WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: The Crime Lounge
The Crime Lounge is an archive that compiles “secret agent sounds” from the spy heyday of the nineteen sixties. So far, seventeen different and elaborate comps of spy music can be found there — James Bond, Lalo Schifrin’s scores from the Dirty Harry films…you know…the good stuff.
(Via blog.wfmu.org )McSweeneysBooks: “Jokes for People With Body-Image Problems Tied to Low Self-Esteem”
By Dan Kennedy — Q: What has two arms, two legs, and a weight more or less proportional to its height? A: Absolutely fucking nothing.
(Via Twitter)Outing Sanctimonious Celebs
Caryn James on Barry Levinson’s new documentary about the mingling of politics and Hollywood.
(Via www.thedailybeast.com )Cicodelico’s COLORAMA Vol.12
His latest compilation of street-funk, fuzz&vibes, library-grooves, + psychedelia
(Via cicodelico-obscure-grooves.blogspot.com )May 16: Away We Go by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, Directed by Sam Mendes
Screening / benefit at BAM of a new film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida for 826NYC — which runs the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store and tutoring space on Fifth Avenue.
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