February 2010
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Vancouver Winkler Nara Fallujah
The Guardian UK: Vancouver's Olympics are heading... →
lotusmodern:
towerofsleep:
‘This manic mix of hype and gloom is a byproduct of the games’ utter pointlessness. For those who have been planning their resistance since 2003, Vancouver is about to become the world’s premier political stage. It will be the best chance yet for the Olympics to be derailed and exposed as what they are: a corrupt relic of the 20th century that does little more than...
January 2010
mothmilk:
Leviathan - “Vexed and Vomit Hexed”
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Fuck Yeah! David Thewlis →
Tumblr of the month.
From some internet shitstorm involving Jessica...
jenniferanne:standardgrey:hardcorefornerds:andrewtsks:agrammar:
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Anyway, the 90s underground hardcore scene—which was a smaller branch of a larger, more easily located version of the hardcore scene in which Victory Records and Earth Crisis were the dominant forces—was heavily influenced by Riot Grrrl and the super-DIY offshoots of the 80s punk scene, such as Crass, Conflict, and Amebix...
3-0? Really?
Step it up boys, you’re playing THE FUCKING LEAFS, fer chrissakes..
edit:
5-3 comeback!
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH
From some internet shitstorm involving Jessica...
hardcorefornerds:andrewtsks:agrammar:
Hopper’s sub-head even appropriates the word “bougie” — a word largely used by lower-middle-class black people to describe higher-class affectations in their peers — to describe the band, which is Game-playing extraordinaire.
Jessica Hopper and I share the same cultural background, that being the 90s hardcore scene. She was a much bigger fish in that...
solarflares:
Uncorrected Personalty Traits - ...
The best foreign films of 2009 - Roger Ebert's... →
Happy Bats/Cinephile cheat sheet because I always blank when I get to the video store…plus there’s trailers for all of ‘em.
Tokyo Sonata was fantastic—-Kiyoshi Kurosawa taking his established J-horror/suspense template (Cure, Bright Future) and applying its subtleties to a modern-day recession family drama.
Looking forward to Seraphine, Still Walking, Tulpan and Summer...
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
– Joseph Campbell (via smut-to-go)
yeah, yeah….
FAKE SLEEP.
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TokyoSwan, RIP. →
:(
I doubt it’ll mean anything to anybody here in tumblr-land, but Rodger Swan was one of two J-Bloggers (The other being TokyoCooney—-Masa and I are fans) on YouTube that I followed and he passed away suddenly, and really young too.
Yeah, yeah, I know: internets, someone you haven’t met in person- but they created some great work. Just because it’s the internet...
Watchsmut-to-go:
newsweek:
This, about a guy who tries to find the last noiseless place in America, is pretty great.
Wow.
Given my massive nerd-love for phonography/audio ecology/field recording, this is fascinating to me.
