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12:27 am Wed
Oct 26, 2016
Pussy Riot's video for "Straight Outta Vagina" frames the poppy, danceable song with visuals calculated to enrage the Kremlin, with LA's Ace Hotel standing in for church where various genderbent dancers receive communion while singing the praises of vaginas. Given that the last iteration of this theme landed the musicians in a hard labor gulag where they were subjected to routine sexual assaults, it's a pretty big fuck you to the Russian establishment. (via Bruce Sterling)
Ironically, Ramsey Lewis’ ‘Dancing in the Street’ has been the song most at play during the few short trips I’ve had to make around Venice and Santa Monica. Very little dancing on the streets of Los Angeles.
Whitney Houston’s 1987 megahit “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” is even better sans synths and drum machine.
There are few songs that can lay me out quicker than Tears for Fears’ 1982 hit, “Mad World.” Like many, I will forever associate it with the cult classic film, Donnie Darko, and Michael Andrews and Gary Jules’ achingly sad cover for that soundtrack. In this video, recorded at home, Tears for Fears’ Curt Smith […]
There are plenty of productive ways to spend time while stuck indoors. While it’s undoubtedly fun to binge all 15 seasons of Supernatural or sink days of playtime into an Overwatch campaign, learning something new is definitely a more meaningful and long-term beneficial use of open hours. And if you’re going to invest time in […]
Yoga studios are closed nationwide. The irony is that between the anxieties of the outside world and those popping up inside your very own home with everyone trapped indoors, there’s probably never been a time where yoga’s calming zen was more vital and needed. Rather than just throwing in the yoga mat and subjecting family […]
The workers aren’t inside their physical business space anymore. So why should business technology still be under that roof either? In fact, more and more businesses have been making this migration for a while now, moving all their digital infrastructure to the world’s two largest cloud services platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure. […]
