Living the Liminal

Listening to Radio Paradise after uploading the new episode of Letters to Lost Friends, and David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing. Damn but this is a good song:

Thanks to Neil Gaiman for turning me on to Mitch Benn:

There’s more over on YouTube, but these were my favorites.

I just finished watching Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech and can already imagine the media and conservative spin on it boiling down to the notion that he can sure talk pretty, but there’s no substance behind his words.
I think anyone who dismisses Obama as nothing but a good speaker is missing the point of [...]

From the mouths of puppets:

This was created by a group called monochrom which is an:
art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs [...]

Searchable Database of the Bush Administrations LIes:
It would be a terrible mistake for the world to allow this man to continue to flaunt his obligations to the international community, to continue to build weapons of mass destruction under the dark of night, and to one day wake up in a situation in which [...]

Seeing as I have been posting about my new operating system, I think this video is entirely appropriate:

Via SF Signal
(Update: oh, and by the way, Donny Osmond = freakin’ brilliant!)

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Great video, catchy tune:

For a flava of Bat For Lashes live, check this one out:

And another live video:

I’m definitely planning on getting their debut album in the next week or two. Yes, I could download it from Amazon.com or iTunes. But I’m feeling archaic these days and will probably hit up an actual music store [...]

The first time I heard Diamanda Galas was in a car, driving through the fog at 2 am, listening to her Plague Mass
being played on WRIU. Freaked me the fuck out - wasn’t sure if I was hearing a human or a demon or an angel.
I’ve seen her live twice and both times have been [...]

You’ve heard of Darth Vader, but what about
CHAD VADER, DAY SHIFT MANAGER!!
Check it out, yo:

Stormtroopers, Stormtroopers, Stormtroopers everywhere . . . and far sexier than you may have though possible. Red & Jonny have a unique predilection for taking pictures of themselves in all sorts of contexts wearing Stormtrooper helmets. The effect is equal parts [...]

Sketch Comedy - Billyburg Style:

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