"Lawrence from the band Felt looks back to the decade they operated within, playing the releases of the day that moved him and inspired him to create one of the most enduring and muthical legacies of the 1980s, plus some stories from the likes of Lou Reed, Julian Cope and other artists from back in the day."
"Two decades ago, Alice Goodman wrote the libretto to The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera about a Jewish American murdered by Palestinian terrorists. It ended her career. Does she have any regrets?"
— Alice Goodman: The furore that finished me | Music | The Guardian
"As a reflection of the zeitgeist, hauntology is, above all, the product of a time which is seriously “out of joint” (Hamlet is one of Derrida’s crucial points of reference in Spectres of Marx). There is a prevailing sense among hauntologists that culture has lost its momentum and that we are all stuck at the “end of history”. Meanwhile, new technologies are dislocating more traditional notions of time and place. Smartphones, for instance, encourage us never to fully commit to the here and now, fostering a ghostly presence-absence. Internet time (which is increasingly replacing clock time) results in a kind of “non-time” that goes hand in hand with Marc Augé’s non-places. Perhaps even more crucially, the web has brought about a “crisis of overavailability” that, in effect, signifies the “loss of loss itself”: nothing dies any more, everything “comes back on YouTube or as a box set retrospective” like the looping, repetitive time of trauma (Fisher)."
— Hauntology | guardian.co.uk (via towerofsleep)
(via otto-obrien)
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— Sjekk VGs smøretips! Bedre ski på 1-2-3 - VG Nett om Trening
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner, is now the poster boy for what’s terribly wrong with our campaign-finance system. Adelson, you may recall, had, before the South Carolina Republican primary, donated $5 million to the pro-Gingrich Super Pac “Winning Our Future” – giving Newt a pile…
well, he’s a big Glenn Beck fan:
“Mr. Beck was awarded the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu also spoke. Prominent philanthropists Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson spoke and personally presented the Adelson Award to Beck.”
http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=2129
What a wonderful world we’re living in eh?
What I think of every time I see a picture of this guy.
Good shit. From this: http://thequietus.com/articles/07782-100-lost-albums-from-the-1970s
