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Monday, 14 September 2009

Abe said:

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
- Abraham Lincoln - 18 Dec. 1840

Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination - and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year.
@ 'Daily Mail'

The Antagonist Art Movement (For Dummies)

Birds On The Wires

"Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating."

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William S. Burroughs & Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

RIP Jim Carroll

Jim Carrol l, 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.

Sunday, 13 September 2009

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'