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Electric Six
— Synthesizer
April 2012
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10 Untranslatable Words →
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— 10 wonderful words from French, Russian, Japanese, Sanskrit, bearing meanings you always needed, but never knew were possible in just one word.
Oh – and each meaning beautifully demonstrated in the context of the world of film. Nice work, Esther Inglis-Arkell.
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Curumin, feat. BNegão & Lucas Santtana
— Caixa preta
Conference of the birds (DJ mix April 2012)
Conference of the birds – DJ mix April 2012
Four Tet, on Soundcloud
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Interpol
— Specialist
“Which magazine did you first fall for? ‘Way back, it was Look-In, a kids’ TV mag. Later, NME. It taught me a magazine is best when it has a point of view.’”
—Jeremy Leslie, the editor of magCulture blog and the organiser of Printout, a bimonthly magazine swapshop in London, in the Guardian.
All authors are welcome to the London Book Fair… as long as they don't upset the Chinese
From The British Council brings more shame on us, by Nick Cohen in the Guardian. Cohen writes:
Publishers want to break into the Chinese market. To help them “seek out and capitalise on new business partnerships”, the organisers said that this year’s “focus” will be on China. They are keeping Beijing sweet by refusing to invite writers – as “visiting authors” – who might upset the regime. …
… Ma Jian, a Chinese novelist, listed the ways in which the British Council was working against cultural freedom. “These big events give China’s Communist party the international face it craves and helps normalise its repression of free speech back at home,” he told me. He went on to make the unarguable point that the British Council was harming the British public as well as the cause of the Chinese reformers. “By excluding all genuinely independent and critical voices,” he said, “the book fair has allowed the Chinese authorities to export their censorship to a western democracy.”
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Lady Sovereign
— Random
“People wonder why nothing is interesting, it’s because they try to get a fucking answer to it, to everything. There are things you can’t articulate. There’s that ‘thing’ in the world – music has it, every kind of art has it. And people talking about it can destroy it.”
—Dean Blunt of Hype Williams interviewed in The Guardian. Check the free download at the end. And this song, damn.
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Natalie Merchant
— Carnival
Minimum rage: Will Gen Y's career waiters occupy the service industry?
by Nona Willis Aronowitz, on Good
Behind the bar of a fancy New York restaurant, a 27-year-old bartender tidies her olive-and-cherry box. She attempts to look distracted while a middle-aged financial analyst holds her captive with small talk.
“So what else do you do?” he slurs, four Manhattans deep.
“Nothing,” she says. “I just do this.”
“Oh!” he answers. “That’s cool. Did you go to college?”
“Yup. I went to NYU.”
The man makes no attempt to hide his confusion. She leans forward and wipes away a few whiskey drops in front of him.
“I have loans,” she says, with a touch of attitude. “Don’t know what to tell you.”
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”
—John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Keats.
Ponderosa
Tricky
Tricky
— Ponderosa
