OOIOO

since we're on a new music tear...perhaps you have all heard of these ladies already, but i was just introduced to them...they rock.



also check out some of their live stuff via youtube...

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The Flesh

It should be noted that I do not know how to properly blog. "Edit Html"? Sure. I mean yes please. I don't fucking know. Jeez Ramon, could you give a girl a lesson?

Anyway what I wanted to post was some mp3s and my brief comments on the new album by The Flesh: This album is really super pretty. And neat. And nice. Also good. You don't like my adjectives? I told you I'm new at this. What do you want from me? I think this band is wiggly, moody, sometimes creepy, and mostly danceable. Jamon will probably hate the shit out of it. Then he'll say, "Have you heard the Fleshettes EP by Xiu Xiu" and we'll all groan. I am sorry I keep cussing. I think it's because I just spent 8 hours in the free clinic at the Bethesda Mission-also known as God's house-where if you swear, no matter where you are in the whole g'danged building, somebody randomly appears and tells you that Jesus is mad at you. But The FLESH! The Flesh are kind of good. I am an admitted Chryssie Hynde freak, and the comparison is obvious. And I think the girl is vaguely trying to be like Karen O. But it's also strangely melancholic and a little dark, and has held my interest for the last few days, so I thought I would post. You know, on the blog. Because I'm a blogger.

http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=7821

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Evolution

not the (life-changing) David Duchovny movie, but rather the subject of a fresh mural. click the picture above for the entire thing.

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Xiu Xiu - Live in Seattle

Quicktime video of Xiu Xiu playing 'Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl' and covering 'Ceremony' live at Neumos in Seattle, WA

The songs drape themselves across their subjects in deformed electro tapestries. They play out like symphonies, but feel compressed into the internal microcosm of an American bedroom... bedroom symphonies, bedroom confessions over chimes and gonging bells and industrial beats and buttery guitar leads that slide through the songs like a straight razor opening up skin. - Kill Rock Stars

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interactive astrologinomical map

check out Wikisky. it's a google maps-like map of our galaxy! it's out of this world!

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evil rats of spring

originally from BoingBoing

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How to stop the next epidemic

check out this great WIRED magazine article on the research of a UCLA biologist, Nathan Wolfe, who is investigating methods to determine unknown viruses in humans before they can start spreading. excerpt:

We do know that it takes three steps for a zoonotic agent to become an HIV or a smallpox. First, a human must be exposed to the virus. Then, the virus must either be virulent or become so through mutation. Finally the virus must be able to move from human to human and not kill its host so quickly that it doesn't have time to spread. Each of these steps is a complex biological process, and each presents opportunities to ward off a pandemic. Traditionally, however, the study of infectious disease has focused on containing and tracing outbreaks — say, Ebola in Africa, or HIV around the globe — after a zoonosis has started spreading. (Occasionally, as with avian flu, scientists have identified a potentially dangerous virus one stage before human-to-human transmission.) When it comes to searching for new or unknown viruses among wild animals — and discovering the process through which they cross to humans — few scientists have ventured into the forest.

That's what Wolfe hopes to change. His group is organizing a vast range of field research in Cameroon: collecting blood from hunters and their kills, testing wild and domestic birds for avian flu, conducting anthropological surveys of hunters' habits, and investigating sudden die-offs of primates in the jungle. The combined effort is a year-round operation, employing more than 30 full-time scientists, technicians, veteri narians, and IT specialists. Wolfe's group collaborates with dozens more worldwide, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the virology lab at France's University of Montpellier.

WIRED article

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2008 Democratic debate part 1 of 9.

There are 9 total, about 10 min each. I'll let you find the rest if you like. The Kucinichster tells it like it is.

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The Bible gets a makeover!

Recently some "hollywood types" have lent their voices to the savvy and stylish retelling of the bible in audio book form! LOL! seriously it made my day. npr story link here

website link here

some notables...(no joke)
stacy keach as paul
richard dreyfuss as moses
luke perry as judas
terrance stamp as none other than god himself

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Musical chairs w/ spikes and leg shackels

Vice has an interesting take on the whole torture thing here. i fully agree that listening to AC/DC for any length of time is inflicting irrevocable damage.

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