Friday, 13 January 2012

Amazon girl burned alive by loggers: one story among hundreds of unreported deaths

Algeria’s televised coup d’état


IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

The Flying Burrito Brothers (Live 11-7-70 Fillmore East)

Flying Burrito Brothers
Fillmore East, NYC
November 7, 1970 Late Show

1-Lazy Days @ 00:27
2-One Hundred Years From Now @ 4:14
3-My Uncle @ 7:08
4-Cody Cody @ 9:48
5-Devil In Disguise @ 12:45
6-I Am A Pilgrim @ 17:45
7-Dixie Breakdown @ 21:19
8-Hand Jive @ 24:15
9-Wild Horses @ 28:10
10--Feel Good Music @ 33:11
11-Hot Burrito # 2 @ 36:57
12-Six Days On The Road @ 41:45
(Thanx trnsnd!)

HA!

Red Wine Researcher Faked Anti-Aging Results

Jacob Appelbaum 
I think it's time for a mass conversion:

Walter Cronkite's Greatest Regret

Meanwhile in Preston...

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Via

20 Years Ago!!!

Unbelievably Extreme Noise Terror and the KLF performed this at the Brit Awards 1992, where they made national headlines by firing blanks from a machine gun at the unsuspecting audience and causing chaos at the after show party.
Meanwhile...
(Thanx Alan!)

VU Move To Protect Banana Design

The Velvet Underground, took legal action on Wednesday to stop its famous Andy Warhol-designed banana being used on covers for Apple iPads and iPhones.
The 1960's band formed by Lou Reed and John Cale, accused the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of trademark infringement, claiming that the banana album design – with "Peel slowly and see" printed near the tip – was synonymous with their work.
The band members said they launched the lawsuit after reading newspaper reports last year that the foundation had agreed to license the banana for a series of cases, sleeves and bags planned for Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad.
Apple is not named as a defendant in the civil case filed in Manhattan federal court.
Warhol managed the Velvet Undergound and the band performed regularly at his studio, The Factory.
 The pop artist selected the banana for use alongside his signature on the cover of The Velvet Underground's 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico, according to the lawsuit.
The group broke up in 1973, but the work later came to be regarded as one of the best albums of all time and was nicknamed The Banana Album.
As a result, the design, which was never officially copyrighted, "became a symbol, truly an icon, of the Velvet Underground" for some 25 years, the lawsuit said.
"The symbol has become so identified with the Velvet Underground … that members of the public, particularly those who listen to rock music, immediately recognise the banana design as the symbol of the Velvet Underground," the complaint added.
The legal papers also claimed the band had repeatedly asked the foundation to stop licensing the banana design to third parties "in a manner likely to cause confusion or mistake as to the association of Velvet Underground with the goods sold in commerce by such third parties".
The Velvet Underground is seeking an injunction preventing the use of the banana by third parties, a declaration that the Andy Warhol Foundation has no copyright interest in the design, unspecified damages, and a share of the profits made by the foundation from any licensing deals.
The foundation declined to comment on Wednesday.
Jasmine Coleman @'The Guardian' 
Someone here in Exile Towers has one of these cases for their laptop. 
It's NOT me..:)

Police to investigate MI6 over rendition and torture of Libyans

Rick Griffin, MAD, Man and the strange case of 'Slow Motion'

The Baptism of Alfred E. Neuman

Panetta calls Karzai, condemns video purportedly depicting Marines urinating on Taliban dead

Karzai leads wave of condemnation over video of urination on corpses

Greg Mitchell 
Bradley Manning's leaks probably put fewer Americans in danger than the leaks by the 4 Marines in Afghanistan will.

♪♫ The Woodentops - Why Why Why (Remix)


As Rolo says:
'film found. vintage japan footage and uk film that was used in stageshow many moons back.still fun to watch tho. all super 8 projected onto a wall and reshot for digital era, laid back mix of that famous toon why why why'

♪♫ Iron & Wine - The Sea And The Rhythm

WTF???

'...If you want the definition of a new fascism it is faceless people, setting the rules, not forgetting, not forgiving and promising that they’re coming. That’s really a frightening vision of what’s going on. Imagine if this becomes a general activity.'
- Stratfor CEO George Friedman on being hacked by Anonymous

Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Shut Up And Play The Hits (Trailer)

On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event "a marvel of pure craft" and TIME magazine lamenting "we may never dance again." SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.
Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
http://www.pulsefilms.com/

Adversaries of Iran Said to Be Stepping Up Covert Actions

Whoever Killed the Iranian Scientist Was Aiming at Much More 

Iranian Nuclear Scientist's Death Prompts Silence In Israel - And Hint Of Satisfaction

Democracy in America

'Mass suicide' protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory

Howard Marks: A Video Diary

Simone Felice - New York Times


Dying At Twelve
On 'Black Jesus' (Audio)

The Year of the Drone

Study: Women Ask For Raises And Promotions As Often As Men, But Get Less In Return

Going to be a double vinyl classic...

Black Cab (band) 
Working on the fourth. New sounds for a new decade.

Iran lacks avenues for condemning hits on scientists

Ain't that the truth...

'[SOPA is championed by] politicians who are proudly unfamiliar with how the internet works, but who are well familiar with favors from well-heeled copyright extremists.'
- Gary Shapiro (President of the Consumer Electronics Association)

George Harrison on Phil Spector

'...Thirty years later, Harrison would reissue a remixed version of the album ('All Things Must Pass') on a CD box-set, explaining in his sleeve notes his feeling that some songs required 'liberating' from a production that 'seemed appropriate at the time but now seems a bit over the top with the reverb in the wall of the sound'. Harrison also paid credit to Spector.
'In his company I came to realise the true value of the Hare Krishna mantra'. Whether as an expression of universal love, or personal forbearance in the face pf trying circumstances, he did not specify.'
- Mick Brown: Tearing Down The Wall of Sound (p 259)

Robert Forster reviews 'Tearing Down the Wall of Sound'

Buffet challenges GOP dollar-for-dollar on debt

Jim Moray - Skulk (albumstream)


Info

♪♫ Dark Energy - Black Strategy (DJ Dex Edit)

I Dream of Wires: The Modular Synthesizer Documentary

The Slumlord Conspiracy

What is plagiarism?

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

♪♫ Man - Spunk Rock

(From 'Greasy Truckers' - Play LOUD!!!)

5 Minutes to Midnight...

A MUST watch...

Double :(



'His bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time' the statement said.
@CNN

:(

(Thanx Walter!)

Mike Joyce



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'swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.'
(Thanx Stan!)

Steve Jobs, the Inhumane Humanist

Image

♪♫ Man - 7171 551

An ode to Mike Nesmith's phone number from one of THE most underrated bands...
Bonus:

(Thanx Tommy!)
More hearts and minds...

Israel Basically Threatens to Assassinate Teen Hacker Who Leaked Israelis’ Credit Cards

Occupy 2012: Firmly disorganized, driven by dreams

Morals Triumph Over Lulz

Renaldo & Clara (1978)

(Thanx Kaggsy!)

China wins $700 million Afghan oil and gas deal. Why didn't the US bid?

Shooting the shit...

24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8...