Present Tense
David Gedge and The Wedding Present are coming straight outta L.A. on El Rey:
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Spaced Out
Jason Pierce has a thing for fire. So together we poured gasoline on Spiritualized:
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Meowwww!!
From slicing up cat dicks to signing up Fonzi, Big Tobacco has pulled some weird science:
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Dream pop standouts Beach House are catching heat. But can they catch fire live?
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Stipe On Speed
R.E.M.'s thrash attack has gone into hyperdrive on the brilliant Accelerate. Stipe tells us the targets:
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Slugs 4 Obama!
Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons... is all about the hope. And so is Obama:
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I Say God Damn!
What's left unspoken in the Obama flap is this: Has God blessed America recently?
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Assy McGee is one hell of a cop from hell. So where are his arms? Our interview explains:
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Miss Fortune
China's Olympic intrigue has reached critical mass. Who says politics and sports don't mix?
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Nirvana's Son Kurt Cobain: About a Son is out on DVD. Its peek into bipolar stardom is still hard to watch:
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Betrayed?
Boxing legend Joe Louis gave body and soul to God and country. Did they repay the favor?
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Taxi!
Those in need of war films are scoping the wrong Oscar bait. Try the Dark Side:
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Pro Choice
Clinton or Obama? Good question. Now, all you have to do is answer it, and wisely:
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In Cold Blood
Rick Geary creates comics that paraphrase history without passion. Our interview explains:
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RIP, Prof
Kashmere pioneer Conrad Johnson has passed. But his upstart funk still lives on:
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Past Proust
Adapting one of canon lit's most knotted yarns into a comic just might work. Wait, it did:
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Disowned!
The housing collapse is a failure of white-collar proportions. Klein saw it coming:
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Trash It!
Is your home worth less than your mortgage? Then walk away, baby. Just walk away:
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Dystopia Drift
Unembedded journo Dahr Jamail has seen Beyond the Green Zone. And it's looking ugly:
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Best of 2007
El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead was the most brutally honest music of the year:
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Fed Up
Bernanke's rate cuts won't stop the bleeding. It will just cover up the tracks. Thanks, Greenspan!
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Beat This!
Ike Turner has passed on. But Morphizm's last interface with the funk maestro never will:
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Hyperrealist
Karl Rove now says Congress rushed Bush into war with Saddam. Revise your textbooks!
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Shop or Die
The Kubler-Ross Model works for death, but it also works for the mall. Even around the Bratz:
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The Fixer
Gordon Brown is a go-to guy if you're a lobbyist. Or a fan of Rupert Murdoch:
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Guns, Green?
The market has spoken, says Naomi Klein. And it wants bullets rather than renweables:
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Pak Attack!
Musharraf may be Bush's nightmare, but he started out as Clinton's daydream:
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TomorrowSci!
From pain rays and flying cars to innovations to save our sorry hides from climate change, tomorrow science is here today:
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Not a Moralist
The Serbian photographer Boogie has seen his fair share of the global underworld. Good thing he took pictures:
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Party's Over
Serj Tankian's debut solo effort Elect the Dead says civilization is over. So why is he smiling? Our interview explains:
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The Perv
Pakistan dictator Pervez Musharraf has declared martial law and suspended the constitution. Who's surprised?
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God is Bond
Barry Bonds isn't the only sports superstar who points to the Man Upstairs when he scores. Piety has gone viral:
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Hypermarket
From plunging dollars to skyrocketing oil, the hyperreal American economy is due for a real-time ass-kicking:
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Pin is Back It's been a long time since the stunning Summer in Abaddon. Good thing Autumn of the Seraphs is on the way:
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Ignore Nothing
Indie-hop titan El-P's newest epic I'll Sleep When You're Dead is filled with biohazardous truth. So is he:
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Sicko 'Em! Whatever. Michael Moore's new movie on the corrupt American healthcare system is good for you:
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Water For War
If you think the clusterfuck for oil is scary, just wait until we're more worried about H2O than CO2:
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Altered States Don't know much about global warming? Keep it that way. Trust us, you don't wanna know more than that:
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Pelican Echoes If you think wordless metal can bring noise but not brains, we talked to a band that wants to talk to you:
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Steampunker Rasputina has finally embraced the War on Terror in Oh Perilous World. What took so long? We asked:
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Osama's Diary It's a stone cold Morphizm classic. And it will still make you cry. Almost as if it was real. Really:
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Slice and Dice Cake blew up with a cover song, but they're even better at blasting "War Pigs." Our interview explains:
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Gaza Lab Israel. Hamas. Fatah. What the? Gaza is looking less like a prison and more like a petri dish every day:
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BagCalgary Fronts in the War on Terror are shifting. Which means Canada's oil sands are up next for a global warming:
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Crow's Nuts The indie Tony Millionaire strip Maakies is at last making the legit jump to Adult Swim. Bottoms up, sailor:
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Vulture Funds You've got to get in on this one. You buy $5 million in Third World debt relief, then sue for $50 million. Suckers buy it every time:
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DIY or Die Art-punk corn dogs The Minutemen were brazen heroes. It's about fucking time someone gave them a biopic:
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Not a Slave 300 director Zack Snyder may be a friend to CGI, but he knows when to leave it alone. Our interview explains:
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Physics of Iraq What goes up must come down and what gets jacked must come back. Ask the British. While you're at it, go ask Icarus:
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A Bit Awkward The Pixies' doc loudQUIETloud captured the band selling out stadiums and ignoring each other. Our interview explains:
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Total Chaos According to our interview with journo and author Jeff Chang, the hip-hop arts movement is far from dead:
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Get Truthy! Stephen Colbert's vivisection of the stoopid Republican machine is an example of linguistics at its ballsiest. Suck on it:
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Cry Wolfie Let's not drink the Kool-Aid. The World Bank was fucked up long before fuckup Paul Wolfowitz took over:
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Object: War Our hyperreal narrative in Iraq is in search of an ending. Will the American people write one before it's too late?
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Good Machines In these liner notes excerpts from his compilation Fuzzy Warbles, XTC architect Andy Partridge's love of tech goes haywire:
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Torture Works Is it just us? Or is the tight-lipped Bush administration's call to torture for information more than ironic? Hey, wait:
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Go Fuck Yourselves President Bush's speech on the war's escalation revealed much. Including how little he cares about...well, everyone:
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"How My Brain Works" From sci-fi to hip-hop, Michel Gondry has a gift for visual invention. And we have a lot of questions for him:
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When PNAC Attacks! Get to know your well-heeled presidential family and other comb-lickers in this excerpt from Fanta's comic Bush Junta:
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I'm the Distorter Sure, the Democrats may have taken over Congress, but the Bush administration hasn't blinked on Iraq. And it never will:
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Trial of Trials Jose Padilla was once a terrorist. Now he's putting U.S. torture policy on trial. Only in America:
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Garrison State Muslims rioting. Americans killing. Too bad no one's made a film called Why We Fight. Wait, Eugene Jarecki has!
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Guilin
"The smell of damp earth that hangs over Guilin will surrender, and join the cosmopolis cropping up along the Li:"
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Game/Theory "In the cinematic fashion of the dying antihero, I expired while reading the stars. Coordinates on a grid of contested terrain":
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Fanta Goes Beastly
A comics powerhouse compiles a massive tome on our collective nightmares. Vampire and Harpy haters beware: MORE
Shit Happens. Real Fast. In our continuing exegesis on exponology, China explodes and Antarctica's demise accelerates:
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Exponology The planet is heating at an exponential rate. But what is the exponent, and who are the people spinning it? Enter Morphizm's formative science, awaiting your learned modification:
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Panther Power
Fuck Hoover's race paranoia. The Black Panthers have survived, from Marvel comics to hip-hop to a loud ass protest near you: MORE
Surfing With Rosa
In honor of the Pixies doc, Morphizm pays homage to their Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim split, an enduring classic:
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Sun Spot: Gravediggaz vs. Shitty Rap
Welcome back to the Sun Spot, Morphizm's Sunday video feed. This time around, we've got one of the most underrated, overachieving hip-hop collectives of all time, the mighty Gravediggaz. The brainchild of Prince Paul (De La Soul, Stetsasonic), RZA (Wu-Tang Clan), Frukwan (Stetsasonic) and Too Poetic (Brothers Grym) was miles ahead of its time with rhymes filled equally with graphic horror and indomitable humor, a War-on-Terror rap gang that anticipated our post-9/11 clusterfuck with skill and ease. Below is a video for "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide" from their 1994 debut classic Six Feet Deep, with a shorty documentary on the band to begin. Raise up like the undead! They don't make them like they used to.
VIDEO: GRAVEDIGGAZ, "NOWHERE TO RUN, NOWHERE TO HIDE"
Welcome back to the Sun Spot, Morphizm's Sunday video feed. This time around, we've got one of the most underrated, overachieving hip-hop collectives of all time, the mighty Gravediggaz. The brainchild of Prince Paul (De La Soul, Stetsasonic), RZA (Wu-Tang Clan), Frukwan (Stetsasonic) and Too Poetic (Brothers Grym) was miles ahead of its time with rhymes filled equally with graphic horror and indomitable humor, a War-on-Terror rap gang that anticipated our post-9/11 clusterfuck with skill and ease. Below is a video for "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide" from their 1994 debut classic Six Feet Deep, with a shorty documentary on the band to begin. Raise up like the undead! They don't make them like they used to.
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