December 2009
23 posts
Jonathan Richman-Stupenda e misera cittá
One of...
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Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to... →
theoreticalgirl:
Adriano Celentano’s 1972 rock song composed of gibberish (ur-spam email?) to sound like an “American” rock song. I have wondered if this is what I sound like to my dad at times.
I feel like I need to get cracking on a project that looks at the international political economy of pop music and gains from trade in the US and Italy…this is clutch.
Mike Cannon- Voices In The Dark
We are a long...
Il Regno di Leata Ultima (notebook i of iv)
the first of four italo mixes i’m working on… NOTEBOOK I: CULTURAL HEGEMONY Feeling Like A Stranger - Shamall Masterpiece - Gazebo Around my dreams - Silver Pozzoli Hold me tight - Night Society Saturdays In Silesia - Rational Youth Don’t tell me - Hank Shostak You Must Change (Mystery Woman) – Black Book Monkey Monkey (45 Vox) - Flo Astaire Forever - Bryan Rich I...
“As in the eighteenth century, so today: by eviscerating the state’s...”
– Tony Judt, writing in this month’s NYRB
Bryan Rich- Forever
DJ Antonio Gramsci is coming...
Swan- General Custer
(one up to italo disco stars...
So there has to be research funding for me here...
Oxford Internet Institute (OII) seems to be sponsoring a host of projects—some interesting, others more ridiculous. Like this one
Cyber-humour: the end of humour as we know it?
January 2005 - December 2007
Limor Shifman, OII
One of the most prominent manifestations of humorous communication nowadays is ‘cyberhumour’, or Internet-based humour. Humour has long been recognised...
2 things
Fungi from Yuggoth— apparently Lovecraft wrote poetry
The Lovecraft Studies blog
The original aim of Lovecraftian studies was to promote an appreciation of Lovecraft’s art to a wider audience. The idea was not only to get more people reading Lovecraft, but also to get literary academics to take him as seriously as they took Poe (at least) or Hawthorne (at best). Because academia...