Wednesday 30 June 2010

Blogging away...

About bloody time...

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has been landed with a copyright infringement lawsuit with regards the band's song 'Dazed & Confused'.
The origins of the 1969 Led Zepp track have long been debated, because of its links to an earlier song by folk singer Jake Holmes. It is generally accepted, I think, that Page did start with a copy of Holmes track when he started work devising 'Dazed & Confused', initially as a Yardbirds project, and later for Led Zepp.
By the time Page had finished devising the song, and Led Zepp had recorded it, everyone involved seemed to think the guitarist had created a new piece of work in which a new copyright existed, ie a copyright owned by Page not Holmes. The song was registered with US collecting society ASCAP as a new song penned by Page.
Nevertheless, musos have debated whether Led Zepp had, in fact, recorded a new song or, rather, covered Holmes' folk original, for years. The debate has resulted in a particularly active Wikipedia entry for the song, with different contributors taking different viewpoints on the relationship between the Holmes song and the Page song.
Anyway, forty years later Holmes, for some unknown reason, has suddenly decided Page did, in fact, nick his song back in 1968, and in doing so infringed his copyright. And, according to TMZ, he has filed an infringement lawsuit against the Led Zepp guitar man.
The fact Holmes has waited forty years to take legal action shouldn't, in theory, damage his case, though it will mean that if he wins he will only be able to claim some or all of the revenues generated by the Led Zepp song from the last three years.
Page is yet to respond.

Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused

Flying Lotus - Inside the Codex: the Art of Cosmogramma

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 Roy Hodgson has been given a three year deal as Liverpool manager!

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XLR8R Podcast: Moby's Old School Rave Mix

01 Messiah "Temple of Dreams" (Kickin)
02 Mentasm "I Need Release"
03 Altern8 "Frequency" (Network)
04 N-Joi "Mindflux" (RCA)
05 Ragga Twins "Hooligan 69" (Shut Up and Dance)
06 Awesome 3 "Don't Go" (City Beat)
07 Moby "Next is the E" (Instinct)
08 Hyper Go Go "High" (Hooj Choons)
09 Fierce Ruling Diva "You Gotta Believe" (React)
10 Bizarre Inc. "Playing With Knives" (Vinyl Solution)
11 Messiah "Xeroxed"
12 Dream Frequency "Feel So Real" (City Beat)
 

Ken Clarke to attack 'bang 'em up' prison sentencing

Smoking # 72

The sound of speed

RIP Rammellzee


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♪♫ Gorillaz Live in Harlem [Full Concert]


Gorillaz perform the entirety of their album "Demon Days" live in Harlem.

0:34 Intro
1:35 Last Living Souls
4:56 Kids With Guns
8:51 O Green World
[Dirty Harry Missing]
13:39 Feel Good Inc
17:34 El Manana
21:28 Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
26:55 November Has Come
29:46 All Alone
33:41 White Light
36:02 DARE
40:42 Fire Coming Out Of The Monkeys Head
44:27 Don't Get Lost In Heaven
46:32 Demon Days

Encore
52:06 Hong Kong
59:20 Latin Simone

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Bloody hell!!!


Sound familiar Dray?

World Cup 2010: Blame Premier League for England's lack of style, says Osvaldo Ardiles

Lara Logan, You Suck

Amplified: Karen Elson

L.F.C.


WTF is going on?

Malcolm Tucker

"Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off."
"How much fucking shit is there on the menu and what fucking flavour is it?"
"Fuckety bye."
“I’d love to stop and chat to you but I’d rather have Type 2 diabetes.”
“You have laid your first big fat egg of solid fuck.”
“Please could you take this note, ram it up his hairy inbox and pin it to his fucking prostate.”
“I’ll be with you in two shakes of a crying baby.”
"Christ on a bendy bus son, don't be such a fucking faff arse."
"Ambassador, with your big baldy head you are spoiling us. Can I have a word?"
"Allow me to pop a jaunty little bonnet on your purview and ram it up your shitter with a lubricated horse cock."
"Wake up and smell the cock."
"You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out: you are a boring F, star, star, CUNT."
"Don't get sarcastic with me, son. We burned this tight-arsed city to the ground in 1814. And I'm all for doing it again, starting with you, you frat fuck. You get sarcastic with me again and I will stuff so much cotton wool down your fucking throat it'll come out your arse like the wee tail on a Playboy bunny."
"If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt."
“I’ve got a to do list here that’s longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song.”
“Are you producing porno now for the visually impaired?”
“He’s as useless as a marzipan dildo.”
“Believe me, I’d like to slip into something a lot more comfortable. Like a coma.”
“See you, you are a fucking omni-shambles, that’s what you are.”
“Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood.”
“Darling, I wouldn’t piss on you if you were fucking allergic to piss.”
“The intelligence we’ve got is so deep, so fucking hard, it will fucking puncture your kidneys.”
“Fuck the ‘i’s and fuck the ‘t’s”
“You’re so back-bench, you’ve actually fucking fallen off. You’re out by the fucking bins where I put you.”
“If you don’t go get me some cheese, I’ll rip your head off and give you a spinedectomy.”


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♪♫ N.E.R.D. - Hot-n-Fun ft. Nelly Furtado

EPM Podcast # 6 - Robert Hood

For many Robert Hood is justly revered as one of the most important and defining techno artists of our generation and EPM is proud to launch their completely redesigned website alongside one of electronic music’s most visionary composers. Featuring tracks compiled from his M-Plant catalogue past & present , the EPM Podcast series reaches new heights.
 
ROBERT HOOD M-PLANT MIX TRACKLIST
1/ Strativarius (The Puppeteer)
2/ Dark Room
3/ The Pace
4/ Superman
5/ i
6/ Metronome (B side)
7/ Hard To Kill
8/ Teflon
9/ Obey
10/ Stereotype (track 1)
11/ Externus Oblique
12/ The Protein Valve (A side, track 3)
13/ untitled
14/ Untitled 5 (A side, track 2)
15/ Grey Matter
16/ Realm (Monobox)
17/ Population
18/ untitled 1
19/ Alpha
20/ Range
21/ Museum
22/ SH-101
23/ The Greatest Dancer
24/ Omega (End Times)

Hmmmm!

Scientists claim yawning is a sign of sexual attraction

Ecological food provision for the future

A new report from the UK Food Group (a civil society network in the UK on global food and farming issues) points to the need for a radical shift towards more ecological and equitable food provision. This is because the current system is failing to meet the food needs of people, now and in the future.
The briefing shows that the systems that currently feed most people in the world are smaller-scale and locally-sourced. They can be enhanced through practices based on agroecology to meet current and future global demands for food. Research and trade policies and agricultural support measures urgently need to be reoriented in this direction...
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The full report can be downloaded at http://www.ukfg.org.uk/Securing_future_food.pdf

Caravaggio: the original sinner


Judith and Holofernes, 1599 (oil on canvas) by Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571-1610) Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy 
He was named after an angel, yet Caravaggio led a louche existence in the shadows of a society where prostitution, violence and murder ran rife. A revelatory new biography sheds some much-needed light on the artist's dark life 

♪♫ Tashi Dhondup - Torture Without Trace


 

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal By Catholic Church To Keep Vatican From Being Sued

 
The Vatican hit a snag in their attempts to claim sovereign immunity from suit when the Supreme Court of the United States voted to not hear a case seeking to dismiss an Oregon lawsuit aimed at the Vatican itself. The suit from a victim of molestation has taken aim at the Vatican claiming that Reverend Andrew Roman repeatedly molested him in the 1960’s. The case, John V. Doe v. Holy See, was filed in 2002 and claimed that Reverend Roman was an employee of the Vatican. The plaintiff, known only as John V. Doe, maintains that the Vatican conspired with the Archdiocese of Portland to shield Reverend Roman from prosecution by moving him first from Ireland then to Chicago and finally to Portland.
A Federal court rejected the argument from the Vatican that they are immune from this suit because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals backed up that this was an exception to the FSIA. By rejecting the appeal, the Supreme Court has, in effect, sided with the Appeals Court. This means that the suit will now go forward.
Reverend Roman had a long history of abusing children. He began doing so in the 1950’s while a priest in the Archdiocese of Armagh, Ireland. He then was transferred to Chicago where he admitted to molesting three boys at St. Philip’s High School, and continued to molest when he was moved to St. Albert’s Church in Portland, Oregon. Another lawsuit moving through the courts also maintains that the Vatican is responsible for the actions of the bishops who covered up these crimes.
The Supreme Court is majority Catholic. Currently, there are six Catholic jurists, two Jewish jurists, and one Protestant. Should Elena Kagan be confirmed, it will then be Six Catholic and three Jewish.
Bridgette P. LaVictoire @'LezGetReal'
 
(Thanx Michael
...and good news indeed!)

DJ Master Quest - I Move You Move (2009)


  
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Happy days are here again...

Cumbia Cosmonauts - Scattermusic Radio Poidcast


"I’ve been hanging out for this one for a while now and if you’ve seen the Cumbia Cosmonauts super heavy live show you’d understand why. With so much of the club music right now being crowded, intensely compressed and generally over the top, it’s so good to hear anything this spacious that’s still full of energy. The attention to detail here is also of the hook with every track being completely remixed to the point where you could safely call it an album of versions. But this really is only just the beginning for this unruly cohort of cumbia hustlers as they’re currently putting the finishing touches to a truly dope EP and European tour for later this year. Don’t sleep."
(scatterblog)

direct download link
(left click to play, right click to download)

The Cumbia Cosmonauts are producers Thomas Campbell a.k.a.Soup (mix, fx, dubbing, scratch, guitar) and Moses Iten a.k.a. saca la mois DJ!! (vox, lasers, fx, samples). They are most frequently joined on stage by the explosive talents of Carlos Parraga (accordion, percussion, casio), Richard Burns (trumpet, melodica, casio), Gustavo Moreno (percussion, Thomas Mitchell (percussion), and Tobi Armbruster (VJ visuals).

http://www.myspace.com/cumbiacosmonauts

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Welcome to the Official Webpage of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)


Official shop of the Korean Friendship Association.
Here you can find official art merchandise from North Korea. Show your support to our country!!

North Korea Emblem Stein
$20.99


Product Information
Heft a cold one in this 22 oz. ceramic stein with gold trim. A great “usable” alternative to the trophy. Make any day Oktoberfest whether with this impressive stein on the shelf or in-hand. Cheers!

* Measures 6.75" tall, 3.75" diameter base, 3" diameter rim
* Dishwasher safe
* Not recommended for microwave

North Korea Emblem Trucker Hat
$16.49


Product Information

Up for the long haul, our standard Trucker Hat features a resilient polyester foam front, and adjustable headband for the perfect fit.

* Adjusts from 17" to 24"
* Crown measures 4"
* 100% polyester foam front, 100% nylon mesh weave back

more merchandising
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Mountain Man – Made The Harbor



REVIEW
(Thanx Simon!)

Fugn asshat!

Glenn Beck to Hold Tea Party Rally on Anniversary of MLK Speech: How Conservatives Are Trying to Hijack Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream

♪♫ Otis Taylor

♪♫ Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies

Coming soon...

Race Relations in America


America's racial history is still being written. All Americans share in this discussion and today that discussion will no doubt pick up a little. Sen. Robert Byrd is dead at 92; the West Virginia lawmaker was the longest serving member of Congress in history. He was also infamously a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his early years before formalizing his education and ultimately becoming an elected official, a fact that his detractors never let him live down.

When I was a reading instructor, one passage I was especially fond of was from a great author, historian, actor, and broadcaster, Studds Terkel. I liked it because I was teaching English as a second language and explaining American race relations to outsiders is a formidable task. It's called "Why I quit the Klan" and it's and interview with a former exalted cyclops of the KKK, C.P. Ellis.

"Why I quit the Klan" and inteview with C.P. Ellis by Studs Terkel

Monsanto, Big Brother of the New World Agricultural Order: An Interview With Marie-Monique Robin

Award-winning French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin is the author of "The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption and the Control of Our Food Supply" (The New Press) and the creator of the film by the same name.
In a review of these two projects, Leslie Thatcher writes: "What Marie-Monique Robin most effectively documents are the perverse effects - the moral, social, technological, economic and market failures - of Western society's economic organization, most specifically with respect to science and the products of science and, ultimately, with respect to the preservation of the public commons and human life on the planet"...
Continue reading
  Mickey Z @'t r u t h-o u t'

Thinking the unthinkable...

RBS tells clients to prepare for 'monster' money-printing by the Federal Reserve

We cannot stress enough how strongly we believe that a cliff-edge may be around the corner, for the global banking system (particularly in Europe) and for the global economy. Think the unthinkable."

Sports Minister apologises to Liverpool FC fans after Hillsborough disaster slur

A senior Government minister has apologised to Liverpool supporters after suggesting that the 1989 Hillsborough disaster was a hooligan-related incident.
Ninety-six football fans were killed on the Leppings Lane terrace at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on April 15 before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, claimed that crowd unrest was responsible for the deaths of Reds supporters 21 years ago when answering questions about the conduct of England fans at this summer's World Cup
He said: "As a Minister, I was incredibly encouraged by the example set by the England fans.
"I mean not a single arrest for a football-related offensive and the terrible problems that we had in Heysel and Hillsborough in the 1980s seem now to be behind us.
"I think you know there is small grounds for encouragement there even though obviously we are very disappointed about the result."
Following backlash from Liverpool fans, the Conservative MP for South West Surrey has released a statement apologising for his comments.
In a statement, the Mr Hunt said: "I know that fan unrest played no part in the terrible events of April 1989 and I apologise to Liverpool fans and the families of those killed and injured in the Hillsborough disaster if my comments caused any offence."
Richard Buxton @'Click Liverpool'

Monday 28 June 2010

HA!

HA! (Thanx HerrB!)

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Optical Illusions

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World Cup 2010: Waddle blames FA for England exit

The Red Eyes - I Get Wild / Wild Gravity

In anticipation of the release of a blockbuster 2nd studio album due out May 2010 accompanied by a massive national tour, The Red Eyes are unleashing a taster from the album with their new single I Get Wild / Wild Gravity.
This is a first time cover recording for The Red Eyes who are known for their large repertoir of original material, including the anthem Highplace which was recently nominated in the shortlist for the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100.
Nonetheless, I Get Wild / Wild Gravity – a B-side track from the Talking Heads’ 1983 album Speaking in Tongues – was an easy choice for the band who count Talking Heads as up among the top of their varied list of musical influences. The tempo and style of the track lends itself to the Dub/Reggae groove of The Red Eyes and the song has quickly become a crowd pleaser in their massive live show.
‘The Red Eyes’ fan base flock to hear the Melbourne outfit’s party dub sound.’ (Rolling Stone Australia, April 2007) ‘…such is the power of top-shelf dub. True to the spirit and messages of the music’s long history, the Red Eyes are breathing new life into dub in Australia and are doing it with soul and authenticity.’ (In The Mix) ‘Say what you like about John Butler, he has backed an absolute winner in the form of the Red-Eyes…’ (Beat Magazine)

http://thered-eyes.com/

   

A New Generation of Natural Gas Drilling Is Endangering Communities From the Rockies to New York


Theater and film director Josh Fox's documentary Gasland explores the new generation of natural gas drilling, which for a decade has been blasting its way east across the country, tapping shale formations from the Rockies to Pennsylvania, and is now expanding in New York. Fox is only 37, but he is a veteran explorer of complex themes from militarism to war to globalization and torture who skillfully blends artistry and social message. Gasland is more straightforward than Fox's earlier experimental mixes of theater, dance, music and film, but no less striking. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance, where it premiered in January, Gasland has been causing a stir wherever it has gone since...
 HERE

This recently released film looks to be essential viewing, the current information available about the environmental repercussions of "Fracking" as an industrial extraction method leave little to be desired. As mentioned in the article, the secrecy over ingredients used in the process, the involvement of habitual offender,"Short-Cut" Halliburton(already under a cloud for the BP Gulf Disaster), in the industry can only maximise concern. Yet another example of industry failing to look at all the equations before putting its big foot in the pond. And yes, this is the water supply that is being poisoned by industry for money, let's hope they can chop all that money up and hopefully liquify enough for a drink in the future. If this doesn't rank as Managerment Stupidity, I certainly don't know what does, and the sooner these knuckleheads are held accountable the better.....beeden

This Time !

@mirrorfootball.co.uk

HA!

(Thanx Carolyn!)

Mexican singer El Shaka killed after denying his murder

A Magazine Back on a Roll

Holy Fuck - downtown Toronto!


(Thanks, Sparkdale, via The Star)
@'boingboing'

HA!

monstroso Have been approached to be next England manager. apparently all 17,567,893 people ahead of me declined. #worldcup

We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan

Think Progress does the math on Panetta’s admission that there are just 100 al Qaeda members in Afghanistan, and discovers we’ve got 1,000 American troops in Afghanistan for each al Qaeda member.
The U.S. has committed nearly 100,000 troops to the mission in Afghanistan. ABC This Week host Jake Tapper asked CIA Director Leon Panetta how big is the al Qaeda threat that the soldiers are combating:
TAPPER: How many Al Qaeda, do you think, are in Afghanistan?
PANETTA: I think the estimate on the number of Al Qaeda is actually relatively small. I think at most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less. It’s in that vicinity. There’s no question that the main location of Al Qaeda is in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The 100,000 U.S. forces that have been tasked to dismantle the 100 or so al Qaeda members — a ratio of 1000:1 — is complicated by the fact that we are also engaged in operations going after the Taliban leadership.

Now let me add to their math. Even Afghan war fans admit that it costs $1 million a year–on top of things like salary–to support a US service member in Afghanistan.
Michael O’Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution, says one useful way to break down these huge numbers is to look at how much it costs to send just one soldier to war.
“We are at a point where it’s unbelievably costing us close to a million dollars, in additional costs — above and beyond salaries and the equipment that’s already in the inventory — per soldier or Marine per year,” he says.
Fighting in Afghanistan means fighting in one of the most remote regions on Earth, and that plays a large role in the seemingly astronomical figure.
Dov Zakheim, a former chief financial officer for the Defense Department, says the $1 million price tag includes getting the soldier to Afghanistan, getting his equipment to Afghanistan, and moving the soldier around once in the country.
So 1,000 US troops per al Qaeda member, at a cost of $1 million each. That’s $1 billion a year we spend for each al Qaeda member to fight our war in Afghanistan.
This sort of adds a new twist to that old Einstein quip about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Because we’re doing the same thing over and over again–at a cost of $1 billion a year per nominal opponent–and expecting anything other than bankruptcy.

G20 Toronto

Guardian journalist Jesse Rosenfeld beaten and arrested by Toronto police at G20

Glenn Greenwald on Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg on "Meet the Press."
In a stunning display of self-unawareness, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg pointed to last week's forced "resignation" by Dave Weigel from The Washington Post as evidence that the Post, "in its general desperation for page views, now hires people who came up in journalism without much adult supervision, and without the proper amount of toilet-training."  Goldberg then solemnly expressed hope that "this episode will lead to the reimposition of some level of standards."  Numerous commentators immediately noted the supreme and obvious irony that Goldberg, of all people, would anoint himself condescending arbiter of journalistic standards, given that, as one of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq, he compiled a record of humiliating falsehood-dissemination in the run-up to the war that rivaled Judy Miller's both in terms of recklessness and destructive impact.
Except unlike Miller, who was forced to leave the New York Times over what she didand the NYT itself, which at least acknowledged some of the shoddy pro-war propaganda it churned out, Goldberg has never acknowledged his journalistic errors, expressed remorse for them, or paid any price at all.  To the contrary, as is true for most Iraq war propagandists, he thrived despite as a result of his sorry record in service of the war.  In 2007, David Bradley -- the owner of The Atlantic and (in his own words) formerly "a neocon guy" who was "dead certain about the rightness" of invading Iraq  -- lavished Goldberg with money and gifts, including ponies for Goldberg's children, in order to lure him away from The New Yorker, where he had churned out most of his pre-war trash. ..
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Glastonbury 2010: I love Snoop Dogg the artist – but despise him as a man

Aiannucci George Osborne reveals plans to cut England's goal deficit in 4 years, by reducing 11-man team by 25%

我が家の World Cup

HA!

♪♫ David Sylvian - Steel Cathedrals


We wuz robbed!

Upson!!!


Sunday 27 June 2010

Enger-land!!!

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♪♫ Gorillaz ft. Mark E. Smith - Glitter Freeze - Glastonbury 2010

♪♫ Plan B - Stay Too Long


Absolutely fugn brilliant!!!
Difference between Kevin Rudd and a vuvuzela? One gives out a boring monotonous drone & other is a plastic horn.

WTF???

Breastfeeding is 'creepy', says parenting magazine

Cloverfield - Berlin 2010

   

Zum Wohl! Bottoms Up!

Booze galore for England-Germany game

The Free State government announced on Saturday night it has relaxed its liquor laws for Sunday when England and Germany play each other in the group of 16 of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in Bloemfontein.
Spokesman for the department of economic affairs and tourism Khotso Tau said the department took the decision in consultation with the South African Police Service.
Tau said in terms of the new concession liquor stores and supermarkets could sell liquor on Sunday during their normal business hours.
"Restaurants, pubs and taverns would also be allowed to sell liquor after midnight on Sunday night." Tau said it was agreed with police that there would be a "high visibility" in the streets during Sunday, in Bloemfontein specifically.
He said the concession was only for Sunday and only applicable on legal liquor operators in the province.
Asked for the reason for the decision, Tau said the game between England and Germany was probably the biggest soccer match ever in the history of Bloemfontein and the Free State.
"We will be hosting the two nations in the world who loves their beer and they should feel welcome in the province," he said.
Tau reiterated that police would be in full strength ensuring order and stability during the "special dispensation"

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Beckenbauer: England are burnt out

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans

London...

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Julian Biggs - 23 Skidoo (1964)

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