Thought you might be interested in a new music curation project I’ve started.

Home taping is killing music. Just like the old days.

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Well at least, world’s craziest globe that actually purports to be fully accurate. I spent hours of amusement last night looking at this. Cmon, everyone knows that South Korea is really called “Saurla,” Japan is really “Lapan,” Antarctica is just “Tartica,” and Scotland should be “Scotlano.” More wonderful inaccuracies here.

Okay, so I have not yet seen it, but reliable sources tell me it’s excellent. This Film Is Not Yet Rated exposes the MPAA’s rating system, something that they’ve tried very hard to keep under wraps.

The irony, is of course, that the MPAA originally rated the film NC-17. From the Wikipedia entry:

The MPAA gave [...]

Steal this film is a short documentary examining the impact of file sharing on the media industry, and the political movement that has grown out of p2p. Part one is out (streaming: Part 1a, Part 1b; torrents: iPod version, Regular version) and has some great interviews with people from the Pirate Bay, Pirat Byran, [...]

Most people have never heard of the Mangosteen. Mango..wha?, they ask. Or they think it’s just a mini-mango.

Well, wrong. After having lived in Southeast Asia for a considerable amount of time, this came to be one of my favorite fruits. It’s hard to compare its taste to something available here, but it has a fairly [...]

In my voyages abroad, I have often frequented late night food establishments, be it prata shops in Singapore, the Turkish bakeries in Berlin, 24/7 brasseries in Paris, or juice bars in Rio. Round-the-clock food, in my experience, has a universal appeal. I still do think, however, that the good ol’ 24 hour diner concept is [...]

Okay, I think I may have had a slight change of heart on this one. Pronounced Bon-ge doh Hole-e, this group of cute, rich Brazilian white kids might better be characterized as Funk Light (Lie-ch in Portuguese). They can’t play in the favelas, they’re not the “real” (baile) funk, but they do make party music [...]

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Whether the “faux” Gagosian by the Wrong Gallery crowd in the Berlin Biennial is actually as guerilla as its creators claim is arguable (piles of EU funding and institutional approval for the show being the two obvious reasons to question their guerilla cred, as even art forum points out). Whether the replica of [...]