December 2009
79 posts
I'm gonna let you finish, but first listen to...
Mix #1: My ‘earworm’ songs - they’ll stick in my head for another decade (download all mp3s in .zip here)
CocoRosie - Happy Eyez
Karl Blau - Dark Sedan
Cold Cave - Life Magazine
DJ Quik And Kurupt - 9x’s Outta 10
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo - Knock You Out
El Perro Del Mar - Change Of Heart
Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No
Phoenix - Lasso
Big Boi - Shine Blockas [ft....
Watch
The “Dignified” Destruction of Calais Refugee “Jungle”
22/09/2009: At 8am in the morning some 600 CRS riot police moved on the Calais refugee “Jungle”, under the orders of French immigration minister Eric Besson, to destroy the camp and arrest all the remaining refugees. The camp usually held up to 1500 people, but many had fled and gone underground, leaving...
Madvillain- ‘strange ways’
Girls - ‘morning light’
Shout Out Louds - ‘Walls’
Boycotting Pink Toys for Girls - (NYTimes) →
And a more in-depth article from the Guardian - “PinkStinks: The Power of Pink”
Commercial marketing, Palmer insists, is behind pinkification. “When you’re two and a half or three,’ she says, “you have two key instincts. The first is towards inclusion: the overpowering need to be part of the group. And at the same age, children become aware of gender. So...
anti-copyright notice
The Situationist International published their works with an explicit anti-copyright notice which states that the writings may be “freely reproduced, translated, or adapted, without even indicating their origin.”
(biding spectacular time)
‘Broken Safety’ - Raekwon (ft....
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Finding Hope in No-Hopenhagen
by Kelvin Mason [from Cop-out-15 listserv - to be published soon] Worse than hopeless First prize in the COP15 Greenwash Awards must go to Siemens and Coca-Cola for branding the host city ‘Hopenhagen’. In the centre of Copenhagen Siemens set up their faux city, brightly lit in a mendacious green. There they extolled the virtues of a range of unsustainable technologies...
WatchPassion Pit - “The Reeling”
Rad video… made out of thousands of ripped up prints of video stills. Read videostatic’s great review of it:
Hard for me to see any post-punk video with a paper motif — take this Aberdeen City clip from a few years ago as an example — and not instantly flash to the title of music critic Simon Reynold’s book, Rip It Up and Start Again:...
pinback - ‘AFK’
(the epic last song...
fake blues by real estate * (via thecolors)
University of South Central named The Decade's #1... →
And it still lives up to its other nickname, the University of Spoiled Children — with its ever-increasing annual costs now over $50k/year, you can graduate with 6-figures of debt, even if your coke habit was subsidized with your parents’ credit card.
Fugazi - ‘suggestion’
‘Beauty...
Danish Police Arrest 100 in Climate Protests -... →
Mette Hermansen, 27, studying to train teachers, and a member of the International Socialists of Denmark, said, “In the Bella Center they are not discussing solutions to climate change. They are discussing how rich countries can continue emitting and how to sell that to the public. We are not preventing leaders from making solutions but encouraging them to make solutions.”
