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Category Archives: Pop Cult
Spoil Everything
Watch out: spoilers ahead! Oh, the money I’ll be saving…
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
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.
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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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
Posted in Pop Cult, Zappa Misc
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Gamers: Where’s Our Zappa?
Heh. The gaming industry is apparently in dire need of “a Zappa-like advocate“.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Pop Cult, Zappa Misc
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Savage Beatles
When The Beatles were still The Quarry Men, they looked something like this. A fascinating collection of photos.
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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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
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?
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… :(
Posted in In The News, Music, Pop Cult
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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
No Future
You know punk is dead when The Sex Pistols are added to the London Walk of Fame together with Benny Hill.
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
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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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!
Posted in Amusing, Pop Cult
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