An already lovely printed visual score by Rainer Wehinger for György Ligeti‘s early musique concret gem “Artikulation” made even lovelier via synchronization by kind Youtube user “d21d34c55”. Bonus clip below is Ligeti’s mighty choral piece Lux Aeterna used of course by Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
No surprise here—none at all—that this is happening right in the heart of Michelle Bachmann’s congressional district. Is there something in the water in that part of the state that makes people fucking stupid? Evidentially so! Someone needs to do an environmental and demographic study of the area and IQ tests of the local population. I’m pretty sure it would show that there is a direct correlation between a low IQ and a vote for Michelle Bachmann. Not saying everyone in the area is an idiot, but some of them definitely are.
Andy Birkey writing in the Minnesota Independent:
Granite City Baptist Church raised some eyebrows this weekend when it bought an ad (pdf) in the St. Cloud Times that questioned whether Muslims are a “threat” to America. “How do Moslems seek to take control of a nation?” the ad, which features a photo of Pastor Dennis Campbell, asks. “Moslems seek to influence a nation by immigration, reproduction, education, the government, illegal drugs and by supporting the gay agenda.”
Just let me jump in here for a second: I have never in my entire life heard of any Muslim individual or group ever supporting any manner of some supposed gay agenda! Have you? Pastor, where did you get this secret information from? How many Muslims have you even met in your entire life? Back to the article:
The ad is part of a string of incidents in St. Cloud that troubles human rights advocates. Within the last year, pornographic posters depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammed were put up on St. Cloud telephone polls, and Muslim students in St. Cloud area high schools have reported religious harassment.
Last week, MPR reported on several racist Facebook groups that were created by St. Cloud high school students. “I hate the Somalians at Tech High,” was one such group. Kyle Adams, a former student at St. Cloud Technical High School (he was kicked out for repeatedly using racial slurs) told MPR, “I was raised in believing that this country was founded upon a white Christian nation and the belief of racial separation.”
The Granite City Baptist Church ad seems to mirror some of that anti-Muslim sentiment. “What happens when Moslems take over a nation?” asks Campbell in the ad. “They will destroy the constitution and force the Moslem religion on the society, take freedom of religion away, and they will persecute all other religions.”
St. Cloud church buys anti-Islam ad (Minnesota Independent)
HT to Christian Nightmares
Low End Theory is a weekly club night I throw every Wednesday with my cohorts Daddy Kev, D-Styles, Gaslamp Killer and resident MC Nocando. Instead of trying to explain to you what kind of music we play, I’ll invite you to download our latest podcast which we drop monthly. Each mix features one of our resident Dj’s paired with a guest selector. This month we feature myself, Nobody, and Take, who’s album Only Mountains drops on April 20th on Alpha Pup Records.
Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J expound their wisdom doctrine. This is perhaps the greatest music video I’ve ever seen. “Magic everywhere in this bitch” is nominated as my new catch phrase as of this moment.
Who knew?
Trippy 2010 reel from animator, illustrator and designer, Kristof Luyckx. Music by Black Spires.
(via Ignant)
I’m sorry to stain our lovely blog with even the mere whiff of S. Palin but it’s worth suffering through her typically moronic straw-man attack to witness the high road being taken in a most marvelous way by El Presidente. He ain’t even remotely perfect but it’s hard not to love him for this kind of thing.
via Talking Points Memo, Thx Jeff Copas !
...is apparently where all the cool kids got to go.
(Everything is Terrible: Hogwart’s School of Evil and Devil Worship)
Thanks to Matt Musick at Motherboard.tv for sending me this great video of people hanging out watching the last Space Shuttle launches.
By now it’s a somewhat common event, one that for most Americans is signaled by nothing more than a brief clip on the news. But a shuttle launch is still one of mankind’s most complex and massive undertakings, a carefully-primed $1.3 billion explosion that turns years of planning and construction into a spectacle that lasts only a few minutes.
But to some, it’s the spectacle of a lifetime. People come from across the country and the world to see it. They travel from Michigan or Alaska or England or Italy and line up along a worn river bank in Florida, waiting for hours, maybe days, to see a group of people embark on another journey, this one powered by rockets that do zero to 17,000 mph in 8.5 minutes. To the fans, the astronauts strapped into the Space Transportation System, as their ride is called, aren’t just “rocket jockeys.” They’re like rock stars.
Serious WTF? action happening here. From Popbitch:
We were warned this film was coming. A crazed German doctor kidnaps three people and surgically joins them together, mouth to anus, to create a three part creature. The doctor feeds the first person. The second is fed through their mouth being attached to the first’s anus, and they in turn feed the third person in the same way.
We saw a few pictures and it looked… well, as vile as you’d imagine. Now the trailer’s out, so you can see for yourself.
(via Popbitch)
A difficult and turbulent mix of 7” singles from my collection for the sake of your aural edutainment.
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 31 (excerpt)
Annie Anxiety - Cyanide Tears
Jimmy Smack - Untitled
Keith Rowe - Scratch Music
Joe Colley/Crawl Unit - Clay Sound
Princess Tinymeat - A Bun in the Oven
Eazy Teeth - Her Blade
The Flying Lizards - All Guitars
Minimal Man - She Was A Visitor
Stefan Weisser (Zev) - Poextensions
Sun City Girls - Eye Mohini
Project 197 - Plastic Straws
Jimmy Smack - Untitled
Caroliner - The Cooking Stove Beast
Johnny Ace - Pledging My Love
Give it up for Andrew W.K. for he is a very brave man. In the pages of the Guardian newspaper, the hard partying rocker was willing to tell one of those stories that should probably be left untold, but oh what a great story it is. You see, young Andrew had a massive crush on a girl who didn’t exactly crush on him in return. So the 17-year-old future rock star wrote her a love song, recorded it and turned it in as his high school senior project. That’s where things went terribly, terribly wrong… Play the song here. It’s kinda great for a kid—sophisticated sonically to be sure—but LOL at the same time.
The day after I submitted the song, the head of my school called me and my parents in for a private meeting. They played the song for my parents as I sat next to them, paralysed and devastated by the humiliation. The head of the school recommended that I go into counselling or see the school psychiatrist (my parents did send me to a child psychologist following later exploits in arson, baseball card forgery and mail fraud: his final diagnosis? “You have a devilish side”). That was bad, but nothing compared to what happened a year later.
It turned out that the assistant to the head of school got a copy of my song on cassette and gave it to the girl I had a crush on. This was probably the worst thing that had ever happened in my life. She heard the song and was completely freaked out. Within three days, every kid in school had a copy. She told her friends, teachers and parents: “This guy at school is stalking me and threatening my life.” She played them the song and they called the police.
Read the rest of ‘It’s time to let you hear the song which earned me a juvenile restraining order’ (including the lyrics) (The Guardian)
Thank you Chris Campion!
One of the greatest—and trippiest—comic book covers of all time, the very first issue of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (June 1968). There’s a copy for sale at Little Green Footballs.
When I was a kid, I loved this character and all of his cool gadgets. I always got to “be” Nick Fury playing with other kids. I even wore an eyepatch! (True)
Remember our anesthesia patient from earlier this week? Well thanks to a comment left by Eric S, we now know that her Jesus freestyle was actually a song by Carman, Christian rap star extraordinaire from the early 90’s! Thanks Eric!
