My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1)

1. Bowerbirds (6)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel (6)
3. The Cave Singers (5)
4. The National (5)
5. Deerhunter (4)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25)

1. Four Tet (4)
2. The National (4)
3. The Field (4)
4. John Talabot (3)
5. Destroyer (3)

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Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix)

Didn’t particularly like the original, but this — mmm.

"Speaking animals are distant animals who try to communicate through the forest of signs… Distance is not an evil that should be abolished. It is the normal condition of communication."

— Jacques Ranciere

"The poem, a prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning."

— Paul Valery

"Postmodern cynicism is rage that can no longer get it up."

— Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam

"There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds: a croaking and squeaking, a swift rustle in the grass, a plop in the water, a pattering on earth and pebbles, and high above all, the call of the cicada. The sounds follow one another, and the ear eventually discerns more and more of them — just as fingers unwinding a ball of wool feel each fiber interwoven with progressively thinner and less palpable threads. The frogs continue croaking in the background without changing the flow of sounds, just as light does not vary from the continuous winking of stars. But at every rise or fall of the wind every sound changes and is renewed. All that remains in the inner recess of the ear is a vague murmur: the sea."

— Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

nevver:

I had no idea you were so handsome, Groucho Marx to T.S. Elliot

Me Marxsta

Introducing our friend Marx to the internet, courtesy of my friend Peter.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11)

1. The National (19)
2. Best Coast (17)
3. The Beach Boys (11)
4. Benoit & Sergio (6)
5. 植松伸夫 (6)

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Sounds about right.

An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs

The Occupy movement finds the unlikeliest of allies — one of the sculptors of neo-liberal Shock Therapy of the ‘80’s.  As soon as the herald of privatization starts calling for financial regulation and taxes on the rich, I think it becomes clear that something is dreadfully wrong with the current system.

"Don’t forget what your hat and shoes will look like when you are nowhere to be found."

— Bob Perelman, China

(Source: tiff, via palahniukandchocolate)

John Cage - 4’33” (Dubstep Remix)

Wait for that beat drop.