Da hat man natürlich ein mulmiges Gefühl. Besser da ma' nicht U-Bahn fahren....

Süddeutsche - Wirt gründet Kirche für Raucher: In vielen Religionen spiele das Verbrennen von Stoffen eine Rolle. "Bei den Katholiken ist es der Weihrauch, bei den Buddhisten sind es Räucherstäbchen, bei uns die Zigaretten", sagte Bruckner.

"Joe Jackson has recently attracted a lot of attention for speaking out against antismoking hysteria and smoking bans. His position is based on neither personal prejudice nor profit, but on several years of research. This essay, the culmination of four years of research, replaces Joe's previous essay 'The Smoking Issue'."

Stytzer has a great collection of MP3s out there!

Recommended: "I Can Has Rezearch Papar?" by Cyle Gage. File under "History of the Internet".

Jens Jessen (Zeit) fragt sich in seinem Videoblog", ob der Rentner, der in der U-Bahn sich das Rauchen verbat, nicht nur das letzte Glied einer Kette «unzähliger Gängelungen und Ermahnungen» sei, die Ausländer in Deutschland zu erleiden haben und in diesem Fall das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte."

Via Altpapier

From the Mid-Iowa News: Ames police officer Chad Lovig had no idea what he stumbled upon Monday afternoon.

Lovig suspected he had arrived on the site of billboard vandalism. The words "find815.com" were scrawled in black letters across a billboard advertisement for Oceanic Airlines.

What Lovig didn't know is the "vandalism" is apparently part of an ongoing alternative reality game for the television show "Lost."

Boy from the Brazil is dead! But The Assassinations will be "RIPPING ROCK'N'ROLL A NEW ASSHOLE"

"in the winter of 2006 Boy from Brazil hooked up with Tico Zamora at Polytrash to produce, write and arrange the upcoming album FUTURE BLASTS FROM THE PAST. luminaries such as Taylor Savy, Fred Bigot (Electronicat), Tim Gaine were invited to contribute on guitars to the project. during the course of these recording sessions it became evident that a band was needed. after many try outs it eventually came to the powerful line up that is to become THE ASSASSINATIONS. what name would be more accurate for a rock'n'roll band in 2007 , in a decade where words like car bombs, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombing, kidnapping are the equivalent of elevator music on the news where cell-phone snuff of executions and beheadings, digicam pictures of torture, scatology and other humiliations usually reserved for aficianado pornographers has become common content in the mainstream media. by the way, there is two asses in the band name..."

STORY OF THE DAY: With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook (The Guardian)

Quotes: "Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past. (...) The real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. (...) The internet is immensely appealing to neocons such as Thiel because it promises a certain sort of freedom in human relations and in business, freedom from pesky national laws, national boundaries and suchlike. (...) Facebook's privacy policy: Just for fun, try substituting the words 'Big Brother' whenever you read the word 'Facebook'."

Via the girl around corner

You have to see this! It loads forever, but it's worth waiting for it.

From the people who brought you "Mystery Science Theatre 3000"

Don't miss this exihibition! It's free on sunday!

"Anlässlich des 150. Geburtstages des Berliner Zeichners, Grafikers und Fotografen Heinrich Zille (geb.1858 in Radeburg, gest. 1929 in Berlin) zeigt die Akademie der Künste in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin die Ausstellung „Kinder der Straße“. Der Titel ist Zilles erster Buchveröffentlichung entliehen, die 1908 erschien. (...) Die Ausstellung bringt erstmals das zeichnerische und grafische mit dem fotografischen Werk in einen Zusammenhang. "

How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

Interesting. "Cloverfield" and this prequel to Romero's zombie movies are both using the same "let's pretend it's real and we film it with a camcorder to get that Blair Witch look" kind of narrative structure.

Here's what me MySpace pal George A. Romero had to say in his blog : "Lemme tell ya about Diary of the Dead. I love it. It’s the first film since my original Night of the Living Dead that I can say is completely my own (...)

Diary is a hundred percent independent, made with my partner, Peter Grunwald, and our new friends at Artfire. I haven't had this much freedom since 1968. The cast, of what film critics will probably call “unknowns” (they won’t be for long) is, in my opinion, fuckin' great."

Here it is, kids: The Diary of the Dead - Trailer

You can also send Mister Romero your horror-shortfilm and it might be included on the dvd for "Diary of the Dead"!

From Simon Iddol

SPON: "Jetzt macht auch Sony BMG mit, der letzte der vier großen Musikkonzerne: Amazon verkauft erstmals sein komplettes Liedangebot ohne Kopierschutz - und wird damit zum ernsthaften Rivalen von Apples iTunes. Das verhasste digitale Rechtemanagement: ein Verkaufshindernis."

SPON: Fass! Britische Bobbys lernen Deutsch - für ihre Schäferhunde

FRIDAY: PESCADORES DE VENTANAS im Kaffee Burger

The most sensational "Candy" around 10.30 or 11 at Another Country

SATURDAY:

SISTER CHAIN & BROTHER JOHN will play at Roman Lipski's studio

Chain: "Roman will be celebrating the opening of his new exhibition at Artnews. If you hadn't heard, Roman is one of the most talked about painters around town and despite that he is surprisingly good .

We are privileged to support him on this occasion with the help of BiFF a Polish ensemble of some repute. They have conquered Tychy, Szczecin, Kolobrzeg, Tarnowskie Gory, and lived to tell the tale.

The evening starts at 20:00. Cultivation guaranteed."

Sister Chain & Brother John + Biff@ Roman Lipski's Studio in Schöneberg

Meanwhile in Weissensee....

SUNDAY:

Fuel at "Trödler"

Have hours of fun with the field guide to Military Urbanism

• With a Little YELP from my Friends

• Octopus's Garden

More Muppet Music on this Blog

More Muppet Music on this Blog

You can't miss this story in Le Monde Diplomatique: "Scheherazade in the White House - How George Bush’s wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq."

Quote: "A scene in which the US army spokesman, General Tommy Franks, addressed journalists cost $200,000 and was produced by a designer who had worked for Disney, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and the television programme Good Morning America. In 2001 the White House had put him in charge of creating background designs for presidential speeches – unsurprising to those aware of the ties between the Pentagon and Hollywood.

More surprising was the Pentagon decision to recruit David Blaine for interior design; he is a magician famous in the US for his TV show and for conjuring tricks such as levitating or being shut in a cage without food."

"Er war plötzlich da, und in Soho begann das große Zittern. Wer seine höllische Musik hörte, geriet in den Bann des Teufels. Der war schon gestorben, aber er hatte seinen Sarg verlassen, um das Grauen zu verbreiten. Ein alter Stadtteil sollte unter seiner Knute zittern, und er fand auch die richtigen Helfer - Skinheads. Sie hatten schon lange nach einem wie ihm gesucht, und sie gaben ihm den Namen Tiger Diabolo, der Hard-Rock-Zombie!"

(Aus der Inhaltsangabe auf Seite 3)

Hitchcockwiki.com: "1000 Frames of Hitchcock" is an attempt to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames.

The aim of the project is to create a library of images which can be used to illustrate blog posts, web articles and reviews, etc.

Some really good stuff: 17 Sensational, Free and Downloadable Graphic Novels

Findelkind aus Weimar kämpft gegen allerhand Monster, die sich hinter der Mauer unauffällig breit gemacht hatten. Obskure Serie im Kielwasser von "John Sinclair", die es zwischen '98 und '99 auf 56 Hefte brachte. Irgendwie schien die Zielgruppe im Osten keinen Gefallen an diesem Unsinnn zu finden.

Einige der besten Titel:

Bd. 03: Der Satansrächer von Greifswald Br. 04: Das Blutbad von Usedom Bd. 08: Das Blutgericht von Jena Bd. 13: Ghul-Alarm in Ostberlin Bd. 20: Die Werwolfs-Brut von Weimar Bd. 38: Inferno über Weimar

Info zu den Autoren bei Gruselromane.de

So much new "Lost"-stuff on the web...

Like Fly Oceanic Air and Find 815

The official "Season 1,2 and 3 in eight minutes" is pretty funny too.

But why is it that here are so many spoilers for Season 4 that I feel like I don't even have too watch the show...? I actually think they're all fake. I hope they're all fake.

Should not have read that writer's email the other day....