Archive for May, 2015

Playlist: iPod shuffle, 5/11/15

May 11, 2015

“When Your Mind’s Made Up,” Once OCR
“Another Thought (Lucky Cloud),” Arthur Russell
“Copenhagen (Let Me Go),” Vienna Teng
“Running Out,” Scissor Sisters
“Blind Man,” T-Bone Burnett
“Pumpin Blood,” NONONO
“Cosmogony,” Bjork
“Blue Skies Again,” Jessica Lea Mayfield
“Misery,” Maroon 5
“Not Mine,” Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Conspiracy
“Dreaming My Dreams,” Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
“Les Nuits d’ete – Au cimetiere,” Regine Crespin
“Casualty of You,” Of Montreal
“Tall Tales,” Matt Alber
“Not Too Bad,” Fun Home OCR
“Danado de Bom,” Luiz Gonzaga
“Poor in Love,” Destroyer
“Kaskaden,” Casiokids
“Break Me Out,” the Rescues
“Golden Light,” Twin Shadow
“All You Need Is Me,” Morrissey
“Los Angeles Times,” Gord Downie, the Sadies, and the Consquering Sun
“Chains of Love,” Ryan Adams

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“No Cure,” Megan Hilty
“Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” Euan Morton (Taboo OCR)
[nb: might be heretical to say but this version beats the original]
“This Place,” Joni Mitchell
“Boyfriend,” Best Coast

Quote of the day: BIRTH CONTROL

May 4, 2015

BIRTH CONTROL

Since strong anti-birth control laws in Massachusetts and in many other states made it impossible for [G. D. Searle and Company, who first produced a contraceptive pill] to conduct the large study of humans required by the FDA, it turned to Puerto Rico, which already had a long history of governmental birth control programs. The pseudocolonial island of Puerto Rico became the most important clinical site for testing the Pill outside the national disciplinary institutions of the asylum and the prison and functioned as a parallel, life-sized biopolitical pharmacological laboratory and factory during the late 1950s and early 1960s. During the cold War period, Puerto Rico would become the United States’ biggest pharmacological backyard. The island was the invisible factory behind the Playboy mansion and the white liberated middle-class American housewife.

–Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie

puerto rico map