Tuesday 21 February 2012

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so odd, to be ashamed of meeting PM today. MT @Davewwest: five attendees of no10 #nhs summit left via front door, rest left by secret tunnel

How Dangerous Does the Government Want the Internet to Be?

Monday 20 February 2012

Flou - Shed Mix

1. STP : the fall (Subsolo)
2. Shed : flat axe (Ostgut Ton)
3. Taho : energy fields - Shed’s ride disturbance mix (Delsin)
4. Shed : boom room (Ostgut Ton)
5. Wax : 30003 A (Wax)
6. Shed : another wedged chicken (Ostgut Ton)
7. Shed : selection one (Soloaction)
8. Wax : 40004 A (Wax)
9. Head High : it’s a love thing – piano invasion (H2 Recordings)
10. Equalized : 3 A (Equalized)
11. Equalized : 4 B (Equalized)
12. Shed : hidden (Soloaction)
13. Wax : 10001 B (Wax)
14. Shed : selection two (Soloaction)
15. Shed : well done 033472 edit (Soloaction)
16. Wax : 10001 A (Wax)
17. Shed : egotism (Soloaction)
18. Wax : 40004 B (Wax)
19. WK7 : higher power - hardcore PCK mix (Power House)
20. Shed : red planet express (Soloaction)
21. Shed : kinky dudes (Soloaction)
22. Wax : 30003 B (Wax)
23. Shed : digin in the dirt (Styrax Leaves)
24. Shed : stars (Soloaction)
25. Shed : balance (Soloaction)
26. Shed : that beats everything! (Ostgut Ton)
27. Shed : atmo - action (Ostgut Ton)
28. Shed : opulence 11 (Soloaction)
29. Shed : sweep dreams (Ostgut Ton)
30. Shed : well done 030 edit (Soloaction)
31. Equalized : 2 A (Equalized)
32. Deuce : guttering (Ostgut Ton)
33. Substance : relish - Shed remix (Scion Versions)
34. Deuce : cue ed (Ostgut Ton)
35. Equalized : 3 B (Equalized)
36. Shed : opulence 22 (Soloaction)
37. Shed : unvisible (Soloaction)
38. Wax : 20002 A (Wax)
39. Planetary Assault Systems : hold it - Deuce remix (Ostgut Ton)
40. Shed : guile (Delsin)
41. Shed : smooth kicks (Soloaction)
42. D-Bridge : ZX 81 - Shed remix (Fat City Recordings)
43. Shed : push the button (Soloaction)
44. Shed : solitude straight (Soloaction)
45. WK7 : the avalanche (Power House)
46. Equalized : 4 A (Equalized)
47. WK7 : higher power (Power House)
48. Equalized : 1 A (Equalized)
49. Radio Slave : tantakatan - the drunken Shed mix (Rekids)
50. Steve Lawler : kalimba - Shed turtle shield mix (R & S Records)
51. Shed : my R-Class (Ostgut Ton)
52. Shed : 728 (Delsin)
53. Shed : with bag and baggage (Monkeytown Records)
54. Shed : TK001 (Styrax Leaves)
55. Shed : stale (Delsin)
56. Equalized : 2 B (Equalized)

First Listen: Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun

For a band with no lyrics, Melbourne's Dirty Three evokes a broad and complex array of human emotions. Violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White each carry equal weight in the group's music, and each lends a distinct personality: As Dirty Three's most gregarious figure, Ellis plays the instrument most conducive to showy flourishes and displays of heartsick emotion, but Turner and White provide the bones and sinew that keep him standing. White's drum patterns skitter around the edges of rhythms, lending the band's music a portentous air of uncertainty, while Turner's guitar flows around him like blood. All are crucial: Each is capable of functioning as an instantly identifiable lead voice (even when performing outside the band), but when the three play together, the emotions they conjure can be overwhelming.
Toward the Low Sun, out Feb. 28, is Dirty Three's first album in seven years — Ellis has been working with Nick Cave and Turner has put out some marvelous solo work, while White made a brilliant 2007 record with Nina Nastasia, among other projects — and it sounds more haunting and haunted than many of its predecessors. Right off the top, "Furnace Skies" forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three's ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of "The Pier" and "Rain Song," they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in "Ashen Snow" and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.
Any band playing wordless music with such emotion is bound to find its thematic intentions open to interpretation, but each Dirty Three song title expresses a tiny universe of context — "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone," "You Greet Her Ghost" — to help chart an inevitably nonlinear course. But that's what Dirty Three's music is all about: functioning as the moody, conflicted soundtrack for a storm-swept journey where getting lost is part of the plan.
Stephen Thompson @'npr'

Listen To 'Toward The Low Sun' In Its Entirety

Shed (René Pawlowitz) Wax Treatment Podcasts

Wax Treatment Podcast #003 - Shed

18.10.09 - Tracklist:

01. Cornel Campbell: Natural Fact - Attack Gold 015
02. Earl Sixteen: Gold Of Sheba - Merge 10-04
03. Elemental: Talk - Runtime LP 001
04. Aardvarck: A1 - Bloom 03
05. Neil Landstrumm: 6 At Le Mans - Planet µ 246
06. Kryptic Minds: 768 - Tectonic 032
07. Hyetal: Pixel Rainbow Sequence (Peverelist Remix) - RDCTN 003
08. Zomby: Godzilla - Ramp Recordings 022
09. Joy Orbison: Hyph Mngo - Hotflush HFT 009
10. 2562 - Flashback - Tectonic 034
11. ID: Nine Tree Hill - Mata-Syn 005
12. RSD: Green Hill - Punch Drunk 012
13. Distance: V (Pinch Remix) - Chestplate 007
14. F & Headhunter: Dedale - Transistor 001

Wax Treatment Podcast #030 - Shed

23.01.2012 - Tracklist:

01. Ras G: Discipline09-1 - Leaving 004
02. Tokimonsta: Line To Dot - Ramp 030
03. Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers - Warp 228
04. Ras G: Discipline09-2 - Leaving 004
05. Dro Carey: Velvet Mouth - Ramp 047
06. Anstam: Say My Name - 50Weapons LP04
07. Aphex Twin: Flim - Warp 094
08. Martyn: I Saw You At Tule Lake - Brainfeeder 025
09. Objekt: Porcupine - Hessle Audio 019
10. Roly Porter: Hessra - Subtext LP 002
11. Stay+: Dandelion - Ramp 053
12. Skeptical: Another World - Exit LP 005
13. Shed: Sonar Intro
14. Shed: RQ170 - 50Weapons 047
15. Shed: DREFX120
16. GonjaSufi: Nikels And Dimes - Warp LP 223
17. King Midas Sound: Lost (Lost (Flying Lotus Rework) - Hyperdub CD 009

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Bradley L. Garrett : Urban Explorers - Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning

This video is a 30-minute introduction to the practice of urban exploration. Constructed as a video article for the journal Geography Compass, the article uses footage from the author's own explorations in California, Las Vegas and London to visually depict a theoretical unpacking of the practice by 5 academic geographers.
You can find the article that goes with the video at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00389.x/abstract

David Cameron accused of divide and rule on health bill

Henry Fuseli: The Nightmare

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As someone who used to suffer the most terrifying attacks of sleep paralysis, this article is interesting....

Mining industry's big lie

Paul McCartney & John Lennon talk about LSD

John Lennon

All Your Brain Are Belong To Us: Neuroscience Goes To War

The Minutemen @Club Lingerie Hollywood Oct 26 1984

Origin...

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Jack Kerouac: The Ten-Year Spiritual (or Psychological?) Circle of ‘An American Passed Here'

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Manuscript notes for the novel that would become The Town and the City, ca. 1945
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

March 31: Operation Blackout?

Kirby Ferguson: Everything is a Remix (Part 4)

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.
Parts 1 - 3

I will...

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Mark Kozelek - Heron Blue / Sunshine In Chicago (live)

Sunday 19 February 2012

How soon is now?

Weapons of Mass Disinformation

Erin Burnett: Worst of the worst

Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy

Another March to War?

Sales of Charles Dickens's books in his lifetime

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What the Dickens

RIP Michael Davis (MC5)

Michael Davis from influential ‘60s band MC5 dies at age 68

Sean Penn: Rebel with a cause

(I'm English and I agree with Penn!)

Once Upon a Time in Tehran

Tehran University students lounge in 1971. Tehran University was opened to women in 1934, when the college was founded, which was well before most universities in the United States were integrating women into the classroom. After the revolution, women were still allowed to attend the university -- but they now sit in segregated areas. Needless to say, they don't wear miniskirts. Despite the openness of the era however, in 1977, only 35 percent of women in Tehran were literate.

Photos of a swinging Iran when the skirts were short, the dance was the twist, and America wasn't Enemy No. 1.

Shanghai Jim (JG Ballard)

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The 11th Commandment

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The Long Haul of Solitary Death: Michel Houellebecq and the Decline of Western Sexuality

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The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Photo illustration: Curtis Mann; Photo: Owen Franken/Corbis
Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but he saw at once that he was too late.
The car had rear-ended the truck at high speed, sending a pipe through the windshield and into the chest of the passenger—a young bride returning home from her wedding. There was blood everywhere, staining her white dress crimson.
Mitchell couldn’t get the dead woman out of his mind; the tableau was stuck before his eyes. He tried to tough it out, but after months of suffering, he couldn’t take it anymore. He finally told his brother, a fellow firefighter, about it.
Miraculously, that worked. No more trauma; Mitchell felt free. This dramatic recovery, along with the experiences of fellow first responders, led Mitchell to do some research into recovery from trauma. He eventually concluded that he had stumbled upon a powerful treatment. In 1983, nearly a decade after the car accident, Mitchell wrote an influential paper in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services that transformed his experience into a seven-step practice, which he called critical incident stress debriefing, or CISD. The central idea: People who survive a painful event should express their feelings soon after so the memory isn’t “sealed over” and repressed, which could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder.
In recent years, CISD has become exceedingly popular, used by the US Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Israeli army, the United Nations, and the American Red Cross. Each year, more than 30,000 people are trained in the technique. (After the September 11 attacks, 2,000 facilitators descended on New York City.)
Even though PTSD is triggered by a stressful incident, it is really a disease of memory. The problem isn’t the trauma—it’s that the trauma can’t be forgotten. Most memories, and their associated emotions, fade with time. But PTSD memories remain horribly intense, bleeding into the present and ruining the future. So, in theory, the act of sharing those memories is an act of forgetting them.
A typical CISD session lasts about three hours and involves a trained facilitator who encourages people involved to describe the event from their perspective in as much detail as possible. Facilitators are trained to probe deeply and directly, asking questions such as, what was the worst part of the incident for you personally? The underlying assumption is that a way to ease a traumatic memory is to express it...

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Jonah Lehrer @'Wired'

The very end of the meme...

Ain't that the truth #5...

McKenzie Wark: A Minimum of Serious Seduction - The Legend of the Situationist Ιnternational

The UWO Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism
2011-2012 Speaker Series, Seventh Session, Friday February 17.
McKenzie Wark, 'A Minimum of Serious Seduction:
The Legend of the Situationist International'
(and yes, Ken was in a squeaky chair:
this became a kind of improvized accompaniment,
the Furniture Version of Ubu's Allen Ravenstine - UBU@UWO)
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