Via Lenin’s Tomb.

Now try Naomi Klein…

As we have all discovered, after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on 20 April, the company had no systems in place to effectively respond to this scenario. Explaining why it did not have even the ultimately unsuccessful containment dome waiting to be activated on shore, a BP spokesman, Steve Rinehart, said: “I don’t think anybody foresaw the circumstance that we’re faced with now.” Apparently, it “seemed inconceivable” that the blowout preventer would ever fail – so why prepare?

This refusal to contemplate failure clearly came straight from the top. A year ago, Hayward told a group of graduate students at Stanford University that he has a plaque on his desk that reads: “If you knew you could not fail, what would you try?” Far from being a benign inspirational slogan, this was actually an accurate description of how BP and its competitors behaved in the real world.

I happened across this while doing a little research. I’m trying to get to the root of what separates the labels New Wave and Post Punk. Obviously they’re useless as a means to segregate music, but I think the way the labels are used and by who is significant.

In this interview, it’s hard to get past Iggy Pop’s intentional, passionate naivety, but I think the point he’s trying to express is strong, if cloudy and overtly confrontational. Which could also be said of the new popular music of that (and possibly this) era. More on this later.

He’s in his birthday suit. He’s in his birthday suit. He’s in his birthday suit. He’s in his birthday suit.

Amazing—though you have to wait until about the 1:35 mark for it to get good, but once it does, it’s totally worth it. Via Anthony Paul Smith’s Twitter.

I’m amazed by how imagistic directors like Cronenberg and Lynch develop a very strong sense of cinematography and tone in their early short films and then don’t bother to bring in plot until later. It seems like movie conventions are afterthoughts to their ideas rather than the other way around.

Via @caketrainpress.

Via tv blog.

If you happen to be interesting, hop up on stage for Talk Show:

In review:

• People watched too many stupid videos on youtube.
• This allowed the forces of evil to destroy our economy.
• When we tried to stop them using our google cannons, we got LOST IN LINKS and it got worse and everything turned into suck.
• If you use Bing, you can completely ignore this reality and enter a new one, one where people sit in front of giant white boards and wear knee braces and children are kinda cute and Hey Look, a muscle car!

Also, there’s the obvious Hitler analogy.