Portugal | The Man - I Feel It Still

Setting fire to a newspaper called Infowars?

There are no coincidences.

Space Dude, In Your Space Suit, In Your Space Boots, Space Dude

Is Miley Cyrus the new David Bowie? 

Probably not, but Space Boots is an indication that someone's creativity resonates with authenticity and art on this track, and that took me by surprise.

I realise contemporary celebrity music requires a phalanx of songwriters, posses of producers, session musicians, mixers, voice artists, plug junkies, electrical engineers, processed audio cheese slices, studio rats, money worshippers, Sleb sycophants, groupie thinkers, OCD fame mania, explicit soul selling and relentless veneration of drugs and sexual promiscuity aimed at our impressionable young, who are least able to discern dystopian social engineering from pop culture.

However I claim Space Boots is not only punctuated with moments of brilliance but to my simple ear has the quirkiness and counter-intuitive solutions that emerge when a real artist takes control and externalizes their interpretation through song. I hope that artist is Miley Cyrus as not much else is wholesome in the globe trotting music biz.

Emile de Antonio - Reality Is Radical

Art is many things but one thing that is definitely art is doing something deliberately for the first time. In this respect Emile de Antonio is one of United States greatest artists of all time. There are so few from the privileged classes who had the courage to report on what the power elite were doing. Even fewer reported on their peers.

Me Ol' China

By way of Hemmy and more explanation over at my Beijing Strategy post.