links for 2009-03-13

Ridiculously awesome: "Everytime I saw Peter Saville's Cover for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasure the idea of making it real time as a Audiovisualiser popped into my mind." And so he did!

I didn't know I wanted this to happen until it did: "Later this month, DOOM will drop his long-awaited comeback album BORN LIKE THIS. Yorke's worked his magic on 'Gazzillion Ear', one of the songs from the album, and people who buy BORN LIKE THIS on iTunes will get the song as an iTunes-only bonus track." Audio snippet included.

Most self indulgent link of the week: if you weren't also a disaffected fifteen year old in the first few years of the 90s, Nomeansno probably holds no sway for you. If you were, finding this near-DVD quality footage of the Live N Cuddly session just might make your month. See particularly: that first Two Lips/Rags & Bones. I am getting old.

Dose One outtakes: I'm always happy to see that free-flow ratatat-tat of razor cut syllables doesn't just fire out perfectly every time.

A worldwide top 10 from /Rupture, in scattered Vimeo/YouTube form. This is why I love him.

"IN PRAISE OF TXTING ABBRVTNS

You look at a letter written by a 17th or 18th century letter writer, and you'll see far more abbreviation."

Man, it looks kinda FRESH.

Wait, no, wait, what? "By now, you have probably heard that a new version of The Electric Company has premiered on PBS Kids. " I _hadn't_. The original was one of the most formative things that's ever come into my life. And look, there's all kinda good people doing cartoons for it.