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“Keep it Going Louder” Directed by Eric Wareheim
11.29.2009
11:38 pm
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Here’s a trippy music video “Keep it Going Louder” performed by Major Lazer and directed by Eric Wareheim.

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.29.2009
11:38 pm
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Marc Almond Covers Aleister Crowley’s “Tango Song”
11.28.2009
10:50 pm
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Shown below, a live cover of Aleister Crowley’s “The Tango Song” by Marc Almond, one of Crowley’s better poems, apparently. Marc Almond was the legendary singer of 80s synth-sleaze duo Soft Cell. Aleister Crowley was George W. Bush’s grandfather. The evil team-up would seem a fitting challenge for any Marvel superhero. Via The 93 Current:

I just felt like sharing this small video I recorded at yesterdays Marc Almond show at the Roundhouse in Camden, London. “The Tango Song” was written by Aleister Crowley with music by Bernard Page; based on the sketch called “The Tango” published in Equinox Vol I, No 9 in March 1913.

(93 Current: Aleister Crowley’s “The Tango Song” performed live by Marc Almond and OTHON 01 Nov 2009ev)

(Here’s the studio version.)

(Marc Almond: Orpheus in Exile Songs of Vadim Kozin)

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.28.2009
10:50 pm
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Charles Hugh Smith: Surviving the Next 20 Years
11.28.2009
07:45 pm
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Author Charles Hugh Smith discusses his latest book Survival+, an indispensable guide to understanding global turmoil and transformation, weaving a full spectrum of intellectual disciplines—history, political economy, ecology, energy demands, marketing, investing, health and the psychology of happiness—into a uniquely comprehensive book that offers practical principles, not just for surviving, but prospering in the difficult decades ahead.
 

READ ON
Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.28.2009
07:45 pm
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Amchitka: the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace
11.28.2009
06:46 pm
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As someone who has spent many years acquiring rare Joni Mitchell bootlegs, I can tell you, there’s not a lot out there. I’m sure that many live recordings exist of Mitchell from all eras of her career, but not a lot of them have slipped out to traders (in comparison to Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead where there are hundreds and hundreds of live concerts floating around the Internet). When music business blogger Bob Lefsetz sent out a missive the other day about Entertainment Weekly having an exclusive on a 1970 Joni Mitchell duet with James Taylor streaming from their website, well, “click” I was there. The duet begins with Mitchell solo, performing Carey then segueing into Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man. She playfully forgets the lyrics before calling on Sweet Baby James to help her out. It’s sheer delight.

This sublime moment—one of many—is taken from a new 2 CD set (with book) called Amchitka: the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace and you can buy it directly from Greenpeace here (I don’t think it’s in stores or Amazon). The show took place on October 16, 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia and was organized by lawyer/activist Irving Stowe, a man often called the father of Greenpeace. The goal of the evening was to raise enough money to buy a boat to transport activists to Amchitka, Alaska to protest the nuclear testing the US government was doing there at the time. It was to be the very first Greenpeace action

Intense folk singer Phil Ochs starts the set, after some passionate introductory words from Irving Stowe. He is followed by Taylor, who was just hitting the big time and is announced as a special surprise guest. Mitchell, then coming off her million selling third album, Ladies of the Canyon, but still nine months before her masterpiece Blue, was the bill’s topper. In 1970, Joni Mitchell was probably the biggest selling female artist in the world—surely she was the most important—and it has been said of her that she was the midwife to the birth of Greenpeace. 39 years later, both she and James Taylor (and the estate of Phil Ochs) are donating their royalties from sales of the CD directly to Greenpeace.

If you want to sample it first, the entire set is streaming from the Amchitka website—click on Music, then click on the link that says “Play List and Streaming”—but don’t be cheap, the 2 CD set, with 48 page booklet is only $21 from Greenpeace and you’ll be supporting a worthy cause. Makes a great Christmas gift because it gives twice!

Footage from the Greenpeace’s maiden voyage:

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.28.2009
06:46 pm
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Taxidermy: Mice Torture Chamber
11.28.2009
05:05 pm
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Welcome to the “Laboratory of Dr. Furankennezumi!”
 
(via Super Punch)

 

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11.28.2009
05:05 pm
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Immortality is Go Within 20 Years
11.28.2009
03:10 pm
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SMI²LE! We’re apparently right at the threshold of near-immortal life extension… well, assuming we can survive the next 20 years, that is. Kurzweil and other mandroids reported thus:

Researchers at the Maximum Life Foundation met recently to discuss their latest anti-aging findings. Their goal is to extend the human lifespan indefinitely by 2029… though it’s not yet clear how that’ll actually work.

The Huntington Beach-based Foundation held a Longevity Summit earlier this month, where biologists and geneticists shared their research into how humans might live longer ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.28.2009
03:10 pm
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Celestial Soul Portraits
11.28.2009
02:56 pm
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According to artist Erial Ali’s website: “I am proud to offer the unique *magical* service of Erial Ali creating a Celestial Soul Portrait of YOU!”

Erial also creates “magical” versions of family portraits from photographs. His prices range any where from $150 to $250.

Visit Erial’s website to view more Celestial Soul Portraits.
 
(via J-Walk Blog)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.28.2009
02:56 pm
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Elizabeth Fraser Speaks Out About Cocteau Twins
11.28.2009
02:55 pm
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From the Guardian, Elizabeth Fraser speaks about her 18-year tenure in the groundbreaking band Cocteau Twins, and how time has not been good to her memories of the group. She also discusses her tumultuous relationship with Jeff Buckley.

The Cocteau Twins had been apart for seven years, the mystique they had attained during their lifetime gradually growing and their influence spreading, when the announcement came that they were to reform. The world was told they would be headlining the 2005 Coachella festival in California, and would follow that with a major tour. According to bassist Simon Raymonde, the band stood to benefit to the tune of ?Ǭ

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.28.2009
02:55 pm
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Happy 252nd Birthday William Blake
11.28.2009
02:43 pm
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And a very happy birthday to William Blake, one of the greatest mystics, poets, painters and visionaries that Western civilization ever produced. Driven to a pauper’s grave in his own time, Blake’s vision remains burning in our consciousness as a touchpoint of human freedom against the horrific machine-like nature of our destructive, planet-killing culture. If you haven’t given him your full time, do! If you don’t know him past “Tyger, Tyger” or a few other poems, have another look?

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.28.2009
02:43 pm
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Kung fu master carves sentence on fly’s wing
11.28.2009
01:37 pm
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From Austrian Times:

Kung fu master Chen Pengxian wasn’t just winging it when he claimed he could create the smallest carving in the world.

So Chen, 42, carved an entire sentence in Chinese characters on a fly’s wing to prove his ability.

The sentence - which translates as ‘I am at the bottom of her valley of no love’ - was taken from his favourite martial arts novel.

“I have studied king fu for 20 years and I used the breathing techniques I had learned to stop my hands from shaking because one slip would have torn the wing to pieces,” he explained from his studio in Taipei, Taiwan.

Austrian Times: Wing and a hair

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11.28.2009
01:37 pm
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