New Orleans' WTUL

I love music but am pretty occupied by other stuff. But came across New Orleans' Tulane's v. eclectic station, streaming here (thanks Amy!). (Closest thing I'd found before was Paul Slavens' 90.1 at Night, which I love, on the eponymous Dallas pub. radio station; but it's only a few hours a week.)

(Feel free to let me know any other great sources.)

Earth to Dem Pols:

From Open Left:

"Media Gunning For Obama and Democrats
by Chris Bowers
Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 18:45

"Last night, commenter NFR83 wrote:

I just got laid off at ABC

and my best friend works at CNBC.

They don't want Democrats on air. We've been only booking Republicans because "everybody already knows where the Democrats stand."

After all, what are the Democrats going to do? complain? It's the liberal media, right?

I was in a meeting last week where our producer flat out said we needed to "bring Obama's approval ratings down."

Everyone who got laid off this week was an Obama supporter.

Surprised?

"This isn't definitive proof of anything, but it would explain why Republicans are dominating the airwaves these days."

What do you think about a Constitutional amendment to restore the independence of the Fourth Estate?

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.