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The original and the cover epidemics in the age of youtube.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Most of the songs are either great, good or bad. But some other songs simply are. Sometimes they also happen to have quite banal videoclips, that for some dark and unknown reasons wake up a kind of collective sick will of replicating it, endlessly. Mistake yourself not, this post is not about the song, it [...]

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TEN REASONS TO HATE DHL

Saturday, March 3, 2012

I could think of at least one more, but here are nine good reasons to hate DHL.

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Nazi Decoration

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

A new online database documents the vision for nazi Germany as accumulated for “Die Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellungen” 1937-1944 in Munich. Making the images and files publicly accessible opens up opportunities for researchers to explore the eclectic imagery of  “the new era” as postulated by Goebbels and his fellow loons.
www.gdk-research.de (in Germanic tongue only, obviously)

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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Madness

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A very, very old video clip indeed; yet I had to check it out again after seeing this recent b-sides clip (check 05:30 and, of course, 07:43 mins), also starting out with that MADNESS.

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RANDOM REASONS FOR REJECTION

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Don’t we know them all, those polite letters saying no? Thank you for… Unfortunately… We will get in touch if… We wish you all the best… But with a letter like this, how could you possibly feel offended?
(Thanks, Andrew)

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