Ok, so I think I posted here, what? Three times? Couldn't be arsed, really----I have the two blogspot ones, so I kind of forget about this one, even if it's just taking the latest entry and doing the copypasta dance in here.

That said:

UPDATEABLE MIXTAPE:
www.standardgreyeditions.blogspot.com

THE YEAR OF SPAGHETTI:
www.yearofspaghetti.blogspot.com

The party's just down the street.

Picture by AI KIJIMA
holy crap, that's fabric!

BURNING STAR CORE
"The Everyday World of Bodies"
via Eat My Art Out
heavy rotation this week, in the wee hours

Art: Larry Carlson

YTMND
...makes the world less scary.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.


and the prize for most closely resembling contemporary art:
(think Christian Marclay)


Art: Larry Carlson

ENJOI: Bag of Suck video
Nothing makes me feel old like skate vids. Jerry Hsu & Louis Barletta's bits, in particular. Barletta=Neil Blender/Gonz 2.0. Look for that blunt to crail to fakie transfer, nevermind everything else. Hsu? Solid. Good photographer too.

Godwin's law


"Fascism" is an easy catch-all when discussing whoever's in power. It's always been too simplistic a catchphrase, like Godwinning any argument :
"____ =the Nazis"
or likening anything you disagree with to the Holocaust. Too cheap, too knee-jerk, and shows lack of good analytical skills.

That said, have a look here. Hmmm.

On the subject...

I came across this on digg last night:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The 357-72 vote demonstrated the enduring political strength of public broadcasting. The outcome was never in doubt, unlike a fight two years ago when Republicans tried but failed to slash public broadcasting subsidies.

The move to kill subsidies for the CPB, which make up about 15 percent of its budget, was launched by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado.

Read the rest here.

And, if I may copy-paste from the digg thread:
Jesus, what NEXT? So far, this is the legacy of Bush: Ignored potent pre-9/11 intelligence Sat there like a bump after it happened, reading My Pet Goat Squandered global goodwill in the wake of 9/11 Invaded a sovereign nation that posed us no threat Destabilized the entire Middle East Gave up on fiding Bin Laden after swearing to bring him to justice Killed thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians Lied about WMD's Stacked his press corps with softball-lobbing yes men Manipulated pre-war intelligence to serve his own ends Lied about an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection "Mission Accomplished" Supported Jack Abramoff and Ken Lay then lied about it Promoted his cronies over those more qualified Allowed New Orleans to get wiped off the map Supported torture Suspended due process Suspended Habeus Corpus Outed a CIA agent whose husband criticized him Pardoned the fall guy who was scapegoated for it Ignores whatever laws he doesn't like Via "Signing Statements" Allowed his Attorney General to break the law and fire people he just didn't like Refuses to hold anyone accountable for any wrongdoing, including himself Keeps threatening to attack Iran And NOW he wants to kill Big Bird, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow and Jim Lehrer?


Essentially, the calls for impeachment are just the bratty whinings of the Libtard peanut gallery, with nothing really all that solid to substantiate them.

I've said it before, the Bush Admin's ship is sinking and I'm convinced at this point that he's in "Ahhh, screw it" mode, and no longer pretending to not have any sort of overt agenda. Trying to cut media outlets like PBS & NPR's funding makes sense. A better informed public is bad for homeland security, gives aid and comfort to the terrorists, and above all, isn't profitable. I'm surprised Bill Moyers hasn't been lumped in with Bin Laden.

That said, here's Endgame, an outstanding doc on Frontline.

On Dec. 19, 2006, President George W. Bush said for the first time that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq. It was a dramatic admission from a president who had insisted since the war began that things were under control.
Now, as the U.S. begins what the administration hopes is the final effort to secure victory through a "surge" of troops, Gen. Jack Keane, Col. William Hix, Col. H.R. McMaster, Maj. Thomas Mowle, State Department Counselor and other military and government officials talk to FRONTLINE about both the military and political events that have led up to the current "surge" strategy, in Endgame. The report is the fifth film in a series of Iraq war stories from FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk, including Rumsfeld's War, The Torture Question, The Dark Side and The Lost Year in Iraq. (more »)

ZEITGEIST
Stumbled on this doc last night. Lots of interesting food for thought, provided that you have a few grains of salt to go along with it. I'm still not sure what part one's "Bible-as-astrological allegory" has to do with the "9-11 was an inside job" angle of part two, as it reads more as a companion piece to say, Joseph Campbell's work on myths and archetypes across cultures.
That said, part three gets interesting, showing the connections between banks, war, and the incidents created to ensure that both flourish. Whether 9-11 was indeed an inside job or not, the Bush Admin pimped it to its fullest advantage, similar to the Reichstag Fire, Bay of Tonkin incident, or Pearl Harbour, and discusses the connections between big money and international turmoil.
Overall, it's worth watching, as long as you keep a combination of an open mind and the skepticism goggles on. It's definately not of the same caliber as The Power of Nightmares (which I will keep recommending ad nauseum) though it wins points for nary a mention of the Illuminati, Freemasons, Satanism or Bohemian Grove. One tinfoil hat at a time, please.

Ok, so dubstep is the new whatever, prone to die out and fizzle for the light-of-day types, while in basements where bassbins cause cumulative structural damage, it'll move directly to underground, literally and morph into something else in a while, and keep way more integrity to its sound than Justice*, Ed Banger and whatever else mashed-up rap-dirty-tech acid remixes float around like so much coked up twaddle, toxic smoke, ephemeral by definitiuon, and hey- the point is: so is hype. Trim notwithstanding, remember grime? Still kickin' and all, but genres -especially micro-genres- require transcendance by the talented few. Have you heard any of the new Dizzee Rascal yet? Nuff said.

Anyways.
Headphones. Be prepared for the monstrous bass, expecially at 18:30-ish, when it line drops over chopped-up old skool Amen breaks. Holy crap. Eyes closed and wishing to teleport to said grimy basement somewhere at 3:30 am, sweat on the walls and hazed out, a single strobe and dreamachine, total firetrap and worry in the back of your head-if only momentary-that a wayward roach or cherry by the couch could roast us all. And that's why we're here.
21-year-old Skream delivers the image, among others beyond my own nostalgic projections.

This cranky opinion is from a former junglist-for-a-minute who moved along into the hourlong premillenial anxiety attacks of darkstep drum and bass, and then far far away when it got too tech, too sci-fi, too otaku, too cartoonish, too phoned-in, whatever- too damn fast, and entirely devoid of the dub/funk/ragga-human element and into the combined soundtrack to some 15 year-old's ideal racing PS2 game and cocaine at it's ugliest(DieselBoy, I blame you- go hit up the d+b stations on your iTunes radio for exmples). Water's under the proverbial bridge, so it's interesting to revisit genres in the UK that have devolved, and in turn evolved, and come out with all of the familiar elements, the signposts, signifiers turned inside out. Interesting to think this all evolved from Blue-beat, Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae, etc.

BBC Radio, two hour set, occasional interruptions by the guy whose name rhymes with "It's All Gone____" and silky terror forthcoming.

* to be entirely fair- I'd still check Justice or the EB crew out live. For free of course. They look like they throw kickin' parties; it's like happy hardcore or really bad diva house:the experience of dancing and not giving a fuck, rather than the music would win out. And hopefully they leave Uffie at home.

Bonus Track:
As mentioned, and  heard on the now-removed June Mixtape---some Trim. MC with verging-on spoken-word abstract lyrics of the highest order since the Anti Pop Consortium's short blaze.

Also worth a listen:
Philip Sherburne drops a short&sweet minimal tech set on Allez-Allez. Podcastable and downloadable. Ice-cold, austere, but with a subtle undercurrent of funk and swing. Once again, headphones recommended. This has net repeated listens on the pod and when I want to get work done...what is it about techno that lends itself so well to process in typography, and Adobe CS2?

{[The July Mixtape]}
It's a go. .Zip file, Zshare, and whatnot.
As usual---this is among friends and all, and will be up for a short while. If , on the off chance that someone has a legal team trolling teh bloggyspheer for their tracks, rsvp and it shall be removed forthwith.

The July Mixtape will be a bit more of a spacey, mellow affair... It's summer after all; dusty funk, dub, folk, free jazz, some John Barry, 70s FM/AOR and where the hell did I put the Rizlas?

Hit it. Right here: 96 .zip'edMB of bliss. Notes: Tangerine Dream, well... I'm finally coming around to liking. Track 3 is where Stereo Total bit all their ideas. Francoise Hardy: goddess. Yellow Magic Orchestra- shocking to the palate at first, but then oh so sweet. "Soccer Superstar" came via WFMU....full post will give it context. Jarvis Cocker is still one of my heroes..

Well, here I am. Livejournal. Yup. Quite the party. Not sure about the DJ yet and I was under the impression that it was open bar. Harrumph.

Anyways.
I already have an ongoing blog, standardgreyeditions.blogspot.com, but I figured I might as well join the action here. Why? Two words: Copy. Paste. It's that easy. I love this web 2.0 stuff.

So, you're technically late for the party, if you just started reading this. Well, ok, not much of a party. Not a rager where the cops come, or the fire dept gets called because of the bar-b-que...more like a small gathering of friends, maybe some Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit while we take turns playing "stereo nazi". I'm getting old and boring now so thats all can really handle nowadays.

Actually, this is the first post, so no guests have showed up yet, and I'm not quite yet pacing around like Martha Plimpton in 200 Cigarettes...Just me here. And the crab dip.

Enough with the formalities. Today's post:
I'll butter you up with a mixtape. Mmmmm boy.



As an experiment, I made a cd-length mixtape- well, not an actual tape, but you get the idea- and i'm hosting it via Zshare and Rapidshare...so, if you want to know what's been on the phones the last few weeks, hit 'em up:

http://www.zshare.net/download/24347186e8baff/

or

http://rapidshare.com/files/39379339/june_mixtape.zip.html


Post-punk, old funk, mexican pop, anonymous 9-11 tribute recordings, NYC 80s electro/performance art, recent no-wave-house-noise, Mark E. Smith, UK grime, electronic, turkish psych, italian 60's pop, french yeh-yeh and some balkan fun. Oh yes. Mostly sourced through WFMU and other mp3 blogs, or from my own archives. Think of it as poor man's podcasting.

RSVP if you manage to download them, as I'm trying to figure out the best method for hosting sound files online. And I'll pull 'em in a short while as well.

Now, of course, the disclaimer: this is among friends for the sheer love of the music, so don't sue.

Oh yes-they're .zip files, (96.14MB), so if you have Stuffit, all the better.

enjoy!