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can’t be conveyed on the printed page, try www.fatpossum.com/dubselector/
for hours of mindless fun & enjoy Little Axe music at the same
time.
Opinions are like arseholes, everybody’s got one, but if you
want to be surrounded by them go to www.metacritic.com,
where they print a variety of magazine & website reviews for
movies & music & through some arcane calculation give the
item an overall score. Useful for nervous consumers, but remember
high scores do not necessarily mean the best, some of the greatest
of creations polarize the observer high & low.
I’ve raved over the newstand edition of The Wire Magazine,
subtitled Adventures In Modern Music, the most intelligent music
magazine that anyone can order even if your newsagent doesn’t
already get it. Their website at www.thewire.co.uk
has more free website material than most others, interviews, essays,
downloads & radio updated monthly. You can join their conduit
service & get e mail alerts without junk mail.
For all my party acroutements I got www.pimpdaddy.com
where a sense of humour & a sense of style go hand in hand.
Stylin’ !
If you like feeling of being a kid in a toy shop www.kidrobot.com
has all the funstuff that you would want on your Santa list, check
out the Flavor Flav alarm clock & more.
They’ve been around since the 80s & Mark Pauline has the
mangled hand to prove it, Survival Research Laboratories have been
blowing up, shooting fire, mangling metal & creating dangerous
machines with great imagination & excitement all over the world.
Go to www.srl.org
for a scrapbook of their history & their dedication to the destructo/creation
ethic. Protective clothing advised!
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A plane fare to America is too expensive, save
money & time & visit www.laluzdejesus.com
I’ve spent literally hours here having occular
orgasms.
I mention Howard Bloom in my updated rave & if you’d like
to encounter a great thinker & teacher visit www.howardbloom.net
for hours of ideas & other dimensions.
Lou Reed hates him, Sonic Youth wrote a song about
him & he’s a veteran music critic & connoisseur, visit
him at www.robertchristgau.com
The most authoritative & exhaustive jazz site
on the net that I’ve found is www.allaboutjazz.com
About half of the American population feels
the same as we do about Bush & his coterie of neo fascists;
check out www.buzzflash.com
to find out what they think.
Agitate Educate & Organize.
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Imagine an enormous public library where the books
came to you & there was no dewey decimal system to decipher.
www.ibiblio.org
is your dream come true.
Even bigger is www.refdesk.com where you just ask questions &
all the answers are there.
I hated stats at school, but www.nationmaster.com,
makes them fun, make your own graphs comparing the most disparate
& semmingly unrelated statistics. Oh my God I’ve become
a nerd !
If you are pushing your shopping trolley around the spiritual supermarket
then drop in to sarlo’s
guru rating service, an exhaustive site that gives you the high
up & the low down on all matters of the spirit. It’s great
to have both eyes open while opening up your third.
With record industry internet hysteria at it’s height &
many music sites just being “buy my stuff “ guff, at
www.neubauten.org
you can see a band embracing the net as a tool rather than just
as a shopping mall.
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When I’ve got an itch that I need to scratch
& I don’t have decks I go to www.turntables.de/ for relief
or thanks to Kool Keith I go to, www.turntable.com/octagon/vertabreak
, where he reminds me that my spine is the bassline.
Perfect Sound Forever is a music site that has
been online for more than 10 years & has amassed some great
writers who enthuse about the discs & artists who pursue a totally
original sound outside the parameters of the musick industry . You’re
bound to discover a neglected genius or two here, www.furious.com/perfect/index.html
I spend a lot of my time with my mind immersed
in their art, and you can too at www.joecoleman.com , a glimpse
into the world of a visionary artist & his equally apocalyptic
life & www.winstonsmith.com
, where the cutup kid’s world & mind converge. Both of
these guy’s have a number of books available that I heartily
recommend, every home should have at least one!
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Here’s some links I have regular fun with.
More to come each week.
Whether you share my enthusiasm for the venerable
Captain or not, Beefheart.com
is the sort fan site that makes the internet worthwhile, vital,
comprehensive, free spirited, authoritative & updated regularly,
no small achievement given that it’s subject has been musically
inactive since 1982!
Julian Cope is an enthusiastic fan of himself
& many others, one of the few true eccentrics of recent music
& beyond, from the early 80s in Big 3 with Ian Mc Culloch &
Pete Wylie, pop success with Teardrop Explodes, an eccentric solo
career & other aliases, he has sort of become a functional post
Syd Barret. Julian’s also authored autobiographies, a book
on Kraut Rock & on ancient sacred sites in the U.K. You can
find all this & more madness at headheritage.co.uk
I don’t think in lists, but most search
engines work that way, so what a relief to discover kartoo.com
, an engine that displays in visual maps. The way I think. Maybe
you do too. Once you get the hang of it, it makes fishing for stuff
on the net a revelation of connections.
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Ian Mc Farlane’s Australian Rock and Pop
Encyclopedia should be in every home, written by a real fan &
genuine nice guy.
You can peek at it & more at www.whammo.com.au
Byron Coley edited & virtually wrote one of
my favourite rock culture magazines ever. Every 3 months he would
review & write about more music books & weird shit than
I could hope to hear or see in 12 months. A sign of his prodigious
intelligence & his appetite for stimulants & brain altering
goo. He now runs a mail order music site that will turn you onto
more music from absolutely elsewhere than you ever dreamt existed
.Dive in at www.forcedexposure.com
Everyday I have the blues & anytime I want
it I go to www.fatpossum.com
or www.deltablues.net
Robert Anton Wilson is a thought guerrilla who
has lobbed grenades through the reality conspiracy for decade. Twist
your mind at
www.rawilson.com
. Be sure to check out his links. Lifetimes of fun.
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