Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

.. is just around the corner.

Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games

Eets Summathyme

Peaking Lights - Lucifer

Blues Control - Valley Tangents

Confessions of an Ohioan Bond-Eater

Bill Gross, in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:

Q: So the so-called austerity approach — tightening government budgets through spending cuts and tax increases — isn’t enough for you. A country can’t keep cutting spending and hope that prosperity eventually shows up?

A: No, that doesn’t work. Eliminating a budget deficit won’t produce growth. It really requires a delicate combination of growth and budget discipline over the longer term. Policymakers have it tough. 

 

2012: Timewave zero, Kalki Bhagavan and PIIGS

Game over, man; game over.

PK has finally weighed in and committed (to the serious consequences of the AusteriansAusterions).

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Nearly three of every four Spaniards of working age have jobs!



What an accomplishment ...

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Update: Paul has also found himself in the latest This Modern World.

Tropical Weather

Mpala Garoo - Ou du Monde

Just in time for what appears to be tropical weather arriving here in PORE (bringing with it the estranged Sun) comes a fabulous pressing of a righteous (previously only a Sweat Lodge tape) album.

Via OMG Vinyl

Existential question of the day

Have there existed authentic examples of socialism in my generation (Y)?

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Unsurprisingly, Hollande takes the cake and distributes it equitably.

La gauche fête ou l'anglais

I've middling coding skills ...

Henry Farrell, via Paul Krugman

I’ve no idea what Hollande is going to be like (except that he’s certainly going to be disappointing). But I do know that this is one of the most exquisitely refined examples of globollocks that I’ve ever seen. It’s as beautifully resistant to the intellect as an Andropov era Pravda editorial. A few more years of this and the Economist won’t have to have any human editing at all. Even today, I imagine that someone with middling coding skills could patch together a passable Economist-editorial generator with a few days work. Mix in names of countries and people scraped from the political stories sections of Google News, with frequent exhortations for “Reform,” “toughminded reform,” “market-led reform,” “painful reform,” “change,” “serious change,” “rupture,” and 12-15 sentences worth of automagically generated word-salad content, and you’d be there.