Friday, June 10, 2005
- Happy 1st anniversary, CTA Tattler!
- That creamy head, that roasty, toasty richness! An exhaustive Guinness lover's website, Chad Bennett's St. James' Gate
- I accidentally found this UK index, filled with incredibly funny bizarre images (a tad reminiscent of Monty Python "collage" animations) like "James and the Giant Arse," and an animated gif of a pair of socks doing the nasty.
- Schematics and plans for building your own 3-channel color organ
- Regnyouth Archives, one of the best-known secret sources of free music on the Web has gone dark for now; the loooong list of farewell comments keeps growing, and makes for interesting perusal. The Regnyouth Texts remain up, however, containing a wealth of media-related tips and tricks to enhance your downloading experiences.
- Reading: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen (a book that could easily be subtitled "The Radiation Monologues") is an intensely personal record of the world's greatest unnatural disaster to date, told through first-person stories of those who lived through it. Not an easy or comfortable "light summer read," but the season's warmth and light help counteract the chilling effect of reading these survivors' accounts.
- On the Beeb: Who stole the Dalek?
- Dortmund, Germany plans to deal with an influx of over 40,000 prostitutes (arriving for next year's soccer World Cup) by building temporary (?) "sex huts" through the city, to provide discretion and privacy for...ahem...transactions. How about calling the structures "Port-a-bonkies"?
- iSarcasm and MacHyperbole over at Apple Colored Glasses
- Chicagoist [whose new "Shiny Bean" logo tees are really neat] highlights one of my 'hood's most-filmed "watering holes," legendary Uptown jazzery The Green Mill - tootin' since 1907.
- The Friday Random Ten:
- Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Spank"
- Frank Sinatra - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
- Sonny Rollins - "Airegin"
- Vertical Cat - "Sway"
- Ken Nordine - "Flesh"
- Orbital - "Way Out (Tone Matrix Mix)"
- Angelo Badalamenti - "Theme from Twin Peaks"
- The Clash - "Spanish Bombs"
- White Town - "Your Woman":
"The audacity, not to mention ludicrous improbability, of “Your Woman” is astounding in retrospect; a self-confessed “fat Asian guy” with a dubious past playing keyboards in no-hope indie bands and supporting the pre-dance Primal Scream, role-playing the part of a wronged girlfriend in a Karl Marx-name-checking electro-pop vignette inspired by a teenage crush on a lesbian friend and based around samples of a 1932 jazz hit by Lou Stone and the static that opens Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star”, that somehow found its way to number one across the globe during 1997, officially The Year That Rock Died..."[keep reading, or visit Jyoti Mishra's White Town website]
- Pixies - "Debaser"