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A Quick Plug for the “Audio Files” Music Column at WHEN FALLS THE COLISEUM

29. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Aural Discharge, Aural Life, Unmitigated Ass-Whistles of Vivacity · Tags: blogging, music, noise, sound

New adventures in aural vivacity.

New ICED BORSCHT Facebook Page

28. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Cosmonautica, Deep Night, Deep-Fried Dystopia, Negative Spaces, Oregon Permutations · Tags: crotch, facebook, Iced Borscht

Please “like” as you see fit.

CLEANING OUT THE LINK CAGE: the Tony Robbins of Sex; the Unmitigated Sexual Electricity of Fish; and Liberace’s Brother in PDX

27. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Aural Life, Oregon Permutations, 日本語 · Tags: electricity, explosions, fish, Liberace, sex

• Pretty amazing — the Polyphonic Spree “Questfortherest.com“

• Pleasant sounds of the Bebot

• The deranged, frothy stew of Comic-Con

• Porn workshop for $195 = immeasurable pointlessness (But register here if the idea whets your ass-whistle; you do get to mingle with the “Tony Robbins” of sex, after all.)

• The Antiplanner vs. Matthew Yglesias

• Tramway anger

• Fish, electricity and unrelenting sexual desire

• Nine great dystopian music vids

• The worst-ever man-made explosions

• R.I.P. Harry Galbreath and Jack Tatum

• Moronic faith-healing parents try to get their baby back

• Ahmadinejad vs. Paul the Octopus

• Max Richter’s Infra gets 8 stars from Pop Matters

• The NYT‘s Fifth Down blog forecasts the 2010 Green Bay Packers

• When Liberace’s brother visited Portland

• Why talent leaves Portland

• People want to righteously shag themselves…and their parents too

• It’s “reactable!” (More here.)

• Fractal drum

• The Killing Machine

• Teens! Headphones! Drugs! For the love of God, somebody get them an emergency dose of this Public Service Announcement!

• Lee Hazlewood — Cowboy in Sweden.

CLEANING OUT THE LINK CAGE: Fat Athletes; the Dangers of Stadium Food and the Pending Robot Crime Wave

26. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Deep-Fried Dystopia, 日本語 · Tags: animals, evolution, fat, music, nature, robots

The Fat Athlete Hall of Fame;

Roger Kimball: Bankrupting a country 1-2-3

When liberals aren’t shrill;

Michael Vick is a really nice guy;

The disease and filth in your stadium food;

Change and museums;

Liberals for Palin;

The Hemingway Look-Alike Contest;

Some awesomely weird places to sleep;

Do polluted skies contribute to suicide?

Son of Large Hadron Collider;

Non-stop Western themes

Frankie Laine sings “Jezebel” in a feast for the eyes and ears;

Ukrainian cows power biogas plant;

Wikipedia’s list of animal sounds;

Octo-Newf;

The robots will kill us;

Free nature sounds;

The world’s 50 most commonly spoken languages;

How animals contribute to human evolution; and

On music and brain plasticity.