CBC.ca Arts – Dances with Wolves actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman dies Floyd Red Crow Westerman, a U.S. aboriginal activist, actor and folksinger who appeared in the movie Dances with Wolves and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, has died. He was 71. Westerman died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of […]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
New Red State Soundsystem Track — "Clive Owen"
New Red State Soundsystem track, “Clive Owen” (direct link, MP3, 192kbps stereo). This is an instrumental minimal techno track. It’s a lot of manipulated acoustic and electric Rhodes piano. It sounded like the soundtrack to a scene where Clive Owen is moodily contemplating the future from his future car, so that’s where the title comes […]
links for 2007-12-14
Students Flirt With Death In New Chest-Punch ‘Choking Game’ – Orlando News Story – WKMG Orlando “Students at a middle school in Orange County have been experimenting with what is believed to be a new variation of the choking game, where teens hold their breath and get punched in the chest until they blackout.” Wow. […]
RIP, You Pistol-Whippin' Muthafucka
Ike Turner, rock pioneer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, dead at 76 | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL Ike may have been a mean-ass sonofabitch, but — separate from his own personal life — he was a goddamn musical genius. In his memory, here’s some wallpaper I made a while back: And whether he’s […]
Istanbul: City Of Cats Now Available On Volette
Some of you know this, but I’m formally announcing it as of now: I’m serving as the editor-in-chief of Volette, a new and badass travel blog created by my friend and colleague Joe Tangredi. Volette is going to be my kind of travel blog, which means it’s going to be weird and cool and will […]
It's Been A Long Time Coming
It was this day in 1964 that Sam Cooke was shot and killed in Los Angeles. He’s most known to people for songs like “Cupid” and “Twistin’ The Night Away”, but I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that the most important song Cooke ever wrote or recorded was one of the […]
links for 2007-12-11
IM IN UR GROUND, TESTIN UR FAITH Cute. (tags: atheism humor) Being But Men The text of Dylan Thomas’s lovely little poem. (tags: poetry)
Poetry I Have Known And Loved
(Sorry, the title made me grin.) So I used to host a poetry open-mike. I like some poetry. Not all of it. Not even much of it. But here are some links to poems I really like. I realize none of this is particularly obscure or controversial, but hey, you might find something here you’re […]
links for 2007-12-10
Danteworlds Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey–combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings–through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The site is structu (tags: literature dante interesting) CSS Gallery Web Design Gallery For Inspiration Nice gallery of CSS frippery (tags: css design inspiration) An Interview […]
Am I The Only One Who's Noticed This?
Adam Sandler in the recent film Reign Over Me Author Neil Gaiman It’s more obvious in other shots, but I swear to God….