Night Gallery, Constant Struggle

A new tape that I love. You can listen to Constant Struggle through Rainbow Body Records (link).

The Suburbs Leaks!

It has met my expectations!
'Sometimes I can't believe in, I'm moving past the feeling'!

Check out guardian.co.uk review (link): 'It sets the album's tone, which reins in the excesses of the past, even when the songs veer towards something similar. Empty Room has the propulsion of Neon Bible's No Cars Go, but it's leavened by Régine Chassagne's gorgeous, airy vocal. For the most part, The Suburbs' pleasures are subtle ones – the sudden lurch in rhythm that disrupts the drivetime rock dynamics of Modern Man, the delicate drift of Half Light I. The most surprising among them must be the discovery of Arcade Fire's sense of humour, hitherto unnoticed, possibly because it was hitherto nonexistent. If the album's wearying length (at over an hour, it could happily lose three or four tracks, starting with the leaden Half Light II) and song titles packed with brackets and roman numerals still suggest a band inclined to take itself too seriously, there's something charming about the way an album about growing up in the suburban 80s gradually starts to resemble a chart rundown from 1983: the taut, post-new wave rock track (We Used to Wait), the mournful social-realist ballad (The Sprawl I), the glittering synth-pop masterpiece (the glorious Sprawl II). You wait expectantly for them go the whole nostalgic hog and hit you with a novelty dance track along the lines of Agadoo, but, alas they don't: instead it ends with a reprise of the title track, and a satisfying sense of having accomplished what they set out to achieve.'

guardian.co.uk/ maps war logs

guardian.co.uk/ selects 300 records, from the 92,201 WikiLeaks database, which they see significant and provided details through an interactive map (link).

via http://www.guardian.co.uk/

WikiLeaks: Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

Release date

July 25, 2010

Summary

25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.

The document collection is available on a dedicated webpage.

The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.

We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.

via WikiLeaks

Deadly Toll

via Spiegel Online

Don't argue with an ibex

Thanks Jane, I needed this

From A Cell Phone to Porsche, The Craigslist Master

Bartering Master!

via http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Raleigh Denim - handcrafted in North Carolina

UNC-TV featured Raleigh Denim!

Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement

I recently heard "Hospice Gates" from Lower Dens new record and I love it! I look forward to hearing more of this album!
Pitchfork remarks that 'Hunter's deep, smooth voice-- comparable to PJ Harvey's, especially on grittier tracks like "Completely Golden"-- is woven in with the least trebly of the instruments, whispery yet tensile. When it's time for the guitars to show off with elaborate arpeggios, gurgling shreds, and distant, glittery calls-and-responses, she stands back from the mic entirely, or at least gives the instruments, including her own, a long intro. Even when her lyrics are a key component of a song, she can sound (like Beach House's Victoria Legrand) a little lost in the mix, as if the force of the instruments were threatening to blow her away. The rare tracks where she's loudest are just as strong as the others: there's the slight "Truss Me", whose title is a good indication of how slow and loose the song is, and "Two Cocks", a joyous, robust potential single.' Continue reading from pitchfork ...

Imported World Cup players

Carlos Lemos and Daniel Lima report for Estadao on this cultural change since the 1994 World Cup up to present (link). Their diagrams developed can be used to compare between years and for individual counties. I love this interactive model (link)!

Baths

We listened to this new band last night for the first time. Just to take in this new sound we listened to the album a couple times all the way through, before changing CDs. The band's name is Baths. Their album, Cerulean, reminds me a bit of Passion Pit, with less of an upbeat. I was hoping they were going to stop through the Triangle on their upcoming tour, but unfortunately they are only visiting Charlotte, with no open dates.
Pitchfork writes, Wiesenfeld, Baths, is 'something of the pop voice that the L.A. beathead scene never realized it needed' (link). They continue to review the album Cerulean; 'Cerulean has clear influences, but it also has its own point of view. It would probably be overload if the lyrics matched the density of the music, but the themes in Cerulean are pretty simple-- the desire for human connection and occasionally ("Indoorsy") a retreat from it.'
Baths was recently signed to anticon records (link). Anticon describes Cerulean as 'the auspicious debut of L.A.'s Baths. Evolving out of Will Wiesenfeld's varied [Post-Foetus] project, and inspired by the energy of the city's burgeoning beat scene (Daedelus introduced Anticon to Baths), the record represents a clear departure from both – an often warm, acoustic-fueled electronic music that hews closer to the work of contemporaries like Toro Y Moi. By combining songwriting with self-sampling, raw musicianship with synthesized textures, and field recordings with propulsive beats, Baths has created a seething sound-cloud packed with bright moments and prone to unexpected turns.' continue reading ...

Libraries

Aquarium Drunkard reviews Love Languages new album!

'When a band comes rumbling out of nowhere with a sound that artfully evokes the past, it’s typical to wait for the eventual downfall the second time around. Conventional wisdom goes that you have a whole lifetime to write your first album and maybe a year for the second. The Love Language’s Libraries, however, is the antithesis of the sophomore slump. A radiant, glowing expansion of the sound of their self-titled debut, Libraries turns a good band into a great one and lays down the foundation of a remarkable band seeming to start to hit its stride.' Continue reading...

and Pitchfork gives Libraries a 7.1 (link)!

The Suburbs

I couldn't be more excited about The Suburbs!

Greenland Glacier Retreats One Mile Overnight!

NASA's just released some pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7--when an area of ice 2.7 square miles in size ( more than twice the size of New York City's Central Park), where the glacier meets the ocean, broke up overnight and the glacier retreated one mile inland. That's as much retreat in one night as the average for nearly two years.
Thomas Wagner, cryospheric program scientist at NASA, commented:
While there have been ice breakouts of this magnitude from Jakobshavn and other glaciers in the past, this event is unusual because it occurs on the heels of a warm winter that saw no sea ice in the surrounding bay. While this exact relationship between these events is being determined, it lends credence to the theory that warming of the oceans is responsible for the ice loss observed throughout Greenland and Antarctica.


via:http://www.treehugger.com

Are you Happy?

via headup

MRI results. Can anyone Interpret?

Ketchie's Peppers

I've opened up a new world of spices that I love (link).

ketchup n mustard

Thank you Jamie for this nice new addition to my house. I love it and all your work.
find more of Jamie's work at her sites:
website: http://ketchup-mustard.com/
blog: http://www.ketchup-mustard.com/blog/
esty: http://www.etsy.com/shop/twodumbs

Critter Vision

Critter Vision is selling lots of his personal collection.

Categories of things include:

type, lettering, signs
furniture
objects
books
paper
people
transport

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