The Hamburglers are, unsurprisingly, an anonymous collective of plunderphonic kids who rearranged McSamples from a fast food restaurant’s 70’s motivational campaign into funny electronic collagey music ( Free downloadable album ). Now they’re also part of the soundtrack for www.mcvideogame.com … Continue reading
by j p, February 22, 2006 1 Comment
Is it just me, or did anyone else notice the casino that won the online auction to buy a permanent tattoo of their web address on a woman’s forehead ( $10,000), is exactly the same online casino that also won … Continue reading
by j p, February 22, 2006 0 comments
Noticed via Fat Planet there’s a funny rumour worming around about the KLF supposedly ‘inventing’ the modern music phenomena of Pete Doherty*. Pete “Kate Moss’s drug-buddy” Doherty is of course the lead singer of Brit-music-press hyped ‘The Libertines’, an ideal … Continue reading
by j p, February 21, 2006 1 Comment
File under aye-couldn’t-have-scripted-it-carumba: via the impressively moustacchioed Aleks of Aleks & the Ramps, with whom I recently enjoyed Herzog’s ‘The White Diamond’ ( a tale of an obsessive character trying to build a jungle airship), this news of Herzog being … Continue reading
by j p, February 6, 2006 6 Comments
Death renders all the world’s technology meaningless. So it goes. Pioneering electronic visual artist Nam June Paik passed away from natural causes on January 29th in his Miami home. That the web now overflows with tributes to the mischievous 74 … Continue reading
by j p, February 1, 2006 4 Comments