a Day in the Afterlife - Philip K Dick

...A 1994 documentary which goes on an imaginative tour from the Colorado grave where Dick is buried to the suburbs of California where he lived and worked. Talks to his ex-wives, friends and biographers - directed by Nicola Roberts for BBC Arena...

...starring Terry Gilliam and Elvis Costello in advertorial inserts makes this the most surreal of PKD docs...

Mondo Hollywood (

Robert Carl Cohen's underground documentary cult classic of the psychedelic sixties.
Invited to open the 1968 Avignon Film Festival, it's exhibition was banned by the French Ministry of Information for "Espousing a number of perversities, including drugs & homosexuality."
The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan -- desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the "Hollywood" sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu. Close-ups and cameo vignettes include: Frank Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention, Carl Franzoni, Bobby Beausoleil of the "Manson Family," imprisoned for life for murder, and Jay Sebring - a victim of the Mansons, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Silent Screen Star; Helen White, Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan, L.S.D. advocate; Dr. Richard Alpert, Jayne Mansfield, and Rudi Gernreich, creator of the topless fad. Described by critics as "bizarre prophesy," it has withstood the passage of time as a unique record of the lives & attitudes of those whose lives mirrored the "Hollywood Dream."

...to see Full-length 120 minute uncensored "Director's Cut" - GO HERE...

...for highly illuminating interview with Robert Carl Cohen - Go HERE...

...and finally, watch Mike Curb deny remembering? his soundtrack work...

the Penultimate Truth about Philip K Dick

...baruyero produced this documentary in 2007 about the mystical experiences of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick...

...Philip K. Dick is considered by many to be one the world's greatest science fiction writers ever; as a sufferer from mental illness himself he had the ability to turn his hallucinations about the universe into an extraordinary writing career.
During his lifetime, Dick produced an astonishing amount of prize winning novels and short stories, which were translated into more than 25 languages. Three of his literary works were transformed into blockbuster movies: Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total Recall.
Several years before his death, Philip started having mystical experiences that affected his everyday life. As a result, he started to wonder if what he had imagined for his stories was real and if life was just an illusion or the creation of each person's subjectivity.
This in-depth program explores Philip K. Dick`s world, a universe full of mysteries and intrigues...
...check our Robert Crumb's comic version of events surrounding 2/3/74 HERE...

Bill Nelson - 20th Century

Introduction video specially created to open the 2008 Nelsonica Fan Convention.

N00b Boyfriend meets L33T Parents

Make Yer Own - GEETAR!

...Build your own 3-string, electrified cigar box guitar and make some sweet sounds say MakeMagazine in this their latest weekend project...

Obama on the Defensive

Barack Obama has come out defending himself against what he says are outlandish claims!
by those larouche youth.

Whatever Happened to the Chilean Flu?

...just been catching up on the latest "Likely Lads" episode from youtube channel 897384 and just had to share it here due to it's flu-related plot device...

RiP - a Remix Manifesto

Girl Talk and Director Brett Gaylor aim to re-define Fair Use in the music industry by arguing that remix culture is a matter of creativity over legality. Available for one week only or at Disinformation.

Nina Simone - Live 1961-1962

Nina Simone has always been hard to classify. The "High Priestess of Soul" was trained as a classical pianist, but branched out early into pop, gospel, jazz and blues, playing and singing everyone's compositions and writing many of her own. At 28 years old, she had already been seen in many clubs and had recorded several LPs when in 1961-62 she agreed to be filmed, without audience, in a New York City studio.
On the1961 date, Nina Simone, on piano and vocals is accompanied by Bobby Hamilton (percussion), Chris White (bass) and Al Schackman (guitar). This is the same group that had backed her at the Newport Jazz Festival the year before.In 1962 she headed back to the studio and performs with Montego Joe (congas), Lisle Atkinson (bass), Paul Palmieri (guitar), and Warren Smith (percussion). At that time, she was playing with this group of musicians at the New York City jazz venue The Village Gate. Selections include: Sunday in Savannah, I'll Look Around, When I Was in My Prime, Zungo (a Nigerian chain gang song taught her by the great drummer Babatunde Olatunji), For All We Know, Strawberry Woman, Crab Man..., I Loves You, Porgy (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess) and some jazz improvisation.These are two rare performances, captured live, that every Nina Simone fan will treasure

Drums of Passion

Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji enjoyed a rich musical legacy during his lifetime. He is credited as being one of the first musicians to bring genuine African music to Western ears en masse, having burst on the scene in 1959 with his debut, Drums of Passion. Here he is warming up for the Deadin 1986.

It was the first known album of traditional West African drumming and chants to be recorded in the United States (Olatunji moved to Atlanta in 1950 before relocating permanently to New York City), and was released during a high tide of political and cultural change-- including appearing alongside epochal jazz recordings by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Ornette Coleman. As listeners were exposed to different styles and the collective interest in world music and jazz continued to grow in popularity, Olatunji helped turn people's attention away from the corny melodies that dominated the exotica genre fad by offering authentic, captivating songs from his native homeland.

...MORE HERE...

...THIS is a DUDE! for the REAL DEAL on Babatunde Olatunji go HERE, and download his drum tuition video. Listen to his philosophy as he guides you through the first stages of talking with the voices of the drums. Then go HERE and raise your spirits along with the master - "The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on," Olatunji once explained to an interviewer. "It does something to you from the inside out. It hits people in so many different ways, but the feeling is one that is satisfying and joyful."...