|
Last 50 mainblog entries:
Friday, 31st of January, 2003
Fisk on the war (7:46 pm)
From the Independent UK, Robert Fisk writes with remarkable restraint (but no little passion). Thursday, 30th of January, 2003
Williams, Saul – Not In My Name (11:09 pm)
Saul Williams, Ninja Tune/Big Dada beat poet/rapper, is releasing an anti-war EP as soon as Ninja Tune can get it out there. Williams and the Ninjas feel so strongly about the issue that they have released the entire EP for download (128kbps mp3s but very nicely encoded) from their website. Download it here. It's great stuff. The first track is a live recording of an impassioned "Pledge of Resistance", in which Williams intones "Not in our name…" – "no more transfusions of blood for oil", "not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries to be deemed Evil". I can find Williams anywhere from brilliant (see "Twice the First Time", released on various releases including the Xen Cuts 3CD set) to bloody annoying (see the postmodernist gibberish in DJ Krust's "Coded Language"). Here he's great; stirring and poetic. And then, after a minute's pause come the remixes (all of the live "Pledge of Resistance"). Coldcut are first cab off the rank, turning it into a party piece not unlike the jaunty yet chilling "Atomic Moog". It's ok but nothing special. All proceeds will go to Not In Our Name, a US activist group who are probably a good cause.
Dr Claw (8:12 pm)
Chris Lawson, Melbourne doctor and science fiction author extraordinaire, has a couple of great entries in his Frankenstein Journal at the moment. Unfortunately since he codes it all by hand (nothing wrong with that!) there are no permalinks, so I have to just link to the front page. The ficticious interview about "Design Linguistics" (the next step after that creationist nonsense known as "Intelligent Design") is fun, but beneath it is a selection of US satire, much of it anti-war and anti-Bush… It's heartening to see he's not universally popular in the US, as one sometimes can get the feeling.
Comments Off
Monday, 27th of January, 2003
The War on Terry (bad pun) (10:26 pm)
Terry Jones has another insightful and bitingly satirical piece in the Guardian Observer, this time on Shrub: Thanks to Chris
Comments Off
back! (3:17 pm)
Well, the show that FourPlay has been in for the last week, Close Your Little Eyes (running at the Studio @ the Sydney Opera House for Sydney Festival) is over, as of Saturday night, so I have a little leetle more time on my hands now. I shall, very soon now, start updating. Plenty of music to review, not to mention reading! Hurrah. I have also installed a weblog for Chris, merch-bitch boy to the stars, who has been mentioned here before but not had anything to link to. So in a couple of days, when he's got it up and running, I'll stick up a link (nothing to see yet, move right along!) Sunday, 26th of January, 2003
Salon Premium (11:43 pm)
Interesting. In a previous blog entry, I mentioned an article from Salon that was "Salon premium", and therefore not accessible for free. It turns out that one can access Salon premium articles if one is willing to first watch an advertisement. Access then remains for 18 hours, after which one needs to watch another ad I guess. I strongly recommend flicking through the bloody ad (ironically an ad for a car company today), and then reading this article, as discussed in my previous post, on the Bush administration's war on the environment.
Comments Off
"Shock and Awe" (12:25 pm)
This Sydney Morning Herald article outlines the Bush Administration's plans for Iraq. The main objective of "Shock and Awe" "was not just to disable Iraq's fighting capacity but to leave the population dispirited and unwilling to support Saddam's regime." Actually, in some British publication (I wish I could remember which) recently I saw it referred to as "11/9", which I rather like. We in the rest of the English-speaking world would count it as that, so why not? Monday, 20th of January, 2003
Fuck Bush (2:19 am)
Chris sent this link to me – a chilling example of just what the Shrub is doing to the United States. Friday, 17th of January, 2003
Cory D and Patrick N H (4:23 pm)
Just in case you wondered about my coherence, here is an interview with Cory Doctorow at the Creative Commons website which explaines the license under which Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has been published as a freely-distributable file (in various formats).
Comments Off
Check the sidebar for archive links!
|
Utility Fog, Peter's show on FBi Radio in Sydney. Raven, Peter's solo music. FourPlay String Quartet, Peter's band. Peter has a LiveGerbil, too! Friend me if you know me, but don't expect many posts there. rss2, rss or atom feeds. Tasty! Via those feeds, Stumblings is syndicated over @ LiveJournal if you want to add it to your friends list - but please come over here to leave comments (I don't check 'em there!) Sidebar all too much? Check out all reviews separately in the: Reading archives | Listening archives Jump to: Current/recommended reading Current/recommended listening — bugger all here, but these days you can read some of my reviews at the cyclic defrost blog and in cyclic defrost itself (abridged, with free typos/grammatical mistakes added!)... Other weblogs of note: angelog poison to the mind the null device virulent memes (which is no more) the lexicon, for the lovely lexi's lexcellent & lexstatic, um, music reviews :) charlie stross's diary chris lawson et al's talking squid Roger Langridge's hotel fred crooked timber greensblog larvatus prodeo (etc) My Amazon.co.uk wishlist Reading:Note, my earlier book reviews, and this applies somewhat to the music reviews too, were formatted as a long stream of commentary, and thus need a lot of rewriting to fit into separate entries. So there are very few previous book review entries as yet. For now check the static Reviews Archive for a bunch of earlier reviews. Listening:Williams, Saul – Not In My Name (Thursday, 30th of January, 2003, 11:09 pm) Saul Williams, Ninja Tune/Big Dada beat poet/rapper, is releasing an anti-war EP as soon as Ninja Tune can get it out there. Williams and the Ninjas feel so strongly about the issue that they have released the entire EP for download (128kbps mp3s but very nicely encoded) from their website. Download it here. It's great stuff. The first track is a live recording of an impassioned "Pledge of Resistance", in which Williams intones "Not in our name…" – "no more transfusions of blood for oil", "not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries to be deemed Evil". I can find Williams anywhere from brilliant (see "Twice the First Time", released on various releases including the Xen Cuts 3CD set) to bloody annoying (see the postmodernist gibberish in DJ Krust's "Coded Language"). Here he's great; stirring and poetic. And then, after a minute's pause come the remixes (all of the live "Pledge of Resistance"). Coldcut are first cab off the rank, turning it into a party piece not unlike the jaunty yet chilling "Atomic Moog". It's ok but nothing special. All proceeds will go to Not In Our Name, a US activist group who are probably a good cause. Monthly archives:
Other: Login if you're, like, the author or something Meta: RSS 2.0 Comments RSS 2.0 WordPress |
18 queries. 0.648 seconds. Powered by WordPress |