Month: October 2014
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Radical Face – The Mute
This song and video by Radical Face reminds me a lot of my childhood, more than it should… (Radical Face via Counter Sparkle)
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Priceless – spammer posts dataset
In what has to be a classic act, a spammer on one of my sites has accidentally posted most if not all of the dataset in creating their spams. In one sense it makes a strange kind of poetry, a choose-your-own fiction for the 21st century. You can see the logic in how they slightly…
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21 Songs for John Peel
In a few weeks it will be 10 years since the unfortunate death of John Peel. So it seems totally appropriate that there is a new compilation remembering John Peel from Unwashed Territories including a new 2014 drum and bass version of The Nation Needs You by Cuban Boys and new and rare tracks from…
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Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day!
Here’s one for the unspecial snowflakes, the unique happy happy unicorn types. “Lesley the Pony goes on a fun-filled adventure through the town of Merryville while making lasting memories with his friend, The Duke.” – yup that sums it up. And catchy too. “Lesleeeey, emotionally void and tickling elves, chasing chubby babies in the rain,…
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BUTCH
I love these portraits by Meg Allen from a series called BUTCH, exploring female masculinity and those “who relate to and claim the term BUTCH”. Really wonderful, and challenging the usual notions of gender and beauty since it includes those who are “bull-daggers, dykes, manly women and female husbands”, “baby butches, young studs, gender queers,…
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Cassetteboy Cameron’s Rap
Lose Yourself in the Cuts woah, Benefits! Freeze! Sugar, Right Lines Pure as the Driven Low…Cassetteboy is back and on form with this Tory Conference video. Everything Dave says here is sadly true. (via Steve SPR) And as the comment points out, as of this week parody videos are now legal in the UK. Well…