Nostalgia struck, and I’ve been inspired to put up the rest of my old rough tracks, all about five years old, and mostly of the super girly variety. Maybe this will be the kick in the pants to start making music again. I know it’s not the proper thing to introduce them with all the [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Happiness is, happiness is, happiness is…well, sometimes it is a warm gun. Sometimes a warm cup of milk. But most of the time, for Meera, it was the Regal Cinema. By the time she was fifteen, her mother let Meera take the bus the twelve blocks down sunny, suburban Merton Street to the dilapidated movie [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Thank you. Thank you so much. No really, thank you. Yes, it’s great to be here again! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I won the Living Monument to Flesh finals by the largest margin ever seen in the history of the 146 years this event has been held. Thank you! Thank [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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What exactly is clean coal? The term refers to coal produced by new technologies for capturing and sequestering coal by-products that reduces the harmful impacts of coal on the environment. Does clean coal exist? No. The emerging technologies referred to have not moved from concept to reality, despite billions of dollars of investment since 2001 [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This whole tea party thing looks highly dangerous. Even though estimates of how many turned out for the tea party protests are relatively modest, it’s still a significant number, and the whole event could spiral into a much larger movement through media mishandling.
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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From Minal Hajratwala, author of the recently released and well-received Leaving India: “I noticed the other day that my Amazon sales ranking had disappeared. Now I know why: all books labeled as having “gay and lesbian” content have been stripped of rankings and searchability. The main entry for my book no longer shows up under [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Thanks to Charlotte and Joumana for posting these links. Read a remarkable piece of investigative journalism by Ben Goldacre about vitamin pill (snake oil) salesman Matthew Rath and how he’s been responsible for the death of millions of Africans, yet no one has made any real attempt to stop him. One of the themes that [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Interested in media studies and society? A fan of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now? Come to the 9th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference at The New School! As part of the organizing committee, I helped evaluate the papers selected for presentation, and I can tell you Saturday promises to offer an engaging and [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I occasionally stumble across Meghan McCain‘s commentaries, mostly found on The Daily Beast, and am always confused by what I read. The daughter of John MCain is likeable, smart, and reasonable. She hates Ann Coulter. She’s also trying to revamp the Republican party’s image with younger people and give the old guard tips on how [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Witness the fruits of my slightly tedious labor! The following is an excerpt from Man with a Movie Camera, an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. Our teacher gave us four minutes to score, which I did with samples courtesy of the free sound project, archive.org and disparition.net. Favorite part? Matching [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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