Month: June 2016
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)
What can I say about the shitshow that’s been this week? The horror of Orlando, and now the killing of Jo Cox, there just does seem to be some extremist kickback happening, from homophobia, Islamophobia to fascist scaremongering and actual violence. Division and a distinct possibility that UK will vote to leave Europe, leaving us…
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Donald Trump Japanese commercial
It’s a parody but it’s exceedingly odd one…it’s showing what would happen if Donald Trump became president…become a mecha robot and destroy the whole world, of course! (via Lumpy)
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Orlando: We’re Here, We’re Queer and We Will Not Live in Fear
I haven’t posted here about Orlando because a) I’ve been too gutted about the whole thing, a major attack on my community and b) it’s mostly been reposting what has been posted before. You’ll probably find that Jim Jefferies piece that is still going viral, surprised the Charlie Brooker piece hasn’t popped up yet (but…
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Cat’s Eyes
Not really come across Cat’s Eyes although of course I know Faris’s work with The Horrors, but I heard them interviewed on 6Music earlier…checking out the new album it’s really good, but this performance from 2011 from the Vatican stopped me in my tracks. Apparently via Rachel Zeffira’s former opera contacts she got a gig…
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2001: A Picasso Odyssey
When Deep Dream meets 2001 via Picasso…it gets scary. (via Lumpy) P.S. It’s sad now that the keywords you get when you put in Picasso are all to do with car manufacturers. *sigh*