In May, YouTube
announced they would be hosting a lineup of original video channels, in a possible attempt to compete with network and cable television. Among the new offerings was
WIGS, the (
NSFW) brainchild of director/producer/writers Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia, of original, scripted dramatic series and short films exploring female characters.
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posted by zarq
on Jun 27, 2012 -
14 comments
Fifty years after British colonialism, ten years after military rule, Nigerians are free. Not economically free, not yet, and we see the effect of that lack of economic freedom in the kinds of crimes that are committed. But they are free in important ways. You can live where you want, associate with whom you want. You can sue people in court, gather to practice your religion, under the leadership of whichever holy man or charlatan you prefer, and you can marry and divorce as you please. This is a major thing. This is modernity, and to tell these stories, to give the protagonists of these losses even that little bit of attention, is to honor the fact that they are there, that their life goes on.
On his
twitter feed, novelist Teju Cole has been taking the French literary tradition of
faits divers and adapting it to
"bring news of a Nigerian modernity."
posted by villanelles at dawn
on Aug 12, 2011 -
11 comments
Got My Mojo Working was written by the little-known
Preston Foster and
first recorded in 1956 by the only slightly better-known
Ann Cole. It was, of course,
the Muddy Waters version that became the hit and a signature song for him: he sang it throughout his
entire career, and it has become one of the best-known blues standards of all time. The song itself just has a lot of mojo, you know, so naturally plenty of others have covered it through the years: a small sampling from the YouTubes would include
Carl Perkins,
Willie Dixon,
Elvis Presley,
Clarence Gatemouth Brown,
JJ Cale,
Pinetop Perkins and
Louis Jordan. Hell, even
Bobby Darin couldn't resist the mojo!.
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posted by flapjax at midnite
on Jan 6, 2008 -
19 comments
