Friday, April 19, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Sand
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
Sand
from the lp Nancy and Lee
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
Some Velvet Morning
from the lp Nancy and Lee
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Narkomanie
Gerechtigkeits Liga
Narkomanie
from the lp Hypnotischer Existenzialusmus
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Media Distortion
Gerechtigkeits Liga
Media Distortion
from the lp Hypnotischer Existenzialismus
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Evolution and the End
Gerechtigkeits Liga
Evolution and the End
from the lp Hypnotischer Existenzialismus
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Psychic TV: First Transmission #2
Psychic TV: First Transmission #2
video from Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (1982)
Psychic TV: First Transmission Part 4
Psychic TV: First Transmission Part 4
video from Thee Temple of Psychick Youth (1982)
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Psychic TV: First Transmission
Psychic TV: First Transmission
short video featuring "Ritual ov Psychick Youth"
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth: Eden 3 Edit
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth: Eden 3 Edit
short film featuring Brion Gysin, Jim Jones, Genesis P-Orridge & Peter Chrsitopherson
Friday, April 12, 2019
Essay: The Library
What on earth would something aspiring to be a 10,000-year library be good for? One answer might be that it would provide, and even embody, the long view of things, where responsibility is said to reside. Another would be that it could conserve the information needed from time to time for the deep renewals of renaissance. The added element is that 10,000 years is an extremely long view, during which time there are likely to be profound cataclysms requiring many-levelled renewal. Building real value into a 10,000-year library could be an intellectual adventure as challenging as space travel.
Read the full article on The Long Now Foundation HERE
FIRST ISRAELI SPACECRAFT TO MOON HAD SECRET MISSION: TAKE 30-MILLION-PAGE LIBRARY INTO SPACE TO PRESERVE CIVILIZATION
The first Israeli mission to the moon carried a secret cargo, a small metal disk that contains the building blocks of human civilization in 30 million pages of information
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
The Velvet Underground
Heroin
from the lp Unripened: The Norman Dolphin Acetate
The Latin Typo That Gave Us the Temple of Ridicule
Ancient Rome never had an “Aedicula Ridiculi,” but plenty of people thought it did.
Stanley Kubrick Explains Why People Don’t Understand Nuclear Threats in ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Documentary
In a new documentary accompanying a re-release for the film, the filmmaker's words are timelier than ever.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Puputan in Bali: Choosing Mass Suicide Over Servitude
By the beginning of the 20th century, Dutch
colonialists had conquered most of the archipelago now known as the
nation of Indonesia. The islands of Sumatra, Jawa, Borneo, Sulawesi,
Maluku, and Lombok were all under the control of the Dutch government
for the sake of the merchants running the Dutch East India Company.
The tiny island of Bali was coming under their control too. The
northern part was being managed by two puppet rajas who had been
coerced into submitting to Dutch authority. The only piece of the
island left for domination was the south. The rajas in that area were
faced with a choice between death with dignity or servitude.
In 1900, the Dutch military invaded the port town of Sanur. A
dispute broke out between the Dutch and the Raja of Denpassar because
a Chinese merchant ship had been destroyed off the coast; the owners
wanted money for their loss and the Dutch, who were probably the ones
who destroyed it to begin with, tried to blame the Raja and force him
to pay. The Rajah refused and the two sides continued to argue over
this for two years. By that time the Dutch had built up a large army
and imported enough guns to make them sufficiently strong for combat.
They decided the time was right to collect the money they said was
owed to the Chinese merchants but more likely they used that as a
pretext for attacking the last stronghold of the Balinese.
One night they stormed the Raja’s palace in Denpasar and set
it on fire. The guards tried to defend it but, armed only with spears
and the ceremonial knives they call krises, it quickly became
apparent that they had no chance against the Dutch. The Raja
commanded them to stop fighting and the Dutch looted the palace,
taking all the most valuable possessions.
The next morning at dawn, while the palace continued to burn,
the Dutch troops amassed at the edge of the town, ready to strike.
The Raja of Denpasar called his subjects to a meeting. The Hindu
priests induced everyone, young, old, man, woman, and child into a
trance. They formed a phalanx led by the Raja, seated on a sedan
carried by four men, carrying a gold umbrella as the symbol of Hindu
royalty. He was followed by women with their black hair flowing
freely over their shoulders and wearing nothing but jewel encrusted
loincloths and carrying spears and jeweled krises. They were followed
by the men and children dressed the same way and carrying the same
weapons. The Dutch saw them coming and commanded them to stop or be
killed. The Balinese continued to march. As they got closer, the
Dutch tried to negotiate with the Raja who refused to speak. The
Balinese people, still in their trances, walked directly into the
crowd of armed soldiers who parted rather than attack. The Balinese,
in a frenzy, began stabbing blindly in every direction so the Dutch
began shooting. Soon most of the women and men were dead. Several
women continued trying to stab the soldiers and they were shot point
blank. Another band of Balinese people began approaching, most of
them elderly people and children. The Dutch put down their guns and
pleaded with them to stop. The new band of Balinese then started to
stab themselves with their krises. The soldiers tried to grab ahold
of some children to prevent them from hurting themselves but the kids
were in a trance and were strong enough to disembowel themselves
while the Dutch soldiers looked on. By the end of the day, all the
Balinese people were dead and no Dutch soldiers had lost their lives;
only one Dutch man had a wound on his arm from being stabbed. The
first Balinese puputan, meaning “mass ritual suicide”, had ended.
That same day, another army of Dutch men marched on the
neighboring village of Pemecutan. As they approached, they saw the
Raja had set his own palace on fire. The elderly man was carried on a
gold sedan, wearing flowing yellow robes. He was followed by several
of his wives and the chieftains who served under him. The chieftains
began firing some guns they had acquired. Then they stopped as the
Dutch returned fire, killing the entire group. The second puputan of
the Balinese colonial era had occurred.
That night, the demoralized Dutch soldiers set about cremating
the corpses of the dead Balinese.
The next day, a young man came to the Dutch military garrison
and claimed that he had missed the previous day’s mass suicide due
to his being away on business. He asked the Dutch soldiers to shoot
him. They refused so he took out his kris and stabbed himself in the
heart until he died.
Two days later, the Raja of Tabanan came to meet with the Dutch
colonial administrators. He carried a green umbrella, the Balinese
symbol of political surrender. He offered his submission on the
ground that he be allowed to keep his title and palace while being
allowed to collect taxes from his subjects. He would agree to be yet
another puppet raja, subject to the dictates of the Dutch colonial
masters. The administrator told him he would have to go into exile
while they discussed the matter with their superiors in the Dutch
government. Believing this to be a ruse that would lead to his
imprisonment in the nearby penal colony on Lombok, the raja returned
home. The next day all his wives and children were found dead in a
pool of blood with krises in their hands. The Raja’s corpse lay
nearby; he had slit his own throat just like the other members of his
family. The third Balinese puputan was over.
Finally, after a couple more days, the Raja of Klungkung,
refusing to surrender, was approached by the Dutch military. Like the
mass suicide in Denpasar but just a little smaller, the villagers
were either shot while attacking Dutch soldiers or killed by their
own hands by stabbing themselves and slitting their own throats with
their krises. The fourth, and final, puputan of Bali had finished,
The Dutch had conquered Bali, though in the end, they saw it as
a grey victory, surviving under the shadow of their own shame. Being
believers in reincarnation, the Hindus of the island would believe
that the mass suicide victims had gone on together with their rajas
to be reborn in a better place, under better circumstances, rewarded
for their loyalty and devotion to their beloved leaders. The Balinese
had decided that suicide was better than servitude.
Covarrubias, Miguel. Island of Bali. Periplus, 1973.
Butthole Surfers - live on The Scott & Gary Show
Butthole Surfers
live on The Scott & Gary Show 1984
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
How Amazon's Algorithms Created a Dystopian Bookstore
AMONG THE BEST-SELLING books in Amazon’s Epidemiology category are several anti-vaccine tomes. One has a confident-looking doctor on the cover, but the author doesn’t have an MD—a quick Google search reveals that he’s a medical journalist with the “ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute.” Scrolling through a simple keyword search for “vaccine” in Amazon’s top-level Books section reveals anti-vax literature prominently marked as “#1 Best Seller” in categories ranging from Emergency Pediatrics to History of Medicine to Chemistry. The first pro-vaccine book appears 12th in the list. Bluntly named “Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism,” it’s the only pro-vaccine book on the first page of search results. Its author, the pediatrician Peter Hotez, a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine , has tweeted numerous times about the amount of abuse and Amazon review brigading that he’s had to fight since it was released.
Emily - My Wife She Loved the Butcher
Emily
My Wife She Loved the Butcher
from the cassette I'Ve Got a Steel Bar in My Head
Did Rod Serling’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Use Sci-Fi to Push Politics Past Network Censors?
Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” reboot led to claims that it was either “newly political” or upholding Serling’s legacy.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Negativland - Christianity Is Stupid
Negativland
Christianity Is Stupid
from the lp Escape from Noise
Taking the Top Off His Skull: The Genesis of J.G. Ballard’s Crash
In the opinion of many, including its author, Crash can be considered J.G. Ballard’s finest work. A special hardback edition of the novel, Crash: the Collector’s Edition, is due for publication on 6 April 2017, edited by Chris Beckett, archivist for the Ballard papers at the British Library. In anticipation of Fourth Estate’s new edition, Mike Holliday takes a look at the development of the ideas that lay behind this, the most notorious of Ballard’s books.
Black Randy and the Metrosquad - I Slept In an Arcade
Black Randy and the Metrosquad
I Slept In an Arcade
from the lp Pass the Dust I Think I'm Bowie
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
THE ART OF BOXING: GEORGE BELLOWS
George Bellows is of the Ashcan School and the school of hard knocks: both institutions are rooted in realism. Bellows' interest in boxing coincided with the rise of other realists, though of different dimensions. The author Jack London and president Teddy Rooseveltwere ascendent, immensely popular figures with turn of the century, hardscrabble Americans. At the time London was writing, Roosevelt was bullying, and Bellows was painting, the sport of boxing was drawing immense crowds across the country.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Why 'ji32k7au4a83' Is a Remarkably Common Password
For too many people, moving the digits around in some variation of Patriots69Lover is their idea of a strong password. So you might expect something complicated like” “ji32k7au4a83” would be a great password. But according to the data breach repository Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), it shows up more often than one might expect.
What's wrong with big data?
The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.
Read the full article by James Bridle HERE on New Humanist
Read the full article by James Bridle HERE on New Humanist
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (Dominant Mix)
Dominatrix
The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (Dominant Mix)
Friday, March 29, 2019
'It scared the hell out of people': Looking back at Three Mile Island 40 years ago
he day was March 28, 1979, a date etched in the memories of those who lived through what would transpire in the following days, weeks and years, the date of the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the United States.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
This is the German company behind the nightmarish phone cases on Amazon
Eczema-ridden hands, old men in diapers or a good old-fashioned butt plug are just three of some 30K motifs that “my-handy-design” was hawking to users. Up until a few days ago, the uncouth motifs were available on Amazon, and also caused quite the stir in the international press. OMR found out who’s behind the coup and also explains just how the “my-handy-design” phenomenon is indicative of the current state of Online Marketing.
Read the full article on OMR HERE
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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