Song That Everyone Should Listen To Of The Day: Handsome Furs - The Radio’s Hot Sun
Yeah so it’s years old and I probably should have come across them before what with Dan Boeckner being Wolf Parade’s frontman but I’ve only come across Handsome Furs this week, and they’re bloody great.
Also La Blogotheque do awesome videos, here’s one of The Antlers.
The first trailer for Dear Esther (the re-release) has gone online and it’s rather exciting. The original game is a free mod for the Source engine, but the whole game has now been rather beautifully remade, additional scenes have been added and new dialogue inserted. Dear Esther treads a thin line between computer game and novel - it’s irrelevant as to which it really is - it is a wonderful story, and told quite brilliantly. I encourage everyone to give it a go.
EDIT: I’ve possibly not done enough to sell this. Dear Esther really is a work of art, the voice acting and writing are superb, and the whole tale is presented to you as you explore a mysterious island at your own speed. Exploration leads to further contemplation from the ever present narrator. This is a narrative told carefully and slowly, it requires you to think as much as it does to ‘play’. Whatever medium one decides it belongs to, it is magnificent.
Satisfied - Tom Waits
Follow-up: More on the videos YouTube blocked in the UK
Due to the source of the content, we wanted to do some fact-checking on the banned videos we noted in our post earlier today. Nothing against Infowars.com, the authors of the original article, but we felt it was worth a double-check. So, here we go. Above is a clip of a bizarre protest that took place in March, which involved members of a nationalist anti-authority British organization called the British Constitution Group. The protests, which were covered by both BBC and The Daily Mail (which has significantly more detail and photos), showed a group of people claiming that a bankruptcy proceeding around one of the group’s members was illegal. They attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of the judge; the Magna Carta was cited as the reason they were allowed to make the citizens’ arrest. (We told you it was weird.) Above is video of what happened. If you’re in the UK, you will not be able to watch this video; If you’re in the U.S. and want to see what a blocked video looks like, click through to this proxy. Granted, the video is months old, and its blocking is also months old, but there we go. After some fact checking, we can prove that this video was in fact blocked. source
Uh…in what way is this acceptable?
(Source: shortformblog)
London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out) (by mYcHeMiCaLrOmAnCeGaL)
‘Darcus Howe, a West Indian Writer and Broadcaster with a voice about the riots. Speaking about the mistreatment of youths by police leading to an up-roar and the ignorance of both police and the governement. Intelligent black male. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE!
(Also, did anyone notice that the interviewer tried to make him ignorant… Complete back-fire I must say)’
This, and also this for some actual considered responses to the outbreaks.
(via soupsoup)
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