Day 1 of my decaffeinating and de-chipification has begun and there’s really no easy way to describe the feeling except through the above Python skit. I was looking for something to shock my system and reconnect me to my muse, to break me out of a muse-less rut. And today the fish has officially slapped the face. Now I must sing!
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron died last week. He was a politically aware intellectual, poet, and musician who came up in the 70s and who had a big influence on many contemporary performers and activists. He is probably best known for this:
Here’s another one I found that I like even more because he stretches out and develops the ideas and the wordplay. You could call it a lot of things, but I’d probably put it with “protest music” alongside Rage and Bob Marley and Woody Guthrie.
Weekend Roundup
This weekend we start with a little cooking and alcohol to prepare us for some movie news. Yet another reason to cut the cable/satellite cord and hope therein for cooking show junkies is the Youtube sensation, My Drunk Kitchen above.
In media news, Sherlock Holmes has been released and abridged into graphic novel form, review over at Boing Boing. My dad’s compendium of Sherlock Holmes stories was one of the first things I read and this looks well done.
William Gibson’s Neuromancer is in pre-production to be made into a film. I’m not sure if it’s going to translate and expectations have to be really high. I hope they can pull it off though.
“There can be only one!” Highlander is getting financing for a remake. The original came out in 1986 but I didn’t happen upon it until the last week of my senior year in high school in 1988. Our last physics class our teacher let us pick and watch a movie. One of the girls in the class brought in the movie their brother had rented the night before on video cassette. I had never even heard of Highlander before but was immediately enthralled with the Highlander world. Seriously though, who are you going to find that can replace Christopher Lambert?
Early May Roundup
Lots of great stuff out there that deserves an honorable mention rounded up from the first few weeks in May:
- In music we have news from Ars about the Library of Congress’s new National Jukebox and also the announcement of yet another collection of Pink Floyd music I will be forced to purchase (can’t wait for Wish You Were Here in 5.1).
- In Chicago media news Alton Brown has called an end to ‘Good Eats’ to work on a new project. The tv series The Chicago Code has been cancelled much to the chagrin of the wife and I.
- In science fiction and fantasy news the 2011 Hugo finalists have been announced. Here are some very cool (ok, epic) science fiction artists and some of there latest work. Also, LOTR/Weta fans may want to act fast to get their own signed print of ‘Disturber of the Peace.’
- From the LOL files, we have a special book for frustrated parents, Go the Fuck to Sleep, and even though I’m not a Red Wings fan, this video of a Red Wings assistant coach owning a Sharks fan deserves a standing golf clap.
- And last but not least from the Shit Just Got Real file, sitting down is killing you, here’s how to track how much bandwidth you’re using now that AT&T is metering your internet (log in using your ATT credentials). And if you haven’t read and been enraged yet by the financial mess this country is in, the most recent article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, The People vs. Goldman Sachs, is a great place to start and a must read.
Happy 4/20 Day!
I think this sums it up pretty well:
Actionsuit Alert! 