RIP Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.

The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.

As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan.

Obituary @ 'NY Times'

PS: Head over to Willard's blog for a bit of a rarity.

Check it out...

(Son of) is back up and running...
and keeping in the mood of the posts here today!

Make It Right

Make It Right

I'm fitting out, I'm fitting in
And those diesel rigs ah they're ramblin' by
But I ain't blue now if I go lame
I just flag a ride
I'm lookin' out for a street corner girl
I'm lookin' out for a street corner girl
And she's gonna beat me whip me spank me
Ah make it right again,
Trying a little trick honey
Ah that you never used before
I wanna be your victim
your sweet little victim of love
Come on and beat me whip me spank me
Mama make it right again
Ah make it right
It's been wrong too long
oh, Johnny dreams
you and my white queen been rolling again
Well the talk around town is
She might be burned out
But I know by midnight
She gonna burn you down
Yeah, she gonna burn you down
I'm lookin' out For a street corner girl
And she's gonna beat me whip me spank me
And make it right again,
Trying a little trick honey
You never used before
I wanna be your victim
your sweet little victim of love
Come on and beat me spank me whip me
Mama make it right again...

"I gotta talkin' in tongues..."

Tim Buckley

U.S. to Expand Review of Detainees in Afghan Prison

The Obama administration soon plans to issue new guidelines aimed at giving the hundreds of prisoners at an American detention center in Afghanistan significantly more ability to challenge their custody, Pentagon officials and detainee advocates say.
The new Pentagon guidelines would assign a United States military official to each of the roughly 600 detainees at the American-run prison at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. These officials would not be lawyers but could for the first time gather witnesses and evidence, including classified material, on behalf of the detainees to challenge their detention in proceedings before a military-appointed review board.
@ 'NY Times'

Tim Buckley - I Woke Up & Interview (The Show 1970)

Tim Buckley - Dophins (OGWT May 1974)

Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (Live on The Monkees TV Show)

Bonus: Audio
Tim Buckley - Live At The Starwood LA January 1975
(Buzzin' Fly - Nighthawkin' - Dolphins - Get On Top - Devil Eyes - Finale)
Tim Buckley: vocals, guitar/Joe Falsia: guitar/Buddy Helm: drums Jeff Eyrich: bass
& John Herren: keyboards

The Cat Piano (Narrated by Nick Cave)

Thanx Fifi!

Dear oh dear Amerikkka!

'McCarthyism'???
(Lawd help us.)

Normally I would put links to show the difference between 'communism' & 'fascism' but it is a waste of my mental energy...
...re: the pic of one of the dumbest kids in the US. They talk about Obama's 'indoktrinashun'!!!
Hey kid: it is 'fascist'! (just sayin')
The sign below really just sums it all up.

'Infromed' ?

WTF?

Bonus: Audio
Parliament - Chocolate City
P Funk from 1975
All you racist retards, the nightmare's come true for you eh?

Soundscapes

'Miami' Steve blasts Primal Scream

Grab it before it disappears...

Seriously!!!

?

Sounds like a great idea to me...
No...really! It does...

Get yr head into this...

Melbourne’s own Luke Brown (Leslie Salvador) and Thomas Henderson have come together for a new side project: Negativ Magick. The boys have handed us a mix which is absolute quality as always. Very dark, 80’s – early 90’s dark wave, industrial, goth and new beat. Its not your average mix, this is inky, deep and very mature. This one calls for a bit of audience participation too, we’re not going to post the tracks, just the labels so you can do a bit of digging and discover some new shit for yourselves.

Labels (In order):

Ink Records
Subway
Paragoric
Merciful Release
Epitaph Records
VVM
Kaos Dance
Wax Trax
No Label
Finiflex
Wax Trax
Dean Records
Virgin
New Zone
Concrete Productions

Perfect for a dark sweaty warehouse party.

MP3: Negativ Magick Mix

Download'n'enjoy!
Look I survived. So will you.