Staff Benda Bilili are a group of paraplegic street musicians who live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo. Four senior singers/guitarists on makeshift wheelchairs are supported by a young, all-acoustic rhythm section, plus a 17 year-old prodigy performing infectious guitar-like solos on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out […]

The best online video ever?
 
Thanks Simon!

By BRIAN ENO
It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked “Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it’s the Palestinians”. By creating a middle Eastern version of […]

Do we finally get the extra army pieces on each turn?
I saw video of this “ceremony” last night and was thoroughly freaked out.

Rising high above the fray of films worth seeing is Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about the 1982 Lebanon War. The synopsis:
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. […]

Well, it could be Wasilla…
“and what also floats in water..?”
“a duck!”
“who are you..who are so wise in the ways of science…?”