united colours of vruz

I propose a total, definitive takeover of the US by The Kids in the Hall

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:52:48 -0400

sunday kitchen report

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:39:00 -0400

homemade cannelloni, very tasty but I didn’t have a proper crêpes pan available, so they wouldn’t fly properly.

and you know, flying them is half the fun of it… :-)

note to self: get a proper crêpes pan the next time you attempt such endeavour.

Visit the ruins of Pompeii in Google’s street view —via...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:38:11 -0400

Visit the ruins of Pompeii in Google’s street view

—via mabelmoments:

Edouard Manet, The Suicide -via lacontessa: oneradhuman

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:29:36 -0400

Edouard Manet, The Suicide

-via lacontessa: oneradhuman

Dry plate ambrotype by Philip Nesmith benhasten: Via the...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:17:52 -0400

Dry plate ambrotype by Philip Nesmith

benhasten: Via the Visual Adventure

Flight Patterns is exhibited at

Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC

October 30 - December 12, 2009

The Cure: “Secrets” —via...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:56:46 -0400

The Cure: “Secrets”

—via marychrist:lovepopsuicide:fuckyeahthecure:tooyoungtooblacktolive:

The Beatles — Honey Pie lacontessa:Just made me want to dance…...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:05:05 -0400

The Beatles — Honey Pie

lacontessa:Just made me want to dance… flapper style..

Nabokov Predicted the Emoticon.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:56:27 -0400

Nabokov Predicted the Emoticon.:

—via benjaminhilts:tartanspartan:ekstasis:ewilcox:chriscantwell

“How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?

I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile– some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.”

The Beatles - Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand —via elt vruz:...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:54:36 -0400

The Beatles - Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand

—via elt

vruz: phony Beatlemania seit neunzehn bis sechzig

Mr. Batman with Mr. Burton. —via...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:18:24 -0400

Mr. Batman with Mr. Burton.

—via counterforce:joostlultwel:

vruz: the boy wonder?

Bing search site suffers outage | BBC News

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:04:55 -0400

Bing search site suffers outage | BBC News:

—via crowth:

Microsoft has apologised for a brief outage which saw its search site Bing disappear from the internet.

That’s okay Microsoft, no one noticed.

I’d suspect they staged the outage for the publicity if I wasn’t so unsurprised their new search engine had crashed already.

"Now that the internet has provided disrupting producers with all the tools they need to bypass the..."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:53:47 -0400

“Now that the internet has provided disrupting producers with all the tools they need to bypass the existing recorded music system, there should be no excuse for musicians to not go it alone. Yet, the producers – the musicians themselves, remain the problem. I believe that the safety and comfort offered to them in the past – record label deals, publishing deals, old media distribution, plus MTV and commercial radio for the most successful – created a diabolical music Nanny state, an addictive teat at which to suck that they are now having trouble weaning themselves off.

The Nanny state reduced risk taking and danger in popular music. The very founding spirit of rock and roll was danger. Danger as perceived by those who didn’t understand the outburst of energy and excitement that this early musical form drew out of teenagers. Parents and adults in authority voiced their concerns and this led to ridiculous moments in musical history such as TV cameramen being told to only film Elvis Presley from the waist up.. If we fast forward to 1975 in the UK, we find that rock and roll, a mere 20 or so years later, with only a few exceptions, had become commercial, flabby, conservative and mostly dull. Then along came a new genre of music delivered by bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxie and the Banshees who injected rock with some street smarts and and sprinkled it with just a soupcon of danger. It was known as Punk Rock.”

- Dear Musicians – Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of The Way | Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

The whole article is a brilliant, must-read manifesto.

via Hypebot

(via danielholter)

gaga over gaga

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:08 -0400

quick research indicates that the Gaga stuff amurcans are going bonkers about is actually a lady, like Britney Spears, only worse, and more epidermic.

the musical/choreographic equivalent of jeff koons.

there’s no ‘who’ there….

journalists (!) have made efforts to validate her artistically by likening her aesthetics to some David Bowie phase, but of course they conveniently forget that apart from all that, there was also music in Bowie’s body of work.

you can’t be serious.

Making Palin Pay

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:22:47 -0400

Making Palin Pay:

by Colin Robinson

What a difference a consonant makes. We had no idea, after transposing the “u” and the ‘g” in the title of “Going Rogue” for our own Sarah Palin anthology “Going Rouge”, that the mix ups between the two books would spread so far and with such persistence.

Pris, in Blade Runner - another yarn as long as your...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:27:30 -0400

Pris, in Blade Runner - another yarn as long as your arm…

i12bent sez:Darryl Hannah, b. Dec. 3, 1960 - Happy B’day to you…

The Cure - “Plainsong” - from Disintegration vruz: I love this...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:26:27 -0400

The Cure - “Plainsong” - from Disintegration

vruz: I love this album because it was supposed to be the final Cure album, hence the album name. yet they were reborn like strange flowers growing out of something dark and rotten, and continued to record and perform for almost another two decades.

—via liquidnight sez:“I think it’s dark and it looks like rain,” you said “and the wind is blowing like it’s the end of the world,” you said “and it’s so cold it’s like the cold if you were dead” And then you smiled for a second

Johnny Cash w/Joe Strummer: Redemption Song —via snuh:oh,...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:35:05 -0400

Johnny Cash w/Joe Strummer: Redemption Song

—via snuh:oh, what a treat!

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: “Danger Bird” —via...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:13:46 -0400

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: “Danger Bird”

—via marychrist:foldback

ffs, what's this gaga thing you're talking about?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:09:39 -0400

Sir Paul at the European Parliament Paul McCartney took his...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:55:00 -0400

Sir Paul at the European Parliament

Paul McCartney took his “Meat-Free Mondays” campaign to the European Parliament on Thursday, saying the power to halt global warming lies as much with individuals as with their governments.

pictures, video and press kit at the European Parliament website

(why an FTP link with password ??????? )