LPH 792 - Devil's Jazz (1935-2017)
9 minutes ago
Monday, 9 November 2009
Breaking the Australian silence
"No shipload of whites fleeing disaster would be treated like this"In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia's human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the "unique features" of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power "which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war -- against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in someone else's country".
Full transcript of speech
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Monolake Live Surround
"What makes me dance in a club is rhythm, but what makes me really happy while dancing is great sound. I like the experience of being surrounded by a massive wall of sound which at the same time is highly defined and structured." Sunday, 8 November 2009
Get well soon Dennis
From 'William S. Burroughs, Dennis Hopper & Allen Ginsberg at Track 16'Checking out Burrough's paintings in Santa Monica.
Watch the video
HERE
(Thanx MarcZ)
Oliver Koletzki feat Pyur - These Habits
I just wish the singer would stop doing those little actorly pouts! Really fugn annoys me and detracts from an interesting video.
Mick Jones & Rachid Taha Marseille September 24 2009
Man this would have been such a great concert...Full report @'Meltingpod'
While you are there check out some of Annie Viglielmo's podcasts (a great 2 parter with Ed Keupper etc.)
Any friend of 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' is a friend of mine too!
While you are there check out some of Annie Viglielmo's podcasts (a great 2 parter with Ed Keupper etc.)
Any friend of 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' is a friend of mine too!
The Fugs - from the movie 'Chappaqua'
Chappaqua (1966) was written and directed by Conrad Rooks and is the semi-autobiographical account of his attempt to pull himself up out of a pit of drug/alcohol addiction. The film includes appearances by counter-cultural icons Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs and musical performances by The Fugs, Ravi Shankar and Ornette Coleman. At the end of this scene featuring The Fugs, that is Conrad Brooks rolling around amidst the crushed sugar cubes
(A really interesting film that is available if you know where to look!)
(A really interesting film that is available if you know where to look!)
America's mass murder addiction
Nidal Malik Hasan may have shouted “Allahu Akbar” before his murderous onslaught at Fort Hood, but his actions were part of an American phenomenon that is a national emergency.
You had barely enough time to grasp what might have happened in the Cleveland home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell, where police so far have found the remains of 11 women, when news came of Hasan’s massacre. Yet just as that terrible event was starting to sink in, the airwaves were burning up with reports of a shooting rampage in an office building in Orlando, Florida, in which 8 people were said to have been shot, one—as of this writing—fatally.
It's time to start asking ourselves whether our famous American freedom—in both its liberal and conservative formulations—is not actually a subtle form of dehumanizing tyranny.uthority-whether these "freedoms" are actually a tightening dog-collar turning us all into rabid animals.
More than health care, the economy, jobs, Afghanistan, Iraq, public malfeasance, private dishonesty, civil rights, disease or tainted food, mass murder is American’s primary problem and most fundamental shame. No prosperous country not riven by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. And yet for all of the fascination with mass murder in the media, in Hollywood—and among us--no politician will do more than pay lip service in condemning it. No journalist will crusade against it. No celebrity will take it up as a cause.
Nobody does a damn thing to try to stop it. Conservatives don’t want to make an issue of mass murder because then they would be confronted with the fact that nearly all of the massacres are committed by people using guns. Liberals don’t want to cry out about it because then they would have to address the fact that the violence of our entertainment—TV, movies, videogames, our proliferating apps—makes killing seem like just another strategy for coping with reality. If the utterly immoral legality of handguns and assault weapons puts killing within reach, then vicarious violence, sanctified by every corner of the entertainment culture, makes murder ethically and conceptually possible...
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