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STILL LIFE: Must Be The Season Of The Witch
Untitled by DAVE BROWN
POLL: Ted Cruz Is Worse Than Gonorrhea
POLITICO: Ted Cruz is waiting to decide whether to hold up a potential deal in the Senate that would reopen the government and avert a breach of the debt ceiling. With the debt limit deadline looming Thursday and quick Senate action needed to beat it, Cruz would not divulge whether he’d allow a quick vote on an emerging deal to reopen government and raise the debt ceiling. Bypassing Senate rules that would slow the voting process requires the consent of every member of the chamber, which will be critical this week to avoid a panic in the markets over […]
WILLIS EARL BEAL: Too Dry To Cry
This is quite extraordinary.
THE GUARDIAN: The Guantanamo Hunger Strikes
THE GUARDIAN: Few outside the US military have even seen, let alone recorded, what goes on inside the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. Now, using the words of the detainees themselves, an extraordinary animated film aims to show the brutality and claustrophobia of daily life there. This is the fascinating story behind its making…For Sami al-Hajj, the scenes in the film he is watching at his home in Doha, Qatar, take him back to his darkest hours. Twice a day, for 16 months, al-Hajj was strapped down and force-fed inside Guantánamo Bay. Today, viewing a film representation of the procedure in […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR In his new book The Everything Store, Brad Stone chronicles how Amazon became an “innovative, disruptive, and often polarizing technology powerhouse.” He writes that Amazon was among the first to realize the potential of the Internet and that the company “ended up forever changing the way we shop and read.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the Kindle Fire HD in two sizes during a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif., in September 2012.Amazon started off selling books, but Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, always had the intention of turning it into an online market that […]
BEING THERE: Mark Lanegan @ Underground Arts
Photo by STEVE GULLICK The first time I met Mark Lanegan was in the men’s room of the now-defunct Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Google reminds me that it was Novermber 4th 1989. Actually, ‘met’ is probably too strong a word for it. I was standing at the urinal, using it as God intended, when suddenly Lanegan burst through the door, ran up to the sink and proceeded to projectile vomit. Prolifically. Then he looked up in the mirror, wiped his mouth with the back of his had, turned on his heel, exited just as abruptly as he entered, and then climbed […]
WORTH REPEATING: No Surrender!
ROBERT REICH: Now is the time to lance the boil of Republican extremism once and for all. Since Barack Obama became president, the extremists who have taken over the Republican Party have escalated their demands every time he’s caved, using the entire government of the United States as their bargaining chit. In 2010 he agreed to extend all of the Bush tax cuts through the end of 2012. Were they satisfied? Of course not. In the summer of 2011, goaded by an influx of Tea Partiers, they demanded huge spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling. In […]
KID’S ALRIGHT: A Cheeky Q&A With Woodkid
BY ALEXANDER BISIGNARO Woodkid is the nom de art-rock of Yoann Lemoine, a remarkable visual artist, video director (Katy Perry, Drake/Rihanna, Lana Del Rey) and singer-songwriter with a voice that makes grown men cry in their souls. He plays Union Transfer on Monday, in support of his arresting debut album, The Golden Age. DISCUSSED: God, homosexuality, cinema, Catholicism, the death of innocence, music sweet music, Katy Perry’s tits, Drake’s perfectionism, and why Lana Del Rey is such a polarizing figure. PHAWKER: Why is your new album called The Golden Age? What is the’ Golden Age’ you are referring to? Why […]
MOBY & MARK LANEGAN: The Lonely Night
From Moby’s excellent new album, Innocents. Mark Lanegan plays Underground Arts tomorrow night.
DUBIOUS ACHIEVMENT: Philadelphia Ranked 3rd In The Nation For Number Of Death Row Inmates
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INCOMING: Q&A With Woodkid
Woodkid is the nom de art-rock of Yoann Lemoine, a remarkable visual artist (see above), video director (Katy Perry, Drake/Rihanna, Lana Del Rey) and singer-songwriter with a voice that makes grown men cry in their souls. He plays Union Transfer on Monday, in support of his arresting debut album, The Golden Age. DISCUSSED: God, homosexuality, cinema, music sweet music, Katy Perry’s tits, Drake’s perfectionism, and why Lana Del Rey is such a polarizing figure. Look for it tomorrow on a Phawker near you! Woodkid “Iron” from WOODKID on Vimeo.
HOT DOC: Julian Assange’s Letter To Benedict Cummerbatch Denouncing The Fifth Estate
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 From: Julian Assange To: Benedict Cumberbatch Subject: Message from Assange Dear Benedict, Thank you for trying to contact me. It is the first approach by anyone from the Dreamworks production to me or WikiLeaks. My assistants communicated your request to me, and I have given it a lot of thought and examined your previous work, which I am fond of. I think I would enjoy meeting you. The bond that develops between an actor and a living subject is significant. If the film reaches distribution we will forever be correlated in the public imagination. […]