The merger of journalists and government officials – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com: “The video of the CNN debate I did last night about WikiLeaks with former Bush Homeland Security Adviser (and CNN contributor) Fran Townsend and CNN anchor Jessica Yellin is posted below. The way it proceeded was quite instructive to me and I want to make four observations about the discussion:”
We did not “Trick” Medicine like the artical says; We had already done a record together and Brad was our friend. We only “tricked”Mercury Rev…
This Week In Dallas Music History: The Vas Deferens Organization is Not For Everyone – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night: “?In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer music writer Matt Weitz wrote a 1996 piece on the Vas Deferens Organization — an avant garde music collective that engineered recordings so strange, they made Ariel Pink sound like The Beatles.
Interestingly enough, though, it was because of an Ariel Pink recording in Dallas this year that we featured the Vas Deferens Organization in a story about Dennis, Aaron, and Stefan Gonzalez — a local jazz family that connected with Pink because of their relationship with members of the VDO.
Pink isn’t the only high profile artist with connection to VDO, though. This piece features an interesting story of how VDO members Eric Lumbleau and Matt Castille tricked members of Medicine and Mercury Rev into recording on a project called Transcontinental Conspiracy. “
YouTube – I.D. COMPANY – BHAGAVAD GITA: “
If they were not trying to do DR John’s Gris Gris I will eat my hat!!!
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Yet another of my productions for The Eyelash Carpets, with Jeff Mattson (Crash Worship) on this one as well. Cool track!
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A track I produced for The Eyelash Carpets quite some time ago…
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The third Production I did for The Eyelash Carpets…
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Another I produced for The Eyelash Carpets, this one with Jeff Mattson from Crash Worship.
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Eerie Image Captured in Woods: “Deer stand camera snaps bizarre animal
Updated: Tuesday, 14 Dec 2010, 11:00 AM EST Published : Thursday, 09 Dec 2010, 10:57 PM EST
BERWICK, Louisiana (WVLA) – A deer hunter captures a spooky image wandering through the Louisiana woods at night.
A hunter near Baton Rouge says he found this freaky photo on his deer stand camera.
The hunting camera was broken but the memory card was still there and so was this bizarre image.
It looks like a cross between a human and an animal, with long slender appendages and glowing eyes.
The hunter says he just hopes it’s a vegetarian, if he runs into it in the woods again.
Some say it’s a hoax because they have found the same picture with two different dates about a week apart.
But whether you believe its real or not, it’s certainly an eerie image.”
lfusetronsound: ” Artist: SHITS AND GIGGLES Title: Trick Or Treat Format: LP Label: F.D.A.F.I.T.S. Country: USA Price: $22.00 ‘The union of warped avant pop maestro Ariel Pink and the shapeshifting surrealists and Mutant Sounds blog co-authors in Vas Deferens Organization, Shits And Giggles is an inspired and unprecedented collision of two distinct and fully formed galaxies of advanced dream logic art fuck, with Ariels hazy/glazy universe of dissociative pop song rupture and advanced command of psychedelic song structure a virtual playpen for the pranksters in VDO to jerry-rig with plunderphonic joy buzzers, synth punk trap doors, kosmiche time machines and an embrace of willful illogic; a psychotropic melee onto whose exoskeleton has been grafted unexpected episodes of luminous grace from legendary free jazz trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and his son, bassist Aaron Gonzalez.’ -F.D.A.F.I.T.S. “
Rape victim arrested for refusing TSA pat down | Raw Story: “A 56-year-old woman who says she is a rape victim was arrested and banned from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Wednesday after refusing to receive a pat down from a Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officer.
Claire Hirschkind could not receive a body scan because of a pacemaker-type device in her chest and was escorted to a female TSA officer to receive an enhanced pat down.
‘I told them, ‘No, I’m not going to have my breasts felt,’ and she said, ‘Yes, you are,” Hirschkind told KVUE.
After refusing to receive the enhanced pat down, she was arrested.”
kobi levi: shoes: “designer kobi levi specializes in designing unusual footwear that blurs the line between fashion and art. levi graduated from bezalel academy of art & design, jerusalem and has worked as a freelance designer since. he describes his personal shoe creations as ‘artistic footwear’ making each pair in his studio by hand. ‘the shoe is my canvas. the trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. the combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. the piece is a wearable sculpture.’ “
The 23 Best Names Ever | Smosh: “When your parents pick out your name, they are choosing something that will define you for the rest of your life. In the case of these people, their parents have chosen to define them as hilarious. Let us know any crazy names you’ve heard in the comments!”
Do You Want To Dream Different?: “This mind teasing structure that you are viewing in pictures below was designed and developed by organic architect Javier Senosiain.
Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect who has a peculiar taste to create numerous marvels in different patterns. This particular shell house aptly named ‘Nautilus House’ was given shape in 2006 at a place called Naucalpan in Mexico. Being an exceptional one directly from the imagination of its architect, it naturally had to undergo enough changes testing the patience of its builder. The concept ‘Organic’ can be well experienced from the way one feels being amidst the nature. The way the structure and the interiors have been designed is nothing but teasing the ever hungry urban population confined to concrete jungles. Do you want to be the one, dreaming different?”
Less Versus Fewer : Grammar Girl :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™: “Today’s topic is less versus fewer.
Less and fewer are easy to mix up. They mean the same thing—the opposite of more—but you use them in different circumstances (1). The basic rule is that you use less with mass nouns and fewer with count nouns.”
WikiLeaks Set To Reveal U.S.-UFO War?!? | Disinformation: “This has got to be the weirdest potential WikiLeak yet. Thanks to Annalee Newitz on io9.com for discovering this EU Times story:
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by Russian Space Forces (VKS) 45th Division of Space Control says that an upcoming WikiLeaks release of secret US cables details that the Americans have been ‘engaged’ since 2004 in a ‘war’ against UFO’s based on or near the Continent of Antarctica, particularly the Southern Ocean.”
Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials | Designs & Ideas on Dornob: “Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture. Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. “
The original website of strange and wonderful album covers | Bizarre Records: “Joquina, that guy’s on the front porch again. I told you to get a restraining order.”
Body Builder Muscle Steroids Photo Gallery theBERRY: “Muscles increase while brain cells diminish (19 photos)”
Aural Innovations SpaceRock Radio in streaming RealAudio: “Radio Show #251: VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION Special (December 24, 2010)
Since 1994, Vas Deferens Organization have been blending Psychedelia, Krautrock, Progressive Rock and other musical forms into a bubbling cauldron of lysergic madness and fun. In honor of the first Vas Deferens Organization album in nine years, this tribute show explores the band’s work and various side projects.
Visit the Vas Deferens Organization web site at
http://vasdeferensorganization.com
Visit the Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets label web site at
http://www.freedopeandfuckinginthestreets.com
Visit the Mutant Sounds blog site at
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com
Listen Mp3 Download Mp3 (114 megs) Playlist
[Track 1: 0:00-7:15] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Lazy Eyed Locusts in Defocused Landscapes’ (from Saturation)
[Track 2: 9:30-18:30] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Hors D’Oeuvres’ (from Drug Bubbles)
[Track 3: 18:30-24:40] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘The Matmos’ (from Sweat Your Cheeses, But Not In My Salad)
[Track 4: 24:40-30:15] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Navajo Beach Blanket Bingo’ (from The Idiot Parade)
[Track 5: 30:15-34:05] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Wald Lied’ (from Queas & Art)
[Track 6: 36:35-42:45] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘E.V.P.’ (from Ninth Ward Fourth World)
[Track 7: 42:45-47:00] Shits and Giggles – ‘Zykatronics’ (from Trick or Treat)
[Track 8: 47:00-1:01:00] Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Futura Perspective’ (from Zyzzybaloubah)
[Track 9: 1:02:10-1:08:30] Tone Float – ‘Vapourspace Lookinglass’ (from Musik von Tone Float)
[Track 10: 1:08:30-1:13:50] Sound – ‘The Screaming Zenith’ (from The Screaming Zenith)
[Track 11: 1:13:50-1:20:40] Muz – excerpt (from Muz)
[Track 12: 1:20:40-1:26:15] Muz – ‘On The Sun’ (from Banana in Portuguese)
[Track 13: 1:27:25-1:31:25] Electric Company and Vas Deferens Organization – ‘Extracting Epiphanies From The Thicket Of Implausibility’ (from More Pelvis Wick For The Baloney Boners)
[Track 14: 1:31:25-1:41:05] Vas Deferens Organization and Brad Laner – ‘T’ (from Transcontinental Conspiracy)
[Track 15: 1:41:05-1:47:00] Vas Deferens Organization and Christopher – excerpt (from Suspension)
[Track 16: 1:47:25-2:04:30] Sound – ‘Phantasmagoricon’ (from Drunk on Confusion) “
Judge finds ‘increasing’ difficulty in seating marijuana juries | Raw Story: “It’s becoming more and more difficult to find juries that will produce a guilty verdict in marijuana cases, according to a judge in Missoula County, Montana.
‘I think it’s going to become increasingly difficult to seat a jury in marijuana cases, at least the ones involving a small amount,’ District Judge Dusty Deschamps said Friday after potential jurors refused to convict a Montana man for having a 1/16 of an ounce of Marijuana.
An April 23 search of Touray Cornell’s home found several used marijuana joints, a pipe, and some residue. He’s is also charged with the criminal distribution of dangerous drugs.
Cornell’s neighbors had called the police because they thought he was selling drugs. The defendant admitted in an affidavit that he had distributed small amounts of marijuana.
One potential juror after another told the court that they would not convict the man for possessing a 1/16 of an ounce.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Andrew Paul told the Associated Press that the jurors staged ‘a mutiny.'”
