12/06/2005 02:46:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|I imagine that many of our other readers have noticed that it has all been downhill for Greenday since welcome to paradise, but how is it that their most overtly political album ever seems less relevant than ever? Even NOFX -- not necessarily the most political punk band out there (understatement) -- beat them to the punch with their latest album War on Errorism. But that's enough ranting about west-coast pop-punk for one day... What is more important is the news from RHD ally Mark Dilley (witness his miracles here), who sent me a link this afternoon to THIS post, concerning a recent audio-video mashup of Greenday's American Idiot, which was immediately squashed by the abominable Warner Brothers. But fans of recombinance (and freedom of information) have not missed the pattern: connecting this recent crushing of creativity with Dangermouse's by-now-legendary Grey Album, there is talk in the air of holding a day of civil disobedience, where websters (what the French ingeniously call "internauts") post the mashup for download, in defiance of Warner Brothers. Launch those P2P programs, and see what you can find!|W|P|113389983952250429|W|P|Grey: official color of mashups|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com12/06/2005 03:20:00 PM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|for the uninitiated:

http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html12/06/2005 03:22:00 PM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|also, you might want a robot avoidance comment spam protector thingy.12/02/2005 12:01:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|For a long time now, the Critical Art Ensemble (always an RHD favorite), has been trying to help us make sense of recent bio-medical proceedures - plastic surgery, cloning, genetic engineering, etc. - as artifacts of recombinant culture. Followthis link to read their book Flesh Machine online... The point here is that the recombinant condition reaches far beyond cultural production (the things we eat, read, listen to, watch, etc.). Even we ourselves, as bodies, as organisms, can be recombined. Case in point: in the last week, surgeons in Lyon, France succeeded in giving a woman a face transplant. A remarkable story of recombinance. After a family dispute, this woman took some sleeping pills to put her out and forget her troubles. While she slept she was mauled by a labrador retriever, who seriously remixed her face. After some basic reconstructive surgery, she found that she had trouble eating and talking, so doctor's envisioned a new solution: they would take parts of the lips, nose, and chin from another hospitalized woman who close to death, and graft them on. Apparently, the surgery went well, and this woman is now living with parts of another woman's face. For more, see the New York Times: Merci, Monsieur le Docteur!|W|P|113354790927685839|W|P|faceplant|W|P|pizzapelsa@gmail.com