Tuesday 15 April 2014

The Many Lives of Tom Waits

Unedited audio: VBR ZIP

Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen

BIG congrats to The Attackerman and James Ball

Edward Snowden: A Vindication for the Public - The Guardian and Washington Post Win the Pulitzer Prize

I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill, and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognizes was work of vital public importance.
This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. My efforts would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers, and they have my gratitude and respect for their extraordinary service to our society. Their work has given us a better future and a more accountable democracy.
Via

Today's example of how NOT to use social media (NSFW)

Luckily it wasn't Virgin Airlines

Like A Rolling Sex Machine

Sunday 13 April 2014

Friday 11 April 2014

Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic share old stories about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain

DNA, James Chance and the Contortions and Boris Policeband - X Magazine Benefit (1978)

Excerpts from benefit for Colab's X Magazine, 1978/2010, super8mm transfer to digital, bl/wt, sound, 11:34 minutes. Film by Coleen Fitzgibbon and Alan Moore

Patti Smith on writing poetry

Kathy Acker: Come Taste My Hand

Come Taste My Hand is a video tribute to Kathy Acker created by Lance Olsen, Andi Olsen, & Trevor Dodge. It appropriates and manipulates a very short sequence of Jonathan and Felicity Dawson's 1997 documentary, No One Can Find Little Girls Anymore: Kathy Acker in Australia, while pla(y)giarizing passages from Acker's novel Blood and Guts in High School and chapter 17 of James Joyce's Ulysses. Come Taste My Hand premiered at the Nobodaddies International Festival of Postmodern Piracy & Transgendered Subjects at Kent State University, April 14 1999.