May 2011
75 posts
Oilsands emissions data left out of UN report →
standardgrey:
The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations.
The numbers, uncovered by Postmedia News, were left out of the report, a national inventory on Canada’s greenhouse...
Tower of Sleep: Your CD Collection Impresses Me! →
towerofsleep:
grimmertown:
I buy used records, mostly, so I don’t buy music to support bands. One of the reasons I buy records and books is because I like interesting things around me. I don’t think that people who pay for music care any more for music than people who don’t pay for it. I’m just guessing that I don’t think I’d feel very happy if someday I found myself sitting in a room...
The Cables — Love is a Pleasure (from Reggae...
One for Standardgrey (redux) →
standardgrey:
megasloth:
megasloth:
I’m not really a sports guy (sorry, dude), but this was an interesting article (here!) for political-economic and cultural reasons. Here’s the best pull-quote:
“We won the first battle,” Silver says. “And I think we may have been the first such group to defeat the assembled…
I don’t mean to repost myself (sorry), but your response, Standardgrey, is...
One for Standardgrey (redux) →
megasloth:
I’m not really a sports guy (sorry, dude), but this was an interesting article (here!) for political-economic and cultural reasons. Here’s the best pull-quote:
“We won the first battle,” Silver says. “And I think we may have been the first such group to defeat the assembled…
I don’t mean to repost myself (sorry), but your response, Standardgrey, is awesome, and...
Oh, dear....
A sad, sad truism: one person’s war criminal is (too often) another person’s national hero:
“Thousands of demonstrators sang nationalist songs and carried banners honoring jailed former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic on Sunday as they poured into the street outside Serbia’s parliament to demand the release of the war-crimes suspect, whom they consider a...
One for Standardgrey
I’m not really a sports guy (sorry, dude), but this was an interesting article (here!) for political-economic and cultural reasons. Here’s the best pull-quote:
“We won the first battle,” Silver says. “And I think we may have been the first such group to defeat the assembled corporate community over a pro sports issue.”
Anyway, one for Standardgrey, you big softy.
Jonathan Franzen - Liking Is For Cowards -... →
cameronr:
towerofsleep:
A related phenomenon is the transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb “to like” from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse, from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving. The striking thing about all consumer products — and none more so than electronic...
Frieze Magazine's Dan Fox interviews Simon... →
theshilohs:
towerofsleep:
Hall & Oates, c. 1980
Dan Fox: There’s a very palpable nostalgia in New York for its subcultural past: the downtown scene, and the ‘bad old days’ when the city was bankrupt and crime-ridden but artists and musicians could live here cheaply. I recently saw Blank City (2010), a documentary about the early 1980s No Wave scene, and the mantra of downtown mythology...
standardgrey:
solarflares:
Jerry’s Kids-...
grimmertown:
The Rolling Stones “Doo Doo Doo Doo...
Attention Paul Malcolm →
Keep the dream alive: Bigfoot!
“The first section, Bourgeois and Proletarians, contains many passages like these...”
– Marshall Berman, Tearing away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto (via 20yardsoflinen)
This often comes as a surprise to students, for sure (as it was to me). It also produces the odd feeling, however, that we kind of just need to “hang in there” for communism to happen, which is...
Good focus
The disconnect between this headline and the event, at least in simple human terms, makes me queazy (and hateful):
Apple faces iPad production loss of 500,000 after factory explosion in China.
Only three dead and — at least — 15 injured, supposedly. Sheesh….
Boris — Attention Please (from Attention...
Smithsonian acquires Parliament-Funkadelic... →
As they should.
WatchFor all you robots out there. Enjoy!
What is going on?
All of a sudden, I now have five or so robot Tumblr blogs “following” me. Is this a new thing across Tumblr (anybody else finding this?), or have I reached some threshold of activity, and this is just some kind of automatic (although mysterious) response? That, or some very strange young women find my blog irresistible. Probability the latter, yes? Of course.
Indeed
“Truth may be a helpful quality for a meme, but it is only one among many.”
From James Gleick’s The Information.
Sorry, Luke....
nervousgnosis:
The New Inquiry: It Gets Worse
standardreview:
thenewinquiry:
By Malcolm Harris
The dissonance between the two poles, between puppy and wolf, altar boy and Rosemary’s baby, is the heart of Odd Future’s sound
Since Roland Barthes published his landmark 1967 essay “The Death of The Author,” critics have been loathe to drag writers themselves…
I wonder if I’ll ever tire of...
Traditional Book Output Up 5%; Nontraditional...
How about that, Internet? Read about it here.
The New Inquiry: It Gets Worse →
thenewinquiry:
By Malcolm Harris
The dissonance between the two poles, between puppy and wolf, alter boy and Rosemary’s baby, is the heart of Odd Future’s sound
Since Roland Barthes published his landmark 1967 essay “The Death of The Author,” critics have been loathe to drag writers themselves…
Some good points here, to be sure. And yet, is anyone able to do a meta-analysis of this...
A Conflict Without End
From the NYT:
“Osama bin Laden had been dead only a few days when House Republicans began their efforts to expand, rather than contract, the war on terror. Not content with the president’s wide-ranging powers to pursue the archcriminals of Sept. 11, 2001, Republicans want to authorize the military to pursue virtually anyone suspected of terrorism, anywhere on earth, from now to the end of...
grimmertown:
Medicine Head “When The Night...
towerofsleep:
Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing
cognitivedissonance:
This past month, there was much outrage over the fact that General Electric, despite making $14.2 billion in profits, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010. General Electric actually received tax credits of $3.2 billion from American taxpayers.
At the same time that General Electric was not...
The Kingstonians - Sufferer
20yardsoflinen:
“The wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.”
—
Adorno & Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment (via tohellwithboundaries)
Zing!
grimmertown:
“Racism is complicated, but this I know: If you’re white, and a person of color says something you’re doing is racist, they’re probably right. Not you. If a lady tells me I’m being a misogynist, or if a gay friend says I’m homophobic–I apologize, think about how they’re right, and try to change.”
—
Heems (of Das Racist)
<33333
(via queerriotqueen)
*always. always right.
(via...
Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara Weighs in on Odd... →
towerofsleep:
marathonpacks:
alexmacpherson:
ANYWAY I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t really care about asking Tyler what he means when he says “faggot” or fantasises about rape. I’d rather ask XL boss Richard Russell (straight, white, male) what he thought when he heard those words before he signed Tyler to his indier-than-thou label that’s apparently beyond any criticism at all in...
Bloodied But Unbowed: Early Vancouver Punk →
ladoublure:
Late 70’s - early 80’s Vancouver Punk documentary. Pairs nicely with Reality 86.
Thanks, Josh.
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.
In conclusion, Walter Murch on 3D films (from Roger Ebert’s journal):
“So: dark, small, stroby, headache inducing, alienating. And expensive. The question is: how long will it take people to realize and get fed up?”
It’s kind of like he’s talking about capitalism!
Major Bummer
My band, Womankind, just played a show at the Astoria (with Student Teacher, White Lung and Nu Sensae) and somebody was stabbed in front of the place just as the band before us was finishing. Cops locked everyone in the place so they could go over the crime scene out front. Super lame. Hope for the best for the victim….
Update: here.
Rita Alston - Popcorn Funky Reggae.
Her delivery...