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BBC iPlayer - Book of the Week: Dear Granny Smith: Episode 5

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:04:54 +0000

BBC iPlayer - Book of the Week: Dear Granny Smith: Episode 5:

Heartbreaking: This account of the problems with Royal Mail from the inside.

Disgraceful: The majority’s dismissive and impatient and downright hostile attitude towards this year’s labour dispute.

thepublics: MARKED FOR DEATH: A goat marked with a cross looked...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:31:00 +0000

MARKED FOR DEATH: A goat marked with a cross looked at two dead goats at a farm in Vinkel, Netherlands, Monday. (Michael Kooren/Reuters)

I bet it was that photogenic fake wolf everyone’s been talking about.

anjalouise: lelooshka: fuckyeahdogs: tartanspartan: Untitled...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:00 +0000

anjalouise:

lelooshka:

fuckyeahdogs:

tartanspartan:

Untitled — Tony Mendoza, 2007

Slavoj Žižek - Against Charity (1/3) (via TheMariborchan) An...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:26:17 +0000

Slavoj Žižek - Against Charity (1/3) (via TheMariborchan)

An Un-“Christmas Carol”, if you want.

Dennis (via TrustNordisk) i can’t say i’ve ever...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:23:00 +0000

Dennis (via TrustNordisk)

i can’t say i’ve ever watched anything better on YouTube.

thepublics: 11.23am:Outside the conference centre frustrated...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:52:35 +0000

thepublics:

11.23am:
Outside the conference centre frustrated activists have cut off their hair in frustration at the slow progress of the talks. There is hair all over the ground outside the Bella centre, Bibi reports.

Well, turning those fucking laptops off when no one is using them would be a start…

sleephouseradio: Issue Eleven: 2009 End Of Term Special An end...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:38:50 +0000

sleephouseradio:

Issue Eleven: 2009 End Of Term Special

An end of term knees-up… featuring all your favourites… if your favourites happen to be these nine songs.

1. Wild Beasts - ‘We’ve Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues’
2. Bob Hund - ‘Blommor På Brinnande Fartyg’
3. Telex - ‘En Route Vers de Nouvelles Aventures’
4. Atlas Sound- ‘Quick Canal’ (feat. Laetitia Sadier)
5. Wooden Shjips - ‘Contact’
6. Animal Collective - ‘Daily Routine’
7. Lucky Dragons - ‘We Made Our Own Government’
8. Bill Callahan - ‘All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast’
9. Fever Ray - ‘Here Before’

Full version with notes, videos and what-have-you can be found at www.sleephouse.blogspot.com

"True moments of musical brilliance on this one. Classic moments you were there for. Enjoy it while..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:08:13 +0000

“True moments of musical brilliance on this one. Classic moments you were there for. Enjoy it while you can because this record is so good it will inspire its own avalanche of Creeds and Coldplays based on this AC era. In fact, when you play this record for your nephew in the future, he’ll say, “This sucks, it totally sounds like a non-commercial ripoff of Owl City’s 2011 opus Fool for the City, and you’ll be all, but… but that record is a shitty ripoff version of Merriweather-era Animal Collective!” and the kid won’t even fucking believe you.”

- Pitchfork: Guest Lists: Guest List: Best of 2009

Health finally release something I like. A spot-on appraisal of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion.

How Long Could Luke Survive in a Tauntaun?

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:31:29 +0000

How Long Could Luke Survive in a Tauntaun?:

standardgrey:

“In a normal environment, a carcass gets cold in 8 to 36 hours losing an average rate of 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit per hour. However, the ice world of Hoth is not an average environment. The Star Wars database lists that Hoth reaches nightly temperatures of -60 F. In a frigid, sub-zero environment, body heat can be lost almost 32 times faster. This means a Tauntaun’s body heat could drop almost 51.2 F every hour. Considering that Han Solo’s Tauntaun died of severe hypothermia even before it was cut open with Luke’s light saber, one could assume it’s core body temperature was already well below normal. The problem for Luke is if the Tauntaun’s body temperature reaches freezing point those once toasty guts, blood, and assorted alien goo, will in fact become a frozen coffin. If the Tauntaun died of cardiac arrest due to hypothermia with an average body temperature of 75 F (23 C), and if Tauntaun blood freezes at 28.4 F (-2 C), then Han has roughly 56 minutes to set up a shelter before Luke once again is in danger of losing his life in the barren wasteland of Hoth.”

Fuck it. I could make it.

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:22:31 +0000

smeadows: Georgia Field HandsMary Don’t You Weep Awesome....

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:39:42 +0000

smeadows:

Georgia Field Hands
Mary Don’t You Weep

Awesome. When’s the album out? Is there a free download on their website? They should really make one of those mixtapes. Maybe they can get Lil Wayne on it.

via hellyeahdude.com

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:50:23 +0000

via hellyeahdude.com

vivolog: tdshh: ffffound: animales : lala ladcani

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:47:44 +0000

vivolog:

tdshh:

ffffound:

animales : lala ladcani

cameronr: Secret Mommy - Woody Allen, David...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:01:38 +0000

cameronr:

Secret Mommy - Woody Allen, David Koresh

mentalbeast:

Featured song in Episode Six of Mental Beast

The Eggnog Experience will be available for free download on December 17th.

tumbledore: Wild Beasts - “All the Kings Men” Elbow meets...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:01:06 +0000

tumbledore:

Wild Beasts - “All the Kings Men”

Elbow meets Grizzly Bear.

Hah. I’m not the only one that likes them.

When Bros Sign off their Emails with "Cheers"

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:48:47 +0000

thepublics:

natashavc:

This is something men in their twenties do and it reminds of the cuntish 5th grader who would say ‘present’ instead ‘here’ during roll call. Like, knock it the fuck off and say ‘best’, ‘thanks’ or ‘<3’ like an adult.

Uniquely,

Natasha

While I have my own reservations regarding the use of “cheers”, I believe it to be the best depersonalized sign-off option available as it is the least sincere. Generalized sign-offs are inherently detached, so the more sincere you try to present yourself the more aloof you become. The least emotional option is best in this situation - “sincerely” can be interpreted as “insincerely” because most of the time, it is, and the same goes for “best”. “Best” can mean “fuck you”, but cheers more often than not will mean nothing at all. Cheers is flexible. It’s “fuckin eh” and “no doubt” and “for real” and “Ciao” and “TTYL” all rolled into one pint-clanking colloquial non-entity.

Dear all,

I use “cheers” because I am British and there it has come to mean “thank you”. That is all.

cheers,

"Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:09:21 +0000

“Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it’s much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

- Slavoj Žižek (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via lukesimcoe) (via circumpolarnavigation)

Moment Of The Year: XX lose member in puff of smoke.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Moment Of The Year: XX lose member in puff of smoke.

sleephouseradio: Issue Ten: A Best Of Decade (Kinda)A simple...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:57:55 +0000

sleephouseradio:

Issue Ten: A Best Of Decade (Kinda)

A simple look back to highlight some personal favourites that I didn’t see in the “best of…” lists.

1. The New Year - ‘The End’s Not Near’ (2004)
2. Ugly Casanova - ‘Things I Don’t Remember’ (2002)
3. Tunng - ‘Bullets’ (2007)
4. Tujiko Noriko - ‘Narita Made’ (2003)
5. Donnacha Costello - ‘Orange A’ (2004)
6. Einstürzende Neubauten - ‘Youme & Meyou’ (2004)
7. Sieben - ‘Rite For The Unfulfilled’ (2007)
8. Do Make Say Think - ‘White Light Of’ (2002)
9. Songs: Ohia - ‘Peoria Lunch Box Blues’ (2003)

More notes, videos and what-have-you at www.sleephouse.blogspot.com

A grim soundtrack to a pretty grim decade.

Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs | World news | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs | World news | guardian.co.uk :

A really bad article. There’s no way that the majority of Norwegians could be described as “angry or incensed”. Disappointed is the only word I’ve heard used by talking heads on the news and even then it’s been swiftly followed by the words “but we understand… of course…”

Siv Jensen would say anything to please and inflame the base passions of her right wing followers. So she’s definitely not to be trusted. And she’s certainly not representative of any kind of popular view.

Excited is actually what most Norwegians are about Obama’s visit, excited and also perhaps a little embarrassed that Thorbjørn Jagland’s naive view of the world is now seen as the national one.