China fights back on Tibet

There’s a nice little war on Youtube regarding the current situation in Tibet. Here’s one of the main flashpoints, created by a Chinese-Australian:

I dare you to read through the mindboggling 141,770 comments (and counting)!

Fucking Champs - Flawless Victory

Here’s another live video–
the Fucking Champs — Flawless victory (12/31/05) live at the Bottom of the Hill! (from the album: The Fucking Champs - III )

For good measure, here’s Voivod playing Inner Combustion and Nothingface…

Jose Antonio Escobar–Awesome Chilean Classical Guitar Music

Wow, it’s like super melodic and complicated Chilean classical guitar…great stuff. Like Andres Segovia meets King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, and Bach.
Jose Antonio Escobar: Chilean Classical Guitar Music Podcast
Very beautiful and skillful stuff
Here’s his website

Here’s a more restrained piece:

Sesame Street Grindcore

There are some pretty sweet Sesame Street/Muppets death metal mashups floating around. Enjoy!

Drive Like Jehu–Hand Over Fist, Don Caballero–Slice Where You Live Like Pie, Germbox–Frankie Mayorga live videos!

Here are some more videos I posted on YouTube: 90s post-punk prog-rock goodness! Also see the Fucking Champs/C4AM95 video I posted above–Flawless Victory!
You should get Germbox’s Fraction of Exaggeration CD if you don’t have it–it’s amazing, sort of like Voivod’s Nothingface meets the Bastro and the Jesus Lizard and Drive Like Jehu.
Drive Like Jehu - [...]

Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs and Mercury

CFLs…they save energy but can release the neurotoxin mercury if broken…unintended consequences???

The Bats, the Bees, and Apocalypse

Uh-oh…
the bees are dying off, and now bats are dying off too.
NY Times:
Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why
Lots of random theories abound–pesticides, cell phone and wireless internet signals confusing bees and bats, global warming, etc…
No bees and no bats…partial ecosystem collapse??? Who will pollinate the food, and who will keep away insect pests?
Bees [...]

High Speed Dubbin–Prog Metal from Santa Rosa, CA

Here it is, I found this flier of the band High Speed Dubbin. Here’s the text:
“Averaging 21 years old in age, this Santa Rosa quintet’s hyper metal alternative rock are sonic assaults heavily influenced by the splendor of the cannabis revolution.
Their influences vary and cover bands like King Crimson, Rush, Bad Brains, Tool, and [...]

The Iraq War and Human Dignity

Ex-chief weapons inspector slams Iraq war as ‘tragedy’
” Writing in The Guardian [...]

Meshuggah - Obzen, Combustion and Voivod

Obzen–the soundtrack to floating abandoned in space (”Forgotten in Space” , or the soundtrack to the construction of the Death Star. Like Voivod’s Nothingface on steroids. Seemingly impossibly, it’s like the best parts of Voivod, Fucking Champs, Tool, King Crimson, Godflesh, etc. Possibly the most sci-fi thing I’ve ever [...]