Tag: Writers
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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RTJ Cumbia Ooh La La
Loving this new remix of Run The Jewels – Ooh La La, real Cumbia/Mariachi/Mexican flavour and introduced me to Santa Fe Klan aka Ángel Quezada, the rapper and singer wielding an accordion in the video. Now, accordions are like instant bait to me, so I had to check out Santa Fe Klan’s other videos –…
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Public Enemy Rhythm Scholar mix
Chuck D himself said share this, and I can see why, nice remix of Public Enemy by Rhythm Scholar with RATM-inspired guitar riffs from Sami Turunen and video from TravAlma which is a bit of a history lesson – I’d certainly not heard of Farrakhan and probably Malcolm X til I heard PE records.
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Protect Restore Fund
Love this video from Great Thunberg, George Monbiot and WWF. Good message and beautifully done… People think it’s too late… It isn’t. Weird how people freaked out at Y2K and 2012 and ignore a real disaster around the corner. And unlike those events even if it is a false alarm we end up with a…
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Barefaced Greek
Talking as I was in the last post of taking culture to children, I went to a discussion at Senate House about the work of Barefaced Greek, who aimed originaly to take ancient greek texts and make short videos for 14-15 year olds, although it seems they have a wider audience now. They are in…
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American study finds file sharers buy 30% more music not less
This study’s findings isn’t new nor the first music sharing study to find this fact out. But still the music industry says the bug eyed monster is file sharing and sues it’s most fervent fans for sharing music which actually leads to more sales, not less. This has been proved also in other digital markets…