Category Archives: Pop Cult

Spoil Everything

Watch out: spoilers ahead! Oh, the money I’ll be saving…

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Exhausted Pattern Potentialities

Interesting take on “the decay of American culture”, using music as the marker: Eventually you run out of chairs for chords, variations on the order you play them, and their complexity. You reach the point that Kroeber described: “With pattern … Continue reading

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Aerial

Kate Bush’s new album “Aerial” features cover art showing a bunch of shadowy rocks that could be interpreted as a soundwave. How long before someone tries to transpose the image to sound? Not long.

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3 Guys from Albany

Some audio-poetry: The Three Guys are, Charlie Rossiter, DanWilcox, and Tom Nattel, friends who share the idea that poetry should be part of society rather than apart from it – relevant, communicative and, above all, honest. Tom Nattel has a … Continue reading

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Gamers: Where’s Our Zappa?

Heh. The gaming industry is apparently in dire need of “a Zappa-like advocate“.

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Savage Beatles

When The Beatles were still The Quarry Men, they looked something like this. A fascinating collection of photos.

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Mad Revisionism

The Mad Revisionist: Now that revisionism has come of age, why shouldn’t every historical event be subjected to its scrutiny? And why restrict this methodology to the discipline of history when there are so many other areas of knowledge that … Continue reading

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It’s Bicycle Repair Man!

The complete unexpurgated scripts of the original Monty Python TV series (in glorious colour-coded HTML format). Nudge nudge, wink wink, knowwhaddamean?

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What If

What if Freud had been a woman?

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Tragical History Tour

Dearly Departed Tours, for that Hollywood tour with a twist: “There is one restroom stop where you can drop your trousers and reenact George Michael’s most scandalous moment.”

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iPod nono

And thus the shit hits the fan. I’m one happy space cadet for having bought a regular iPod instead of the nano — although to be fair, there already is one tiny scratch on my screen… :(

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Hippie Wannabe?

For sale on eBay: The Ultimate Hippie Vacation (currently at 122 bids, $0,99 starting bid). The Rules: You will be required to sell Tie-dyed T-shirts for gas and food money. There is no map on the bus and he WILL … Continue reading

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No Future

You know punk is dead when The Sex Pistols are added to the London Walk of Fame together with Benny Hill.

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Island Festival, Hungary 2005

Well, all I can say that this is the time for festivals here in Hungary: after one in the country, called Valley of Arts (just finished today) another one starts: it’s the Sziget (Island) Festival – said to be the … Continue reading

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Porn In The Woods

Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from? Porn in the woods!

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