Monday, 9 January 2012

Killing the Kodak moment … is the iPhone really to blame?

Nothing to say...

Wilco, Nick Lowe & Mavis Staples rehearse 'The Weight'

Backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December 2011
BONUS:

(Thanx Stan!)
˙˙˙ʎɐpoʇ pɹıǝʍ uƃnɟ ʎɹǝʌ ƃuılǝǝℲ

Alex Salmond in battle with David Cameron over Scottish referendum

Knowledge Files

The Rolling Stones on the TAMI Show 10/64

Sunday, 8 January 2012

♪♫ Coki - Marduk

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Scholes on about 70th minute. 71st minute straight red for breaking Silva's legs. Re-retires. Job done

Hackers

Stephen Hawking on Time Travel

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Streaming Dreams

@KimJongNumberUn

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Fuxake!!! Oakland Police at it again...


Spencer: For Hire 
Interview w/Leela inside OPD kettle after being assaulted by OPD @OccupyOakland

Fever Ray - No Face

Norway to deport a young Hazara asylum seeker to danger

(Thanx GKB!)

Nazi Alert

Controversial Hammered Music Festival for neo-Nazis to be held in Brisbane in 2012

Podcast #41: Tripmastermonk - Zencast Vol. 2 - Ninja Funk & Gangster Ballads

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Part 2 of the Zencast series from tripmastermonk. An ode to the brotherland. A collection of rare grooves and breaks all from original Japanese vinyl.

♪♫ Skintologists - On that Number

(Check out the early 80's footage of 23 Skidoo!!!)
Bonus:


Raymond Antrobus Dropping a poem at Studio 52
Drums/keys Fritz, Bass Sketch
(Thanx Fritz!)

Paul Mason: Why It's All Kicking Off

“It really is THE revolution, it’s not a by-product of say Egypt or Facebook. The problem we’ve got is the systems that were constructed before this knowledge revolution took place are all creaky, and I don’t just mean banking, politics is falling apart. I see the revolutions of 2011 as part of humanity trying to just set it right.”
A year ago, shortly after the British student protests and in the middle of the Egyptian revolution, intrepid BBC journalist Paul Mason took a group of activists to the pub to thrash out the reasons behind this sudden upsurge in revolt. His subsequent, slightly hungover, blog post ’20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ went viral: “I was asking myself what is it that has flipped this generation over? I sat there with a bunch of activists and had a long discussion; we went to a pub and carried on the discussion,” he says as we sit down to discuss his forthcoming book, which follows on from that initial post to investigate the causes of this new wave of global struggle. “We tried to work it out, what’s causing it? I just published it on the blog, went to a party, came back, switched on the computer and there was something like 83,000 retweets...”
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Vladislav Delay live visuals by AGF



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Smoking # 119

Patricia Highsmith

Mystery Chinese blogger scores a hit with Cultural Revolution novel

So fugn true!!!

                    'Get rid of all cleaners, rubbish collecters, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secreteries, for example, and society would quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on as much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably a lot better.'
Owen Jones: 'CHAVS: The Demonization of the Working Class'
(Thanx Alan!)
Our dears, New Year is one of the most important and most beautiful holidays with lots of joy, belief and sincerity. Therefore on this occasion we have prepared you a gift – our first release: LEAVING ELEVEN (LVS001), various artists compilation of 17 great quality IDM, Ambient, Drone, Glitch, Electronic tracks, is out now!
Seventeen different artists with different visions on electronics from all over the world: Digitonal, Hobo Cubes, IJO, Joel Tammik, Krill.Minima, Maps And Diagrams, Mind Over Midi, Ninestein, Pawn, Pleq, Sense, Sleppy Town Manufacture, Sonmi451, Sraunus, The Green Kingdom, The New Honey Shade, Yvat. We would like to thank all the artists involved in this release for their good work, and all the people who support us.
17 tracks © 2011 Leaves
Style: Electronic
Compiled: Egidijus Kausylas (Egg)
Design: Tomas Toleikis
Mastered: Emery
01 Pleq – Someone Like Comes Into Your Life (feat. Fraqsea)
02 Sonmi451 – Tohoku
03 Sense – Mysoul Transition
04 Krill.Minima – Sonnenbad
05 Ninestein – Papa November
06 Yvat – Equant Mirror
07 The New Honey Shade – Human Energy
08 Maps And Diagrams – We Are Not Here To Protect You
09 Joel Tammik – Maa Lugu
10 Mind Over Midi – What On Earth
11 Pawn – Discolored Photograph Out-Take
12 The Green Kingdom – The Largest Creature (dub)
13 Digitonal – Polaris
14 Sraunus – Begales
15 Sleepy Town Manufacture – Pinqwyj
16 IJO – 3001 Feets Under
17 Hobo Cubes – Systems Expired
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Pig City

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In the late 1970s Brisbane was known to the rest of Australia as a big country town, and on the surface it was a citadel of conservative rural Australian values.
The Country Party had been in power for nearly two decades, and the premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, ruled the state with an iron fist, never hesitating to use the Queensland police force to stamp out any resistance to his notoriously corrupt regime.
It was in this context that a smouldering culture of rebellion was born among the students and other residents in the city's inner suburbs, which manifest in public protests, acts of civil disobedience, and -- in defiance of a legislated ban against them -- in sometimes violent street marches. This growing wave of dissent also found expression in the energetic and distinctive music which began to emerge from Brisbane at this time, and which kick-started Australia's wider punk and alternative rock scenes.
The Saints, the Go Betweens and the Riptides, the Laughing Clowns, the Hoodoo Gurus and Gangajang all had their roots in the Brisbane punk scene of the 1970s, and would go on to have a huge influence on Australian music, paving the way for some of Australia's most successful later acts, including Savage Garden, Powderfinger, Screamfeeder and Regurgertator.
The 2004 book Pig City by Andrew Stafford was the first serious attempt to tell the story of Brisbane's coming of age through this potent mix of music and politics. The opening of the city's first community radio station, 4zzz, in 1975, became a vehicle for the emergence of this powerful nexus between music and politics in Brisbane during this era. It's been argued that, at the time, 4zzz offered the only alternative and articulated voice of opposition to the prevailing state government of the day in Queensland.
Tony Collins recalls his own experience of Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland, during the years that he spent living in Brisbane, working as a young broadcaster at 4zzz.
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Don't forget to visit Bob's wonderful 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' for a lot of the music from the time discussed in the programme...
(Thanx Chuck!)
Caveat: Ed Kuepper, one of the key players in the above doco has just remarked on Facebook
'I could be a bit pedantic about aspects of the time line in this documentary because it blurrs things that happened almost a decade apart but maybe some other time...'

Ryan Estrada: Pulgasari

In memory of Kim Jong Il’s weird, weird, life, here is the strangest story of them all. It’s a story of rubber-suit monsters, of filmmakers being kidnapped, and of a weird little man with far too much power.
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...and now the masterpiece itself!








John Sinclair reviews Sun Ra's 'Wake Up Angels'

Art Yard Records has been releasing some of the best Sun Ra Arkestra recordings under one roof in recent years. With a close relationship to the band and a patience and understanding for the overall vision of what Ra and his colleagues have set in foundation, every Art Yard project related to Sun Ra is given the highest attention to detail for research, packaging and quality of materials. Many of the 70′s period Sun Ra studio and live album reissues were much needed additions to the modern digital age and the expanding fan base of young and new listeners for Ra’s legacy.
This year has marked the arrival of a very special collection in Art Yard’s Sun Ra catalog: the reintroduction of monumental and pivotal performances with Wake Up Angels: Sun Ra and his Arkestra Live at Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival 1972-74. John Sinclair and Peter Andrews were the people responsible for organizing and presenting the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz festival events. Under their Rainbow Multi-Media Corporation, the Arkestra were hired for the festival held in 1972 to close out the opening evenings schedule of performance. The Arkestra was expanding into philosophical spoken word elements into their sets, lavish dance arrangements, very heavy African and Latin poly-rhythmic percussion additions, cosmic space sound collages, cerebreal improvisations into regions unknown and a very advanced form of orchestration that marveled techniques akin to Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, both of which were some of his closest and most respected teachers. Sun Ra had relocated to Philadelphia from New York in the late 60′s from a fairly long period of activity there. Pivotal recordings would soon come forth while Sun Ra would focus on underground projects and releases with his Saturn Records imprint started in Chicago during the 50′s. After a successful tour of the West Coast in 1969 and a lot of touring in France, UK and other regions of Europe in 1970, 1971 and on. Sun Ra of the 70′s was activated in a way he had never been before...
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Darknet Plan

Understanding Cult Thinking

Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts and extremist movements.
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Amanda Palmer 
RETWEET MELBOURNE!! Dresden Dolls are playing a free outdoor show today with . 2:30 pm @ collins&swanston

As Kurtz said:

'We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because - it's obscene!'

Obscenity law in doubt after jury acquits distributor of gay pornography

Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

Primal Scream Live @ Glastonbury 2011


(Thanx SJX!)

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Operation hearts and minds...

Signs o' the times (Japan)

You can tell...

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SOPA Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry's Failure to Innovate

Signs o' the times (Scotland)

(Thanx Wendy!)

Eve Arnold RIP

Horse training for the militia. Inner Mongolia, 1979
Obituary
MAGNUM
Fans of the Au-Pairs may recognise this...

SBTRKT - Blue Cassette (Friendly Fires cover, Live on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge)

Friday, 6 January 2012

Sir Harold Evans on Murdoch: 'He Lies With Consummate Ease'

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks's former PA arrested

Neville Thurlbeck launches attack on 'vicious' tabloids

alex d. 
BREAKING: jury now unanimous. Verdict: not guilty.

The Beatles (as you've probably never seen them before)

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Bukowski says:

'The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.'
- Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews & Encounters 1963-1993
David Allen Green 
Twelve random strangers, at taxpayers' expense, now sit in a room discussing fisting, watersports, and BDSM.

TEDxOxford - Rachel Felder and Alan McGee: A Discussion on the Music Industry

Have to agree about Glasgow schools in the seventies...

3,000 killed in South Sudan massacres

More than 3,000 people were killed in South Sudan in brutal massacres last week in bloody ethnic violence that forced thousands to flee, the top local official in the affected area said.
"There have been mass killings, a massacre," said Joshua Konyi, commissioner for Pibor county in Jonglei state.
"We have been out counting the bodies and we calculate so far that 2,182 women and children were killed and 959 men died."
United Nations and South Sudanese army officials have yet to confirm the death tolls and the claims from the remote region could not be independently verified.
If confirmed, the killings would be the worst outbreak of ethnic violence ever seen in the fledgling nation, which split from Sudan in July.
A column of 6,000 rampaging armed youths from the Lou Nuer tribe last week marched on the remote town of Pibor, home to the rival Murle people, whom they blame for cattle raiding and have vowed to exterminate.
The Lou Nuer gunmen attacked Pibor and only withdrew after government troops opened fire.
Over 1,000 children are missing, feared abducted, while tens of thousands of cows were stolen, Mr Konyi added, who comes from the Murle ethnic group.
UN humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Lise Grande said earlier this week that she feared "tens, perhaps hundreds" could have died.
South Sudan army spokesman Philip Aguer he was still awaiting reports from forces on the ground.
"For the assessment to be credible, they must have gone into the villages to count all the bodies."
The UN estimates ethnic violence, cattle raids and reprisal attacks in the vast eastern state left more than 1,100 people dead and forced 63,000 from their homes last year.
@'ABC'