Dub dot dash

“He’s crushing his testicles in tight trousers for world peace.”
John Lydon on Bono's attempts to change the world.

Need a laugh? Try this quote for size..
"There are too many Maori in jail and they can't all be criminals."
Hone Harawira on Donna Awatere Huata's conviction. Hang on, I heard that everyone in jail can't be criminals, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. "It was that other guy, not me".

Via Tofu hut... "This collection of '70's NYC club photos has already made its way all over the web; but I remain amazed at the dionysian revelry of the City's glory days. Ah, for a pre-AIDS party scene with a Moroder soundscape thumping in the background... them were golden times, I imagine."

Saw this via Hans (cheers)...
The New Republic editor Michael Crowley on the difficulty of being a "rock snob" in the P2P-and-iPod era. (Via The Morning News)

"Snobbery subsists on exclusivity. And the ownership of a huge and eclectic music collection has become ordinary. Thanks to the iPod, and digital music generally, anyone can milk various friends, acquaintances, and the Internet to quickly build a glorious 10,000-song collection. Adding insult to injury, this process often comes directly at the Rock Snob's expense."

'That's when the true rock snob goes back to vinyl, Michael,' says Coolfer. True, dat.

This story is getting much heat in the hiphop blogosphere...
"Tha Pumpsta, who happens be white, has built a following in the past few years by staging monthly "Kill Whitie" parties in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for large groups of white hipsters. His proclaimed goal, in between spinning booty-bass, Miami-style frenetically danceable hip-hop records that are low on lyrical depth and high on raunchiness, is to 'kill the whiteness inside.'" Source - Washington Post article.
Responses from Jay smooth, O-Dub and others. These freaks are beyond irony.

Here's a real use for camera cellphones...
"When a pervert exposed himself on a Manhattan subway last week, Thao Nguyen reached for her secret weapon - her camera phone. The quick-thinking 22-year-old snapped a shot of the smirking sicko, took it to cops and then posted it on the internet." Nice one.

Spotted at Coolfer... "At the Guardian, Linton Kwesi Johnson wrote a piece on Jamaican dub poet Matabaruka. "His canvas has now widened to include poems that focus on environmental concerns, hard drugs, junk food and other issues but, as Morris observes, 'the protest element predominates: protest against poverty, inequality, racism, class prejudice, oppression, political deceit and the wickedness of powerful nations'."

ADDED: Recloose interview in the weekend papers, entertaining wee writeup.