Linkdump in No Order

As my own personal(ized) contribution to Google's data-mining efforts, here's a seemingly random collection of shit I've clicked on and into recently. I'm sure it provides an extraordinarily detailed, albeit incomplete, window into my consumption preferences, likely career and educational paths, political affinities and reproductive behavior.

First up, in the context of Gov. Rick Perry's secession "threat", here's a fairly accurate glimpse of what an independent Texas would probably look like. There's a problem of scale though, since the writers seem to forget that everything's bigger in TX. That makes it a lot easier to think that, in the end, the little guy teaming up with the bull will get rid of that grey, psychological mess that is the bureaucrat:



More on Mohamed Rouicha next post, but for those of you with some time on your hands, YouTuber mohamedkarimy ups what appears to be an entire live show of his. Gorgeous Amazigh folk/pop in appropriately hypnotic and lavish settings. I'm especially digging the production value and camera work:



En espanol, un documental de Javier Bauluz sobre la frontera sur de la Europa Fortaleza. Se centra en las pateras, por tanto es bastante facil que se interprete como una mirada un poco sensacionalista del tema de la inmigracion. Sin embargo, aunque en terminos cuantitativos las llegadas al Estado Espanol por patera no representan gran parte del total de las llegadas a Espana, no deja de ser una realidad brutal e infrahumana en terminos cualitativos. La primera escena, en el momento que los migrantes llegan a casa de un espanol, es quizas la cosa mas fuerte que he visto en mi vida. Si te provoca sensaciones desagradables, mas sera por las imagenes que estas viendo que por cualquier exageracion de Bauluz:



Top ten plays from the first week of the NBA Playoffs. I can't fucking stand the Lakers, but Ariza's finish on the break is just sick:



Speaking of illness, I have no idea what this is (via illuminarcy):



And finally, the Narcicyst's video for P.H.A.T.W.A. is extremely good: