Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Saul Williams - "NiggyTardust!" New Album
Saul's got a new album available for download as of today....
Click Here
From the man himself...
My Dearest Friends and Fans,
It is my greatest honor to present to you The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!,
my new album produced by Trent Reznor and mixed by Alan Moulder. The wall of sound that we've created is tagged with such graffiti that a passerby would seek out doors and ways to ENTER. Once inside a world defined by dreams come true they'd find aligned with the simplest act of sharing what we treasure. Most people aren't aware of the world of art and commerce where exploitation strips each artist down to nigger. Each label, like apartheid, multiplies us by our divide and whips us 'til we conform to lesser figures. What falls between the cracks is a pile of records stacked to the heights of talents hidden from the sun. Yet the energy they put into popularizing smut makes a star of a shiny polished gun. The ballot or the bullet for Mohawk or the mullet is a choice between new times and dying days. And the only way to choose is to jump ship from old truths and trust dolphins as we swim through changing ways. The ways of middlemen proves to be just a passing trend. We need no priests to talk to God. No phone to call her. And when you click the link below, i think it fair that you should know that your purchase will make middlemen much poorer...NiggyTardust!
love,
Saul
EDIT: These are the options when downloading the album:
Toons - The Stack Heels
CLICK HERE for a listen to "She Follows Me"
Description from Jells Michael Avery:
4. She Follows Me: I had to keep this up there for people new to my songwriting... it's still the best production of one of my songs, though not my best song. It features the classic, short-lived Stack Heels line-up of myself, Andrew Cowie, Shags, and Joseph. Funnily enough, we played our best gig right after Joseph walked out. BTW, who was that girl who shouted out "Johnny Livewire" when I said "Neil Young has left the band so you're stuck with Crosby Stills and Nash"?? I don't know how many people got it. The Stack Heels always felt like a supergroup, like The Dirty Mac from Rock n Roll Circus.
** features a previous member of The Rumors
Rudd Picks His Ear... and eats it.
From the age.com.au...
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says he wishes his behaviour was more ideal, after an internet video showed him apparently picking and eating his own ear wax in Parliament.
The video, circulated in recent weeks, dates back to Mr Rudd's early years as an MP.
It was recently played on American national television on The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno.
Mr Rudd wasn't sure what to think when asked about it today.
"That's great," he told reporters in Grafton, in northern NSW.
"I'm really pleased about that - how did I go on Jay Leno? I've only seen it once.
"All of us in public and private life would wish our behaviour to be more ideal."
Mr Rudd has previously told local media he was scratching his chin.
Then.... (also from the age.com.au)
Rudd acknowledges ear wax internet video
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says he wishes his behaviour was more ideal, after an internet video showed him apparently picking and eating his own ear wax in parliament.
The video, circulated in recent weeks, dates back to Mr Rudd's early years as an MP.
It was recently played on American national television on The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno.
Mr Rudd wasn't sure what to think when asked about it today.
"That's great," he told reporters in Grafton, in northern NSW.
"I'm really pleased about that - how did I go on Jay Leno?
"I've only seen it once.
"All of us in public and private life would wish our behaviour to be more ideal."
Mr Rudd has previously told local media he was scratching his chin.
Old Clamz
From presstv
Scientists have discovered an ocean quahog clam off the coast of Iceland, which they believe to be the oldest living animal ever found.
Researchers from Bangor University in north Wales say that the number of rings on the clam's shell show its age to be between 405 and 410 years old.
This means the clam was in its infancy when Queen Elizabeth I was in power and Shakespeare was writing Othello and Hamlet.
The clam is nicknamed Ming after the Chinese dynasty, which was in power when it was born, BBC News reported.
Scientists are hopeful that Ming can offer new insights into the secrets of longevity.
"These animals have got some difference in cell turnover rates that we would associate with much shorter-lived animals," said Professor Chris Richardson, from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences.
The longest-lived animal recorded in the Guinness Book was a clam found in 1982 aged 220.
Illustrator - Eamo
From his site:
If Eamo’s work was a bag of mixed lollies from the Milkbar in 1981, there would be 50c worth of the Outback, 40c worth of aussie summers, 30c worth of aussie bogans, 20c worth of the local pub, 10c worth of tyre swans, 5c worth
of Geelong in the 80’s and 2c worth of good ol’ downunder goodness.
you can buy his stuff here too.
New toons - Black Kids
their debut EP "The Wizzard of Ahhhs" (Listen here) seems to be causing quite a stir. good tunes, specially "Hurricane Jane" . here's a pretty lo fi party vid of them covering the clash:
The New Oink
With the sad demise of oink, as expected new sites are popping up everywhere.
in a way, I guess its only drawing more attention to the file sharing method of bittorrent-ing.... and therefore making the world of music piracy more healthy than ever.... click here for waffles.fm
