More than half of Atlantic Records' sales in US now digital

Story from 'International Herald Tribune' here.

Girlz With Gunz #'s 7 - 17!!!

Yes I can count, it's just that one silly 'soldier' was SO busy getting her beret at such a jaunty angle that she forgot her gun!

William Blake 1757 - 1827

William Blake was born on this day in 1757.

Here is Van Morrison's cover of Mike Westbrook's setting of Blake's "Let The Slave/The Price of Experience'.
Original sung by Phil Minton.

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is Rick - Rolled

The Tech Assistant (AKA Son # 2) is no longer a teenager

Taken 15 years and 5 months ago by Josh Ellis.

The boy on the bib may be worth billions.
The boy in the bib is priceless!

Happy Birthday!

Political Gridlock posters

Website here.

A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs

For John Dillinger.
In hope he is still alive.
Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986.

Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts

thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers —

thanks for laboratory AIDS —

thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

thanks for a nation of finks — yes, thanks for all the memories... all right, let's see your arms... you always were a headache and you always were a bore —

thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

Watch it here.

Bloody Bandwith - Back As Soon As (Soon)

Chairman Rudd: one year in power today

Richey Edwards declared dead

The photo above was taken after he carved '4 REAL' into his arm while being interviewed by the NME.

Richey Edwards the guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, who disappeared in 1995 has been declared legally dead.

Story here.

A Song For Me

Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Mona"

'Mona Medley' - here.

Also another version of 'Mona' by Quicksilver Messenger Service was the very first song that I uploaded on this blog - before I even knew what I was doing (!)

The Grateful Dead with David Murray live at Madison Square Garden 22nd September 1993

Following on from David Murray's version of 'Dark Star' yesterday.
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead in 1993 here .
Tracks are: 'Estimated Prophet - Dark Star - Drums & Space'
What can I say about this?
Well by this time Jerry Garcia was just mostly noodling (and nodding) and that had an obvious adverse effect on the rest of the band.
Murray's Ayler like sax obviously works better on these more free-form Dead workouts but I would have loved to have heard him play with them 20 years earlier.

Shane MacGowan entertaining in a bar

You gotta be kidding! ( # whatever)

"There are ... low graduation rates, plummeting North Slope oil prices, proposals to build alternative energy projects, the gas pipeline," the paper said in an editorial. "It's time for the governor to refocus on Alaska's needs."

Your weekly address from Obama