Addicted to Placebos

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Probably the best non-Mac, non-tech podcast I follow is Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code.  I’ve referenced it here before.  He tends to hit on a lot of topics that I find interesting politically, he’s funny and - yowsers - did he age nicely.  I’ve got to say that we are generally light years apart musically, though.

Last week, he played several mash-ups that just kicked ass.  I usually find them to be hit-or-miss, but the ones that work are awesome. This is one of them:

You can find links to this track, as well as the rest of the collection at Mark Vidler’s site.  And whaddya know - it’s more free music for you!

OK…time to fess up.  Don’t get me wrong - the Sabbath/Queen track is amazing.  But I posted it partly because I figured it’s what you would expect from me.  But this one really shook my boot-tay:

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Because eight years is a long time to go without your own asshole.

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nine inch nails: the slip

More free music from NIN…  Made available under creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.

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He says he was inspired by the impending birth of his first child to find bin Laden and hoped to make the world a safer place. Yet he leaves his wife, Alexandra, at home to worry about him as he repeatedly puts himself in harm’s way over several months.

Fiilm Clips: New Spurlock film riskier than burgers

I have a mild curiousity, at best, about Morgan Spurlock’s latest flim, “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?” I followed the above link in my local paper thinking I would actually get a review of the film. Instead, all I got was a public berating of Spurlock for leaving his poor pregnant wife at home.

Researching this post, I found that what the Post-Gazette ran was a shortened version of the original review. “Ah”, I thought. Perhaps it was just poor editing that made it sound as if the writer had dashed it out after arguing with her hubby over a night out with the boys. It turned out to be more of the same:

(Spurlock admits in the film’s production notes that his wife objected to him taking this trip with a baby coming — and who could blame her? — but he went anyway, in the name of entertainment.)

And:

Meanwhile, his wife is back in Manhattan by herself (except for the camera crew, of course) having early contractions and telling him about them on the cell phone.”Here I am, missing it all,” Spurlock laments once he hangs up. Certainly, he had a choice in the matter.

And the only moment she notes as “substantive” is a conversation with an Moroccan man about parenting. No acknowledgment of the 4000 American lives lost - sons, daughters, husbands or wives. Since there is no draft, all of these people are there as a “volunteer” force. (Of course, if there were ever to be a draft and some of the privileged class had to go to the Middle East, this war would come to a screeching halt.) And she makes a fairly glib dismissal of one of the movie’s main points, that the Iraqis are flesh and blood people - just like us.

Yes, Spurlock delivers his message couched in humor. How else is he supposed to reach a public that makes “American Idol” a number one rated show? How else do you reach a public that has become numb or even complacent to war coverage? (Well, besides trumpeting a terror alert whenever poll numbers are slipping, that is.)

Besides - someone has to look for bin Laden. Bush sure as hell doesn’t care anymore.

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Name the 5 Original MTV VJs

I only got ONE right - and it was the most annoying one of the bunch!