Month: June 2014
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Goodbye goodbye goodbye, Gerry Goffin
Sadly the porpoise is waiting: Gerry Goffin the songwriter has died – with Carole King he wrote some amazing songs. I’ve posted Porpoise Song before when Davy died, so here’s another, Goin’ Back performed by Dusty Springfield who recorded quite a few Goffin/King songs. And No Easy Way Down, which ties for my favourite Dusty…
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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A Little Dog Named Snuggles: remix Negativland
Remix/cutup types will love this – in honour of the death* of Shaggy, aka Casey Kasem, Negativland have posted the parts to download and remix at your pleasure for their infamous and litigious ‘The Letter U and the Numeral 2’ from 1991. This saw them lock horns with U2 and their record company who got…
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Internet famous and expectations of fame
Love this video by Innuendo Studios analysing one case of ‘internet fame’ and meltdown, specifically Phil Fish who made Fez. The irony is all the people in the comments who haven’t actually watched the video, or missed the point completely and come to grumble about a few ‘internet famous’ people. Clue: the video is not…
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You Too CHOON of the summer
Saw this – Para One’s You Too via Seapunkgang and this has summer hit all over it, and love the 90’s dance show video. Piano chords FOREVER.
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Tupac Man
Love these images from BuffaloBillGates. Simple but effective (via DJ MiF)