MC Frontalot — Secrets From The Future
 by in Arts & Poetry, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Music, Security & Privacy |
Hey again! Long time no post, I know…. busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share.
I was just reading Bruce Schneier’s CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the lyrics).
To quote the chorus:
You can’t [...]
Everlast - Letters Home From The Garden Of Stone
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I posted about Everlast upcoming new album earlier, but this weekend I discovered the video for his latest track:
This song makes me want to own a car again … so that I can play this song on repeat — really, really frigging loud.
Everlast, Rap, Rock, War, Middle-East
Everlast: Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford
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It’s been quiet for a long while … probably because I didn’t have anything to say or anything to vent… But I do so, now.
See, my girlfriend found the new site set up by Everlast (to spread the word about his new album, Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford, I assume) [...]
Peep this…
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I was reminded by somebody that Public Enemy’s new album is out due 7 august. I am definitely gonna get it…
I’m chillin’….
With this Transformer movie coming out… it reminded me of this song I still have the vinyl to. I didn’t even know it had a video (check here, embedding is disabled for that video), then again, back then we didn’t even have cable..
I still cannot make out whether it is a sample from the actual [...]
Brother Ali: Uncle Sam Goddamn
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I hadn’t heard of or read about this artist until about half an hour ago, while reading about Rock The Bells (too bad it won’t be doing Europe). Anyway, here’s a video I could find:
Quote Of The Week #47
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This week, I’m passing the mic to The Coup and dead prez, in the excellent tune “Get Up”, from The Coup’s album “Party Music” (which I wouldn’t have discovered if it wasn’t for Sean at connecting*the*dots):
You got to get up right now,
Turn the system upside down.
You’re supposed to be fed up by now,
Turn the system [...]
James Brown R.I.P.
I just caught the news that, sadly, James Brown passed away this Christmas morning.
I remember him being on some talk show on the BBC this year — alive and kicking so I was rather surprised to read about this.
His music has been an inspiration to many musicians — I know there’s numerous songs sampling him [...]
Lucht (Air)
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Some lines of poetry were playing through my head trying to get to sleep last night, and I was surprised that I remembered them this morning after. So obviously, I quickly logged-on to scribble them down before I’d forget.
Update: Last night (16th today), it happened again — so I changed a few lines and also [...]
Just arrived by snail-mail: The Coup - Party Music
This is a relatively old CD (2001), but when Sean at connecting*the*dots once recommended it to me a couple of months ago I started looking around for it, checking for on-line stores that actually still had this CD in stock. At the time, I thought I found one, but it took a couple of weeks [...]
Bettie Serveert 15 year anniversary
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I just received an email from Fabchannel that they’re webcasting the 15 year anniversary concert of Bettie Serveert (Dutch band). I’m a long fan of Bettie Serveert — `Brain-Tag‘ in fact being my and my gf’s ‘song‘ (that’s some excellent guitar-playing).
But damn, my browser does not support Flash (well not the latest version anyways) and [...]
Quote Of The Week #23
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I was listening to Paris the other day, namely the song `The devil made me do it‘, when I heard the line that has inspired me for years now (actually, every time I hear these words they give me the goose-bumps).
Ya can’t be intrigued by the leads a pig lead
Unless you don’t give a fuck [...]
Sentiment…
| by in History, Interesting Links, Music |
When I was young I had this remix tape with Electro music on it. Lately, I tried searching for a couple of the songs on that tape. That once pointed me to this remix with a lot of old-school electro songs in it. (Incidentally, you might find the N.W.A. track Panic Zone quite funny to [...]
Web2DNA: Convert your website to a ‘DNA-like’ image.
| by in Arts & Poetry, Humour, Interesting Links, Software |
Through Sean’s site, I discovered this neat thingy that converts your websites’ HTML to a DNA-like sequence:
WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of [...]
Finally, Metallica realises most of their CDs is crap
| by in Music, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
Remember that these guys were anti P2P? Metallica just signed a deal with Napster and iTunes to make single song downloads available. They already had the complete albums available online but it seems those guys finally realised nobody was buying their overpriced CDs as most of the songs are crap.
And they’re doing it with a [...]
Quote Of The Week #19
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Aristotle, in his Ethics, quotes the poet Hesiod;
He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things;
Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion;
But whose neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another
Layeth it to heart — he is a useless man.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
Quote Of The Week #13
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William Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice, wrote the following:
How far that little candle throws its beams; so shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
Quote Of The Week #11
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This week I’m focussing on Diogenes of Sinope, one of the first cynics known in history.
Although no writings survived — stories have: one of these is that when Alexander the Great saw the man going through a pile of (human) bones, Diogenes explained to Alexander what he was doing:
I’m searching for the bones of [...]
La Coka Nostra
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I did wonder what the fuck happened to Everlast for some time, but last week, I discovered La Coka Nostra — the new group formed by Everlast, Danny Boy, DJ Lethal and some new talent.
Really can’t wait until their first CD is out — the tracks available in the MySpace player sound pretty promising.
Music, Rap, [...]
Paris interview
A post on Public Enemy’s Enemyboard pointed me to this interview with Paris that you might want to read if you’re interested…
Interesting quote:
Describe how your very pronounced political perspectives have affected you from a business standpoint.
There were more issues with putting out Sonic Jihad than Sleeping with the Enemy. Sleeping with the Enemy was my [...]
Interesting Rutger Hauer related material on eBay
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I recently found out that Rutger Hauer (the Dutch actor) auctions rare, autographed stuff in order to make money for its Starfish Association.
This autographed card depicting a scene from the film Blade Runner might even be worth the hassle (no bids at all at the time of this writing either!):
There’s other potentially interesting Rutger Hauer-stuff [...]
The curious origin of Mah Na Mah Na…
| by in Arts & Poetry, History, Humour, Interesting Links, Music |
You might already know this, but I only just found out today that the Muppets famous Mah Na Mah Na-song is actually a cover — a cover of a same-named 1969 song by Piero Umiliani. (Check here for more information about the composer.)
Now, of course, that alone isn’t all that interesting, but did you know [...]
Quote Of The Week #2
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This week, the fictional character Emmanuel Goldstein (from Orwell’s book 1984) writes this in his book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, chapter III:
The social atmosphere is that of a beseiged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness [...]
Quote Of The Week #1
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The Quote of the Week section is a new section which I have just created. In this section I will occasionally post interesting quotes from famous historical figures, real and fictional.
Today, it’s Albert Einstein’s turn — the man renowned for his Special Theory of Relativity:
“The pioneers of a warless world
are the young men (and women)
who [...]
In stores tomorrow: Hard Truth Soldiers Vol. 1
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In case you didn’t know, and you are into political rap (like it is supposed to be), there’s two albums coming out tomorrow that you got to have.
I’ve already pre-ordered these, because I do buy CDs from artists that are worth listening too and actually care about the world and the people who buy their [...]
Nice video on Google Video…
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Just caught this on Google video… Don’t know the bands’ name, but the song’s quite nice.
New World Order, Music
Paris - Sonic Jihad
| by in Freedom & Repression, Music |
I recently ordered the CD Sonic Jihad by Paris:
It arrived yesterday together with the deluxe edition of an oldie, Sleeping with the Enemy that I also ordered.
Speaking of Sleeping with the Enemy — did you know:
Originally slated for a pre-presidential election release in 1992, this sophomore effort by Paris was intentionally suppressed by the [...]
BBC Hardtalk Extra: Chuck D - still fighting the power
In the latest edition of BBC Hardtalk Extra an interview with Chuck D:
In a HardTalk Extra interview screened on 20th January, Gavin Esler speaks to Chuck D of ground-breaking rap group Public Enemy.
The quality of the online video sucks, so I’m a wait for the re-run on BBC World. Public Enemy, Chuck D
Guerrilla Funk Records
From the Public Enemy Board I hit the Guerrilla Funk Recordings site — a must-read for just about everyone. Well, if you’re into Hiphop and against current American policies, that is..
Become a Hard Truth Soldier!
Indeed, the corporate rap machine should stop commercialising a non-capitalistic culture. It should stop using rap and hiphop to pimp products [...]
The Book Of Cool
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I was reading this post from a buddy of mine which made me pretty curious as to what this Book Of Cool was all about.
So, I visited the Book Of Cool website. After seeing the trailer, I was immediately convinced I wanted that thing, too.
The tricks that some of these guys can do [...]
The S.T.O.P. Movement: Some excellent political tunes…
| by in Freedom & Repression, Music |
Everlast, together with some other hiphop artists, such as KRS1 and B-real, created some controversial tracks remixed by Fred Wreck. Of course, it’s criticizing and questioning the U.S. government on this 9/11 and War-On-Terror thing. Due to that nature, these tracks are Internet-only releases.
The lyrics are excellent, and the tune’s good as well. Check them [...]
Bring That Beat Back!
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The Public Enemy CD I ordered last week arrived today.
It kicks some serious ass!
Power To The People ‘Cause The People Want Peace!
Public Enemy, New Whirl Odor, New World Order
Public Enemy: New Whirl Odor
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Latest Public Enemy album released last month.
This comes terribly close to art….
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Nifty BASIC implementation in Javascript, if I say so myself.. 
