Mobtown Shank

RadioShank: Los Margaritos

LOS MARGARITOS
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[mp3] Rock de las Cavernas
[mp3] Superbestias

From the EP, Rocknrolandia.

If you like it, download the whole record [.zip] courtesy of Nene Records.

How Eliminationism Works

The Elminationism Forumla

1. Appeal to the most fearful, intellectually challenged portion of a listening audience

2. Demonize, dehumanize, objectify the hate-talkers targets.

3. The hate talker can then more easily characterize his target as a traitor, a criminal, and an opponent to everything that is righteous and decent.

Since 9/11, the right wing hate talkers have stepped up their vitriolic attacks against anyone who doesn't agree with them or doesn't look like them. Through their demonization of liberals, Muslims, Hispanics, and gays, they've opened the door to a new era of intolerance and hate in this country. And with that hate has come an increasing number of politically-based murders - murders which are becoming so frequent this year, that we haven't gone a solid month without some right wing nutjob pulling out a gun and killing people who didn't agree with their beliefs. Mike Papantonio discusses the mental breakdown in this week's Pap Attack. 

RadioShank: Mama Burger

MAMA BURGER
myspace

[mp3] Tarta Pop

From the record self-titled EP, Pastillas y Licor.

If you like it, download the whole record [.zip] courtesy of Nene Records.

RadioShank: Selma Oxor

SELMA OXOR
myspace

[mp3] Memo El Gremlin

From the record self-titled record, SELMA OXOR.

If you like it, download the whole record [.zip] courtesy of Nene Records.

How The Rich Destroy The Planet

According to Shoibal Chakravarty, a researcher at the Princeton Environmental Institute - the world's biggest polluters are also the world's richest people.

“Most of the world’s emissions come disproportionately from the wealthy citizens of the world, irrespective of their nationality. We estimate that in 2008, half of the world’s emissions came from just 700 million people.”

About half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from less than a billion of the world's inhabitants.

Much of this comes in the form of air travel, automobile usage and cooling/heating big houses.

Source.

Overheard: Hindi Bride

overheard by Benn Ray

SETTING: Atomic Books.
PLAYERS: 2 female twentysomethings.

TWENTYSOMETHING: He's gonna have a lot of difficulty finding a traditional Hindi wife who's into drinking cobra blood.

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Shank Weekly Events Calendar 7.6-7.13

Monday, July 6-----------------------------------------------
SONIC YOUTH
930 Club. Washington, DC.
815 W. V St. NW.

Tuesday, July 7-----------------------------------------------
SONIC YOUTH
930 Club. Washington, DC.
815 W. V St. NW.

CONOR OBERST & THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND
8PM. The Ottobar. Remington, Baltimore.
2549 N. Howard St.

Wednesday, July 8-----------------------------------------------
THE NEW FLESH, LOCRIAN, NOCNISTA
The Talking Head. Downtown, Baltimore.
407 E. Saratoga St.

Thursday, July 9-----------------------------------------------
HUMILIATED
A Night of Confessional Comedy
8PM. Metro Gallery. Station North, Baltimore.
1700 N. Charles St.

Friday, July 10-----------------------------------------------
WHARTSCAPE
Baltimore. Info tba.

Saturday, July 11-----------------------------------------------
WHARTSCAPE
Baltimore. Info tba.

Sunday, July 12-----------------------------------------------
WHARTSCAPE
Baltimore. Info tba.

Colin Powell Seems To Think He Has Credibility Again

The man who warned us about Iraq's WMD (which, funny thing, turns out they didn't have any) is now warning the Obama Administration against growing government too big after serving in the Bush Administration - one of the most expansionist administrations in American history.

He said:
"I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I've talked to some of his people about this — is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. And we can't pay for it all.

"And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don't pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it."

Odd how he wasn't parroting this conservative talking point when the Bush Administration which he was a part of blew up these debts. Of course back the most of our money was going to the military, military contractors, defense contractors and assorted mercenary corporations. Now that Obama wants to invest money into our own infrastructure instead of that in another country, Powell suddenly seems to take  issue?

Source.

RadioShank: Mockinpott's Down EP

MOCKINPOTT
myspace
lastfm

[mp3] Bodró
[mp3] Vitiligo

From 2008's DOWN! EP.

If you like it, download the whole record courtesy of Nene Records.

GodWatch: The Office's Rainn Wilson - Religious Kook?

You tell me.

Here's what Rainn has to say about this "Soulpancake" endeavor.

Hi. I’m Rainn Wilson. I’m an actor. I helped create this here Web site, SoulPancake.

What is SoulPancake? Well, it’s more of a mission than a Web site...

We want to make discussions about Spirituality, Creativity, and Philosophy cool again. Were they ever cool? I have no idea. But it seems like a good idea. We want to engage the user to “Chew on Life’s Big Questions”™.... Where do you go on the Interwebs if you want an irreverent, fun, and profound take on God and Art and the Soul and Faith and Beauty? Fox.com? Maybe. But maybe also here at SoulPancake.com.
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Just remember: Life is a rich, weird, difficult experience. So join us as we go on the spiritual and artistic journey that is SoulPancake.

Rainn