[E.O.M.S.]

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

'Be The Change' by Shepard Fairey

Ron Asheton RIP

Stooges guitarist found dead at home.

Story from 'NME' here.
Iggy Pop pays tribute at 'Rolling Stone' here.
Well all I can say is that I am glad that I finally saw The Stooges when they played the BDO a couple of years ago here in Melbourne.
(They were the one band that I wanted to see and had given up hope.)
Today you can relive their performance at Glastonbury on the 23rd June 2007.

E PLURIBUS UNUM!

One out of many!

Strike on school in Gaza kills at least 30!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

This is just fucking ridiculous!!!

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Arthur 32

Free online here.

Oh dear, oh dear

Following the story here of Steven Gerrard's fracas in Southport, I refused to believe that it could be true that the fight started due to the DJ's refusal to play Gerrard's request. (Phil Collins!) Couldn't be true surely and then I found this!

Poison Girls - Persons Unknown

Poison Girls.
'Persons Unknown'

This is a message to persons unknown
Persons in hiding. Persons unknown
Survival in silence
Isn't good enough no more
Keeping your mouth shut head in the sand
Terrorists and saboteurs
Each and every one of us
Hiding in shadows persons unknown

Hey there Mr. Average
You don't exist you never did
Hiding in shadows persons unknown
Habits of hiding
Soon will be the death of us
Dying in secret from poisons unknown
This is a message to persons unknown
Strangers and passers-by
Persons unknown
Turning a blind eye
Hope to go unrecognized
Keeping your secrets persons unknown

Housewives and prostitutes
Plumbers in boiler suits
Truants in coffee bars
Who think you're alone
Big men on building sites
Sick men in dressing gowns
Agents in motor cars
Who never go home
Women in factories
One parent families
Women in purdah
Persons unknown
Wild girls and criminals
Rotting in prison cells
Patients in corridors
Persons unknown
Statistics on balance sheets
Numbered and rubberstamped
Blind and invisible
You're lost in your homes
Liggers and layabouts
Lovers on roundabouts
Wake up in the morning
Persons unknown

Accountants in nylon shirts
Feminists in floral skirts
Nurses for when it hurts
Persons unknown
Astronauts and celibates
Deejays and hypocrites
Liars and lunatics
Persons unknown
Hopefuls on football pools
Teachers in empty schools
Kids into heroin not yet full grown
Typists and usherettes
Black men who can't forget
The lonely who long for
Persons unknown

Closet idealists
Baldheaded realists
Rastas and bikers
The voice on the phone
Pimps and economists
Royalty and communists
Rioters and pacifists
Persons unknown

Visionaries with coloured hair
Leather boys who just don't care
Garter girls with time to spare
Persons unknown
Judges with prejudice
Dissidents and anarchists
Policemen deal dirty tricks
To persons unknown
Strikers and pickets
Collectors of tickets
Radical architects
The queen on her throne
Soldiers in uniform
Sailors and stevedores
Beggars and bankers
Persons unknown
Football crowd hooligans
Bunking off school again
Workers down tools again
United's at home
Smokers with heart disease
Cleaners of lavatories
The old with their memories
Persons unknown

Flesh and blood is who we are
Flesh and blood are what we are
Flesh and blood is who we are
Our cover is blown...

Obama Must Get Tough With Israel To Achieve Peace

Picture: Jae C. Hong-AFP/Getty Images

In Search of the High Ground: In July, Obama got a bird's-eye view of the Holy Land with
Tzipi Livni (right) and Ehud Barak.

Article from 'Newsweek' here.

Sam Shepard reads from 'Motel Chronicles'

'Paris Texas' - Japanese trailer

Currently reading

Sam Shepard arrested for drink driving.

Story at 'Huffington Post' here.

Tim or Jeff?

Tim Buckley

Jeff Buckley

You get the feeling that Jeff would buy you flowers and then write a song about it while Tim would shoot you full of heroin and then fuck your brains out!
Compare Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser - 'All Flowers In Time' with Tim Buckley - 'Live at The Starwood L.A. in 1975 (Buzzin' Fly - Nighthawkin' - Dolphins - Get On Top - Devil Eyes - Finale)