Mattress Grave - Let’s Go Over Information To A Centre Of Culture

bodies that need electricity to survive, therefore libraries need electricity to live
main street looking for emergency services to continue my lifespan
trend #2 today where two hours would be incredibly beneficial
libraries that are document archive experiences
the visceral nature of this by all who can order escapist fantasies off the short order menu
getting with H. sapiens and the painstaking efforts of government service providers
higher self through self-help guides and tourist maps
paradigm of “need” changing, evolving, and is very little left in arteries
laptops with super-intelligence that provide funding for 2,509 Libraries
mind uploading, everything that was on Google circa 1999

released 06 January 2013
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Queens of the Stone Age: Secrets of the Sound

Secret and Lies of the Bailout

It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul – right?
Wrong.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people. We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in – only temporarily, mind you – to prop up the economy and save the world from financial catastrophe. What we actually ended up doing was the exact opposite: committing American taxpayers to permanent, blind support of an ungovernable, unregulatable, hyperconcentrated new financial system that exacerbates the greed and inequality that caused the crash, and forces Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to increase risk rather than reduce it. The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences. We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn...

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Matt Taibbi @'Rolling Stone'

The Blue Notes in Europe

ANTIBES JAZZ FESTIVAL, FRANCE
July 1964
First appearance of the Blue Notes in Europe
Chris McGregor - piano, leader; Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone; Nick Moyake - tenor saxophone; Mongezi Feza - trumpet; Louis Moholo - drums; Johnny Dyani - bass
Nick Mokaye returns to South Africa where sadly he soon dies.

♪♫ Propaganda - Discipline (Throbbing Gristle cover)

from "The Tube" in 1984

Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story

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The Steubenville Files

Good Morning Pyongyang

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Alan Moore: The Goebbels of the English language

♪♫ The xx - Sunset (Jamie xx Edit)

Moving at the sound of speed...

Watch the Only Known Footage of the Legendary Bluesman Lead Belly (1935 and 1945)

First Listen: Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio

The music world suffered a devastating loss when Broadcast's Trish Keenan died of complications from pneumonia two years ago; she was only 42. The U.K. singer could make seemingly random words shimmer with power and poignancy, as if she were casting a spell. With partner and bandmate James Cargill, Keenan released four widely loved albums during the '00s, and in the process left an indelible mark on the history of underground music.
At the time of Keenan's death, she and Cargill were working on the soundtrack to a psychological thriller called Berberian Sound Studio, an independent film about a sound engineer who loses his mind while working on the set of a kitschy horror movie. It was the perfect project for Broadcast, whose music often mined the subconscious.
Cargill took Keenan's recordings for the score and pieced together a gorgeous tapestry of sound that's as serene as it is spooky. Almost devoid of drums or repetition, these tiny vignettes float by one after the other, no one track explicitly memorable on its own but unmistakably Broadcast when consumed in succession. It's rare that an original score works so well as an audio-only experience; in that regard, the Berberian Sound Studio album (out Jan. 8) recalls Popol Vuh's 1970s work for Werner Herzog. Visuals aren't necessary to lose yourself in this music. If anything, the album works best when the listener's eyes stay shut.
For fans of Trish Keenan and Broadcast, Berberian Sound Studio is a godsend. For those who haven't yet discovered the mysterious, wonderful music they made together, may it act as a gateway into one of the finest bands of the 21st century.
Otis Hart @'npr'

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Chavela Vargas (1919 - 2012)

...Even when Vargas was young and her voice still as transparent as mezcal, she danced with her lyrics tacuachito-style, cheek to cheek, pounded them on the bar, made them jump like dice, spat and hissed and purred like the woman jaguar she claimed to be and finished with a volley that entered the heart like a round of bullets from the pistol she stashed in her belt.

Chavela Vargas

Leslie Winer - Burden/Drone HouseHolder Mix