I’ve been listening and rapidly downloading music from The Loose Cannons, an electronica group based in Cannonia, U.K. Headed by DJs Kaiser Saucy and “Lord Fader,” the duo blends irreverent lyrics with thumping bass lines and tight sampled edits. They’ve been compared to Daft Punk, but less sterile, and much more cheeky to use a word found in many reviews.

Their current album “El Fuerte” features bass laden tracks such as “Girls In Hats,” and the funky 70s sounding “Raw.” They’re popularity as soared as of late due to their club hit “Superstar,” which is being played across the UK and on one of my favorite internet stations, the Buenos Aires based beatbox.fm

Their music, photos, and tour dates (mainly in the UK) are at myspace.com/theloosecannonsuk  You can also listen to their Janet Jackson remix of “What Have You Done for me Lately” at urbanamplified.com And should you be visiting the London’s Oxford Street Urban Outfitter This Thursday the 15th you’ll find them playing live at 6pm.

And below - their song “Superstar”

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It’s Sunday, so most likely you’re not at work. For that reason I’ll share this week’s NSFW content! NSFW means Not Safe for Work. Eventually this moniker will take hold without necessitating explanation. But for now it’s just as annoying as Rachael Ray constantly blurting “now add some EVOO: That’s Extra Virgin Olive Oil.” Yup, if you have to explain it every time you should probably just skip the acronym.

Daniel Rhatigan, aka Ultra Sparky, is an accomplished graphic designer and artist, and what drew me to his site was his “Poseable Thumbs” series. As Daniel describes: An exercise in homoerotic imagery that technically isn’t real porn, but very mature themes of a flagrantly, shamelessly homosexual nature. Maybe they’re funny, maybe they’re porn, maybe they’re art, or maybe they’re a little bit of all that. You can figure that out for yourself.

It’s crass, crude, reinforces hedonistic gay stereotypes, and is hilarious. Daniel also has some other artwork and good posts on his blog, and shares my admiration for small prefab houses.

More NSFW you ask? Here’s the latest addition to my iPod: DJ Jose Nunez’s unclean mix of “Bilingual.”

And for those not into tiny gay leather characters and thumping club beats here’s the latest on Christina Kirchner, Argentina’s (almost) new Peronist president.

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I’ve been listening to Dousk, or John Ntouskos, a young Athens DJ trained in classical music.  His music is a blend of house and techno, but with a mellow chill feeling sandwiched between his driving beats.  Perfect for a dreary rainy day like today - at least in my corner of the world.

Listen to more at myspace.com/dousk  His remix of BT’s “Remember” (listen below) can also be downloaded free here.

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If you’ve never heard Alaska Senator Ted Steven’s “Series of Tubes” rant last year head over to YouTube and search it.  Even though Senator Stevens understands the simple concepts, he explains the logic and chain in a completely incorrect manner - and even though he’s probably a nice guy, his manner of speaking is abrasive and belligerent, akin to your old coot neighbor yelling at you to get off his lawn.

“I just the other day got an internet sent my by staff, but it got tangled up with all the commercial internet things.”

Now The consumerist posted this recent CSPAN audio clip of Ted Stevens inquiring about whether or not his land line can share a phone number for home, internet, and VOIP.  I have no idea who is answering his demanding questions, but I admire his patience.  Especially when Senator Stevens says he wants to ride his motorcycle while using wireless.

“Why shouldn’t I be able to say ah by just a little switch on my phone at home as wire I’m goin’ off the wireless I wanna use this as I ride my motorcycle.”

I hope he’s paying his grandson well to keep his Hewlett Packard in tip-top shape.  Take a listen:  

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I have no idea why this is amusing but it made me laugh:

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