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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Dec 9, 2008
Surf W/ Best Links Of 2008!
Years ago I would email to pals odd and strange links I found on the net in emails until someone pointed out I could post them on a blog. So was born ALL NIGHT SURFING. Here is the best of the past year, Dec of 2007 to Nov of 2008. If you are new here, sign up for updates on the left by entering your email into the REGISTER box.
The best of the year 2008
The best music video:
In Brazil in the shanty towns built of cardboard and wooden planks, where there aren't so much streets as corridors and at night the police never come, the drug dealers will hold outdoor dance shows. The patrons, if they don't like the baille funk they hear take out their guns and fire in the air. The song PAPER PLANES by MIA is about as close to that scene as I want to get.
THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR:
Without question: THE DARK KNIGHT
Where the hell is Matt? This guy is why I have ALL NIGHT SURFING. He spent 14 months going to over 40 countrys to film himself dancing. Wow. Oddly compelling and moving.
The best sculptures of the year
The greatest hero now living is......
Capitalism may deliver wealth and happiness but it does not inspire us. Socialism continues to inspire, despite having never delivered on any of its promises. Why does one inspire, and one not? How do we choose our heroes? Consider:
Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable? For most people, it's an easy question. Mother Teresa, famous for ministering to the poor in Calcutta, has been beatified by the Vatican, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and ranked in an American poll as the most admired person of the 20th century. Bill Gates, infamous for giving us the Microsoft dancing paper clip and the blue screen of death, has been decapitated in effigy in "I Hate Gates" Web sites and hit with a pie in the face. As for Norman Borlaug . . . who the heck is Norman Borlaug?
Norman Borlaug has saved 1 billion lives according to the UN. Oprah Winfrey opened a school for several hundred kids. Guess who is more well known, has been the subject of thousands of articles, has had documentaries and specials done on their life? There isn't even a documentary on Borlaug!
Yet a deeper look might lead you to rethink your answers. Borlaug, father of the "Green Revolution" that used agricultural science to reduce world hunger, has been credited with saving a billion lives, more than anyone else in history. Gates, in deciding what to do with his fortune, crunched the numbers and determined that he could alleviate the most misery by fighting everyday scourges in the developing world like malaria, diarrhea and parasites. Mother Teresa, for her part, extolled the virtue of suffering and ran her well-financed missions accordingly: their sick patrons were offered plenty of prayer but harsh conditions, few analgesics and dangerously primitive medical care.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?_r=1&=magazine&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
The woman everyone thinks is a hero, but wasn't:
The true story of Mother Teresa is a shocker! Man, we were had!
MojoPojo sends us this link to the group that organized the above amazing event:
Ever hear of the "Curse of the Billy Goat," also known as the Cubs Curse?
Do you recall the Saturday Night Live sketch in which a short order cook would yell out to incoming patrons:
"Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!"?
All of the above have one thing in common: the World Famous Billy Goat Tavern, a Chicago legend since 1934. From Surfer Richard Crowe
Subgenius Slack now has a key to all the posts! What were the countercultures like from bikers at the end of World War 2 to beats, diggers, hippies, punks and SubGenii? You can pick your post to read!
Comedy guru and my partner for 10 years, Del Close
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
The Top 13 Science Fiction Films Babes
Jane Fonda as BARBARELLA, still one of the hottest and trippiest science fiction films ever made
The bar girls, girl bands and clubs of Vietnam during the war!
Richard Crowe does ghost tours around Chicago (though truth be told it is as much a hidden tour of Chicago's history as it is a supernatural tour) and you will have fun at his events.
This should keep you warm. America's hottest cheerleaders. The Bears haven't won a Superbowl since we got rid of ours. Hmmmmmmmmm
Surfer The Unknown Millionaire Presents video at a protest rally of people trying to ban
hydrogen dioxide monoxide! Very funny
The Great Louis Armstrong plays RHAPSODY IN BLACK AND BLUE. This one is a must! From 1932!
Lisa Kezios in Chicago sends us the art world's craze, LSD blotter art!
The big Cosplay convention has happened, here are some stand outs. I have to admit I said wow more than once. http://www.lost.art.br/cosplay.htm
The day 1000 Indians in North Carolina decided they had enough of the Ku Klux Klan
This is great! The top 20 record industry screw ups of all time! For example:
#19 The industry kills the single—and begins its own slow demise
In the early ’80s, the music industry began to phase out vinyl singles in favor of cassettes and later, CDs. Then, since it costs the same to manufacture a CD single as a full album, they ditched the format almost altogether. But they forgot that singles were how fans got into the music-buying habit before they had enough money to spend on albums. The end result? Kids who expect music for free. “Greed to force consumers to buy an album [resulted] in the loss of an entire generation of record consumers,” says Billboard charts expert Joel Whitburn. “People who could only afford to buy their favorite hit of the week were told it wasn’t available as a single. Instead, they stopped going to record shops and turned their attention to illegally downloading songs.”
Unintended consequence The Eagles still top the album charts.
Do you have 18 minutes to change your life?
Take 18 minutes to watch this astonishing talk from Harvard-trained brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor. It drew a huge standing ovation in the first session of the conference and, by general consensus, counts as one of the most memorable TED talks of all time. THIS TALK MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR REALITY!
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
Inside Hitler's world. The declassification of Germany's world war 2 documents have led to many forgotten stories being revealed as a new generation examines the war!
http://civildefense.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-03_cy-2008_m-03_d-11_y-2008_o-0.html
The Ayn Rand Lexicon is now online, a mini encyclopedia of Objectivism. For example, her thoughts on abortion:
An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/
The largest and most renowned festival (with the most renowned wooden penises) takes place in the city of Komaki, in Aichi Prefecture in central Japan.
Surfer Bruce Dinsmor sends us these 50 really odd album covers! And reminds us that sometimes the worst, are the best!
Chinese propaganda posters from 1937 to today!
Sundown Towns. Many are in Illinois. They are towns that did not allow Blacks after dark! The Illinois towns still set off their warning siren, one hopes they don't remember why!
What was the Chicago police riot in 1968 and subsequent trial really about?
This is a great collection of country songs about the juke box compiled by the great WFMU! MP3's!
Thanks to Surfer Richard Crowe
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its long-awaited report on the collapse of World Trade 7 following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery," NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told journalists at this morning's press conference in Gaithersburg, Md. "WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4278874.html
Newly Discovered Photos from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
This unique collection contains World Famous Photograher Ken Marcus' never-before-seen images of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,The Who, Simon & Garfunkle, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and others. Unknown photos that have been hidden away for 40 years.
"Shooting backstage at the Monterey Pop Festival was an amazing photographic experience. The film has been lost for almost 40 years. Recently, while remodeling my studio we found the box containing the negatives. We had long thought the images were lost." See them here: http://www.kenmarcusgallery.com/index.php?dir=music
The girls of Ibiza 2008
 ! Let's see, Burning Man or Ibiza? I'll take Ibiza!
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, Times Online have created an exclusive 100 year interactive Fleming and Bond timeline. Packed with articles and photography from the Times Archive and the original reviews of Bond novels and films, it shows how closely Bond's fictional life paralleled Fleming's
Did the atomic bombs end the war with Japan? "Everyone" in America knows they did, so it is something of a shock to discover they didn't! Americans after the war had no idea Japan had been trying to surrender for months, but the Russians hid the information from us. So what group did end the war? Here's a hint, the pen is mightier than the sword!
Duffy is a female singer from the UK who was a surprise hit at this years Lollapalooza on Saturday. American audiences don't know her yet, but they will:
Here's a place to watch Hindi Bollywood movies online, including OM SHANTI OM!
Aleister Crowley, Rudolph Hess , Ian Fleming and James Bond. An amazing story of World War 2 Intel! from Richard Crowe.
Bruce Dinsmor sends us one cool animation: Just click on the link below, click on play,
then leave the mouse alone, sit back and
enjoy a piece of creative brilliance.
Here are MP3's of the bands playing at the Pitchfork Music Festival this year! From Surfer Bryan Wendorf
Top 10 oddest Japanese products:
At the beginning of the eighteenth century the Comanches were a small tribe of hunter-gatherers in New Mexico. Once they acquired the use of horses, in three generations they evolved into the 'Spartans of the plains' and provided the fiercest of all Native American resistance to the Anglo-Hispanic conquest of the American West. For a hundred years from 1750, the Comanches dominated New Mexico, Texas and even parts of Louisiana and northern Mexico. As Amerindians, the Comanches were even more impressive than the Aztecs or the Iroquois, for until the American Civil War they largely forced Europeans to bend the knee, and did so moreover when the European imperialist impulse was at its height. Although the word 'empire' may be author's hyperbole, the Comanches ruled an extensive domain that worked on a melange of kinship ties, trade, diplomacy, extortion and violence
So why were the Comanches so exceptional among American Indians?
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/mclynn_06_08.html
THE USS LIBERTY incident. The true story. Unmarked Israeli planes attacked a U.S. spy ship during the 6 day war against Egypt, even firing on boats of wounded sailors. The true facts are still classified in the U.S., but they have been released in the UK. After the attack on the boat, U.S. jets with nuclear bombs were on their way to Cairo to drop them in retaliation. (President LBJ had created a fake incident to start the Viet Nam war, so he has a record of doing this). One of the most shocking, devastating documentaries you will ever see. If you can watch this without a tear in your eye you are a stronger person than me. Send this one around, if you can't watch it on your computer find one you can. I am always fascinated by conspiracy groups who prefer speculative conspiracies over PROVEN ones. This, is now a proven one. Devastating.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3319663041501647311&q=USS+Liberty&ei=ef5LSOTcOJSC4ALM6fCiDA
In 1962 Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney and Peter Lorre appeared on ROUTE 66 in a episode called LIZARD LEG. Here it is, and it was the last time Karloff donned the Frankenstein look! I miss these actors......
ROUTE 66 was originally supposed to be about Jack Kerouac, but talks broke down, so the producers just stole the idea! That said, it was still a fun show, and LIZARD LEG is a genuine classic!
50 Great movies about musicians, sent in by Surfer Bryan Wendorf
OCTOBERFEST IN MUNICH... is not like Octoberfest here!
The best living space of the year:
Posted at 12:55 pm by Psychomike
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