Kids in the Philippines collect and train spiders for battles like real life Pokémon.
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Ok it’s not You Tube but it’s cool as fuck.
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My dad claims to have seen them at the Goldhawk road beat club
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Well worth a watch
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I love a hermit. This is my most re-read article of all time: Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years | Society | The Guardian
Dude tired of misunderstandings and negative interactions with people and just walked into the woods because it felt right. Says after a while his ego disintegrated and there was no differentiation between ‘himself’ and ‘the woods’ it was all just the same thing.
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I remember this one well. The notion of just travelling until you run out of road is both haunting and attractive, or romantic at least.
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I never bought the book, it might be time. Although the article kind of wraps things up nicely as it is.
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If you haven’t read it, you may enjoy the book Walden by Henry Thoreau.
Funny you mention that as this was the Maine hermit’s crack at Thoreau:
Knight however resented being compared to Thoreau, instead calling him a dilettante because Thoreau lived for only two years in his Walden Pond cabin and his mother did his laundry, saying he was “…just a show-off who went out there and wrote a book saying 'Look how great I am.”
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Yes, I think if you’re going to bite the bullet and live that life then Thoreau’s journey may be tame. But his writing really conveys the beauty of nature.
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Just out! 3 hours of FK January mix. Great stuff.
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“alone in the wilderness” is also lovely slow television.
i don’t think dick proenneke ever had the same sort of social isolationist sort of mentality, i think that he enjoyed people and interactions. i think he chose to do this as a way to challenge his skills and to immersive himself in the beauty of the wilderness.
anyway, it’s a great documentary. i bought the DVD and then loaned it out, and now i don’t even remember to who.
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At age 9 he has better taste and understanding of music than a lot of the adults in this series.
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Audio: Edan
Visuals: Tom Fitzgerald
Film completed in 2010
Something of a love letter to late 70’s / early 80’s NYC, Echo Party originated as a carefully woven audio-only mega-mix. A pastiche of early rapp, dusted disco and post-punk ~ utilizing everything from turntables to tape echo, glockenspiel to guitar, and moog to kazoo…
Records both classic and obscure served as the foundation / canvas for Edan’s sonic embellishment via musical instruments, various effects (tape echo, reverb, phasing) and techniques (edit-style chopping, stereo panning/imaging). The end result is essentially a fever-dream of fast moving audio vignettes that blur the line between the pre-existing recordings, and brand new composition.
Once completed (circa 2009), the heady audio collage was then given to celluloid-splicer-extraordinaire, Tom Fitzgerald, who meticulously set the music to a wild array of found footage ~ sources ranging from Bollywood & martial arts films to subversive 60’s animation, obscure new wave 8mm & vintage breakdance/graff footage.
(Enjoy… Preferably on headphones, or sat in the middle of two decent speakers…)
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Seven hours of the story of Prelude with FK
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A perfect antidote to Monday
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I didn’t realise he had a you tube show, must get on this later. Used to love TV burp…one of my fave bits…
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2 drummers, a fucking monster of a sleazy bassline that sounds like his Bass is being powered by diesel and Mark E Smith delivering some of his best lyrics.
“Roll the trolley round jowells”
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