song:
"Flirted with You All My Life" by Vic Chesnutt from In the Cut
Download 08 Flirted With You All My Life
meme (rip):
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SotD 12-24
song:
"Eclosion (Marie aux quatre vents)" by Ame Son from the BYG Deal
Download 15 Eclosion (Marie aux quatre vents)
meme (famous beards):
SotD 12-17
song:
"10 Mile Stereo" by Beach House from Teen Dream
meme (Nothing ((but trees))):
SotD 12-15
song:
"I Don't Intend to Spend Christwas Without You" by Margo Guryan from More Songs
Download 12 I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas With You
meme (word):
( a. The acquisition of the behavioural characteristics of a particular culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.; = ENCULTURATION n. Cf. SOCIALIZATION n. b. spec. The adaptation of Christian liturgy so as to accommodate the beliefs and practices of non-Christian cultures.inculturation, n.
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SotD 12-14
song:
"Yekte" by Zafer Dilek > Kono Samourai by Yamasuki > Hadd MonDJam El by Sarolta Zalatnay > Yama Yama by Yamasuki > Yaylalar by Selda
meme (unicode christmas tree):
✸ ✳ ✳✈✳ ✳☃ ✳♛✳☤ ✳ ☥ ✐✳☂ ✳ ✳ ☭✳☬ ✳⌛✳ ⎈❁ ✳ ❅❆❄ Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree is a web application that allows you to decorate, save, and send your own Unicode holiday Xmas tree as a holiday greeting. In December 2006, Britta Gustafson created a valid, semantic, and imageless tree from britta to you. In December 2007, Douglas Thrift started programming the interface for decorating the tree, but put the project on hold because the holiday season was ending. In December 2009, they dusted off the project and got it into working condition.
SotD 12-12-13
song:
"I Wonder Who We Are" by The Clientele from Bonfires on the Heath
Download 01 I Wonder Who We Are
meme (bowie's first American Fan Letter):
SotD 12-10
songs:
"Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects" by Sharon Jones & the Dapkings
"Jingle Bell Funk" by The Mistletones
meme (diagram about ((nothing (((but trees )))))):
SotD 12-8
song (top ten hints):
"Hardcore" by Micachu & the Shapes from some versions of Jewellry
meme (islanding):
Cartographic errors can persist for centuries, surviving even evidence to the contrary. One of the most famous examples is the curious case of California as an island. In 1533, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes sent an expedition to the westernmost portion of the United States. His men landed on the southern tip of what is now Baja and promptly named this newly discovered territory the island of California—a direct reference to Las Sergas de Esplandian, a Spanish chivalric novel from 1510, describing "on the right hand of the Indies […] an island called California very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons."
Baja, of course, is neither an Amazonian paradise nor an island. It's a peninsula—a fact that became obvious to the Spanish as early as 1539. But on contemporary maps, the erotic and exciting Las Sergas de Esplandian won out over boring topographic reality. Even as the true, "continental" version of California became the standard, the insular version surfaced occasionally well into the 18th century—like a bad habit, or maybe more accurately, a long-held wish for a more mystical, Las Sergas-like new world that mapmakers couldn't quite let go.
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Johannes Vingboons: California as an Island (ca. 1650) from Wikimedia Commons / public domain. |
Radio Freedonia ::: 12.1.2009
- "La Dolce Vita" - Nina Rota
- "Xmas in Hollis" - Run DMC - A Very Special christmas [1987]
- "Must be Santa" - Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart [NEW]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k - "Sun" - Margo Guryan - take a Picture [1968]
- "When I Stop Dreaming" - Louvin Brothers
- "Like a Chicken with its head Cut off" - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
- "I Wanna Know Girls" - Lambchop - Score! Vol. 2
- "My Hoo Ha" - The Band of Blacky Ranchette with Chan Marshall - S/T
- "Christmas at K-Mart" - Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X96Un6POoo8 - "Your Motion Says" - Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me
- "May Rain" - Sand
- "16th & Valencia Roxy Music" - Devendra banhart - What Will We Be [NEW]
- "Cold Turkey" - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
- "Origins of Cold Turkey" - Bob Dylan - Theme Time
- "It's Just that Song" - Charlie Feathers
- "I'm a Pilgrim" - The Soul Stirrers
- "Dream Song 4" - John Berryman - BOB ALLIGATOR WINS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeZOhlmZmw - "Justice Aversion" - Smog
- "The Part You Throw Away" - Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom Tour [NEW]
- "Why She's Acting This Way" - Townes van Zandt
- "Come and Get These memories" - Anna King - Come to me [1968]
- "Silvertone" - Volcano Suns - The bright Orange years [1986]
- "Right and Wrong" - The Muslims - S/T [2009]
- "On Again / Off Again" - The Clean
- "Welcome to the Occupation" - R.E.M. - Live in Olympia [NEW]
Shout-out to Afghanistan! - "It Matters" - fireHose - RaGIN' fULL oN [1986]
- "Corona" - Minutemen - Double Nicks BOOOOOYYYY!
- "Prestel" - The Homosexuals
- "Everyone is Guilty" - Akron/Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CnfK--w1k - "Hej pane zajici" - Vaclav Neckar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbU1kSPW0G8 - "Grey Eyed Girl" - The Fresh & Onlys - Grey Eyed Girls [NEW]
SotD 12-2
song:
Flashback SOTD from 2005 >
"Improv > Glory Box" by Massive Attack with Portishead from their live show in Brixton in 2005.
Download 06 Improvisation & Glory Box
meme (face ahoy):
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SotD 12-1
song:
"Sunrise / Sunset" by The Dutchess & the Duke from Sunrise/Sunset
meme (nothing ((but trees))):
History of Mark-making >
SotD 11-30
song:
"Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye" by Leonard Cohen from Field Commander Cohen: Live '79.
Download 2-06 Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
meme (death of uncool):
via Dom >
The death of uncool
It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as “this season’s colour” or “abstract expressionism” or “psychedelic music.” It seems we don’t think like that any more. There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.
As an example, go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating. The category I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked. A similar bifurcation has been happening in every other living musical genre (except for “classical” which remains, so far, simply “classical”), and it’s going on in painting, sculpture, cinema and dance.
We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life.
