Perverted By Language

Piper got the blog back and the Brighton girl from Arkansas has her own now. Still mesmerised, as am I, by the lesser films of Bill Murray:

Perverted By Language: "Ghostbusters 2 is chock full of the past itself coming back to haunt the present. A train that crashed around the turn of the last century comes hurtling through a forgotten underground track. The Titanic finally docks at a city port, allowing its long-dead passengers to file into the city (and as Jeffery Sconce reminds us, the Titanic disaster occurred around the same time as supernatural-seeming devices like radios and telegraphs, were coming to the fore, and inspired a spate of tales of dead victims communicating from the dead through these 'new media'). The Statue of Liberty comes to life and walks from Ellis Island across the water to the promised land of Manhattan. "
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The Pirate Party

Check this out :

The Pirate Party "Because kidnapping and killing people on the high seas is exactly the same as sharing music with your friends!"

http://www.freeculture.org/pirates/

Music video contest!

For the Pirate Party, we want to show pirate-themed music videos while we dance. Thus, we are also holding a Pirate Video Remix Contest! The top three video remixes will each receive a snazzy FreeCulture.org t-shirt--a fine vestment for any pirate.

Rules:

The remixes/mash-ups should feature at least 10 seconds of recognizeable pirates (the traditional ARRR MATEY sea-going pirates). The entire video doesn't have to be pirates, but there should be a few clips to remind people that this is in fact a pirate party.
The music needs a beat that people can groove to. Extra points if the music is plunderphonics or otherwise exercises your fair use rights, but the primary requirement is that the music be danceable.
The music video should be placed somewhere online where we can download it, in a format that VLC can play. MP4 or MOV will work fine. Archive.org is an excellent place to host your video.
The deadline is April 21st, because the party itself is April 22nd and we need time to download the videos.


ta, bri
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Everyday Life of Revolutionary Movements

Alpa writes:
Dear All,
If anyone is interested being involved in a panel on 'The Everyday Life of Revolutionary Movements' at the forthcoming September meeting of theEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists, please see further details at: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/easa06_panels.php?PanelID=49

The idea is to explore the contradictions between ideology and livedexperience of revolutionary movements in different parts of the world.Abstracts should be submitted through the above web-site and the deadlineis 1 May.Please don't hesitate to get in touch for further information.And do pass on to anyone else who you think might be interested.

Best, Alpa
--Dr Alpa Shah,
Department of Anthropology,
Goldsmiths College, University of London
London, SE14 6NW
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Congratulations Nicola

Hooray for Nicola Frost who now has got her PhD - I do not have a pic of her handy, but i can direct you to her first book HERE. The book is a "country profile" for Indonesia published by the folks at Oxfam. Her PhD will come out in due course as a book too I am sure - its great.