motel de moka

Photo: haimtov

LE BEAU: The eldest of the three brothers wrestled with Charles, the duke’s wrestler. Immediately, Charles threw the brother, breaking three of his ribs; it’s not likely he will survive. Chares did the same to the second brother, and the third. They’re lying over there, and the poor old man, their father, weeps so piteously over them that the whole audience has joined him in grieving.
ROSALIND: Oh, dear!
TOUCHSTONE: But tell me, monsieur-what sport are the ladies missing?
LE BEAU: Why, the one I just told you about.
TOUCHSTONE: Men must be getting wiser every day; that’s the first time I’ve heard that rib-breaking was appropriate entertainment for ladies.
CELIA: Me too, I swear.
ROSALIND: Doesn’t anyone else want to see this, and hear breath wheezing out from broken ribs? Does anyone else love rib breaking? Shall we go watch this wrestling, cousin?

William Shakespeare - As You Like It

01. Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go
A Temporary Dive (V2 North America / 2006)
02. Ani Di Franco - Swim
Educated Guess (Righteous Babe / 2004)
03. Damien Rice - Cannonball
O (Vector Recordings / 2003)
04. Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road
Fisherman’s Woman (Rough Trade Us / 2006)
05. Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road Manasseh Mix
Luftkastellet, Vol. 3 (Music for Dreams / 2006)

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Photo: Ola

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake / Auguries of Innocence ~

Growing up near the sea and spending many days wandering through the dunes, feeling the warm sand and the soft breeze of spring, has left me with a deep affection for its unique surroundings. A place that gives us the time and patience to recollect our thoughts while the endless sky holds an angelic purity of light reflected by the sea. This mix starts off with Bonnie Beecher sweetly humming her well known tune from the American television series The Twilight Zone (1964). A wonderfully enigmatic recording that continues to inspire and entrance people even today. From there on it continues with soft and hushed songs and with James Yorkston adding his poignant baritone voice and hopelessly romantic lyrics. A piece from François Ozon’s film Sous le Sable not only provides the mix’s title but also subtly takes us back to the adoring and dreamy undertone that was laid down by the opening tune. Please also notice the downloading functionality that I’ve added below the playlist if you quickly want it in its entirety and don’t want to download each file individually.

Inspired by and dedicated to Ola.

1. Jeff Alexander with Bonnie Beecher - Come Wander With Me
   The Brown Bunny (Tulip, 2004)
2. Joanne Robertson - Ola
   The Lighter (Textile, 2008)
3. Joyce - Meus Vinte Anos
   Nelson Angelo E Joyce (1970; reissue on Discos Mariposa, 2006)
4. Tribalistas - Lá de Longe
   Tribalistas (Blue Note, 2002)
5. Asa Irons & Swaan Miller - Abacus
   Asa Irons & Swaan Miller (Important, 2007)
6. Philippe Rombi - Sur le Sable
   Bandes originales des films de François Ozon (Wea, 2006)
7. James Yorkston - Surf Song
   Just Beyond the River (Domino, 2004)
8. Micah P. Hinson - When We Embraced
   Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra (Full Time Hobby, 2008)
9. Josephine Foster - Trees Lay By
   Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (Locust, 2005)

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That’s a logical impossibility. Policies and opinions about them are
determined by what is known or plausibly believed, not by what is
discovered afterwards. That should be elementary. - theory-frankfurt-school
mailing list archive / chomsky

Preterition is an artifice, pretending discretion when something is said with total clarity and indiscretion. For example: “If I were not obligated to keep military secrets, I would tell all of you of the large amount of armaments that we have so that you would feel even more confidence that our victory is assured.”

Communication is a way to ask and give the answer to the same question. For example: “If they show disrespect for the ministers of God, will they respect us, simple citizens? Never.”

Rhetorical questions are a way in which one shows perplexity or inability to say something, only as an oratorical recourse. For example: “I am only a peasant and can tell you little. I know little and I will not be able to explain to you the complicated things of politics. Therefore, I talk to you with my heart, with my simple peasant’s heart, as we all are.”

Litotes is a form of meaning a lot by saying little. For example: “The nine commanders have stolen little, just the whole country.”

Irony consists of getting across exactly the opposite of what one is saying. For example: “The divine mobs that threaten and kill, they are indeed Christians.” - Psy-Op in Guerilla Warfare

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” Post-Rhetorical Counter Argument ”

01. Rovo - Kyokusei
Sai (2001)
02. Caroline - All I Need (Owen Vallis Mix) (web)
Murmurs Mixes (Temporary Residence Limited, 2008)
03. Brainworms - Heart-Shaped Hickey
Which Is Worse (Rorschach, 2007)
04. Nice Nice - Nein
Chrome (Temporary Residence Limited, 2003)
05. Explosions In the Sky - Greet Death
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (Temporary Residence Limited, 2001)
06. Rosetta - Lift (Part 3)
Wake/Lift (Dig) (R.E.D. Distribution, 2007)
07. Sleeping People - Yellow Guy / Pink Eye
Growing (Temporary Residence Limited, 2007)

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There is, of course, a counter trend to this commercially motivated acquiesence in, or indifference to, ideas. A general suspicion of, or self-imposed censorship of, anti-capitalist views provides a considerable degree of protection for the system, the power of capital serving as the same indirect source of discipline in the ideological world as it does in the allocation of scarce resources. Nonetheless, no social formation is without its means of self-defense against hostile or subversive ideas. What is striking about capitalism is the willingness to accept potentially subversive influences once they are denatured by becoming commodities. - Fri, 11 Nov 94 10:56:24 EST alt.postmodern

A list for myself. It begins simple enough with assertion that “Coldplay” is good. That bothers me. But why is that statement bothering me? Shouldn’t it be like any other statement such as ‘I like vanilla ice cream’ or ’sountering around a park’? I suppose it has something to do with my idealized version of music trend. That there is a bigger narrative one should follow and aware. A work must answer to music in general, not simply a momentary marketing effort. Or probably it’s not even that grand and glorious. More like something bumps an old scab and makes me want to pick on it. Reminding me, how fucking human we are. We like sweet little crappy lies.

So, I present you “my sweet little crappy lies”, that I know something better than Coldplay. There should be something else after U2’s rock/post-punk sound. (It’s like a bloody counter revolution. And the way it has been working, it should achieve the opposite effect. Maybe you will like Coldplay too after this? Or maybe some form of post-rock will finally make ways? Lyric and repeating phrasing are so mind sucking.)

PS. These are long post-rock songs. listen and download it if you like. Don’t repeat streaming too much to reduce server load.

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image : yives, adustyfairytale, kimonomania
see also: Covert Regime Change, manual

Ah, that would be the life: simple responses
to big worries. I could yell at my food to tell it
I was coming to kill it & I’d let people know I loved them
by hitting myself, purple splotches blossoming
on my chest like clouds. Anybody could see
there was something inside that hurt so much I wanted it out.

- Nate Pritts, Apeman.

Taiconderoga - speakin’ my mind
Speakin’ my mind 7″ (Belter / 1970)
Charles Lloyd - rusty toy
Warm Waters (Kapp / 1971)
The Standells - Dirty Water
Dirty water (Tower / 1966)
Les Breastfeeders - Laisse Autant Le Vent Tout Emporter
Dejeuner sur l’herbe (Blow the fuse / 2004)
The Cannanes - Asleep
The Cannanes (Ajax / 1996)
Squeeze - If I didn’t love you
(Argybargy, 1980)

I’ve noticed this type of raw, fuzzy sound has been slowly infecting the fashion scene for the past months, constantly appearing on runways, tv commercials and boutique soundtracks with more and more frequency. I wonder: is it a beautiful accident provoked by the french’s growing interest in electro and garage punk? Have young music lovers just had more than their fare share of decaffeinated downtempo that older generations embraced and feel the urge to unclog their eardrums? Is it the time of the season? Is it the bypass product of an uneven combination of loneliness, social impotence and heatstrokes? Either way, I dig it. Been playing hours of my garage collection constantly during this hiatus and I find it strange that I have yet to hear a complaint from my acquaintances even when they tend to be very picky when it comes to music. It must be the time for me to move to edgier taste.

Photos: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

See also: Shopping in time of recession

Images: [1] [2] [3] [4]

It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world…From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon–more than fifty million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of videogames, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home videogame systems.From the first interactive blips of electronic light at Brookhaven National Labs and the creation of Spacewar!

Van Burnham - Supercade

01. New Balance - Role Model
(A New Fragrance / 2005)
02. Trash 80 - Icarus
(unreleased)
03. Bruna - Lost And Found (not found rmx by MAT64)
(Milky Disco / 2007)
04. Trash 80 - Sodium Sonet
(Unreleased)
05. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
(Crystal Castles / 2008)

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Perhaps nothing epitomizes the Wonderland-like quality of the Japanese recession like the giant orange Hermes box in the heart of Ginza, Tokyo’s most exclusive shopping district.

For Hermes International, the building-sized box, complete with signature orange packaging and brown ”ribbon,” is not merely a marketing tool but a reflection of the company’s confidence that even in bad times, there will be plenty of Japanese willing to pay hundreds of thousand of yen for one of its handbags. Such confidence is hardly misplaced.

Sure, unemployment is at record levels, corporate earnings are sinking, bankruptcies are at a record high, investment is down and the banking system is at the brink of disaster. But luxury goods retailers in Japan are thriving, even as overall consumer spending has continued to fall. - NYT (1998)

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” Feeling Decadent ”

01. The New Frontiers - The Day You Fell Apart
Mending (The Militia group, 2008)
02. The Long Blondes - Here Comes The Serious Bit
Couples (Rough Trade Us, 2008)
03. Tilly and the Wall - Pot Kettle Black
O (Team Love Records, 2008)
04. French Kicks - Love in the Ruins
Swimming (Vagrant Records, 2008)
05. Pomegranates - Whom/Who
Everything Is Alive (Lujo Records, 2008)
06. Panda Riot - Like Flowers At Night
She Dares All Things (Panda Riot, 2007)

note: Feeling a bit decadent. This is a standard mood list, near shoegazer sort of texture. I like the minor key tension vs. up beat walking tempo. Music for shopping in time of recession. Hey, at least the music is good, in dark and edgy sort of way. But nothing too removed from known formula. Which could ruin the balance. At any rate, somebody better snap this site out of slower tempo. I need something with beat! :D (I don’t know where everybody is, except jungle. Probably they all die from heat stroke. Either that or baking themselves somewhere in Majorca’s beach. ) Go out and have a decadent life today…

image: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2]
see also: Hacking Japan

Image: EnzoDavide

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL 9000: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?
HAL 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell’d you get that idea, HAL?
HAL 9000: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Quote from “2001: A Space Odyssey”

01. Growing - Lateral
(Lateral / 2008)

02. Lindstrom - I Feel Space
(It’s a Feedelity Affair / 2006)

03. Jersey Devil Social Club - Child 13
(Milky Disco / 2007)

04. Cloudland Canyon - Dambala
(Silver Tongued Sisyphus / 2007)

05. Eluvium - As I Drift Off
(When I Live by the Garden and the Sea / 2006)

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Image: KiddyGrade

With striking frequency, roman female martyrs were describer by their authors as having masculine characteristics. Perpetua stared with a virile gaze directly into the eyes of their attackers, and not with the submissive look of a MATRONA. Blandina’s strengh is compared with that of a male athlete. The “masculinization” of the courage of the female marthyrs enters into a field of tension with the protection of their chastity. They are at once VIRAGO e VIRGO. The first virgins were in other words portrayted as heroines with the qualityes of a gladiator, and as virgins they died a “virile” death.

Johan Leemans, Jürgen - More Than a Memory

01. Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)
(Wanderlust / 2007)
02. Lykke Li - Complaint Department
(Youth Novel / 2008)
03. Cocorosie - Promise
(The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn / 2007)
04. Joanna Newsom - Bridges And Balloons
(The Milk-Eyed Mender / 2004)
05. The Knife - Pass This On
(Deep Cuts / 2006 / Phantom Sound & Vision)

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