Iuengliss - Blank Matter

Blank Matter is one excellent record.

Get it here: http://plasticsoundsupply.com/release/iuengliss_-_blank_matter/

Free, if you please.

Hot Damn, It's Good!

the wilhelm scream @james blake

deadboy

Mux Mool

more? get the free Mux Mool mixtape at Ghostly Intl', here: http://ghostly.com/media

Mux Mool

Moon Colors

Aerodynamour

Night Angles - Aerodynamour from Force Majeure Records on Vimeo.

plan of the city

PLAN OF THE CITY from Joshua Frankel on Vimeo.

Smallville: Finale Emotions

I don't have the words for how awful this show was. Ten terrible years and Clark Kent or "The Blur" only flies and becomes Superman in the last ten minutes of TEN YEARS! Thank god for the Smallvillains feature at ComicsAlliance which helped me regain some of my sanity after I inexplicably watched this for the better part of TEN FRICKIN YEARS!
And I don't know what the hell this video is. Could be fake or could be the sincere excitement of some developmentally disabled individual. Whatever the reason, god bless 'em, I enjoyed it. (via ComicsAlliance)

Girl tALK And TesLA COILs

seriously. turn it loud. up loud.

kurt vile - jesus fever

now some Mount Kimbie on NPR

Mount Kimbie Vid

been very into these guys lately.

here's a baddass new little Fucked Up short movie

Rad

Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home" from Dave Sowerby on Vimeo.

OFWGKTA on Fallon

before anything else, this performance is just amazing.
so, yeah. I got Tyler, the Creator's new record, "Goblin" today.
The young man is irrefutably talented.
The lyrics are a tough sell - I don't care how many times he tells me that they're "fiction"
They almost hurt.
But maybe for the same reason I've been so into Dave Sim/Cerebus lately.
sometimes you just need some great art where you just don't get totally on board.
maybe you need that friction.
the music of the spheres.
creating heat and hate and energy and cleanliness from fire.
to create harmony.

hobbes and bacon

this is awesome. the folks over at pants are overrated have one more if you like this.

David Lynch Music

did you see that the David Lynch electronica album is coming soon?
I'm curious.
you can download a track and get album details here: http://www.gooddaytoday.info/

another idea

So lately I've been thinking of doing a talk-show or something. I contacted the college radio station about doing something here but haven't heard anything back. I'm not sure how that stuff works... But I also thought maybe it would be cool if we did a once-per-week podcast where we all call in on Skype (I would record with audacity or something) and discuss the types of things we post on the blog (comics, music, music videos, other videos, etc) and just shoot the shit. I was thinking maybe one hour a week sometime later in the evening... 8 or 9ish. I think the only real investment you would need to make would be to get a decent microphone (if you don't already have one - I don't...) Just an idea - let me know.

Phantom Limb

Pat Jordache - Phantom Limb from philip a karneef on Vimeo.

doorway

Wesley Willis

I finally got around to watching this.
I'm glad I did.
I'm glad I got to give him a head-bump.
I'm glad he got me to say, "Rhahhh."
I'm glad he got me to say, "Rowwww."

life on the road

apache

Apache from oneedo on Vimeo.

zola jesus - clay bodies

The Old89ers Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time #1: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

And making their debut on the Old 89ers Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time Countdown is an act that rose up the charts like a shooting star in reverse to land firmly at the toppest of spots. Yes, you can read, it's Neutral Milk Hotel with their classic album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea".
I cherish this album. I dust it off and give it a listen about once a year. That day is like Christmas. This album is probably the closest thing I have to a religion. If Jeff Mangum created a cult and asked me to move to a commune with him I would gladly take the role of Tex Watson to his Charles Manson. And I would drink all the kool-aid without reservation. He would teach me how to be a snake handler and to speak in tongues. We would put needles under our toenails and drink citrus juices together to cleanse our bodies of impurities. There we would live in peace and harmony offering our prayers and fasting up to Anne Frank until the ATF burned our complex down. Yes, I love this record. Jeff Mangum sings like an angel. Not the cute bare-assed cherubs with perfect pitch but like an angel that's been banished from paradise and is forced to walk the earth and witness mankind's atrocities until the end of times. His voice is a heavenly trumpet spitting shards of glass that pierce my skull, providing a much needed bloodletting. In my opinion, it's a pretty cool record. Let's just leave it at that for now, okay?

team america

Chris Hedges, speaking at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death.

I know that because of this announcement, that reportedly Osama bin Laden was killed, Bob [Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer] wanted me to say a few words about it … about al-Qaida. I spent a year of my life covering al-Qaida for The New York Times. It was the work in which I, and other investigative reporters, won the Pulitzer Prize. And I spent seven years of my life in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I’m an Arabic speaker. And when someone came over and told ... me the news, my stomach sank. I’m not in any way naive about what al-Qaida is. It’s an organization that terrifies me. I know it intimately.

But I’m also intimately familiar with the collective humiliation that we have imposed on the Muslim world. The expansion of military occupation that took place throughout, in particular the Arab world, following 9/11—and that this presence of American imperial bases, dotted, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Doha—is one that has done more to engender hatred and acts of terror than anything ever orchestrated by Osama bin Laden.

And the killing of bin Laden, who has absolutely no operational role in al-Qaida—that’s clear—he’s kind of a spiritual mentor, a kind of guide … he functions in many of the ways that Hitler functioned for the Nazi Party. We were just talking with Warren [Beatty] about [Ian] Kershaw’s great biography of Hitler, which I read a few months ago, where you hold up a particular ideological ideal and strive for it. That was bin Laden’s role. But all actual acts of terror, which he may have signed off on, he no way planned.

I think that one of the most interesting aspects of the whole rise of al-Qaida is that when Saddam Hussein … I covered the first Gulf War, went into Kuwait with the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, was in Basra during the Shiite uprising until I was captured and taken prisoner by the Iraqi Republican Guard. I like to say I was embedded with the Iraqi Republican Guard. Within that initial assault and occupation of Kuwait, bin Laden appealed to the Saudi government to come back and help organize the defense of his country. And he was turned down. And American troops came in and implanted themselves on Muslim soil.

When I was in New York, as some of you were, on 9/11, I was in Times Square when the second plane hit. I walked into The New York Times, I stuffed notebooks in my pocket and walked down the West Side Highway and was at Ground Zero four hours later. I was there when Building 7 collapsed. And I watched as a nation drank deep from that very dark elixir of American nationalism … the flip side of nationalism is always racism, it’s about self-exaltation and the denigration of the other.

And it’s about forgetting that terrorism is a tactic. You can’t make war on terror. Terrorism has been with us since Sallust wrote about it in the Jugurthine wars. And the only way to successfully fight terrorist groups is to isolate [them], isolate those groups, within their own societies. And I was in the immediate days after 9/11 assigned to go out to Jersey City and the places where the hijackers had lived and begin to piece together their lives. I was then very soon transferred to Paris, where I covered all of al-Qaida’s operations in the Middle East and Europe.

So I was in the Middle East in the days after 9/11. And we had garnered the empathy of not only most of the world, but the Muslim world who were appalled at what had been done in the name of their religion. And we had major religious figures like Sheikh Tantawi, the head of al-Azhar—who died recently—who after the attacks of 9/11 not only denounced them as a crime against humanity, which they were, but denounced Osama bin Laden as a fraud … someone who had no right to issue fatwas or religious edicts, no religious legitimacy, no religious training. And the tragedy was that if we had the courage to be vulnerable, if we had built on that empathy, we would be far safer and more secure today than we are.

We responded exactly as these terrorist organizations wanted us to respond. They wanted us to speak the language of violence. What were the explosions that hit the World Trade Center, huge explosions and death above a city skyline? It was straight out of Hollywood. When Robert McNamara in 1965 began the massive bombing campaign of North Vietnam, he did it because he said he wanted to “send a message” to the North Vietnamese—a message that left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead.

These groups learned to speak the language we taught them. And our response was to speak in kind. The language of violence, the language of occupation—the occupation of the Middle East, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—has been the best recruiting tool al-Qaida has been handed. If it is correct that Osama bin Laden is dead, then it will spiral upwards with acts of suicidal vengeance. And I expect most probably on American soil. The tragedy of the Middle East is one where we proved incapable of communicating in any other language than the brute and brutal force of empire.

And empire finally, as Thucydides understood, is a disease. As Thucydides wrote, the tyranny that the Athenian empire imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. The disease of empire, according to Thucydides, would finally kill Athenian democracy. And the disease of empire, the disease of nationalism … these of course are mirrored in the anarchic violence of these groups, but one that locks us in a kind of frightening death spiral. So while I certainly fear al-Qaida, I know its intentions. I know how it works. I spent months of my life reconstructing every step Mohamed Atta took. While I don’t in any way minimize their danger, I despair. I despair that we as a country, as Nietzsche understood, have become the monster that we are attempting to fight.

Thank you.

The Old89ers Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time #2: Left and Leaving by The Weakerthans

Once upon a time this touring band from Winnepeg (can't remember their name) played a show at a house I was living in during the late 90's and they gave my roommate an advance copy of the Weakerthans first album "Fallow". We first listened to it while the touring band snickered good-naturedly at John K. Samson's lyrics and his nasally voice. Over time this advance CD became a prized treasure to my roommates and me. Listening was restricted to the owner's room and periodically we would sit on the floor there and request our favorite songs.
I still prize the songs of the Weakerthans. They remind me of my humanity and comfort me. They are like a dose of sanity in this crazy, mixed-up world and if I could say this like it should be said and have it not sound cheesy maybe I could write a song as good as this:

Hide & Seek

This is the only appropriate response to the Osama news I've seen so far.

sorry for the delay

i let my team of harvard educated writers take an extended vacation for may day. and all they got me was this stupid awesome video that i can't embed...

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how much i feel 1978