Some home truths about awards in advertising, courtesy of Maximilian Villivankk.

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Here’s a song to commemorate world finance:

Here’s disco you can believe in:

Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Alone (Island Press, 1938/2003)
This was one of the last Antarctic classics I had yet to read, an account of Admiral Byrd’s stay alone in 1934 at the Advance Base weather station. Staying alone through the Antarctic winter proved to be hazardous, and most of the time Byrd had to struggle with [...]

This is the Pet Shop Boys video I’m With Stupid. Extra points for the retard prison choreography.

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There’s something weird that appeals to me in the anticharismatic presence and dissonant voice of Gary Numan. Here’s a surprisingly good quality video of him performing Down in the Park. Don’t miss the rotating black pyramids.

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Another YouTube find, this is a video by the Solevian hip hop group Ironic Tronic, of a song called We Don’t Want Laibach.

That sounds like the name of some kind of a pulp politician. But actually its about the song Play, Rew, F Fwd by Plutokazi, featuring Milan Fras of Laibach as the voice of the bear.

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From Emir Kusturica movies I found the fantasy of having your own orchestra provide background music wherever you go, but I’ve always suspected my orchestra would be more like this…

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I’ll indulge in my weakness for Russian girl band music again. Here’s Via Gra’s L.M.L. in English:

Look for the great French language part, as well as the Russian accent pushing through in the chorus.

I spotted the link to this in the irc. It’s described as a “non-official video” for the Zombie Zombie song Driving, directed by Simon Gesler and Xavier Ehretsmann. It manages to combine a whole load of things I love, from French electro and Antarctica to the G.I. Joe toys and the John Carpenter movie the [...]

Shirley Bassey has a fun cover of Pink’s Get This Party Started:

I saw two Guy Maddin movies at Sodankylä, Brand Upon the Brain! and My Winnipeg. The movie he’s made I like the best is a short, the 2004 film Sissy-Boy Slap-Party:

I used to like Army of Lovers a lot when I was younger, but then I lost the CDs I had and haven’t really listened to them for years. I just got a best of -collection, and boy, this is great stuff.
Here’s the video to the song I Am:

It only now occurred to me to see if there were any music videos from Messer Für Frau Muller, and there were…