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Hold It There, Kitty-Cat!  The Polanski Doll (With Shiv)
09.28.2009
05:20 pm
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After getting nabbed in Switzerland over the weekend, film director Roman Polanski is now “wanted and desired” back in the States.  Judging, though, by the picture above, extraditing Polanski won’t be easy.  As the Huffington Post corroborates, he still looks “very determined to defend himself!”

In the Huffington Post: Polanski To FIGHT Extradition

(Spotted via TrendHunter)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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09.28.2009
05:20 pm
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Yoko Ono: Twitter Q & A
09.28.2009
05:12 pm
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Last Friday on Twitter, Yoko Ono announced that she’d answer questions tweeted to @yokoono on her website and mine was one of the ones she answered:

@RichardMetzger
Do you find that children ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
05:12 pm
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The Harder They Come’s Trevor Rhone Dead At 69
09.28.2009
03:37 pm
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From the Los Angeles Times:

Trevor Rhone, a leading Caribbean playwright and screenwriter who co-wrote the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” which helped introduce reggae music and urban Jamaican culture to international audiences, died Sept. 15 at a hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, after a heart attack.  He was 69.  “The Harder They Come” starred reggae performer Jimmy Cliff as an aspiring singer who becomes a hero to the poor after killing a police officer.  The film, co-written with director Perry Henzell, was drawn from the story of a Jamaican criminal killed by police in 1948.

For many American audience members, the film was their first view of urban Jamaican life and culture.  It featured reggae by Cliff, who sings the title song; Toots and the Maytals; Desmond Dekker and others, and remained an art house staple in the United States for several years after its initial release.  It also broke Jamaica’s box office records, but did not enrich Rhone.  “It made money for somebody, I would imagine,” he told the New York Times.  “Not me.”

Toots and the Maytals follows below with The Harder They Come‘s Sweet & Dandy:


Trevor Rhone Dies At 69; Caribbean Playwright, Screenwriter

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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09.28.2009
03:37 pm
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Powers Of Ten: The Rough Sketch
09.28.2009
03:12 pm
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We’re proud boosters of everything Eames here at Dangerous Minds, so, if you’ve caught up with the original Powers Of Ten, check out for comparison that film’s original “demo” version.  To indicate the expanding and collapsing of space, this “scientific version” uses an analog display.  Instead of Elmer Bernstein, you get the sampled vocals of Plan B‘s Krista Warden.

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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09.28.2009
03:12 pm
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Time to do the Right Thing: We’re Lookin’ at YOU, Max Baucus
09.28.2009
01:55 pm
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Healthcare for everyone, NOW!

Healthcare Can’t Wait

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
01:55 pm
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Throbbing Gristle’s Unusual “Box Set”
09.28.2009
12:22 pm
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When Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin and I interviewed Throbbing Gristle in Los Angeles, during the sound-check we were talking to Charlie Poulet, TG’s brilliant sound engineer. There was an insanely trippy song coming over the PA system and I asked him what it was. “Oh, THAT. That is a Buddha Machine—ever hear of one?”

A Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that resembles a cheap transistor radio. It has a built-in speaker and runs continuous tape loops of chanting or soothing, natural, trippy, etc, sounds. They are hipster remakes of the Tibetan prayer loop boxes (they’re ubiquitous all over China) and are manufactured by a company called FM3.

Charlie was running several of them at once to create the amazing sound-scape going on in the background as we spoke. A little while later, Chris Carter hinted that soon TG would be announcing a “special musical project” that involved no CD or MP3s whatsoever. I suspected at the time he was hazily describing something similar to a Buddha Machine. TG-stylee and I was right. Check it out!

The Gristleism box features:

Thirteen original TG loops: a mix of experimental noise, industrial drone, and classic melodies and rhythms.

Built-in 50mm speaker, volume control, pitch-shift control and loop selector switch.

Features more loops and almost twice the frequency range of the original Buddha Machines.

The device is powered by two AA batteries and was designed by Throbbing Gristle and FM3’s Christiaan Virant.

I have to get one of these! Order yours here.

Thank you Gord Fynes!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
12:22 pm
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Unemployment: The Gathering Storm
09.28.2009
10:50 am
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Dangerous Minds’ super smart pal Charles Hugh Smith has penned another must-read essay over at his Of Two Minds blog (we’re dangerous, but he’s got two!) about the issue that no one seems to want to talk about, structural unemployment. That’s what happens when the jobs that were lost never come back:

In “normal prosperity” then an uptick in unemployment is not too worrisome because people find another job within a year. But when the economy sheds jobs relentlessly, then people become long-term unemployed: they can’t find a job this year, or next year, or the year after that. This is also called structural unemployment.

What few are willing to accept is that the U.S. economy is entering a decades-long period of structural unemployment in which there will not be enough jobs for tens of millions of citizens. My January analysis remains conservative; given the end of the credit/debt bubble and other structural issues, it seems very likely that the U.S. economy might have about 100 million jobs in a few years—leaving some 35 to 40 million people without formal full-time work or employer-paid benefits.

Since we’re already at 26.3 million unemployed/under-employed, losing 10 million more jobs is really not much of a stretch. That would leave 36 million people without full-time work or any work at all and about 100 million still employed.


That’s just the set-up. It gets much bleaker!

Unemployment: The Gathering Storm by Charles Hugh Smith

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
10:50 am
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Sarah Palin’s Running Mate in 2012?
09.28.2009
01:09 am
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The “Skoal Rebel” thinks Obama should be impeached…

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
01:09 am
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High Art of Hair Care in the Sixties
09.28.2009
12:03 am
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Over at Square America, “No elaborate introduction necessary; just 12 photos of the high art of hair care as practiced in one late 60s/early 70s beauty parlor.”

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Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America

Thanks to Square America: A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.28.2009
12:03 am
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Asgarda: New Tribe of Women-Warriors
09.27.2009
10:17 pm
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IN THE UKRAINE, A COUNTRY WHERE FEMALES ARE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL TRAFFICKING AND GENDER OPPRESSION, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the ?

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.27.2009
10:17 pm
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