Amen- the world's most important drum loop

An 18 minute video that tracks the birth and life of the Amen break.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&mode=related&search=

This boy insurgent just needs a big hug.

I remember being stupefied when I first read about the Htoos. They are long past newsworthy but this blog is not a hot of the press affair. This is the kind of story line that Hollywood would turn down as a script for being way to preposterous.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54/170.html

The Super

Two great audio segments on supers from This American Life- 1/11/07.

Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or their buildings have on them.

I'm no kingpin

Kid Cannabis
One of the articles that inspired Cale to create this blog- story of a small town drug dealer with big aspirations. Written by Mark Binelli

Power of Nightmares

Power of Nightmares- Great BBC documentary about the simultaneous rise of militant islam and neoconservatism.

BBC program: TETRIS

Goes back behind the iron curtain to where it all began and takes you all the way from its viral floppy to floppy spread across the soviet block and then through a nintendo atari battle to the death before it arrived with every gameboy.

click here