[E.O.M.S.]

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Desire II

Drop Bass Not Bombs!

The Ex Pistol! The death of Sid Vicious - American TV Reports

"No longer vicious, he's dead!"

REPOST - "In Search of Sid" BBC radio documentary by Jah Wobble

To mark the publishing of Jah Wobble's autobiography:

Sid dead!

Jah Wobble put this documentary together (broadcast on January 20th 2009) on the life and times of a certain Simon/John Ritchie/Beverley, better known to us all as Sid Vicious for BBC Radio 4.
Interviewing amongst others Viv Albertine & Marco Pirroni, it tells the story of a truly mixed up kid who was destined to leave this world too early.

There were originally four Johns: Lydon (aka Rotten), Wardle (aka Wobble), Ritchie (aka Vicious) and John Grey.
John Grey was someone I knew back in those old days in London and I would love to get back in touch with again.
So if anyone knows who I am talking about and can get the message to him then please either get in touch with this blog or tell John to contact me or Richard Thomas, the old Fall manager (who knows who I am).

If you are reading this yourself John then as I say if you get in touch with Richard ALL shall be revealed or if you have a good memory then think back to the fact that I used to work in Honky Tonk in Kentish Town & against the grain we shared a love for KB's 'The Dreaming' & Trouble Funk or the night that your brother accompanied us to a Rip, Rig gig just off Tottenham Court Rd. and his behaviour didn't really mesh with my head full of acid, especially not helped when Deb (Woolf- my partner of the time, who went on to direct those vids for Wobble) seemed to take your brother's side on the tube home...or was that all just my imagination?
At one point just before I was leaving to go to Amsterdam I did ring and speak to your Mum to see if she could pass on a message if you were interested to go & see the Brotherhood of Breath at the Roundhouse but you were feeling a bit poorly at the time.
As I say if you or anyone who knows John sees this plese get in touch. it would be really nice to catch up after all this time.

Bonus:
Radio 4 Documentary 'In Search of Sid'
&
'The Making of Metal Box' from Pirate Cat radio LA/SF (features interviews with Wobble/Martin Atkins & Richard Dudanski)

A post for Moggieboy! (Remember they come in all shapes'n'sizes!)

Friday, 16 October 2009

Seriously! Do these people know nothing about the politics of Afghanistan?

HERE

Jesus H Fugn Christ!
The English never beat them. The Russians didn't and neither will the Yanks!
Yes it has a hell of a lot to do with the terrain but....
I don't even know where to begin to explain.
HOMEWORK FOR TODAY:
Do some research.
The recent (fraudulent) elections have managed to antagonise even some of the most pro-western tribes.
How do you manage to upset THAT many people at once eh?
(...you then also decide you also want to curtail the opium production?)
As was pointed out here, you're spending $30 to every one dollar re: Pakistan, which of course is where most of Al-Queda are.

'The Economist' says:

"In late 2001 there were two powerful forces facing each other in Afghanistan: the mainly Pashtun Taliban, and the mainly Tajik and Uzbek Northern Alliance. But America wanted to unite the country, so, as usual, we went looking for a "third force". Hamid Karzai fit the bill because he was ethnically Pashtun but anti-Taliban (and foreign-educated and urbane). But for the same reasons that he didn't fall into either of the two main camps, Mr Karzai was weak. He wasn't Taliban, but he wasn't really Northern Alliance. He was "untainted" only because he didn't have his own army. And this is always the problem with third forces. If they were strong, they wouldn't be the third force; they'd be one of the first two forces...

It would be entirely possible for America to mount a COIN campaign in support of our favourite Afghan strongman. But in Hamid Karzai, we didn't pick our favourite strongman. We picked our favourite weakman. That's why we're in trouble."

نازنین افشین جم (Heroine)

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Keyhan (a state run Iranian newspaper and government mouthpiece) has called Nazanin Afshin-Jam a "whore" for her humanitarian and anti child execution activities. It then discusses that the Islamic fascists throw this particular insult at activist women to belittle them because in their sick minds any women who doesn't obey the opposite sex and acts and talks the way she likes is a prostitute!
(Mona's Dream)

Icon

Nick Drake

Hell awaits for illegal file-sharers

In the war against albums being illegally uploaded on to the internet before they are released, David Tibet of the underground band Current 93 may have struck a minor, if resounding, victory. "This is a promotional CD," announces a little girl on the promo copy of Current 93's new album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain. "Anyone illegally selling, copying, uploading or downloading this material is condemned to eternal hellfire. Happy listening, God is love." Then Tibet – a devout Christian with strong views about the impending apocalypse – intones "murder" over a guitar riff heavy enough to terrify Satan. It makes you wonder whether a casual upload is really worth being cast into Hades for.

@'The Guardian'

WTF?

The axolotl is a Mexican neotenic mole salamander. Neotenic means that, as adults, it holds onto traits seen in juveniles.
More weird looking animals
HERE

RePOST - Happy Birthday Bobby Ace!

Bob Weir is 62 today.

Here is the Grateful Dead acoustic set from the Melkweg in Amsterdam on this day in 1981.

Back in the 80's I worked in the Milky Way bookshop.
Sounds like a really cool job?
From a distance of 25 years, it seemed that the only customers were very stoned hippies wanting copies of the Kabbalah.

Peter Tosh - Legalise It (Live)

Australians use more cannabis than Europeans

It was estimated more than eight per cent of the population used marijuana at least once a year, and this rate was only matched by North America and our trans-Tasman neighbours.

"Australia, New Zealand and North America have traditionally been the countries which have among the highest rates (of cannabis use)," Professor Louisa Degenhardt of the University of NSW said. "That has been something demonstrated repeatedly in surveys of young people and surveys of the general population."

Europe was next in terms of annual usage followed by the Middle East and Asia, while usage rates were rising across Africa but from a low base in some countries.

@'The Australian'