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Special Cinco de Mayo Message to Arizona: Robert Rodriguez’s Machete
05.05.2010
02:40 pm
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Well played.
thx Jon Charles Newman !

Posted by Brad Laner
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05.05.2010
02:40 pm
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Punk in Africa documentary
05.05.2010
12:43 pm
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Very interesting looking upcoming doc about the history of South African punk rock. The newer bands look like a snooze but it’s probably worth watching to learn about the once completely illegal apartheid era groups.
 

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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05.05.2010
12:43 pm
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‘We Know Who You Are’
05.05.2010
12:58 am
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Orwellian tax amnesty commercial as seen in Pennsylvania.

Thank you Stephen M. Foland!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.05.2010
12:58 am
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Hear the most exciting sounds on the planet at Low End Theory
05.05.2010
12:32 am
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As all really serious dance music aficionados know, Los Angeles—specifically the east side—is becoming the epicenter of truly far-out, multi-layered, psychedelically-tinged new music. The weekly Low End Theory party, held each Wednesday at the Airliner, is the physical manifestation of this scene and features a world-renowned lineup of DJs, including The Gaslamp Killer, DJ Nobody (AKA Elvin Estela), D-Styles, Daddy Kev and Nocando. Another “high-flying” (cough) selector at the club is Flying Lotus, or Steven Ellison if you want to call him by his birth name. Flying Lotus is the scene’s international breakout star and features the likes of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu on his new album, Cosmogramma. (Ellison is profiled by August Brown in the Los Angeles Times).

The Airliner’s sound system boasts of 10,000 watts of amplification moving through 12 18-inch subharmonic drivers. This rib-rattling sound system is how music was meant to be heard. With speakers that powerful moving the air around the club they probably don’t need air conditioning. This Wednesday’s set features the Daly City Records Tour in addition to the resident DJs.

Low End Theory, Wednesdays @ The Airliner, 2419 N. Broadway, Lincoln Heights.

Photo: The Gaslamp Killer (a.k.a. William Benjamin Bensussen), left; Kevin Moo, founder of Alpha Pup records and Low End Theory; and DJ Nobody (Elvin Estela). Credit: Spencer Weiner / For the Los Angeles Times. You can download the Low End Theory podcast here.
 

 
Cross posting this from Brand X.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.05.2010
12:32 am
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Glenn Palin 2012
05.04.2010
11:29 pm
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You’re welcome.
 
(via Unique Daily)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.04.2010
11:29 pm
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Blixa Bargeld: Tomorrow Belongs To Him
05.04.2010
10:09 pm
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Wow, Einstürzende Neubauten frontman Blixa Bargeld singing Tomorrow Belongs To Me from Cabaret!  Back in the answering machine era of my youth (and much to the dismay of my Jewish friends and parents), I had this sweet, Nietzschean pastoral set for a time as my away message.  The song was used to great—and chilling—effect in the Bob Fosse film (you can compare Blixa to the original here).

The clip below is from the documentary Berlin Now.  And here’s Stormfront’s white-pride take on the song.  Is it at all perplexing that some of them find the song, written by the Jewish Kander and Ebb, “moving?”

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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05.04.2010
10:09 pm
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Cock Flavored Soup Mix
05.04.2010
10:04 pm
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Tastes like chicken…
 
Thanks Partha Chakraborty!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.04.2010
10:04 pm
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Sex Toys For Monkeys
05.04.2010
09:00 pm
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Back in 1960, Jane Goodall observed her chimp subjects using blades of grass to better scoop termites.  That incident, famously, sparked the following comment from Goodall’s mentor, Louis Leakey: “Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as human.”

Well, that was 50 years ago.  I’m not sure what’s been redefined, or even accepted since then, but hey, monkey sex toys!  And while lacking the means to acquire batteries might preclude chimps from wielding, oh, a Butterfly Kiss, they can wield, well…leaves.  Or, as John Tierney in today’s NYT notes:

Ideally a dead leaf, because that makes the most noise when the chimp clips it with his hand or his mouth.

“Males basically have to attract and maintain the attention of females,” Dr. McGrew said.  “One way to do this is leaf clipping.  It makes a rasping sound.  Imagine tearing a piece of paper that’s brittle or dry.  The sound is nothing spectacular, but it’s distinctive.”

O.K., a distinctive sound.  Where does the sex come in?

“The male will pluck a leaf, or a set of leaves, and sit so the female can see him.  He spreads his legs so the female sees the erection, and he tears the leaf bit by bit down the midvein of the leaf, dropping the pieces as he detaches them.  Sometimes he’ll do half a dozen leaves until she notices.”

And then?

“Presumably she sees the erection and puts two and two together, and if she’s interested, she’ll typically approach and present her back side, and then they’ll mate.”

My first reaction, as a chauvinistic human, was to dismiss the technology as laughably primitive — too crude to even qualify as a proper sex tool.  But Dr. McGrew said it met anthropologists’ definition of a tool: “He’s using a portable object to obtain a goal.  In this case, the goal is not food but mating.”

When It Comes to Sex, Chimps Need Help, Too

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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05.04.2010
09:00 pm
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Horrible Monkees cover: I’m a Believer
05.04.2010
08:59 pm
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Dig it!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.04.2010
08:59 pm
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New York’s not all right with Patti Smith, but kids are!
05.04.2010
07:07 pm
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Last weekend in New York, as part of the PEN World Voices Festival, Patti Smith spoke to author Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude).  You can stream the entire interview here, but Vanishing New York singled out a particularly telling moment.

After Dame Smith touches on everything from sneaker semiotics to her new book on Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, she offers a rather grim assessment of the city she’s best associated with:

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.  But there are other cities.  Detroit.  Poughkeepsie… New York City has been taken away from you… So my advice is: Find a new city.”

Kids of the world take note: Patti knows what’s good for you!  She’s always been on your side!  Witness below the classic clip from TV’s Kids Are People Too.  Oddly enough (nearly as odd, I suppose, as seeing a group of kids engaging in some mutual adoration with Patti Smith) the song she chooses to sing is You Light Up My Life.

 
(via L Magazine)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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05.04.2010
07:07 pm
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