Tim Buckley - My Fleeting House

Tim Buckley: My Fleeting House is a DVD-Video collection of live appearances and performances by Tim Buckley. It features footage from throughout his career, starting from a 1967 performance of "Song to the Siren" on The Monkees TV show and ending with a performance from May 21, 1974 of "Dolphins" (written by fellow 1960s folk musician Fred Neil) for The Old Grey Whistle Test. Broadcasts from WITF-TV's The Show from 1970 has performances of "I Woke Up" and "Come Here Woman". The DVD also contains recorded interviews with occasional songwriting partner Larry Beckett, regular lead guitarist Lee Underwood and David Browne, author of Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, a dual biography of Tim Buckley and his son Jeff Buckley.

Soho Boho

BBC Four, 25 October 2005. The spiritual home of Francis Bacon , Dylan Thomas and Quentin Crisp , Soho was a bohemian centre in London. Anthony Howell narrates a look back.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Russ Meyer delivers a fast and intense study in feminine power, wrapped up in the form of overstated American concepts of beauty, itself a critique of a society in crisis even in 1965.

The female characters each represent the different aspects of the female sexuality: innocence, female dominance, intellect, desire for other females, anger at power men have over them, etc. Same with the men. The old man was crippled by trying to save a girl from a train; raging male desire, who are emasculated by that pursuit. He has his new body: son, to do his sexual work for him. The women are after his money, a familiar scenario. The other son is male rationality and emotional strength that women made infantile by a patriarchal society want; a daddy. The film is packed with symbols of human sexuality. New ones emerge with each viewing and interpretation, The story is brilliant and reminiscent of Greek tragedies and Shakespearean lessons.

SOBHRAJ - Or How To Be Friends With A Serial Killer (2002)

Charles Sobhraj is a publicity whore who cares for nobody but himself. He slaughtered as many as 50 innocent young people, only for the purpose of an easy life for himself by robbing them, he even abandoned his accomplices when it suited him. He also killed with deceit and cruelty, in a cowardly way, and without regard for his victims and their families and how they all suffered. He is also a narcissistic sociopath and a psychopath. A narcissistic sociopath is a person who exhibits a combination of both sociopathic personality traits along with narcissistic personality disorder. Psychopathy is characterized by diagnostic features such as superficial charm, high intelligence, poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love, lack of remorse or shame, impulsivity, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior, poor self-control, promiscuous sexual behavior, juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among others. Many of these traits are demonstrated by Sobhraj in this documentary from 2002.

Vali's World (1984)

Filmed in New York, Positano, and Naples, featuring Vali Myers, George Plimpton, Gianni Menichetti, and Arden Mason. Directed by Caterine Milinaire. Music by Arden Mason. Telltale Associates Inc. © 1984 Vali Myers (1930-2003) was an Australian born, global artist who lived the natural world through an artistic and magical vision. Vali embodied her art in a total awareness of her surroundings and its experience. She bonded with animals and people on a single level. Her art production is a mapping of these worlds where spirits evolve and communicate with each other through forms.

Brion Gysin Teaching

cut ups slightly modified by modern means with lecture by Bryon Gysin track 04 called "Teaching" from LP, live London 1982

Rik Mayall - Lord of Misrule

He may have died in 2014, but his name will liveth for evermore.

The Man Who Bought Mustique

Lord Glenconner, a Scot, once owned Mustique, a verdant island in the Caribbean. He lives in St. Lucia with wife Lady Anne Coke (herself an Earl's daughter and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret) and their sole surviving son, Christopher, disabled by an accident. Glenconner visits Mustique, explores old haunts, and prepares an outdoor lunch for the Princess. He gets on with his wife; he's charming, irritable, waspish, a snob. With Margaret, he's unctuous and outrageously ribald. It's up close and personal with this aging, white-robed, old-moneyed European amongst black workers and nouveau riche Americans. A portrait emerges of the rich against the backdrop of third-world paradise while Lord Glenconner shouts, stamps his feet, throws things and demands obedience of anyone who happens to be useful at the time.

Kent Adonai, who features a few times in the film ,was left £22 million by Lord Glenconner when he died in 2010. Lord Glenconner's grandson Cody was thought to be his heir but was only left a single stone phallus from India.

The Story of Fascism in Europe

 

In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. We'll trace fascism's history from its roots in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, when masses of angry people rose up, to the rise of charismatic leaders who manipulated that anger, the totalitarian societies they built, and the brutal measures they used to enforce their ideology. We'll see the horrific consequences: genocide and total war. And we'll be inspired by the stories of those who resisted. Along the way, we'll visit poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talk with Europeans whose families lived through those times. Our goal: to learn from the hard lessons of 20th-century Europe, and to recognize that ideology in the 21st century.

The Grateful Dead Movie

 

The Grateful Dead Movie, released in 1977 and directed by Jerry Garcia, is a film that captures live performances from rock band the Grateful Dead during an October 1974 five-night run at Winterland in San Francisco. These concerts marked the beginning of a hiatus, with the October 20, 1974, show billed as "The Last One". The band would return to touring in 1976. The film features the "Wall of Sound" concert sound system that the Dead used for all of 1974. The movie also portrays the burgeoning Deadhead scene. Two albums have been released in conjunction with the film and the concert run: Steal Your Face and The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack.

Deadheads, San Francisco 1974