A collection of ephemera. Technology, robots, lefty politics, fatherhood, but mostly music.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Warpaint - Billie Holliday
All-female neo-psych band from Los Angeles has been on the programs of many of the major festivals this last year. Here they do something more akin to the dream-pop of Cat Power. Pitchfork points out that this song "borrows" from Mary Wells' "My Guy."
Friday, October 28, 2011
City & Colour - Sometimes (I Wish)
Canadian Dallas Green. Neo-emo? Post-emo? No matter, the voice, tats, and little neck kerchief work just fine.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
My favorite sign
So Andrew Sullivan claims that OWS needs more finesse. This sign, and many like it, speak clearly and wryly, especially to the young who will be sustaining the whole thing.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
It's simple: Capitalism must be regulated
Michael Lewis on Fresh Air today: The market "has become an engine of unfairness." Lewis claims that the banks of Wall Street can no longer assess the risk of even their own investments. It's not only a big swindle, it's simply out of control and unable to rein itself in.
And the political enabling (by both parties) has become pathological:
And the political enabling (by both parties) has become pathological:
Government exists, apparently, only to serve the needs of the market. We are constantly told how the market needs this, or the market needs that, and how we have to personally massage the frightened egos of every last fucking investment house, wealthy person, corporate powerhouse and so on lest they take away our precious bubbling economy from us. We'll shut down government, or threaten to, on a seemingly regular basis now in ongoing attempts to gain some trivial new advantage for the investor class, or to snip away just a bit more from everybody else. -- "Hunter," Daily Kos
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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