John Blum Quartet at Context, 1994

May 25, 1994






John Blum (piano), William Parker (bass), Marco Eneidi (alto saxophone), Jackson Krall (drums)

Curly takes a trip

“I never did heroin, except for one time, this guy shot me up. This white guy, down there on Sunset Boulevard. That was in 1966. He said if you ate anything that day, you’d get sick. It was a good high, but that was the last time I did that.

“Another time, this guy gave me half a pill. He said, ‘This is LSD.’ I said a little half-pill like that ain’t gonna do nothing to me, but I took it and I was messed up for 12 hours! I went to a party, and the pretzels started moving!

“That was the last time I fucked with that. I only take regular medicine, now.”

copyright © 2008 Wyatt Doyle

Sony: Vote for the least worst!

Sony is releasing four titles from the Hammer Films archive to DVD this October: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka House of Fright), Scream of Fear and The Gorgon.

In addition, Sony has partnered with Amazon.com on a contest to determine which of three design choices will be the set's cover art:

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Now is it just me, or are all the contenders kind of shitty?

I mean, do any of the designs feel particularly "Hammer" to you?

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see these titles released (and for cheap, too!); but any way the contest goes, they're sure gonna have some lousy packaging.

Interested parties can vote here if they care to. You've got til the 30th.

A brief word from Mr. Otis Rush

fun with guns

Further explorations with our man mr. battguano...

Vanina Marsot in Cambodia

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Preah Ko

copyright, © 2008 Vanina Marsot

George Carlin, R.I.P.

missing persons

copyright © 2008 Wyatt Doyle