December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via tzarevitch)
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via ambitioussurvival)
Dec 28th
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I apologise for the quality. This was the best I could find from Robert Mugge’s documentary online. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins plays G-man at Harvey Fite’s architectural sculpture Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY, with Clifton Anderson (trombone), Marc Soskin (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass) and a drummer whose name I couldn’t find.
Dec 28th
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The trailer to Robert Mugge’s documentary Saxophone Colossus (1986), about legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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PPOdd.info Post-Punk Oddities →
A blog I found a few days back which displays the most obscure and/or bizarre of the creative, anarchic post-punk bands of the late 1970s/early 1980s, including, of course the Neue Deutsche Welle, apparently curated by a Berliner, Filtig. Each band name is completed with an album cover, a short history of the band, and a symbolic song. They are organised alphabetically, each letter, a page. ...
Dec 25th
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So I got myself another music blog, Entartete... →
It’s from now on where I’ll put most music I find here on tumblr, provided it sounds interesting, and which will do as a playlist while I work my papers away this next week. (degeneratemusic.tumblr.com) Most original posts will keep going through here.
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Somewhat related to my previous post, This is Underground (1995), Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (here on IMDB), directed and written by Emir Kusturica, from a story by Dušan Kovačević. The film uses the epic story of two friends to portray and satirise the history of Yugoslavia since the Second World War, through the Cold War, and finally up to the Serbian War. It follows an underground...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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I think it's safe to say now
that this has become a music blog.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“Inexperience is a quality of the human condition. We are born one time only; we...”
– Milan Kundera (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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ymutate asked: thanks for the memories, I lived in Portland when the Dandy's formed. Saw them many times and seeing Zia bouncing her breasts again brings a smile to this old geezer.
Dec 16th
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