Entertainment For Lively Minds
Something For The Weekend #208
Posted by The Word on 9 February 2012 - 3:11pm.
SFTW 208: 9 February 2012 ------------------------------------------- * Subscribe to The Word @ http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/buy * Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/WordMagazine * Follow us at twitter @ http://twitter.com/TheWordMagazine/ ------------------------------------------- QUOTE: "All generalisations are false, including this one" ~ Mark Twain ------------------------------------------- GIGS: Tickets are currently available for the following Word In Your Ear live events Eliza Carthy - Monday 27 February Scritti Politti - Tuesday 13 March More details and ticket links at: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/gigs ------------------------------------------- THE LINKS WE LIKE MEAT: here's tremendous gift for one's love partner on Valentine's Day - underpants made out delicious jerky http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Brief-Jerky-Edible-Underwear/ DRUGS: at last! Here's the "classic" movie Koyaanisqatsi sped up by 1552% so that people can actually enjoy it without recourse to chemicals http://vimeo.com/36205162 HUMANITY: if there's any justice in the world, this magnificent model of the Hindenburg disaster rendered in cauliflower will launch a whole new fashion for tragedy/art/vegetable interface http://wordtr.im/vegedisaster COMMIES: some of North Korea's finest accordionists take on A-Ha's "Take On Me", apparently without resorting once to on-the-spot guidance from the Supreme Leader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBgMeunuviE GEEK: internet memes beautifully re-imagined as movie posters. Click posters for further details http://cargocollective.com/mememovieposters CRAZY: "we have a word for it: sund. That means there’s no artistic value” Introducing the extraordinary world of Balkan turbo-folk http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3235/aikins_11_15_11/ EURO: fabulous archive of European television. We could spend hours browsing were we not busy writing this newsletter http://www.euscreen.eu/ iPLAYER CHOICE: Paper Clips - documentary about a history project in which children from a school in Tennessee attempt to collect six million paper clips representing the Jews killed by the Nazis http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h9xk2/Paper_Clips/ NERD: "you and a team of strangers, on a bus travelling at 60 miles per hour, have 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup" http://startupbus.com/ SATAN: crackpot analysis of Madonna's Super Bowl performance from someone keen to expose the "criminally insane Nazi cults that control Hollywood" http://wordtr.im/madonnasatan ------------------------------------------- FROM THE WORD WEBSITE NEW DOWNLOADS: The Word's "Magic" Alex Gold gives a good review to someone heavily influenced by someone given a bad review by Word reader mojoworking. Confusion reigns http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/downloads KNOWLEDGE: fascinating discussion that attempts to answer questions like "what is a split infinitive?" and "why do headphones become so hopelessly entangled when you put them in your pocket for 5 minutes?" http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-dumb-questions-amnesty-thread KLANG: it's a thread entitled "under- lauded fretmeisters". We can't imagine what it might be about http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/under-lauded-fretmeisters ATTENTION!: isn't it about time you subscribed to The Word? Do so, and for this month only you'll also receive a FREE copy of "Stand Upright In A Cool Place", the terrific new album by Dodgy http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/buy ------------------------------------------- ON THE CD MIKE DOUGHTY The former Soul Coughing leader managed to kick his heroin issues with the aid of DIY touring, mind-clearing blogging and intensive, almost obsessive songwriting. He’s now a solo guitar man of uncommon clarity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mwiX0I2sdQ& MORE The complete listing from this month's 'Now Hear This' CD can be found on our website http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/now-hear -------------------------------------------
