Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tales Of Dr. Funkenstein
It's good to see Shock G (Digital Underground) and Ricky Vincent (Uhuru Maggot) doing in this documentary from 2006 what they used to do on Vincent's college radio show back when I was kid, and that's discussing the funk, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Parliament, Funkadelic, James Brown, and all things in between. Ricky Vincent's show was called "The Uhuru Maggot's Wild World Of Funk", and the first time I ever heard "Underwater Rimes" was when Digital Underground were his in studio guests. That also happened to be the night that some friends and I dabbled in psychedelics at my pad in El Cerrito. While we waited for the drugs to kick in we cranked up my boom box and crossed our fingers that we hadn't been bunked by the dreadlocked hippy we scored from.
"The Uhuru Maggot's Wild World Of Funk" broadcasted out of KALX's studios in Berkeley, CA, and years later when I signed up to intern at KALX, Ricky Vincent was still there and in charge of the department I was interning for, but being the impatient person I was then, I bailed as soon as I found out I wouldn't be getting my own show any time soon.
Years later I was in Cody's on Telegraph Avenue, close to both the old and new KALX studios, when I saw Ricky Vincent's book "Funk" sitting on a shelf, and it hit me that his radio show had influenced me quite a bit, increasing my knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the funk.
Monday, June 13, 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Kodachrome Revisited
Kodachrome Revisted from Jon Behrens.
KODACHROME REVISITED (1987): "I made this film by shooting around 180 rolls of 35mm slide film. I then hand processed the film in a very sloppy manner. I never mounted the film into slides I simply took the 35mm strips of film and spliced them together. Some of the rolls used in this film were shot by random people I sent a roll of film to, that they shot and sent back to me. The Throbbing Gristle provided the films soundtrack."
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Schizopolis
Fletcher: Generic greeting.
Wife: Generic greeting returned.
Fletcher: Imminent sustenance.
Wife: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal.
Fletcher: Oooh, false reaction indicating hunger and excitement!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Monday, January 03, 2011
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