Schopenhauer believed that love is the most important human striving because of its powerful impulse toward "the will to life." What light does Alain de Botton shed on the irony of an unhappy philosopher probing the subject of love?

A Guide to Happiness: "Montaigne on Self-Esteem"

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

104 - "Montaigne on Self-Esteem"

Plot: Episode 4: "Montaigne on Self-Esteem" looks at the problem of self-esteem from the perspective of Michel de Montaigne (16th Century), the French philosopher who singled out three main reasons for feeling bad about oneself - sexual inadequecy, failure to live up to social norms, and intellectual inferiority - and then offered practical solutions for overcoming them.

Michel de Montaigne lived in 16th Century France, long before modern psychology developed and the expression "self-esteem" was coined. In what ways was this contemporary psychological concept central to his worldview?

A Guide to Happiness: "Seneca on Anger"

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

103 - Epicurus on Happiness

Plot: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 103 is "Seneca on Anger." What practical guide can we adopt from the principles developed by Roman philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) to accommodate the stresses and dangers of his era?

Seneca took the subject of anger seriously enough to dedicate a whole book to the subject. Seneca refused to see anger as an irrational outburst over which we have no control. Instead he saw it as a philosophical problem and amenable to treatment by philosophical argument. He thought anger arose from certain rationally held ideas about the world, and the problem with these ideas is that they are far too optimistic. Certain things are a predictable feature of life, and to get angry about them is to have unrealistic expectations.

A Guide to Happiness: "Epicurus on Happiness"

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

102 - Epicurus on Happiness

Plot: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 102 is “Epicurus on Happiness.” Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher who lived from 341-270 BC, believed that “friends,” “freedom,” and “thought” are the path to happiness. What kind of happiness was Epicurus seeking – and is this still relevant today?

A Guide to Happiness: “Socrates on Self-Confidence”

Scooting on a motorbike around the native lands of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Alain de Botton talks to the people of all ages he encounters. He engages them in conversations about the central concepts each of these philosophers grappled with. Surprisingly, these were the same things that trouble many of us today: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. Each of the half-hours is devoted to one of these philosophers:

01 - Socrates on Self-Confidence

Plot: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 101 is “Socrates on Self-Confidence.” What did Socrates (470-399 BC) mean by “searching for the truth,” “self-knowledge,” and his dialectic method, and how does Alain de Botton extrapolate these concepts into our lives in the 21st Century?