Germans, synths, ontology, rap, who knows

Is Germany "Hanging on to Mutti," with reflexive conservatism letting Merkel slide into another term?


Beyond the Black Rainbow

Chance the Rapper — 10Day.


Nicholas Galanin

As Prop. 8 comes back into the news, the Prop. 8 Report is worth reading.




Broken Houses by Ofral Apid.

Toys That Kill have an album out, uh, new last year.

Wait, really? That many tabs?

What would have happened if people refused police sweeps in Boston.

Delicatessen With Love is another project from Gabriela Galimberti about grandmas and food.

Gerhard Richter's Atlas Sheet 11, 1963.

Innovative Leisure's blog.

Markov Spam Poetry

He raised his hands in laughing protest.
She smiled at him as one would at a conceited child.
Who is most wonderfully versed in war.
Messenger. These letters come from your father.
The formidable beak of a cuttlefish was open over Ned Land.
Thou needest not his cure.
At this moment Coupeau entered.
Raskolnikov continued to look at him in silence.
Why he was the last of the Gray Dogs is now to be told.
Chicago began to have visions of winning the pennant.
Clinton, Sir Henry, campaigns.
Shearer cast a glance at the river. He needed to be told no more.
THE WAR IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
On Him, existence without hope has closed.
Ye wait for his inspiration.
Elsie explained to her what was wanted.
ENSEMBLE. She will tend him etc.
Gent. She is importunate, indeed distract.
Perfetta. It really was too bad.
It is my duty, Major.
VOUS ETES. VOUS ETES ALLEMAND ET VOUS VENEZ CHANTER A LA FOIRE.
Il sent sa laideur fondre a ces mots de soleil. . .
Into the hidden corners of the past.
Ein blutig Opfer fuer der Griechen Heil.
And God reposed within her virgin heart.
And fling off hope, and enter at the gate.
Empire national anthems.
His day is marching on.
Tennessee by the pioneers.
The poor wretch only howled.
What this detested Jacobin hath done.
Majorca was obedient to the third.
Having been hitherto accustomed to obey, I ventured to dismiss Mr.
Monitor of Thuringia.
Because he did not of his Rome despair.
But Peggy was not to be drawn away.
She broke into a ripple of laughter.
Donal opened the window, took up the cabinet, and threw it out.
The graves of me mateys there, the grim, sour graves.
Stafford turned with a wave of the hand towards Copplestone.
Presently he roused himself, and began to look about again.
All safe. Then gave he quick commands to all.
Her words startled him.

Crash Course in Great Gatsby.

Maybe I'll get my cameras fixed here.

Sub $50 fountain pens.

Did I say eschersketch before?

Recess Records on soundcloud.

Nice LA darkroom.

How "The Fucking Hipster Show" devalues structural communication about class and gentrification.

Two plants from one genome — plants are weird.

Options for the court on marriage.

OH MAN THAT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED IRS THING what with the NAACP under Bush.

Basquiat money laundering.

This should satisfy your need to read things for a while.

An Ann Arborite makes good on dreamy electronica.

Jordan Harper's death songs (with my picture).

Jen Schradie on 7 Myths of the Digital Divide.

Weird covers by musical spammers.

New Underground Railroad to Candyland record!.

Julie d'Aubigny was pretty awesome.

What if we never run out of oil?

Looking at Thai people looking at great works of Western art.

Teach yourself math and physics!

100 Abandoned Detroit Houses.

Faig Ahmed makes crazy awesome carpets.

I want to eat tofu here.

Creepier than Reddit users having kids? What their kids say.

An rss add-on may get me to flip-flop my work/fun browsers.

Flappers were cooler than Baz Luhrman can imagine.

Drugs for dreaming?

Buzzfeed on "weird twitter."

Philosophical implications of computational complexity (I WILL READ THIS LATER).

Rap Genius annotates the Great Gatsby.

Why you should read Uncle Tom's Cabin instead of Huck Finn. I disagree, but good essay.

Misogyny in industrial music.

Polyhedronisme is a polyhedron toy that you can use for 3-d printing.

Eschersketch is a tesselation toy that is fantastic.

I keep it fresh with my linkdumps

Gary Winograd's street shots: Mirror of self or world?

DJ Bonez McCoy's Trill Ass Car Mix vol. 10 or so.

Guess what? We tortured people. National shame.

BWOMP BEATS JEEP MUSIC.

A whole goddamn LFO album:


Do Afghan Women Need Saving? Interesting paper on relativism, autonomy and futility.

LA as Subject Weekly.

Interview on internet communities, circa '96.

Volokh folks on Miranda and Boston Bombers. More on Miranda and Boston.

Electrical banana and psych art.

Don't let Boston fool us into thinking war hawks are right.

Digital Public Library.

Glenn Greenwald on "why call Boston terrorism?" vis a vis other recent mass killers.

Elizabeth Harper KILLING IT 'All the Saints You Should Know' on feminism and self-mortification. Seriously, if I didn't know her, I'd have this up on MeFi tout de suite.

Residential art signs by Stanley Marsh. Marsh is best known for the Cadillac Stonehenge in Amarillo, Tx.

Topoquilts (note: Steal this idea.)

Rosa by Grimes. I didn't like Grimes when I first heard her, but finding out she doesn't always do the ethereal voice stuff (which sounds too much like Christmas music from children to me) has made me interested in finding more.

I don't always have 40 tabs open

Deerhunter finally sounds like what I always wanted from Deerhunter albums: A bit more crunch.



"Bunnystyle" K-Pop from D:



Hackers automate hack writing.

Even though it never really goes anywhere, it's a great beat.



Ruth Barcan Marcus on consistency and dilemmas (TL;DR — inconsistencies are inherent to any moral structure). Also she should wrestle as "Barkin' Marcus," since that's a great name.

Black Tamborine fuzz pop yeah



Sun Dial fuzzy yeah but more My White Bicycle kinda psych.



The Boredoms and Fall are a bad sell for Go Genre Everything, but they're still good. They're rock with some Aussie Lora Logic vocals.

Remember the Iraq War? The Washington Post would like to politely not.

Marriage for same-sex couples via state's rights might be pyrrhic.

VICE, AIDS, Disney musicals.

The social science of our vicious, weird, gouge-y forebears .

If you've ever had a hankering for some kinda hallucinated nostalgia for a more innocent Ke$ha, Charlie XCX fills that contemporary desire.



What kind of data can we gather from internet usage in authoritarian regimes? (TL;DR: Who knows, but here're some interesting inferences.)

Bitch Magazine on traditional marriage.

Code Cartooning. Itsa tumblr.

The new The Knife album the shit.



The Dalai Lama got paid by the CIA. Also, Tibet/theocracies: Fucked up? Yeah.

The 100 most influential singles of the '60s. Yeah, it's Some Guy's List, but I'm enjoying listening to these and seeing him make his case. God love the internet.

Awesome Tapes from Africa is exactly that.

Post election link dump!

I need to close some browser tabs:

A staggering indictment of the GOP by a moderate voter.

GOP turnout app codenamed ORCA was a fail whale.

Prezzy cries when thanking staff.

Krugman: Let's go off the fiscal cliff gradual fiscal slope.

Will the GOP respond to electoral whuppage by getting more moderate? No. GOP be crazy.

Part of the problem is that they're in a received wisdom circle-jerk.

And Jennifer Rubin was up Romney's ass to the hackiest extent.

More on how lying to yourself leads to delusion.

Of course, if the goal is to get FOX ratings, the GOP won big — Ailes wags the dog.

But it's all magical thinking anyway.

And Schadenfreude tastes so sweet.

Fordham pres. pushes back against Coulter.

Also: Dems may be feckless goobs when it comes to governing, but damn they competent at running a campaign.

Happy Halloween.

Linkdumb

Hookworms' Form and Function is fuzzy indie psych.

Naomi Punk is good power pop from Portland.

Pus Mortem by Black Pus freaked out my coworkers. It's on the Jesus Lizard/Pissed Jeans axis.

Punk dance new wave waaaagh too much

Cristina Garcia Rodero.







One of the canvassers met Robert Rosencrantz, whogunned down a kid who tormented Rosencrantz for being gay. She just left a note that said, "Google him!"

The Atlantic on the history of anti-gay therapy.







Do Romney and Ryan Have a Larger Purpose?

UC Davis on anti-gay therapy.

History of psychology and LGBT.

Get it out!

Phillip Bond draws female astronauts.

OBAMACARE as a comic from Yo Burbalino!



Bill Moyers calling out conservatives with SuperPACs. I kinda love him.



Lux Interna's "Wounded Stag."

Digestion aids eaters and readers

Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality in Respond Magazine.

Some interesting points: Freud had a weird view toward the causes of homosexuality, but repeatedly supported full inclusion of LGBT folk into professional societies and didn't think that being gay was a disorder. He rather treated it more like being crippled — not desirable, but not grounds for exclusion. Which was a progressive attitude for the time.

18 Secret LA Gardens in Curbed.

I think this will be handy the next time I have to take visitors around LA. Rooftop gardens are a lot more fun than the Walk of Fame, in that you can actually visit them on purpose without being in the way of everyone trying to actually use the city.

Concord Art Space has open drawing every Monday night.

I meant to go, but forgot. Maybe I will remember next week.

HRLA or Human Resources LA.

It's a contemporary art and performance space that seems to favor the beardos.

Google Map of 25 Alternative Art Spaces in LA.

Another place to take visitors (or, a lot of places but I tend to think of art spaces as kinda fungible — I'll go see almost any art).

Little Magazines index.

If I had infinite art resources, I'd love to run a "little magazine" of pomo art shit. But I'd need more time and money in my life, something unlikely to happen.

How water freezes.

It's actually kinda mindblowingly cool. There's a lot of different ice. Though Ice 9 was pretty disappointing in real life.

Something Awful collects Political Rap.

Oh, earnest political nonsense plus pop culture modes makes for hilarity.

Kill Radio's Nat'l Bag.

This is Amanda's show; I listen when I write.

Weekend roundup

Tupac vs. jazz is surprisingly good.

What tying basic goods to debt means about our claims for society.

Human tendency to be risk averse works against conservative dogma.



Wooden Shjips heard you bought some acid.

Out of print Guggenheim catalogs now free on the internet, art nerds.

US Chamber of Commerce proves that there's more than one kind of corporate stooge by hobbling new businesses in order to prolong the obsolete.



I've played this song about thirty times this weekend. George McCrae is worth it. I get lifted.

Reading room

From Obama and Geithner, no real fixes for fraudonomics. Matt Taibbi questions whether the executive is serious about dealing with systemic financial abuses.

The Nation looks at how climate change became a key plank in the anarcho-capitalist kulturkampf, and whether we're willing to pay the price to save our planet.

Speaking of capitalism, Matt Stoller, author of Naked Capitalism, points out ideological problems that Ron Paul highlights for the liberal establishment. (I tend to think that Stoller oversells the efficacy of Paul's critique of central authority's expression in military-industrial terms, but it's a good, brief essay about a thousand times more coherent and less cherry-picked than Glenn Greenwald's customary hate-on for Obama that linked to it.)

Similar to Stoller's discussion of historical plates in American liberalism, Haaretz looks at shifts in the Israeli left, in the context of the Occupy protests.

And speaking of Occupy, this (now outdated) article from The Nation, "Hard Times at Occupy Boston, looks at the problems of small self-government and describes some of the challenges that were overlooked in the national unsympathetic coverage.

Noise, inequality and more!

All of the Midwest noise band Duotron's Mp3s for free, along with music from the same folks as Monotrona, Dot Dot Dot and MATH.

Nestor Makhno was an anarchist who fought against both the Whites and the Reds in the Russian Revolution. Since finishing Orwell's Homage To Catalonia, I've been on a big anarchism kick.

Also, Lyube wrote a song about him. Maybe I can get AK and Her Kalashnikovs to perform it (though I have no idea what the lyrics mean).



Speaking of anarchists, Wikipedia's Post-Left Anarchy is interesting, even if all contemporary anarchists strike me as dilettantes and posers.

Machinegun Kelly reps Cleveland ("Come and see both of our buildings") over tight, hooky beats. I wish Matt G would tighten up and rep this hard.

Subjective Well-being and the Curse of Conspicuous Consumption finds that in rural India, people's attempts to keep up with the Joneses sabotage their long-term happiness.

Also, still lovin' Das Racist.

Linkdump Wednesday!

Spectral Layers from DIVIDE FRAME on Vimeo.

A remarkably clear-headed rendering of the Oxford comma thing.

Highwayman's exploits bound in his own skin.

Local time, Seoul.





Fashion It So does TNG pr0n.



Has feminism gone too far? Is there any hope?

American Utopianism.

Cy Twombly photography book.

Seth Lower's Diamonds are Forever.

Link dump: Impartiality, the N word, batting averages

Truth-out nails Wisconsin supreme court justice Prosser and his partisan dealings.

People who said "nigger" today. They all look pretty much like you'd guess.

Offense is down across baseball. New pitcher's era?

Monday Morning Link Dump!

MoJo does inequality.


Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, home of Earl Sweatshirt.


Porn machete murders.

Top Six LULZ from Koch punking.

Full text of A History of Jury Trials by Forsythe.

When did kids get stupid, exactly? 1985. Which seems about right to me. I was educated stupid.

Despite somebody lecturing me about how "Beyond the pale" was racist (or at least anti-semetic), it's not.



Ted Serios, charlatan psychic but pretty good photographer.

Another zombie playlist, mostly worth it for reminding me of "Knuck if you Buck."

Bikeroots article in the LA Weekly did Alex no favors but I'm probably voting for Box anyway. I voted for Nader in 2000 too, so I might be too dumb to vote.

Weekend link dump!

Best LP covers category: nude

S-S Records catalog

Zilch, dice game

Ryan McGinley, photographer

Swear like a Mexico City Mexican