Search results for: “African”
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Gaspar Nali from Malawi
This seems to be doing the rounds even though originally uploaded 5 years ago via a VK Russian re-upload, it’s Gaspar Nali from Nkhata Bay in Malawi playing his ‘babatone’ self-made instrument and singing in a dialect of Chichewa a song apparently called ‘Abale Ndikum Gem’ (thank you Google Translate). If African music has a…
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Films of Chris Marker
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments… Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” I seem to be late to this particular plane – almost 50 years late…but if it wasn’t for La Jetée appearing in a ‘Best 25 Time Travel Films’ – and being 26 minutes I’d have not checked it…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…
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Make Bono History & Sex Aid 30
Not original – Culturcide did this with We Are The World back in the 80’s but glad to see someone still pricking their supercilious charidee bubble. Better than ‘charity’ would these people all paying their tax – rather than Myleene Klass style moaning about tax and avoidance schemes like the entitled right-winger non-doms they are?…
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Cultural Appropriation Police
Not often I post a response to an article here, well, it always seems a little like hearing one-side of a conversation. But their comment system relies on Facebook (!), and given the fact I block the shit out of big bad Google and Fakebook I can’t actually comment. This article on ‘The Difference Between…
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UKIP if you like…
Oh it’s the gift that keeps giving, ridiculing UKIP. They started a #WhyIVotedUKIP hashtag on Twitter, and you can guess what happened next. These are some of my faves – the polls are closed (I voted Green for EU and Green/Labour btw) and it still rolls on. LULZ! #WhyImVotingUkip Because I'm worried black people will…