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20:33
attention goldfrapp
diggers ::: we've just posted the spiffingly kaleidoscopic
new video for strict machine
on the site at goldfrapp.co.uk
::: more frapp viral madness coming ur way this
july ;-)
290603 16:52
note from gav
re: popbitch ::: "i've met rock bitch
when they played plymouth and there where more
frighting than than the whole gulf war thing.
go here rockbitch.tv
you can see what i mean"
tomorrow begins new job @ fbi
radio ::: head
on over to see what all the fuss is about.
if you're in sydney, tune into the test broadcast
on 94.5fm. a rush and a push and the airwaves
are ours.
280603 12:26
i don't normally do whole straight-lifts
of content, however this item from the popbitch
newsletter doesn't yet feature on their web site,
so here it is in all its glory :-)
The Kuwait Konspiracy
Why the Iraq war really happened
Popbitch recently met a mysterious man claiming
to be a senior Kuwaiti politician. He was accompanied
by two lesbian Russian hookers and, after a few
drinks, told us the real story of the Middle East.
1. The Kuwaiti government paid $20 billion to
USA to "take out" Saddam Hussein. (Pays
for Bush's tax cuts and could help him get re-elected.)
The Iraq war was therefore the most expensive
hired hit in history.
2. Saddam and his sons were killed on day nine.
3. Al Qaeda had no involvement in Iraq - the Kuwaiti
has met with Osama Bin Laden since the war and
reports that Osama is delighted that Saddam's
been dispensed with.
4. The good news is Iran and Syria are safe. No-one
wants to pay Bush to attack them. Yet.
250603 14:08
 this
may look like an ordinary black dot, and - granted
- it IS an ordinary black dot, but we should never
be fooled by appearances. although diminutive
in stature, this little icon is something a giant-killer
and is being touted as the most effective way
of taking the nike out of niketown USA. those
shrinking violets at adbusters.org
- producers of both 'buy nothing day' and 'turn
off tv week' have come up with 'unbrand
america' - a cross-media campaign due
to run on good ol' july 4th. the idea is simple
- the dot disfigures / disguises / smears corporate
iconography whether that be in print (an ad will
appear in the NY Times), on TV (on MTV - which
is slightly surprising as the music monolith banned
the last adbusters commercial...) and, undoubtedly,
as a gesture of protest on a billboard near you.
from unbrandamerica.org
:
"This is the mark of the people who don't
approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who
don't want countries "liberated" without
UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado
shoved down their throats. This is the mark of
the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the
environment, who want the International Criminal
Court for greater justice, who want a world where
all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of
weapons of mass destruction, and who pledge to
take their country back."
elsewhere:::
businessweek.com have identified what they
call the 'google-gap' - "the
difference between the growing perception that
the site is omniscient and the fact that it isn't"
::: the devil has all the best tunes - disinfo.com
have published "Turn Off Your Mind:
The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age
of Aquarius" in which... "author
Gary Lachman explores the sinister dalliance of
rock's high rollers and a new wave of occultists,
tying together John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Mick
Jagger, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey,
Jim Morrison, L. Ron Hubbard and many more American
cultural icons" ::: and finally, kim
"mrs eninem" mathers could
well face charges of possession after police found
two "suspect" bags of white powder in
her car - more at the smokinggun.com
:::
on the stereo :::
21st
century toy - electronicat / death
- numbers (review and samples at brainwashed.com)
/ ceramics
is the bomb - chris clark / texas
campfire takes - michelle shocked
230603 17:25
added some pics to june's
photolog from yesterday's trip out to the
pacific outlook at south head, sydney - beautiful
spot, if you can set aside any extra-curricular
interest in the army compound and naturist beach
(for the record, the beach was vacant). once at
south head, you can stare out over the ocean and
be assured that the next stop is south america...
180603 19:11
i finally managed to catch up on some
photo archiving today ::: there's a new sidebar
nav on the weblog section called photolog
(up all night thinking up that one) and it logs
pics month by month. from june, there's some imgs
from recent trips to the blue mountains and from
out in the bush at wydongadingo. and i thought
woolloomoolloo was a mouthful...
160603 19:59
i might be on the other side of the spinning globe,
but i like to keep an eye on what's occuring back
in the you-k. i came across reflag
whilst browsing on the bbc
site last week - the campaign to 're-design' the
union jack to make it reflect the cultural diversity
of the country. i have to say that whilst i'm
not convinced that re-drawing the flag will cure
any ills, i do actually like the new-look design.
reflag are brave enough to post comments from
both sides of the divide - well worth a look.
he is most defintely carnival personnel... jerry
springer is considering running for senate and
is having an 'exploratory' in ohio (cue all sorts
of beavis and butthead gags). he has a new site
called run
jerry run complete with many imgs of jerr
with his arm around various yokels. oh, sorry,
you actually can't actually say 'yokel' and certainly
not 'slack-jawed yokel'... see jerry's video clips
to find out why...
also
spotted: hans
blix having a go at the "bastards"
in washington; gollum's mtv awards acceptance
speech (video clip); the return of rat-eating
aliens in crap orange neoprene suits - 'v' is
back in a new
three hour tv movie; and according to one
journo at least, with the new itunes music
store "apple has invented the aural equivalent
of a nicotine fit" - yup, believe the hype,
apple is coming to getcha. which reminds me, i
must tell you about my new 30GB iPod sometime
soon :-)
130603 07:44
a while back i wrote a few lines on how over half
of americans belived that saddam was directly
responsible for 9-11. now the information
clearing house site has reported that 34%
of americans believe that the US has found weapons
of mass destruction. it's worth bearing in mind
that a poll a few years ago showed that a similar
number of americans also believed that UFOs were
real and that we were due for an invasion "real
soon". i don't want to come across as being
anti-american, not true - it's the american media
that's to blame and it's easy to see why. just
refer back to bowling for columbine or anything
by chomsky and it's all there to see.
they're all over every front cover everywhere
you look, but there's no denying that radiohead's
hail to the thief is a great
album. i know i was out on a limb when i said
that amnesiac was one of their greatest yet, but
on hail to the thief they've brought all their
disparate parts together under one roof. they've
finally proven that electronica + rock can jump
into bed together and have it off with outstanding
results. pitchfork
media gives it 9.3 out of 10. (9.3?? who invented
the decimal point for reviews??)
with each new technological shift, comes a resultant
shift in law, lifestyle and behaviour. which is
a grand way of saying that mobiles
with cameras are now being banned in australian
swimming pools for fear that your bony ass will
be appearing on a global voyuer site sometime
soon. be afraid, budgie smugglers.
060603 08:14
forgive me peggy suicide, for i have not blogged.
it's been two weeks since my last entry, but -
you know - there's a big fucking world out there
that just commands your attention now and again
and demands that you leave your titanium dungeon
and go out and see a bit of sunshine :-)
"if you want to establish a new norm, you
have to do something. and the easiest way to do
it is to select a completely defenseless target,
which can be completely overwhelmed by the most
massive military force in human history."
::: new interview with noam chomsky at the monthly
review site ::: monthlyreview.org
in australia last week, the supreme court was
asked to determine whether two frozen embryos
should share in their grandmother's estate. in
the end, the judge found a loophole in the grandmammy's
will and declined to include the embryos in the
AUS$1million payout. truly the world is turning
topsy turvy, sire ::: smh.com.au
there's a standard mars / nasa puff piece on bbc.co.uk,
but i liked nasa's closing remarks from mark adler
: "earth and mars exchanged material in the
early days when life was forming on earth. Was
mars part of our past? maybe we are the martians."
matt sent me an article that reminded me of the
old 'nationwide' april fool prank of spaghetti
growing on trees. this time around, it's fake
meat that's growing on trees, achieved by injecting
cow genes into grapefruits. bear in mind this
is from the weekly world news, home of 'elvis
is alive and well and shagging her off of home
and away' ::: yahoo.com
this does exactly what is says on the tin (or
rather the bin) - how to make a mobile sound system
out of a wheelie bin ::: wheely.cat.org.au
if
you're bored shitless with cats singing white
stripes songs ina crap flash stylee, then check
out this replacement meme brianmung.com
::: some great flash cartoons, esp little mew,
run potato run and evil sheep (click on 'death
by welsh farmer' option for some serious lovin').
thanks to dom for the link.
finally, japan has smacked us in the gob once
again, this time with their own tatu clones. their
name suitei shoujo, according to popbitch, translates
as 'presumed girls'... a jap-ladyboy-tatu-tribute?
time to get off this rock... ::: suiteishojo.com
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