Video: Mission of Burma, "This Is Not a Photograph"

hypem : postpunk : Mission of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph (live, 1980) I saw Mission of Burma last night, and it was fucking awesome. Kinda neat that five of the songs they did—"Academy Fight Song", "Max Ernst", "Devotion", "Photograph", "Revolver"—can be found on the 2008 reissue of their debut EP Signals, Calls and Marches . They also did "Trem Two" ; that was a real face-melter live. (video via drumwolfmail )

Apros pos. For certain, MerrySwankster.com is a decidedly music-oriented website, yet we are not without our sporting allegiances. In fact, this is perhaps the one forum where Mets and Phillies fans interact with one another without spilling beer and mustard on themselves. Perhaps most surprisingly, Jeff Klingman is the most diehard Portland Trailblazers fan you'll ever meet. For that matter, he's maybe the only Blazers fan you'll ever meet. Most of this stems from the Rip City days of his youth, just as my Boston Celtics fandom was cultivated during my formative youth. [...]