Porno music.

I've finally got a break! After the annoyance of finding out i had a week to complete some coursework instead of two and with the realisation that i had to continue with it over my birthday, i can now breath a little until the next hand in and the one after that. And then start exams, happy days *retarded face*.

"That's the last time i ask for a quickie.."

Besides music I've been watching a lot of porn. Green Porn that is. Not environmental porn but that's pretty close. Green Porno is a film series or alternatively a collection of amusing but factual notations on animal sexual behaviour. Brought to life by its creator Italian filmstress, writer and ex model Isabella Rossellini stars as the lead.. animal, in whatever description such as bees, worms, flies and the like. The first series focuses primarily on insects with a new series this year on marine life. With another series in the reproductive pipeline based on farm animals i'm sure there will be more entertaining moooovies to come (not meant to offend orgasming cows, farmers, or cattle breeders in any way). The Sundance Channel are screening these virally and I'd recommend to watch them. Not because I like to see animals having sex or condone animal sex, but seeing a recreation of a six foot whale penis on what is effectively a blue sumo costume trying to impregnate a cardboard female whale is hilarious. And it helps that the series is also quite interesting.

In relation to insects on a science fiction note, i recently got The Green Death on DVD one of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who stories. Notably this is the one with the giant mutated maggots that sound like hissing cats (left). Personally i think this story is too well known for that when in fact it has very other brilliant plot pieces, even if in my view it could have been done in four parts instead of six. Not only does it use Wales the current filming land of new series Doctor Who as a location, but also acts as the swansong of Jo Grant who suddenly develops a romance with a welsh professor (uncannily like a younger version of the Doctor, if only Pertwee were a brick shit house) and presumably follows his dreams to journey into the amazon and find a rare fungus, lovely. And also the journey to Metabilis 3 at the beginning of the story has some serious repercussions which would ultimately next series would cost the Doctor his life.
Keeping in the theme i was looking around on the net when i found a clip of a William Hartnell story The Chase where the Daleks chase the Doctor and co through time and space as if they're going "We're going to catch up with you and then hurt you for no other reason except that we don't like you!". This clip is of the Doctor arriving at the top of New York's Empire State Building followed closely by a Dalek which gets the piss taken out of it by a tourist from Alabama. I later found this entry on wikipedia because i noticed a relation from recent episodes:
-The Daleks return to the Empire State Building in the Tenth Doctor episodes "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks". In Doctor Who Confidential, Russell T. Davies comments that he likes to imagine that they stored the Empire State Building in their memory banks and returned there deliberately as a result.-


Do you ever feel the need to revise to different types of music whilst you work or revise? Strangely in my case i can only revise with very relaxed jazz. I know a few that listen to dance and indie to then revise with only classical music, but for me it's got to be almost lounge style tunes. While i was doing this particular coursework instead i tried to look up some new people to listen to, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was one such artist i found. He was a talented musician, went blind at a young age but this did not stop him from learning to play music. He played saxophones, flutes, clarinets, and often at the same time. This multi instrumentalist primarily known for his saxophone skills customised an alto and soprano sax so he could play along with his unmodified tenor all at the same time. Here is an example of Rahsaan's virtuoso ability which has inspired a lot of musicians, notably Jimi Hendrix and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

Also:
Harry James & Buddy Rich - Green Onions: fantastic arrangement, differs from the mod sound but James nails it with the solo.

Question Time in Grimsby: amusing edit of a visit to my home town.

Liquid Soul gettin' Dizzy: Salt.. Pea-nuts-ahh..

You'd like some Pea-nuts-ahh?: Pianist Stan Kenton playing 'The Peanut Vendor', never actually knew this piece until i played it last week. Here to me the flute really makes it sing.

All Wight man: Miles Davis, Isle Of Wight Festival 1970.

E.S.T - Mingle In The Mincing Machine: "Bu-dum-ba-dum-dum".