Jacob Christensen

Cibelle gives Gilberto Gil’s “Punk da Periferia” the works. Now if only all deconstruction could be so stylish:

I told you so.

If there was a Nobel Prize in Applied Sarcasm, Randy Newman would be The Man.

I wonder if this was what Chairman Mao had in mind when he wrote his poem “Militia Women“:

How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China’s daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle array, not silks and satins.

“Milita Women” is a classic in Danish rock music, by the way:

HT: Michael Friis.

No politics today (not that the times don’t scream for satire), but I thought I would announce that I have made a decision in the TV subscription question. I decided to go for a Boxer subscription and throw in a PVR in the deal for good measure.

As it is, it is a bit of an experiment. My reception of the present digital signal is pretty much okay and I’m happy with the quality of pictures and sound, but there may be an issue with (encrypted) programmes that are broadcast on higher frequencies. In November, we will know much more.

Anyway, I won’t cheat you completely: Here’s a – completely unrelated – bit of the wonderful Kate Bush. Not Experiment IV (with the chorus “It’s a mistake that we’re making” – those Conservatives seem to pop up everywhere…) but King of the Mountain:

If I can’t keep my fingers off the blog suring my so-called vacation, then I can at least avoid writing serious posts. So, here is 2x Broken Social Scene performing 7/4 Shoreline:

First, with all the whizz and bells (and a cassette tape, remember those?)

And then caught live in Toronto

Roskilde 2009 on last.fm.

HT: Mkkl.

In case you’re not already subscribing to the Thinking Allowed podcast, hurry over to the BBC and listen to Laurie Taylor’s interview with Antje Bednarek about the elusive species Young Scottish Conservatives and how to study them.

Podcast (programmes are unfortunately only available for one week after the original broadcast)

Also: In Our Time with Melwyn Bragg.

I scored 801 of 1000 and am able to call my musical tastes rather eclectic.

Worth noting that the distribution of last.fm users is slightly skewed towards the eclectic side

More fun with last.fm by Anthony Liekens.

Some pretty strange things come out of Gotland. Like New Orleans-based singer and composer Theresa Andersson whose Hummingbird, Go! is bothering my iPod big time these days.