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August 2010
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Mogwai, “Scotland’s Shame” (from Burning) Black and white should be the new 3D. It deserves its big comeback, as evidenced by this great snippet from the new Mogwai concert film.
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Black Dub, “I believe in you” (live in-studio performance) Mixing jazz, rock and reggae sounds like a bad idea. In Daniel Lanois’ hands, though, such an unruly concoction actually seems to work - and well. At least judging by this song by Black Dub, Lanois’ new-ish project with Trixie Whitley, Brian Blade and Daryl Johnson.
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Literary classics as decorative wall art →
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Postertext, a Toronto-based company, creates iconic posters using the text from famous books.
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Awesome video for Beck’s “Lost Cause”, one of the many great tunes on Sea Change. It’s about time I revisited that album.
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Talk about an anecdote. From The Economist’s recent report on the U.S. prison system:
IN 2000 four Americans were charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes, in violation of a Honduran regulation that Honduras no longer enforces. They had fallen foul of the Lacey Act, which bars Americans from breaking foreign rules when hunting or fishing. The...
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Pentagon tells WikiLeaks: "Do right thing" →
Update: WikiLeaks responds via Twitter
Obnoxious Pentagon spokesperson issues formal threat against WikiLeaks: Destroy everything, or else http://cs.pn/aOxf0Y
Somehow I don’t see Julian Assange and Co complying with this request. And the saga continues …
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A good day for philanthropy →
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I don’t think anyone can stare at the tea leaves and see this as being the...
– Charles Whitaker, a professor of journalism at Northwestern University, on the sale of Newsweek
(via Media Decoder)
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July 2010
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Maps of Literary Classics →
(via libraryland)
Would love to see John Irving’s Until I Find You on here.
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Discovery of the day: Eno's "Silver Morning" →
Daniel Lanois lends his sublime pedal steel chops on this fantastic song that sounds exactly like its title suggests.