Wednesday 31 October 2012

Calligraphy Robot


Mission Accomplished

Spaceboy's dreamachine?

OK I'm outta here to go and carve pumpkins with Spaceboy


Happy Halloween

Just one thing though - Halloween is one night of the year NOT weeks & weeks before the 31st!!!

Picture o' the year

Via

♪♫ The Spaceape - On The Run


Asshat

'Hurricane is good luck for Obama again- he will buy the election by handing out billions of dollars'
FFS!!!

Electronic Beats Festival Vienna (12./10/12)

James Blake - CMYK/The Wilhelm Scream

Squarepusher - Dark Steering/303 Scopem Hard

Motherfucker, fuck the fucking world


ROFL...

Tuesday 30 October 2012

if....(1968)


if.... is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson satirising English public school life. Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a public school or boarding school, the film is associated with the 1960s counterculture movement because it was filmed by a long-standing cIounter-culture director at the time of the student uprisings in Paris in May 1968. It includes controversial statements, such as: "There's no such thing as a wrong war. Violence and revolution are the only pure acts". It features surrealist sequences throughout the film. Upon release in the UK, it received an X certificate. The film stars Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role and his first appearance as Anderson's "everyman" character Mick Travis. Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, David Wood, and Robert Swann also star, and Rupert Webster is featured as the young boy Bobby Phillips. if.... won the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, the magazine Total Film named it the sixteenth greatest British film of all time. The Criterion Collection released the DVD on 19 June 2007.
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(Thanx Stephen!)

Helicopter fishing ('They are fugn trippen son')


150 years of tropical storms mapped

...Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon - in the Atlantic and northeast Pacific the storms are called hurricanes, in northwest Pacific they are known as typhoons and in the south Pacific the term cyclone is used.
Nelson opted to focus the map on Antarctic partly because he is "sick of boring old rectangular projections".
"Hurricanes are a global phenomena and they skirt the equator, spinning off with the effects of prevailing winds and a rotating earth beneath. It turned out that a South Pole projection did the best job of illustrating that hula-hoop nature. Also I wanted to present it in a way that might inspire a bit of a double take. It looked trippy and did right by the data so I went with it."
Full size
HERE

'The city is under siege. Sandy is pretty furious at Atlantic City. She must have lost a bet or something'

 - Thomas Foley (Chief of emergency management in Atlantic City)
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GOP Women Party Hard (1941)


“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.”
Thus the storied weekly and photographer Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker” (noun: an informal social gathering for men only) on one long, memorable night in southern New England.
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Meanwhile GOP women of today come out with this crap!
(Thanx SJX!)

♪♫ Sugar Minott - Sandy

(Thanx Fritz!)

I got a tiny little phial of ‘come to me’ and a gallon of ‘get the fuck out’

Sums it ALL up!

Romney apparel - Made in China
Obama apparel - Union made in the USA
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Jimmy Savile let me milk cow blindfolded


InstaSnopes: Sorting the Real Sandy Photos from the Fakes

Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy and I'm sure that this bloke will have a different point of view soon. Maybe not!

NYC

Photographs via & via

Monday 29 October 2012

Spot the difference (after 11 hours)



London Heathrow Approach Time-lapse Turns Jumbo Jets into Floating Toys

Talking of screws (and other bits of metal)


Nils Frahm - Screws (Free Download)

i am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. my right hand is bending over my left thumb. the first day i got out of my cast i could bend it by 15°. now i am already at 50° and that makes me happy. things are going uphill...
as you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. that day i was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. i realised in that moment how busy things have become. it is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since i surely love my work. it actually never felt like work. playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy i can imagine.
for a couple of days i felt like this all could be over. how pathetic. but hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. all of a sudden i had so much time, an unexpected holiday. i cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, i just couldn't resist. i started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. i set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.
the day i got rid of my cast i had recorded 9 little tunes. they have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something i can only achieve, when i am making the most out of what i've got.
thank you all for listening!
with lots of love,
nils
HERE
Via
Bonus:

San Francisco Riot Twitter Word Cloud



Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

Con Men

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Lee Perry on making soul music your church and the curse of 'black magic reggae'

Every single man who say he is a reggae star dead. Whereas you are living. If reggae isn’t a curse, why Bob Marley dead? Why Peter Tosh dead? Why all the Jamaican artists dead? Why are most of the Jamaican producers dead? If reggae was a blessing, they would not be dead. They would be happy, jumping around the place, singing, ‘Oh Lord thank you for saving my soul when reggae wanted my soul,’ and they would dance out of here. They would have them a long life, smoke them cigarettes and get crazy and want to kill somebody, from cigarette curse. Or they shoot somebody from reggae gun curse. Or something like that.
HERE
(Thanx Mark!)

Four Tet - Lion (Jamie xx remix)

Still undecided? Think about the future. Support the candidate who won't bring about the zombie apocalypse


So vile


Terry Callier R.I.P.

Sunday 28 October 2012


Jimmy Savile investigators arrest Gary Glitter on 'suspicion of sexual offences'



'The Revisionaries': Texas schoolbook battle — crazier than you thought!

Fuzzy logic


Fritz Catlin - Hard Boiled Mix


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Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes

The Thing Is... An Interview with Eno




Paul Morley interviews Brian Eno in 1992.
G'day Mr Beresford LOL!
Bonus:


William Burroughs on CBC 1977

Peter Gzowski interviewing William Burroughs on 90 Minutes Live in 1977.
Bonus:

Saturday 27 October 2012

Today's Must Read

Apocalypse Now Then

Girlz with Gunz #59392 (International Times)


Graham Parker on Judd Apatow, Glenn Beck, and Getting The Rumour Back Together


The Rolling Stones live at La Trabendo in Paris Thursday night

On Thursday 25th October 2012, the Rolling Stones played a secret gig at Paris' La Trabendo club. It was the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood were on stage together in over five years. The band were joined on stage by longtime bass player and keyboardist Darryl Jones and Chuck Leavell. Read a full report of the gig here: http://www.rollingstones.com/2012/10/25/the-rolling-stones-play-surprise-gig-...
Set List:
Route 66
It's Only Rock and Roll
Shattered
When The Whip Comes Down
Champagne and Reefer
Doom and Gloom
Miss You
Tumbling Dice
Start Me Up
Midnight Rambler
Jumping Jack Flash
Brown Sugar
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A live DVD coming soon I suppose...

President Romney can thank Obama for his Permanent Robotic Death List

Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent

Derek Jarman: A Journey to Avebury (1971)



Soundtrack added by Coil

Friday 26 October 2012

Lee Ranaldo - Xtina As I Knew Her (Hi-Fi, Melbourne 24th Oct 2012)

(Thanx Carbie Warbie!)

♪♫ He's My Brother She's My Sister - Let's Go


Cory Doctorow: Pirate Cinema (@ Word, Brooklyn)

(Thanx Joly!)

TV Shack Admin Richard O’Dwyer “Almost Certain” To Be Extradited To US

THE CHOICE

Donald Trump wants Barack Obama to publish his college and passport records but won't reveal his own




LOL!!!

Thursday 25 October 2012

'Will the 2012 Election be Stolen?' (Highlights)

Highlights from Emergency Forum: 'Will the 2012 Election be Stolen?' at The Open Center NYC on Oct 22 2012.
Speakers:
Mark Crispin Miller (Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform); Attorney, election reform activist, and former GOP political operative Jill Simpson; Lori Grace, Founder, Institute for Democracy and Election Integrity; Jim March, BlackBoxVoting; Moderated by Bob Fitrakis, attorney/author, election reform activist, Executive Director, Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and Harvey Wasserman, author, democracy activist, Senior Editor, Columbus Free Press
Read more: http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4755
A 2 hour radio special followed this forum:
http://prn.fm/2012/10/22/green-power-wellness-election-theft-panel-102212/#axzz2ABCbWwqU
(Thanx Joly!)

Al Weiwei does 草泥马* style

*Grass Mud Horse (?)
(Thanx Josh!)

Brass Eye: Welcome to Paedogeddon (2001)


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The Savile scandal is about children, not overpaid TV executives

John Lydon & Keith Levene: Interview With JJ Jackson (MTV 16/9/82)



Bonus:
Well Keith enjoyed that interview eh? I liked his laughter at the 'nodding' reference right at the end too...

Hmmm!

♪♫ Bran Van 3000 - Astounded

It's a Curtis sorta day round at Exile Towers today...

Rhauder ft. Paul St. Hilaire - Sidechain (Original Mix)

Rangers: The Men Who Sold The Jerseys

Congrats to my brother-in-law who is up for a BAFTA  for this programme XXX
Mossad?

Mali: no rhythm or reason as militants declare war on music

Rhys Chatham on voting Republican

I just wanted to say, that I think musicians are very nice. they are a special bunch, open always, to lovely ideas, perhaps crazy ideas, that bring us.. further.
Unlike the Republicans, their leaders are for the one per cent, the poor working class people who follow them listen only to their their TV idols, who tell them what to think... against their best interests, alas.
Any person who votes Republican and makes under one million dollars per year is voting against her or his best interest, in my view.
Any women who votes for Ryan is not thinking entirely clearly, if she looks at the facts. I mean, just look at what the man believes in, jeez.
And between both of them, is that what we want for the next 8 years? By all means, give the country to the one per cent. They HATE the vote. That's why they lie so much with their PACS.

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Turkey: Another woman murdered in Antalya, one more victim in the undeclared war

Via TGEU listserve:

A trans* person (her name is Serap, 29) was murdered early this morning - around 05.00 - in Antalya, Turkey. Her throat was cut. The police came into the scene when she was alive, however she died before she was taken to the hospital. Other trans* from the district came together after she was attacked to see her however (based on the a trans from Antalya said) the police pepper sprayed people who gathered and did not react immediately to take Serap to the hospital.

Hopefully we will have more details in the upcoming days.

As ever, my thoughts go out to Serap’s loved ones and all my trans sisters in Turkey, fighting daily to survive in an undeclared war being waged by their compatriots with the tacit complicity of the state.

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Turkey – TG symbol made by Helen from images found at Wikipedia (here and here). Both original images are public domain and so is this one. If using elsewhere, please ensure correct attribution.

Cross-posted from Bird of Paradox

youANDme - Ornaments Symphony mix (2009)


Mixed with vinyl and 4 turntables + soundbite sampler.
Tracklist :
01. Intro - Peak: Darksuite (youANDme Remix) / ORN008
02. Peak: Darksuite / ORN008
03. Dubsuite: "Eigenleben" (Marko Fürstenberg's Eigendub) / ORN001
04. Sven Tasnadi: "Our Destiny" (Weisemann's Shuffle On Mix) remix by Sven Weisemann / ORN005
05. Sven Tasnadi: "Our Destiny" / ORN005
06. Thabo: "Downstream" / ORN006
07. Martin Schulte: "Cold Heart" (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) / ORN001
08. Rhauder feat. Paul St. Hilaire: "No News" (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) / ORN009
09. Rhauder feat. Paul St. Hilaire: "No News" (Daniel Stefanik Remix) / ORN009
10. Rhauder feat. Paul St. Hilaire: "No News" / ORN009
11. Thabo: "Berlin" / ORN006
12. Mod.Civil: "Einfachheit gewinnt" / ORN004
13. Mod.Civil: "Einfachheit gewinnt" (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) / ORN004
14. Frank Biedermann: "Warrior_wasp" (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) / ORN001
15. I-Robots: "Perfect Logic Circle" (G.Digger Edit) / ORN002
16. I-Robots: "Perfect Logic Circle" (Club Edit) / ORN002
17. youANDme:  "Close to me" (Robert Hood Remix) / ORN010
18. Marko Fürstenberg: "Valentino" / ORN007
19. Peak: "Darksuite" (Soultourist Remix) / ORN008
20. Peak: "Darksuite" (youANDme Remix) / ORN008
21. Marko Fürstenberg: "Tiffany's Case" / ORN007
22. youANDme: "Close to me" / ORN010
23. Sascha Dive: “Deepest America” (Samuel Davis Dark Soul Mix) / ORN003
24. Sascha Dive: “Deepest America” (Moodymann Remix) / ORN003
Review
Ornaments Music

The Killing of America (1982)


Hush! Puppy?

KC and the 'Narcononce'
Initial report
(Strange be* fellows!)
Go Kelman!!!

Randy Greif - Dark Matter Technology (Free Download)

21 minutes of trance-y minimal electronics mixed with subtly manipulated choral voices.
Meditative, but slightly disturbing at times.
credits
released 16 September 2012
ndlb#13

Jimmy Savile makes his escape


Assassinate Assange (German)


'Assassinate Assange' is based on Angela Richter's research on the subject of hacktivism as well as on meetings and interviews she carried out with Julian Assange in 2011 and 2012. The video is its first version as performed in Hamburg in September.
@exiledsurfer interviews the cast of 'Assassinate Assange'

Is Your Vote in Danger? Take the Test

HA!

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(Thanx Mark!)

Interview with Alec Empire

First Warning

National Office of Importance

Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books

Sunn O))) - Live at Primavera Sound Festival 2009 on WFMU (May 28, 2009)

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Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley, performing
their Grimmrobe Demos (originally from 1999) in entirety.
Download
(Thanx Martin!)

Laibach - Kohle Is Brot (Live @ Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia, Velenje 19/10/12)

On 19 October 2012 Laibach held two special concerts in the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia in Velenje. For the first time in its history, the band performed nearly 200 m underground. At this unique event, titled Kohle ist Brot (Coal is Bread) Laibach played a selection of their industrial songs from the early ’80s. Visitors were escorted to the performing space 200 m below the surface with the oldest - still functioning - lift in Slovenia. 
(Thanx DJ Pigg!)