2007 April | buzz twang

weekend stuff to read and watch…

April 29, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

If you didn’t watch “Buying the War” on Bill Moyer’s Journal, you should. And, you can. Ain’t the internet neat? David Sirota writes about the show and the circle the wagons reaction in DC. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

catching up on the news…

April 29, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

David Hallberstam died this past week. NPR has a nice retrospective up, and Glenn Greenwald was kind enough to post a bunch of links to Hallberstam’s essays, with commentary. Required reading. - On the adversarial relationship between journalists and political officials- patriotism and courage - on 9/11 - on journalists and Vietnam Rush is getting [...]

Laura Bush says President "suffers"

April 26, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

There is a very powerful reality at the heart of the reason the US has lost the war in Iraq, and why the media and the Bush Administration has always had its head up its collective ass in dealing with the Iraqi people and the war in general. The following exchange between Ann Curry and [...]

wingnut logic: sticks and stones….

April 26, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Via Atrios… Michelle Malkin reduced to name calling. Which is pretty much all she’s truly good at when you really stop to think about it. The bully tactics are amazingly pathetic. But, when you combine it with the shitty graphics and the sophmoric attempt at some type of humor, it’s hysterically funny. The sad thing [...]

traitor, traitor, traitor!

April 25, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Douchebag of the Week: Tom Delay, who trouts out the treason accusation yet again like the good little fascist that he is, oblivious to the actual meaning of the word and its application in American legal and Constitutional terms. But, of course, it’s important to remember that fascists such as DeLay aren’t interested in truth. [...]

D.O.A – World War 3

April 25, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

From back in the day… Some songs just don’t lose their meaning, even after nearly thirty years. This is one of them. There’s a profound lesson in that fact. WW III, WW III, WW III, don’t you bloody see? WW IIIIt doesn’t matter what you say, you won’t make it no bleedin wayYou haven’t got [...]

John Moran and Saori

April 23, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

A performance piece by John and Saori at 3rd Ward Brooklyn in conjunction with PICA’s TBA Festival, from 2006 I believe. The video gives a different feel than being there live of course, but you get the idea… buzz-twang : news and views : blog

something from lifehouse…

April 22, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Orignially, “Baba O’Riley” was from a project called “Lifehouse”. Songs from the project have been scattered throughout several Who albums over the years. Townshend would often write songs with something specific in mind, then when the Who would record them, something entirely new and different would manifest. Here’s a slower version of Baba from 2000 [...]

Portrait of Saori

April 21, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

What I see in NYC. Saori, star of The Gnldberg Variations (Portrait of Saori) directed by John Moran. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

On the job

April 20, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

What I see in NYC. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Kurt Vonnegut On Being Hated

April 16, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

And so it goes… In 1986, I read a little tiny letter to the editor in the New York Times Op-Ed section. I thought so strongly about it that I cut it out, and it has remained in my copy of Breakfast of Champions since them. It seemed unerringly important to me at the time. [...]

The Goldberg Variations

April 14, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been producing a trailer for a feature film entitled “The Goldberg Variations (Portrait of Saori)”. It’s being directed by John Moran. The trailer will be used to complete the fund raising process for the full film. It’s a pretty amazing project. A dramatic, tragic love story set to original [...]