May 2008
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Bang on A Can Marathon
http://www.bangonacan.org/marathon Friends, This Saturday, May 31st, is the annual 12 hour Bang on a Can marathon. There will be continuous live music from 6pm until 6am. Bang on a Can is an ensemble that plays new and classical works. Last year, there was a performance of Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ in its entirety as the sun rose. The Books played as well. Other...
Wikipedia: Wernher von Braun →
On May 2, 1945, upon finding an American private from the U.S. 44th Infantry Division, von Braun’s brother and fellow rocket engineer, Magnus, approached the soldier on a bicycle, calling out in broken English, “My name is Magnus von Braun. My brother invented the V-2. We want to surrender.”[16]
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Wikipedia: Project MK Ultra →
On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an ‘extensive testing and experimentation’ program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens ‘at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.’ Several of these tests involved the...
“Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.”
– Chris Ware
“Cartooning isn’t really drawing, any more than talking is singing… The...”
– Chris Ware
Felix Lebarty - “Lover Boy”
(For full disclosure, I haven’t actually...
Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin’ (from...
“I arrived at my way of “working” as a way of visually approximating...”
– Chris Ware
David Byrne - The Accident (from Look Into the...
Amazing Baby - Head Dress (from a self-released...
WatchDevo - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Benny Banassi - Satisfaction Goldfrapp - Utopia (Mick Harvey Remix) Francis And The Lights - My Goals The European - Wet Dream The Faint - Your Retro Career Melted (Ursula 1000 Remix) The Zombies - Is This the Dream Stevie Wonder - Isn’t She Lovely MF Doom feat. Count Bass D - Potholderz Astrud Gilberto - I Had The Craziest Dream When you’re up...
“I always go to him when I have problems,” said Shaden who, like many of the young Saudi women interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition that her last name be omitted. “And he’s not too strict — he still listens to music sometimes. I asked him once, ‘You do everything right and yet you’re listening to music?’ He said, ‘I know music is haram, and inshallah, with time I will be able to...
A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a public place without receiving a barrage of the love poems and photos of flowers and small children which many Saudi men keep stored on their phones for purposes of flirtation. And last year, Al Arabiya television reported that some young Saudis have started buying special “electronic belts,” which use Bluetooth technology to discreetly...
Love on Girls’ Side of the Saudi Divide - New York... →
In the pictures, the girls wore thobes, the ankle-length white garments traditionally worn by Saudi men, and had covered their hair with the male headdresses called shmaghs. One of the girls had used an eyeliner pencil to give herself a grayish, stubble-like mist along her jaw line. Displayed on the screens of the two girls’ cellphones, the photographs evoked little exclamations of congratulation...
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The Rub - History of Hip-Hop 1979 - 1999 →
The Rub have created a multi-hour mixtape for each year, starting with 1979. They’re now on Vol. 21 , for the year 1999. http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1999.mp3 Youngbloodz “85” feat. Big Boi DJ DMD “25 Lighters” feat. Lil’ Keke & Fat Pat Cool Breeze “Cre-A-Tine” (I ...
“Nothing is built on stone. All is built on sand, but we must build as if the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
