Month: July 2014

  • This Land Is Mine

    This Land Is Mine

    I’ve been avoiding talking about Gaza not because I don’t care, it’s not even compassion fatigue, it’s more same shit, different genocide. I’ve been against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs for decades, but it does seem rather intractable, since as this wonderful video from Nina Paley points out, the land has been killed…

  • Cybergoth Polka

    Cybergoth Polka

    What’s with the butterfly spirally hands? And standing still? Very odd. In my day goths moped down the park drinking cider and black slowly from a bottle, scowling at everyone who passed by. How things have changed… Soundtrack is cool, and far better than the dark industrial oonce chik / oonce chik that’s on the…

  • Cue the piper! Play you bastard!

    Cue the piper! Play you bastard!

    As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)

  • Department of Dirty

    Department of Dirty

    Love this film from the ‘Department of Dirty’. Spotted Dick! The site has details about how to remove filters, and it’s worth checking to see if your site has been blocked in the UK.

  • Who is Friedrich Liechtenstein?

    Who is Friedrich Liechtenstein?

    It’s not a rhetorical question, stumbling Narnia-style through a door of German House producer Solomun, I see a dancing white bearded man, something a bit like that Fatboy Slim video for Bird of Prey, but with more panache, more style, more, well perve. Problem is my rusty German doesn’t totally translate this perfomance – a…

  • Shirley Collins and the Poor Murdered Woman

    Shirley Collins and the Poor Murdered Woman

    I love the fact that Alan Moore has made a video on the importance of Shirley Collins and the Kickstarter to make a film about her. I dug through my collection and the sole track I had on my computer was ‘Poor Murdered Woman’, but 5-star rated and a track I love. The story of…

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