one of my favourtie scenes

I’m working on an animation for the next two or three weeks. I should be doing it right now…instead i’m hopping YouTube. I found this scene from Coffee and Cigarettes. This cracks me up every time i see it, iggy Pop and Tom Waits, two of my heroes in the same scene. Most of my life feels this awkward.

Top Ten songs and why

this was from a German interview where i was asked to pick songs that influenced me and why
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1 Suicidal Tendencies “Suicidal Tendencies”
Perfect music before surfing, a fist fight, burning all the photos & letters of an unfaithful ex-lover while you stand there naked in the back garden under a full moon laughing with tears streaming down your cheeks.
2 Public Enemy “Fear Of A Black Planet”
This record was a life changing one for me. It left me speechless when I heard it, a huge influence on me. If this record doesn’t make you want to move, you are clinically brain dead.
3 Emiliana Torrini “Fisherman’s Woman”
This sneaked it’s way into my brain and refused to leave for all of last year. A near perfect album, understated and sublime. And yeah and I’m in love with her freckles…
4 Bad Brains “Bad Brains”
When I put this on I usually find I have got to the end, I am missing 30 minutes of my life, my room is destroyed and I’m covered in blood. Is this a good thing?
5 The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy & The Lash”
Made me proud of my heritage when we were told we were nothing but the shit of Europe. It was a big fuck you to the world. Shane McGowan is a legend.
6 Slayer “Reign In Blood”
I play this in the car before I go surfing… Jack Johnson?… surf music?… I don’t think so. Thank God, Allah, Buddah they never went down the Metallica road of mediocre AOR shit. Oh God I am still hurting from laughing so much at “Some Kind Of Monster” movie…
7 Dead Kennedys “Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables”
I wish I had played in this band. How much fun would it have been.
8 Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares “Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares”
I am hoping I can see these before I die. Stunning music. I would die happy if I could produce music as intense and beautiful as this.
9 Dead Can Dance “Toward The Within”
Perfection. I am terrified every time I listen to this because it is a live recording. I don’t believe in an afterlife but if I did this would be the soundtrack.
10 Saul Williams “Saul Williams”
Saul almost makes me believe in angels. His words are divined from some higher place or a 15th dimension.
11 John Coltrane “A Love Supreme”
The first bars of this record slay me, I have got the shakes listening to this at 3am. If you are considering leaving your job to become an artist or following your dream… listen to this record and the choice becomes crystal clear.

fog of war

I’d like to see the rest of this…

Slovenia

at the time…the idea of jumping into this glacial lake in the Slovenian alps seemed like a great idea. I should regain all sensation in a few weeks.

limburg

This was the first time playing with Floris on cello and he did a great job. We played a radio show in the morning, i did a folk festival in the mid day and then played my own show in the evening. I was totally shagged by the end but the voice held up.

Amsterdam

Recorded a 2meter session for Kink Fm which went very well and i’ll post some mp3s from it soon…i think you might be able to find the podcast on Kink fm. Ate raw herring. headed to amsterdam. The show was tough people talked a lot. Didn’t do any extra songs.

Hague

Walked around before the show and it was like the opening scene from 28 days later…

Evil Dutch ginger rabbit breads

why i like touring with Mary b

because she has good taste in pancakes and plays a mean cello and has the humour of a filthy pirate…

de barra brings an ill wind…

March 21 – NETHERLANDS – Gouda
Was walking around Gouda before the show thinking what a great society this is where everyone rides around in harmony on bikes. (I LOVE bikes) Then i hear a crunch as this truck runs over a guy on a bike. I now realise that this shit happens everywhere i go, something bad happens some poor misfortune at least once during a trip. Usually animals, sometimes humans. Let me tell you the story of having to choke a dog to death suffering from encephalitis of the brain and about to get his eyes plucked out by seagulls later. The show was great, we played acoustically again and you could hear a pin drop. Very enjoyable. i think i might organise a totally acoustic tour. It’s very special and different.