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We Destroy the Family: Punks vs. Parents 1982 Mini Documentary

Sean — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:54 +0000

Who did I fear in 1982? I feared the media and all of the lies they put out about my generation. I was scared that my mom would ship me off to a boot camp that would march the punk rock out me. I remember watching this documentary with my mom called We Destroy the Family: Punks vs. Parents, and it was not fun times. Serena Dank was a money hungry asshole. Check out what the hardcore kids of 1982 had to deal with…When I watch this, I totally realize why the kids were disconnected from the parents!

Photo by FerYouz

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Punks vs. Parents
1982 Mini Documentary appeared first on CVLT Nation.

A Must Documentary…Off the GRID: Life on the Mesa Now Showing!

Sean — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:30:51 +0000

The other night I watched the 2007 documentary called Off the GRID: Life on the Mesa directed by Jeremy & Randy Stulberg. This film takes a hard look at a group of people who truly have said fuck you to society! Off the GRID: Life on the Mesa is a must-watch film, so do it NOW!

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Off the GRID: Life on the Mesa
Now Showing! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

Get Trippy With…WEEDEATER’s Dixie Dave Sippin Syrup!

Sean — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:58 +0000

Dixie Dave of Weedeater sits down with Heavy Dicks for the premiere of their show on Noisey, and breaks down his love for Cough Syrup. I’ve got to say, Jake and Fred are on to something – looking forward to seeing future episodes! Back to Weedeater – they will be hitting the road on the east coast starting May 22nd.

WEEDEATER Spring Fling:
5/22/2013 The Hideaway – Johnson City, TN
5/24/2013 El N Gee – New London, CT
5/25/2013 Maryland Death Fest – Baltimore, MD
5/27/2013 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
5/28/2013 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
5/29/2013 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
5/30/2013 V Club – Huntington, WV
5/31/2013 Mojo 13 – Wilmington, DE
6/01/2013 Maywood – Raleigh, NC

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WEEDEATER’s Dixie Dave
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Anti-Nazi.Anti-Fascist…Art Warrior JOHN HEARTFIELD Photo Essay + Documentary Now Showing!

Sean — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:30:05 +0000

I have always been into art that gives a voice to those that don’t have one. I remember being young in the 70′s and having my mind stimulated with all of the revolutionary creativity that was happening around me. A big part of what got me hyped about the punk movement was it’s use of art as a weapon for change. When I first saw a Crass cover, I knew it spoke to me but I did not know that the artist was influenced by German artist John Heartfield. He was a true warrior for change and used his creative spirit as his gun to fire at the Racist & Fascist Nazi regime in Germany. John Heartfield showed the Nazis that he was not afraid of them by manifesting powerful photomontages that spoke out against their fakery! His influence on the Anarcho Punk movement is evident even today. Discharge used one of his pieces for the Never Again cover and this image has become a part of punk history. Today CVLT Nation salutes John Heartfield with a huge photo essay of his work, plus we are showing the documentary Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image!

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Art Warrior JOHN HEARTFIELD
Photo Essay + Documentary
Now Showing! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

Michael W. Ford speaks on Aleister Crowley-Thelemic Magick-Luciferianism

Sean — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:00:45 +0000

Simply put, this is a very interesting visual to watch. Check out Michael W. Ford discussing Thelemic Magick and Luciferianism. This is his tribute to Aleister Crowley and it’s a video that will keep you watching!

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A Killer Documentary!…William Burroughs Now Showing!

Sean — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:17 +0000

I’m not going to even say too much, other than: here is a killer documentary for outsiders. CVLT Nation now showing William Burroughs after the jump!

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William Burroughs
Now Showing! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

Mini DEAFHEAVEN Documentary The Making of SUNBATHER Now Showing!

Sean — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:30:35 +0000

Via Spin

San Francisco black metal skygazers Deafheaven are set to release of the most anticipated heavy records of 2013 — the blarey, bleary-eyed, blasty Sunbather. Scheduled for release on Deathwish Inc. on June 11, their second album melts black metal’s icy veneer, giving it the majesty of bands like Jesu and Mogwai — a seven-song suite that splits its time between warm piano pulses, spiraling post-rock guitars, sheer jet-engine noise, and sunstroked blasts. This nearly eight-minute teaser works as a little documentary that peeks into the making of this cinematic opus: the stress, the screams, and a few awesome shots of new drummer Daniel Tracy playing blastbeats in black and white.

This film was directed by Byran Proteau aka Clovenhoov

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The Making of SUNBATHER
Now Showing! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower Documentary Now Showing!

Sean — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:00:03 +0000

One of the greatest gifts that punk rock gave me was an open mind that will always question authority! Besides listening to music that stood against the status quo, in the 80′s, punks of my generation took actions against the powers of corruption. As I have gotten older, my fight for justice has only intensified. This is why I stand behind the actions of WikiLeaks and agree with their actions to promote real free speech and freedom of information! The BBC made a very thought-provoking documentary called WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower that breaks down the worldwide effects of this group’s actions. The scariest part of the film is when one ex-government official said that Bradley Manning should be executed for his whistleblowing because he committed treason. While watching this documentary, I could not stop thinking about the hypocrisy that we all live under, and that many people really do believe that America is the home of the free. Check out WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower and ask yourself were do you stand!

Richard Bilton uncovers a struggle at the heart of US diplomacy between the ideals of freedom and spreading democracy, and the ruthless demands of American security and narrow self-interest. He examines what the WikiLeaks cables reveal about America’s conflicted dealings with Egypt’s deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, and shows how US diplomats in Cairo missed warning signs that revolution in Egypt was coming. And he details the moral tension in US diplomacy brought about by America’s controversial War on Terror. Using the cables, Richard uncovers the moral compromises made by America’s diplomats over the repatriation of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and he shows the secret US efforts to block investigations into alleged CIA rendition and abuse.

In the second of two programmes about American diplomacy and the leaked US embassy cables, Richard Bilton examines what the cables reveal about how America handles its enemies and rivals.

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The Secret Life of a Superpower
Documentary Now Showing! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

Dirty Girls DocumentaryShowing Now!

Meghan — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:41 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, the LA Weekly ran a story about a 1996 student documentary shot by Michael Lucid at Crossroads School in Santa Monica. I was immediately intrigued because Crossroads is right down the street from us, and it’s kind of known as the hippie school stinkin rich people send their kids to to be “alternatively educated.” The film was edited and released to a few festivals in 2000, but it really went viral in the past two weeks due to attention from the LA Weekly and then VICE. The two protagonists – the “dirty girls” – are two sisters named Amber and Harper, and the short film documents their attempts to be different and politically active in a school that, while pretending to embrace difference, actually ridicules them for their appearance and their feminism. Amber and Harper call themselves Riot Grrls, and they make a womyn-centric zine to distribute to their mostly mocking peers at Crossroads. I wonder how many of those “pretty” bitchy people feel dumb and regretful today about the flippant and mean remarks they made about these two girls who were just trying to be themselves. For me, it hit home about my own high school experience in a lot of ways. My group of friends were weirdos who kind of self-ostracized ourselves from our fellow classmates and school. At a point in high school, I decided to stop dressing like other girls wanted me two, and I actually had a couple of girls try to stage a clothing and hair intervention on me, to no avail. The way the Dirty Girls dress is how I remember dressing in the mid-90s, and definitely not the ridiculous attempt at blasphemous 90s fashion you see at Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters. But I don’t remember the hate these two girls experienced in Dirty Girls – maybe it was just my school or my city or the fog of weed on my brain, but I didn’t find out that people thought we were lesbian stoner freaks until after high school. These two girls were shit on every day at school for looking the way I thought cool chicks looked when I was in high school. And I’m sure for some or maybe a lot of you, this experience will look familiar – douche bags judging you, when you know they actually hate themselves more than you could ever hate them. I can only hope that other parents out there are teaching their kids not only to tolerate difference, but to embrace it, so that life is not made miserable for creative and interesting people when my daughter is in high school (because she will, no doubt, be creative and interesting and a die-hard metalhead). After the jump, watch Dirty Girls!

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Showing Now! appeared first on CVLT Nation.

Anonymous HackersBBC DocumentaryHow Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion

Meghan — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:30:54 +0000

Now, let me preface this by saying there are some hackers I am down with and others I am not. The ones who hack with no political agenda, just to fuck shit up, those ones are extremely lame. But hacker groups like Anonymous, who show the power of mass political movements via the Internet? I find them inspirational and exciting! Anonymous has shown that no issue is too global or too regional for their involvement. Take the recent Steubenville case: those despicable, subhuman, trollmeat, cowardly little shits may have actually won not only the sympathy of their idiot town and idiots everywhere in America, but also their trial, if it hadn’t been for the Anonymous campaign to make the rape footage public on the Internet. They deserve a fucking trophy for that in my opinion, and those nasty perps deserve to be raped to death by demons, which I am sure will be their karma. But I digress – BBC 4′s Storyville documentary series released a film about Anonymous at the beginning of this month, entitled How Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion. It goes in depth (as much as they can) on this ever-changing group of world citizens who collaborate to “attack” targets like the Church of Scientology, Paypal, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and world governments in order to shame them for their shady actions. Anonymous attacked online payment providers when they boycotted Wikileaks; they helped to provide black market Internet connections to and to disseminate information coming out of the Egyptian protest movement. They have targeted neo-nazi groups and taken down neo-nazi sites, they leak information and cover-ups left, right and center, and they support real-world protest and activism. The FBI/National Pig Program are trying hard to crack down on Anonymous, but because of the nature of their work (being anonymous) and their lack of a central leadership position, they haven’t been able to make a dent in the movement. I just think it’s incredibly ironic that a tool created by the Pentagon has been hijacked by the public to fuck with its’ creators! After the jump, check out this short documentary about the activist wave of the future!

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BBC Documentary
How Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion appeared first on CVLT Nation.