Global Sampler vol. 105 Various Artists
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Mona 1 VS Wired 0
'Anna Matveyeva (pictured here), who received this year's prize for "best debut." She wins a next-gen mobile phone.'via 'Wired' here.
I knew that something was up in the world of Miss Atom by virtue of the fact that in the space of a couple of hours yesterday I had over 500 hits from Germany alone to my previous post here.
Google took me to the 'Wired' blog and I thought looking at the photo above that a worthy winner had been found. Reading the article made me realise that the photo was not of the winner.
So who had won?
The article originally said the winner was Yelena Bulgakov and there was a photo of the winner at the official Miss Atom site here, but even with my limited knowledge of Cyrillic characters I knew that Екатерина didn't translate as Yelena. Further investigation took me to 'Der Spiegel' online here and one of the contestant's photos was clearly of the winner and there was the name Ekaterina.
A comment was left at 'Wired' and they have now changed the winner's name accordingly!
UPDATE:11/03/09
They still haven't spelled her name right. It's not "Yekaterina"!
"Boris. Why is always Boris?"
(The Wire)
Google took me to the 'Wired' blog and I thought looking at the photo above that a worthy winner had been found. Reading the article made me realise that the photo was not of the winner.
So who had won?
The article originally said the winner was Yelena Bulgakov and there was a photo of the winner at the official Miss Atom site here, but even with my limited knowledge of Cyrillic characters I knew that Екатерина didn't translate as Yelena. Further investigation took me to 'Der Spiegel' online here and one of the contestant's photos was clearly of the winner and there was the name Ekaterina.
A comment was left at 'Wired' and they have now changed the winner's name accordingly!
UPDATE:11/03/09
They still haven't spelled her name right. It's not "Yekaterina"!
"Boris. Why is always Boris?"
(The Wire)
We have a winner! Екатерина Булгакова
Twenty-six year-old Ekaterina Bulgakova (95-69-97) lives by one credo: "Movement -- that's the essence of life!"
She wins a weeklong holiday in the socialist paradise of Cuba.My choice came third.
Monday, 9 March 2009
The weekend New York came to Glasgow (1977)
Aaagh memories!
What a double bill and the Friday night had been The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University!
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously!
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
I actually met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker that weekend, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
What a double bill and the Friday night had been The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University!
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously!
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
I actually met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker that weekend, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
The Breakfast Song
This song aired on The Mornin' Show, a local program carried by NBC affiliate WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
William S. Burroughs - Shotgun Painting (Film)
BURROUGHS:There is no exact process. If you want to do shotgun art, you take a piece of plywood, put a can of spracy paint in front of it, and shoot it with a shotgun or high powered rifle. The paint's under high pressure so it explodes! Throws the can 300 feed. The paint sprays in exploding color across your surface. You can have as many colors as you want. Turn it around, do it sideways, and have one color coming in from this side and this side. Of course, they hit. Mix in all kinds of unpredictable patterns. This is related to Pollack's drip canvases, although this is a rather more basically random process, there's no possibility of predicting what patterns you're going to get.
I've had some I've worked over for months. Get the original after the explosions and work it over with brushes and spray paints and silhouettes until I'm satisfied. So, there isn't any set procedure. Sometimes you get it right there and you don't touch it. The most important thing in painting is to know when to stop, when everything is finished. Doesn't mean anything in writing.
here.
William Burrough's shopping lists for sale on ebay @ $485 (US)!!!
Offered here are three pages of grocery lists with most of the items being written by William S. Burroughs. Each page is approx. 6" x 9" and has writing on both sides. Some of the writing is in an unknown hand. These pages are guaranteed to be authentic and from William Burroughs' home in Kansas with most of the lists having been handwritten by Burroughs.
Page 1: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Cat Pans. 5. Limes & lemons. 6. Dry Cat Food. 7. Canned (sic) Cat Food - Mealtime, bits of beef - salmon dinner. There are 4 items written on the back and none are by Burroughs
Page 2: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Waffles (plain buttermilk). 2. Triscuits. 3. Cat Food Canned. 4. Vodka - last but not least 5. Marshmallow for toasting over stove (?) last word is a guess - hard to read. There are 4 items written on the back - Burroughs has written "Lysol."
Page 3: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Lemons and lime. 2. Milk. 3. Bottled water. 4. Honey (crossed out). 5. Lipton tea bags (the brisk tea). There are 4 items written on the back but none are written by Burroughs.
Each page has been folded down the center. There are some stains on two of the pages.
Satisfaction is Guaranteed! Please ask any questions you may have.
(!!!)
I have in my collection a signed Burroughs screenprint done for the Island International Bookstore in Amsterdam, circa 1983 or so (No. 16 of 23.) & a signed copy of 'Cities of the Red Night' (liberated from Zurich jail - don't ask!)
Offers over a million dollars to the usual address!
I have in my collection a signed Burroughs screenprint done for the Island International Bookstore in Amsterdam, circa 1983 or so (No. 16 of 23.) & a signed copy of 'Cities of the Red Night' (liberated from Zurich jail - don't ask!)
Offers over a million dollars to the usual address!
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