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June 29, 2007
Ron Paul on the Morton Downey Jr. Show
Current Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul emphatically asserts his
position on The Drug War just before July 4, 1988.
June 28, 2007
Happy Go Skate Boarding Day
A bad day for skateboarding for in Hot
Springs Arkansas as Jarad Graham, Drew Irwin, Skylar Nalls, Matt McCormack,
Robbie Brindley, & Casey
Canterbury get arrested.
June 27, 2007
Watch Your (Fo)odometer!
Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator
Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field
to fork.
June 26, 2007
Bill Hicks
Marketing
June 25, 2006
New World Order / TV Funhouse
Conspiracy Theory Rock
Robert Smigel, the voice and hand behind Triumph the Insult Comic
Dog along with Saturday Night Live's "TV
Funhouse" crew created this homage to the classic Schoolhouse Rock
cartoons while slamming the very network they appear on. Well done.
June 22, 2007
Chocolate Jesus
Tom Waits
Late Night with David Letterman
June 21, 2007
Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line
Tell Congress it is time for a new bottom line in U.S. drug policy, one that
focuses on reducing the problems associated with both drugs *and* the war
on drugs. Take action at The Drug Policy
Alliance.
June 20, 2007
Scientists simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center
Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific
principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner
crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
Researchers:
Chris Hoffmann - Faculty
Sami Kilic - Former Member
Scott Meador
Voicu Popescu - Faculty
Paul Rosen - Graduate Student
Mete Sozen
June
19, 2007
March of the Toy Soldier
My name is Ben McGinty and this
march has been brewing within me for some months now; I am waging a campaign
to send troops of toy soldiers to George Bush, via our United States postal
service. The purpose for this endeavor is to show our support against the
loss of lives for profit. I am frustrated knowing the elected officials
are in this for personal gain. that the lives of so many will never be the
same for the
selfishness of a few. I am asking for your help, I am in need of all who
can, to pick up a package of plastic toy soldiers, the ones in the clear
plastic, tape the sides and flap securely with clear shipping tape so the
soldiers wont get lost in thier journey. Then affix an address label addressed
to: George Bush 1600 Pennsylvania ave Washington D C 20500 0001. Please
put your return address because when we stand together, divided we will
not fall. Take them to your local post office and mail them. Its time our
elected officials play with soldiers they can't kill, these packages should
be the only soldiers in bags. We can make it known the general consensus
and overall population are opposed to the waste at our expense. Please help
me with this campaign, showing your support. Too much blood has been shed
for greed. We can make a difference. So George, send the jet for me, I'd
dig playing toy soldiers with you, you have the perfect lawn. Maybe I can
help you see how devastating your agenda has been on all. Get out there
and help me wage the march of the toy soldiers, show your support, let's
wage war against war with soldiers we can't kill. Thank you.
June
18, 2007
A Crude Awakening
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash' examines the state of the world's dwindling
oil resources. It finds that we're running out of fossil fuels much sooner than
anticipated. Industry leaders, scientists and some politicians tell us about
the dire consequences the world is facing as it moves from cheap abundant energy
supply to scarce, hard to get and expensive energy.
June
15, 2007
Vulture Funds
Greg Palast
BBC News
Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports on one company that has won the
right to collect $20 million from the government of Zambia after buying its debt
for $4 million.Listen to an interview with Greg Palast Tuesday, June 19, 2007
on Weekly Signals with Mike Kaspar
and Nathan Callahan.
June
14, 2007
The Zimmers
My Generation
Things they do look awful cold.
June
13, 2007
Terence McKenna
Reclaim Your Mind
It's
all true. It's all untrue. It's shit for brains. It's inspirational. It's
what every mother needs to teach her son. It's the decline and fall of
western civilization. It's bliss.
June
12, 2007
Big Ed's Swan Song
Ed Whitacre is packing up his desk at AT&T. But his successor Randall Stephenson
is still on the attack against Net Neutrality. Watch Big Ed's final pep talk
to fellow AT&T execs then tell the FCC to protect the Internet's level playing
field at SavetheInternet.com.
June
11, 2007
Helen Adam
Cheerless Junkie Song
June
8, 2007
Mike Gravel on the
drug war
My favorite Democrat, Sen. Gravel, proposes legalizing and regulating all drugs.
June
6, 2007
Jello Biafra
Money for Troops Bullshit
Jello Biafra talks about war profiteering in this clip from his latest speaking
gig at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
Bill
Moyer's Journal
Johnson on Vietnam
Bill Moyers reflects on a conversation between Lyndon Johnson
and his National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy that took place in 1964.
The
Heart of the World
Guy Madden
Maddin's movie premiered at 2000 Toronto film festival, which had commissioned
it as one of several "preludes" to run unannounced before the features
.Regardless, it was viewed as the best film at this event and ultimately appeared
on many of the year's Top Ten lists — a remarkable feat for a 6-minute
film. Listen an interview with director Guy Madden on filmschool,
Tuesday June 5 at 9 am PT.
June
1, 2007
Bill O'Reilly's & John
McCain's White Christian Male Power Structure
About the political left, O'Reilly says "They want to break down the white,
Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they
want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure
that we have." McCain agrees.
May
31, 2007
Women in Art
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
May
30, 2007
Brand Upon the Brain!
Equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror film, teen detectived
serial, and Grand Guignol reverie, Brand
upon the Brain! is a new cinematic spectacle. Inspired by the aesthetics
and melodramatic flourishes of silent cinema, Central European literature and
the desolation of his native Winnipeg, Maddin has fashioned a career like no
other. A Super-8-cranking modern-day Eisenstein, filming plots that would make
John Waters blush, Maddin embraces a cinema where expressionism, somnambulism
and lurid sexual neuroses unite — and conquer.
May
29, 2007
The Kaye Effect
Scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands won a prestigious
place in the 'Hall of Fame' of videos about fluid-in-motion. They have made
a video of leaping shampoo, in which they explain the so-called Kaye effect.
Scientifically interesting but also of great aesthetic beauty.
May
28, 2007
Andrew Card Protest
at University of Massachusetts
President Bush's former chief of staff Andrew Card was loudly booed by hundreds
of students and faculty members as he accepted an honorary degree at the University
of Massachusetts. He chose not to speak.
May
25-27, 2007
Simpsons Fox News
Skit
Biting the hand that you fed . . .
May
24, 2007
The Devil Came on
Horseback
Listen to an interview with directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
on filmschool. Their documentary, The
Devil Came on Horseback exposes the violence and tragedy of the genocide
in Darfur as seen through the eyes of a lone American witness. Using thousands
of uncompromising and exclusive photographs taken by former US Marine Captain
Brian Steidle during his role as a military observer with the African Union,the
film leads you through the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying
its black African citizens. Stern and Sundberg past documentaries include
The Trials of Darryl Hunt, In My Corner, and Neglect Not The Children.
May
23, 2007
Charles Bukowski
Dinosauria, we
From the film Bukowski:
Born Into This
May
22, 2007
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Listen to an interview with Judy
Irving, the director of The
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill on Tuesday May 29 9- 10 am on KUCI 88.9 FM,
on the web at KUCI.org.
The film tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red and green parrots. Former street musician and San Francisco dharma bum Mark Bittner falls in with the flock as he searches for meaning in his life, unaware that the parrots will bring him everything he seeks.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill premieres Tuesday, May 29 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, Independent Lens is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide.
May
21, 2007
Mavis Staples
Eyes on the Prize (Traditional)
Paul and Silas were bound in jail
Had no Money for to go their bail
Keep your eyes on the prize
Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Keep your Eyes on the Prize
Hold on! Hold on! Keep your Eyes on the Prize, hold on!
Paul and Silas began to shout
Doors popped open, and they walked out
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on! Hold on! Keep your Eyes on the Prize, hold on!
Well, the only chains that we can stand
Are the chains of hand in hand
Keep your eyes on the prize
Hold on! Hold on! Keep your Eyes on the Prize, hold on!
Got my hand on the freedom plow
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
Keep your eyes on the prize
Hold on! Hold on! Keep your Eyes on the Prize, hold on!
May
18, 2007
Day Night Day Night
Julia Loktev's film won the Independent Spirit "Someone to Watch" Award,
the Cannes Film Festival Prix Regards Jeune and Best Feature at the Montréal
Festival of New Cinema. It opens in LA today. Strap on your Kafka backpack
and go see it. A 19-year-old prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square.
She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity.
We never learn why she made her decision; she has made it already. We don’t
know whom she represents or what she believes, only that she believes it absolutely.
You can hear Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan interview Loktev at filmschool.
May
17, 2007
Christopher Hitchens
on the Death of Jerry Falwell
CNN 360
"The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one
thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality
and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend.
Who would, even at your network, have invited on such a little toad to tell
us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness
and were God's punishment if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification?
People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with
a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup."
Thank you Christopher. You have, at last, found your calling.
May
16, 2007
Strange Fruit
sung by Billy Holiday
Lyrics by Lewis Allen
Southern trees bear
strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Lounge Lizards
Voice Of Chunk
Strange and beautiful music from the man who gave us Willie in Stranger than Paradise.
John Lurie - saxEvan Lurie - piano
Roy Nathanson - sax
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Marc Ribot - guitar
Erik Sanko - bass
Dougie Bowne - drums
May
14, 2007
George
Bush
The Backstory of Camus
President Bush explains his diverse reading habits to NBC's Brian Willaims.
May
11, 2007
John Giorno
We Got Here Yesterday
"On Memorial Day weekend in 1963 we went away for a few days and I woke
up in the night to find him staring at me - he took a lot of speed in those days.
That's where the idea for the movie came from - he was looking for a visual image
and it just happened to be me. He said to me on the way home: 'Would you like
to be a movie star?' 'Of course," I said, 'I want to be just like Marilyn
Monroe."
- On Andy Warhol to The
Guardian 2/14/03
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