Farewell, Annus horribilis

Texako, "Wocky Slush"

I found this by chance five minutes ago.

Breaking Scene from an Indian Movie

The Pollyseeds feat. Robert Glasper and Terrance Martin, "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)"

An inspired cover of Janet Jackson's atmospheric 1986 song, but it lacks her French spoken introduction and softly-cooing outro.

A Brief Essay on City Pop

An essay on city pop.

Helen O'Connell, "I Remember You."

Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, "Star Eyes" and "Tangerine"

Helen O'Connell, "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry."

Doja Cat, "Say So." (`80s remix)

I discovered the `80s-remix genre some weeks ago after listening a lot to slowed-down versions of songs. This was one of the first, if not the first, videos I watched. "Say So" is a great song to begin with, but overlaid with a freestyle flavor, it's even better.

Britney Spears, "Toxic" (`80s remix)

This is very Moroder-esque.

$600 is a slap in the face to every American struggling due to the pandemic. You deserve better.

I voted against the 5,593-page spending bill that gave billions to corporate interests, the military industrial complex & other countries, leaving crumbs for you who need help most. pic.twitter.com/82F1HYF43T

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) December 22, 2020

Iggy Azalea feat. Tinashe, "Dance Like Nobody's Watching"

Ariana Grande, "Into You" (`80s remix)

Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy" (`80s remix)

Macka B, "Buppie Culture"

I just learned of this singer and this song.

Shaybo

I just heard of her about twenty minutes ago through a YouTube promo (Edit: actually Vevo DSCVR Artists to Watch 2021) for her song "Anger" (see video below).

MTV Animation Shows: Spinoffs and Revivals

https://twitter.com/RiseFallNick/status/1279196686087344138 Beavis and Butthead getting a 2 season minimum revival at Comedy Central Clone High getting revived Daria getting a "Jodie" spinoff at Comedy Central Undergrads getting a Kickstarter Movie Mission Hill sponoff getting pitched to Networks MTV Animation rose from the grave.

Bret Easton Ellis Might Have a Memoir Coming Out

I'll look for it.

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Kunstler: Bill of Particulars

< href="https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bill-of-particulars/">Kunstler: Bill of Particulars.

The Decade of Civil Unrest

"Scientist Predicted Current U.S. Protests and Riots in 2010, Says Civil Unrest May Last 10-15 Years."

Forthcoming Interview with Oliver Stone

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1295154139543076869

Looking forward to releasing my interview with the legendary
@TheOliverStone


We discuss his memoir “Chasing the Light”, his films including “Platoon,” “Scarface”, & “Salvador”, his work on Latin America, & the state of Hollywood today

Soon
@TheGrayzoneNews

Kunstler: Things Going By

Kunstler: Things Going By. Hundreds of colleges and universities will be going out of business in the years ahead. The outlook for the big centralized high schools is also pretty dark. The teachers’ unions’ insatiable needs are only part of the picture. Consolidating many smaller schools to save on administrative costs seemed like a good idea at the time. But we ended up with thousands of gigantic schools that looked like insecticide factories and felt like minimum security prisons. They all depend on the costly yellow bus fleets to collect the kids from far and wide. The whole scheme ended up as an elaborate day-care operation that actually retarded the development of young people into functional, autonomous adults. Covid-19 and the economic collapse it triggered will put an end to all that. How will the school districts cope with an epic loss of tax revenue from all the homeowners defaulting on their mortgages? They won’t. Schooling will have to reorganize, and probably at a very grassroots level, with home-schools evolving into neighbor-pods of tiny schools, and only among parents who have the literacy and numeracy to pull it off. We’ll be lucky if, years from now, we’ll see something like local academies spring up that can handle a few hundred students. I’d also warn you about assuming that the Internet is a permanent installation of the human condition. It depends utterly on a pretty fragile electric grid. We do, after all, have libraries, and maybe they can be persuaded to stop trying to get rid of all their books. These Covid months have prompted Americans to pass the idle hours of joblessness and anomie with Hollywood’s canned entertainments. Could that all be over, too? The theaters were already sucking wind before the virus landed — relying on an ever more brain-dead repetition of comic book movies — while the quality product moved to Cable TV. Now that’s saturated, with the newer product fermenting into garbage. But who is going to keep paying for all that with unemployment at 30 percent, and moving higher? Are you already bored out of your skull with reruns of the old classics? People truly need narrative art forms to make sense of reality, but they have to be tuned to the times we live in. My bet would be on the eventual return of live theater on local stages for original stories keyed to the new post-collapse reality — which will not be understood via Star Wars or Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Broadway is finished, with its endless reiterations of old hits, and also, of course, because New York City itself is only beginning a long journey down the drain before it can be reorganized into a functioning entrepôt. I’ve got half a mind to invest in an outfit that can put on puppet shows in my little flyover town. As you can surely tell by now, the trend is local and smaller for all of these things. That may even be true for national elections and the venerable thing called the United States of America. The Democratic Party was initially only striving for mere suicide, but lately it looks like they want to destroy the country altogether — and they may succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Fifty years from now, several separate American nations may be sending their own regional baseball league champions to some kind of World Series, if we’re not still at war with each other.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "And Love Goes On"

How is it that I'm hearing of this music only within the past week? How did such musical treasure as this fall into obscurity?




The B-sides:

"Win or Lose" (U.S.)



"Faces" (U.K.)

Earth, Wind & Fire, "You"

Lisa Moskow and Robert Rich, "Bija"

France Gall, "Laisse tomber les filles"

Brenda Holloway, "You've Made Me So Very Happy"

SilverApples, "Oscillations"

Lou Christie, "Rhapsody in the Rain"

George Jones, "She Thinks I Still Care"

Buffalo Springfield, "Everybody's Wrong"

Bhoot Bungla

The Tammys, "Egyptian Shumba"

The Walker Brothers, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"

The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, "We Are One"

Lorraine Ellison, "Stay With Me"

Alton Ellis, "Willow Tree"

Ghost, "Sun is Tangging"

Sufjan Stevens, "Seer's Tower"

Al Bowlly, "Summer's End"

Al Bowlly, "Dark Eyes"

Blue Öyster Cult, "Joan Crawford"

"How Will History Museums Remember This Moment?"

How Will History Museums Remember This Moment?"

Grand Funk Railroad, "I'm Your Captain"

Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars, and Kodak Black, "Wake Up in the Sky"

Dan Peek, "All Things Are Possible"

From the same-titled album, All Things Are Possible (Lamb & Lion, 1978).

Radiohead, "Life in a Glasshouse"

From Amnesiac. Featuring the Humphrey Lyttleton Band.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "Open Our Eyes"

Carole Bayer Sager, "It's the Falling in Love"

The original, from her 1978 album ...Too (Elektra Records), with background vocals by Michael McDonald.

Slowed and Reverb(ed): A List in Progress

Over the last two weeks I've become acquainted with an entire genre of slowed and reverbed songs, many of which are versions of pop and R&B hits of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. The videos often feature clips from anime of the same period. Here I'll share some of my favorites:



MojoisRare's SoundCloud page.

Earth, Wind and Fire, "After the Love Has Gone." (slowed version)

Lately I've Been Listening to

Angela Bofill--a lot.

Angel of the 80s? Certainly one of them.

Encyclopedia of Power

I just found this now as I searched online for "Marxist views on aviation."

https://books.google.com/books?id=M6YYsvH9SjwC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=Marxist+views+on+aviation&source=bl&ots=eDJMMPJL9-&sig=ACfU3U2b72jW9acBRbqEoDmcjWL4466_-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2_dTIsqvqAhVnFTQIHXToDjIQ6AEwEHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Marxist%20views%20on%20aviation&f=false

A Video from the 1984 Presidential Campaign of Gus Hall and Angela Davis

On COVID-19 in Arizona

https://www.facebook.com/100000613321985/videos/3263978340299245/

https://www.facebook.com/100000613321985/videos/3263963166967429/

TROLLZ - 6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj

Angela Bofill, "In Your Lover's Eyes."

Ten-twenty-seven p.m. as I first heard, and heard of, this song. From Intuition (Capitol, 1988). Very lush, like a spritz of Opium perfume.

Jerry Rivera - Esa Niña (Video Oficial)

Angela Bofill, "Let Me Be the One" and "Love Me For Today."

I just found this song twenty minutes ago. It's the title track from Let Me Be the One (Arista, 1984). Released on 8 February 1985, the single was produced by The System.



"Love Me For Today" was the single's B side.

Dua Lipa, "Good in Bed"

The Winans, "Everything You Touch is a Song."

From the album Tomorrow (Light, 1984).

A discussion of the album on the thirtieth anniversary of its release.

Trouble at NOW

The Daily Beast: "NOW Board Members Demand President Toni Van Pelt Resign Amid Racism Claims."

The Long Hot Summer Begins

George Floyd protests.

Trailers From Four Movies

The first two are from movies a friend of mine has seen and highly recommends. The second two are from movies I've seen and recommend--the first, highly, the second, with reservations.

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Angela Bofill, "Time to Say Goodbye."

Another wonderful song from Angela Bofill, which I've just discovered now (9.13 p.m.).

COVID-19: Bad Takes

What will be proven right? What will be proven wrong? This Twitter compiles what it thinks are bad takes on the pandemic.

Twitter: BadCOVID19Takes

This book used to be in my hometown library but it was weeded out some time ago.

On Indexing Works of Fiction

Indexing fiction is something I've thought about. This, by Stephen Nullstrom is a good discussion.

COVID-19 Forecasts

discussed here.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "In the Stone."

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Iggy Azalea, "Personal Problem."

Black Ivory, "You and I"

Bobbi Humphrey, "Uno Esta."

George Howard, "No No"

Squarepusher, "Tundra 4"

Hubert Laws, "Undecided."

Bobbi Humphrey, "Come Get to This."

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David T. Walker, "I Got Work to Do."

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"The Reality of the End of Oil"

"The Reality of the End of Oil."

Evelyn Thomas, "High Energy (Extended Version)"

The quintessential Hi-NRG song.

On Coronavirus and Ivan Illich

This recent post on our blog applies Ivan Illich’s concept of ‘examined life’ to the responses to COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses, check it out 👇👇https://t.co/GUcbAAoTwR

— LSE Sociology (@LSEsociology) March 25, 2020

On Hiatus: the Friday Peace Vigil

I just found this out:

http://malu-aina.org/?p=6668

Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil postponed till further notice

Published by jalbertini on April 3rd, 2020 in Vigil leaflets.


Due to Covid 19, Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil at the downtown Post Office/Federal Building is postponed until further notice. I’ll continue to write a new weekly peace leaflet and post on our website www.malu-aina.org. Please sign up and encourage your friends to do so to receive our weekly posts. Mahalo. Be safe and Hang in there.

Jim Albertini

Y-Decibel: "Strobophonic (Outerspace)"

Gary Low, "You Are a Danger."

I've only heard of Gary Low at 8.45 tonight.

The Jacksons, "Show You the Way to Go."

Freddie Gibbs, "Cataracts (Live Session)."

(I just heard of this rapper and song. It was advertised right after an Iggy Azalea video I was watching.)

It samples "Teach Me How" by Wee, another song and group I've just heard of.

Has the Long Emergency Finally Come to Pass ...

in the form of a plague?

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And I just realized another anniversary has passed of this blog's founding. In 2006, did anyone think we'd be in the midst of a worldwide pandemic?

Earth, Wind & Fire, "Side by Side."

Trouble at Truthdig

Senior editors and contributors at @Truthdig announced a work stoppage to protest unfair labor conditions and the attempt by the publisher to remove the Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the site Robert Scheer. https://t.co/OSkOHs8zJg

— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) March 12, 2020

Pantha du Prince, "Approach in a Breeze"

It was last night, as I browsed the front page of All Music Guide, when I first heard of Pantha du Prince and his new album, Conference of Trees. According to the site, this album "opens up into more acoustic ambience than ever before."

Ignatius

Jadakiss has just released a new album and it includes the song "Me", released late last year as a single.

Soho, "Hippychick"

Lhasa, "The Attic"

More info here.

LFO, "LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)"

Jeffrey Osborne, "I Really Don't Need No LIght"

Sounds About (Left)

This seems like a good description of various left media.

Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal

by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm

What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story


New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.

A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.

you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.

A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.

Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).

Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.

For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.

For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.

I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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Some Tweets and Retweets From the American Catholic Historical Association Twitter Account

Things to look forward to in 2020? The History of Christianity’s forthcoming CFP. We have it all from Race in the Middile Ages, to US elections, 1619 & relg, #DevotionalStuff in antiquity and now, to teaching the BIG Christian History survey. Stay tuned!

— History of Christianity AAR (@HistOfXianity) January 10, 2020

On Tuesday, myself, Dr James Kelly and Professor Michael Questier were part of a Roundtable at the IHR Religious History of Britain seminar. We discussed what work is currently being done in early modern British Catholic history, where it should be headed, and what needs more pic.twitter.com/swB9C6EKn6

— Dr Eilish Gregory (@EilishGregory) January 10, 2020

For those not at #ACHA20 or who didn’t pick up a copy, the just released white paper coming out of 2018 Envisioning the Future of Catholic Religious Archives conference ⁦@BostonCollege⁩ ⁦@achahistory⁩ 1/2 pic.twitter.com/RP0e2al0gA

— Kyle B Roberts (@kylebroberts) January 5, 2020

The project's James Kelly is one of the panellists, with @EilishGregory and Michael Questier, for a discussion on 'Towards a fresh agenda for research on post-Reformation British Catholicism' at the @IHR_RelHisBrit this coming Tuesday 7 Jan. Details here: https://t.co/Qr3jBX2A3Z

— Monks in Motion (@monksinmotion) January 3, 2020

Melba Moore, "Miss Thing."

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Melba Moore, "Burn."

"Organizing a Small Kitchen for Under $200!"

AskHistorians Podcast 145 - AskHistorians at AHA

Alexander O'Neal, "If You Were Here Tonight."

I first heard of this song a few Saturdays ago, when an excerpt of the video was memed in a Tariq Nasheed tweet.

Jadakiss, "ME"

Samples Peabo Bryson's song (at a sped-up pace), "Give Me Your Love", from the album Don't Play With Fire (Capitol, 1982). Again, I first learned of this song thirty minutes to midnight on Thursday.

Paris Match, "A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)" and "Digging Your Scene."

Eleven-fifteen p.m. Thursday. I learned of this group because it was mentioned for its cover of "Digging Your Scene" (see below) in the Wikipedia page for that song.

The Blow Monkeys, "Digging Your Scene."

To think I first heard of this song and band at eleven p.m. Thursday.

O'Chi Brown, "Whenever You Need Somebody."

It was on New Year's Day that I learned Rick Astley's song was actually a cover of O'Chi Brown's 1985 original.

Marika Gombitová - Ateliér duše

I first learned of this singer Wednesday night via Wikipedia's category of 1987 albums. And I first heard and heard of this song Thursday.

Zedd and Kehlani, "Good Thing."

Celine Dion, "I'm Loving Every Moment With You."

To think I first heard this song earlier this month when I borrowed the Unison CD.

Rupert Holmes, "Him"

I first heard of this song Thursday.