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Of course after my roof stops leaking for ten days I decide it's okay to put the room back together. And then it starts leaking again.

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⋅ The CIA Created The Hippie Movement in the 1960’s. « AfterAmerica's Blog

Ridiculous article alleging sinister connections in lots of late 60s rock musicians because of family connections. Well-written, if insane, and entertaining if not to be taken seriously.

⋅ - AiR Bergen
⋅ click opera - Crap is a load of books

Momus on Salinger.

⋅ #HealthCareFAIL: How The Dems Botched Their Signature Legislation | TPMDC
⋅ ‘First they called me a joker, now I am a dangerous thinker’ - All That Matters - Sunday TOI - Home - The Times of India

India Times interviews Zizek.

⋅ Melville House Publishing | How to Wreck a Nice Beach

This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage. In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase "how to recognize speech"—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin's gulags, from the 1939 World's Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.

⋅ Philip K. Dick in Orange County, a stranger in a strange land | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times

The last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a (to borrow from Robert Heinlein) stranger in a strange land. Today, we begin a six-part series looking at those final years. The series is written by Scott Timberg, the L.A. freelance journalist who runs the West Coast culture blog the Misread City. He's also a longtime (albeit sometimes closeted) fan of science fiction

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Bat Tarbet 'noses' live video excerpt

posted about 1 year ago

Bat Tarbet "noses" from last week. We'll be performing again at Kokoteattri in Kruunuhaka, Helsinki on the 15th of March with the Shitty Listeners.

tags: bat_tarbet, frontpage, performance, video

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