The milk snatcher's birthday was yesterday!Don't forget that when she finally dies there will be a BIG party in Trafalgar Square and I shall certainly be having a celebratory drink or two!
Lo Songs – The LETTER B (Part 1)
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
How could I have forgotten?
The milk snatcher's birthday was yesterday!Don't forget that when she finally dies there will be a BIG party in Trafalgar Square and I shall certainly be having a celebratory drink or two!
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
How ill is Khamenei?
- This may be a very interesting few days, it appears Khamenei health in real question. May just be too frail to carry on? #iranelection
- had false reports Khamenei death before, i'm vry cautious, but my instict - no evidence - is that he is not long 4 ths world #iranelection
- Source: Qom ldrs prepare 4 fight 2 gain power in wake of Khamenei condition being serious. No way 2 100% confirm reports coma #iranelection
- Mixed reports Khameni, some sources claim it is very serious, but one caution that he had a minor episode and is recovered #iranelection
- There may be some truth to reports that Khameni condition not good, but no confirmation of Coma. #iranelection #iran
- Several sources Khameni collapsed yesterday and is in private clinic with son and doctors. No way verify his condition. #iranelection
Spiritualized @ RFH, London
Jason Pierce performing Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Photograph: Jim Dyson/GettyReleased in 1997, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is the key text in Spiritualized's canon. It was the album that synthesised all of frontman Jason Pierce's influences (from gospel to free jazz) and preoccupations (drugs, religion, the agony of love). Performed in its cacophonous entirety at the Royal Festival Hall, in a suitably extravagant arrangement – aside from Pierce and his six-piece band, there is a mini-orchestra of strings and wind players, plus a 12-person choir – it still dazzles, although at this scale its imperfections also feel exposed.
There is a thinness to Pierce's songwriting: dwelling on his acrimonious split from the band's then keyboardist, Kate Radley, he seeks no complexity in his emotions. The affecting fragility of Broken Heart is undermined by the fact that what Pierce expresses is the lavish melancholy of Hollywood movies. In All of My Thoughts, Pierce luxuriates in his misery. And sometimes, that pleasure in pain becomes sadistic. Electricity is a screech of nerve-shredding noise, while the black screams in the seemingly interminable closer Cop Shoot Cop create the impression that hell has opened up. No wonder Pierce applauds the audience: we're passing an endurance test just by staying in our seats.
But at its best, the show offers a kind of transcendence. With its disjointed rhythm and odd texture, Stay With Me eschews sentimentality yet captures a lifetime of romantic experience. Initially woozy, I Think I'm in Love slowly envelops the audience in a pulsating, repetitive groove. When it ends, you feel exquisitely transported.
1973 Catholic church logo
The 70s were definitely a simpler time, but today this logo for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission looks like an admission of guilt. From extraction to consumption: Oil, an exhibition by Edward Burtynsky
State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) oilfields, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006Elvis Costello - Veronica
Pretty certain that this was shot in St Kilda by John Hillcoat
and the video for 'I Wanna Be Loved' (which I can't find) has EC in a photo booth which at the end pans out to Flinders Street Station.
There is some trivia for all you Melbourne folk!
There is some trivia for all you Melbourne folk!
Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen
The first animated music video by Annabelle Janckel & Rocky Morton who went on to bigger things with Max Headroom.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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