TIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.” [source, comments]

TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country. [source, comments]

Song of the Day💃🏼 🖌: https://open.spotify.com/track/1l44u7mxOCqvZzQPJtmxJ1

💿 Platten, die die Welt bedeuten: Laurie Anderson-Amelia feat. Anohni

Die große Klangkünstlerin und Avantgardistin Laurie Anderson wagt sich auf ihrem neuen Album an Texte der Flugpionierin Amelia Earhart und wird dabei von Anohni unterstützt.

Schon immer entsteht bei Projekten, die Laurie Anderson eine Menge Magie. Auf ihrer neuen Platte "Amelia" setzt sie sich mit Texten aus dem Tagebuch von Amelia Earhart auseinander. Jener Flugpionierin, die in der ersten Hälfte des 20.Jahrhunderts als Pilotin Aufsehen und Sichtbarkeit erlangte, bevor sie tragisch abstürzte. Laurie Anderson macht aus dem Leben von Earhart mittels Klangcollagen, cineastische Arrangements, Spoken Word, Tagebuchlyrik und Ambients ein direkt begreifbares, sehr kurzweiliges Hörstück, das auf verschiedenen Ebenen funktioniert.
Magie entsteht uch wenn Anohni auf einer handvoll Songs ihre so eindrucksvolle wie einzigartige Stimme erhebt und das Ganze dann endgültig zu einem generations- und stilübergreifenden Rundflug macht.

"Time to change the world" painting in Naples, Italy, depicting Lenin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis and George Floyd. 2020
https://redd.it/1fk1bku
@r_propagandaposters

Ein weiterer Entscheid der bürgerlichen Ratsmehrheit in dieser Session, der komplett dem Volkswillen widerspricht. Der Kampf gegen die Ärmsten geht mit paranoider Panikmache weiter. Wer sollte die Schweiz denn angreifen? Putin bestimmt nicht, da er hier seine Devisen bunkert und eine Drehscheibe für seine Rohstoffe mit unzähligen skrupellosen Händlern vorfindet.
Dazu die SP: «Der heutige Entscheid ist eine Katastrophe für die soziale Schweiz. Mitte-Rechts rüstet massiv auf – und das auf Kosten der Ärmsten.»
Die SP Schweiz lehne diese «verantwortungslose Aufrüstung» klar ab.
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/nationalrat/517257406-so-werden-die-hoeheren-armeeausgaben-kompensiert

Wird sich die Hochwasserkatastrophe auf die österreichischen Wahlen auswirken? Die renommierte Politologin Natascha Strobl über den Kulturkampf der extremen Rechten in ihrem Land – und in Europa. https://www.woz.ch/!8XV26WT93Y19

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On 19 September 1952, musician, producer and former Black Panther, Nile Rodgers was born in New York.As a teenager, Rodgers joined the Harlem group of the Black Panther Party (BPP), after moving to the left during the turbulent events of the 1960s. Rodgers told Huck Magazine: “I started out as a peacenik hippy, and from that, I got more and more politicised, more and more radical. Finally, one day the national guard beats you up, and you say, ‘Wait a minute, I didn’t do anything.’”Rodgers rapidly became a section leader of the BPP due to his martial arts skills. He later recounted to the Guardian newspaper:“The day I became a Panther, I had to stand security for Sister Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s widow. Very first day!”Rodgers also explained what being part of the organisation meant in practical terms: “being a Panther was making breakfast, fixing people’s houses, washing the streets. That’s what we really did.”The same drive which motivated Rodgers’ activism, influenced his musical career:“When I grew up, it felt like the beginning of the women’s movement, the gay movement, the civil rights movement ramping up. I’ll never forget when I walked into a disco for the first time… and saw gay people, Latin people, Asian people, Black people and white people all dancing and having a blast. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Wow, this is more political than anything I’d ever been involved in, more than anything I’d ever seen.’ The whole concept on any movement I’d been in was to bring people over to your side. I walked into a disco and saw all these disparate people getting along, within about an hour, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.”At the time, like many young people, Rodgers was very optimistic: “I thought America would become this beautiful utopian place. Of course, it never happened.” Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

Swiss Song of the Day 🇨🇭🤗: NNAVY was the support act at the Montreux Jazz Festival for Lionel Richie in 2023. And that has to be enough as an explanation why she stands out in the Swiss music scene. https://youtu.be/bejwhsMJ1lI

TIL: Contactless payments such as phones, cards, etc have numerous studies that shows users spend more. This is due to the removal of the "psychological pain" of spending. Users will spend twice as much. Coincidentally, the rise of frictionless payment correlates with rising consumer debt worldwide. [source, comments]