Reviews were bad but this is officially my favorite movie of 2009. Christopher Doyle's color, light, photography plus jarmusches silence, minimalism, and difference/repetition provide a pure crystal time image with a critique of control societies to match. Or as it is said by reviewers: "movie purposefully going nowhere" "Jarmusch's characteristic indifference to narrative excitement makes it hard to love" "As usual, Jarmusch is supremely uninterested in telling a story or exploring character, and is content to build up an atmosphere..." Beautiful.

"But words are still the principal instruments of control. Suggestions are words. Persuasions are words. Orders are words. No control machine so far devised can operate without words, and any control machine which attempts to do so relying entirely on external force or entirely on physical control of the mind will soon encounter the limits of control."

Virtual farming!? happy birthday jesus!

Quoted: The FarmLand iPhone Games app, one of hundreds ofGames apps reviewed by the experts and users at Macworld

Nina Power review of Maader meinhof complex in film quarterly.

Quoted: This essay discusses three films which in different ways reflect on left-wing militancy in the late 1960s and 70s—Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex, Chris Marker's reissued A Grin Without a Cat, Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate—and argues that Marker's is the most insightful.

Canadian Climate Hoax.

Yesterday (December 14), the Canadian government pledged to set binding emissions reductions targets of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Moreover, Canada promised to devote five percent of the country’s GDP to helping developing nations deal with climate change. Or so it initially seemed.

Quoted: The Yes Men and ActionAid have claimed responsibility for an elaborate hoax launched December 14 to embarrass the Canadian government.

The Shadow Bella Center. The basement headquarters of the good cop15.

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Booya.

Quoted: for more info on THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (dir. Andy Bichlbaum + Mike Bonanno - 2009) please visit:http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.comTo book a public scree...

ho ho ho, dear reader.

audio files from historical materialism, london, november 2009

Some nice Finnish person recorded lots of sessions from the recent conference, horrah!

Artists web site and another album he did.

С Pocustone - waterfalls и still life with rag and bolts
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5tdlzmywlog/Floex - Pocustone (2001).part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tnzm2q0ytwo/Floex - Pocustone (2001).part2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nmzijdm5iwz/Floex - Pocustone (2001).part3.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/diwdrxmwddj/Floex - Pocustone (2001).part4.rar