Del.icio.us links for July 5th through July 15th:
- How to Prepare for Studio Recording with a Click-Track – Expect the click-track to annoy you. Expect to have difficulties executing certain fills, song sections, or transitions that you previously assumed were “in time.” Allow yourself time to adjust to the sound and feel of playing with a metronome, and if necessary to rewrite the parts you are playing. Whether your studio date is coming up in one week or in several months, you will benefit from designating a practice schedule and sticking to it. No matter what schedule you agree to, however, you need to allow time to set tempos, practice at the documented tempos, and slowly adjust the tempos upward until you reach the final “pocket.”
Tags: music recording practice precision technique songwriting - “Not Rape Epidemic”: The Modeling Industry Is Anything But Immune – “I was struck, reading the piece — which is both moving and important — by a strange feeling of recognition. Peterson defines a new term, “not rape” — the kind of sex and sexual attention young women get from men which is, if not outright unconsenting, some measure of coerced. Not rape is every kind of uncomfortable experience you’re made to feel complicit in: for choosing to go to the party, for wanting the kisses but not knowing how to say ‘No’ to what came next, for ending up alone with someone you thought you could trust — or, in Peterson’s case, for opening the screen door a few inches to a friend-of-a-friend one summer afternoon while her parents were out. The essay made me think of all the times I’ve not been raped. And all the other women in my industry who’ve not been raped.”
Tags: rape sexualassault gender modelling fashionindustry - Laurie Penny, “Youth Politics and Revolution” – Not every generation gets the politics it deserves. When baby boomer journalists and politicians talk about engaging with youth politics, what they generally mean is engaging with a caucus of energetic, compliant under-25s who are willing to give their time for free to causes led by grown ups.
Tags: youth rebellion activism politics uk britain unemployment generationaldisparity - Rebel Frequencies: There is Power In a Boycott – “It’s not infrequent in our highly depoliticized society for an outspoken artist to be attacked for daring to take a stand. As long as profit comes before integrity, then “shut up and sing” will be the rule of the day in the music industry; musicians will be in the position of defending their views and actions. There’s a difference, however, when the denunciation comes from an ally.” Alexander Billet on criticisms of the Arizona Sound Strike boycott.
Tags: boycott politics activism usa arizona music - Trailer for Beijing Punk released – The first official trailer has been posted for Beijing Punk, a new documentary by filmmaker Shaun Jefford. Jefford toured China and met a number of fiercely (and legally) underground Chinese punk and hardcore acts including Misandao, Demerit, Hedgehog, The Gar, PK14, Candy Monster and Joyside.. As the trailer notes, the entire movement is forbidden by the communist government which has banned rock from television and most live performances since the 1990s.
Tags: trailer video documentary punk china - few points about, translations & interpretations of, & arguments with a standard exemplar of the stenchful & emetic. – Mieville poking holes in some common rhetoric employed to undercut radical writers and activists; here, a Guardian review of Chomsky.
Tags: writing criticism reviews radicalism noamchomsky chinamieville - Study: U.S. Pets’ Healthcare Better Than Rwandan Humans’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – PHILADELPHIA–A University of Pennsylvania study released Monday found that U.S. pets enjoy superior healthcare to that of Rwandan humans.
Tags: satire healthcare wealth medicine usa rwanda - The 6 Most Gigantic Everything in the History of War – In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “War makes people act like dicks.” We don’t want to glorify war or otherwise portray it as something other than terrible. Yet, war makes people think big, and sometimes you have to sit back and be amazed by what humans can accomplish when they really, really want to kill each other.
Tags: war history interesting - Twilight Makes for the Best Fanwank Ever – Apparently even “R-Patz” can’t stand the awful phenomenon that is Twilight.
Tags: funny fanwank criticism - Twilight | Cracked.com – Some poor bastards read the series so we don’t have to.
Tags: funny fanwank - LRB · Jenny Turner · Who Are They? – “I’ve been watching these people off and on for years now, since I was a student in the 1980s and they called themselves the Revolutionary Communist Party. I find them fascinating, peculiar, entertaining, a real-life soap: who are these people, what on earth do they think they’re up to?” Lengthy article about the Revolutionary Communist Party, Spiked online, the “Living Marxist network”, and the annual Battle of Ideas conference.
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Tags: online free software web2.0 photoshop editing design graphics - Abused, humiliated and abandoned. What really happens when the UK deports failed asylum-seekers – “[F]lights are being used by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) with increasing frequency to return failed asylum-seekers. They are shrouded in secrecy, but an investigation by The Independent has put together details of the process, including the companies and airlines involved, the conditions on board, the techniques permitted, and the contracts of those paid to escort deportees. Though the records of activists, charities, befrienders, and the testimony of deportees themselves, it is possible to build up a picture of chartered and scheduled removal from Britain.”
Tags: immigration asylumseekers britain deportation humanrights abuse - Bastards Of Young – A stream of their debut album… at last!
Tags: band music - Le pré où je suis mort (download EP for free!) on MySpace Music – Wicked French emo/screamo band. Recently toured the UK with La Dispute.
Tags: band music hotdamn! - ‘Hollywood Accounting’ Losing In The Courts – If you follow the entertainment business at all, you’re probably well aware of “Hollywood accounting,” whereby very, very, very few entertainment products are technically “profitable,” even as they earn studios millions of dollars. A couple months ago, the Planet Money folks did a great episode explaining how this works in very simple terms. The really, really, really simplified version is that Hollywood sets up a separate corporation for each movie with the intent that this corporation will take on losses. The studio then charges the “film corporation” a huge fee (which creates a large part of the “expense” that leads to the loss). The end result is that the studio still rakes in the cash, but for accounting purposes the film is a money “loser” — which matters quite a bit for anyone who is supposed to get a cut of any profits.
Tags: accounting economics profit hollywood filmmaking - RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales – “We recently had a fun post about Hollywood accounting, about how the movie industry makes sure even big hit movies “lose money” on paper. So how about the recording industry? Well, they’re pretty famous for doing something quite similar. Reader Jay pointed out in the comments an article from The Root that goes through who gets paid what for music sales, and the basic answer is not the musician. That report suggests that for every $1,000 sold, the average musician gets $23.40.” Good article, rounds up and quotes some other famous ones too.
Tags: musicindustry riaa economics marketing music accounting - 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site – On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity even then.)
Tags: archaeology history usa new york - Tory shock therapy for the NHS is an attack on democracy – “Coming alongside cuts, these [neoliberal] reforms mean that the NHS as a service free at the point of delivery, providing quality all-round care for all, is under serious attack. This is being promulgated alongside Michael Gove’s attempt to roll back a public, comprehensive, democratically accountable education system. This isn’t happening because of the deficit, it isn’t happening because people want it, least of all is it happening because of the result of the 2010 general election – please let us be spared that insult. It’s an attack on the welfare state, it’s an attack on the working class, and it’s an attack on democracy.”
Tags: NHS healthcare britain coalition tories classwar neoliberalism - Bill Hicks – a romantic out of time – “Kurt Cobain once called grunge the last wave of rock. Around the same time Bill Hicks became the first rock and roll comedian.”
Tags: comedy standup iconoclasts culture politics - All Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online – Thanks to the Film Annex, you can now watch the complete collection of Tarkovsky films online – for free. Each film is listed in our Free Movie collection, but here you can access each major film in the order in which they were made.
Tags: film andreitarkovsky free video stream - Britain Rolls Out Own Unmanned Killer Jet – “Tired of not having their own manless killer plane, Britain just rolled out the $216 million Taranis, a flying deathbot drone named after the Celtic god of thunder. Or misspelled dinosaur (Taranisaurus Rex).” Oh good, we need unmanned drones more than 2.5 million jobs.
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