One of Adam's Recs: Len Lye's "Swinging the Lambeth Walk"

Visuals apparently hand-made; note the audio's spliced. Per Wikipedia,

"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl . . . . The song takes its name from a local street once notable for its street market and working class culture in Lambeth, an area of London, England.

The tune gave its name to a Cockney dance first made popular in 1937 by Lupino Lane. The story line of the original show concerns a Cockney barrow boy who inherits an earldom but almost loses his Lambeth girlfriend. . . .

An SA Mann of the Nazi Party declared the Lambeth Walk "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping" in early 1939 as part of a speech about how the "revolution of private life" was one of the next big tasks of National Socialism.

In 1942 Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information made a short propaganda film, Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style, which edited existing footage of Hitler and German soldiers (taken from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will) to make it appear as if they were marching and dancing to "The Lambeth Walk." The film so enraged Joseph Goebbels that he ran out of the screening room kicking chairs and screaming profanities.

Check out Adam's other recs, too; e.g., "The Internet in 1969":

Adam Bork

I like how the visual aspects work with the street/movement noise, as well as Adam's moog/organ music (which was in fact audible outdoors -- not just layered into the YouTube video). Check out more of Adam's work here.

Lux Interior

(lead singer of The Cramps) is dead.



(Compare and contrast.)

The NYT's obit here.

David Lee Roth Runnin' with the Devil Soundboard

here. Not to be missed.

Great Article on the Current Crisis

in The Village Voice.

Naomi Wolf on Protest and the Point We're at

She covers a lot of ground, all important. As the I Ching says, perseverance furthers.

Why I Read Spam

(at least, the spam that gets through):

"I am REV.INNOCENT EBE , General manager to the Atm Desk Department. The attached picture [no picture was attached] was taken in my office where i was serving verification documents to the White men Mr Gabriel Evans and Mr Alan Mills From Ireland Republic who stormed my office last two days ago, the Black Gentleman (on white African attire). the black man Mr Fred Johnson claimed to be your representative and the supervisory Engineer that supervised and certified your money execution that was shifted from the previous Paying Institute to the Atm Desk Department because of their inability to have paid it at the agreed time.

"They said that you were dead and before your death, you appointed them as the next of kin to your contract/inherited fund presently under our custody these two whitemen and the black gentleman quickly applied that your Inherited fund should be presented to them at the spot.The Official responsible for the presentation of consignment quickly granted approvals to their application and packaged the fund for them to go with it .

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Mr. President: Please Consider Dr. Howard Dean

in place of either Senator Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services or Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General (see here for concerns about Daschle and Gupta).

As you know, while governor of Vermont, Dr. Dean brought near-universal healthcare to children and pregnant women. The uninsured rate in Vermont dropped from 12.7% to 9.6%, and child abuse and teen pregnancy rates were cut roughly in half. At the same time, under his tenure, the state paid off much of its public debt while lowering income taxes twice.

Moreover, he pioneered grassroots internet politics, and as DNC Chair, his 50-state strategy deserves much of the credit for Dems' election wins during the last two election cycles (see Wikipedia regarding Dean's career).

Dr. Dean can make government work for the people, which we badly need.

You can e-mail the Prez here.