(Thanx again Fifi!)
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Spank!
Rapper and 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' actor Ice-T attended Mariah Carey's Halloween party with wife Coco dressed up in S&M gear. Harvard to offer class on 'The Wire'
"Omar coming"THE Wire," HBO's gritty se ries about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard.
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show's stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
"I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication," Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, "including studies by social scientitsts."
Sonja Sohn, who played Det. Kima Gregs, Andre Royo (Bubbles) and Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little) were on the panel talking about the show's unusual impact.
The series ran for five seasons, starting in 2002. Each year, it took on a different aspect of urban life -- from drugs to schools to the news media.
Harvard will be not the first college course on "The Wire." Other students commented on The Crimson's site that courses on the TV show already exist at Duke University and Middlebury College.
@'NY Post'
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show's stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
"I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication," Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, "including studies by social scientitsts."
Sonja Sohn, who played Det. Kima Gregs, Andre Royo (Bubbles) and Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little) were on the panel talking about the show's unusual impact.
The series ran for five seasons, starting in 2002. Each year, it took on a different aspect of urban life -- from drugs to schools to the news media.
Harvard will be not the first college course on "The Wire." Other students commented on The Crimson's site that courses on the TV show already exist at Duke University and Middlebury College.
@'NY Post'
Dan Gentile's Live @ Bird's Barbers Mix # 1
Peter Brown – Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me? / Burning Love Breakdown
6th Borough Project – Just a Memory
D Train – Tryin’ To Get Over
Dam Funk – Electrik Breeze
Timex Social Club – Rumors (12” Mix)
Grace Jones – Pull Up to the Bumper (Larry Levan Mix)
Harlequin 4’s – Set It Off
Hot Chocolate – Haven Is In The Backseat Of My Cadillac (The Revenge Mix)
Sir Joe Quarterman – (I Got) So Much Trouble in My Mind (South City All Stars Remix)
NYC Peech Boys – Don’t Make Me Wait
Hall & Oates – Can’t Go For That (Beatconductor Remix)
Steely Dan - Peg
Amplified Orchestra – The Fighter
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cutes #5
Jackson 5 – What You Don’t Know (Eli Escobar Edit)
Eddy Grant – My Turn to Love You
Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night
HERE
Ian Brown arrested after disturbance at home
Ian Brown has been arrested for allegedly attacking his wife.The former The Stone Roses man was arrested on suspicion of assault yesterday (November 2) after his neighbours alerted the police to a disturbance at the couple's west London home.
"A 46-year-old man was arrested at the address and taken to a police station," Scotland Yard confirmed to The Mirror.
As police investigated the disturbance it is claimed Brown's wife Fabiola Quiroz told officers he had attacked her.
Brown was taken into custody, but was later freed on bail until next month.
@'NME'
Grateful Dead - Road Trips Vol 3 # 1 Oakland 1979
Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1 is the complete show from December 28, 1979 in Oakland!The limited edition Bonus Disc (while supplies last) includes the heart of the second set from 12/30/79.
The CDs have been mastered to HDCD spec. The included booklet contains a number of Jay Blakesberg photos as well as an essay by Steve Silberman.
Tracklist
CD 1: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. SUGAREE
2. MAMA TRIED>
3. MEXICALI BLUES
4. ROW JIMMY
5. IT’S ALL OVER NOW
6. HIGH TIME
7. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED
SET 2:
8. ALABAMA GETAWAY>
9. GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
CD 2: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. TERRAPIN STATION>
2. PLAYING IN THE BAND>
3. RHYTHM DEVILS>
4. SPACE>
5. UNCLE JOHN’S BAND>
6. I NEED A MIRACLE>
7. BERTHA>
8. GOOD LOVIN’
9. CASEY JONES
10. ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
Bonus CD: (while supplies last) Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 30, 1979
1. NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES
2. CANDYMAN
3. RAMBLE ON ROSE
4. LAZY LIGHTNING>
5. SUPPLICATION
6. SCARLET BEGONIAS>
7. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN>
8. LET IT GROW
9. TRUCKIN’>
10. WHARF RAT
Advance listen -
"Sugaree"
HERE
Pre-order
HERE
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
'Amphetamine Aynie'
How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon
Ayn Rand is one of America’s great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that “the masses”—her readers—were “lice” and “parasites” who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is “evil” and selfishness is “the only virtue,” she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?Two new biographies of Rand—Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller—try to puzzle out this question, showing how her arguments found an echo in the darkest corners of American political life.* But the books work best, for me, on a level I didn’t expect. They are thrilling psychological portraits of a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Excerpts from draft 5 of "NOVA EXPRESS" a film by Andre Perkowski based on the writings of William S. Burroughs
Just received this e/mail from the filmaker...
Thanks for the link on your weird and wonderful blog, enjoyed digging around it... those bits of NOVA EXPRESS aren't even the really good stuff, the damn thing is huge, hideous, hellish, and will destroy young brains but good. I've been screening excerpts and trying to raise the dough to pay off two year old lab bills to get all the black and white 16mm footage I've shot for it... there's so much lovely animation and bezerk stuff I need to add in...
anyway, thanks again!
andre
Thanks for the link on your weird and wonderful blog, enjoyed digging around it... those bits of NOVA EXPRESS aren't even the really good stuff, the damn thing is huge, hideous, hellish, and will destroy young brains but good. I've been screening excerpts and trying to raise the dough to pay off two year old lab bills to get all the black and white 16mm footage I've shot for it... there's so much lovely animation and bezerk stuff I need to add in...
anyway, thanks again!
andre
“The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.” (Marty Feldman)
Who also said that "comedy, like sodomy is an unnatural act."
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