Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sewer Tube Living

Rohrhotel - Bilder auf bildschirmarbeiter.com

Libya end game

Leave it to the informed. Here is Juan Cole on the situation in Tripoli:

The underground network of revolutionaries in the capital, who had been violently repressed by Qaddafi’s security forces last March, appear to have planned the uprising on hearing of the fall of Zawiya and Zlitan. It is Ramadan, so people in Tripoli are fasting during the day, breaking their fast at sunset. Immediately after they ate their meal, the callers to prayer or muezzins mounted the minarets of the mosques and began calling out, “Allahu Akbar,” (God is most Great), as a signal to begin the uprising. (Intrestingly, this tactic is similar to that used by the Green movement for democracy in Iran in 2009).

Working class districts in the east were the first to rise up. Apparently revolutionaries have been smuggling in weapons to the capital and finding a way to practice with them. Tajoura, a few kilometers from Tripoli to the east, mounted a successful attack on the Qaddafi forces in the working class suburb, driving them off. At one point the government troops fired rockets at the protesting crowds, killing 122 persons. But it was a futile piece of barbarity, followed by complete defeat of Qaddafi forces. Eyewitness Asil al-Tajuri told Aljazeera Arabic by telephone that the revolutionaries in Tajoura captured 6 government troops, and that they freed 500 prisoners from the Hamidiya penitentiary. The Tajoura popular forces also captured the Muitiqa military base in the suburb and stormed the residence of Mansur Daw, the head of security forces in Tripoli.

A map of the fighting.

Al Jazeera English is live-blogging the conflict

Joy Division for Sunday

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Angular avant jazz rock

I continue to fall in love with this band, great stuff:

Off the new record, Flock (Cuneiform Records)


These two from the 2009 release, A Modest Proposal, also on Cuneiform

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Shuffle A Dream

Favorite track off the newest Little Dragon album:

Saturday, August 6, 2011

S.MAHARBA

Enjoy:


Eric Lau's Latest

Sick mix from Eric Lau over at BTS.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011