David Cronenberg: analyse this

Spaceboy - This one's for you!!!

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The Bear Facts: Rupert & OZ

Schoolkid's OZ

[...]A central piece of evidence at the trial was a montage/collage of two cartoon strips that appeared in this issue. This montage was put together by Vivian Berger, then a 15 year-old schoolboy. The strips used were parts of a Rupert Bear cartoon which had been superimposed on a strip by the American underground artist Robert Crumb. Rupert Bear had appeared in the pages of the Daily Express for years (he emerged in late November 1920 as a result of circulation battles between the major dailies) and offered an innocent, nostalgic and quintessentially ‘middle-English’ version of childhood. Crumb was one of the most prolific and notoriously ‘explicit’ of the underground artists (incidentally, established cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, often up to no good, had frequently appeared in the work of underground cartoonists) and the Crumb strip that Berger used was part of a long cartoon called ‘Eggs Ackley Among the Vulture Demonesses’, which had appeared in Big Ass Comics, June, 1969. Basically, Berger’s montage presents a sexually excited Rupert Bear violating the virginity of an (unconscious) female. Although the basic drawings and speech-bubbles are Crumb’s, Rupert’s head and scarf had been carefully superimposed on the original character, and the frame titles (there are six frames) and the characteristic narrative in rhyming couplets beneath had been retained from the Rupert strip...
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Americans in the Spanish Civil War

Poetry of the Spectacle

'The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of 5 principal factors; incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies and eternal present - the spectator is simply supposed to know nothing and deserves nothing. Those who are watching to see what happens next will never actand such must be the spectator's condition .'
- Guy Debord
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(Thanx Dave!)

LV & Joshua Idehen Selector Session

Melt
Deleted Scenes
Northern Line

Hal McGee's home lo-fi experimental music noise microcassette

Visit experimental audio artist and homemade music pioneer Hal McGee's home in Gainesville, Florida, in this video shot on March 20, 2010. The soundtrack comes from segments of "dis\rhythmia", a new recording by McGee which appears on Side B of a Dictaphonia microcassette split tape release with Don Campau on Side A ("the river is my body")

Egypt

Via

Why bother about inequality?

When the Daily Mail calls rightwingers stupid, the result is dumbogeddon

Brookings: ‘Horrific Provocation’ and ‘Tehran-Sponsored 9/11′ Needed to Trigger Iran Invasion

Madonna at Halftime Super Bowl XLVI

Madonna performing 'Vogue', 'LMFAO', 'Open Your Heart', 'Express Yourself' and "Like a Prayer" with Cee Lo Green. Madonna was also joined by Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.

waynecoyne Wayne Coyne

Just got confirmation from reliable techs involved with Super Bowl that it was all lip-sync!!! moby.to/fn2q3t

M.I.A. couldn't give a 'shit'...

'...don't play the stupid game!'
'...Instead, in the few bars Madonna was kind enough to grant her during the biggest television event of the year, M.I.A.'s message to America was simply, "Fuck you." Well, in M.I.A.'s own words, the little people will never win, but they can fuck shit up. Success might be the best revenge, but apparently, being an asshole is forever.'
- Pitchfork get their collective stars and stripes knickers in a twist!!!