Del.icio.us links for January 26th through January 27th:
- Napping: the expert’s guide | Life and style | The Guardian – “A slew of recent studies have shown that naps boost alertness, creativity, mood, and productivity in the later hours of the day.” Yes! I will master this… napping.
- Richard Seymour: Barack Obama the imperialist | Comment is free | The Guardian – “Change? In foreign policy, hardly. The new president is in the classic liberal interventionist mould.” Richard Seymour discusses Obama in the context of “liberal imperialism” at Comment is Free.
- MySpace Transmissions – Exclusive Live Online Acoustic Music Band Video Clips – Currently featuring a 4-track acoustic session by Alkaline Trio.
- Vice Magazine: BERLIN – THE BLACK LIPS IN ESCAPE TO BANGALORE – “As you may have read, the Black Lips recently ran into a bit of trouble in a certain subcontinent. For those of you rapt in fantasies of stolen passports and tawdry Indian prison sex, we just talked to the guys at their safehouse in Germany. Turns out the whole thing was a little less Midnight Run than a curry-flavored installment of Chunklet’s Assholes Across America.”
- Unknown Pleasures 2009: Tension | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – “Once again Tension is a first-person game about the struggle against death, though it pulls the rug out from under you in the first couple of minutes of play. See, you’re already dead. What Tension tasks you with is exploring and understanding the dark, sprawling underworld you find yourself in, communicating with the mad inhabitants, learning (and then manipulating) the strange new laws of nature down there, all of it with the aim of clawing your way back towards the light.” New title from the Russian developers of Pathologic. Sounds very exciting.
- Punknews.org | Bomb the Music Industry: Episode 2 – “Bomb the Music Industry! are continuing their first tour of the UK this week and are back for their second episode of Dispatches. Tonight, read up on Bomb’s Jeff Rosenstock as he recounts the tour’s first show and an interesting celebrity encounter.” Brighton show was the first one, it was aaaawesome!
- Huggy Bear on MySpace Music – Fan page with some songs by the legendary independent DIY indie/punk/riot grrl outfit.
- Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? – Telegraph – “Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world’s funniest passenger complaint letter.”
- Krallice on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures Music Videos – Black metal band – only one 12-minute tune up but it’s a corker.
- Emmy the Great on MySpace Music – I like music.
RPS’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ series is rocking my world. And I’m not even that much of a gamer. :)
Those chaps really do know their stuff.