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  • slo lettuce
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    methyl crackotine...
    Breaking Bad is but one more (absolutely exemplary) story of the human condition. Love of family, love of life, facing one's own mortality and the complete and utter corruption of all of that love for.......money. Clearly knowing right from wrong (legally and, more importantly, morally); knowingly producing one of the most addictive substances known ('if I don't do it, someone else will' rationale) and the acceptance of and willingness to be deadly violent in order to keep the machine running that "pays the bills". Love, corruption, ego and greed......Vince Gilligan has outdone everyone else with this series. Period! The show is more addictive, imho, that the 99% pure blue meth that Walt churns out. It's a combination of crystal meth, crack and nicotine. If you have not seen this series yet, you need to.
  • Anna rRxia
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    Breaking Bad Peaks With Emmy
    Breaking Bad took the "Best Dramatic Series" Emmy last evening during the penultimate 60th episode showing live on AMC. One more show to go! Some people call this the best TV show ever. Is it a reflection of out times and American culture? A high school teacher with broken dreams and lost potential develops cancer and builds a drug empire by being the best meth cook ever, eventually accumulating 80 million dollars, to take care of his family after his imminent death. But he kills so many through circumstance in the meantime his family doesn't want anything to do with him or the money. You're either bad or you're good, there ain't no grey angels.
  • wilfredtjones
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    Dollar bills y'all...
    ...in other words, follow the dollar. It'll lead you to the primary perpetuators of the sisyphean struggle. I saw that documentary as well (I actually prefer his "Why We Fight"; an engaging documentary on an equally tough topic). $1 tln spent logically leads to someone is getting paid in the status quo! The 'good news' is our corporate overlords have begun to see greater profit potentials in weed being legal. I just wonder how the private prison lobby is going to react, and for whom they will be taking out the long knives next. In the meantime, chief on!! (as they say, "Smoke 'em if ya got 'em")
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    The House I Live In...
    an outstanding documentary from filmmaker Eugene Jarecki from 2012 regarding this country's war on poor people and minorities, aka, the war on drugs. Far too much to review for my meager writing abilities but lets just say, it's extremely honest, accurate and informative. "jury nullification" is the name given to the procedure whereby a juror, completely legally, disregards the judge's instructions and votes with his/her conscience and can thereby throw an entire case. It is one method, recommended here, to help change the terribly unjust drug laws and sentencing guidelines used to fuel the highly profitable prison business. The documentary opens with this: "Since 1971, the War on Drugs has cost over $1 trillion and has resulted in more than 45 million arrests. During that time, illegal drug use has remained unchanged." Judges, lawyers, police, prison guards, prisoners, psychologists and historians all weigh in on this ludicrous system. Be a good citizen and smoke some herb before you watch this :)
  • Anna rRxia
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    Can't wait for another season of "Archer"
    Hope the show hasn't been canceled from the FX Network.
  • Anna rRxia
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    I can't believe I haven't commented on this TV show yet! Daniel Tosh is a 30-something comedienne with his own TV program and production company called "Black Heart Productions" (with his own almost fictional Black Lab called "Ubu" (Sit Ubu, Sit!) The name of the production company, by the way, mirrors his brand of post 2000, i-phone video, quick hook-up generation now cutting it's teeth on 50 Shades Of Gray. The Dark Humor is what mostly sets it apart and is more than a bit scary in it's reflection of reality. "Sit, Ubu, sit! She said seductively as she rolled down the dark nylons...
  • Anna rRxia
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    Breaking Bad, Last Season
    I've been touting this show since the third episode of season one, six years ago. It has proven to have wide popular acclaim and has racked up a slew of Emmies. After this weeks episode (Season 5.2; #10) the confrontation between Walter White and his DEA brother-in-law reaches white-hot as the DEA agent wants Skyler to testify against her husband. Meanwhile, Walt's erstwhile partner has angst about the huge stacks of cash he has made and has been arrested for distributing wads of cash from his car like a newspaper boy. I do enjoy the real pathos going on here. The writing is speaking to true, raw human emotion. The story is reaching a logical conclusion. But, much like a good work of fiction, there is sure to be surprising twists at the end. Can't wait for the last six episodes and then maybe canceling my subscription to cable. I don't think I'll find another TV show that will ever beat this one, imho.
  • Randall Lard
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    Shaun Bloodworth Stave final cut -

    STAVE final cut from shaun bloodworth on Vimeo.

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    Shaun Bloodworth - Sonar 12 from Electronic Supper Club on Vimeo.

    shaunbloodworth.com/ The track is an edit of Internal Collapse by The Black Dog theblackdogma.com/ The track is from the album Tranklements, due for release on May 20th 2013.
  • slo lettuce
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    couldn't agree more...
    about Breaking Bad. Saw all of Sopranos on dvd; this series eats that one for lunch. I have only been able to watch this through Netflix and just finished the last two episodes of the first half of season 5. The "behind the scenes" sections on each dvd with Vince Gilligan and the actors is priceless. Really gets into his thinking and creativity, how the scenes were done -like Gustavo's demise - 19 takes - and even some bloopers. Vince was also on Charlie Rose a short time ago for the entire hour discussing the series. It's already been said about the last 8 episodes that "if you can't watch the series as it happens, you're going to have to take the spoilers like a man because there's no way you're not going to be able to NOT hear or read about it". I'm already cheating and reading a really detailed recap on Mondays after each new episode. Can't help it!! Gotta know! And I'm still gonna watch it on Netflix when it becomes available on dvd.
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    Stefan Betke 'A good master can only be as good as the mix, but a master becomes better with understanding the purpose and ideas behind the music.' Artist, producer and mastering engineer based in Berlin. Founder of ~scape and Pole labels and Scape Mastering Studio.
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DJ Food - O Is For Orange '"O Is For Orange" is the sound of weathered tape saturation, detuned analogue synthesisers, vinyl crackle and machine hum. It’s also the look of unfocused, flickering lenses, mirror image filters and blurry grain embedded into film. Unofficial fan films sit alongside experimental animation, public information shorts and even the odd official video. Material that Boards of Canada took inspiration from blends with their own work as well as many that they inspired.' This set was originally played at 'A Few Old Tunes', London 20th June 2013, a mix of Boards of Canada related, inspired, and sampled tracks/videos. 01 Sesame Street - Oh! Orange [Sesame Workshop] 02 Galt Macdermot - Aquarius [RCA Victor] Video: 'Conquest Of Light' [Dir. Paul Cohen, 'Mars & Beyond' (Dir. Ward Kimball, 'Time Magazine' Advert, Excerpt From 'Thunderbolt') - Dir. Ira Cohen] 03 Boards Of Canada - The Colour Of The Fire [Warp] Video: Sesame Street 'I Love You' 04 Broadcast & The Focus Group - The Be Colony [Warp] Video: 'Witch Cults' #1 & 2 - Both Dir. Julian House 05 Yosi Horikawa - Wandering [First Word] Video: Yeasayer 'Henrietta' [Dir. Unknown] 06 Prefuse 73 Feat. School Of Seven Bells - The Class Of 73 [Warp] Video: Official (Dir. Chris Boyle) - [Warp Films] 07 Mordy Laye & The Group Modular - Electric Paint [Audio Montage] Video: Official [Dir. Plankton] 08 Boards Of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon [Skam] Video: Unofficial (Dir. Nonameno5, Sampled From 'One Got Fat') [1963] 09 John Abercrombie - Timeless [ECM] Video: 'As The Crow Flies' [Dir. Funki Porcini, At&t Documentaries] 10 Delia Derbyshire And Barry Bermange - The Dreams: Land [BBC] 11 The Books - Group Autogenics I [Temporary Residence] Video: 'Terminal Self' [Dir. John Whitney Jr.] 12 Two Quiet Suns - Light Curve [Bandcamp] Video: Yeasayer 'Fingers Never Bleed' [Dir. Unknown] 13 DJ Food - Sunspot Video: Official [Dir. DJ Food & Tom Clarkson] 14 Lost Idol - Beesmouth [Cookshop] Video: Excerpt From 'The Public Voice' - Dir. Lejf Marcussen 15 Boards Of Canada - A Beautiful Place Out In The Country [Warp] Video: Unofficial - Dir. Neil Krug 16 Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup (Boards Of Canada Remix) [Pias] Video: 'Series 4' (Dir. Normand Grégoire) [Nation Film Board Of Canada] 17 Autechre - Teartear [Warp] Video: 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' (Dir. Panos Comastos, Aldo Aréchar 'That Will Be The Day') - Dir. Matthew Divito] 18 The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast) Video: Unofficial Live Tv Appearance Remixed By DJ Food 19 Wagon Christ - Chunkothy [Ninja Tune] Video: Official [Dir. Celyn Brazier] 20 Boards Of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus [Warp] Video: Unofficial - Dir. Videomarsh 21 Boards Of Canada - Music Is Math [Warp] Video: Unofficial - Dir. Unknown 22 Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Remix) [Planet Mu] Video: 'Rendezvous With Rama' Arthur C. Clarke 3d Footage 23 Boards Of Canada - Olson (Midland Re-Edit) Video: 'Hello Machine' [Dir. Carroll Ballard] 24 Delia Derbyshire And Barry Bermange - The Dreams: Colour [BBC] 25 Sesame Street - A Lot Of Me [Sesame Workshop]
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Hear In Now Mazz Swift - Violin Tomeka Reid - Cello Silvia Bolognesi - Double Bass Center for New Music + Audio Technologies @ UC Berkeley, 09.23.2014
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Paradoxical Frog Ingrid Laubrock - tenor saxophone Kris Davis - piano Tyshawn Sorey - drums, percussion The Stone, NYC - August 1 2014
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Andrea Wolper / Ken Filiano / Michael TA Thompson Andrea Wolper - voice, compositions Ken Filiano - bass Michael TA Thompson - drums, percussion at 6BC Gardens, NYC - Arts for Art - Oct 2 2016 In Gardens concert series presented by Arts for Art
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Tomeka Reid Artists Respond: Tomeka Reid Performs "Airs for Eliza" Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid performs an intimate recital (July 7, 2016) in response to Fo Wilson’s installation, Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities. In this performance, Reid expertly combines composed vignettes and spontaneous improvisations for a highly personal reaction to Wilson's work. Reid is seated on the porch of Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, a full-scale structure on the grounds of the Lynden Sculpture Garden (on view June 6 through October 30, 2016, and seasonally thereafter). The cabinet is both wunderkammer and slave cabin; it imagines what a 19th-century woman of African descent might have collected, catalogued and stowed in her living quarters. Informed by historical research, Eliza expresses a hopeful African American past, present, and future through a collection of found and original objects. Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities is a collaboration with the Chipstone Foundation. Reid's recital is part of a series of programs sponsored by Chipstone and the Lynden Sculpture Garden, in which four artists/collectives were commissioned to respond to the installation. For more information on visiting Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, see the Lynden Sculpture Garden website here: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/fo-wilson-elizas-pecul…
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Larry Roland Vision Festival 20 | Larry Roland // Poet VISION FESTIVAL 20: His spoken word pays homage to the strength and beauty of his ancestors from whom he has gained knowledge, wisdom, pride, and understanding. Through the use of the African philosophy “Sankofa”, his poetry has made the connection between the past, and present, in order to hypothesize the direction of the future. His spoken word is the “Voice” for the man on the street who does not have a voice. Cameras David Appel Don Mount Michael Lucio Sternbach Adam Worth Edit by MLS Sound by Stephen Schmidt
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Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Ingrid Laubrock - tenor saxophone Tom Rainey - Drums Interstellar Duos - March 24 2014 at Arts for Art / Evolving Music, NYC
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Cleaver - Ochs Duo Gerald Cleaver - drums, percussion Larry Ochs - saxophones at 19 Paul Fort, Paris, 29 September 2016
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Fred P at Dommune, Tokyo, JP - 11.06.2014
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Fovea Hex Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg, Laura Sheeran, Colin Potter, with guests Justin Grounds (violin) Gemma Kost (cello) and Gayle Roberts (viola) at TUSK Festival, 16 October 2016, Gateshead, England
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Steve Noble & Alex Ward Steve Noble (percussion) & Alex Ward (clarinet) at IKLECTIK BALLISTIK, presented by Mopomoso on the 4th of December 2016 Filmed & edited by Kostas Chondros Recorded & mastered by Saint Austral Sound
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Richard Dawson Richard Dawson (vocals, guitar) at the Cube Microplex, Bristol, England, 6th March 2013
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Ashtray Navigations Phil Todd - guitar, electronics Melanie O'Dubhshlaine - synth, electronics at TUSK Festival, October 2016, Gateshead, England
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Grateful Dead at Wembley Arena, London, England, 31st October 1990 Video supplied by Lazy Cow Captured by Ray B Synch/Authored by BigWuRock Audio supplied by Darryl Hinko
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King Buzzo vocals and acoustic guitar by King Buzzo at Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT, 7/6/14
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Clutch Neil Fallon - vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion Jean-Paul Gaster - drums, percussion Dan Maines - bass Tim Sult - guitar Earth Rocker World Tour live at Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO, 11/14/30
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A cult short film "San Francisco 1968" featuring a 15 minute version of Intersteller Overdrive. (note: there is nudity in this so be mindful)
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Honky JD Pinkus - bass, vocals Bobby Landgraf - guitar, vocals Trinidad Leal - drums, vocals at DaveTV October 22, 2016, South Austin Tejas
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Parliament Funkadelic Michael Hampton, Garry Shider, Glenn Goins - guitar Cordell Mosson - bass Jerome Brailey - drums Fred Wesley - trombone Maceo Parker - saxophone Richard Griffith - trumpet Rick Gardner - trumpet Bernie Worrell - keyboards George Clinton, Glenn Goins, Garry Shider, Fuzzy Haskins, Grady Thomas, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis, Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington - vocals at The Summit, Houston, Texas, October 31, 1976
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Spirit Caravan Wino - guitar, vocals Dave Sherman - bass, vocals Henry Vasquez - drums at Saint Vitus Bar, Brooklyn, NY, April 15, 2014
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Miles Davis Miles Davis - trumpet, organ Dave Liebman - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute Pete Cosey - electric guitar, percussion Reggie Lucas - electric guitar Michael Henderson - electric bass Al Foster - drums James "Mutume" Foreman - congas, percussion at Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria, November 3, 1973
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High On Fire Matt Pike - guitar, vocals Dez Kensel - drums Jeff Matz - bass guitar, backing vocals at Saint Vitus Bar, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 2015
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Milford Graves NY HeArt Ensemble Milford Graves - drums, percussion Amiri Baraka - words Roswell Rudd - trombone William Parker - bass Charles Gayle - tenor saxophone, piano at Vision Festival 18 - Roulette, Brooklyn - June 12 2013
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Neneh Cherry & The Thing Neneh Cherry - vocals Mats Gustafsson - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, electronics Ingebright Håker Flaten - double bass, electric bass Paal Nilssen-Love - drums at 47th Heineken Jazzaldia Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián, 23 July 2012, Plaza de la Trinidad, Donosti, Spain
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Paula Temple Paula Temple - laptop, electronics at The Peacock Society Festival, 17.02.2017, Parc Floral de Paris, France
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Maja S. K. Ratkje Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje - vocals, electronics, live processing Tord Knudsen - live visuals at Punkt Festival 2013, Kick, Kristiansand, Norway
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Fire! Orchestra Fire! Orchestra - Ritual Mats Gustafsson – conduction, baritone sax Martin Hederos – keyboards, violin Mats Äleklint - trombone Mette Rasmussen alto saxophone Finn Loxbo - guitar Lotte Anker – alto saxophone Sofia Jernberg - voice Niklas Barnö - trumpet Mads Forsby – drums Mariam Wallentin – voice Johan Berthling – bass Nate Wooley - trumpet Andreas Werliin – drums Anna Högberg - tenor saxophone Per-Åke Holmlander - tuba Julien Desprez – guitar Per Texas Johansson – bass clarinet, clarinet Andreas Berthling – electronics at A38 Ship, Budapest, Hungary, 6 June 2016
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Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra - vocals East Bay Ray - guitar Klaus Fluoride - bass, vocals D.H. Peligro - drums, vocals at DMPO's On Broadway Nightclub, San Francisco, Saturday, June 16, 1984
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Hey, cool link! I saw a lot of the old 80's punk bands but never did get to see DK's. Peace, -Dave
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Lisa Mezzacappa ORGANELLE ORGANELLE is a “set" of compositions, inspired by diverse scientific processes – some enormous and unfathomable, others impossibly microscopic – that form a whole through the insights and explorations of master improvisers. The modular work draws its musical ideas from the different ways that the human body, the natural world, and the cosmos mark and “experience” the passing of time. The notes, rhythms, musical relationships, melodies, and structures in each movement of ORGANELLE are connected to theories of cell biology, astrophysics, paleontology, zoology, or neuroscience, exploring these otherwise-imperceptible phenomena through sound. The first iteration of ORGANELLE premiered in Europe in spring of 2016, with musicians in Köln, DE; Naples and Rome, IT; and back at home that fall, in Berkeley, CA at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In each presentation, the music is revised, re-imagined, and expanded to embrace a new set of musical personalities and a different performance context. New movements will be added, and old ones discarded or re-worked, to suit different configurations of musicians as the work continues to develop in the coming years. ORGANELLE also reflects my fascination with the challenges of notating musical ideas for improvisers to play (with), which for me has an interesting parallel with the ways science tries to visually represent complex, multi-dimensional systems and processes with flow charts and graphs and diagrams. The practical concern of wanting this score to be playable by any kind of improviser - a laptop electronic musician, an experimental koto player, a guitarist with nontraditional tunings - meant I often needed to find ways of visually representing musical ideas and relationships that were not confined to the traditional music staff. Many of these new graphic notations ended up having poetic connections to the scientific diagrams I was discovering in researching the content for the piece. Part I: Syzygy Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass + Wayne Grim, electronics/sonification Part II: Percussion Quartet Gino Robair, Kjell Nordeson, Mark Clifford, Jason Levis at Exploratorium, Pier 15, The Embarcadero & Green St., San Francisco, CA
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Big City Orchestra Das - amplified objects, percussion Ninah Pixie - reeds, percussion Andy Cowitt - voice, reeds, guitar Polly Moller - flutes, percussion Suki O'Kane - percussion 15th Annual Outsound New Music Summit San Francisco Community Music Center, July 30, 2016 Big City Orchestra presents a unique version of "In a Persian Market" by British composer Albert William Ketèlbey. Composed in 1920 and inspired by Johann Strauss II's composition "Persischer Marsch", it was very popular with theater orchestras and in sheet music form, and was followed by other similarly exotic compositions such as "In a Chinese Temple Garden" and "In a Monastery Garden".
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Kurouzu Anthony Donovan - fretless-half guitar & electronics Ian Simpson - prepared lap steel Charlie Collins - percussion & metal at the Mopomoso free improvisation afternoon event at the Vortex, London, on 19 April 2015 filmed by Kostas Chondros