As of late, stories of pirates highjacking boats seem to be the rage nowadays. (And Johnny Depp is not even part of the production this time around). But aside from that, did you realize earlier this month that April 5, 2009 marked 15 years since Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain shot himself in the face in Seattle? Or that on April 29, 1992, in a courtroom in California, 12 jurors helped kick start the L.A. riots by acquitting police officers who literally beat the shit out of Rodney King on camera? Join us as we take a trip down memory lane…

One of our very own here at Joint Contrast wrote about Somali pirates back at the start of the new year, but it seems as though it wasn’t until an American was taken hostage that the mainstream media decided to spoon feed the country tales about the dangers the lie ahead for us in the high seas…

For more reading on the subject check out You Are Being Lied To About Pirates by a columnist from the London Independent.

But if you’re not up for reading, then check out this mashup video and song of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Sloop John B” by The Beach Boys…

The following is a sociology class video project that was put together using Sublime’s “April 29, 1992″ and images surrounding the Rodney King upheaval in Los Angeles…

Before you go, check out a couple more video clips that the crew at Joint Contrast recently came across…

This one splices together YouTube images of musicians to make it seem as if they are all playing and jamming out together…

This final one is interesting, to say the least. It’s titled “Did You Know?” and throws out a number of mind-numbing figures for you to contemplate (whether factual or not, you decide).