Best Music 2011: Part 5

The Weeknd - House of Balloons


Blitz the Ambassador - Native Sun


CunninLynguists - Oneirology


Random Axe - Random Axe


Sepalcure - Sepalcure


Mika Vainio - Life (...It Eats You Up)


Thundercat - The Golden Age of the Apocalypse


Beans - End It All


Shabazz Palaces - Black Up


Boris - New Album


Kendrick Lamar - Section.80


HÅKON KORNSTAD - Symphonies in My Head


Kind Midas Sound - Without You


M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming


Zomby - Dedication


Black Keys - El Camino

Best Music 2011: Part 4

Kuedo - Severant


Mike Patton - The Solitude of Prime Numbers


alva noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs


Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told


Tom Waits - Bad As Me


Tinariwen - Tassili


Roots Manuva - 4everevolution


Amon Tobin - ISAM


Wolves In Throne Room - Celestial Lineage


Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Comittee Part 2


Ambrose Akinmusire - When The Heart Emerges Glistening


ÆTHENOR - En Form for Blå


Blink 182 - Neighborhoods

Bicycle Diary 2

UpSyndrome Book Launch

Good Evening ladies and gents,

As of literally a few moments ago we have given the all clear on the proof copy of the new book written by Jeremiah Ambrose entitled UpSyndrome. We here at MRHP don't ask a lot and yet continue to spit out frivolous garbage for all of you tiresome clickers out there. Now finally we have something that you will not only enjoy, but in the process aid an aspiring author in his journey towards becoming a strung out junky.

In support of Jeremiah we would greatly appreciate it if you gave his short story collection a chance and head over to:

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This is the first of a series of books that MRHP intend on releasing in our bid to launch a publishing arm of the website.

Below is a preview of the book for those of you who are unable to just say FUCK IT and click the above link.

Enjoy and as always, stay sexy... Owlwink.

Best Music 2011: Part 3

Nils Frahm - Felt

Wolfgang Voigt - Kafkatrax

Fennesz - Seven Stars

The Necks - Mindset

Vladislav Delay - Vantaa

Africa Hi-Tech - Hitecherous

Tim Hecker - Ravendeath

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2-Judges

Jenny Hval - Viscera

Prurient- The Bermuda Drain

Clams Casino - All I Need

Emika - Emika

Hype Williams - One Nation

The Field - Looping State of Mind

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

Best Music 2011: Part 2

The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing


Bright Eyes - The People's Key


Jonsi - We Bought the Zoo


Fireworks - Gospel


Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer


Fleet Foxes - Helplessness


St.Vincent - Strange Mercy


Simple Plan - Get Your Heart On


Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest


The Antlers - Burst Apart


Go Radio - Lucky Street


Tv On The Radio - Nine Types of Light


Luke Roberts - Big Bells and Dime Songs


Panda Bear - Tomboy


Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Bicycle Diary 1

Best Music 2011: Part 1

Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou



Gil Scott Heron and Jamie XX -We're New Here


Junior Boys - It's All True


Bjork - Biophilia


Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts


Wilco - The Whole Love


MY Morning Jacket - Circuital


Feist - Metals


Icebird - Abandoned Lullaby


Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town



Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes


Atlas Sound - Parallax


Pj Harvey - Let England Shake

I Am An Ugly Person

Jake Gyllenhaal Hangs Out With Bear Grylls

Pakistan Artist Hasnat Mehmood's New Exhibiton

Three days ago Hasnat's exhibition opened at Rohtas Gallery Islamabad, Pakistan. He draws the viewer to speculate on the corporate world we live in now, the exhibition is called 'Buy one get one' a playful rendering of 'buy one get one free' embedded into the fabric of consumer culture. Tags inspired Hasnat, who said " Ever so often, I’ve seen tags for western brands, inscribed with ‘Made in Pakistan’ or ‘Made in Sri Lanka’ or boasting of some other developing country”.

Hasnat also creates replicas from the art canon such as Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. He explained their purpose: “on one level, the images are simply replicas of famous art pieces. But the inscriptions send out important messages” . These inscriptions that he adds to the paintings tell a story exempt from the viewer while usually viewing such highly valued art, in doing so he exposes the oppressive colonial influence and poses questions about current relations in neo-colonialism. The exhibition will continue until the 31st of December and can be visited at 11am to 7 pm, everyday except Sundays.

Happy Christmas Bitches - From Lapland

Alan Partridge Ladyboys - Should get you in the festive mood

The Man Who Slipped On The Ice: A year on, what happened?

Fat Kids Joy At Early Xmas Present

Another Awful Christmas Song

Kim Jong II Naked Having A Beer

Merry Christmas

MyRedHotPhilosophy Publishing coming to a New Year near you soon...

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The Latest Deterioration of the Amazon Rainforest

The government officials in Brazil are planning to build a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. It would be the third largest of its kind and wreck havoc on the Amazon, which already suffers from such treachery as deforestation. The Amazon has the most diverse ecosystem in the world-it needs to be protected at all costs, but quite the opposite has happened in the past and continues to happen. Climate changes along with deforestation at unprecedented levels are causing record droughts that threaten its very existence.

An indigenous people by the name of Kayapo who reside in regions where the dam will influence, are the mostly likely to directly suffer as the river is central to their lifestyles. During the 1990s when the Brazilian government last attempted to build a dam here, the World Bank balked at dispensing the loan due to protests on behalf of the Kayapo people by such names as Sting (played in the popular British pop band The Police). This time around less noise is touted about such preservation, and it looks likely that the dam will proceed to be built. I suppose we should all be use to this human treachery and lack of empathy as our history books are saturated in such behavior. Those who want to know more about the plight of the Amazon can check out http://www.rainforestfund.org/ founded by Sting and his wife.

25 Famous People Before They Were Famous

Top Ten Countdown: The ten worst Christmas songs

Everyday until Christmas Eve we are going to try and add an appalling (the reason for selection, might be content, it might be that the singer is awful, who knows) Christmas song. We are going to start off with John Denver's - Please Daddy (Don't get drunk this Christmas)

Norwegian Electroshock Football

Finch Brothers Survive Horrific Car Crash

Two brothers from Enniskerry, Country Wicklow on a road trip of a lifetime to Kerry, were stopped in their heels as their car toppled over from an icy patch on the bend of a small road. Cathal, the older of two brothers, had just started driving, when the atrocity struck. He spoke after the crash saying to our very own editor the Owl "I was going slow enough so I was pretty lucky in all - not sure about the car though." Somehow all he sustained were scratches, while his brother on Facebook a few hours after the tragedy posted "More importantly he got blood on my jacket !!!" He had not lost his humour,it is rumoured this will not stop them from getting to Kerry life or death.

Here is a piece Cathal wrote for us about his experience in the crash:

Without thinking, I started to climb from my car, then sat quietly behind the steering wheel. Niall turned and glanced at the bonnet of my car, clearly not recognizing the vehicle had nearly massacred us. As he raised his head he saw me through the empty windshield, sitting behind the deformed steering wheel among the dried bloodstains of his jacket. His strong eyes barely changed their focus, but one hand rose involuntarily to his cheek. He took in the damage to my car, his attention moving from the impacted radiator grille to the high-rising steering wheel in my hands. He moved away from the overturned car. What struck me again was his unusual leg-stance, the inner surface of his thighs, set in a broad pelvis, turned outwards as if exposed to the line of crashed vehicles- pity, eroticism, even a strange jealousy of his innocence. He came back as I waited on the oil-stained asphalt in front of my car. He pointed to the damaged vehicles. ‘After this sort of thing, how do people manage to look at a car, let alone drive one?’
When I made no reply he said flady, ‘Bummer man’

So You Want To Be An Arctic Geoengineer...

With global warming escalated past all estimations (which were massively faulted in the first place) and squabbling between scientists and scientists, scientists and politicians, politicians and politicians, along with general human stupidity as James Lovelock said, "I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change...The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful." Nevertheless there will come calls for help, desperate plans drawn up more out of wish-fullness rather than practical coercion, and one of these will come in the form of geoengineering proposals.The words 'geoengineering' and 'global warming' mentioned in the same sentence is enough in certain quarters of the science community to let out a loud sneering guffaw with a dab of malaise. Leon would say to Larry David "LD what the fuck is that, some white ass shit?" Well according to www.answers.com it means:'(science and technology) Artificial modification of earth systems to counteract anthropogenic effects, such as increasing carbon dioxide uptake by fertilizing ocean surface waters or screening out sunlight with orbiting mirrors.' Okay so in English geoengineering is the means to change climates and any physical elements such as soils or river paths on Earth through studying and engineering them.

The absurdity of trying to control Mother Earth's body will not deter decisions made out of panic, to send up as many geoengineers they can pick into an airplane suitcase. The chances of geoengineers succeeding with our current resources, political divisions and expertise is zero. They should have been taking such actions years ago, but now at least there will be plenty of holidays for those who want to be Arctic Geoengineers, you can enjoy a hefty paycheck and a view of some animals who will soon be wiped from the face of earth, as your work will have no affect whatever so on saving the world from global warming, you can do fun experiments and just have a laugh. Or you could pull a David Attenborough on it and make your own BBC Show while your drinking your iced Martini. So want to be an Arctic Geoengineer? Of course you do.

Naked Man Fleeing High Speed Chase Caught By Police Dog

World's Oldest Matress Discovered

The picture above is of the bedding leaves encased in a plaster jacket. This mattress made of reeds and rushes estimated to be about 77,000 years old was discovered by a team of archaeologists at Sibudu Caves in South Africa. These caves were the spot where a 64 000-year-old stone arrow tipswas were uncovered not so long ago. Whats-more they found a medicinal plant that contains attributes of insect-killing chemicals, gathered from the tree Cryptocarya woodii. This must have been used as to protect the sleeping from mosquitoes and other dangerous creepy crawlies. The whole family would have slept on the well made bed, which were large enough to accommodate such a sleeping arrangement.

World's Most Expensive Paint: Royal Purple!

Tyrian purple is thought to be discovered around 1600 B.C., bizarre or wonderful depending on what kind of person you are it curiously is created from the mucus of marine mollusks, particularly the Murex seasnail. The sunlight purplefies the colour of this dye. For 1.5 grams of pure dye 12,000 shellfish are needed. This discovery among the Phoenicians sparked the beginning of the dye chemical industry. Its expensive and therefore it was only allowed to circulate among the affluent member of the community which prompted its symbolic connection with royalty, and thus its other name Royal purple. Below is a dancer at the Trinidad Carnival in 2010, with this purple on her exotic attire!

Here is the mythological story of its origin:

One day while Hercules was strolling along the shores of Phoenicia with a nymph he loved, named Tyrus, his dog, who was running beside them, came upon a Murex trunculus, with head protruding from its trumpet-like shell. The dog quickly devoured the shellfish and came away with a mouth stained brilliant purple. Enraptured by the tint, Tyrus claimed a robe of that same striking shade as the price Hercules would have to pay for her hand.

Hercules, being Hercules, was able to gather from the Mediterranean waters enough mollusks to fulfill the wish of his ladylove. Thus goes the legend of the origin of Tyrian purple. (This quote is from an article entitled: Tyrian Purple, appeared on pages 20-21 of the August/September 1960 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.)

What Is The World's Most Expensive Painting?

So what is the world's most expensive painting? No.5 1948 by Jackson Pollock, sold in 2006 for 140 million dollars. You will find two photographs of No.5 1948 below-I prefer to show it in a gallery space, to allow the viewer to appreciate its spatial personality. It is worth noting that another Jackson Pollock painting Blue Poles if sold would sell for at least 180 million dollars. Another challenger would be no doubt the Mona Lisa, in 1962 it was estimated to be worth by insurance companies 100 million dollars, taking into account inflation that would make it worth 743 million dollars today. Think of all the ipods Leonardo da Vinci could buy if he was alive today! Although I think it really would be worth billions if we take into account its cultural status that it has now achieved in our society making it priceless. In the movie 2012 starring John Cusack, the Mona Lisa is the only painting saved from the planet which is about to end in apocalypse. I couldn't help thinking throughout the film would it really matter if the Mona Lisa was destroyed with the rest of earth? Shouldn't they focus on saving human lives!?

MythBusters Fire Canon Ball Through House and Car in Dublin

Sexist Advertisement: Is It Always Illegal To Kill A Women?

Rowan Atkinson And Steven Wright Oscar Winning Short Comedy Film

Sexy Deathgraph

Creepy Japanese Toy

Coupon: The Movie