67 minutes, 52 seconds

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Sons Palliatifs

I've been obsessed lately with the short commercial spots Jim Henson did for Wilkins Coffee back in the '50s. There are something like 180 of them available on YouTube--check 'em out. At first I thought they were fake, but this wiki article says otherwise. (And you know you can trust an encyclopedia written and edited by shmucks like yourself.)

Anyway, it's hard to believe these short, oddly violent clips came from the mind of Jim Henson. Jim Freakin' Henson! Creator of Elmo, Grover, Big Bird, and the letter "C." But he had a sadistic streak, my friends and faithful readers, and these videos expose it in wondrous black and white. It's definitely his voice in the ad, at least for the role of proto-Kermit, or whoever that thinner blob is supposed to be. But that friendly, upbeat voice diguises some of the cruellest intentions, and you may never look at the Muppets the same way again. Sesame Street? More like Kick Me Street.

I'm off to have a cup of Wilkins Coffee.

Also today:

67:52 Uruk-Hai & Vinterriket, Uruk-Hai & Vinterriket
67:52 X Marks the Pedwalk, Drawback

69 minutes, 33 seconds

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Elixir Lytique

Half of this Belgian duo is Séba Dolimont, who also publishes Side-Line magazine. Otherwise, I don't have much to say about this album, which I'd characterize as mid-'90s euro-industrial-pop.

Much more exciting: I got word that my copy of Aux Volontaires Croix de Sang, the new disc from Les Joyaux de la Princesse, shipped today. Ain't no crypto-fascist music like French crypto-fascist music!

Also today:

69:31 Heimstatt Yipotash, Storegga Effect
69:30 Harold Budd, As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
69:30 Mnemonic, Monokultur
69:30 Omnicore, Mass Murderer
69:28 Klinik & Vidna Obmana, Greed
69:26 Remain Silent, TID
69:22 The Unquiet Void, Scorpio