- Norah Jones is going Punk? That's right. She's signed to Conor Oberst's Team Love label. El Madmo is the name of the band and their MS page can be found here.
- This may not be outdated news by the time I get around to posting this draft, but New Kids on the Block (or, as I affectionately refer to them, NKOTB) plan to reuinite. According to Don Wahlberg "[he] had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material" but he added "We absolutely will do the old songs for sure." Fuck.
- A project by author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner is causing some controversy. She is selling shirts that say "I Was Raped" in an effort to break the silence of people keeping quiet about it.
From the site:
Why wear a shirt that says “I Was Raped”?
Because wearing it lets
others know that they aren’t alone.
Because wearing it invites conversation
about a silenced experience that so many women and men share.
Because rape
is a crime that someone did to you, against your will.
Because, as Maya
Angelou says, “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be
reduced by it.”
Because you shouldn’t be ashamed that you were raped; the
perpetrator should be ashamed.
Because being public shatters the very
silence that enables rape to be so common.
Because naming what has happened
is the first step toward changing the reality of rape.
Because legal redress
is rarely served, so it’s crucial to find our own justice and acknowledgment.
~ Jennifer Baumgardner, “I Was Raped” project, 2008
- Black Kids' single launches in the U.K. today with a remastered version of "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You, Mutha Licka." ('Mutha Licka' is not in the title, but would it hurt, really?) One of their b-sides is a cover of Sophie B. Hawkins' "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover." Should be interesting to hear Reggie serenading me in the place of Sophie B.
- Pitchfork.tv launches today. They have an entertaining feature about Phillie's Man Man as well as loudQUIETloud which is a documentary of Pixies' reunion tour of '04.
- The 2008 Lollapalooza lineup is now official and it looks like they have a little something for everybody. I mean everybody. Dierks Bently? Argh?
- Tired of Myspace? Try these:
- hatebook.org Hatebook.org is "an anti-social utility that disconnects you from all the things YOU HATE."
- ifuckinghateyou.com
- isolatr.com
- A man in northern Nigeria won $100,000 for creating a refrigerator that uses no electricity. (Okay, so it's our version of an ice-box, but where the fuck are they going to get ice?) It consists of placing a pot into a larger pot and pouring wet sand into the crevice and placing a wet cloth on top. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out leaving the inside cold. As stated in the article, it's had a major impact on the people of his village where over 90% of the residents do not have electricity. Their perishible foods now last up to three weeks as opposed to three days. Children are now able to attend school because their parents no longer need them as much to be used to sell food in the market throughout the day.
- Olympic torch protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge, put up Tibetan flag. "Three people protesting China's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge Monday and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables."
The banners read "One World One Dream. Free Tibet" and "Free Tibet."
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