Sunday, April 30, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Jaga Jazzist (This is Brilliant Art House Porn) Oslo Skyline
I had to watch this about 4 times before I realized this was about sex. I guess this is what they call Art House Porn.
Violent Enthralling Version of Nirvana's "Rape Me"
This is sort of how I feel about gas prices right now. Or the war. Or the republicans in general. Tasteless and graphic anime version. But well executed...
Sunday, April 23, 2006
The Anti Tony Mowad Anti Lawrence Welk Jazz Show
By the way, one reason why net neutrality is important is that the current Internets kind of allow you to control and create your own programming. As you may know, you being my one or two faithful readers, I'm really pissed off that Bet on Jazz has turned into Bet on J, which right now looks to be a weak impersonation of VH1 Soul, which isn't a great channel.
With these new tools, I can bring you a better show than Bet On J. So, here's my jazz show. It's wide ranging and it features traditional, triphop, and there's even a real jazz rock tune thrown in there. It's Phil Music Television or as I also call it the Anti Tony Mowad/Bet On J Jazz show. It's jazz that you can't see on VH1 Soul and that has ideas that extend beyond 1964. It's meant not to draw in the Lawrence Welk audience. Ever.
"Bellisomo" by Ilya"Bahia"by Larry Coryell
"Eleanor Rigby" by Stanley Jordan
"My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Herbaliser
"Pretty Pink Noise" by Mutant Girl Guitarist Kaki King
"Chase the Blues Away" by Terranova
Charles Mingus "Flowers for a Lady"
Chaka Khan Singing "Night in Tunisia"
Chaka Khan As A Funky Jazz Drummer! (Needs work on the drum technique there...)
"Footprints" with Miles Davis, Shorter, teen Tony Williams, Carter and Hancock
"Bright Size Life" by Pat Metheny and Richard Bona
"Pixeleen" by Steely Dan (hated their last album but this sounds good with those pics...)
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Short Video About Net Neutrality
This is a public service announcement about Net Neutrality. This is for people who don't want their Internets to look like their overpriced cable services.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Herbalizer
Love this tune. Not on YouTube yet though. Here's the quicktime link.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Gambling Machines Better Secured Than Voting Machines (Really)
March 20
This was published in the Washington Post. Its part of a book--this would make four to my count--that shows that the 2004 elections results were probably hacked. Just more evidence as to why the Dems should take up this issue. Its a winner, for a real opposition party anyway. Here's the quote by author Steve Freeman:
It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That's because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America's voting machines, Freeman writes in a book out in July that argues, among other things, that President Bush may owe his 2004 win to an unfair vote count
More Stuff About V for Vendetta
March 17
James Wolcott likes the V for Vendetta:
V for Vendetta may be--why hedge? is--the most subversive cinematic deed of the Bush-Blair era, a dagger poised in midair. Unlike the other movies dubbed “controversial” (Fahrenheit 9-11, The Passion, Munich, Syriana), it doesn’t play to a particular constituency or polarized culture bloc, it’s working on a deeper, Edger Allen Poe-ish witch’s brew substrata of pop myth. Cultural conservatives will loathe it without seeing it (they love not having to leave their houses to lament the latest installment of civilization’s decline and fall) once they hear of and read about the movie’s disturbing political parallels (a fascistic TV host with a witty resemblance to Berlusconi, fertilizer explosives a la Timothy McVeigh; torture, renditions, and subway bombings; black hoods that will be forever associated with Abu Ghraib). Yet lots of cultural liberals with educated tastes will find it anxiety-producing and irresponsible too, not only because they’re more comfortable with humanistic stories and documentary techniques than with pop spectacle (as Kael discovered whenever she praised upstart movies like DePalma’s Carrie or The Warriors and received letters from profs and Ph.D couples complaining about her soiling the New Yorker’s space on trash), but because V for Vendetta doesn’t just depict a 1984’s dystopia--it advocates radical remedy, and illustrates what it advocates with rhapsodic, operatic, orgasmic flourish. It follows the course of its own logic to its Kubrickian conclusion, but this isn’t a clinical exercise, like Kubrick at his most voyeuristically detached.
Writer Alan Moore, who might be the world's smartest writer but is clearly not the world's smartest man (he should be making J K Rowling money...), vents on why he didn't want to associate with the film. Here's the thing: In his defense, this is right after They screwed the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But the guys who are making this movie have chops. While the Matrix trilogy might only be average, the Matrix might be one of the best movies ever made. he should have given this film and its producers more of a chance.
Quick Summaries of Sopranos, 24, Battlestar Gallactica
March 13
I've been too busy to post because I've been watching too much television.
Here's a short synopsis of what I've seen:
24: They killed Edgar (you bastards!) and Tony and that hobbit guy! And 40 percent of CTU....Noooooooooooooo! ("C-Chloie? Ack!")
Sopranos: You shot fat Tony! You bastards!.... Noooooooooooooo! (They didn't show a preview of the next episode so I found spoilers on the Internets...)
Battlestar Galactica: You stole an election (you bastards etc etc), but you admitted it and then let the rightful winner take his place at the helm! Nooo---hey. Wait a minute. Guess this is a case where I prefer fantasy to reality. Best line for us vote theft theory conspiracists: "I've taken part in a lot of elections, fair and fixed, and the fixed ones never make any sense." Really? You don't say?
March 6
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