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Final Placement: Teen Christian Rock Shit Sandwich
02.26.2010
09:00 am
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Final Placement is a Christian Rock band from Midland Tx. It consists of four guys from Midland Christian School. They are currently playing shows. They dream of scoring a record label one day. The philosophy of FP is, “The world is gone but not lost it can still be saved, all it takes is the people to listen. Maybe if they will hear the message and change.”

(Ack !, Thanks again Cory !)

Update: The lead guitarist is graciously taking questions in the comments section

Posted by Brad Laner
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02.26.2010
09:00 am
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Greece is the word
02.26.2010
01:50 am
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Am I just missing it or has the situation in Greece—2 million people, which is about 40% of the workforce, walked off their jobs in protest over cuts in governmental programs—gotten precious little press coverage in the American media? (I know, I know, healthcare and the Olympics). Considering that this is literally a crisis that could split the Eurozone—and have terrible consequences in Spain, Portugal, Italy and beyond—shouldn’t Americans be paying more attention to this?

It certainly seems more dangerous than the Asian Contagion crisis of 1997.

And Greeks know how to riot properly:

Tens of thousands of striking Greek workers took to the streets today, some throwing stones at police, in a defiant show of protest against austerity measures aimed at averting the debt-plagued country’s economic collapse.

Riot police responded with teargas when, in sporadic bursts, masked youths charged them in Athens city centre. The violence coincided with a general strike that shut down public services and closed off Greece to the outside world.

For trade unions the mass show of force was a warning shot to a government struggling to satisfy its eurozone partners with policies deemed vital for the nation’s fiscal health while appeasing angry workers at home.

“This is the red line,” said Nikos Goulas, head of a union that represents 20,000 workers at Athens international airport. “Greece is not Ireland. If the government does not back down there will be huge unrest,” he added, holding a banner that proclaimed: “As much as you terrorise us, these measures won’t pass.”

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.26.2010
01:50 am
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WHAT THE HELL IS A GREBO?
02.25.2010
08:17 pm
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So, the Guardian did an article on “pop tribes” and the sway they have on youth and mass culture:

There was a time when our perceptions of pop were defined not just by the records we listened to, but by the many and varied tribes of young people who followed each of the particular kinds of music, by their clothes, their behaviour – or at least how their behaviour was reported in the press or portrayed on film. Mods would peer coolly over their scooters, braking off for the occasional fight with passing rockers. Punks would spit at gigs and terrorise grannies. Ravers with ski masks and bottles of Vicks would cruise the M25 looking for a soundsystem set up in a field. That seems to be fading: when was a new kind of music spawned by and indelibly associated with a particular youth cult? Does the lack of hugely visible new teenage tribes matter for the health of pop culture?

Not if you talk to the “scene girls”. In a brightly-lit living room in Borstal, Kent, Eve O’Brien, Louisa Burnes and Victoria Gibson, 15, jump up and down in front of the Kerrang! channel on TV. Each of them wears one item of neon blue and has a choppy, layered haircut. They talk excitedly for an hour about bands they all worship, including Paramore, 3OH!3, and All Time Low.

You can read that article here.

However, there is something more important we need to talk about, oh Dangerous Minds group mind. Specifically, this:

Grebos

Golden years: 1989-92

Music: Midlands rock bands such as Pop Will Eat Itself, the Wonder Stuff, Gaye Bikers On Acid and Crazyhead. PWEI are said to have popularised the word with their song Oh Grebo I Think I Love You.

The look: Hair shaved at the sides and long on top – somtimes dreadlocked, rarely clean. Big stripy jumpers, with baggy jeans or shorts.

Deadly rivals: None: most other youth cults considered them ­beneath contempt.

Public profile: Extinct. Greboes came and went, leaving little trace of their existence.

What. The. Hell.

What the hell.

I have been to the Midlands. I didn’t see any of these things. OK, it was about twelve years after the death of this alleged “Grebo” creature. I guess I’m the wrong generation and wrong nationality to be clued in. But this is really wigging me out. I can’t even find pictures or videos of them through Google. Please, Dangerous Minds readers, tell me… WHAT THE HELL IS A GREBO???

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.25.2010
08:17 pm
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China Miéville on J. G. Ballard: In Disobedient Rooms
02.25.2010
08:10 pm
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Over at the Nation, New Weird Wünderkind China Miéville weighs in on the new publication of J. G. Ballard’s complete short stories. The new book spans 1,200 pages of one of the most important authors of our time. What’s to resist?

The publication of any book by J.G. Ballard at this moment—let alone so colossal and career-spanning a volume as The Complete Stories, running to nearly 1,200 pages—is an occurrence that can only be about more than itself. All writers are writers of their time, of course, but Ballard, who after a fight with cancer died in April 2009, feels somehow uniquely, precisely so. This book marks the fact that we are all post-Ballard now: it’s not that we’ve gotten beyond him but rather that we remain ineluctably defined by him. Completists have pointed out that, its title notwithstanding, this volume is not a truly comprehensive collection of all Ballard’s published short fiction. Those few omissions are a disappointment. Nevertheless, they are few, and despite them the book is indispensable.

The volume’s ninety-eight stories (including two written for this edition) are printed in chronological order of publication, which illuminates Ballard’s trajectory. There is something fascinating and poignant about watching various obsessions appear, reappear or come gradually or suddenly into focus: birds, flying machines, ruins, beaches, obscure geometric designs, the often-noted empty swimming pools…

(Nation: China Miéville on J. G. Ballard)

(The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard)

(China Miéville: Perdido Street Station)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.25.2010
08:10 pm
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It’s George Harrison’s Birthday
02.25.2010
04:25 pm
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Posted by Brad Laner
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02.25.2010
04:25 pm
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Notable Fartist Le Petomane On Shellac
02.25.2010
03:52 pm
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via Not Sweating The Small Stuff :

Born in Marseilles, Le Petomane discovered his amazing facility swimming in the sea as a child. He could - at will - take in large quantities of water and - equally at will - expel it.
Of course water turned to air and after his debut in Paris in 1887 and some touring of the provinces, he went very big time at Le Moulin Rouge in 1892 - becoming an instant sensation.
Each emission of the performance would be properly introduced:
This is a little girl.
This is a bride on her wedding night. (small noise)
This is a bride the morning after. (much larger rasping noise)
This is a cannon. (very large noise)
And so on, with the audience apoplectic with laughter. No high art going on here!

 
But wait, there’s a recording ! Who knew ? (thanks Ace!)

 
And of course there’s also this timeless modern day interpretation. You’re welcome.

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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02.25.2010
03:52 pm
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There’s A Break In The Road: Noisy New Orleans Funk Classic
02.24.2010
10:35 pm
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I figured we needed some unqualified just plain fucking great music up in here after all of that hemming and hawing over those krazy krackers. This 1969 single by Betty Harris, produced on what sounds like some spectacularly correct combination of drugs by the one and only Allen Toussaint, is a filthy, screeching, out of control noisy funk masterpiece with ghosts in it. I mean it. Listen close to all of those atonal foreboding clusters of electric madness moving randomly over the gloriously busy second line drum volleys. Do it !

Posted by Brad Laner
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02.24.2010
10:35 pm
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The Opposite of a Falcon Punch
02.24.2010
04:22 pm
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Posted by Jason Louv
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02.24.2010
04:22 pm
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Jesse Balmer: The Eye of the Beast is On You
02.24.2010
04:17 pm
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Great art from 23-year-old Californian Jesse Balmer. I like this stuff.

Jesse’s site.

(Seen via the venerable Lsdex.ru)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.24.2010
04:17 pm
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Final Placement: Endless guitar solo
02.24.2010
04:13 pm
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Only about a quarter of the people watching the Final Placement video on Vimeo are also watching this loop of the guitar solo, which is pretty tasty in and of itself. So here it is. Think of it as a mental health mint, you know, to cleanse your palette.

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.24.2010
04:13 pm
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