David Bowie replies an early fan letter

1967, the early days of the career of one the most influ­en­tial artists in pop his­tory, David Bowie. Being a cool guy, he sits down and types an imme­di­ate respond to his first Amer­i­can fan let­ter. So take a look and see what Mr. Bowie thinks:

I don’t think he still proc­ceds this way nowadays…

Here is some back­ground info from the letter’s author San­dra Dodd.

Magnet Accident

Here some geek stuff: Mag­net­nerds

The so called Neodymium Mag­nets are cur­rently the strongest type of per­ma­nent mag­net avail­able in the world. That this is not always just plain fun expe­ri­enced a Dutch guy at his own’s fig­ure. Two of those mag­nets col­lided over a disc­tance of 20 inches (50 cm) and smashed his finger!

That Sun­day night I placed on of them a bit in line with one of the oth­ers but still within a safety dis­tance (I thought) !!!  When I rotated the mag­net the other raised it self upwards due to the same poles. I know that I thought (ooops … take care) and before I knew it the one that raised itself upwards turned around and within a split sec­ond the two mag­nets col­lided to each other with the top-part of my fin­ger between them. Due to the bru­tal force my fin­ger was splashed and pushed out between the mag­nets leav­ing skin and my com­plete nail between the two mag­nets. The col­li­sion was so strong that on the car­pet I found only some drops of blood spread around the magnets.

Read the whole story! (Warn­ing: graphic and objec­tion­able content)

Nike SB Débâcle

Nice music, nice spots, just a bunch of guys hangin’ out and doing what  they like: Skateboarding.The vid was pre­vi­ously released by Nike SB in June or July this year and avail­able to down­load for free. Well, too late for me, so watch it on vimeo:

Nice thing: shot entirely in High-Definiton!

Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner — Sky And Sand

Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner’s Sky and Sand visu­al­ized by Daniel Berg­ert. I’m pretty sure every­one has seen the awe­some movie Berlin Call­ing (if not: WATCH IT NOW!),  so you  all know very well that the sound­track is even more outstanding!

sunday morning music: Amy Winehouse — Back To Black

Artist: Amy Winehouse

Song: Back To Black

Album: Back to Black

Direc­tor: Phil Griffen

80’s High Fidelity

Long before CDs and mp3s, there was a time, music was enjoyed dif­fer­ently — analog.

El-P — How To Serve Men

Nice video of El-P’s lat­est track “How To Serve Man”, released on the label’s sam­pler DefJux Presents… IV. Good news, he is cur­rently work­ing on his third stu­dio album, ten­ta­tively titled Can­cer for Cure. To keep  posted check out the blog of Definitve Jux’s mas­ter­mind!

That’s not all: Adult Swim just released another one of their free mix albums, titled ATL RMX.

On ATL RMX, var­i­ous abstract beat-music types like Hud­son Mohawke, SALEM, and Dam-Funk (as well as wild cards like HEALTH and Mem­ory Tapes) remix tracks from Atlanta rap­pers like Young Dro, OJ DaJuice­man, and Play­boy Tre. So if you’ve ever wanted to hear Gucci Mane’s play­fully blunted drug talk mixed with Fly­ing Lotus’s play­fully blunted squig­gles, now’s your chance. Also of note: Prefuse 73 chops up Shawty Lo’s horn-funk banger “Dey Know”, and Young Jeezy gets the El-P treat­ment. Worlds collide!

This fine piece of music reminds me of the leg­endary Definitve Swim sam­pler, also avail­able for free! And if you still don’t have enough of pro­gres­sive, strange noises, check out Definitve Jux’s vimeo chan­nel to find this music visu­al­ized, which makes it even more awe­some!

It’s the one that says Bad Motherfucker on it

Hell yeah! Dozens of great movie screen­plays! Amaz­ing to read the sto­ries and think about how they actu­ally looked like. And trust me, there are many kind of scripts avail­able: Taran­ti­no­ism, David Lynch, Coen Broth­ers, Rob Reiner, Monty Python & Gilliam, Lucasism/Spielbergism, Kubrick, James Cameron & Arni, Dis­ney, Sci­ence Fic­tion & Space Operas, TeenAge Movies, Sam Raimi & other Hor­rors, Musi­cals, Mod­ern Clas­sics, Whacky Come­dies, Hol­ly­wood Block­busters, English/Would be Clas­sics, Other Films.

So pick your favorite and start read­ing movies!

                                 VINCENT (OS)

                       What the fuck's goin' on here?

        Yolanda WHIPS her gun toward the stranger.

        VINCENT, by the bathroom, has his gun out, dead-aimed at

        Yolanda.

                                  JULES

                       It's cool, Vincent!  It's cool!

                       Don't do a goddamn thing.  Yolanda,

                       it's cool baby, nothin's changed.

                       We're still just talkin',

                            (to Pumpkin)

                       Tell her we're still cool.

                                  PUMPKIN

                       It's cool, Honey Bunny, we're still

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