Monday 26 December 2011

Bradley Manning, Hero, or Traitor?

♪♫ Black Cab - Sexy Polizei/Sword and Shield


Black Cab - Illinois Chapter EP (1999)

Long out-of-print 1999 demo three track EP from Black Cab.
Track Listing
1 Illinois Chapter
2 Christlike
3 Sonny Speaks!

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(Thanx Andrew!)

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Famously referred to as an 'Axis-of-Evil' country, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of man made and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside while chaperoned by his translator and a guide. But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il - the world's only Communist dynasty - Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered. His astute and wry musings on life in the austere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel.

The Year In Review

S A Barton 
Man wearing gold, jewels speaks out against "superficial glitter" of Christmas season:

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Alaa Abd El-Fattah meets his infant son and calls for the release of political prisoners in Egypt

Christmas Guns

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Egyptian judge frees anti-junta blogger

Alaa Abd El Fattah 
watching my wife feed my son for the first time, bliss

Do rockstars really live fast and die young?

Fabolous - There Is No Competition: Death Comes In 3's


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♪♫ The xx - Open Eyes (Demo)

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Hidden Cross Stitched Messages from a Nazi POW

Secret Morse code message border says 'God Save the King' and 'Fuck Hitler'
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kelly oxford 
Still can't listen to 'Wild Horses' without thinking about Reese Witherspoon getting fingered by Mark Wahlberg on a roller coaster :(

Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban

SEED

An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction, SEED is a beautiful and sinister stop-motion story about the struggle to survive.
Directed & Animated by Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird
Produced by Josh Hetzler
Story by Daniel Bird
Cinematography by Ben Richardson
Noam Chomski 
A century ago musicians came from the same socioeconomic class as their audience, today musicians are co-opted into the capitalist class.
Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris

Sunday 25 December 2011

♪♫ Gruff Rhys - Slashed Wrists This Christmas

♪♫ Robert Earl Keene - Merry Christmas from the Family

(Thanx Kami!)

♪♫ Super Furry Animals - The Gift That Keep Giving

Sex Pistols @ Ivanhoe's Huddersfield (Xmas Day 1977)

♪♫ The Beatles - Christmas Time Is Here Again

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Holiday Download 2011

Thank you to everyone for coming out to the shows and everything else this year. We're going to give you all a song called "The Absent."
Sorry it's not a super happy song, we don't mean to be downers.
Happy Whatever Day you like to call it.
Peace, Love and all that stuff from us. We'll see you in 2012.
-BRMC-
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Rusko – Remix Collection (2006 - 2010)

Tracklist
Kid Sister – Pro Nails
Skream – Dutch Flowers
Basement Jaxx – Feelings Gone
Temper Trap – Soldier On
The Prodigy – Take Me To The Hospital
Little Boots – Remedy
Kotchy – Sing What You Want
Kid Cudi – Day and Night
Mr. Hudson – White Lies
Marko Del Horno – Samurai
HK119 – C’est La Vie
Kelis – 4th of July
Sunday Girl – Stop, Hey
Capcom Games – Bionic Commando Theme
L-Wiz – Girl From Codiene City
Leon Jean Marie – Bring It On
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Wiley - Cheer Up, It's Christmas

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♪♫ Steve Earle - Christmas Time In Washington/Nothing But a Child


Glenn Greenwald: The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics

Tapper Zukie - Archie The Rednose Reindeer

Gingrich Ballot Miss Raises Questions of Organization

Gingrich attacks Va. for keeping him off ballot

♪♫ Viv Albertine - It's A Christmas, Single

Viv Albertine releases her annual alternative Christmas single!
Even with this tongue-in-cheek, themed release, Viv is able to make people stop and think. She weaves comments on society, conventional wisdom and her own personal life with humorous musings on Christmas.
Viv wrote the lyrics on the tour bus whilst touring with The Damned this November. As soon as she arrived back in London she was off into the recording studio with no-wave duo 'Talk Normal' - who she met through Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) as they were both on his Ecstatic Peace record label and had each played on the Ecstatic Peace stage at SXSW Festival.
Viv and Talk Normal were recording Viv's crowd favourite track "Confessions of a MILF" for Viv's forthcoming debut album scheduled for release Spring 2012 and ended the session with this irreverent anti-Christmas ode to single life.
Viv says: "The single was made quick and rough, just how I like my music... and my men."
Merry Christmas!
Free download link: http://soundcloud.com/yourfriendbam/viv-albertine-christmas-single

GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support After Customer Revolt

Eric Weinrib 
Merry Christmas to everyone sleeping in jail cells and on the streets. We will stuff our faces and hope Jesus takes care of you.

♪♫ The Stylistics -You Make Me Feel Brand New/I Can't Give You Anything


Meanwhile in Russia

Tens of Thousands Gather in Moscow to Protest

Slappy Hexmass Bob XXX

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Merry X-mas!

Happy Hexmass from Exile Towers

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Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music!

Saturday 24 December 2011

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)

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