Meh. If he sang on it, it might have been something. As the man himself has stated: Anyone with some free software can make noisy/interesting post-rock soundscapes these days but there is no software for writing lyrics and human vocals (yet). That takes time and effort; something Herr Eno has evidently decided not to invest in this record. Too bad, as that would most certainly have taken this promising track from just OK to great.
 

Brian Eno - 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records
 
Buy Brian Eno’s new album Small Craft on a Milk Sea

 
Today is Marc Bolan’s birthday. The father of glam rock would have been 63 today if he was still among us.

Below, the complete footage of Bolan’s interview on the Russell Harty Plus television program. Might be the best interview I’ve ever seen with him. At the end he says “I don’t think I will live that long.”
 

 
If it’s not the Large Hadron Collider causing a black hole to form, sucking up our universe into dark matter, then it’s something else. Sometimes the supposed “elegance” of modern physics just crawls up its own ass, don’t you think? The end of time is a bloody long ways off, in any case. Sez me.

Look out into space and the signs are plain to see. The universe began in a Big Bang event some 13 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. And the best evidence from the distance reaches of the cosmos is that this expansion is accelerating.

That has an important but unavoidable consequence: it means the universe will expand forever. And a universe that expands forever is infinite and eternal.

Today, a group of physicists rebel against this idea. They say an infinitely expanding universe cannot be so because the laws of physics do not work in an infinite cosmos. For these laws to make any sense, the universe must end, say Raphael Bousso at the University of California, Berkeley and few pals. And they have calculated when that is most likely to happen.

Their argument is deceptively simple and surprisingly powerful. Here’s how it goes. If the universe lasts forever, then any event that can happen, will happen, no matter how unlikely. In fact, this event will happen an infinite number of times.

This leads to a problem. When there are an infinite number of instances of every possible observation, it becomes impossible to determine the probabilities of any of these events occurring. And when that happens, the laws of physics simply don’t apply. They just break down. “This is known as the “measure problem” of eternal inflation,” say Bousso and buddies.

In effect, these guys are saying that the laws of physics abhor an eternal universe.

The only way out of this conundrum is to hypothesise some kind of catastrophe that brings an end to the universe. Then all the probabilities make sense again and the laws of physics regain their power.

Read more of Time Likely To End Within Earth’s Lifespan, Say Physicists (MIT Technology Revew)

 
Oh the horror! There’s ‘honey nuts’, too!  From Cincinnati’s WCPO:

READING, Ohio - A family in suburban Cincinnati found a shocking mistake on a box of cereal created for Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. An 800 number provided for a charity directed them to a sex hotline.

The number printed on the box of “Ochocinc’O’s” is suppose to send callers to the charity “Feed The Children”. Instead, callers hear a sultry voice offering an adult conversation.

Thanks, Laura C!

Hamburgers = Heroin!

A commercial made to raise awareness in a current social epidemic and to draw attention to those whom the artists believe are most responsible in a bid to drive discussion and action to reverse the downward trend.

(via TDW)

 
British funnyman David Mitchell, one half of the Mitchell & Webb comedy duo, co-star of Peep Show, quiz show host and the UK’s answer to Andy Rooney (albeit 100 years younger, not senile and actually funny) was pictured ducking into a pizza pie with extreme gusto recently. Next thing you know, a Tumblr blog devoted to David Mitchell with pizza pops up and a brand new Internet meme is born…
 

 

 

 

 

 
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Just answer the question, hippie!

Via Sad and Useless. Click here for larger version.

 
You could say that I’m obsessed with recordings of vintage drum machines. I just love the clunky sounds and the freedom granted to the human players who know there’s a steady pulse no matter how far out their own playing gets. So knowing this, Dangerous Minds pal Ian Raikow was kind enough to point out the below specimen by the wonderful Lee “Scratch” Perry in his crazed Black Ark period and this tidbit of info:

“...the story goes that this recording features the very first drum machine to arrive on the island. Programmed by Familyman Barret and his brother…”

This and other truly mind-blowing dub-plate experiments from ‘73-‘76 are available on the grand new compilation Sound System Scratch. Essential !
 

 
Bad Boy of British cinema, Nigel Wingrove, is the only director to have one of his films banned on the grounds of blasphemy. His 1989 short Visions of Ecstasy, was refused certification by the British Board British Film Censors on the grounds of its sexualized representation of Saint Teresa of Avila making love to a crucified Christ on the cross.

The film was based on St Teresa’s own religious and highly erotic writings:

I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it…

When I interviewed Wingrove in 2005, for Channel 4’s Banned in the U.K., he explained the main issue was over Christ responding to Teresa’s kisses. If Christ had been represented by a wooden mannequin or a blow-up doll, rather than an actor, then Teresa could have fucked her brains out, and the film would have been passed uncut. As it was, the BBFC wanted the offending scenes removed, which meant losing almost half the film. Wingrove rightly refused and the film was banned.

In 1996, supported by the likes of authors, Salman Rushdie and Fay Weldon, film-maker, Derek Jarman, and musician Steven Severin, who composed the soundtrack for Visions, Wingrove appealed to the European Court of Human Rights under Article 10, which defends freedom of expression, to have the ban lifted. The Court dismissed his case, stating that the criminal law of Blasphemy, as it was applied in England, did not infringe the right to freedom of expression under Article 10. In other words, typical bureaucratic ass-covering.

Wingrove is currently working on his next cinema release Sisters of Armageddon, which as he tells Dangerous Minds is:

A sci-fi nunsploitation film called Sisters of Armageddon - think Planet of the Apes meets The Nun’s Story with a sprinkling of The Gestapo’s Last Orgy and a soupçon of Mad Max.

And here’s a sneak preview.
 

 
Bonus clip of the banned ‘Visions of Ecstasy’ after the jump…
 

Apparently Dr. James Talbott is the man to ask about how to treat cat acne. I didn’t know kitteh pimples were an unsightly problem in the feline world. Now I do and so do you. You’re welcome?