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The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   Very memorable couple of clips here from earlier this year. Maurice takes no shit from Colbert, or anyone else for that matter. It’s the type of [...]

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The Haircut

Too delightful, too odd, and too fun to not put this up. From 1982, this was a short film by UCLA filmstudent Tamar Simon Hoffs. Originally Ben Gazara was slated to play the role of a businessman stopping in for a quick haircut, as his daughter was helping produce the film and also working on [...]

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Dueling Turntables, Eno Related: Laraaji

The story goes that in ’79 Eno saw this man, Edward Larry Gordon improvising on zither in Washington Square Park. So taken he soon thereafter offered to produce a record for the guy. With Edward taking the adoptive name Laraaji, the subsequent release fell under Eno’s ambient series, this one titled Ambient 3: Day of [...]

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Transa Springtime Mix

77 minutes and 18 seconds of Springtime festivities here.  Music– the ultimate renewal.  Perfect CD-R length too, for the industrial types.  Some thoughts: Damien Jurado has released one of 2012′s gems so far.  Score one for persistence! Early to mid-20th century African-American gospel music has no real experiential reason to speak to me, but undeniably [...]

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Buzzy Kneubuhl

  From Buzzy’s Paipo interview: Many children growing up in Hawaii in the 1960s rode simple ply paipo – Buzzy was no different. He soon progressed onto riding stand-up at Ala Moana and other South shore spots. Later on Maui he windsurfed and more recently has been kitesurfing. He has again caught the paipo bug [...]

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Poly Styrene

For Women’s Appreciation Day… and just ’cause.

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Poet Chris Wiman on Bill Moyers

‘Love’s last urgency is Earth’ — C. Wiman Very affecting talk here with Moyers and Wiman… on the inseparable bond between suffering and experience; the radical need for cultivating a sensitive inner consciousness; and the role the arts can play in presenting a heavenly order. That and more…

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Gazzara

The magic of Ben Gazzara as an actor, among many things, was his patience in delivery. Not a showy scene-chewer who dominates the space of the frame, he plays his roles like a seasoned jazz musician, where responsiveness and generosity allows room for a structure to build, upon which each player in the tune/scene can [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Bad Ass Sidekicks – Comedy Version

I’m a bit late to the game for this round, and I’ll concede defeat on musical grounds (and perhaps start a new battle?) by turning to my most favoritist of contemporary comedy pairings… the two Ls… Larry and Leon. For me at least, when these two share a scene the laughs per second roll off [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Adrian Belew Trio – featuring Julie Slick

To keep this merry-go-round a’ twirlin’… here’s Julie Slick more than keeping pace with a couple old pros. There’s of course the aforementioned human-smile-factory Mr. Belew, but also sitting in on drums is a one Danny Carey from Tool. The song is “Neurotica,” a KC tune I think I still have post-traumatic stress over from [...]

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