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Monday, 27 October 2008

YES!!!

Xabi Alonso

Chelsea 0 vs 1 Liverpool

This will get you Tack>>Head's 'The Game' (featuring Brian Moore).

Grateful Dead - Cornell University - May 8th 1977

Icepetal (AKA Noah Weiner) over at the 'Grateful Dead Listening Guide' has an eloquent post on this famous Grateful Dead gig.
You can read it here.

Jackie Leven - 'Classic Northern Diversions' (Bonn March 26th 2004)

A lost classic from 1979.
Jackie Leven's 'Doll By Doll'
'The Palace of Love'.
This was their first single.
Posted here is the full length version from the album 'Remember' not the edited single version.
Good article by Kris Needs about Doll By Doll from TrakMARX here.

Palin: Obama's Tax Plans Could Mean Nightmarish Communist State (!)

Sarah Palin had a few memorable moments during her campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. But the most eye-opening of them all came, it would appear, when the Alaska Governor somehow drew a connection between Barack Obama's tax policy and an encroaching, nightmarish, communist government. The Illinois Democrat, she hysterically suggested, would, through his proposals, create a country "where the people are not free."

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."

That yarn goes well beyond what Palin and McCain have, to this point, been comfortable asserting: mainly that Obama is proposing economic socialism. But there are a few things to keep in mind here: the McCain-Palin ticket does not oppose a progressive tax system. In fact, back in 2000, the Arizona Republican said rich people paid more in taxes because they could afford to do so.

"I think the first people who deserve a tax cut are working Americans with children that need to educate their children," he said, "and they're the ones that I would support tax cuts for first."

More importantly, Obama's tax plans are less progressive than those in place during the Clinton years. In fact, the rates that people making over $250,000 would have to pay would be the same as during the 1990s -- a time definitely not marked by the absence of freedoms.

(Burning Cane)

Sunday, 26 October 2008

Holly Woodlawn

Born October 26 1946.

“Holly came from Miami FLA, / hitch-hiked her way across the USA, / plucked her eyebrows on the way, / shaved her legs, and then he was a she...”

jah wobble

The little girl from Mornington

LOU REED - MARK RIBOT - JOHN ZORN (Live in Milan 23rd September 2008)

(Imagine being in an old battered pick-up with an old dog beside you at night.
Hurtling downhill fast, with no headlights working.
Tom Waits fading in and out on the AM station.
With Sam Shepard driving.
That is the sound of Mark Ribot's guitar.)

('The Old Knit') @ Town Hall New York - March 1st 2007

'The Stone: Issue 3'
John Zorn and his post Ayler skronk aided and abetted on this occasion by Lou Reed on primal power chords and feedback and Laurie Anderson on violin and electronics.
A benefit for Zorn's not-for-profit experimental arts space 'The Stone'.

You can get it here.

(This one's for you Travis.)