Bellevue Inside Out

Let Pirate Programming be your TV Guide. Turn off that 1000th rerun of Seinfeld and tune into a documentary that could be considered a real life counterpart to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Full of colorful characters, this documentary details the patients of the psych ward in the infamous Bellevue hospital in New York. Meet a man who thinks he is God, an average husband who snaps and masturbates trance-like for 6 hours and Connie aka Mrs. Abba creator of Laptop Computer Systems whose "computer system will most likely blow the fucking place sky high". There is sections of absolute brilliance in this thing. For example, when pretty face bi-polar girl, Angela talks about her father dying in front of her while the Shaft theme song plays in the background is a timeless moment. The following scene with her dancing while calling out to her father almost made my jaded ass cry. On the whole, this doc has heart and quotable dialog in abundance. Seriously watch this!

Maxx Graffiti

Just a quick video of Theme One doing a blackbook piece using characters from Sam Kieth's The Maxx to a Raekwon track. So sick!

Free Mix from Hrrrshw's Count Jakula

Hrrrshw Presents Count Jakula Mix 1

Download this free dope ass minimal/tech/house mix! It starts with cumbia edits and gets more experimental as it progresses. It's an hour of perfect blends and jacking beats from one of Pirate Programming's residents, Count Jakula aka Gerald Nannemann. Dig it!

Space Lady- Too Much To Dream Last Night

I had heard this a couple of years ago, and today for whatever reason, I had an almost stifling need to recall the memory of this song. It took me a while to find this gem again but it was worth the research. Totally weird and trippy cover of the Electric Prunes. Dig it!

Steam Punk Jewelry

http://www.timealtered.com/

Check out this site. This is the brilliant creation of my friend, Dianna Kolb. Basically, she digs up old watches and clocks and uses the internal components to create jewelry. Not only is it an awesome metaphor for deconstructing the concept of time, her work is also very beautiful. Check it out!

Crispin Glover Quote

"i have really over the years carefully analyzied what the financial situations are for getting art accomplished. corporations will necessarily not fund movies that have anything that can possibly make the audience uncomfortable. Anything that is beyond the realm of that which is considered good and evil. That means if anything is possibly considered bad or evil that sits within the film, it necessarily has to be pointed to and stated to the audience 'this is the way to think about that thing'. There can be no grey area about it. It is black and white and this is the right way to think, and that's it. And what is not funded is a film that goes beyond these boundaries of good and evil. If there is something within the film that is questionable and is not pointed to but it let's the audience question what does that mean..."

Crispin Glover breaking down the disinformation in Hollywood (but the quote can be applied to any medium)

Peaking Lights- Lo Hi

Count Jakula says to peep this album, Lucifer. It's one of his favs that has come out in a while.

Max Payne 3 Rant

Lemme tell you why I'm mad (cue EPMD song).

For the most part the media on this site is relatively inexpensive. $10 or so for an album or dvd, give or take a couple of bucks. So if every other site is saying a new video game is the greatest thing since champagne and hookers, I expect that to be true. I mean spending $60 on a game is not something I do often, so when I do it better be worth the cake.

I'm here to tell you, Max Payne 3 just raped me out of $60 bones. I can't believe sites are doling out straight 9's for this game! If you remember playing The Punisher game for Nintendo back in the day, you pretty much have played this game. In that game, you are more or less on a conveyor belt blasting enemies as they pop out and, I swear to you bro, there is a segment in the new Max Payne where you are on a boat dispatching 3rd world minorities in a near carbon copy fashion, just with better graphics. Now I'm mad, not insane and it would be lunacy to say the graphics in new MP3 aren't amazing. I mean they are some of the best I have ever seen for the PS3 hands down. A lot of the drama is beautifully depicted in the Favelas of Brazil and I caught myself thinking how the hell did they create such a detailed world. What I came up with is Rockstar must have spent a fortune on research and development in Brazil. To make sure Rockstar didn't go belly up from the expense of the Brazil R&D, they paid off every video game reviewer who has more than 5 readers. With the critics paid off they insured universal praise for the game, so suckers like me would waste money on this unimaginative, boring turd. But hey Rockstar, I didn't get my check and I'm pissed.

Let it be known, this game is NOT open world, and if you even think about altering from the narrow path, Max's annoyingly trite narrative "reminds" you to keep moving and not to explore. Not that you would find much anyway. There are no weapons upgrades, or bonuses or any type or incentive to keep playing at all. You can find pieces of "gold" weapons, which when completed, just turn your weapon gold but this doesn't do anything special for the attack. I mean what the fuck is the point of running around with a fucking gold Uzi? Games have been allowing you to buy parts for guns and special attacks and shit for a while...what the fuck Rockstar?! Y'all too cool for that?!

Yup, what you are treated to instead is "cool" visual glitches that are ripped straight from movies like Domino (circa 2006) and Crank. These little visual glitches and on screen phrases don't do anything for the story or the game as a whole. And this fucking bullet time shit is stupid. If you loved the movie 300 for slow mo action sequences maybe you can appreciate this but slow mo action scenes always made me scratch my head. I prefer action to be blazing fast, kinetic. I want to have to rewind a couple of times otherwise that defeats the purpose of "action" right? Yeah well the whole game is based around the gimick of slowing down the action so you can shoot several mugs at once. Gay! 

OK OK the music is good, the graphics are incredible and the story honestly makes you think you are watching a movie. The technical merits are super solid if you want me to be real. But I just didn't have fun playing this. Maybe it was some of the frustrating game play. There are moments when you blast shirtless thugs at point blank range with a shotgun and they just grab their stomachs like they just have a tummy ache and keep bucking at you. For a game that tries so hard to be realistic, that seems like a pretty critical oversight. Or maybe the reason why I didn't have that much fun playing this game is because I was too busy face-palming myself over some of the mind numbing dialogue. "This town had more smoke and mirrors than a strip club locker room". Seriously? You couldn't come up with a better metaphor than that convoluted mess? And that is just one of an uncountable amount of idiotic lines disguised as wit. But, I digress...the real reason I hated this game is because I was waiting for that moment when you level up, learn a new skill, upgrade your weapon, solve a puzzle, use your brain for even a second, fight a boss, do a side mission that changes game play, but that shit never happened. I waited all the way to the end of the game and realized I was just duped into buying a $60 Nintendo game.

Just so you know, since game reviews are so infrequent on this site, a game I just copped that is worth every penny is Killzone 3. Playing it with the Playstation Move Sharp Shooter is totally some other shit. I'm also looking forward to Lollipop Chainsaw but that will be for another day.

Max Payne 3 gets $4 out of $10 or whatever it costs to rent a game these days.

PS. Max, I will never forgive you for dissing House music, you can suck a dick for that.

Gez Varley- Le Soliel

nice tunes and viddies

Robert Williams Documentary

This is a documentary showcasing the artwork of an often overlooked artist, Robert Williams. Williams is the founder of the awesome art mag, Juxtapoz. He's done album artwork for BDP (Sex and Violence) and worked along side the legendary Robert Crumb. His work is extremely psychedelic and has been in the game since the 60's. Respect the architects!