NIRVANA MONDAY

mudhoney are great, kurt cobain liked 'em, so should you

MUDHONEY JAMMING WITH KURT COBAIN 1992


DOUCHEBAG REVIEW OF A NIRVANA MUDHONEY SHOW 1989


BUDDYHEAD INTERVIEWS MUDHONEY 2009

Nirvana Monday

"It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had. It felt like we were playing ukeleles all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did."

- Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, talking about Nirvana

We Need A Cake Police Dance Squad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMJOPlK-0E

christian-crotch-action: against

"Christian youth groups finally have an alternative to normal, aka "front," hugs. As we all know, face to face embraces run the horrific risk of a clothed crotch graze. The Christian Side-Hug (or the CSH, as the kids call it) rids us of sin, as the only below the belt contact will be some good old-fashioned hip on hip action."
the huffington post


these preachers of paradox are fucking crazy- and funny.

Title

The Condition of the Civilized Human

In this respect they had adapted themselves to the very condition of the plague, all the more potent for it's mediocrity. None of us was capable any longer of an exalted emotion; all had trite, monotonous feelings. "It's high time it stopped," people would say, because in time of calamity the obvious thing is to desire its end, and in fact they wanted it to end. But when making such remarks, we felt none of the passionate yearning or fierce resentment of the early phase; we merely voiced one of the few clear ideas that lingered in the twilight of our minds. The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it was none the less a sort of passive and provisional acquiescence.

- Camus, The Plague

twinkleee death

Blindside!

So, the Hollywood Reporter just released their Top 10 movies of the decade, and it is surprisingly not bad! Two Haneke films! Errol Morris! 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 days! Number 10 is The White Ribbon, which is so exciting (Billings, your link doesn't work for me). The list is extremely top-light, pathetically so. Still though, not too shabby. And any positive mention of Michael Haneke merits a positive mention on this blog. If you haven't seen 10-8 or 5-3, check 'em.

10. The White Ribbon

9. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

8. Cache

7. Divine Intervention

6. Far From Heaven

5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

4. Fog Of War

3. No Country For Old Men

2. United 93 (ha)

1. Letters From Iwo Jima (double ha)

WITH THE BOSS

Thanksgiving

Enjoy your turkey you monsters.

i'm making weed butter

Thomas Grillo Theremin Concert

This guy rules.

Matrioshka Shaped Theremin

Don't get me wrong - this is not good.

Hahaha... John Travolta couldn't stay away from another dad comedy: Old Dogs (from the director of Wild Hogs) opens tomorrow. It also stars Robin Williams. I can't wait to see it.

Best of 2009

Is anyone interested in doing a Best of 2009 series? I know I'm interested in finding out what everyone has been digging so far this year in terms of music / movies / and books. Maybe top 10? Music could easily be done now, although there are still a lot of movies coming out since this is the time for Oscar season (good thing / bad thing?) And I haven't read any books that have come out this year.

DONT INHALE DAWG

Alain Badiou

"Those who claim that the human animal is wicked simply want to tame it and turn it into a morose wage-earner or depressed consumer who helps capital to circulate. Given their ability to create eternal truths in various worlds, men have within them the angel that religions saw as their double. That is what philosophy, in the true sense of the word, has always taught us. Before that inner angel can manifest its presence, it must have a principle or maxim, and ultimately it is always the same, even though it can take a wide variety of forms. Let us choose Mao's: 'Cast away illusions, prepare for struggle.' Hold to the truth, cast away illusions, and fight rather than surrender, whatever the circumstances...

"The trouble is that, nowadays, the word 'philosophy' is used in an attempt to force upon us quite the opposite maxim, which might read: 'Cling to your illusions, prepare to surrender.' We have seen a 'philosophy' appearing in magazines that looks like a vegetable-based natural medicine, or euthanasia for enthusiasts. Philosophizing would appear to be a small part of a vast programme: keep fit and be efficient, but stay cool. We have seen 'philosophers' declaring that, as the Good is inaccessible if not criminal, we should be content to fight every inch of the way against various forms of Evil, whose common name proves, on closer inspection, to be 'communism', when it is not 'Arab' or 'Islam'. And so we revive 'values' that philosophy has always helped us to get rid of: obedience (to commercial contracts), modesty (in the face of the arrogance of the ham actor on TV), realism (we must have profits and inequalities), utter selfishness (now known as 'modern individualism'), colonial superiority (the democratic goodies of the West versus the despotic baddies of the South), hostility to living thought (all opinions have to be taken into account), the cult of numbers (the majority are always right), obtuse millenarianism (the planet is getting hotter under my very feet), empty religion (there must be Something), and I could go on. So many 'philosophers' and 'philosophies' do nothing to stop this, and instead wear themselves out trying to infect us with little articles, debates, blazing headlines ('The Ethics of Stock Options: Philosophers Speak Out At Last') and boisterous roundtable discussions ('Philosophers: the G-string or the Veil?'). This permanent prostitution of the words 'philosopher' and 'philosophy' (and it should be recalled that Deleuze denounced it from the very beginning), and the media operation that gave birth to the trademark 'new philosophies', will get you down in the long run. At the rate things are going it is not just cafés that will be described as 'philosophical' (these cafés philosophiques really are a wretched invention, and the natural heirs to the cafés du commerce where all that bar room philosophizing used to go on). We will end up going, in all our pomp, to the philosophical outhouse."

tUnE-yArDs

for those of you who have seen the dirty projectors on the last few dates of this tour, you would know how great tune-yards is live

i can't find any videos that do it justice but straight up go see her if you have a chance

think of the lion king then think of great things and there you have it

i recommend that you try out the album "bird brains" as well

love and best dishes, from my kitchen to yours

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Petition For The Washington Post To Become A Victim Of The Print Media Crisis

These guys are the fucking worst, and with everything that they do, they get worse. You may or may not have heard awhile back about the scandal they provoked when they began to set up "salons" in which lobbyists would pay large sums of money to the paper to have direct access to members of the Post's editorial and reporting staff. This was uncovered and subjected to a collective WTF by the rest of the world before it could happen, but the mere suggestion of something like this is upsetting to say the least.

Speaking of the Post's editorial staff, they are the worst. Nearly all of the intelligent liberal members of the staff have been pushed out in favor of people like David Broder. Here is David Broder, in an editorial published last Sunday:

"The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose -- and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.

"It is evident from the length of this deliberative process and from the flood of leaks that have emerged from Kabul and Washington that the perfect course of action does not exist. Given that reality, the urgent necessity is to make a decision -- whether or not it is right."

Yes, you read that right. An Op-Ed columnist for one of the nation's most respected newspapers just said that the President of the United States needs to act first and think later, and even to knowingly make a poor decision that would cost the lives of American and Afghan troops and of the latter, no doubt, civilians. It gets worse when he explains the reasoning behind this opinion.

"McChrystal came up with a new plan of battle, emphasizing protection of population centers and requiring as many as 40,000 more troops. Eikenberry, we now know, balked, giving voice to the widespread fear that Hamid Karzai, the carry-over winner of the election that the ambassador helped arrange, was too weak and corrupt to govern the country effectively, even with an enlarged American force keeping order.

"Their disagreement was echoed and amplified throughout the Obama administration. The secretaries of defense and state came down on McChrystal's side; the vice president and many on the White House political staff with Eikenberry."

Now, the argument implied by including this in the column seems to be that the military knows best about military matters. This is arguably true in theory, but effectively false. The Pentagon will always argue for increased force in situations like this. This is how they receive funding and thrive as a dominant institution. Their voice should not be the only one, or even the primary one, given consideration in matters like this.

"In all this dithering, it's easy to forget a few fundamentals. Why are we in Afghanistan? Not because of its own claim on us but because the Taliban rulers welcomed the al-Qaeda plotters who hatched the destruction of Sept. 11, 2001. The Taliban also oppressed its own people, especially women, but we sent troops because Afghanistan was the hide-out for the terrorists who attacked our country."

This is pathetic. The argument that we are in Afghanistan to liberate its women holds no water whatsoever. This is an argument that always comes after the fact, to promote the continuation of American wars in the Middle East, and is never a primary consideration, or a consideration at all, until it has to be utilized as a talking point. Also, Broder mentions al-Qaeda as a reason for the commencement and continuation of the war without the slightest acknowledgement that they are no longer operating from within Afghan borders.

"But George W. Bush said -- and Obama seemed to agree -- that withdrawal was not an option.

"That imperative is reinforced by the presence of Pakistan, a shaky nuclear-armed power across a porous mountain border. If the Taliban comes back in Afghanistan, the al-Qaeda cells already in Pakistan will operate even more freely -- and nuclear weapons could fall into the most dangerous hands.

"Given all of this, I don't see how Obama can refuse to back up the commander he picked and the strategy he is recommending. It may not work if the country truly is ungovernable. But I think we have to gamble that security will bring political progress -- as it has done in Iraq."

Note the mention of G.W.'s opinion like it holds weight. And of course, when all logic fails to serve your purposes, bring irrational fear into the equation. Broder shamelessly throws in that paragraph laced with fear-mongering of the most despicable kind, introducing the possibility of the collapse of the Pakistani government and subsequent deliverance of nuclear weapons into the eager hands of the Taliban with absolutely no proof or reason to back up this possibility.

Our press fails us once again.

Full article here.

TINY TIM

tiny tim trips on acid, entertains children and warns of global warming all at the same time

I had to...

at first i was like, no, stop posting videos and put something original and thought-provoking up, but then I was like, I have to share this....

Ugh, She's Back

It's unfortunately true, America's favorite hockey mom and most offensively ignorant political figure is back in the spotlight. That picture up there isn't even one of the many in-poor-taste photoshopped pictures of her either, but an authentically in-poor-taste picture she consented to. Every time Sarah Palin is in the spotlight, invariably offending intelligent and/or informed people who value truth all around the world, I am tempted to ignore her. The thought process behind this is that she makes me so upset with every world she drawls and I should thus not listen in the interest of keeping my blood pressure down, and that I would like to hope that maybe if everyone just ignores her she will go away. This last thought is incredibly naive, and unfortunately has been the primary response of Barack Obama to the growing chorus of hysterical white people speaking out illogically against him and in favor of people like Palin. People like these:

Now, I have been trying to wrap my mind around this swelling of faux-populist sentiment on the Far-Right for awhile now, and it just won't make sense. Certainly, there is reason for the American people to be upset right now. In the last couple of years we have seen empirically the failures of our politico-economic system, and many people in this country and throughout the world have experienced this rather painfully. However, these furious disciples of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck raging their concerns in tea-party protests and Fox News forums are fighting for the very system that is their oppressor. The majority of these people are a part of the very middle class that is being systematically demolished, and yet they rally for the return to the principles of that system, and those who support it. Sure, some of this may be racism, as has often been speculated. But bigotry can absolutely not be the only, or even the primary, driving force behind this supremely disorienting phenomena.

It seems clear that, while this is still a fringe movement, lacking the political power to do something truly terrible such as, say, electing Sarah Palin as President in 2012, it is significant enough to cause trouble for Barack Obama in the future, and Democratic Senators and Representatives in 2010. We have seen that the road of condescending willful ignorance is not the effective solution to this mindless rage-filled movement. The only solution that seems effective at this point is for politicians and anyone who comes into contact with these people to engage directly with them, armed with the truth, like that guy from the 9/12 rally that Magical Fuckers posted the video of here. Maybe then we could do something productive with all this rage and force Barack Obama to be the agent of change he promised to be but has proven unwilling to commit to.

Here is an interview, aired this week, Palin did with Barbara Walters:

Yeah, Newsweek should be more policy-oriented, and you should maybe just one time address an actual policy instead of simply spouting inflammatory talking points designed to elicit a certain response rather than contribute meaningfully to an improvement of our political system in any way. Ugh.

music.new.z

please check out The Shining Twins.

myspace.com/theshiningtwins

today around 9pm EST the twins will be on Eastvillage radio's "authentic shit" with mark ronson - turn on - tune in - drop out-

Introducing: Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen is an American actor who has been in many movies. He had been married many times to actresses, shot his then fiance Kelly Preston in the arm (they never ended up getting married), once overdosed when experimenting with intravenous cocaine use, and has many famous people in his family. These are all normal things everyone knows about Charlie Sheen. What you might not know is that he is completely insane, as evidenced by this fictitious interview with President Obama that he wrote and published on the least respectable site possible: Prison Planet, of course. The things he attributes to Barack Obama are particularly of interest to people who like to laugh really hard.

PBO – Even if what you state, might in some capacity, begin to approach an open discussion or balanced debate, I can’t speak for, or about the decisions certain commission members made during an extremely difficult period. Perhaps you should be interviewing them instead of me. Wait, don’t tell me; I was easier to track down than they were?

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PBO – And I’d like to believe that I am here to restore that hope. To restore confidence in your leaders, in the system that the voting public chose through a peaceful transfer of power.

(An odd moment of silence between us. Precious time ticking away).

CS – Mr. President, are you aware of the number of days it took to begin the investigation into JFK’s assassination?

PBO – If memory serves I believe it was two weeks.

CS – Close. Seventeen days to be exact. Are you aware sir, how long it took to begin the investigation into Pearl Harbor?

PBO – I would say again about….two weeks.

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(I hand him another file – much thicker than the first)

PBO – I see you came prepared Charlie.

CS – No other way to show up Mr. President. When in doubt over prepare I always say.

PBO – Now you sound like the First Lady.

CS – That’s quite a compliment sir.

PBO – As you wish. Please continue.

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PBO – Of course this information worries me, yet it’s not nearly as worrisome as you sitting here today suspiciously implying that 9/11 was somehow allowed to happen or even orchestrated from the inside.

CS – Mr. President I am not suspiciously implying anything. I am merely exposing the documents and asking the questions that nobody in power will even look at or acknowledge. And as I stated earlier, I voted for you, I believed in your message of hope and change. Mr. President I have come to you specifically hoping for a change. A change in the perception that our government has not yet made itself open and accountable to the people. These are your words Mr. President not mine. The lives of thousands were brutally cut short and those left behind to suffer their infinite pain are with me today Mr. President. They are with me in spirit and flesh, and the message we carry will not be silenced anymore by media fueled mantras insisting how they are supposed to feel. Deciding for them, for 8 long years, what can be thought, what can be said, what can be asked.

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S – Please keep in mind Mr. President everything I’m about to say is documented as fact and part of the public record. The information you are holding in your hands chronicles and verifies each and every point.

PBO – You have five minutes left. The floor is yours. Brief me.

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PBO – Well Charlie I can’t say this hasn’t been interesting. As I said earlier you’ve showed up today focused and organized. Regardless how I feel about the material you’ve presented, I must commend your dedication and zeal. However, our time here is up.

(the President rises from his chair , I do the same).

CS – Mr. President! One more second!

(The President starts towards the door – I follow him quickly step for step).

CS – Mr. President, I implore you based on the evidence you now possess, to use your Executive Power. Prove to us all Sir, that you do, in fact, care. Create a truly comprehensive and open Congressional investigation of 9/11 and its aftermath. The families deserve the truth, the American people and the rest of the free world deserve the truth. Mr. President -

(He pauses. We shake hands).

CS – Make sure you’re on the right side of history.

(The President breaks the handshake).

PBO – I am on the right side of history. Thank you Charlie, my staff and I will be in touch.

(I watch as he strides gracefully out of the room, the truth I provided him held firmly by his side; in the hand of providence.)

Wow! This guy is not well! I mean...there's just so much..."Brief me"!!!!!!! The idea that the President of the United States would be easier to reach than other people?? The whole two weeks bit that is clearly written to give Charlie Sheen some fictitious one-up on President Obama!!! This guy is really really really ill. There are so many laughs in this thing it is hard to deal with it without an onset of acute Exploding Head Syndrome obstructing your view of the computer screen. Find the whole thing here, but do not look around the site while you're there, and if you see Charlie Sheen around town, urge him to get on a regular and heavy diet of a cocktail of pharmaceuticals. Like, comatose.

Cake Police and Google

Whenever I find myself on campus, needing to digest enormous amounts of Chipotle before I begin anything productive, I browse through some of my favorite non-social networking websites to help pass the time. In the interests of not wanting to be discovered as being part of a cabal of terrorists (among other things/websites that you shalt not know about), I've formed the habit of google searching the sites I visit, instead of typing the URL in directly, so that the sites don't stick around in the recent history drop down bar. A few extra clicks is the price I pay for being a paranoid fuck.

I just wanted to share, that since I started visiting this site a few months ago, the Cake Police blog has gone from not showing up from a "Cake Police" search, to now being the NUMBER ONE RESULT!! I've seen cops eating cake, cakes with pictures of cops, but now that's all become secondary. Good work guys. Hopefully we can conquer the print world in the same amount of time.

THE GOLDSTONE REPORT DENIED BY THE US

"The core of the recommendations (of the Goldstone Report) is that Israel itself conduct an impartial inquiry into the allegations made against it, or face a Security Council referral to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Admittedly, given experience of the Israeli Defense Forces' strategic reserve supply of whitewash kept in hand for just such occasions, the mission recommends that the Council set up an international commission to monitor the Israeli inquiry. The same applies to Hamas."



"Why would the House go so far out of its way to stamp out even the consideration of war crimes accusations against Israel? And why would Barack Obama, the US president, have pressured Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, not to push (the Goldstone Report) in the UN when he had to know that such actions would cost Abbas most of his little remaining credibility among Palestinians?

There are two reasons for this.

Firstly, if Israel is guilty of committing systematic war crimes across Gaza and the West Bank, then the US, which supported, funded and armed Israel during the war, is an accessory to those crimes.



Goldstone explains in no uncertain terms that Gaza was not an aberration in terms of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

Rather, it marked not only a continuation of Israel's behaviour during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, but "highlights a common thread of the interaction between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians which emerged clearly also in many cases discussed in other parts of the report".

It referenced "continuous and systematic abuse, outrages on personal dignity, humiliating and degrading treatment contrary to fundamental principles of international humanitarian law and human rights law".



"The Mission concludes that the treatment of these civilians constitutes the infliction of a collective penalty on those persons and amounts to measures of intimidation and terror. Such acts are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and constitute a war crime," the report says.

Put simply, if there is blood on Israel's hands, than it is has dripped all over America's shirt."


DEVASTATION IN ISRAEL

DEVASTATION IN PALESTINE

Werner Herzog Started A Film School

It is called Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, and is a 3 day seminar that constantly changes locations. The next one people can apply for takes place on the East Coast in spring 2010. Here is what you will find on the About section of the website:

1. The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.

2. The number of participants will be limited.

3. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog's website:www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.

4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.

5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.

7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?

8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.

9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

10. Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", read "Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber", The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo "True History of the Conquest of New Spain".

11. Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

    
    

    Epic.

A Gift For All

A Moderately Illegal Gift

So I'm pretty sure that this is okay to do, because although we are NOT hosting copywritten content of any kind I still feel like maybe this is a legally grey area we're traveling in here but I still think we'll be alright even though I am undoubtedly contributing to piracy.....wait, side-note, how boring is being a pirate these days? So boring! Technology gives and takes I guess. Anyways, follow the link below and it may or may not take you to a website that will link you to another website where you might be able to download Animal Collective's excellent new EP, Fall Be Kind. Then give your input on the inevitable FBK <> MPP debate.

1 vote for Fall Be Kind.

Buried Treasure

Sorry, Lily Allen.

BIKEPUNX LISTEN UP

A History Lesson:
there was a dutch radical anarchist group from the sixties called the Provos who are pretty much responsible for all the great things about Amsterdam, they staged happenings and protested the shit that needed to be protested.... also they came up with a bunch of plans for direct social change, check 'em:

"The most famous of all white plans was the White Bike Plan, envisioned as the ultimate solution to the "traffic terrorism of a motorized minority." The brain-child of Industrial designer Luud. Schimmelpenninck, the White Bike Plan proposed the banning of environmentally noxious cars from the inner city, to be replaced by bicycles. Of course, the bikes were to be provided free by the city. They would be painted white and permanently unlocked, to secure their public availability. Schimmelpenninck calculated that, even from a strictly economic point of view, the plan would provide great benefits to Amsterdam.

The Provos decided to put the plan into action by providing the first 50 bicycles. But the police immediately confiscated them, claiming they created an invitation to theft. Provo retaliated by stealing a few police bikes.

The White Victim Plan stated that Anyone causing a fatal car accident should be forced to paint the outline of their victim's body on the pavement at the site of the accident. That way, no one could ignore the fatalities caused by automobiles.

Other White Plans included the White Chimney Plan (put a heavy tax on polluters and paint their chimneys white), the White Kids Plan (free daycare centers), the White Housing Plan (stop real estate speculation) and the White Wives Plan (free medical care for women).

Some White Plans were elaborate, others were just flashes of inspiration. "It seemed that proposing a White Plan was almost a necessary exam to becoming a Provo," says Grootveld. The most hilarious of all was the White Chicken Plan proposed by a Provo subcommittee called Friends of the Police. After the police began responding to Provo demonstrations with increased violence. the Provos attempted to alter the image of the police, who were known as "blue chickens," by proposing new "White Chickens," who would be disarmed, ride around on white bicycles, and distribute first aid, fried chicken, and free contraceptives."


unlike us shit-talkin' web-surfers, they got shit done, for instance, this dude was voted onto the Amsterdam city council and check out how qwerm he is:



they also printed a ZINE just like the cake police!!

"In Provo#12 the magazine was described as:

“a monthly sheet for anarchists, provos, beatniks, pleiners, scissors-grinders, jailbirds, simple simon stylites, magicians, pacifists, potato-chip chaps, charlatans, philosophers, germ-carriers, grand masters of the queen’s horse, happeners, vegetarians, syndicalists, santy clauses, kindergarten teachers, agitators, pyromaniacs, assistant assistants, scratchers and syphilitics, secret police, and other riff-raff. Provo has something against capitalism, communism, fascism, bureaucracy, militarism, professionalism, dogmatism, and authoritarianism. Provo has to choose between desperate, resistance and submissive extinction. Provo calls for resistance wherever possible. Provo realises that it will lose in the end, but it cannot pass up the chance to make at least one more heartfelt attempt to provoke society. Provo regards anarchy as the inspirational source of resistance. Provo wants to revive anarchy and teach it to the young. Provo is an image.” "

we should take some cues from these dudes, 1st step, not letting our rock and roll life styles interfere with the completion of the epically important first issue of CAKE POLICE: PHYSICAL COPY

AND ANOTHER THING.... when they disbanded, their head theorist Roel van Duyn went on to start the Kabouter Party in Amsterdam.... you know what that means in dutch? GNOME, MOTHERFUCKERS..... THE GNOOOOMMEEE PARTTTYYY qwerm out

Everyone

Yesterday the new Willowz record, titled Everyone, digitally dropped all over yr faces and you maybe didn't even know it (although you should have because I gave you fair notice here). The record sounds fucking rad, with a strong dose of The Walkmen's sonic epicness added to the established Willowz sound. The album is comprised of ten shortish songs designed to concisely rock your face off, and succeeds on that and many other levels. So head over to your local iTunes and buy this record by Cake Police blood and semen brothers the Willowz because you will love it, because this band is worth supporting, and because Will needs to pay his rent and feed his cats.

Itz a HIT!!

Hey guys, here's a video for the first single off my new album titled "Dry Mouths, Wet Butts"...

THE INTERNET IS MY OYSTER

Does anyone listen to Max Tundra?

No one in real life seems to.

I generally make one or two epic, life influencing older-musical discoveries per year. Its easy to stay up to date with music that's being released in the present. Its harder to comb through the past's nearly endless stockpile of releases (going back to 1950's or so) to find something that will really deliver to your tastes and satisfy your needs.

2007 was a good one. Got into both Talking Heads and Beach Boys (not to mention 2007 was an epic year for new releases, as well). 2008 was split between Tom Waits, and The Magnetic Fields. Maybe it's too soon and I'm self-biasing, but I think 2009 is going to be remembered as the year when I started listening to Joanna Newsom's first album (infinitely better than Ys, which I already kinda liked a lot), and discovering Max Tundra.

I started with his 2002 album "Mastered By The Guy At The Exchange", its both his best and most accessible. The album is a genre-bender, a trait shared by most of my favorite records. The music is busy and scatterbrained, and sometimes has an aesthetic that will turn people off right away. If you're aware of the talent this guy has, I can't imagine not liking, or at least appreciating, the album. Max (or whatever the fuck his real name is) has the exceptional talent of sequencing noises at all the right places. I really think that being a musician might be a prereq for fully enjoying it. Depending on what track you're on, you'll hear Max out Daft Punking Daft Punk, out Fiery Furnacing the Fiery Furnaces, or out Locusting The Locust (to a lesser degree, obv).

So I guess I posted this with two goals. If you're already a fan of Max Tundra, you're awesome, I'm glad I'm not alone. And if you aren't, maybe you should give it a go? Convincing, yeah?

Prepare To Shit

This is easily the best version I have ever heard of this piece.

BALINESE GAMELAN

SLOW JAMZ

SCOTTIE PIPPEN

NEXT LEVEL SHIT

You're going to dig it/witt if you like any or all of the above.

Maybe the Cake Police Ensemble will cover this one day?

Download link

Nirvana Monday Has Been Cancelled This Week

In observance of "Get Shit Done Monday."

Today is the day to do zine shit, no time for Curt Cobain/Kurt Kobain/Kurt Cobain/Curt Kobain

sry dad :'(

The other reason for canceling Nirvana monday this week is because Nirvana died a little bit today.

CREATING A CAKE POLICE ZINE STEP 1

I say we start thinking about the layout once we get some art files in

so artistes get to work and send some of your images with some explanation of how it ties in with the theme

weatherboxes@gmail.com

anything is welcome! hit me up!

Hey, What's Been Happening On The Internet Lately?

A lot, actually! Here are a few of the things.

From Salon:

GOP House Leader John Boehner, condemning Obama's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial, yesterday:

The Obama Administration’s irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of the American people.

"This is literally true: the Right's reaction to yesterday's announcement --we're too afraid to allow trials and due process in our country -- is the textbook definition of "surrendering to terrorists." It's the same fear they've been spewing for years. As always, the Right's tough-guy leaders wallow in a combination of pitiful fear and cynical manipulation of the fear of their followers. Indeed, it's hard to find any group of people on the globe who exude this sort of weakness and fear more than the American Right.

"People in capitals all over the world have hosted trials of high-level terrorist suspects using their normal justice system. They didn't allow fear to drive them to build island-prisons or create special commissions to depart from their rules of justice. Spain held an open trial in Madrid for the individuals accused of that country's 2004 train bombings. The British put those accused of perpetrating the London subway bombings on trial right in their normal courthouse in London. Indonesia gave public trials using standard court procedures to the individuals who bombed a nightclub in Bali. India used a Mumbai courtroom to try the sole surviving terrorist who participated in the 2008 massacre of hundreds of residents. In Argentina, the Israelis captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, andbrought him to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes.

"It's only America's Right that is too scared of the Terrorists -- or which exploits the fears of their followers -- to insist that no regular trials can be held and that "the safety and security of the American people" mean that we cannot even have them in our country to give them trials. As usual, it's the weakest and most frightened among us who rely on the most flamboyant,theatrical displays of "strength" and "courage" to hide what they really are. Then again, this is the same political movement whose "leaders" -- people like John Cornyn and Pat Roberts -- cowardly insisted that we must ignore the Constitution in order to stay alive: the exact antithesis of the core value on which the nation was founded. Given that, it's hardly surprising that they exude a level of fear of Terrorists that is unmatched virtually anywhere in the world. It is, however, noteworthy that the position they advocate -- it's too scary to have normal trials in our country of Terrorists -- is as pure a surrender to the Terrorists as it gets."

The level on which these arguments really blow my mind is not necessarily in their cowardice per se, but rather the delusional beliefs that the cowardice rises out of. Namely, that all terrorists are The Joker. Stop taking films so seriously, Republicans! I mean, sure, we all loved The Dark Night (except if we didn't because of how proud it probably made Dick Cheney), but there is an important difference between movies and reality that Republican's parents woefully did not inform them of. In real life, terrorists do not typically allow federal institutions to arrest them in order to execute miraculously improbable escape plans that win them their freedom and allow them to enact even more atrocious acts of violence against unsuspecting civilians. Once they are behind bars, they pretty much just stay there. Unless they are innocent. In which case, they need a trial. And to ensure the fairness of that trial, it has to be public. Basic stuff, really. Someone should start an NGO called Educating Asshole Republicans on the Fundamental Understanding of Criminal Kases, EARFUCK for short.

Next up, Katha Pollitt discussing the betrayal that is the Stupak amendment in the Nation. In case you don't know, the Stupak amendment is an amendment snuck in at the last minute to the health care bill that just passed the house that makes it essentially illegal for health insurance companies to provide coverage on abortions.

"Elections have consequences, you say? Exactly: Obama, the prochoice, prowoman candidate, won. Stupak didn't put him in the White House, and neither did the Catholic bishops or the white antifeminist welfare staters of Beinart's imagination. We did. And we deserve better from Obama than sound bites like "this is a healthcare bill, not an abortion bill." Abortion is healthcare. That's the whole point.

"What makes the Stupak fiasco especially pathetic is the fumbling response from prochoicers. Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill would not be in the Senate today were it not for prochoice and feminist supporters like EMILY's List. How does she thank us? By telling Joe Scarborough that Stupak isn't so bad, that it won't affect "the majority of America"--just low-income women--and that it's "an example of having to govern with moderates." So people who'll tip healthcare reform into the trash unless it blocks abortion access are the moderates now! (McCaskill took it back later that day, but the damage was done.) If I ever give that woman another dime, shoot me."

I really don't think much needs to be added to this very effective and succinct condemnation, except to say that it is appalling to see President Obama attempt to separate healthcare and abortion, and equally shocking to see this kind of disregard for women's health and safety in a political climate where so-called "liberals" are in complete control. Pathetic.

Finally, this: