Last week we put together a mix for our pal Disco Jesus on the wonderful Deep Frequency Radio.
It’s now available to stream or download here. (it’s the show from the 18th June).
It’s the first mix I’ve been involved with for ages and it felt pretty good to summarize what we have been playing out and about for the last six months or so.
Anyway, take a listen and hope you enjoy it.
tracklist below the jump.
Andy Baio links to Quarrygirl’s undercover investigation of the dubious ingredients in LA-based vegan restaurants.
It’s an interesting riposte the David Simon’s assertion that
“The internet does froth and commentary very well, but you don’t meet many internet reporters down at the courthouse,” he says. “Oh to be a state or local official in America over the next 10 to 15 years, before somebody figures out the business model. To gambol freely across the wastelands of an American city as a local politician! It’s got to be one of the great dreams in the history of American corruption.”
Can passionate, single issue advocates find a way to fill some of the gap left by the fall of traditional journalism ?
David Simons talks Treme;
The series, called Treme, after a New Orleans neighbourhood, was commissioned by HBO earlier this month after a successful pilot, and will air in the US in 2010. Filming will start later this year – after the hurricane season abates. The 10- or 12-part drama will be, Simon told the Guardian, “an allegory for the trauma that the country as a whole went through two years later”.
“The fact is that the levees on the canals were substandard, and done on the cheap at an immense profit. Ultimately that becomes a metaphor,” he said. “New Orleans was relying on things that were believed to be genuine bulwarks against tragedy and disaster. People felt that there were similar bulwarks protecting our financial institutions and foreign policy. Now, two years on, we are all essentially in the same boat as New Orleans. Katrina was an outlyer of where we are today.”
Apparently the iPhone’s days are numbered.
The evidence to support this….
A similar thing happened with the personal computer market. The concept was championed by Apple when it launched Apple II, the world’s first personal computer, in 1977, and the first Macintosh in 1984, but other players now lead the market.
er…something similar happened to Apple 25 years ago. (that’s it ?)
And this on the same day that the iPhone wins top prize in the JD Power poll beating the competition in *every* category but one (battery life).
God knows why a paper like the Guardian needs to stoop to this kind of bullshit.
Weak.
You can feel a simmering sense of injustice in the air today.
Quite fancy heading down there myself-there a lot of stuff that needs venting.
Violence is never best the solution to any problem-but if you push enough people too far in any direction, you are bound to get a reaction.
Follow the G20 protests as they happen here.
I predict a riot.
Anyone with a more than a passing interest in sport, especially in football (but not specifically in Arsenal) should read Jason Cowley’s wonderful account of the final game of the 1988-89 season.
It’s all happening so fast, yet there’s also something curiously hallucinatory about what’s unfolding, as if time itself is being slowed.
Here he comes, Thomas, free, lost to the moment, as he would later describe it. He must know that the defenders are closing on him, must feel the hot rush and strain of their exertion. He has the ball and is moving towards the penalty spot.
An amazing example of the transformational power of sport.
The wonderful Kutiman, interviewed on NPR
Given that he’s a musician and a producer himself, one might think that Kutiman would get bored working with such mundane subject material.
“Actually, the other way around,” Kutiman says. “After I finished this project, I found it really boring to play something myself — to compose a song or play guitar or play bass, it really looked boring to me. It has no video in it, it has no person in it, and it has no other life in it.
And that’s it right there.
It’s not like us to get way overexcited about a film, spoon-feed ourselves outrageous hype, only to madly dissappointed when the final release doesn’t meet our ridiculous expectations.
Having said that, the tidbits coming out about Avatar make it sound like December 19, 2009 could be the first day of the rest of my life.
“I couldn’t tell what was real and what was animated–even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn’t possibly be real,” Quittner said about the footage from Avatar that he saw. “The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.”
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