See Step Across the Border, A Documentary About Avant-Garde Guitarist Fred Frith

Marvelous moment at 1:18:14 (in a film full of marvelous moments) worth transcribing here.

Frith says:

There’s not much that happens that wakes people up. People are very happy to receive all the time—information. This information is usually coming from central source, like a television station or a government.  And people don’t question this at all, anymore. But there are some things you can do in cultural terms that will make people react in a different way. More–finding something in themselves that they didn’t know about. Because the kinds of concerts that we do, or theater events, or dance, or anything like this, when it works, it’s because it strikes a cord inside somebody, and they have to look at themselves, and they have to look at themselves in relation to the society that they’re in. And there aren’t many things that make people do that. Most of the time, people don’t even think about it.

Beatles: California Über Alles — Kota Ezawa

“Dick Around/This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” (Live) — Sparks

PJ Harvey Live in Paris in 2011

Brian Wilson All Cuddled Up with His Manipulative Psychologist

43 Minutes of This Heat Playing Live in 1980

“Soon-To-Be Innocent Fun” — Arthur Russell

“Age of Consent” (Live at BBC Radio 1 in 1984) — New Order

“Can’t Go Wrong Without You” — His Name Is Alive/Brothers Quay

(This Is Known As) The Blues Scale — Outtakes from 1991: The Year Punk Broke

“Avril 14th” — Aphex Twin

John Cage’s Solo for Sliding Trombone (Performed by Christian Lindberg)

“Harps” — The Sea and Cake

“When a Woman Loves” — R. Kelly / Swede Mason Remix

“Stare at the Sun” — Eleanor Friedberger

A Documentary About U.S. Maple Making Acre Thrills

One day I will write about the time I saw US Maple at The EARL in Atlanta and saw the cheerleading film Bring It On at some bar next door before the show and how several mentally-handicapped fans came to the Maple show in full camo and how my friend spent the entire show in the back of my other friend’s Mazda in an agonizing migraine and how the show was maybe the weirdest and most oddly aggressive show I’ve ever seen and how the Maples kept bumping into each other and they wore homemade vests and the whole deal was deeply disorienting and then after the show the Mazda broke somewhere on I-95 and we drove all the way back to Gainesville in 3rd gear and got home some time as the sun was coming up.

Disintegration Loop 1.1 — William Basinski