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.

Reading is funda-metal

Adam Collins-Toruella from Pesanta Urfolk is in Lux Interna, a dark/drone Americana band.



They might not be metal per se, though Pesanta is kinda a metal label. Metal's edges are blurrier than ever. Which makes the old saw "I listen to anything but metal" (PDF) a little harder to pull off. That paper is about social constructions of identity through musical taste — basically, by not listening to metal you're saying that you're not like one of those poxy fules of lower-class economics and combat boots.

That's supported by the class implications for omnivorous music listening. I've long held that petit bourgeois have either the money without the taste or the taste without the money; I fall into the latter, I hope.



Every search engine's a critic.

Christoffer Relander does in-camera "double exposures" that stand out through strong black and white composition.

These are the twist-tie warriors I always wanted as a kid.

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."

Noise, libertarians, photographs, gossip

godheadSilo's "Elephantitis of the Night"

In which Crooked Timber asks well-meaning libertarians to abandon their vestigial nonsense.

And relatedly, Megan McArdle calls someone an economic idiot, and is rebuked for her irony.

Babel Tales by Peter Finch, a series of photographs where similar urban subjects are stitched together.


Hanna Putz's milk white Europeans.

A fascinating discussion of the multiple narratives of the "TomKat" divorce.

We made a name for what you like

I think that the label "noise pop" as applied by these guys to to make the 100 Essential Noise Pop Songs list is so broad that it's meaningless, but I do like every song on the mix, which never happens.

So I'm going to be posting 100 more noise pop songs, which will just be stuff I like too, for every year that they did. It's not better or anything, just more. (Plenty of them are the songs I woulda picked first.)

1970 through '80

1970:

Their pick:



Velvet Underground, "Rock and Roll."



Confusions, "Voice From the Inner Soul."

1972:

Their pick:



Big Star, "The Ballad of El Goodo."

My pick:



Roxy Music, "Re-Make/Re-Model"

1980:

Their pick:



The Feelies, "The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness."

My pick:



Pylon, "Feast on My Heart."

(to be continued…)

Unclench

Half the time I feel like the Death Grips are right down my alley, what with noize beats and alt rap. The other half the time, I think I'm judging them on targets they're not aiming for, like that the dude's flow would suck if he was a rapper, and that it's not too far from Die Krupps and all the rivethead shit I listened to in high school. They're seriously one thin membrane from Frontline Assembly meets Rage Against the Machine on the Judgment Night soundtrack sometimes. I feel like I just can't step far enough away from the band to think about them objectively (which is kinda weird itself, since I don't know them).

Colonozzcopy?

Yes, CBS is actually running a contest where the grand prize is hanging out with Ozzy Osbourne in New York and getting a colonoscopy. According to the ad, it's Ozzy's secret fantasy.

WTF?

Tips for teens!

American Life League bravely expose the perv agenda at Planned Parenthood. Lols abound.

Oh, Whitney

Rainy day music

Julian Lynch's Mercury


Au Revior Simone's Another Likely Story (Neon Indian remix)

Vote Canada, eh?

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.

JUCHE!

As we all remember Dear Leader today, we should touch on some of his greatest hits:



Orchestrating mass dancing to LMFAO's Party Rock showed the great cultural currency of the DPRK.

And who can forget North Korea's dialectical sexuality?

But really, it was Kim Jong Il's Livejournal and IM logs that gave us the most personal portrait of the man.

"No, you're not!"

Karl Rove gets Mic Checked by #OccupyBaltimore and doesn't seem to understand math.

From Fox's cutting room floor

#OccupyWallSt member gives cogent, articulate criticism of Fox News and media coverage. Fox doesn't air it.

Weekend link dump

Was Edward IV illegitimate?

Pink hair was hip in the '20s and early '60s.

Bad Indians, a swirly, shimmery indie band from Ann Arbor.

TEETH make a mix for Vice, including Marble Mummy (another Michigan fave).

Ten inconvenient truths about the debt ceiling from Crooks And Liars (with lots of graphs).

Lil Weezy "I Took Her. (Just jump into the playlist.)

More on framing

With Benny Lava (Prabhu Deva).

The power of framing

Singh discusses the power of framing; try it yourself here with a collection of backmasked tunes.

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.